The Best from PINK FLOYD
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Topic: The Best from PINK FLOYD
Posted By: aglasshouse
Subject: The Best from PINK FLOYD
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 13:31
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Many people have their different thoughts on what exactly is the best Floyd album. Every album has some sort of differentiation from the last, making for a unique discography that has different elements for every album. What's your favorite? ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 13:36
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 13:40
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Pink Floyd were never an obsession or a phase for me, like they were for music/prog fans since their inception - not sure why honestly. I always connected more with Genesis, VdGG, and King Crimson. So there are albums that i dislike, love, haven't heard, etc. The one album, though, that has always been played by me, and has always struck me as the magnum opus of the band is Animals. Not sure why honestly, the things that stick out to me could be easily used to describe any of their bigger, more praised albums. It has this electricity behind it all that is infectious. So that is were my vote goes. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 13:45
Why though? ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
hellogoodbye wrote:Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 13:46
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Wish You Were Here, bit DSOTM should win this poll handily. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 13:47
I don't know - of all the PF Discog polls, Wish You Were Here and Animals both give it trouble iirc. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 13:50
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DSotM ------------- |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 13:54
| ASoS |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 14:03
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"Why though ?" Because Syd was El Cid.
 After him .... |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 14:07
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Animals. Easy choice. It's a bit raw, very dark and lyrically brilliant. Dogs is one of my favourite songs of all time. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 14:07
Exactly the reason I made it. Variety. 
Fair enough.  ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
After him ....Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 14:21
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I like Atom Heart Mother, Meddle and Animals the most... I voted for Meddle for no particular reason. ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 14:33
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 14:39
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I've grown to think Floyd are somewhat overrated over the years....that's not to say I don't like them ...I do (Gilmore 's melodic guitar playing was always the best thing about them imho) DSOTM is still their finest moment imho though I rarely play it anymore. WYWH is a close second for me and I have never understood all the love for Animals....a dark record that is simply not that pleasant to listen to . If someone forced me to keep only one Floyd album...it would prolly be Meddle....a sentimental favorite from my college days. It brings back many good memories. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 15:29
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Wish You Were Here > Ummagumma > Meddle ------------- 
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 15:43
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For me, Obscured by Clouds is the best overall album they made. Meddle, Animals and DSOTM are also very good. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 15:47
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Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 16:00
Obscured By Clouds is indeed the best. What's your favorite song from it? ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: A_Flower
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 16:24
| Today will be Obscured By Clouds |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 16:27
I like most of them, but Childhood's End is my pick.
------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Libor10
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 16:40
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Meddle no question. After the years it became my most favourite album by PF. One Of These Days and Echoes are Pink Floyd at their best. And even as the rest songs aren't on par with these two gems they're definitely good enough to like the whole record. Maybe only Wish You Were Here are on the same level as Meddle. Definitely it's not one of the most overrated record in music history - Dark Side ;-) ------------- 
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Posted By: melotron98
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 16:40
| Probably WYWH>Ummagumma> ATH or ASoS... |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 16:48
Fantastic song. My favorite is probably The Gold It's In The... Great travel tune. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 16:51
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Dark Side bc of the time and place, when I bought it! ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 18:13
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Animals for me, I love the darkness with the musicality of DSOTM & WYWH. Ummagumma would be second. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 18:14
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Piper! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 18:35
A Momentary Lapse of Reason!!  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 18:45
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^Yes, a Momentary Lapse of Reason for me too. It's the greatest Floyd album ever! I have listened to it everyday since it was fist released 30 years ago! It was so good that I threw the rest of Floyd records out! (how was that, micky? Did I sound convincing enough?) |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 18:47
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hahah. almost as much as me. I do have such a history with that album... the day M@X implements video reviews is the day I review it for the site and unleash the greatest PA's album review ever done... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 18:50
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^I'd definitely make some popcorn for that! ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 18:52
 It would likely get me arrested.. and contain acts that are illegal in 16 southern states.. but I would go out in a blaze of glory.. which is more than could be said of my 'review copy' of the album.------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Cailyn
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 19:44
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Dark Side of the Moon > Wish You Were Here > Atom Heart Mother ------------- http://www.cailynmusic.com |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 19:50
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It's great to see Momentary Lapse getting more votes than the Wall ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 19:54
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lol ------------- |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 20:14
That actually is good, Momentary is a good album imo.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 22:04
| Wish you were Here for me, though I'm tempted to vote for Animals, since it's actually almost tied in my preference, and it's got much less votes. I almost would like to vote for Division Bell, since I really love that album too, and it's got no votes at all... but in the end it is Wish you Were Here and Shine on You Crazy Diamond that are my very favourite things from the band. |
Posted By: CryoftheCarrots
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 22:59
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I have to go with the albums I keep coming back to. Meddle and Animals. Toss the coin - Animals. Thats it. ------------- "There is a lot in this world to be tense and intense about" MJK |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 23:42
Momentary used to be my favorite album before I heard ObC. Fantastic album. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 06 2015 at 23:55
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The epics always stand out but being fortunate to see decades come and go I still think WYWH and Dark Side Of The Moon along with Meddle are the very best of best.
They seemed to really nail it in the odd years of the 70's - 71,73,75,77,79  ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 00:18
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Atom Heart Mother. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 00:37
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Meddle |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 00:57
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Meddle ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 02:32
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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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Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 03:11
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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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Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 04:13
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 08:52
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Everything from The Piper to Meddle. I love also the others, but I spin those more often. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 10:24
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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. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date 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....... |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date 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. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 15:55
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Animals. Thought Meddle would have a couple more votes at this stage. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 16:40
I would've thought so as well. Interesting that it's not. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: t d wombat
Date 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. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 17:27
| 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. |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date 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. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 18:53
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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Posted By: t d wombat
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 21:07
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. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 22:30
It is a little hard to be groundbreaking after you've broke more ground than most of the bands at the time, you know? ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 18:49
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I still don't really understand how DSotM is rated so highly. I much prefer Animals or WYWH. Different strokes...
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Posted By: t d wombat
Date 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. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: July 09 2015 at 11:14
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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. |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 09 2015 at 21:34
Case for a lot of old proggers these days.
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Posted By: t d wombat
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 01:52
Wish I wasn't there .... .... well getting close anyway. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 08:10
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Another cliched one going for the obvious (a.k.a. ME); The Dark Side of the MOOOOOOOOONNNNNNN!!!!! (yes I emulate a wolf's howl lol) ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 17:38
| Probably Animals, it has aged quite well. Some of the other albums haven't. |