Favourite song in Dark Side of the Moon

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: MortSahlFan wrote:  Best: Time Worst: On The Run Best: Us and Them Worst(or at least least favorite): On the Run

This is almost impossible since I tend to like them all equally. This is a fantastically consistent album. That said, I'm going to try something I've never even dreamed of attempting: a full top to bottom ranking.

Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
On the Run
Breathe
Eclipse
Brain Damage
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Money
Speak to Me


Edited by Fischman - July 04 2019 at 16:43

BaldFriede wrote: richardh wrote: Time Money I'm not a massive fan of this album although I've seen it performed live in it's entirety and it becomes a different animal in that environment entirely. It rocks big time and the guitar licks are some of the best of any genre. However I will always turn towards Wish You Were Here and Animals if I feel like listening to some Floyd. If I want to listen to Pink Floyd I will turn to "Ummagumma" or "Meddle", but most definitely not to the ridiculously overrated "Animals". Had "Animals" come out a few years earlier my opinion would be different, but for the time it came out it was absolutely lame compared to what was musically going on at that time.

Foxprog wrote: BaldFriede wrote: richardh wrote: Time Money I'm not a massive fan of this album although I've seen it performed live in it's entirety and it becomes a different animal in that environment entirely. It rocks big time and the guitar licks are some of the best of any genre. However I will always turn towards Wish You Were Here and Animals if I feel like listening to some Floyd. If I want to listen to Pink Floyd I will turn to "Ummagumma" or "Meddle", but most definitely not to the ridiculously overrated "Animals". Had "Animals" come out a few years earlier my opinion would be different, but for the time it came out it was absolutely lame compared to what was musically going on at that time. Animals is not vastly overrated. By looking it objectively, it's the only Floyd album without "bad songs". The album is solid as a rock. It's also the favourite album by many hardcore Floyd fans.

I agree, and Animals is my favourite Floyd album. Dogs is their finest work IMO.

I can understand why some folk don't like it. It's cold and harsh sounding, and doesn't have the swirling, synthy dynamics of WYWH, or the dark mystery and diversity of styles and sounds as DSOTM. It's not groundbreaking. It's angry and cynical, but for me it's an album that captures everything I've wanted to say about the world at various points in my life, and of course there's an element of the significance of when I first heard this album and what was going on in my life, that has affirmed it as a favourite. It's for similar reasons ATTWT by Genesis is another much loved album for me, but seemingly disliked by many others.

BaldJean wrote: Foxprog wrote: BaldFriede wrote: richardh wrote: Time Money I'm not a massive fan of this album although I've seen it performed live in it's entirety and it becomes a different animal in that environment entirely. It rocks big time and the guitar licks are some of the best of any genre. However I will always turn towards Wish You Were Here and Animals if I feel like listening to some Floyd. If I want to listen to Pink Floyd I will turn to "Ummagumma" or "Meddle", but most definitely not to the ridiculously overrated "Animals". Had "Animals" come out a few years earlier my opinion would be different, but for the time it came out it was absolutely lame compared to what was musically going on at that time. Animals is not vastly overrated. By looking it objectively, it's the only Floyd album without "bad songs". The album is solid as a rock. It's also the favourite album by many hardcore Floyd fans. first of all: there is no such thing as "looking at something objectively"; this only exists in your imagination. personal taste always plays a crucial role. and "bad" is in the eye of the beholder, or rather the ear of the listener. there are in my opinion definitely two weak tracks on "Animals", the two parts of "Pigs on the Wing". "Meddle" or "Ummagumma" don't have weak tracks. yes, I love "San Tropez" and "Seamus" (how someone can NOT love that dog's singing is beyond me, but I know many people hate that track). second: as Friede rightly pointed out an album has to be viewed in the context of the time it was recorded. had "Animals" been recorded in 1972 or 1973 it would have been great. but at the time it came out it sounded as if coming from a bunch of BOFs who are totally oblivious to what is musically going on around them and who have become so saturated that they can't get their fat asses out of their armchairs anymore to really get rocking. other artists had noticed the sign of the times and reacted; take for example Hawkwind's "Quark, Strangeness and Charme" or "Live Floating Anarchy" by Planet Gong which came out in the same year as "Animals". I know a lot of people love "Animals", but for me it is absolutely lame. in the context of time, of course

I have to react to any reference to Calvert era Hawkwind!

Quark was a ground breaking album indeed. It was a brilliant reaction to, and alliance with punk. Truly progressive. I have been obsessed with Spirit of the Age, alone, for decades! It's certainly one of my favourite lyrics of all time.

Anyhow...back to DSOTM..

DSOTM is a genuine groundbreaking masterpiece. As I said earlier not my top Floyd album, but probably the most important of their career, and not just in commercial terms, although you could say that it was Meddle that really broke the ground with Echoes, which was arguably the blue print for what followed on the next three albums.

It's also not a criterion for me but I if something has good production I think it's just a plus. Do you think Dark Side of the Moon would be as popular as it is IF it would sound like Ummagumma? I bet not... Which is also unfortunate because I know many that can't listen some albums because of the sound quality. And for that reason they are missing quite many masterpieces...