Disillusion Part 5 - Pink Floyd

Well...I have never been a huge fan like so many here at PA....I bought all of the early albums because I started college in '69 and everyone was buying their records and even in high school I had some friends who bought the very early ones and played them...I didn't really get them then since I was only 15 then. The last purchase was Division Bell but I never play it...and I only rarely play Lapse of Reason.

uduwudu wrote: All PF and most solo releases. Not that everything is adored equally but these guys are too interesting to ignore. Must admit to some atavistic abhorrence to all the tribute albums... I have  a symphonic one but it did not quite cut it. Oddly the best conversion from rock to classical arrangements (that I have heard) has been Led Zeppelin. Must see if I can track down those older releases David (as s/he then was) Palmer's works of Genesis and Tull and others.

Mostly the same. All PF and most solos. Missing Wright's Zee, and both of Barrett's solo albums. When Zee was released, I saw it at Sam Goody, but there was a 30 minute line to check out and the most god awful metal music being played so I left. I never found it again. I've heard it on YouTube and it's not worth finding.   I'm not a real big fan of PATGOD, so I wasn't really interested in Syd's two solo albums. I have to admit I like Gilmour's version of Dark Globe, so I will get around to listening to Syd's albums and then decide.

I am not really a fan of tribute albums and most symphonic albums on paper seem good to me, actually aren't. See Yes's symphonic album, with Alan Parsons and some Yes men to see how it shouldn't be done. One of the most disappointing albums that I own. Anyway, back to PF, not a fan of David Palmers work on Objects of Fantasy. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's Hits of Pink Floyd is quite good. By far, the best of any of these albums (by any group), IMHO, is Us And Them The Symphonic Music of Pink Floyd. Jaz Coleman arranged and Youth produced. Just excellent. A must buy if you like symphonic albums. They really did a great job on the arrangements.

All PF and most solo releases. Not that everything is adored equally but these guys are too interesting to ignore. Must admit to some atavistic abhorrence to all the tribute albums... I have  a symphonic one but it did not quite cut it. Oddly the best conversion from rock to classical arrangements (that I have heard) has been Led Zeppelin. Must see if I can track down those older releases David (as s/he then was) Palmer's works of Genesis and Tull and others.

Besides that PA low rated best of collection from 2011 (Why'd I do it?), the last thing I bought from 'Floyd was 'Division Bell, used. Does that count? Don't know if I can get excited about 'Endless River. Without Waters, that and its two predecessors only amount to "Pink Floyd Presents..."

Barbu wrote: Love Beach.

^You're too funny.

Heard bits of The Final Cut on the radio and decided "nah".

For me, Obscured by Clouds.

AMLOR.

Not only I continued...now I buy also their cover bands...