Favourite Pink Floyd album

The death of Syd Barret (RIP Syd) brought this one up.

I saw Floyd in 1988 in Manchester.

I'd been a fan since 1979 when my brother taped me a copy of The Wall.

I had mates who dived into the back catalogues and went to Woolworths record ept and bought the early stuff. My brother had Ummagumma so slowly I built up the whole set.

I have to admit one of my faves is Obscured by Clouds. It has a lovely laid back atmosphere which when I am travelling in sunny Croatia takes me back to the Pink Floyd at Pompeii era. When I was living in the Arabian Gulf mapping marine habitats I would think of Echoes as I snorkelled over coral reefs and slept on the boat as we returned to harbour to eat crab and chicken after a day in the blazing sun.

Whats your favourite and why?

I notice that they have already this week released a new Floyd album, coincidence ?

animals is my favorite. not too overplayed on the classic rock stations.

final cut, their last album, kinda sucked and was a pretty good prelude to roger waters relatively lame solo career.

never really considered the albums after rogers left the band to be pink floyd, although i did like a few of tracks.

Here here... I think 'Sheep' is the best one from 'Animals', although 'Pigs (three different ones) is also a cöl.

oh, and btw, its Waters not Rogers

I always like Piper at the Gates of Dawn and 'Bike' is one of my favourite songes (it was penned by Syd too)


EDIT: that should have read 'Relics' - Bike is still my favourite track tho with all its simple psychodelic innocence. Arnold Lane and See Emily Play are pretty spiffy too!

waters that. er i mean roger that ... just some random dyslexia on my part.

Really difficult call. I'd love to see the ultimate Pink Floyd compilation, but it doesn't exist. Neither Relics nor Echoes meets the perfect needs. Mine would have: Obscured By Clouds, Wots...Uh The Deal, Free Four, One Of These Days, The Great Gig In The Sky (for Clare Torry's incredible vox), Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part 1), Wish You Were Here, Mother, Young Lust, One Of My Turns, Hey You, Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell.

If not it would have to be The Wall. A very disturbing album in which you can hear Waters' slowly cracking up. But, a masterpiece all the same.

I have the original copy of Relics with the white lettering on the Starline label. Not that it's valuable though.

Mates of mine used to live in Wandsworth Town so I would drive past Battersea power station when I used to visit London. Always evocative at sunset.

I would have to go with Wish You Were Here, for both the title track & that homage to Syd, Shine on you crazy diamond. A close second would be tape/disk 2 of The Wall, as its one of those rare albums where I love every single track. Comfortably numb brings back great memories...

This thread could almost link up with the other one on drug experiences, as both went hand in hand in my youth. Its a testimony to the talent of PF that even now in my older drug free life, they are still my number one band.

I likes Echoes as a complilation, but I think I could come up with a better one myself - but what PF fan doesn't think that!

Right then,

Another one to start.

I shall name Meddle as my fave album as its lyrics and music remind me of my days snorkelling and sometimes diving on coral reefs in the Arabian Gulf in the mid 90s. Sunlight glinting on the sea with ancioent Arabian dhows fishing in the distance while I slept on the boat returning to port.

Und?

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Mate we don't need 3 threads detailing your wanky taste in music do we?

Methinks someone is riled that I took a swipe at Mr Bowie!

A Floyd Friday needs at least 4 threads!

I am not frightened of dying, any time will do. (Dark side of the Moon) I'm sure that sounds like Rowan Atkinson!

Nope its a quote from Roger the Hat their roadie.

Saw Roy Harper at Leicester Uni when I was there. He was very stoned on stage and told very funny stories in between songs.

By far my favorite band, and always have been. I grew up loving the Floyd ever since an old friend from high school played The Dark Side of the Moon on his stereo headphones to me. What a blast! It was about then that The Wall came out and I remember it was like the whole world was Pink Floyd mad. The Wall this, The Wall that. Even some punk rockers and disco freaks were getting into it. I loved the album then but nowadays I don't think it's stood the test of time as say The Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here.
I agree with your choice, jeremy, Meddle is awesome, especially the tracks "Echoes", "Fearless" and "A Pillow of Winds". And the instrumental "One of the These Days" is a classic, undoubtedly. I saw the Floyd live in Vancouver on their Division Bell tour and it was "One of These Days" that really sent the crowd wild. Then again the inflatable pigs bursting out of the top of the giant speaker stacks would send anybody wild. I was only eight rows away from the front of the speakers - stoned. It was an awesome experience.
So anyway, my favorite Floyd album? I have so many, but I would put Animals, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds and Wish You Were Here at the top of my list followed by More, Ummagumma, The Dark Side of the Moon and Atom Heart Mother. The rest of the Floyd albums I only listen to occassionally including all my bootleg copies and the band's compilations.
It was listening to Pink Floyd that got me into music in the first place. They were (and still are) such an influence on me in more ways than one - not just music. The good: I met a lot of friends, been to a lot of great concerts and parties and they've opened up my mind. And the bad: some bummer drugged-out trips.
But there's no denying that they've had such an strong influence on popular music through the ages. So many bands and musicians in general owe a lot to Pink Floyd. I've explored other bands because of the Floyd, and I like their intellectualism and experimentation - even way back to their first days (their live gigs and their first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn). Could you imagine how they would go if Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) hadn't self-destructed?
Pink Floyd have been regarded as the only commercially successful psychedelic band from the Sixties era that delved more into the hallucinogenic style of music after that era passed, while other commercial hit bands (Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead for example) either changed their musical style to Heavy Metal, Country, etc., or just broke up. Pink Floyd got deeper into the psychedelic/acid rock musical genre with progressive rock overtones. There are imitators of course: Hawkwind and the Krautrock bands, but they've never attained the level of success as Pink Floyd has.

