A transcedence of Hopes...
baap | 24 August 2004, 9:26amHIGH HOPES by Pink Floyd, probably the only song till date that has sent shivers down my spine. I entered my room, my sister was listening to it. She said she liked the song, i had never heard it before except for seeing its video for about 30 seconds. It was a cursory perception, generally i associate visual images of my own with songs...all songs i hear and i listen to.
But when i heard this song for the firs time in whole, especially from the 23rd second onwards, for some reason i was experiencing extreme FEAR of some kind. A fear i couldn't explain, i was inundated by one visualisation from the 23rd second till the 47th; I was walking in a dark place, a room of sorts with a lot of corners. As a child i was scared of the corners in my house, especially in the dark. I always used to expect, due to my wild imagination which was filled with images of ghosts n all, something horrific.
I was re-living that moment, over and over again for those 14 seconds. I was feeling extremely Chlaustrophobic, although all the doors and windows were open and the Sun was pouring in. This cornered room was a medieval one, something like a dungeon of sorts. I JUST COULDNT EXPLAIN THIS FEELING of fear, then came :
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun
I was impervious to anything around me, I wasn
Current Mood: Heroic
Current Music: Pink Floyd - High Hopes
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1. By JLU | 24 Aug 2004, 12:48pm
Excellent stuff :) You wont believe, but I was planning to write a very similar post about the PF song 'Dogs' from the Animals album (but now I may not). Psychedelia rules!!!
2. By syko | 24 Aug 2004, 5:29pm
ok. 2 questions.
1. wen did you last sleep?
2. WAT was in that TEA? :o
btw, you wanna be freaked? chk out "Take it Back" from Division Bell... jack up yer volume..increase treble...put reverse time on winamp...and scroll to 2.52 on the timer. and LISTEN. :D
ya...ppl will start posting the rest of the freaky stuff in Floyd now :p but this one rulez. :D
syko.
3. By whg | 24 Aug 2004, 7:46pm
u shud listen to what do u want for me....
4. By divakar | 24 Aug 2004, 9:25pm
Hey dude, welcome to the world of Pink Floyd. This is just the beginning, promise u, will be "comfortably numb" very soon.
5. By Bob | 18 Feb 2005, 9:37pm
Hey dood, welcome to the creepy, insane, emancipating, world of David Gilmour, or generally PF. I'm sure you've tasted a drop of his style of music. Its very addictive. Try listening to songs of Division Bell, or AMLOR, with lights off, in pitch dark and medium volume. I'm sure it'll get u high better than ne LSD.............I'm totally addicted to TDB ;-)
6. By Anthony | 24 Feb 2005, 3:36am
Guess I'm not the only one who's first experience with some of Floyd's music involved psychadelics. Coming down from a trip at my friend's house (first one of those too), Cluster One was next in his queue and man, that rocketed me back up there. I had The Wall and knew some of their music but right after that I became very interested in TDB and Gilmour specifically. Bob's got the right idea, crank the music up (on a GOOD stereo), lights off, sit back and enjoy the show.
7. By Naz | 30 Oct 2006, 1:56am
Hmmm....# Checkered #...you ain't alone ;)