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1. Echoes (54 points)
2. Shine on You Crazy Diamond (48 points)
3. Dogs (46 points)
4. Atom Heart Mother (30 points)
5. Time (27 points)
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Originally posted by Grubert Grubert wrote:

Echoes is quite good, but is twice as long as necessary. Others I like very much are One of These Days, Time, Comfortably Numb, Another Brick in the Wall (yes, yes) and the wonderful Scream thy Last Scream.
Also some more not so famous stuff like When the Tigers Broke Free, Julia Dream, The Nile Song, Ibiza Bar, Cirrus Minor or Let There Be more Light.

Funny thing is that Animals was always and still is a pretty boring album for me. There is one of it which was good when played live in 1975 as Raving and Drooling. But the album version kinda loses everything which made it work.
Even more boring is nearly everything after Waters left.
If Echoes is too long for you, you may prefer the abridged 10-minute version from Pompeii. Smile
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote I prophesy disaster Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2020 at 11:16
Originally posted by Grubert Grubert wrote:

Echoes is quite good, but is twice as long as necessary.
 
What would you cut out? Hopefully not the Shepard tone.
 
 
 
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

[QUOTE=Grubert]
If Echoes is too long for you, you may prefer the abridged 10-minute version from Pompeii. Smile
 


That's the complete version actually, only in 2 parts.

I think it simply goes on, like many Floyd tracks, far too long. I would like it more if the ideas were more compressed, maybe so about 12 or 15 min at all. Would be still a long track.

Sometimes shorter is better.

Shine on benefits from being released in 2 parts. My vote goes actually for part 1, which does not really need the 2nd part to work, and is perfect as it is. The 2nd part is in itself also good, but not as great as the first part.
But of course, I know they belong together.

The first part of Echoes, like in the Pompeii vid, feels on the other hand incomplete.
I prefer the live versions of Embryo to Echoes, even if that could be shortened too by 1 - 3 min. It is incredible that they never put Embryo on an album, especially as Atom Heart Mother and Meddle have some poor tracks on them. The 2nd BBC live version of Fat Old Sun is (despite being overlong too) so much better than the studio version. They could heave made a great album in 1970/71, instead of 2 flawed ones.


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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Originally posted by Grubert Grubert wrote:

Echoes is quite good, but is twice as long as necessary.
 
What would you cut out? Hopefully not the Shepard tone.
 
 
 


What's the Shephard tone?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2020 at 13:25
Originally posted by Grubert Grubert wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

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If Echoes is too long for you, you may prefer the abridged 10-minute version from Pompeii. Smile
 


That's the complete version actually, only in 2 parts.

I think it simply goes on, like many Floyd tracks, far too long. I would like it more if the ideas were more compressed, maybe so about 12 or 15 min at all. Would be still a long track.

Sometimes shorter is better.

Shine on benefits from being released in 2 parts. My vote goes actually for part 1, which does not really need the 2nd part to work, and is perfect as it is. The 2nd part is in itself also good, but not as great as the first part.
But of course, I know they belong together.

The first part of Echoes, like in the Pompeii vid, feels on the other hand incomplete.
I prefer the live versions of Embryo to Echoes, even if that could be shortened too by 1 - 3 min. It is incredible that they never put Embryo on an album, especially as Atom Heart Mother and Meddle have some poor tracks on them. The 2nd BBC live version of Fat Old Sun is, despite being overlong too) so much better than the studio version. They could heave made a great album in 1970/71, instead of 2 flawed ones.
I prefer the full 25-minute-long version of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Smile
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote I prophesy disaster Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2020 at 13:57
Originally posted by Grubert Grubert wrote:

What's the Shephard tone?
 
The Shepard tone is that perpetually rising tone that ends the track.
 
 
 
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1. Time
2. Echoes
3. Shine on
4. Us and them
5. Narrow way

Tried so hard to be different......
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Latest poll update:-
 
1. Echoes (58 points)
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (51 points)
3. Dogs (46 points)
4. Time (33 points)
5. Atom Heart Mother (30 points)


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - February 24 2020 at 15:04
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Shine On Your Crazy Diamond
Comfortably Numb
Time
Dogs
Echoes
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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1. Have a cigar
2. Pigs (three different ones)
3. Money
4. The Narrow Way
5. See Emily Play
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Latest poll update:-
 
1. Echoes (59 points)
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (57 points)
3. Dogs (48 points)
4. Time (36 points)
5. Atom Heart Mother (30 points)
 
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^ I'm a little surprised Echos in in the lead. 
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I Prophesy Disaster and I both predicted that Echoes would win the poll, so I'm glad it's managed to retrain its lead just ahead of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Smile
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I'm more surprised that Atom Heart Mother is in the top five. Echoes is great but if feels like a completely different band made it. Floyd is one band that you could split their discography (up to 72 and then after) but probably best not to re-open that particular can of worms!
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^Me too! Over year ago I was in very small minority, when thinking Atom Heart is their best album. But, naturally I am glad it now has love! I am really glad also there´s three of my fav Floyd songs!

Edited by Mortte - February 26 2020 at 01:51
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The track to end all tracks is 
Comfortably Numb
Echoes
Welcome to the Machine
Sheep
Money
although Dark Side is like one long song Smile

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Latest poll update, with TDFloyd's votes added:-
 
1. Echoes (63 points)
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (57 points)
3. Dogs (48 points)
4. Time (36 points)
5. Atom Heart Mother (30 points)
 
Just under the radar:-
 
6. Comfortably Numb (26 points)
 
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Shine on you crazy diamond
Us and them
Sheep
Dogs
Welcome to machine.
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Just 5 ??
This could change on a daily basis......
Set The Controls.....(any live version)
Quicksilver
Atom Heart Mother
Shine on.....
Dogs


Edited by Tom Ozric - May 14 2020 at 07:39
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