Favorite Pink Floyd Era
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Topic: Favorite Pink Floyd Era
Posted By: Atoms
Subject: Favorite Pink Floyd Era
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:02
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Which one of these is your favorite era in Pink Floyds history, I decided to not include More since it didn't fit in any era. I also had a really hard time with finding a good title for the Meddle and Obscured era (don't judge me!). There is one era with 3 albums, but I don't think that Final Cut will make such a big difference on the result of the poll =p Well, I voted for the experimental years, because PFs 2 best albums are there (My name is even take from Atom Heart Mother). Too bad that Roger took over the band after Meddle, they managed to make the best music when everyone was writing the songs. I have a strong feeling that one era will completely dominate this, well, lets see how all the other eras manages to fare vs. the giant. |
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Posted By: LandofLein
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:09
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I feel it will come down to the "concepty" and the "spacey" eras. My vote is for concepts because Animals is my favorite Floyd Album, and I have gained a new appreciation for the genius of the Wall and I actually enjoy the Final Cut. Spacey will win, but that's ok
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:10
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Based on my ranking of PF albums, I vote for the Spacy Years, but the Experimental Years and the Symphonic Years come really close. ------------- 
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:12
Barrett. (DSOTM and WYWH spacey ?  ) maybe spicy...------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: kawkaw123
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:13
| I really like Animals |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:16
| spacy to me ;) |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:17
Dark side of the MOON! Can't get more spacy than that  Also, Meddle and Obscured aren't particulary Symphonic either =p That's not the point of the poll anyway
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octopus-4 wrote:Posted By: MAD
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:19
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Hoya! Well, spacey but I love Meddle, Obscured by Clouds and Animals... Be funky M A D ------------- Music is the Best! http://www.lastfm.fr/user/-MAD-/?chartstyle=MADsStle"> 
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Posted By: silverpot
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:24
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Impossible to vote. I don't much like Piper but A Saucerful is mostly ok. Meddle and Obscured are very good albums, but Dark Side is great and Wish is a masterpiece. Animals is also a masterpiece, The Wall is ok, but I don't like The Final Cut one bit. Finally, I very much appreciate both AMLOR and TDB. Guess it will have to be the spacy years. |
Posted By: petrica
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 13:07
| Divison Bell and Saucerful are among my favorites from PF.Almost impossible to vote because every period is beautiful and interesting. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 13:13
| One more for the spacemen. DSOTM and WYWH are so incredibly good... |
Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 13:19
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Spacey but... My favourites all come from different eras (Dark Side, Saucerful, Animals) ------------- http://www.thefreshfilmblog.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 13:38
| Piper, Saucerful, Meddle & Atom are my faves. First option. |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 13:50
Kevin Spacey years. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 14:02
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^ I don't get it? I really like Meddle and Obscured, so first vote for the symphonic years!
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Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 14:32
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67-71 for me.
I'm between options 2 and 3.
 ..... Symphonic Years it is. |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 14:51
| Concepty Years (Animals, Wall and Final Cut) |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 17:36
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Every period has wonderful albums. My favorite ones are "Piper", "Meddle", "AHM" and "DSOTM". I'll go with the Spacy then as I also love "WYWH". ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 18:10
| I think the "eras" and their relevant albums are all mixed up... |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 21:32
If I must  Spacey Concepty Years Symphonic Years The Experimental years Post-Waters Years The Psychedelic/Barrett years |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 21:44
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The "Spacey" and '"Concepty" years are one in the same; as a matter of fact, each of the five albums were concepts in one way or another.
You really have four eras:
1) Psychedelic (PatGoD through Umaguma)
2) Transitional (Atom Heart through Obscured by Clouds)
3) Concept (DSotM thorugh The Final Cut)
4) Post-Waters (Everything else)
------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: March 11 2011 at 22:40
I'd agree with this more than the OP's sorting |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: March 12 2011 at 01:50
It all depends on what you want to do =) Since this poll is only for fun it doesn't really matter how I put the albums. Tbh, I would also use that kind of selection when just describing Pink Floyds history, but now I just wanted to make a fun poll. If I had those 4 eras, one would have 90% of all the votes =p So I arranged them to fit the poll better.
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Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: March 12 2011 at 02:55
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The two spacey albums are imo the only perfect Floyd albums. Indeed, those are concepts too, so you could also have called the 'Concepty years' the "Dictatorship Years". ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 12 2011 at 03:01
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difficult to vote given your cut of Floyd's works:
- coupling Umma with AHM and Meddle with Clouds >> that's weird, and calling the latter "symphonic" is very weird (Floyd's most symphonic is AHM)
- separating Animals and The Wall from WYWH and Dark Side
your choices of course..
 .but I'll have to pass on voting ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: March 12 2011 at 06:26
As I said in my first post, I assume you didn't read it. I had a really hard time with the Meddle Clouds title. So I just took something that could work.
