Pink Floyd

[UncreativeUserName]

Just thought I’d ask if anyone was a fan of the Floyd like meself?
The Wall is my favourite album in the whole of the multiverse.

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[Danny Stephenson]

Hahahaha cunt.

[Danny Stephenson]

Yes, I like Dark Side Of The Moon, havent listened to much other Floyd though.

[Alex]

Yes, they are one of my favorites. Whenever I listen to my own lead playing I can hear that it’s a 50/50 split between things nicked from David Gilmour and things nicked from Robin Trower. Post Animals, I like about 60-70% of The Wall, and I really enjoy The Divison Bell, but I’m really not keen on Final Cut or AMLOR. I’d much rather listen to something like Atom Heart Mother.

[UncreativeUserName]

Final Cut is great lyrically, so if judged on a poetic stance, is brilliant, but musically only Not Now John is the one I really listen to much. Don’t like it really.
Division Bell’s mostly excellent though. Gilmour was one heck of a guitarist.
Animals, Meddle, or The Wall are my favourites.

[Alex]

Final Cut is great lyrically, so if judged on a poetic stance, is brilliant, but musically only Not Now John is the one I really listen to much. Don’t like it really.

Oh lyrically it’s fine. But Gilmour’s influence had been marginalised to the extent it becomes a bit of a dirge. I’ve always thought that Final Cut suffers from too little Gilmour and AMLOR suffers from 80s production and a lack of the lyricist. By the time they got to The Division Bell they managed to fix that thankfully.

Water’s solo albums have a similar problem. They have great people working on them like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, but it tends to end up with a cd of songs like When The Tigers Broke Free, occasionally perked up with something more lively.

Gilmour was one heck of a guitarist.

Still is. I saw him a few years ago, just before Rick died, and his playing was as good as ever. The best guitarists (like him and Trower) get better with age. They learn more restraint and their playing becomes more tasteful.

[ori-STUDFARM]

Yeah, me too. I am also a big fan of ‘The Division Bell’. Maybe preferring it to ‘The Wall’. Although ‘Darkside Of the Moon’ is my favourite album. I’ve still got the old man’s Pink Floyd vinyl too which I rescued from a skip.

But my favourite PF track has always been ‘See Emily Play’ for some reason.

[Alex]

But my favourite PF track has always been ‘See Emily Play’ for some reason.

Unoriginally, I have to go for Echoes. I’m nothing if not a prog whore.

And on a side note, for any of you that enjoy Gilmour’s spacey playing (especially on the earlier albums) I highly recomend listening to Robin Trower’s Secret Place. I was a Floyd fan when I went to see Trower, but it was seeing him playing this song that made me decide to learn to play the guitar.

[MANI506]

Yep, I’m a big pink floyd. What I like about them is they’re massively popular and really deep as well.

Been obsessed with all their albums at one time or another. Today it’s Animals or Atom Heart Mother. Also a big fan of The Wall movie – intense!

Drooled over the lavish box set of The Wall in hmv earlier in the week although they really should have included a full film of the 1980 stage show the stingy basts.

[UncreativeUserName]

Yeah, was really disappointed about the lack of the 80s show.
Also, got to agree, Echoes is one of their best.

[Phil]

Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Dark Side, The Wall, Obscured by Clouds. In that order.

[Nick R]

There was a fabulously geeky BBC radio documentary on a few months ago about Pink Floyd’s production techniques. A shortened version of it is still available to listen.

Even more nerdily, I never fail to be astonished by just how worryingly obsessive guitarists can get about analysing the most minute details of THE ALMIGHTY TONE, and Gilmour fans go further than most…

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My top three are definitely Piper a the Gates of Dawn, Dark Side of the Moon, and Wish You Were Here, but I honestly can’t decide which one I like most. Usually the one I heard most recently.

“Bike” may well be my favourite Pink Floyd song, hilarious and disturbing and rhythmically offputting. Piper would be ranked pretty highly on the strength of that alone, but the rest of the album is brilliant too. Dark Side of the Moon mostly lives up to its reputation, though “Any Colour You Like” is a bit fillery.

Animals isn’t far behind those three. Love the outros on the three main songs!

The Wall’s good, although I don’t listen to it from start to finish as often as, say, Tommy or The White Album. “Comfortably Numb” is very good, but it’s not the be-all and end-all – I prefer Gilmour’s solos on several other songs (“Time” for example).

The first three songs on Saucerful of Secrets are very good, but then the album just hits a brick wall with the awful “Corporal Clegg”, and doesn’t recover until Syd Barrett’s final track.

I’ve heard Meddle, Atom Heart Mother and The Final Cut a few times, but I’m not really familiar enough to rank them – probably much closer to the bottom of the list than the top, though!

Never heard Ummagumma, Momentary Lape of Reason, or The Division Bell.

I quite like Gilmour’s On An Island and Live in Gdansk.

[MANI506]

That dive bombing guitar at the end of Sheep. So good!

I think you should check out Ummagumma, the studio stuff is hilarious and the live stuff is great.

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