Pink Floyd Appreciation Thread

Animals is Pink Floyd's prog-ROCK album. Guitar prominence over keyboard does not equal a drop in quality. Especially when you have someone like Gilmour playing that guitar. It's Pink Floyd with bite, with edge, with grit. And besides, Rick Wright has his moments in Animals too. The ambient section in Dogs, the intro to Sheep.

Dellinger wrote: Not individual discs, but individual "volumes". I hope the prices are accesible enough.

Sorry, volumes indeed. Maybe I was still stunned at only 1CD for 1968 and 1971.

http://the-early-years.pinkfloyd.com

Individual discs released on March 24th!

For a long time the only PF album I owned was "the final cut" which I bought when it first came out. Even then my mom got on my case for buying it because my uncle had all their albums by then. Yes, that's right. My uncle who is now 87 years old is a big fan of Pink Floyd. Because of him I never had to buy their stuff. Instead I could just borrow them or go over to his place and listen. When cds came out he eventually gave me all his old albums(which I still have somewhere). I have him to thank for me getting into them to a great degree. The only thing is he got to see them live and I didn't. I had a ticket to see them but sold it because I didn't want to go by myself(shrugs).  

Can't wait for the individual discs from the box set finally gets released!

God I love this....thank you David

I agree that it's Roger who should take all blame for personality clashes, etc. but it all was out of sheer frustration. He wasn't nearly as famous as other members of the band. I remember that in his biography he mentioned that no one really acknowledged him as a driving force. He wanted absolute control but it was because he demanded attention.

^ I'm no expert on Floyd and while I like them I'm not what one would call a huge fan...but I have read some pretty nasty things by Waters in his interviews and he did 'mistreat' some of the band members toward the end. He might have been the one taking care of business and coming up with the 'concepts' but

Affek wrote: Yeah, that's all that Internet is about. Endless arguing about the very same things. I think that Pink Floyd underwent drastic change in its sound after Roger had left. It became more, how should I put it, artifical, and that's something I don't like, not to mention my opinion on Gilmour himself - it's him who takes all the glory, while Roger is the one who did almost everything.

I always felt that from Dark side to The Wall (or The Final Cut, actually), Waters was considered the driving force and the face of the band. In some ways I do agree, but in others not so much. He sure was the one that came up with the concepts, which seems to be the first step (at least with this band) to create the masterpieces they did. However, I wouldn't say he was the most important factor to create those wonderful albums... at least not with Dark Side, Wish you were Here, and Animals (which I would consider my very favourite period from the band)... with this albums, it was still a matter of the whole band creating the great albums. About songs written by Gilmour... well, actually he didn't write many songs...
On Dark Side, I think there was none written by Gilmour... though he does have credits with the rest of the band at least on Time. Besides that one Dark Side is mostly Waters and Wright, and I'm not sure who's contributions I consider more important.
On Wish you Were Here... well, Shine On is credited to the whole band, so I woulnd't know who did the most important part of the songwriting. I obviously would guess that the guitar segments were written by Gilmour, and the keyboard ones by Wright... and perhaps the vocal ones by Waters? I think on the albums it actually sais who wrote which parts. Gilmour's song on this album is the title track, perhaps one of the more famous ones by the band and surely an important contribution on the album, though on a site like this one it may not be among the favourite ones.
On Animals, often considered already almost a Waters driven album, Dogs is actually mostly Gilmour (I understand the music is by Gilmour, and the lyrics, as always, by Waters, so the song is credited to both)... and since that song takes almost half the album, I would consider his contribution to that album really important (and since that's my favourite song from the album, that makes the contribution all the more important for me).
And even on The Wall... Waters wrote almost the whole album... but perhaps the most beloved song from it, Comfortably Numb (at least for the more serious Floyd fans, more casual ones might prefer Another Birck part 2), was mostly a Gilmour thing.
So, perhaps Gilmour didn't write so much for the band, but what he wrote was usually highlits on the albums... and that's considering songs written mostly by him only (which as it turns, are not so many), if we consider which bits of the more collaborative songs were written by him perhaps we would find even more highlights.
The thing, in the end, is that the band was at it's very best when they all worked together to make the magic happen, and none of them on their own could have achieved the same level as they did together.