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Svetonio 
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Man With Hat
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 00:57 |
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Meddle
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 02:32 |
Wow, still zero votes for The Wall. And I'm not the one going to de-bagel it.
I vote Dark Side Of The Moon, because the whole album is very good. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Dogs" are two of my favorite songs, but the rest of their respective albums are not on the same level.
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AZF
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 03:11 |
I really can't decide! The albums of theirs I'm not into a "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" and "The Final Cut" might have great lyrics and the most down to Earth viewpoints, but it's still nowhere near their previous musical highs. I think David Gilmour's background guitar on "The Post War Dream" is the most thoughtless piece of crap he's ever done. That said, for me the worst Pink Floyd album is "More". And yet "Obscured By Clouds" is a brilliant soundtrack. But it gets overlooked as a "dress rehearsal" for "Dark Side of the Moon". So many choices! I may as well go for "The Endless River" not for a laugh, but to show support to an album that I think will grow in appreciation over the years.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 04:13 |
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"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"
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octopus-4
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 08:52 |
Everything from The Piper to Meddle. I love also the others, but I spin those more often.
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Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
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Flight123
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OK - very difficult but as this is a PA forum only albums before 'Animals' (i.e. the band stopped being progressive around this point) considered. I have a bootleg from 70/71 which points to their high point in creativity (it features 'Axe', 'Cymbeline', 'Embryo', 'Controls' and 'Saucerful') thus corresponding most closely with Ummagumma.
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essexboyinwales
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 10:48 |
Well I refused to let The Wall score "nil points"  Love a good concept album, and this is one of the best. Not the biggest fan of PF, and don't have all their early output - in fact, I was surprised to see there were 7 albums before DSOTM..... I'll get my coat.......
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Progosopher
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 14:42 |
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Lots of great albums in this catalogue, but Dark Side is one of the greatest albums ever recorded.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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irrelevant
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 15:55 |
Animals.
Thought Meddle would have a couple more votes at this stage.
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aglasshouse
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 16:40 |
irrelevant wrote:
Thought Meddle would have a couple more votes at this stage. |
I would've thought so as well. Interesting that it's not.
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t d wombat
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 17:19 |
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Loved Atom Heart Mother back in the day, always thought DSOTM was hugely over rated. To be honest I was never a huge PF fan but Wish is one of my all time favourites. I do like Gilmore's playing so some of their later is for me quite listenable without being overwhelming. Should go back and have a listen to some of their earlier stuff I guess. Vote goes to Wish.
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Andrew B
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx
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Nightfly
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 17:27 |
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I think it might be Animals. Give me that, Dark Side, the first 2, Wish You Were Here and meddle and you can keep the rest.
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aglasshouse
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 18:25 |
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Sometimes I feel a little bad for Lapse. It's definitely not the worst they've done.
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AZF
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 18:53 |
aglasshouse wrote:
Sometimes I feel a little bad for Lapse. It's definitely not the worst they've done. |
The guilty party is standing with zero votes at the time of this post!  Lapse is let down by it's second side, but at least it's still got more going for it than More. Cirrus Minor, brilliant. Nile Song, who would of thought they could rock like that?
The Crying Song I have a slight problem with as the "I'm cryyyyying" at the start sounds like the end of Syd Barrett's "Opel", which was recorded for The Madcap Laughs but left off the album... as Gilmour and Waters took over the production of Syd's album from Malcom Jones. Green Is The Colour is OK and Ibiza Bar is a lesser Nile Song, but the rest of the album is flowless instrumentals. At least The Endless River does this right!
And although I LOVE Umma Gumma, More's "Quicksilver" is every bit as bad as the consensus (Outside this forum) has for Nick Mason's studio section of "Umma Gumma"! You Tube Pink Floyd's "Quicksilver" but be warned it's dreadful and SEVEN MINUTES of your life you'll never get back! 
Oh yeah, and Cymbaline isn't bad either. But it still can't save an album, which to be fair was meant as a soundtrack to a film anyway.
What crazy times the 60's were! If a band released an album like More today they would have been dropped like a stone by their record company!
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t d wombat
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 21:07 |
aglasshouse wrote:
Sometimes I feel a little bad for Lapse. It's definitely not the worst they've done. |
No it's not but on the other hand it isn't exactly ground breaking. I quite liked it, indeed after Wish it is probably the most played PF album I own.
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Andrew B
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx
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aglasshouse
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 22:30 |
t d wombat wrote:
aglasshouse wrote:
Sometimes I feel a little bad for Lapse. It's definitely not the worst they've done. |
No it's not but on the other hand it isn't exactly ground breaking. I quite liked it, indeed after Wish it is probably the most played PF album I own.
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It is a little hard to be groundbreaking after you've broke more ground than most of the bands at the time, you know?
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miamiscot
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Posted: July 08 2015 at 18:49 |
I still don't really understand how DSotM is rated so highly. I much prefer Animals or WYWH. Different strokes...
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t d wombat
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Posted: July 08 2015 at 19:10 |
No argument with that. As I said I quite liked Lapse, certainly prefer it to any of Gilmore's solo albums and to any of Water's later stuff. Not saying it was better, just that I enjoyed it more. To be honest I don't really expect a bunch of old farts to be doing much breaking of anything other than their hips.
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Andrew B
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx
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tdfloyd
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Posted: July 09 2015 at 11:14 |
Huge PF fan and I still go back to their catalog often. DSOTM and WYWH get the most spins as I always thought of them as 1 and 1a. I would take DSOTM over any album by anybody to my desert island. The only two albums that are probably on a yearly rotation at best are Piper and More. I go back to Piper thinking that I am missing something. After all these years, I am never going to find it. More has a couple of good tracks at best. All the rest have their moments, many are spectacular for me.
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