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Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 8

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Topic: Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 8
Posted By: 40footwolf
Subject: Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 8
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 20:48
Now we're in the second division and things should be getting pretty wild. Vote for 3 days!

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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 21:08
A Saucerful of Secrets

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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 21:10
Originally posted by Zargus Zargus wrote:

A Saucerful of Secrets


Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 21:13
No vote, haven't heard Ummagumma. 

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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 23:00
UMMAGUMMA


Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 23:03
Tricky. I'll go with Ummagumma, because of the live disc included, which has two songs from Saucerful in a much better version, plus Astronomy Domine and Careful with that Axe, Eugene. And the studio album has a few good song too (though I must admit Saucerful is stronger than this).


Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 23:18
So, what happened with the loser's round in which Animals may find it's way back in the tournament?


Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 23:31
The Losers Round will commence after the "official" tournament has concluded, just so that there's no confusion. 

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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 23:39
Ummagumma, the inclusion of the live disc helps a lot.


Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 23:45
A Saucerful of Secrets

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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 00:10

I guess it's too late to vote, but my vote would have gone with "Ummagumma." I'm in the minority, I guess, in preferring the studio album to the live album, but for me, this is where the Floyd of DSOTM and WYWH begins to emerge, on the two vocal cuts ("Grantchester Meadows" and the way-under-rated "Narrow Way"). The other, instrumental, cuts are fine too. This is Floyd coming into their own.

(OF course, SAUCERFUL's a great album, but it shows the band still under Barrett's shadow.)


Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 00:20
Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Tricky. I'll go with Ummagumma, because of the live disc included, which has two songs from Saucerful in a much better version, plus Astronomy Domine and Careful with that Axe, Eugene. And the studio album has a few good song too (though I must admit Saucerful is stronger than this).

Exactly.


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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 01:34
Both solid 4 star albums to me, Ummagumma is superior though imo.

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Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 03:04

Umma Gumma. The studio album is great and those live tracks show an entirely different wild side of that band. Essential stuff.


Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 03:06
Ummagumma

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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 03:42
Ummagumma, one of my favourites.

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Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 05:13
Ummagumma, it took a while before I could appreciate it, but now it's my 3rd favorite Pink Floyd album, only exceeded by Meddle and Atom Heart Mother. Yes, I love the time when all the band contributed to their music and not just Waters, Barrett or Gilmour.


Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 05:14
Saucerful without doubts!

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Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 11:04
A Saucerful of Syd Barret imitations.

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Posted By: Paravion
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 16:54
Ummagumma was my first Pink Floyd album - and my  first experience with the band. It was somewhat randomly picked-out in the CD-shop by a 14-year-old who had little of knowledge Pink Floyd and was and was somewhat curious.  It looked nice, and I was lured by the "two CDs at the prize of one". It even came with a nice poster. 

I had never heard anything like it. I listened to it intensely and grew slowly fonder of it. Primarily the live disc, in particular - Careful with that Axe, Eugene - made a huge and long-lasting impression. I still love that disc. The studio disc is.. - I'm still not sure. 

A Saucerful of Secrects was bought successively some point later. I liked it very much immediately - and it ranks as my favourite Pink Floyd album (In sharp and everchanging conflict with Piper). I somehow see how it gets classified as "A Saucerful of Syd Barret imitations." But one-to-one immitations of Barrett is impossible, and I assume the band was aware of that. They made - to some extend and probably accidentally - their own thing on Sauceful of Secrets, which in many respects differs considerably from Piper. Most significantly, it introduced a more "innerspacial" form of psychedelia.  

On the inner-sleeve of my (reissue) copy of Tangerine Dream's "Electronic Meditation" you read.

"...it was most definitely Pink Floyd that gave inspiration to their lengthy guitar/organ freakouts. Floyd's trippy Saucerful of Secrets had obviously found it's way onto a turntable or two in underground Berlin" 

It probably doesn't stand a chance - but, really, it is the best Pink Floyd album..


Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 17:54
The  one with th funny name.


Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 10:15
UmmaGumma !

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Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 16:54

Wow!  This is a tough one.  I'm going to go with Ummagumma as I'm one of the few who enjoy  the studio stuff.



Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 17:00

The one I can't speelle...Confused



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Posted By: Jazzywoman
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 17:03
A saucerful of Secrets, but just barely..

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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 07 2010 at 05:43
UMMAGUMMA - only for the live material though

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Posted By: cesarsc
Date Posted: November 07 2010 at 07:51
OK, I stiil cannot vote...but my opinion is :
 
Ummagumma
 
Thx


Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: November 10 2010 at 02:40
A Saucerful of Secrets.

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