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Comfortably Numb is my favorite song, of all types. For me, David Gilmour's amazing guitar solos are the best part. Psychedelic rock is the genre and I don't kn

• Joeboy 3y ago
  > Comfortably Numb Good pick IMO. Narratively, it evokes stories of Syd Barrett's increasing inability / refusal to function as part of the band. Syd was like the archetype of the creative genius who flew too close to the sun and crashed to Earth, leaving the band after 1.5 albums. Roger Waters sings the verses, David Gilmour sings the choruses. The song went through multiple iterations and was apparently more or less the end of their ability to work productively together. I'm left pretty cold by both musicians' solo outputs, but together they were an absolutely brilliant team. This is one a few tracks where they switch vocals mid-song, all of which I love. The choruses touch on the theme of a lost youth. Over the years the band had three main songwriters (maybe four if you count Rick Wright), and they all leant heavily into this area. It's classic Floyd territory. The closing solo is just deathlessly epic. If I had to cite one thing that made me want to learn to play guitar, it'd be that solo. Still sounds incredible 40 years and an almost entirely unsuccessful musical career later. But maybe it's just not ralusek's cup of tea and that's fine. Also sometimes it's the fate of brilliant things that they get copied so much it's hard to see what the fuss was about.