The Pink Floyd solo albums
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Topic: The Pink Floyd solo albums
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Subject: The Pink Floyd solo albums
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 10:04
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Has this poll been made before? I have no idea, at least I haven't seen it, so I decided to give it a go. Pink Floyd need no words of introduction, but how many people also love the solo albums of its members? When comparing Floyd to their peers' solo output, I would say Floyd did not have the strongest solo albums but definitely had an interesting variety, and these solo albums helped to discover what each of the band members brought to the table, more or less. With all this being written, I have to say that I am more than confused how to vote. How about you, fellow PA-ers?
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 10:08
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yeah, I did a similar poll years ago, but nice poll anyway. Tough choice for me, I really love Roger's Amused to Death, Gilmour's first two albums and the two Rick Wright albums. No vote for now, it's a tough choice and I'll probably vote for an underdog.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 10:34
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It was a toss-up for David Gilmour and Broken China. I get more mileage out of the former, so it got my vote. About Face and Is This the Live We Want? are runners up. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 10:49
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Amused to Death was my favourite Roger Waters album by virtue of it being the only RW I liked enough to buy. I didn’t think he’d ever make an album as impressive as that, but for me (although I realise I am in a minority here), Is This The Life We Really Want? is even better. And as much as I like albums by NM, DG and the other RW, I think I’m giving my vote to the aforementioned Waters album, just because it really impressed, and continues to impress, me. If that album had not been released, I’d probably go for Wright over Waters. Maybe. Perhaps. Good thing I don’t have to make up my mind! 😜 ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 11:24
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Broken China > Amused to Death > Wet Dream > Radio KAOS. ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 11:31
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Gilmour's debut or About Face. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 11:38
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I went with Amused to Death. ------------- 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 11:59
| This is the Pink Floyd poll I've been waiting for! My vote goes to David Gilmour's "On an Island" with Richard Wright's Wet Dream a close second and Roger Waters' 2020 Us + Them DVD in third place. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 12:10
| Though I think Pink Floyd is a great, fantastic band, Their solo output has never reached a Master piece status for me. They are good of course, but they all seem to be missing something, at least to my taste. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 12:28
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On an Island gets the nod. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 12:34
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 12:36
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DG - DG. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 12:59
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I guess Ça Ira won't have a lot of votes. Gilmour's debut and Wet Dreams are those I spin more, but also Fictitious sports as I like Carla Bley. Well, honestly I like them all and currently I appreciate Identity as a prequel of Broken China. Nick Mason's new band is excellent, too. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 13:08
They miss the rest of the band. I remember a concert of the Australian Pink Floyd opened by Learning To Fly. At the end of the song I turned to a friend and we both had the same imnpression: it was the best version of that song we have listened to. Better than the studio version. The reason? The bass player arranged it as it was Waters. The Division Bell misses Waters as much as The Wall and the Final Cut miss Wright. Even on Animals which is completely a Waters' creature, they all contribute to the album. The absence of Wright first and of Waters later are the weaknesses of the following albums. Wet Dreams is partially saved by Snowy White on guitar and it's the one that sounds closer to a Pink Floyd album. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 13:13
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Amused to Death. Runner-up: About Face. ------------- 
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 13:20
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NM's Live at the Roundhouse. RW's Broken China would be my second choice followed by DG's debut. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 13:24
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Looking at how things are going, I will cast the first vote for 'Pros and Cons'. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 13:31
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Identity (1984) is not a Rick Wright solo album but a collaboration/project with a musician named Dave Harris. The band/project was called Zee. Read someplace Rick later regretted making the album.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 13:44
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How has Syd not got a vote yet? My goodness! Madcap Laughs > Gilmour s/t > Wet Dreams > Fictitious Sports Large gap to everything else. Live At The Roundhouse would have been up there but its essentials a outstanding cover band playing Floyd material. On An Island is pretty good, after that I'm not really a fan of any of Waters', Gilmour's, Mason's or Wright's solo work.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 14:50
