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Jay Jay Sea

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 11:18:51 AM »
Absolute quality. Drugs or no drugs. For me, it doesn't matter what mood i'm in, there's a track from Meddle, Dark Side, Animals, Wish You Were Here or live at Pompei that inspires me for the rest of the day. 'One Of These Days' i find inspiring. Division Bell contains some great stuff. I used to think Roger Waters was a c*** but he's great, super-talented. He lost direction when the Floyd made Final Cut but on the whole, Floyd are right up there.
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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 11:43:18 AM »
I'm not a huge fan or anything but everything I've heard is fantastic. I've just never been overly pushed to dig deeper. I probably should mind. The guitar playing is just fantastic.
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Tooj

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« Reply #27 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 11:43:59 AM »
Quote from: LesPaul on Saturday 28 January 2012, 11:43:18 AM
I'm not a huge fan or anything but everything I've heard is fantastic. I've just never been overly pushed to dig deeper. I probably should mind. The guitar playing is just fantastic.

Do it. :)
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OzzieMandias

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #28 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 12:40:11 PM »
Loved 'em in the early '70s. Got a bit sick of them by the time of Wish You Were Here. Threw away nearly all their albums when punk came along. Hated The Wall. Met a lot of people who knew and liked them when I began spending a lot of time on a Greek island where David Gilmour had some property, and once had an extremely weird night at a party in the Reading house of Gilmour's personal assistant (who was well paid enough to have an indoor swimming pool). At another point in the mid 80s, I was out in London with a bunch of people, and our bunch sort of merged with another bunch, and only later did I realize that the nice guy who'd been sitting to the left of me for an hour in some club, hardly saying a word, was Rick Wright. But basically paid them scant attention for ten years or so. Ended up working at one of their concerts in Berlin in 1988 and thought, hey, well, they're not that bad really. Bought eastern European bootleg copies of one or two of their early albums, rekindling a liking for Syd Barrett's solo stuff. Still didn't care about them that much, though; in 1990 got VIP passes for the legendary Wall concert and ended up spending the entirety of it necking free drink with old friends in the extremely well-stocked backstage hospitality tent. A year or two later, a fascination with The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (basically a kind of techno Pink Floyd album) made me listen to mid-period Floyd again, and now I occasionally put on Meddle, Atom Heart Mother or Wish You Were Here, though the punk in me remains to this day kind of uneasy about them. Still, saw them on Live 8 and thought they were by far the best thing on offer.

Jugband Blues, Syd's very last song with Pink Floyd:

syd barrett


"And the sea isn't green
And I love the Queen
And what exactly is a dream?
And what exactly is a joke?"
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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #29 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 12:55:58 PM »
Quote from: Chief Piggum on Saturday 28 January 2012, 10:48:21 AM
Single songs they're good. Whole albums they're the best band of all time.
Sums up my feelings pretty well. 
edit: might as well.
Pink Floyd - Meddle - 03 - Fearless
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Super Duper Branko Strupar

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #30 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 03:54:08 PM »
Fuckin Mega. 

Joni Mitchell-Goodbye Blue Sky (Live in Berlin)


Love Joni Mitchell on this.
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OpenC

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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #31 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 04:02:03 PM »
Quote from: thomas on Saturday 28 January 2012, 12:55:58 PM
Quote from: Chief Piggum on Saturday 28 January 2012, 10:48:21 AM
Single songs they're good. Whole albums they're the best band of all time.
Sums up my feelings pretty well. 
edit: might as well.
Pink Floyd - Meddle - 03 - Fearless


:thup:

Saw them at Earls Court, they were fantastic but I loved everything they did at the time.  Used to love the post-Meddle stuff, but don't listen to it at all now largely due to Roger Waters' whining and abject misery about all things.. don't mind his singing or his bass playing, but I f***ing hate his lyrics when he's being Serious Roger.  Some of the post-Waters stuff is nice to listen to, but the lyrics still make me cringe tbh.  This isn't particularly a Pink Floyd issue, though - I listen to 98% instrumental music for exactly this reason; almost nobody's lyrics are good enough for me not to feel a sense of creeping embarrassment for them which outweighs the quality of the music they produce.

Meddle remains a work of absolute genius, though.  Love everything on it, particularly Fearless.  By far their finest moment, and I've felt that way since I first heard it probably 20 years ago.
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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #32 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 04:23:41 PM »
Quote from: OzzieMandias on Saturday 28 January 2012, 12:40:11 PM
Loved 'em in the early '70s. Got a bit sick of them by the time of Wish You Were Here. Threw away nearly all their albums when punk came along. Hated The Wall.


