Floyd in a row
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Topic: Floyd in a row
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Subject: Floyd in a row
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 16:33
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One vote, four classics in every possible permutation, choose the row of your preference, speak your mind. |
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 17:25
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Animals > DSOTM > WYWH > The Wall ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 18:21
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Depending on the day, either DSOTM > WYWH > Animals > The Wall, or WYWH > DSOTM > Animals > The Wall. There is a sizable swathe of The Wall I simply don't care to listen to anymore. ------------- ...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: Lewian
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 18:35
| Animals > DSOTM > The Wall > WYWH. These days Animals and DSOTM are almost equal. I've always had WYWH rather low in my Pink Floyd ranking. It attracts me less than *many* others. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 19:59
It's rare for me to read this opinion about WYWH, but I feel the exact same way. DSOTM> Animals> The Wall> WYWH ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Lewian wrote:Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 22:42
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DSTM, Animals, WYWH, Wall. Pretty easy for me where these 4 fall. DSTM is a masterpiece and Animals is a great album. Like a couple of other posters, WYWH is good but overrated. Wall has a number of songs I like, but, it has to many tracks that I don't care for. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 00:04
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Animals > WYWH> DSOTM> The Wall I still find it hard to really appreciate DSOTM and next to other 1973 releases, a year that was seminal for prog, for some reason it has to be the album that is talked about and remembered most. Pink Floyd for me evolved for the next 2 albums expanding the 'formula' when others were disappearing up their backsides or just repeating themselves. Animals is a triumph and everything a prog album should be. After that they are not sure what to do with the massive punk backlash. The Wall is RW's answer. It's a 'play' more than an album and sits alongside Quadrophenia in that respect. Not surprising that both were eventually filmed. It's important but it's a very different 'Animal'.  |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 00:13
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1. Dark Side of the Moon 2. Wish You Were Here 3. The Wall 4. Animals
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 01:29
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 01:38
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WYWH > DSOTM > Animals > Wall can't imagine The Wall coming top of anyone's list! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 02:06
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1. Dark Side of the Moon 2. Wish You Were Here 3. Animals 4. The Wall
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 02:55
This.  |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 05:41
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WYWH > DSotM > Animals > The Wall ------------- 
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 05:50
But I see one vote (two now!) putting it in 2nd place, and I can easily imagine somebody having discovered it lately, and with a fresh taste for Pink's misadventures Not my case, of course.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 05:54
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Something like WYWH > Animals > DSOTM > The Wall or WYWH > DSOTM > Animals > The Wall ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 06:20
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Animals > WYWH > DSOTM > The Wall ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 09:04
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Animals > WYWH > DSOTM > The Wall. All my pants are unsalted. ------------- ---------- 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: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 10:08
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Animals, DSOTM, WYWH, The Wall. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 11:07
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DSOTM > Animals > WYWH > The Wall
------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 12:09
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The first choice. I feel now that one can almost hear the decline in each chronological release post-73 that was the result of Waters increasing negativity and Wright's slow soft-demotion and fading away from being a (mostly) equal creative presence. Dave wasn't stiff-armed away in the same manner Wright was, but even with him it feels more he is operating professionally but with less emotional investment and less personal satisfaction, less interest as time goes on. I now really value and appreciate 67-73 so much, how they brought out the best in each other, but as Rog said in the interview, the "band of brothers" was over in '73. I believe I can hear the difference now in each subsequent release after that, especially with Richard. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Progfan1958
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 19:20
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DSOTM > WYWH > Animals > Meddle >The Wall
------------- Progfan1958 "Peace to you all" "La paix est avec vous" "Pax vobiscum" "Al salaam a'alaykum" "Vrede zij met u allen" "Shalom aleichem" |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 19:39
| Me and 4 others at this moment: Animals > WYWH > DSOTM > The Wall |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 19:43
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As of now, The Wall last seems to dominate. No one has DSOTM last. No one has The Wall first and the other three are splitting the first places equally. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: January 18 2025 at 19:44
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Eduardo, cool poll. Do another one with... Saucerful UmmaGumma Atom Heart Mother Meddle I realize that skips some stuff, but more than 4 titles probably gets too hairy
 ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 19 2025 at 06:43
| ^ Done! |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: January 19 2025 at 10:14
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WYWH > DSOTM > The Wall > Animals - tho a very close call between the latter two. ------------- Is it any wonder that the monkey's confused? |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: January 19 2025 at 10:16
Er🤔 The Wall > DSOTM > WYWH > Animals 🤓 I’m younger than most of you and The Wall was the first PF album I heard, it was hugely influential on me at the time (musically) and I still love it! Concept albums/rock operas float my boat…. ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 19 2025 at 15:09
| WyWH over (almost equal) to animals, clearly over Dark Side, very clearly over The Wall. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 20 2025 at 02:55
I'm hearing you but has it really stood the test of time? I respect it but I don't think I could get through the whole thing nowadays. Also I'm not a massive fan of the way it sounds (production issues?). It's just very 'flat' to my ears. Maybe the live version is a little better (?)
