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Poll Question: What's your favourite Gilmour solo?
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17 [20.48%]
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2 [2.41%]
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2 [2.41%]
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1 [1.20%]
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Originally posted by GreatBeyonder GreatBeyonder wrote:

Outside the Barrett years, The Final Cut has the least Gilmour of any PF album, but it has some truly gut-wrenching solos on it.


5 solos on the album. He didn't really get soloing much until Meddle. Saucer? Ummagumma? Most of his work was harmony until PF moved from space rock to prog rock. Whatever that is. But what solos did he play? Funky Dung. Embryo live (which is awesome). I think he really got going about '71 with the terrific rock arrangements of Atom Heart Mother.

Maybe he was inspired after being the soundman for Jimi Hendrix at the Isle Of Wight Fest (who better? Oh maybe Alan Parsons). Anyway, Dark Side doesn't have many solos on. There's Money and Time. Shame they did not use an earlier version of Breathe with a lovely solo introducing it, substituting the very toned down harmonies instead.

Lucky Roger wrote the Wall, plenty of DG guitar solos all over that.
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I was just listening to Atom Heart Mother earlier today, and I came to apreciate just how great his guitar solos are on that song. I think this is the song in which he first showed his trademark emotive guitar soloing that would be so important in Floyd's music later on. And his interaction with the strings of the orchestra is just wonderful.
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Comfortably Numb, P*U*L*S*E version.
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His solo on The Fletcher Memorial Home is pure bliss
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Originally posted by RoeDent RoeDent wrote:

Comfortably Numb, P*U*L*S*E version.


For me it would the the Delicate Sound of Thunder version. But mostly for the same reasons anyway... however, after Gilmour upgraded that solo adding those minutes at the end, the original one just sounds incomplete to me.
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Shine on You Crazy Diamond

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Time.
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I do love the last solos on SOYCD and Dogs
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Comfortably Numb
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Jeez, has everyone forgotten about "on the turning away" or is just viewed as a poor man's "comfortably numb." Not sure why it wasn't included unless it's because the OP doesn't know this album or maybe AMLOR is so poorly thought of that no one even considers anything on it to be worthy. 
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I'll forego the temptation to vote Comfortably Numb again, and give a vote to Time - superb, concise guitar work from Mr Gilmour
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Pink Floyd is my favorite band, but like many, I don't like AMLOR
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Jeez, has everyone forgotten about "on the turning away" or is just viewed as a poor man's "comfortably numb." Not sure why it wasn't included unless it's because the OP doesn't know this album or maybe AMLOR is so poorly thought of that no one even considers anything on it to be worthy. 


I do love On the Turning Away. Actually, I don't know why Gilmour's era Floyd is so disliked if, actually, it's taken the blueprint of the so loved Comfortably Numb in many of his songs... and I woudln't even say CN is better than many of those songs (On the Turnin Away included).
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Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

Pink Floyd is my favorite band, but like many, I don't like AMLOR

I can understand that to a degree. Anyway, is it safe to say that PF is the band that got you into prog?
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I voted for "money" since it had relatively few votes compared to the others. I really like the drumming on "money" too.
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Gilmour has so many great solos, really hard to choose. These are all top notch, genre-defining.

Saying this, my favourite Gilmour solo isn't on this list - from the live extended and improvised versions of Embryo from 1971. 
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Jeez, has everyone forgotten about "on the turning away" or is just viewed as a poor man's "comfortably numb." Not sure why it wasn't included unless it's because the OP doesn't know this album or maybe AMLOR is so poorly thought of that no one even considers anything on it to be worthy. 


I do love On the Turning Away. Actually, I don't know why Gilmour's era Floyd is so disliked if, actually, it's taken the blueprint of the so loved Comfortably Numb in many of his songs... and I woudln't even say CN is better than many of those songs (On the Turnin Away included).
I think you just said the reason. In the seventies WYWH is the only Floyd album nothing really much new happening, in Animals and the Wall Roger put Floyd into new direction, also I think even the Final Cut is more innovative album than Momentary or Division, although it has a lots of echoes from the Wall. Of course band is not always have to go forward when making interesting music, but I haven´t found those two albums ever really interesting. Just ok, Pink Floyd sounding albums with a quite a lot of touch of dad rock.
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I have already voted in this poll.
One of the two people who voted for Pigs.

AMLOR is completely overshadowed by Delicate Sound Of Thunder. I always reach for the latter if I'm in that kind of mood...and I have to be in a pretty strange mood to pick anything Floyd-related produced after The Wall. Everything they did previous to that was exponentially better.
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Gilmour has done many outstanding solos throughout his career, but his solo on The Fletcher Memorial Home just floors me, it has so much feeling and power. Love it
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