Dark Side of the Moon was my first taste of Floyd, and they were always class after that. But The Wall, man, how can you hate that. It was iconic, a tale of our times, slamming the system of education which the majority of us hated anyway.
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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #33 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 04:46:12 PM »
It's easy to hate in retrospect to be honest, because it's So! f***ing! Miserable!  Same goes for Animals and Wish You Were Here, much as it pains me to say it after how much I adored them and how long I spent listening to them.  I'm not even going to start on The Final Cut :lol:  Animals is the only one that still gets any play time from me, and that's all to do with how good it is musically (Dogs in particular).  Even that's been years and years since I felt the need to listen to it, though.
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Tooj

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #34 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 04:47:34 PM »
Wish You Were Here is my favourite album.
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OpenC

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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #35 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 04:50:06 PM »
Was always mine as well.  When I sat there in London whenever it was listening to them do Dark Side Of The Moon all the way through, I found myself thinking too many times, "I wish they were doing Wish You Were Here instead :(".  All I really remember of the show now is that they had Little Feat on their pre-gig playlist which impressed me hugely :lol:  "Strawberry Flats" and "Snakes on Everything" as I recall :)
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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #36 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 05:28:55 PM »
Quote from: OpenC on Saturday 28 January 2012, 04:46:12 PM
It's easy to hate in retrospect to be honest, because it's So! f***ing! Miserable!  Same goes for Animals and Wish You Were Here, much as it pains me to say it after how much I adored them and how long I spent listening to them.  I'm not even going to start on The Final Cut :lol:  Animals is the only one that still gets any play time from me, and that's all to do with how good it is musically (Dogs in particular).  Even that's been years and years since I felt the need to listen to it, though.
Probably nitpicking here. I don't think Animals is miserable at all. It's angry definitely - pigs (3 different ones) w/ the mary whitehouse reference on censorship and dogs about cutthroat capitalist culture.  And WYWH ... sure it's melancholic and sentimental but isn't ... I don't know ... morose?  Definitely sad though I'd agree. 

The Wall on its own is a great story about isolation and utterly gorgeous musically - all us introverts probably love it regardless - but seeing the film and knowing "When the Tigers Broke Free" should be there setting the scene can definitely change perceptions into more of a "wah I miss daddy" Waters whinge.  Same w/ Final cut although I love The Gunners Dream).  Everything after that, as much as I regard Gilmour as one of if not the best guitarists ever (p.s. f*** malmsteen who always wins those dumb online polls) I really can't stand as the lyrics turned to s*** without Waters and his trick of writing out lists. 

DSotM
Meddle
WYWH
The Wall
Animals

For me.
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OpenC

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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #37 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 05:53:38 PM »
I know what you mean, but miserable, angry, whatever the epithet; listening to the post-Meddle music gets me down in a way that I don't want from my music any more.  And again, musically I find them too moody and claustrophobic, which I used to really like but which I now don't want to hear.  Just grown out of them, I guess, but there was a time that I listened to virtually nobody else.

Meddle > all.  If I had to order the others you listed, it'd be Animals > DSOTM > WYWH > The Wall.  Would rather listen to Atom Heart Mother than any of 'em, though :)

Wouldn't put Gilmour at the top of the guitar tree, but he knows what he's doing for sure (and his tone, if nothing else, is second to none).  One of the main reasons I started playing guitar 25 years ago.  Still remember the day that I finally managed to play that shitty faux-classical piece from The Wall :lol:  I don't think Gilmour even played it :lol: :lol:
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looneytoon

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #38 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 07:52:25 PM »
As much as I have gone off the Floyd in recent years, the ending of DSoTM is still a thing of rare brilliance.

Pink Floyd - Any Colour You Like, Brain Damage and Eclipse (HQ)

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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #39 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 10:45:00 PM »
Anyone done Dark Side of the Rainbow? Where you link up DSOTM and the Wizard of Oz? A few people I know in Uni did it. They said it was brilliant the way they matched up. Most likely they were so stoned they wouldn't know the difference anyway :lol:
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Tooj

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #40 on: Saturday 28 January 2012, 10:46:59 PM »
Nop, I've never heard of it. Care to explain the concept for me?
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LesPaul

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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #42 on: Sunday 29 January 2012, 12:16:26 AM »
Should turn this into 'The Prog Thread' tbh. Been listening to Genesis and Yes all night. Phil Collins is one hell of a drummer. Currently listening to Awaken by Yes, song defines Prog tbh!
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Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #43 on: Sunday 29 January 2012, 01:00:25 AM »
I'm well surprised anyone that generally likes the Floyd could not like The Wall.

I enjoy the Barrett days but DSOTM, WYWH and The Wall are just immense.
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Tooj

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #44 on: Wednesday 11 April 2012, 11:18:19 PM »
Just listening to the Royal Philharmonic's cover album for the first time in years. This version of Nobody Home as the standout for me. Such a beautiful piece of music.

PINK FLOYD-NOBODY HOME
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bulivye

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #45 on: Thursday 12 April 2012, 01:19:10 PM »
Quote from: Tooj on Saturday 28 January 2012, 10:46:59 PM
Nop, I've never heard of it. Care to explain the concept for me?
The Dark side of oz Part 1



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Tooj

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #46 on: Thursday 12 April 2012, 01:25:42 PM »
I was taking the p*ss. ;)
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bulivye

Re: Pink Floyd
« Reply #47 on: Thursday 12 April 2012, 01:34:47 PM »
 :doh: 
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