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 20 2025 at 07:37
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Not bad at all... |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 20 2025 at 07:52
Having The Wall last seems more important than who comes first  , a view I can easily relate to. Still thinking my 1st, but TW will be my last.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 20 2025 at 09:27
We're close to the same age.. the album where Waters' angst and righteous indignation finally got the better of him and as Rich rightly asks, has it aged well? Meddle > Animals are absolutely timeless.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: January 20 2025 at 15:49
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WYWH > DSOTM > > Animals > > > > > > > The Wall. Yet another opportunity to remind people that beginning with Animals, Pink Floyd became "Roger Waters and Special Guests". Taking into account all the responses above, someone needs to do a poll on the subject "When did The Wall become dated?"
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 20 2025 at 16:01
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^ Man, that would take ages to be answered!
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 20 2025 at 22:31
Doesn't the Waters era start witn DSOTM as he wrote everything on it?
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 21 2025 at 00:53
DSOTM was one of their last collaborative effort. Last one was Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: January 21 2025 at 10:24
Wrote everything on it? Yes, he wrote all the lyrics, but a simple perusal of the credits show that Nick Mason conceived "Speak to Me", Richard Wright and Clare Torry are credited for "The Great Gig in the Sky", and that "Any Colour You Like" is a Gilmour/Mason/Wright composition. That's a good 9 minutes of music that Waters performed on, but did not write. I'm not writing this to belittle what Waters did contribute to the album, but to disagree with the view that he was the be-all and end-all to Pink Floyd once Syd Barrett was shown the door.
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: January 21 2025 at 11:51
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IMO the Waters lead era of Floyd was from Saucerful through to WYWH, then from Animals to TFC it was more like the Waters domination era. ------------- Is it any wonder that the monkey's confused? |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 21 2025 at 17:17
| It's kinda of a weird argument to me to suggest Animals and The Wall were mostly down to Waters but have stuff before as more a 'collaborative' effort. Waters clearly was not a great musician so he could not have created those albums on his own. Lets call it 'collaborative' when it suits and resign Mason, Gilmour and Wright to 'guests' otherwise (Although I would actually agree with Wright being a 'guest' as Waters tried to push him out the band, albeit unsuccesfully, but he was marginalised on those albums certainly).To put it another way if Waters did dominate Floyd for Animals and The Wall then he must be the greatest genius of progressive music. although it does then beg the question, why are his solo records so not as interesting by comparison?! |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 21 2025 at 19:01
Considering Gilmour played lead electric guitar and the bass guitar on both "Pigs" and "Sheep" (Waters played bass only on "Dogs"), you've got to consider just how much David contributed to Animals, particularly since he co-wrote the masterpiece "Dogs", and the lead and acoustic guitars are the driving force of that song. ------------- ...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... |