Anybody like Pink Floyd other than me
and if you do
whats your favorite song and album?

Hello,hello....is there anybody out there? I haven't heard a lot of Floyd,but I really like Dark Side of the Moon and Delicate Sound of Thunder. I think i have about 4 Floyd cd's,incl. Division Bell,dsot,dsotm,andlearning to fly

Luv4oneanotha said:

Big Pink Floyd fan!! Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite album. Some of my favorite songs are HAVE A CIGAR, LEARNING TO FLY, WISH YOU WERE HERE, YOUNG LUST, SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND and everything on DSOTM.

Luv4oneanotha said:

me!! me!! me!!!!! my fave Pink Floyd song is "Wish You Were Here" and my fave album would be "The Wall"

HUGE Floyd fan here. The Wall was the 1st record I ever bought with my own money. I was 10 years old (Another Brick in The Wall part II spoke to me for some reason )!!

The Wall is still my favorite. Although I love almost everything they did. I've been getting into Umma Gumma again at the moment. Haven't listened to that in years (and I don't think ever listened to it when I wasn't high as a kite). Cool to hear with a fresh (and straight) set of ears.

Fave track: Wish You Were Here

Fave album: Meddle

I used to enjoy a little Pink now and then years ago... not really a huge fan... now the melodies make me quite nauseous whenever I hear them on the radio or player. I used to like, 'Time' and the album and movie, 'The Wall'.

A jug of wing, a hit of acid and .....



PS: It's called UMMAGUMMA and it contains the classics:

Careful With That Axe, Eugene

and

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Yep, im a fan. I used to love all of their releases, up to Division Bell and PULSE-live, but nowadays im really bored with the post-roger waters stuff, its kind of AOR anyway.

But nothing beats the early Syd Barrett songs, therefore i think my favourite album is the Relics -compilation. See Emily Play is superb. And Astronomy Domine!!! I like most of Syd's solo stuff too, though some of it is ...eh ...crap.

Of Waters-period my favourite could be Meddle or Animals. I also love Atom Heart Mother, especially the weirdest title track


And i've always considered The Final Cut almost as good as The Wall.
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Anyone know a song called "the tide is turning"? wasn't that song written and perfomed by a solo member of Pink Floyd? Someone fill me in?

Luv4oneanotha said:

Pink Floyd is one of my all time fave bands. David Gilmour is also one of my favorite guitarists. He has had a big influence on my playing. There are WAY to many favorite songs by Pink Floyd to narrow down. Fave album? It used to be for years "The Wall". Then it changed to "Wish You Were Here". And of course "Dark Side Of The Moon" which is the soundtrack to the "Wizard Of Oz". Some of my fave albums as a whole are:
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - 1967
A Saucerful Of Secrets - 1968
Ummagumma - 1969
More - 1969
Atom Heart Mother - 1970
Meddle -1971
Relics - 1971
Obscured By Clouds - 172
Darkside Of The Moon -1973
Wish You Were Here - 1975
Animals -1977
The Wall -1979
The Final Cut - 1983

Here i am thining im the only one lol

my favorite album is The Wall
favoritwe song is Us And Them

blackguitaristz said:

I just have to ask this question at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot. Is it really true that you can play the "WoO" movie and "DSOTM" at the same time and they are more or less in time with each other and did Pink Floyd do this purposely or is it just a coincidence? I've heard of this before a few years ago and it's pretty strange that it was brought up again.

Love & Light,

Quietsoul

quietsoul said:

No, Pink Floyd purposely composed Darkside to the movie. Anyway, Roger Waters used to compose music to films before he played in Pink Floyd.I've hooked it up several times to play for girls that I was trying to impress that wasn't even hip to it. Blew their minds! That's why Darkside has so many sound effects running through the album. The lyrics coincide wth the movie as well. It totally fucked me up the first time I ran the cd along with the movie. It's brilliant. Also, check out Darkside's album cover. What do you see? A rainbow. What's the most known song from the movie?

blackguitaristz said:

Cool. I did further research on this and there is a DVD out called "Dark Side Of The Rainbow". It has DSOTM synced up with WoO. Not sure if you'd be interested but here is the link: http://members.cox.net/st...corded.htm

I gotta get one of these. My curiousity is fuggin' with me now.

Love & Light,

Quietsoul

thesexofit said:

Yes, it's the last song on Roger Waters' second solo album Radio KAOS.

more info here : http://www.rogerwaters.or...raphy.html

Here's a question for serious Floyd fans :

Why is Syd Barrett so renowned as the genius behind Pink Floyd?

If you look at their body of work, the vast majority of it (including all the stuff that made them famous) was composed and recorded long after his departure. In fact, Barretts' contribution to the Floyd discography consists of just one album - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, plus a few tracks on Relics (which, if I remember my Floyd facts correctly, were originally the first singles released by The Pink Floyd prior to Piper).

