Pink Floyd

[Morgbug]

Holy ****, talk about a thread bump.

What, 3 years?  No big deal.  Floyd is still the schizzle in my book

[Matt]

What, 3 years?  No big deal.  Floyd is still the schizzle in my book

I still don't know which one Pink is.   

[JesseVader08]

Holy ****, talk about a thread bump.

What, 3 years?  No big deal.  Floyd is still the schizzle in my book

Amen sister.

[JohnH]

What, 3 years?  No big deal.  Floyd is still the schizzle in my book

I still don't know which one Pink is.   

It's Floyd. 

(dumbass)   

[Matt_Fury]

I actually sat on Nuclear Alert last night watching my copy of Pink Floy:The Wall.  What an awesome movie! 

I recently purchased a 60 GB capacity iPod and my Pink Floyd Collection will be the first items in it!

[john todd]

24 My Own Prison           Creed
23 Silver Side Up             Nickelback
19 Picture Of Health        Headstones
14 Road Apples                Tragically Hip
    4 Up To Here                   Tragically Hip
 

i wonder if they would back off from some of the more dubious choices on the list now that some of these guys careers have cooled down?

[Morgbug]

Well, it's a Canadian radio station, so I doubt they'd back off on the Hip.  Still really popular up here, one announcer calling them Canada's Beatles

Interestingly both the Tragically Hip and The Headstones both came out of Kingston, Ontario.  More trivially though, they all went to the same high school.  It's fairly blasphemous to say so, but I prefer the Headstones to the Hip.  Now that the Headstones have broken up, I'm sure they'd let that album slide up the list pretty far. 

As far as Nickelback is concerned, another Canadian band so they'll not be slipping on the list much at all. 

As for Creed, well, I'm still shocked it made the list at all. 

Part of the initiative for some of those choices is a little known (outside Canada anyway) legal mandate for Canadian content on radio and television.  I no longer recall the required percentage, but it was around 30-40 percent at one point.  In place to give the Canadian talent an opportunity without being overwhelmed by the inundation of Americana.  There are also some other weird quirks in the music industry with US vs Canada bookings and the like.  Those aren't mandated but function as unwritten laws.  Weird ****. 

[Tracy]

I actually sat on Nuclear Alert last night watching my copy of Pink Floy:The Wall. 

That image does not help me to sleep any better at night

[Jim]

Can we please not mention groups like Creed or Nickleback in a Floyd thread?  Its outright embarassing

[Morgbug]

While I may not disagree with you Jim, it fits the context of the thread based on my third post on the first page.   

[Jim]

While I may not disagree with you Jim, it fits the context of the thread based on my third post on the first page.   

Yeah I know.   

[Sprry75]

My favorite whole album is either Animals or Wish You Were Here, but my favorite song is Sex Dwarf.

Wait, that's my favorite Soft Cell song.

My favorite Pink Floyd song is The Gunner's Dream.  It's a little maudlin, but it still makes me bawl every time I hear it.

Floating Down
Through the Clouds
Memories come rushing
Up to meet me now

But in the space between the heavens
and the corner of some foreign field
I had a dream...
I had a dream

Goodbye Max,
Goodbye Ma
After the service
When you're walking slowly to the car

And the silver in her hair
Shines in the cold November air
You'll hear the tolling bell
And touch the silk in your lapel

And as the teardrops rise
to meet the comfort of the band

You take her frail hand...

And hold on to the dream

(kickass sax solo...yes I said ******* sax solo)

A place to stay
Enough to eat
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street

Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And what's more

No one ever disappears,
You never hear their standard issues kicking in your door

You can relax
On both sides of the tracks
And maniacs
Don't blow holes
In bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law

And no one kills the children anymore.

No one kills the children anymore.

Night after night,
Going 'round and 'round my brain
This dream is driving me insane

In the corner of some foreign field
The gunner sleeps tonight
What's done is done

We cannot just write off his final scene
Take heed of the dream

Take heed.

[Matt_Fury]

Great Song.  Not a lot of people give the Final Cut much attention compared to other FLoyd albums auch as The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon etc.

I doubt I could pick a favorite Pink Floyd Song....it all depends on what mood I'm in.  Some great stand out Floyd tunes in my book are:

Money
Wish You Were Here
Goodbye Blue Sky
Run Like Hell
One Slip
Coming Back To Life

of course this is one hell of an abbreviated list!

[Morgbug]

I love The Final Cut but it's not something I like to listen to in less than cheery moods.  It's just so damn depressing because of the realism faced by another generation.  Just wow. 

Used to have this Japanese mastered LP version of the Wall back in the 1980's that had a couple of songs unreleased elsewhere, though both were in the movie.  One was The Day the Tigers Broke Free which has been subsequently released (on Pulse, I think) but I can no longer recall the other.  Sort of wish I still kept the record.   

[Nicklab]

I've been rediscovering some of the older parts of the Floyd catalog.  Mainly Meddle and Ummagumma.  There's some great stuff on those albums. 

I still hold Wish You Were Here in really high regard.  From begining to end that's a great album.  But I feel that I've moved away from albums like Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall.  I've probably heard them both far more than I should have.