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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

As far as i know Waters was the co-writer. It's credited Gimour/Waters. 
I always thought it's a Gilmour song, he sang on it after all. 

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That's interesting. For some reason I always tought it was a Waters song, perhaps because I sought of equate it to "Grandchester Meadows".

I bow to your superior knowledge.

Gilmour certainly seemed to come into his own with "Meddle".


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Gilmour was definitely the main writer, but I do enjoy Waters' contribution as well. The way the fretless bass slides up and down octaves creates such a wonderfully hypnotic drone effect Smile
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Won't you take me down, to the underground
Why oh why, there is no light
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Originally posted by Hugh Manatee Hugh Manatee wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

As far as i know Waters was the co-writer. It's credited Gimour/Waters. 
I always thought it's a Gilmour song, he sang on it after all. 

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That's interesting. For some reason I always tought it was a Waters song, perhaps because I sought of equate it to "Grandchester Meadows".

I bow to your superior knowledge.

Gilmour certainly seemed to come into his own with "Meddle".

The Pink Floyd songwriting credits give me a headache anyway. I mean I hear Wright and Gilmour in the song and then I see  - oh well, it's  Waters song. AngryLOL Really? 

Gilmour said in some interviews his early years with PF were difficult, he felt like he didn't know what he was doing. Confused And Atom Heart Mother is one of his least favorite albums. Confused
So with Echoes & Meddle, he did come into his own, you are right. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Gilmour said in some interviews his early years with PF were difficult, he felt like he didn't know what he was doing. Confused And Atom Heart Mother is one of his least favorite albums. Confused
So with Echoes & Meddle, he did come into his own, you are right. 

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Gilmour wasn't very confident about his singing, which is the reason he buried his vocals on "The Narrow Way", which is quite a shame because I really like that song and long for a remix that brings his vocals more to the fore.
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Genesis - ...And Then There Were Three...: "Scenes from a Night's Dream"
Genesis - Genesis: "Illegal Alien"
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound: "More Fool Me"
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering: "All In a Mouse's Night"
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III: "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper"
Pendragon - The World: "Prayer"
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel III: "Family Snapshot"
Peter Gabriel - Us: "Kiss That Frog"
Pink Floyd - Meddle: "Seamus"
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings: "The Ballad of the Decomposing Man"
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Originally posted by Hugh Manatee Hugh Manatee wrote:

Originally posted by Necrotica Necrotica wrote:

... I think that song is criminally underrated as far as Floyd ballads go. Absolutely beautiful, and I love the calming atmosphere 

I totally agree. It is Roger Waters putting his soft side on full display without a hint of his trademark cynicism. 

Perhaps there are those who might feel it is out of place after the aural assault of "One of These Days". It certainly is the calm after the storm.


Yup, nothing "soft" can come after One Of These Days' aggression (maybe The Nile Song).

But there is more than Seamus on that album that should've been cut off.
San Tropez is iuseless and I could skip the kenghty football chants as well.

There were other tracks that should've found a real album spot (thinking of Embryo, or Cymbalene (not the More version) instead of those 2.5 duds ending the A-side. 

Originally posted by Magog2112 Magog2112 wrote:

Genesis - ...And Then There Were Three...: "Scenes from a Night's Dream" Follow You FM
Genesis - Genesis: "Illegal Alien"
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound: "More Fool Me"
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering: "All In a Mouse's Night" Your Own Special Way
Pink Floyd - Meddle: "Seamus"
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings: "The Ballad of the Decomposing Man"


I totally agree with the rest Wink

Rainbow Rising : Do you Close Your Eyes

That one is a real clunker, destroying the perfetc Hard Rockness of Rising
To think they extended (sometimes up to 15 minutesShocked)  that track to end their concerts as well. Dead

Originally posted by SuperMetro SuperMetro wrote:

So my good album with a bad song would be maybe Providence by King Crimson on the album Red. The song following it is awesome though. 


I much prefer Moonchild (at least it starts out excellent) to Providence, but I wouldn't classify either as "songs".
"Tracks" seem much more appropriate. Wink

But yeah, both +/- kill the "Perfect Masteriece" of the album they "grace" their presence on.


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prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
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