So that's what I think of Pink Floyd.



Pink Floyd - "One of These Days" (Live at Pompeii)

Now I can't shut up. Thanks to jeremy I'm on a Pink Floyd binge at this moment. Here's a couple more videos from Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason I'd like to share:

Pink Floyd - "Echoes - Part 1" (Live at Pompeii)



Pink Floyd - "Grantchester Meadows"



And a solo piece from Dave Gilmour performed live. This tune, from his 1978 self-named album, is so hauntingly beautiful. There's no denying he's one of the greatest rock guitarists in history.

David Gilmour - "There's No Way Out of Here"

Nice one Fuzzytony! Bummer my speakers arent connected at the moment. Will have to get that sorted, especially as I have wired up my old Strat to Cubase on the PC again. (not that I can play guitar at all though!)

Yep I also explored other bands like Hawkwind and Eloy etc. But none of them had the timelessness of Floyd.

Yup, get those speakers sorted out, dude. You can't go without your daily dose of Floyd magic.
I read the comments in the 'Why the hell...is David Bowie so famous?' thread and I was appalled at the level of stupidity. Things like "Pink Floyd are overrated" and "David Bowie influenced Pink Floyd", etc. (Okay so I made the second one up, but honestly don't people have even an iota of respect for Pink Floyd, the greatest band ever? Sheesh!)

Anyhoo, those who haven't really had the chance to listen to Pink Floyd and are curious (I'm thinking of those born after 1990) I'd advise they listen to the following Ogg Vorbis audio samples of these classic masterpieces:

Echoes
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict
Arnold Layne
The Nile Song
One of These Days (I'm Gonna Cut You Into Little Pieces)
The Gold It's in The...
Time
Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Dogs
Comfortably Numb

Enjoy!

The Division Bell

just to start shit

Actually I haven't mentioned a lot about their more recent album The Division Bell apart from their live show I saw in the early 90's. I have to say that the track "Just To Start Shit" from that album is really awesome.
Anyway, here's a much better Division Bell track live from the same tour I saw:

Pink Floyd - "Take It Back"

Dark Side of The Moon, just for Time alone. Funny thing is, i hated them as a kid but as i grew older more mature, the more i understand and appreciate their stuff.

Equally impressive

I do have to take exception to 'recent' - that was 16 years ago Yeah, still pretty recent - for you old pukes

'Poles Apart' - many trippy nights to that tune. Don't get me wrong, justice was done- many, many times to the 'classics' and in my opinion, the best songs.

More recent than Pink Floyd's other albums, The Beaver, not the music industry in general. In fact it was their last studio album to date released 1994 making it 13 years old.
It's a great album and come to think of it "Poles Apart" (sample) was written as a reaching-out message to Roger Waters who'd left the band by then.
Floyd trivia buffs like myself will be interested to know that this August 5th will be the 40th anniversary of the release of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Time to dust off that old classic.

I was close but pissing in the wind You are right and it was only 13 years ago. I bought it in Ashland, Oregon during my sophmore year in college. That was in tbe winter term of '94 as I remember it well. I know too well about the replacement of Roger and the song's meaning...I had a deadhead explain everything to me.

I think you have me way beat on Floyd trivia, but I love them. Enjoy the 40th brother!

Thanks, I will.
I'll reminisce over Pink Floyd's first studio album because of the days I first discovered them and really dug them. But when the album was actually first released I was way too young at the time, so I won't be like all the old acid-head hippies in retirement centers who will probably burst into tears and cry out "I'm not ready to die!" as the first note from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is played.
I was wondering, as I mentioned before, how Pink Floyd would have progressed thru the ages if Syd Barrett hadn't burnt out? The guy was a genius - his song writing and music compositions, his intellectualism and philosophy and his creativity in general (he was a gifted painter and writer). I've got both his solo albums tucked away somewhere, Barrett and The Madcap Laughs. What a shame he lost it, and now he's gone forever passing away last year. Oh well, Syd happens.

