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Poll Question: What is Pink Floyd's Greatest Epic?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
3 [1.95%]
5 [3.25%]
1 [0.65%]
1 [0.65%]
10 [6.49%]
2 [1.30%]
63 [40.91%]
32 [20.78%]
7 [4.55%]
25 [16.23%]
2 [1.30%]
3 [1.95%]
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Echoes. Absolutely her best.
I think similar polls have been created already and Echoes won every time.

I totally agree about Interstellar Overdive, but apart Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast all of them are masterpieces.
Did I write "her best?"  I was meaning "Their" of course Confused
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I don't like PF very much but Dogs is great Masterpiece - their best work no doubt.
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:


 
LOL Nice pic
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All time fav. Rawks


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Dogs. Animals is there best album. 
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Aren't Sysyphus and The Narrow way solo works?

Maybe you mean Greatyest epic on a Floyd album.
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:




This...er...these!

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Tricky one. I voted for Echoes, but I love shine on 1-5, Atom Heart mother, Saucer, the narrow way, pigs, etc.......as I said very tricky....
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could have voted for almost any of the options

giving some love to
 
Atom Heart Mother
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Aren't Sysyphus and The Narrow way solo works?

Maybe you mean Greatyest epic on a Floyd album.

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Echoes is lame! SOYCD all the way... the WHOLE song.
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Originally posted by Anthony Anthony wrote:

Echoes is lame! SOYCD all the way... the WHOLE song.
This! Although if I had to choose one, it would be parts 6-9. Really been digging those parts lately.

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Echoes of course
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Points: 21795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 08 2010 at 17:46
Either Echoes, Shine On, or one of the Animals tracks.
 
Give me a break I'm a fanboy LOL


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Pigs for me.  Doesn't seem to be a very popular choice...but damn, it takes my breath away.  Of course this could also be said of Echoes, Atom Heart Mother etc., but Animals is my favorite Floyd release, and Pigs is its height for me. 

The tipping factor, of course, are Wright's beautiful, stark glissandi. 




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Originally posted by 40footwolf 40footwolf wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

but that's a false context; there is NO context in which the word epic is primarily based on the length of something.  Why didn't you say best songs over 10 minutes?

1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style:Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
2.
resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3.
heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
4.
of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.


If you're going to be condescending and pedantic, at the very least try to be right. 


1. The emphasis of this one is the great achievements etc.

2. and 3. not relevant

4. 10 minutes is by no stretch of the imagination "of unusually great size or extent" when it comes to progressive rock
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Epic is a very multifaceted word. It can mean many things. In this case, in this very specific context, I have delegated it to mean songs over 10 minutes, because 10 minutes is a rather long time for a Pink Floyd song-notice how there are only a little more than ten?-and because it's easier to use this criteria than to make up some completely arbitrary system and have people asking why I included "Us and Them" and not "[fill in Personal Favorite Pink Floyd Song here].

You can continue to be pedantic, petty and misinformed, or you can hop off my jock and go somewhere else. I've done nothing wrong in regards to language or anything else. Why you insist on (wrongly) harping on my vocabulary errors is a mystery to me, but I'd request that you quit cluttering up the thread with this nonsense, if that's okay with you. 
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