Favorite Pink Floyd album? - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > The Music Forums > Rock & Metal > Prog & Psychedelic Rock
Favorite Pink Floyd album? Favorite Pink Floyd album?
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

View Poll Results: Favorite?
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%
Voters: 277. You may not vote on this poll

Reply
Page 34 of 36 « First 243233 34 3536
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 07-21-2022, 08:06 PM   #331 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Ayn Marx's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2022
Location: Sometimes
Posts: 552
Default
Favourite Pink Floyd album? Dark Side of The Moon but given my age I’m no longer get off my face on the chemicals it deserves. Judging by their more recent live performances, neither are they.
Ayn Marx is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-21-2022, 08:25 PM   #332 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Join Date: Apr 2022
Location: Canada
Posts: 744
Default
Quote:
Judging by their more recent live performances, neither are they.
I saw Waters on Friday. It seems he has such hatred for Gilmour that playing songs he sang in was off limits. There were two I can remember they played - Money, Us and them. Gilmour's bits were done by one of the guitarists, who can really sing.

Given the animosity, I'll provide two answers - one for the Gilmour era, one for the Waters era.

Gilmour - Division Bell (High Hopes is one of the band's best songs, PERIOD)
Waters - The Wall
music_collector is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-25-2022, 05:27 AM   #333 (permalink)
Born to be mild
 
Trollheart's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: 404 Not Found
Posts: 26,996
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Queen Boo View Post
I'd rather have Waters in my Floyd for sure, but I'm not a purist, I think the dismissal of post-Waters Floyd is unfair since I think Division Bell and Pulse were both pretty good efforts.

Wasn't a fan of Endless River as it really did feel like it was just a bunch of unfinished scraps, but I'm down for a new record of written material from Gilmour, no Waters isn't a dealbreaker for me, the lack of Wright however could be. Wright was such a key part of their sound that no I can't really call it Pink Floyd without him, this is clearly going to be a Gilmour record with the Floyd brand, but here's hoping it'll still be decent.

Quote:
Originally Posted by music_collector View Post
I saw Waters on Friday. It seems he has such hatred for Gilmour that playing songs he sang in was off limits. There were two I can remember they played - Money, Us and them. Gilmour's bits were done by one of the guitarists, who can really sing.

Given the animosity, I'll provide two answers - one for the Gilmour era, one for the Waters era.

Gilmour - Division Bell (High Hopes is one of the band's best songs, PERIOD)
Waters - The Wall
with a side of Momentary Lapse to go, please.
__________________
Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018
Trollheart is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-26-2022, 07:05 AM   #334 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 187
Default
Wish You Were Here!
Texas Boy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-26-2022, 09:41 AM   #335 (permalink)
Born to be mild
 
Trollheart's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: 404 Not Found
Posts: 26,996
Default
Wish you weren't!
__________________
Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018
Trollheart is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-31-2022, 10:54 AM   #336 (permalink)
Groupie
 
Made in 1968's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2022
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 23
Default
'Atom Heart Mother'
Made in 1968 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-01-2022, 08:59 PM   #337 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Join Date: Apr 2022
Location: Canada
Posts: 744
Default
Quote:
with a side of Momentary Lapse to go, please.
Most definitely. I was listening to the 2019 remix while on the road yesterday.
music_collector is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-02-2023, 07:27 PM   #338 (permalink)
AllTheWhileYouChargeAFee
 
DriveYourCarDownToTheSea's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 1,188
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea View Post
I'll take your word for it. Will give it a few more listens.
Almost 6 years after I wrote this, I finally got around to giving the entire album (The Wall) a really good listen. Several times, in fact. And indeed I was wrong, there's not much filler. In fact it's amazing how many good songs there are on the album.

I've also been listening to a bunch of other Pink Floyd and I've concluded that it's about a 3-way-tie between DSOTM, The Wall and Wish You Were Here as their best album.

But I think their very best song is Comfortably Numb. The chorus brings tears to my eyes.
__________________
Stop and find a pretty shell for her
Beach Boys vs Beatles comparisons begin here
DriveYourCarDownToTheSea is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-03-2023, 05:30 AM   #339 (permalink)
SGR
No Ice In My Bourbon
 
SGR's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: /dev/null
Posts: 4,327
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mindfulness View Post
they suck, sleeping aid music, brain damage, and wish you were here have their time but that's all out of a band that put out albums.
Woah, woah, this isn't the Unpopular Opinions thread!
SGR is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-03-2023, 07:01 AM   #340 (permalink)
...here to hear...
 
Lisnaholic's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: He lives on Love Street
Posts: 4,444
Default
Has Mindfulness been talking to elph ?!

Actually, he's not entirely wrong, because , imo at least, Pink Floyd reached their innovative peak in 1970 with Atom Heart Mother. Everything after that was like consolidation, retrenchment or refining of the now easily identifiable, in fact predictable, Pink Floyd sound. I put this down to artistic caution on D Gilmour's part, plus (total guess, tbh) the elevation of Alan Parson's influence: a studio engineer who lets a pursuit of audio perfection get in the way of rough artistic endeavour.

They still came up with some top-quality material, including three sides of The Wall, (as "Drive" has recently discovered), but to me, the albums scoring the high numbers in the polls here are not really their best: only me and 7 other guys correctly voted for Atom Heart Mother as their favourite, whereas 77 have mistakenly voted for Dark Side Of The Moon as being their favourite. I'm sorry, but that is not a valid opinion to hold.
__________________
"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953
Lisnaholic is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply
Page 34 of 36 « First 243233 34 3536

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Similar Threads


Terms & Privacy - Contact Us - Music Banter - Archive - Top

© 2003-2025 Advameg, Inc.