Got to be 'Wish You Were Here' for me. I still play it a lot, 30-odd years after it came out. I saw the Floyd a number of times in my (much) younger days, including one of the first performances of WYWH in Manchester, but the stand-out has to be a festival in Belgium in 1970, which was co-promoted by Frank Zappa who jammed with the Floyd at the end of their set. The words 'mind' and 'blowing' spring to mind.

Didn't Steven Hawkins sing on the Division Bell - Keep Talking?
Thats my fave Division Bell Track.

I still think The Final Cut was Pink Floyd's best album, or Roger's best solo album, depends on how you look at it. Anything with Syd was shit, that's for sure.

Why? well...the story, the mood, it just works better than any other album they did as far as I'm concerned. Sure, other albums have better individual songs, but as an album, The Final Cut is my favorite. None of the songs from it make my top 5...or maybe even 10 (I'd have to think about it, don't want to at the moment, it's a busy day) by the band, though...go figure.

The Final Cut? Strange. Never took to it myself. But then again it took me years to get to grips with the Wall. I'll give it another go.

Jethro Tull was the best

Live at Pompeii, frigged through the stereo sound outlet on my DVD player, and subsequently captured on audio is my favourite. Although, I think my dad played the wall about 4000 times during the period 1979-1984 so that is more or less engrained on my brain. They were just one of the most creative bands ever to exist.

i think those who don't say dark side of the moon are those who just don't want to be like everyone else, and not because of the music. that album simply has to be the best piece of music of the 1970's, hands down.

wish you were here is in my view their second best. the intro of shine on you crazy diamond. i remember hearing that for the first time. they took me to another universe.

Meddle is also a fantastic album. i didn't like their over-produced sound of the later 70's, like animals and the wall, though they are also good albums.

So, basically what we are saying is that its hard to pick one really I think! I actually play "Wish You Were Here" more than the others. I think I said "The Wall", because I haven't heard it for a long time, and it was synonymous with my mum bashing my head with the hairbrush, when I wouldn't keep still, and she was trying to get me ready for school. Happy days.

No mention yet of Wright's death this week?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_pink_floyd

RIP

Dark Side of the Moon is one of the best albums ever made, by anyone!

If I listen to Pink, I have to be puffing on a joint...so I just can't listen to it here. sniff.

sure you can... here you go.

Monday, Sept. 15th: Pink Floyd keyboard player dies, RIP Rick Wright

I have their albums on VINYL, still! Imagine that. It's just not the same on CD.

mlove - thanks
now I'm comfortably numb...your lips move but I can't hear what you say.
hmmmm.

you're welcome. I just put on the DSOTM cd. I left my large collection of vinyls (and my turntable) back home... missing that a lot. Wish They Were Here!

Thanks for that!

This one's for hardcore Pink Floyd fans like myself, so everybody else can just move along...

Taken from Peter Whitehead's 1967 documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love In London, this seventeen minute segment shows footage of a young Pink Floyd (Barret, Waters, Wright, Mason) jamming in a studio and playing live at London's UFO club in 1966. The soundtrack is that of the improvizational piece "Interstellar Overdrive", later to be included on their brilliant debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive"



And this is a 1971 interview with the band (Gilmour having replaced Barrett):

hmmmm

I got Meddle, Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you Were Here and Relics (compilation album)

I like 1 or 2 tracks from each of the albums, but for me Wish You Were Here is the favourite.

Then other musical scenes came in, and I went off listening to Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here gets my vote too.

Brilliant album. I remember over the years tripping out to "If", "Fat Old Sun", "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" and the title track, a magnus opus in progessive rock...

I love Obscured By Clouds too, and a favorite Floyd album in my collection. The title track, Burning Bridges, Stay, Absolutely Curtains and all the other tracks on the album are exceptional. Melancholic with a gritty sound, and yet with soaring melodies.

But by far the song I like most from the album is Childhood's End. Dave Gilmour's lyrics are just perfect for me:




<sub>You shout in your sleep,
Perhaps the price is just too steep.
Is your conscience at rest,
If once put to the test?
You awake with a start,
To just the beating of your heart.
Just one man beneath the sky,
Just two ears, just two eyes.

You set sail across the sea,
Of long past thoughts and memories.
Childhood's end, your fantasies,
Merge with harsh realities.
And then as the sail is hoist,
You find your eyes are growing moist.
All the fears never voiced,
Say you have to make your final choice.

Who are you and who am I,
To say we know the reason why?
Some are born; some men die,
Beneath one infinite sky.
There'll be war, there'll be peace,
But everything one day will cease.
All the iron turned to rust;
All the proud men turned to dust.
And so all things, time will mend.
So this song will end.</sub>

I sort of oscillate between Wish you were here, Dark side of the Moon and The Wall, probably depends on my mood at the time, but I think on the whole Wish you were here is probably my favourite.

A few years back I saw a ballet version of The Wall in the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, sounds unbelievable but it was brilliant!