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Piper at the Gates of Dawn 33 11.91%
Saucerful of Secrets 4 1.44%
More 2 0.72%
Ummagumma 5 1.81%
Atom Heart Mother 8 2.89%
Relics 1 0.36%
Meddle 20 7.22%
Obscured by Clouds 2 0.72%
Dark Side of the Moon 78 28.16%
Wish You Were Here 34 12.27%
Animals 47 16.97%
The Wall 34 12.27%
The Final Cut 2 0.72%
A Momentary Lapse of Reason 3 1.08%
The Division Bell 4 1.44%
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Old 05-22-2017, 08:12 PM   #281 (permalink)
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The holy trinity of DSOTM, WYWH, and Animals is on another level and so unique compared with their earlier and later work. It's all great, but those 3 are perfection.
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BTW who performed the sax on all those songs?
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BTW who performed the sax on all those songs?
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The wildest thing I found out years later after hearing the song a million times is that the female vocal on the mind numbingly amazing The Great Gig in the Sky on DSOTM is a white woman. I'd always assumed she was black because of the intense amount of soul that's in that performance.

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The holy trinity of DSOTM, WYWH, and Animals is on another level and so unique compared with their earlier and later work. It's all great, but those 3 are perfection.
Absolutely love the bolded. Still, I love that weird in-between period where they didn't quite have their footing yet, there's very little music out there like it.
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Over the years Ummagumma and Animals has gotten the most attention from me. Past two years by far Ummagumma. Over all my life The Final Cut and Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking have gotten a lot of play time. The only albums I don't know very well are the ones after Waters left. They never resonated with me. Besides Pros and Cons I've never really gotten much into their solo stuff. I tried with Radio KAOS and Gimour's stuff. Just doesn't hit the spot. Love Syd's solo stuff, though.
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Thanks. Was wondering if one of the members of the band played a good sax.
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My Animals story: The family of my drummer, and best friend (still to this day) were kinda rich. They had a 12 acre spread. When he was younger they built him and his brother a two room clubhouse complete with bunkbeds about 100 yards from the main house.

Me, him, and our bass player drove to the store and bought the album when it first came out. Went back to the clubhouse (which was already fitted with red and black lights), and listened to it for the first time while smoking copious amounts of angel dust - which had recently come on the scene.



Basically tripped our freaking brains out during the entire album and then listened to it 2 more times all the way through.

The only other experience I had like that was when me (and the same drummer) dropped some pretty intense mushrooms, rushed back to my apartment at the time - cause we had to get out of the public eye - and listened to Peter Gabriel's "Plays Live" for the first time a few times through while being so high we couldn't even talk to each other.
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Damn

The few times I got dusted the music I might have listened to couldn't come close to penetrating my high. I remember once I was having these really loud audio hallucinations. My friend was talking to me but all the sounds were so distorted and echoed I couldn't understand what he was saying. **** it was weird. Made acid seem gentle.

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Over the years Ummagumma and Animals has gotten the most attention from me. Past two years by far Ummagumma. Over all my life The Final Cut and Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking have gotten a lot of play time. The only albums I don't know very well are the ones after Waters left. They never resonated with me. Besides Pros and Cons I've never really gotten much into their solo stuff. I tried with Radio KAOS and Gimour's stuff. Just doesn't hit the spot. Love Syd's solo stuff, though.
I really like The Final Cut, but I never got into any of Waters's solo stuff.

I like the intro on this track before it gets all ****ty
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