Pink Floyd - The Best of the Worst |
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Sean Trane
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Bar Let There Be More Light, Breakfast, Nile, Pow R & Saucerful, I don't find much to disagree with the multiple-sphincter dude who made the list. The other 15 would probably be in my own worst 20, should I ever find the time and troubke to set a list of bthe sort.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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tdfloyd
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Big fan of Mudmen, all the tracks on Saucerful of Secrets except Corporal Clegg. Prefer the Mason and Wright's contributions to Ummagumma over Waters and Gilmour's. Never understood the beef with Dogs of War. Named my dog Seamus so I like that track. I guess if you have to make a list some of those others like Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast would be on it and a couple of others but for a worst of list should have started with many songs on More.
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Cristi
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More is one of my favorite PF albums... Wright's and Gilmour's songs on Ummagumma are fine. Live versions of Grantchester Meadows are better, like this one: Also what's wrong with Julia Dream or See saw, Let There Be Light, or Mudmen... |
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moshkito
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Hi, Nahhhhh ... I would have fired the writer on the spot for writing one of the worst pieces of anything! This way, the writer might learn how to do something with a much better direction than being stupid!
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Saperlipopette!
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His name is Hélène Carignan btw.
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Cristi
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No one noticed the terrible mistake in the introduction? Roger Waters replaced Syd Barrett? Really? It predicts the quality of the list. |
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hergest ridge
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According to them, "Let there be more light" would be “melodically, harmonically and lyrically boring. " I really don't agree with them. This track is one of my favorites from Pink Floyd !
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someone_else
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I don't fully disagree with Miss Grape's list, but there are a few songs that definitely don't belong to PF's worst 20:
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richardh
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Kind of pointless as it totally avoids the popular albums. Would have been more interesting to come up with stuff from the well known albums. Have A Cigar? or even The Great Gig In The Sky would have been controversial and started a debate. Not saying they are bad though should anyone jump on me...
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JD
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Well I certainly didn't want to wind anyone up too much with this post...(or did I ) but I do agree with a lot of the responses. It always makes me laugh a little when I see these types of lists, and often you can tell how well, or un-well the author is versed on the music/band. Like the Syd Barrett/Roger Waters comment. In the first paragraph I'm already shaking my head with a Waaaa????? But since 'prog music' articles come up very rarely, I just though I'd share. |
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cstack3
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Drop some LSD, listen to those songs and then check back!! |
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moshkito
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Hi, Sadly, this is the synthetic age, and these folks don't know the difference whatsoever, and it is very well visible in this board, btw. However, I DO NOT want folks simply doing this stuff for the sake of doing it, and just get folks vaping and doing cheapashcrap dope and thinking they are stoned ... they are merely dazed by bad chemicals, and have no idea what the real thing is like, and will never try it, anyway! One would hope that they could even read a little Huxley, but asking someone to read something, specially here, is like asking them to jump off the pier into the ocean ... "it's too cold", and they haven't jumped in yet! The music, is not any more about dope than it was about anything else ... when Syd sings about the plane landing upside down, we think he is stoned, but he could just as easily been giving you the daily news in a flash, and we decided that it was stoney stuff instead. Story suggested otherwise, but in reality, not a lot of the lyrics by Syd were so stoned as to right out in the middle of nowhere, and I think that the members of the band ensured that the stuff stayed well focused, instead of it just being an Alice in Wonderland, which it wasn't by very far! It wasn't a child's story, for example. There is a lot of great music with dope, and a lot more cheapashcrap music without dope that is being flouted as a hit or some meaningful this or that, which will change you life! I just wish that more of us would be more "real" about things, and not so stuck on silly notions and favoritism, which is that article seems to show ... that any music that doesn't "fit" its list is crap! We should all gather up some coins and send the magazine and the writer a very large mirror for them to look at since all they are showing is their Dorian Grey side! And we give them the attention they deserve, instead of us giving the article more "fame" and "hits", because these days in the Internet it is all about the hits, and we just gave them a shish load of them which will gladly help them go to the bank and show that advertiser that they get the hits! We still don't get it! Same thing some 50 years plus ago when folks were telling some church idiots to shut up ... and instead they made the thing famous, and ushered in the new beta and then video market full force with a million seller and then some! You still don't get it?
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cstack3
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^I was joking, M! It was part of the times. Do some kind of drug, put on psych music, drift off.
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tdfloyd
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Love Mudmen, my fav from OBC, everything is very good on SoS except Corporal Clegg. Julia Dream, Narrow Way and Grandchester Meadows are fine. Several Species is in the running though. More isn't terrible by any stretch but for me I would have to start there to find a worst of list. PF is my top band so finding songs to consider the worst is tough.
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Sacro_Porgo
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I didn't realize you were also elitist about what drugs you take/took. It's almost funny.
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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The Dark Elf
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That ain't drugs, that's full-blown dementia.
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octopus-4
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Well, the guitar style on that track is almost the same as "Blue Light" on Gilmour's second album, released when U2 was some little known Irish band of the 80s. I think it's a typical Gilmour's solo stuff instead. In my own review, if I remember well, I have suggested to consider it as just a part of a string of three consecutive songs. It can be appreciated as a "movement" into a little suite. If you think to The Final Cut, it's more or less what Waters did (a little better, IMO) with Southampton Docks. Another comparison that can be made is with "The Order Of The Universe" by ABWH. The Howe's intro is quite similar.
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octopus-4
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...and let's just say that the list is rubbish. The only song listed there that O'm used to skip is Alan's, but it has its reasons as it was part of an aborted idea.
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Hercules
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Given that I really don't like anything they did up to Atom Heart Mother and that after Animals, everything was very patchy, I can't really disagree with this list.
I could have added everything on The Wall except Run Like Hell and Comfortably Numb.
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octopus-4
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Saying that you don't like PF was easier.
More or less my feelings with Genesis. |
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