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Posted By: MonsterMagnet
Date Posted: March 12 2011 at 09:19
| The first two years. The perfect pair would be Piper/Ummagumma or Piper/Atom. But I don't see More?!? |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: March 12 2011 at 09:23
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More would fit in the experimental years, I think. ------------- 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: Dellinger
Date Posted: March 12 2011 at 23:32
| Given the way the albums are sorted, I have some hard time choosing. My very favourite row of albums is Dark Side, Wish you were here, and Animals. And they all seem to have some similar sound to me (for me Animals sound is much more similar to the previous to albums than to the next two albums). |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 01:09
I explained in the first post why I left More out.
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Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 04:32
I like the poll Atoms!  It's all about Animals, the other two ain't to shabby either. |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 04:45
 ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 07:31
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Easy choice to me - Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother. Followed by Medley. I like frist two albums too, same as Animals as well, so that's all what I really like in Pink Floyd's catalogue. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 14:12
I guess thinking of it as an "era" of similar music would make More difficult to place, though it would have to be with Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother. But still, for example, Obscured by Clouds doesn't fit so well with Meddle either. If I thought of it as "cattegories", I guess More would fit very well with Obscured by Clouds (and then just add the Pink Floyd songs from Zabriskie Point, both included on the film and the rejected ones... as a matter of fact, that would have made a very nice lost Pink Floyd album). |
Posted By: Kyle McTreehugger
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 01:59
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I think every album of theirs is a masterpiece in it's own way. All of them except The Final Cut, which is barely listenable fo me. ------------- One Nation Under Prog! |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 02:48
In my opinion Meddle and Clouds are pretty much Dark Side of the Moon lite. As Pink Floyd have said themself, the Dark Side sound was not found from nowhere, because if you listen to the two previous albums, you can find strong similarities. I was actually gonna call the Meddle and Clouds era for pre-DSotM years, but I realized that every 2nd post would comment on that since all albums before Dark Side is pre-DSotM. Also, I always felt that More had a folky approach, and wouldn't fit that well with Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother. More was not particulary experimental, just a nice soundtrack for a movie. Pink Floyd's intention with that album was propably not to break barriers, but to make music that fits nicely into a movie. Hence, I had a hard time to find an era for it.
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Posted By: Adams Bolero
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 03:31
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My favourite Floyd album is Atom Heart Mother so I'l go for the experimental years. ------------- ''Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.'' - Albert Camus |
Posted By: jaybird77
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 06:42
| It might not be relevant to this poll, but "Live at Pompeii" was the quintessential Floyd for me. The live version of "Echoes" is one of the most moving pieces of music I've ever heard. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 06:53
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Experimental ------------- |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 08:30
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for me Spacey and then Concepty
actually this order
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[43.10%]Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 08:56
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Concepty years, I guess. Animals is my favorite Floyd album overall, and I've a soft spot for The Wall, as it was the first one I heard. The less said about the Final Cut the better, imo..
Personally I would have put Meddle in the same category as DSOTM. Why is Meddle symphonic? ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 09:04
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I love Animals and The Final Cut, so I voted for Concept era.
------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 09:35
Read the thread
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 09:38
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Voted for their earlier stuff (Piper/Saucerful) as after that I just lost interest. Floyd have produced an incredibly varied body of work over the years but most of it just doesn't seem to float my boat like the Syd era did. BTW I happen to think DSOTM a rather ordinary music album but boasts some of the finest lyrics ever penned by anyone in popular music full stop. Who amongst us is NOT moved by the following?: Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines ------------- 
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 10:18
Meddle and Obscured are my fav two Floyd albums so voted accordingly 
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 14:38
| i just love the whole stuff , it's a hardchoice but i'l go with meddle !!! |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: March 18 2011 at 01:32
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Sorry to be obvious but has to be the 'Spacy years'.......
------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: Steven Brodziak
Date Posted: March 18 2011 at 02:18
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I must give Division Bell it's due. I already voted for Atom/Umma but the 1st time I heard the bell I was with a female campanion, this album played and replayed all through the night and into morning, I was dreaming the songs I swear lol. It was so soothing.
------------- Well, there it is. (Amadeus) |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: March 18 2011 at 20:13
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Posted By: Follix
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 03:04
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1. Spacy Years 2. Concepty Years (Because of Animals not because of the Final Crap) 3. Psychedelic years And then it's quite a draw between Post-Water and Symphonic years. |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: March 19 2011 at 04:19
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Saint Tropez concert 70' (54mn)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3919530544879324048#" rel="nofollow - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3919530544879324048# |
Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: March 21 2011 at 20:00
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Didn't like your divuision. Understand your reasons but disagree with them. Vote for the Post -Waters because my fav albums are fixed in various "eras" and I must recognize the wondeful Divison Bell its valour, even if only for the rescue of Mr. Wright's compositions and vocals.
------------- Bach, Ma, Bros, Déia, Dante. |
Posted By: esky
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 09:50
| Dark Side'/Wish' is far and away on this one. Who would have thunk? |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 15:52
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1- Spacey Years 2- Post Waters Years 3- Concept Years 4- Symphonic (¿?) Years (don't like much Obscured) 5- The rest (Only like Atom hearts) |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: March 26 2011 at 08:11
 Brilliant!!!!!
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Posted By: Gandalfino
Date Posted: March 26 2011 at 10:25
| Psychadelic! |