The Pink Floyd Appreciation Thread

[Bixby Snyder]

I have the Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, but i don't really ever listen to it.

[solgroupie]

i don't listen to amused to death hardly at all anymore. i got it because it reminded me of a guy i used to be crazy about - he was a huge pink floyd/waters fan and i just associated it with him, i guess. when i re-bought the cd years later and listened to it, it didn't sound the same. ah, so!

[Captain Hygiene]

I have Amused to Death too, but I haven't really managed to get too much into it. It's a step up from The Final Cut, but I'm afraid Roger Waters unfettered by David Gilmour is just not something I care for all that much.

[braindeadzombie]

Favorite Pink Floyd albums:

Atom Heart Mother tops my list. From the AHM suite to If, Summer '68 and Fat Old Sun and even on to Alan's Psycadelic Breakfast {40 minutes without Alan's is still a lot of album}. it's an good listen.

Wish You Were Here: Shine On You Crazy Diamond has some of the most curious lyrics of all time. They are a serious of contradictions that make sense for some reason. "Random precision","Steel breeze", "Black holes in the sky". Great music all throughout the piece. The rest is good too.

Animals: Sort of. It's hard to take Dogs and Sheep seriously after you've heard You've Gotta Be Crazy and Raving and Drooling. Dogs was actually softened in the change and Sheep was originally about violent insanity.

Dark Side of the Moon.

The Wall.

Meddle. Outside of Echoes and One of the Days, there's not much I find very interesting.

Umma Gumma: I love the live stuff but the other part doesn't really work.

More, Obscured By Clouds, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Saucerful of Secrets: A collection of songlettes, all of them. It's odd that there are live versions of some of these songs that work but are almost as long as the entire album they come from.

Final Cut and the other Floyd: Not really.

[pups4ever]

I love Pink Floyd. They are my favorite band, but I kind of got burned out on 'em. I do throw a song (or heck, an album) in occasionally. Like BDZ said (sort of), some of the bootlegs are amazing. If you can find a well-recorded one (usually taken off a radio broadcast but even then, it's no guarantee of sonic fidelity). The Atom Heart Mother suite was really amazing live when they had the orchestra (or even when they didn't).

The song that it is a real shame they have not released live (except on the Live at Pompeii DVD) is definately "Echoes." If you even think you may like Pink Floyd, seek out a well-recorded live version of Echoes (which is not hard to do since they played it so damn much for so long). I promise you that you will not be disappointed.

Also, I've tried the Wizard of Oz thing and I think I'm missing the key element of several friends willing to watch it and a half-ounce of pot.

[The Mad Plumber]

Here's my quick Floyd list:

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2. Comfortably Numb (The Wall)
3. Hey You (The Wall)
4. Us and Them (Dark Side of the Moon)
5. Have A Cigar (Wish You Were Here)
6. Another Brick in the Wall Part II (The Wall)
7. Pigs (Three Different Ones) (Animals)
8. Is There Anybody Out There? (The Wall)
9. Echoes (Meddle)
10. What Shall We Do Now? (Pink Floyd The Wall film)
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The albums I currently own on CD:

• Piper at the Gates of Dawn
  
• Saucerful of Secrets
  
• Relics
  
• Atom Heart Mother
  
• Ummagumma (Studio / Live)
  
• Obscured by Clouds
  
• Meddle
  
• Dark Side of the Moon (Limited Edition Gold)
  
• Wish You Were Here (Limited Edition Gold)
  
• Animals
  
• The Wall
  
• The Final Cut
  
• The Division Bell
  
• A Momentary Lapse of Reason
  
• Roger Waters - Amused to Death (Limited Edition Gold)
  

[afriendlychicken]

I wont even go into how many cd's of Pink Floyd I own. Put it this way, I have A Nice Pair on mini lp cd and the original 45rpm single of 'When The Tigers Broke Free'....on cd. My favorites are a little different than most (been listening to them since 1980):

1.Meddle
2.Animals
3.Obscured By Clouds
4.Wish You Were Here
5.The Division Bell ( I just think 'High Hopes' is the perfect song to end the Floyd with. Kind of like 'The End' for The Beatles.)
6.The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
7.Dark Side Of The Moon
8.The Wall
9.Relics
10.Ummagumma

Have the solo stuff too. I find David Gilmour's solo efforts to be easier to listen too than Roger Waters. Use to own the Nick Mason Fictitious Sports album. Never heard the Richard Wright solo albums. Anybody know if they're any good?

[Captain Hygiene]

Jan 12, 2009 22:32:32 GMT -5 afriendlychicken said:

1.Meddle
2.Animals

These are my top two as well, I believe. Oddly enough, though, our tastes really start diverging after this. Just for the heck of it, since it's been a while:

The great:
Meddle
Animals
Wish You Were Here
Dark Side of the Moon
Atom Heart Mother (took a bit to grow on me, but it's easily the most epic and experimental they got)
Division Bell (great way for the group to go out, for sure)

Then, in descending order:

Obscured by Clouds (some great stuff, but not nearly as consistent)
The Wall (some good bits, but starts getting on my nerves overall)
More (a few great songs, but mostly just noodling around, trying to find a consistent style)
Piper (I would say this is a good album, but it's just not at all my style, and I don't enjoy it much at all)

Ugh:
Momentary Lapse (A couple good tracks, marred by the '80s production, but overall pretty terrible and uninspired)
The Final Cut

[Tor Johnson]

I saw Floyd on the Division Bell tour and I don't remember that CD being a great one. I'm going to have to go back and give that another listen.