Favorite Pink Floyd album?

Chula Vista · 05-22-2017, 08:12 PM

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.

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 05-22-2017, 08:40 PM

BTW who performed the sax on all those songs?

Neapolitan · 05-22-2017, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea

BTW who performed the sax on all those songs?

Dick Parry

Chula Vista · 05-22-2017, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Dick Parry

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Torry

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I went in, put the headphones on, and started going 'Ooh-aah, baby, baby – yeah, yeah, yeah.' They said, 'No, no — we don't want that. If we wanted that we'd have got Doris Troy.' They said, 'Try some longer notes', so I started doing that a bit. And all this time, I was getting more familiar with the backing track. That was when I thought, 'Maybe I should just pretend I'm an instrument.' So I said, 'Start the track again.' One of my most enduring memories is that there was a lovely headphone balance. Alan Parsons got a lovely sound on my voice: echoey, but not too echoey. When I closed my eyes — which I always did — it was just all-enveloping; a lovely vocal sound, which for a singer, is always inspirational. - Clare Torry

**Frownland** · 05-22-2017, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

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.

OccultHawk · 05-22-2017, 09:33 PM

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.

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 05-22-2017, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Dick Parry

Thanks. Was wondering if one of the members of the band played a good sax.

Chula Vista · 05-22-2017, 09:53 PM

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.

OccultHawk · 05-22-2017, 10:12 PM

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.

Yeah I've been tripping where I couldn't construct a sentence or remember my name. On acid not shrooms though. Some weird **** on shrooms too but not that high.

**Frownland** · 05-22-2017, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

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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05-22-2017, 08:12 PM	#281 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	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. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

05-22-2017, 08:40 PM	#282 (permalink)
DriveYourCarDownToTheSea AllTheWhileYouChargeAFee Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Kansas City Posts: 1,174	BTW who performed the sax on all those songs? __________________ Stop and find a pretty shell for her Beach Boys vs Beatles comparisons begin here

05-22-2017, 09:53 PM	#288 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	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. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

05-22-2017, 09:33 PM	#286 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	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.

05-22-2017, 10:12 PM	#289 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	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. Yeah I've been tripping where I couldn't construct a sentence or remember my name. On acid not shrooms though. Some weird ** on shrooms too but not that high.