I learned a beautiful new song on guitar this week. Lovely picking, interesting mournful melodies, clever ways of picking up the sus4 and major7. I played it for Mrs Muttrox. She agreed it was a very pretty song.
Only it isn’t. Because it’s a Roger Waters song. The song is Goodbye Blue Sky from The Wall. It is about how the nice blue sky becomes a source of pain and death, and what should be a nice part of any childhood is just one more way to get hurt.
I think this is why Pink Floyd split up. I think the rest of the band just got sick of every song being about paranoia and death and horror and pain and misery and forgodsake Roger can’t you write anything remotely pleasant? Take some Prozac or something.