Did they get it right ?

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A lot of great songs in that list.

They also mentioned how the critics at the time received those song, which if you ask me it's totally irrelevant. 

wrong wrong wrong!  

See-Saw and The Nile Song, among my favorites.

Pow R. Toc H...   downright heresy.         (seems like they tossed a coin or somethin'.. maybe Take Up Thy Stethoscope...? anyway, don't mess with Piper  ;) )

 

Grand Vizier's and Sisyphus we could talk...

About the 80's stuff and onward.. I don't even know it  (except Take It Back, that I like enough).

For the best, I wouldn't mind voting for Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast or Corporal Clegg.

And that is my opinion and applies to all lists.

I rather like both Fletcher Memorial Home and Saucerful of Secrets, and can listen to Dogs of War without getting overly embarrassed. Aside from that, not much to argue about, really.

Yep. I only agree with a few being not too good like dogs of war, Seamus and corporal Clegg. Actually dogs of war isn't too bad. Seamus and CC on the other hand.....

Also, let there be more light is a great opener imo.

Seamus and Corporal Clegg are meant to be humorous, not to be taken that seriously. I don't have a problem with them. 

Also, it's interesting that they had most of the Ummagumma studio tracks on the list but not Interstellar Overdrive. IO is mostly just random sounds(some might say noise) and not very musical at all(imo). 

No the list is wrong, I mean what list is ever right! 

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.

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.

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... 

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!

No one noticed the terrible mistake in the introduction?

Roger Waters replaced Syd Barrett? Really? It predicts the quality of the list. 

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 !

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.

Drop some LSD, listen to those songs and then check back!!  

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?

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.  

I didn't realize you were also elitist about what drugs you take/took. It's almost funny.

That ain't drugs, that's full-blown dementia. 

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.

...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.

I could have added everything on The Wall except Run Like Hell and Comfortably Numb.

Hi,

Most folks that make vapid and empty comments have no idea. It's all too much for them, and the fact that it rips apart their idea of reality is an issue.

Folks that know the difference, would not even try to make the comment you did!

But, for the record, it's not EVER about the drugs. We've created a monumental idealistic and full of sh*t reality about the drugs, and now we use substitutes from the local herbery that are cheap, and an insult to the "dope" itself. But you would never even consider that you are being ripped off! 

As timely as today's forum posts, they drop anther one that can't go unshared. I haven't reviewed it all yet so no comment for now.

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And just like that...on the first slide they say they are going to list the bands alphabetically. Then they start with Alan Parson's Project...(sigh)

But wait...there's this quote.

Why do I even bother ??

not bad, only British and American bands though, plus Rush as always. 

 

Any list with Gentle Giant in it should also have Van der Graaf Generator in it.

 

 

I quite like Corporal Clegg.

 

I'll agree with you on your first count. I'm not an experienced commenter in this regard. I'm pretty much straight-edge to borrow a term from the punk scene. I guess that's why it seems all the more absurd and elitist to me that you would go on a small rant about how drugs used to be better in the 60s and 70s, and now they're worse, or not even real, or something.  It just seems to come from a very closed minded space, the same kind of space that would argue great "real" music stopped being made after 1973 or 1983 or 1993 etc.  But whatever man, this is supposed to be a discussion about this terrible Pink Floyd list. I'm just gonna stick to that.

Agreed. Although I thought it wasn't a horrible list overall. At least they had more than DT to represent all of prog metal.  Seems to me they tended to favor slightly lighter fare at times (APP, Supertramp, Moody Blues, Procol Harum), but it's a little confusing to see a couple of those listed when they also seem to know Gentle Giant and Soft Machine deserve spots as well. So... not a horrible list. Kind odd choices here and there, but overall they hit a lot of names that deserved hitting.

yep take away Queensryche and add VDGG and it would be fine. Tool and The Mars Volta feature which is correct. Camel fans might be annoyed they aren't included though..