His eclectic style is evident throughout Piper, and the Barrett-infused tracks on Relics are also easily recognizable as predominantly his work, but that, to me, is where the Barratt era ended. His musical ability, for reasons I'm not going to go into here, fizzled out, and so did his influence on the band. The experimental and often orchestral sound of albums like A Saucerful of Secrets and Atom Heart Mother is almost entirely the work of a Roger Waters / Rick Wright partnership, Meddle owes it’s mainly guitar based sound to Roger Waters / Dave Gilmour collaboration, and subsequent albums such as DSOTM, Wish You Were Here, Animals etc. could be seen as the culmination of all the sounds, influences and writing/compostion partnerships that took place between Saucerful and Obscured.
But nowhere in their large body of post-Barrett work do I hear anything that I could point out as being pure Barrett or Barrett-inspired. Of course, I'm not familiar with Barrett's post-Floyd solo work, but from what I have read it is Dave Gilmour's style that is most evident in this work, as it was he who helped the increasingly erratic Barrett to complete his two solo albums, and it is also rumoured that some (and possibly the majority) of the work on his 2 solo albums is actually entirely the work of Gilmour.

If I had to choose one member of Pink Floyd as the genius behind the music, I would have to choose Roger Waters, as it is his name and his influence that is stamped across everything from A Saucerful of Secrets to The Final Cut. To be fair though, Pink Floyd were one of those rarest of commodities – a band with not just one but several musical genii, who’s ideas and ideals often gave rise to friction (and eventual break-up), but also gave rise to some of the most inspired and inspiring music written in the era of modern electronic music. Those genii are Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour and Rick Wright, and it was they who created the Pink Floyd sound, not Syd Barrett. The Syd Barrett sound, as I like to call it, died when Syd opted out of the experimental collective that was The Pink Floyd. When Syd went his style and sound left with him, and rightly so, and the other members of the band went on with their own music and light experimentations which would become known as ‘psychedelia’ and ‘the Pink Floyd sound’.

So having said all that, I know that back in his day, Syd Barrett was a genius in musical experimentation, albeit briefly. He is known variously as "the unforgotten hero of the sixties", "the inventor of psychedelia", and "the inventor of the Pink Floyd sound".

But does he really deserve this accolade ? I have to wonder is the awe and reverence which usually surrounds any discussion of Syd more down to a feeling of loss and pity for a man who lost his way, than his actual influence on the music of the time, and more particularly, the music of the band he was once (briefly) in ?

Eh?

(sorry, I didn’t intend to write a book).


Anyway to answer the (extremely difficult apart from the first one, by the way) questions :

Yes, I’m a Floyd fan.
Favourite song : very difficult to choose, so I’ll say St. Tropez (why not!)
Favourite album : The Final Cut. Actually, if Roger Waters’ solo work were to be included here I’d probably choose Amused to Death.

AsylumUtopia said:

It's probably because Syd fit the "tragic figure". I agree, I feel Roger Waters was the man behind Pink Floyd and was the creative force, overall. I also give a lot of credit to David Gilmour for shaping Pink Floyd's sound with his playing and songwriting style. I like Syd though and I dig the period when he was in the band.

quietsoul said:

Thanx, player! Didn't know they had this on dvd. I've been doing it the old fashion way.

blackguitaristz said:

Yeah, I like the Syd era as well, and I can't believe I have yet to buy (or even hear) his solo albums. I guess at the time I was buying Floyd music, it was a choice of vinyl or cassette, consequently I began to build up what could at best now be described as an expensive collection of frisbees. I had a decent enough turntable, but vinyl gets scratched no matter what, unless of course you never play it, so I more or less gave up buying what I would consider satellite music, and just bought the really important stuff.

So, do you have the solo Syd albums ? And if so, what do you think ? (a brief review of no more than, say, 5000 words should suffice. ) Would you agree with the theory that they are largely (or to some extent) actually the work of Dave Gilmour ?
That theory, by the way, and most of what I know about the Syd Barrett era (apart from his music on Piper and the Relics stuff) is what I've read in a book about him - which I recommend to anyone interested, called "Lost in the Woods. Syd Barrett and The Pink Floyd" by Juilan Palacios.

Yep. Dave Gilmour...

Oh, and favorite album is "Dark Side of the Moon" and I have a lot of favorite songs, but one in particular is "Any Colour You Like".
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AsylumUtopia said:

Yeah, I have Syd's "The Madcap Laughs" from 1970. I like it a lot. Have it on wax, it's in good condition. Only paid 99 cents for it. This lady was having a yard sale and she was selling all of her son's stuff. She didn't know who the fuck Syd was and cared even less.

Wish You Were Here cd

perfection