Pink Floyd - Page 2

Cousin_Itt · 12-04-2008, 11:54 PM

My favorite Pink Floyd song is Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_0iZQ-TuA

Steppenwolf · 12-05-2008, 12:14 AM

Atom Heart Mother
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Wormboy · 12-07-2008, 10:16 PM

Wish You Were Here for the WIN!

Albert Mond · 12-07-2008, 10:26 PM

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Wish You Were Here for the WIN!

What about "Waiting for the Worms"?

Scarlet · 12-08-2008, 02:21 AM

Interstellar Overdrive (from Piper at the Gates of Dawn), Echoes (from Meddle), Sheep (from Animals), Money (from Dark Side of the Moon), High Hopes (from The Division Bell).

Now, the real question is who does the best live version of Dark Side of the Moon? Roger Waters and his band of defectors or; David Gilmore & Nick Mason's laconically nick-named Pink Fraud? :P

HellforgedX · 12-08-2008, 02:36 AM

Listen to any of them, but extremely stoned or spun out on acid, and you'll have the original Pink Floyd Experience.

Albert Mond · 12-08-2008, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Scarlet

Now, the real question is who does the best live version of Dark Side of the Moon? Roger Waters and his band of defectors or; David Gilmore & Nick Mason's laconically nick-named Pink Fraud? :P

Didn't know Waters or Floyd still performed that. Well, since Gilmour-era Floyd also had Wright I'd say Gilmour's Floyd to Waters's solo.

Scarlet · 12-08-2008, 03:04 AM

I have to say I'm skewed towards Waters, if only for the fact that I've seen him perform in the flesh.

The Mason/Gilmore/Wright sans Waters version I'm most familiar with is the one from the Pulse concert (the remastered DVD is fantastic).

Waters did his solo tour and came to my humble town at the end of January. My girlfriend and I had bought last minute tickets a day before the performance, so we were halfway up staring down upon the right hand side of the stage so we basically got to see the musicians perform from behind. His first set was a mix of Floyd classics and old and new solo material, and the second set was a complete performance of Dark Side of the Moon, and that just blew us all away.

What always amuses me though is that Pink Floyd wrote that as a four-piece, even performed it as such, not to mention their earlier work was recorded and performed by a small group of stoners from Cambridge, yet when they perform now they have a massive ensemble to attempt to recapture that grandiosity they managed to attain in the early years... pre-wanting to kill each other.

Albert Mond · 12-08-2008, 03:23 AM

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What always amuses me though is that Pink Floyd wrote that as a four-piece, even performed it as such, not to mention their earlier work was recorded and performed by a small group of stoners from Cambridge, yet when they perform now they have a massive ensemble to attempt to recapture that grandiosity they managed to attain in the early years... pre-wanting to kill each other.

DSoTM was written to be performed with more than four members.

Scarlet · 12-08-2008, 03:33 AM

Point taken. The crew for that album included Claire Torry for Great Gig in the Sky, four backing vocalists, and saxophonist Dick Parry. Parry appears twice on the record and Torry once.

But that's not really what I'm getting at, it's more that watching Waters live, he had at least three guitarists on at any one time. Heh, that's what you get for multitracking your guitars on the recording. Doesn't mean it didn't sound fantastic though.

anon1566 · 12-08-2008, 04:17 AM

pink floyd are shit cuntwaffles

Scarlet · 12-08-2008, 10:53 PM

Sounds like an Anal Cunt track that. :P

Eclipsing the Son · 12-08-2008, 11:07 PM

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Hmm. The band themselves consider that album to be garbage. I kind of agree. Everything before Meddle was kind of unfocused and messy sounding. Meddle was where they really found their sound and got things going.

Meddle, Darkside, Wish You Were Here and Animals are my favorite Pink Floyd albums.

Obscured by Clouds is also and excellent soundtrack.

LetheanBlacklight · 12-09-2008, 01:06 PM

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It IS their only consistently good album. There are a few good songs which aren't on it (some better than several of the songs that are, granted), but it's their only good album as a whole.

