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Been a HUGE fan since I was 14... 24 years ago.

Like most, agree DSOTM thru to The Wall was great... but I think Obscured By Clouds is under-rated. OBC has some great blues inspired riffs sprinkled throughout the tracks:

- the gold it's in the....
- wot's ... uh the deal?
- Childhood's End
are my favs off OBC.


As for Barrett v Gilmour. Floyd definitely have gone in a different direction under SB, probably a more pop-psych direction ala The Beatles. How successful they would have been remains the unknown. Once SB was out though they were directionless for a few years and it took them a few albums to find their new psych-rock groove which grew in Meddle.

I don't listen to them as much as I used to but I still only need to hear a snippet from any of their tracks to know exactly what track it is.

Also got a few of Waters and Gilmour's solo albums: Radio KAOS, Pros & Cons, When wind Blows, and About Face... Ohhh and Amused to Death.

Momentary Laspe... also might as well have been a Gilmour solo release, but it's got some great Gilmour guitar solos on it.

Division Bell is more Floyd like... I really should give it some more play time.

And YES... Waters wall tour will be awesome.
 
I really like their 1968-1972 period. They have a number of cool singles such as Paintbox and Biding my time from the late 60s plus some strong album tracks. Obscured by clouds is probably my fave then they went a bit backwards with Dark side of the moon trying to add opera and synths and trying to sound like a symphonic prog band but they never had the compositional and instrumental skills to pull off jazz/classical rock. I guess I love the first 3 tracks but the rest is just ok. Us and them is nice though. Wish you were here is similar. The title track and cigar are pretty boring, but the other tracks are cool although the Diamonds do get a bit over dramatic. Overall their 73-75 period is the least interesting imo. Animals is my fave floyd album though
 

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Madtiger2006 said:
I really like their 1968-1972 period. They have a number of cool singles such as Paintbox and Biding my time from the late 60s plus some strong album tracks. Obscured by clouds is probably my fave then they went a bit backwards with Dark side of the moon trying to add opera and synths and trying to sound like a symphonic prog band but they never had the compositional and instrumental skills to pull off jazz/classical rock. I guess I love the first 3 tracks but the rest is just ok. Us and them is nice though. Wish you were here is similar. The title track and cigar are pretty boring, but the other tracks are cool although the Diamonds do get a bit over dramatic. Overall their 73-75 period is the least interesting imo. Animals is my fave floyd album though
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:confused: That leaves you with only one track off WYWH, in Welcome to the Machine.

Just can't agree with you calling DSOTM, symphonic prog.
That is just not a fair description of it and even if it was, so what?
The album just worked for most people on many levels and still sounds great today.
There aren't too many 40y.o. albums you can really say that about.
 
HARKER said:
:confused: That leaves you with only one track off WYWH, in Welcome to the Machine.

Just can't agree with you calling DSOTM, symphonic prog.
That is just not a fair description of it and even if it was, so what?
The album just worked for most people on many levels and still sounds great today.
There aren't too many 40y.o. albums you can really say that about.
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Dark side is commercial compared to previous albums. My collection is mainly late 60s, 70s and early 80s prog(mainly english and french) and Dark side sounds pretty blande once you get past the 3rd song. Instrumentals such as Any colour sound C grade compared to the average 70s prog instrumental. Bit boring to my ears. I usually skip Great gig too. Over dramatic and annoying. Gimme some magma please :D
 
Mentallo said:
Comfortably Numb like you have never heard it before!!!:eek:

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And oh how I never want to hear it again.
 
Pink Floyd is one of those bands that you either love or you hate. They are either genius in their musical artistry or over the top wanky show ponies.

I happen to think most of their work is genius. Some of their early work included running the first recorded loops and making an instrument that they could control the loop with. Sure, eventually someone would have come up with the concept, but they did it first.

DSOTM and The Wall are masterpieces in their own right, but for two very different reasons. DSOTM is a concept album but musically it is matched by very few albums before or since. The Wall as pure concept and story has also rarely been matched.

I think that Momentary gets a bad rap because it was an album full of singles rather than a complete album you could listen to, but I still think it has merit. The Division Bell gets panned way too much and I think rather harshly. Some of Gilmours best work is on there.

