OccultHawk

Post-Waters Floyd isn’t my thing but I still wouldn’t toss it out on a desert island. I can get something out of it.

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Trollheart

Yeh, I just can't. I understand the contribution he made to the band, that he was one of the founders and all, but I suppose the fact that my first album of theirs was DSOTM perhaps colours my perception. I went on from there, and though I have heard all the albums, and Piper and Saucer both have great tracks, for me, personally, and I realise this is not a popular view but it is mine, the Barrett songs such as "Arnold Layne", "Bike" and "Jugband Blues" are the ones that let the albums down. I suppose, given that you have tracks such as "Astronomy Domine", "Set the Controls" etc, I wouldn't drop the albums but I would be skipping the abovementioned Barrett songs. In fact, I'd pass on most of Piper other than "Astronomy", "Interstellar" and "Take Up Thy Stethoscope", while Saucer I'd listen to most of it except for "Jugband". Just don't get or like Barrett. At all.

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Oriphiel

Saucerful of Stubbornness

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Trollheart

Nothing to do with stubbornness. Some people don't like Gabriel Genesis, some people don't like Eric Bell-era Lizzy. It's just a personal preference. I don't like the guy's voice, nor his music. Sue me. Shrug.

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Frownland

You only have a small collections of records to listen to for rest of your life. You wouldn't even pop it on occasionally?

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Trollheart

As I said, I would, because there are good tracks on both. But I would skip the Barrett stuff.

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rubber soul

As a disclaimer, Pink Floyd wouldn't be in my top ten (they would be in my top twenty).

But Syd Barrett practically made the band in its early days. Who knows what might have happened if he hadn't gone nuts so to speak. As it was, he did record a brilliant album in 1970.

As for Pink Floyd, I think I like both eras equally. Sure, Piper has some, er, unusual tracks, but overall it's an absolute classic to me. Astronomy Domine alone is worth the admission.

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Frownland

Just seems like an odd move given the context.

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Pet_Sounds

1. Barenaked Ladies
2. Beatles
3. Billy Joel
4. David Bowie
5. Beach Boys
6. Elliott Smith
7. Paul Simon (I'm hoping this will include Simon & Garfunkel)
8. Kate Bush
9. Johann Sebastian Bach
10. The Smiths

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The Batlord

I honestly don't think you have your brain on the correct settings atm. Do you really hate Syd Barrett so much that you would chuck his Floyd stuff away while on a desert island where you will have a severely limited amount of music to listen to for all the rest of the years of your life? Cause you don't have to. You could just set them aside and ignore them till you die if you really want, but they could still be there if you inevitably got sick of listening to the same albums over and over again.

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