Episode 2: (Best of) The Bopst Show: Bright Side of the Sun

Bopst Show

This thematic, best-of edition of the Bopst Show is based on, "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd and Atari video games.
I didn’t have this in mind when I started. It just sort of happened on it’s own.
The Pink Floyd influence came when I was reading WFMU’s Beware of the Blog and came across this post containing isolated guitar, piano and vocal MP3 tracks from, “Dark Side of the Moon”.
Though I will freely acknowledge the recording as one of the greatest recorded achievements of the 20th century (everybody should listen to the record in it’s entirety at least twice in their lifetimes), being a child of the radio of 1970’s rock & roll radio, I have come to despise the album. It was played, as it is still today on classic rock stations, with mind-numbing regularity and every two-bit dipshit from here to Calcutta played that fucker over and over again as if it contained the meaning of life.
Again, it is a seminal release and I loved it like everyone else of my generation, but after you’ve heard it for the tenth billionth time, it became a form of torture.
Part of the reason I fell in love with punk rock was when I saw a picture of Johnny Rotten in Trouser Press magazine wearing a Pink Floyd T-shirt with, “ I HATE” scrawled in big black letters on top of it. At the time, it was a blasphemous statement to say you hated Pink Floyd.
It was beyond comprehension.
One of the surest ways to piss off and thoroughly befuddle stoners and jocks alike back in my public school days in Northern Virginia was to say you hated Pink Floyd.
I said it to everyone.
I guess you had to live through the saturation to understand the sentiment as people today are still mystified that when I hear it, I still express my undying hatred for it.
To me, Dark Side of the Moon represents the sound of oppression, a musical fascism that forsakes variety or diverging melodious expression for dangerous, stupefying repetition of the tried and true.
Put it this way: It’s like telling someone you like hamburgers and for the rest of your life they serve you nothing but hamburgers. What was once a tasty treat will soon turn into a dreaded eating experience in a matter of a couple of meals.
For me, that analogy sums up the Pink Floyd experience. Serve my ass something different.
I’m tired of fuckin’ hamburgers.
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Music variety show hosted, mixed and recorded by Chris Bopst featuring words and music by Drozen and Peck, Oscar Brown Jr., The Streets, Roky Erickson & The Aliens, The Pogues, Kabuan Garn Yor Yod Yung Yong, Drozen and Peck vs Richard Crandell, Mickey Dread, Edd Kalehoff, Munk, Bettye LaVette, Dead Kennedys, The Living Marimbas, The Olympics, Tom Waits, Atari Theme, and Buckner & Garcia.
This show originally aired February 9, 2018 on Richmond Soul Radio.