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Amused to Death, pretty easily. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 15:49
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The ones I like a lot are David Gilmour's first album, Is This The Life We Really Want, Wet Dreams, and Mason Live at the Roundhouse; won't vote for the latter as it's not original material. The most original, fresh and enjoyable material in my view is on Fictitious Sports. On top of that it has Robert Wyatt singing.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 16:00
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Why aren't the best and worst solo albums in the choice list? Best: The Final Cut Worst: A Permanent Lapse Of Reason  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee 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 rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 16:56
you're trolling Mr Trane!  |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 17:40
| I haven't heard them all so no vote. I do really like the first David Gilmour solo album though. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 18:14
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 22:06
| It's got to be Amused to Death for me (though how I wish the rest of Floyd had been with him to help him get it to the next level). I still don't understand so much love for Gilmour's first album... I mean, I do like it, but I don't really think it's something particularly special (it might just as well be my least favourite of his solo albums). My favourite from Gilmour would actually be his last one, which I happen to like much more than Waters last one too. Wright's both albums were very nice albums too. |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: April 26 2021 at 22:39
I tend to agree. Roger's ATD and Rick's Broken China could have been terrific band projects, and likewise I'm not too smitten with any of DG's solo stuff. ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 01:02
If they were included, Lapse of Reason would be my vote for favourite solo album! 😜 ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 02:01
A veritable can of worms! ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 02:51
Face it - we were all waiting for the worms to come (worms to come). 😜 ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 02:52
 ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee 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 rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 02:53
I was waiting to see how long it would be before someone made that connection! ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 03:00
You can rely on me, as I’ve been practicing my Dad jokes for years..... 👍🏻 ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 03:55
| Amused to Death just edges out Fictitious Sports (even though it's really a Carla Bley album). Then a gap to Pro's and Con's. All the rest are nowhere :-( |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 04:48
Ok, more seriously, I'd like to retain Gilmour's debut Wright's Wet Dreams, Roger's AtD and Life We Want for top spot .
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee 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 rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 05:39
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A sole vote for Barrett. Love that Nick Mason's albums have been included as aaaarrrgghh GIVE ME A LIE FOR A LIE! GIIIVVVEE ME A TRUTH FOR A TRUTH!!! Is the catchiest thing on any of their solo albums. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 06:37
Am I one of the few missing the appeal of 'Amused to Death'? I always considered it overlong and boring to death but it gets many votes here and generally positive reviews from critics.  |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 06:55
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Amused is fun for a while but gets dragged down in the concept and overproduction - as always with Waters, some though-provoking concepts so weighted down with production effects (that whole Marv Albert sequence....sheeesh!). It's part and parcel of his entire solo career - never a bad album but always so heavy. My favorite is the Carla Bley album Fictitious Sports - Nick joined a groovy band and they made a quirky pop album! Maybe the least Floydian of any of the solo albums, but a really fun listen......I still wish they'd have done an extended Bley composition but they kept things pretty streamlined. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 07:00
And with vocals by Robert Wyatt, it's as close to a Soft Machine/Pink Floyd collaboration we ever got. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 07:25
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You forgot the "They all suck" option Seriously, i've listened to my fair share of them and i don't find any horrible but not very exciting either. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 08:00
If you enjoy that, check out (if you haven't already) 'The Hapless Child and other Inscrutable Stories' by Michael Mantler, which had many of the same band and sets the gothic poems of Edward Gorey to music. It's brilliant!!
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 08:20
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Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 08:42
And how about the 'They all blow' option - in the interests of balance? ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Artik
Date Posted: April 27 2021 at 11:37
| Syd's debut as the most interesting one |
Posted By: Theprogelitist
Date Posted: April 28 2021 at 12:42
| Gilmour debut. Has so much tasty guitar on it |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: April 28 2021 at 13:44
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There is something good about all that I've heard. Unheard is Waters Ca Ira and The Soldier's Tale. My top five: Broken China, Is This the Life We Really Want, DG, Wet Dream and Amused to Death
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