Apathy, you seriously need to know when to shut the hell up. Music is a very subjective art, meaning that what one person prefers is not anothers....
There is no bad nor good as an outline, just preference.
Trying to put a final word to what you think everyone else should follow (that they had only one good album) shows your ignorance and lack in musical understanding in general, otherwise you would've known what I have just said.

Apathy's_Child · 12-09-2008, 03:58 PM

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Apathy, you seriously need to know when to shut the hell up.

I already do. When I'm tied to a chair and some guy who hates DSotM has a gun to my firstborn's head and looks wiling to use it, I'll shut the hell up and tell him whatever he wants to hear.

Until then, I'll say whatever the fuck I please.

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Originally Posted by LetheanBlacklight

Music is a very subjective art, meaning that what one person prefers is not anothers....

NO SHIT SHERLOCK!! What're you doing on a goth forum? With insights like this, the academic world is your oyster, my friend!

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There is no bad nor good as an outline, just preference.

Unless you genuinely believe that there is no gap in artistic merit between between Stephanie Meyers and Dostoevsky, this argument is bullshit.

In fact, if you do, there's even greater level bullshit at its basis.

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Originally Posted by LetheanBlacklight

Trying to put a final word to what you think everyone else should follow (that they had only one good album) shows your ignorance and lack in musical understanding in general, otherwise you would've known what I have just said.

I know what you just said. "Blah blah subjective blah blah I'll like what I want." So will I, and when someone asks my opinion as the OP did, I'll give it.

Resenting the implication that the only reason I consider DSotM the only consistently accomplished Pink Floyd album is because it's popular is not akin to displaying a lack of musical understanding. Implying that all art is equal in merit and taste is the only deciding factor, on the other hand, is the mentality that gave rise to reality TV as an alternative to reading. Feelin' liberated about that?

Albert Mond · 12-09-2008, 04:04 PM

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Unless you genuinely believe that there is no gap in artistic merit between between Stephanie Meyers and Dostoevsky, this argument is bullshit.

There's a difference between writing and music. Writing is a far less subjective art. If you just smashed your head on a keyboard repeatedly, you probably wouldn't have a very appealing book. In Music, however, we have entire genres for silliness, and simplicity. Ever heard of No Wave? Avant-Garde?

Apathy's_Child · 12-09-2008, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Albert Mond

There's a difference between writing and music. Writing is a far less subjective art.

No it isn't. It's good that you're acknowledging the boundaries of subjectivity in art, but by denying these in music, you're validating all kinds of shite.

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If you just smashed your head on a keyboard repeatedly, you probably wouldn't have a very appealing book. In Music, however, we have entire genres for silliness, and simplicity. Ever heard of No Wave? Avant-Garde?

There are genres of writing for these, as well as music. Silly humor and simple, pared-down-to-the-bones prose exist in writing as well. Ever read Joseph Heller? Or Hemingway? You haven't pointed out any real differences between music and writing with this argument.

Albert Mond · 12-09-2008, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Apathy's_Child

There are genres of writing for these, as well as music. Silly humor and simple, pared-down-to-the-bones prose exist in writing as well. Ever read Joseph Heller? Or Hemingway? You haven't pointed out any real differences between music and writing with this argument.

Are you willing to compare either of said authors to primitive drumming accompanied by primal incoherent screaming?

LetheanBlacklight · 12-09-2008, 04:26 PM

Sound effects us differently than does writing, leading music to be more abstract. Because a song can mean something to one person, due to progression or whatother variables ect. which will have no effect on another. It's why people argue about music so much.
A good artist to one is complete shite to another...
Another thing I must have mentioned is that I'm talking about those artists who have reached the pinnacle of their ability.
Writing on the other hand, has a skill level. If the writing is dry, then it is dry. If it is exciting, than it is such.

The only ones I see praising Stephanie Meyer are the ones who lack education in the art, and those who use it as a marketing tool and money maker.
Come to think of it, Music has that too, marketing tools to the uneducated.