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Stool Man 
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 Topic: 3 Pink Floyd albums - part 4
Posted: February 15 2015 at 05:31 |
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Part 4 of 5 polls. Here are the three albums made when Roger Waters took control of the band, tell us which you prefer and why.
I predict at least ten people will just say the name of their choice, and nothing else.
Discussion is encouraged.
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Blacksword
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 06:00 |
Animals!! This album is sublime. Full of Waters cold poetic cynicism, and great guitar work from Gilmour. Dogs is one of the finest prog rock epics ever written..  The Wall is a great album too, and arguably my introduction to prog rock. Hey you, Comfortably Numb, Mother and The Trial are all Floyd gems. I've only heard The Final Cut about four times in my life. Left me completely cold each time.
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 06:08 |
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The Wall. It's Roger Waters' opus magnum. I don't know The Final Cut.
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 06:24 |
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Animals: The Wall is listenable and I don't like The Final Cut.
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 07:43 |
1. Animals 2. The Final Cut (arguably their most underrated album) 3. The Wall (their most overrated album beyond doubt).
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Imperial Zeppelin
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 07:45 |
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Animals is my favorite PF album
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TeleStrat
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 07:46 |
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Animals is the final album in my trilogy of favorites (DSOTM, WYWH).
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micky
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 07:53 |
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now it gets difficult... Floyd begins to sink under the thumb of Roger.
Animals but not a ringing endorsement.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 08:11 |
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Animals is my favorite Floyd album with the balance between Waters songwriting and Gilmour-Wright musical influence. The following 2 Waters dominated albums do very little for me.
Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - February 15 2015 at 08:12
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Ian
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micky
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 08:13 |
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^ how you doing up there Ian. We are thinking of you down here where it is merely arctic. We only got an inch of snow here.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Guillermo
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 08:15 |
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"Animals". But I really don`t like this period of the band very much.
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Avatar: Photo of Solar Eclipse, Mexico City, July 1991. A great experience to see. Maybe once in a lifetime.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 08:26 |
 micky wrote:
^ how you doing up there Ian. We are thinking of you down here where it is merely arctic. We only got an inch of snow here.
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Blizzard conditions, already had over a foot since yesterday evening with 30 mph winds, not meant to stop until this evening, its pretty bleak.
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Ian
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 08:29 |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Cristi
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 08:30 |
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easy one, Animals, superior to The Wall, not to mention TFC.
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Michael678
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 08:31 |
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Animals, baby! followed by The Wall of course.
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infernalfrog
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 08:31 |
Animals, because Dogs. It's my favourite album ever, and was influenced by one of my favourite books, The Animal Farm. Nothing can top that.
The Wall is a great album, and the movie/live performance are even better, but it's the worse of the 7 five star albums of the band.
The Final Cut is nice, but it's too continuous, every song sound the same, but it deserve some listenings from time to time.
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Please, forgive my spelling and concordance mistakes. English noob here.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 09:35 |
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The Wall is a greater achievement than Animals. I love Animals but it is too abbreviated for my tastes -- one or two songs short of a masterpiece.
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 09:42 |
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Animals gets the resounding vote from me. This is an all around favorite full of amazing music. The Wall is great but gets overplayed and just like DSotM, it is no fault of the album. Final Cut is way down at the bottom of the stack for me, not even close to the other two.
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 10:15 |
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Easy call - Animals...
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Posted: February 15 2015 at 10:24 |
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Got to give the edge to Animals, though I like all three albums, and have a soft spot for The Wall - which I was lucky to see performed live in 1980.
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Stay warm and safe man! I read we actually had some buildings in the area collapse last night, not because of snow, but because of the wind. Reassuring