I think part of the failing and the success of the band came from the ego of whoever was the leader at the time. Barrett, Waters and Gilmour all had their time at the helm and you can chart where each era begins and ends just by the sound of the album. As each era began, some fans were lost and others gained but at its core, Pink Floyd remained the same all the way through. They pushed the boundaries of what rock music was supposed to be and sound like.

They never copied anyone, they set their own path and if you didn't like it then they didn't care. It's probably why Waters wrote The Wall and physically built a wall on stage to shut himself off from the fans he thought didn't understand him. He didn't care much whether people liked his stuff, he just wanted to be left alone to do his music. In that way, he was just as mad as what Barrett was.

Pink Floyd will never be repeated, they can't be reimagined and they will never be replaced.
 
I put Pink Floyd into the "Musical Genius" category. Along with Rush, Yes and Queen, these artists inspired a new genre of Progressive artists such as Queensryche and Dream Theater - which happen to be two of my favorite bands. Much heavier, but both bands site Pink Floyd as their major influence.

I remember when "The Wall" was released and "another Brick in the Wall" was replayed on Countdown and Sounds on the weekends. Can't say I'm a massive fan of Pink Floyd, but their legacy can never be denied.

Here's a tribute to "Comfortably Numb" by both bands I mentioned earlier.

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I love cover versions of original classics !
 
sivart said:
I agree with everything that you have said about DSOTM. You will never hear me say a bad word against it. However over the last couple of years I have started to appreciate the Wall more and more.

Taking only individual tracks into account DSOTM will win, no doubt. However for the brilliance of a whole album, it's concept and story telling you can't go past The Wall. There will never be another album that is so in depth with it's story and production.

Either way IMO opinion both albums are classics, the best album really depends on personnal tastes. Have you seen the movie 'The Wall'?
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Yes, i have seen The Wall. I really did help me to greater understand the album. Was annoyed that Rog changed Mother and ommitted Hey You however.
 

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Best band ever!

My order (studio albums):
1) Wish You Were Here
2) Animals
3) Dark Side of the Moon
4) The Wall
5) Atom Heart Mother (so underrated)
6) Meddle (would be higher if it wasn't for Seamus and having YNWA at the end of Fearless)
7) The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8) The Division Bell
9) A Saucerful of Secrets
10) Obscured by Clouds
11) More

gap

12) A Momentary Lapse of Reason
13) The Final Cut

daylight

14) Ummagumma
 
Obscured by Clouds is underrated as heck.

That said, I can't rate albums anymore - different moods, different favourites, although 'Animals' will always be #1 or#2 ('Dogs' is a masterpiece of unparalleled proportions). But everything from 'Atom Heart' to 'The Wall' is gold and just about the best string of albums in the history of music, outdone, maybe, only by 'The Beatles' run from 'Help!' - 'Let it Be'.
 
Aenimence said:
Obscured by Clouds is underrated as heck.

That said, I can't rate albums anymore - different moods, different favourites, although 'Animals' will always be #1 or#2 ('Dogs' is a masterpiece of unparalleled proportions). But everything from 'Atom Heart' to 'The Wall' is gold and just about the best string of albums in the history of music, outdone, maybe, only by 'The Beatles' run from 'Help!' - 'Let it Be'.
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Even I underrate OBC.

LIB was a pretty average album though.
 
Aenimence said:
Obscured by Clouds is underrated as heck.
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I love ObC, if not for anything but for Stay. Brilliant track.




Many may not have heard this track previously.
It has elements of a couple of tracks and melded here quite well.
It's from a Pink Floyd session.
 

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I recieved "The Wall" as a birthday present when I was about 10 but, with the exception of "Comfortably Numb", I was never a fan and hadn't listened to it again until about 10 years ago when I started getting into some of their earlier albums, in particular "Meddle" which is probably my favourite.
 
My order:

Animals-8.5/10
Obscured by clouds-8.5/10
Meddle-8.5/10
The wall-8/10
Saucerful of secrets-7.5/10
Wish you were here 7/10
Atom heart mother-7/10
Dark side of the moon 6.5/10
Gates at the piper of dawn-4/10
 
Madtiger2006 said:
My order:

Animals-8.5/10
Wish you were here 7/10
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Animals only an 8.5 and WYWH, possibly the greatest album ever made, only a 7.

What is wrong with you?
 

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