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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Morgbug on May 16, 2003, 08:59 PM
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Is anyone else out there a huge fan of FLoyd? I'm just sitting here surfing and the local rock station is playing the top 97 albums of all time. The Wall came in at number 88 and I am more than a little apalled. Granted, it's not hard rock as are the rest of the selections.
I love Floyd and have all of their albums. The Wall may well be my favorite album of all time. Anyone else like me out there? :P
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Yea, Pink Floyd rules, no doubt, but just for the record, Led Zeppelin owns Pink Floyd. :-* Anyway, what's your favorite Pink Floyd song?
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Comfortably Numb.
Zeppelin is also very, very cool. Another band that I own pretty much all the albums for. Well, used to own the albums (and even a couple of 8 tracks) but now CDs. We were all set to see Zeppelin in Minneapolis back in 1980 and then Bonham went and died. :-[
Floyd, Zeppelin and Metallica dominate the drawer of cd's at work. :)
The last two vinyl albums I got rid of were the soundtrack to The Wall, that included two extra songs (The Day the Tigers Broke Free and one other, the title I cannot remember). The first song has since been released on a Floyd disc, the latter has not. The other disc was the more familiar version of the wall with the white bricks but it was a Japanese master disc, I believe I paid around $50 for. Gave them both to a friend with similar appreciation for Floyd but greater love of vinyl.
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I'm definitely a Floyd fan. Saw them in Montreal in 1994. It was amazing!
I really haven't listened to them that much in the past few years. BUT, I am intrigued by the rumor that Roger Waters might be re-uniting with David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright to go on tour. Methinks they need the money. Perhaps they invested too much in the dotcoms, and need to make some money back?
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Pink Floyd rocks. So many choices to make but I will go with Comfortably numb.
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Hmmm, a favorite Floyd song? I've got so many from all the varying albums.
"Echoes" from Meddle
"Time" from Dark Side Of The Moon
"Have A Cigar" from Wish You Were Here
"Hey You" from The Wall
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Dark Side is one of those discs you could listen to over and over again, I'm not as big into the Wall but it also is very good. Me and my buddies used to go to a laser light show at the Minneapolis Planetarium of The Wall, very cool...
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This is where the Floyd albums ended up on the station I was listening to that initiated this thread. I made an error regarding The Wall and think they redeemed themselves nicely with the placement.
45 Wish You Were Here
10 Dark Side of the Moon
7 The Wall
Here's the top 25, if you care to debate (or not)
25 Siamese Dream Smashing Pumpkins
24 My Own Prison Creed
23 Silver Side Up Nickelback
22 Beggars Banquet Rolling Stones
21 Paranoid Black Sabbath
20 Dirt Alice In Chains
19 Picture Of Health Headstones
18 Highway To Hell AC/DC
17 Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix
16 Smash Offspring
15 Core Stone Temple Pilots
14 Road Apples Tragically Hip
13 II Led Zeppelin
12 Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers
11 Superunknown Soundgarden
10 Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd
9 Dookie Green Day
8 Metallica Metallica
7 The Wall Pink Floyd
6 The Joshua Tree U2
5 Back In Black AC/DC
4 Up To Here Tragically Hip
3 Ten Pearl Jam
2 IV Led Zeppelin
1 Nevermind Nirvana
The rest can be found here http://www.power97.com/station/power97_albums.cfm
I'm not that big a fan of Nirvana, but I guess after Rolling Stone went with it, everybody feels compelled to as well.
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I like some of his music, but I can't say that I'm a fan of him.
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I like some of his music, but I can't say that I'm a fan of him.
::)
"By the way, which one's 'Pink'?"
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(http://www.ordermusic.com/cd_sampler_images/pink.jpg)
(http://www.disgalaxy.addr.com/Muppets/floyd1.jpg)
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Groan.
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Pink Floyd's great, one of my favorite bands. Favorite album? Used to be Dark Side of the Moon, now its shifted over to Animals. Gotta love Gilmours guitar on "Dogs". Favorite songs would be as follows:
"Any Colour You Like" and "Time" from Dark Side Of The Moon
"Sheep" and "Dogs" from Animals
"Comfortably Numb" and "Young Lust" from The Wall
"Wish You Were Here" from Wish You Were Here
"Seamus" and "Fearless" from Meddle
:P
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Holy ****, talk about a thread bump.
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"One lost his friend, one lost his band and one lost his mind."
Great quote from an article I read about these guys.
Pink Floyd are simply amazing. They're not my all time favorite, but I have many, if not most of their albums. Not so keen on the Sid Barrett era, but that might be due the fact that I've not listened to much of it yet.
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Holy ****, talk about a thread bump.
What, 3 years? No big deal. Floyd is still the schizzle in my book :-*
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What, 3 years? No big deal. Floyd is still the schizzle in my book :-*
I still don't know which one Pink is. >:(
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Holy ****, talk about a thread bump.
What, 3 years? No big deal. Floyd is still the schizzle in my book :-*
Amen sister.
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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) >:(
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I actually sat on Nuclear Alert last night watching my copy of Pink Floy:The Wall. What an awesome movie! ;D
I recently purchased a 60 GB capacity iPod and my Pink Floyd Collection will be the first items in it!
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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?
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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 ****.
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I actually sat on Nuclear Alert last night watching my copy of Pink Floy:The Wall. ;D
That image does not help me to sleep any better at night :P
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Can we please not mention groups like Creed or Nickleback in a Floyd thread? Its outright embarassing :P
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While I may not disagree with you Jim, it fits the context of the thread based on my third post on the first page. ;)
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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. ;D
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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.
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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!
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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. :-\
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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.
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Meddle is just genus. I love every Pink Floyd album I have (the albums from the box set, and forward,) but Meddle is just magic for some reason.
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Meddle is just genus.
I think it's only a subgenus album, compared to their later stuff.