Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 5
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Topic: Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 5
Posted By: 40footwolf
Subject: Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 5
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 03:49
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Of all the albums that are going up against each other, this round may cause the most contention. Anyhow...three days! Pick one! No matter how much it pains you! ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
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Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 03:57
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Wish you were here. No contest, no pain. ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 03:57
Yes,I agree with you  . Not easy choice - WYWH has some excellent compositions, but as whole album Animals is better. What to choose?
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 04:43
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Wish You Were Here, the last album of great "Collective Era". Then began Totality. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Shevrzl
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 04:44
| Animals. Tight contest, much pain. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 04:48
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Wish You Were Here is pure class. Animals is rather patchy imo. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: chemebien
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 06:01
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Animals
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 06:04
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Wish You Were Here. ------------- 
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 06:41
| Animals. Just flows well, great subject matter and great music. WYWH is very good, but doesn't do it totally for me. |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 06:53
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My ranking of Pink Floyd albums is:
Saucerful of Secrets
Dark Side of the Moon
Meddle
Wish You Were Here
Ummagumma
Atom Heart Mother
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Animals
The Division Bell
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
The Wall
More
Obscured By Clouds
The Final Cut
The first six are among the greatest albums ever. The next two are very good and good respectively. The next five are OK and the last one is poor. IMO of course.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 10:45
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I'll take Wish You Were Here over Animals any day if I have to chose one or the other. ------------- 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: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 10:54
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Animals is putting up a good fight! id say wywh if it werent because of all tracks that are not the tittle track and opener and closer. ;) ------------- |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 10:55
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After much gnashing of teeth (ok, it really was only about five seconds, but it was a painful five seconds) (and by pain, I really mean only a slightly numb sensation, nothing like getting an arm broken) (or giving birth) (or so I'm told) I voted for "Wish You Were Here".
------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Varon
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 10:56
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For me Animals is better than all 13 PF salbums ------------- Would you catch the final words of mine? Would you catch my words??? |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 11:30
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Wish You Were Heeeere ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 12:00
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This match-up gives me chest pain. Too of the finest, most impeccably perfect prog records ever. Animals. Now I'm off to the hospital.  ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: Jazzywoman
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 15:59
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WISH YOU WERE HERE!!! Best musical pieces...ever. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 16:18
| Today I'll go for Wish You Were Here, but it usually is Animals. Anyway, I haven't listened to either in a long time. |
Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 21:56
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This was a really tough choice for even me. I was tempted to say "Wish You Were Here", simply because I had an awe-inspiring...let's call it an "experience"...while listening to that album, but I think "Animals" holds up better no matter what situation you find yourself listening to it in. ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 22:36
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Wow, tough tough.....Wish You Were Here ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 22:45
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You gotta be crazy you gotta have a real need You gotta sleep on your toes and when you're on the street You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed the most progressive of floyd's albums perhaps? I remember when i fort got into this album, i was 13 or 15? and grab an old sony walkman from my father, also some old on hear old headphones, he had most floys cassetes. I think the headphones where koss but cant remember which, big, bulky and retro looking. I was like "OMG this must be the longest song ever" while listening at dogs ... so awesome. ------------- |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 25 2010 at 23:18
| Really difficult. But in the end, I guess I must choose Wish you Were Here. As I've said before, this one could just as well have been the final. |
Posted By: fullofprog
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 04:06
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Animals..........just. ------------- As I get older, I like my songs to last longer. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 04:31
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Animals.
It's their best album IMO. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 05:14
| Pshhht, Dogs alone is better than WYWH as a whole. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 07:55
| Animals. I am not a fan of WYWH. |
Posted By: Proggy Pogo
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 07:59
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This is the hardest choice - two of my faves of all time. I'm going with Animals though, as it's the one I'm more into at the moment. ------------- 
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Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 08:13
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Iii Wiish Iii Wish You Were HEeere -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: lwdj905
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 08:30
| Wish You Were Here, by a nose. Even the girlfriend thinks that! |
Posted By: Weirdamigo
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 08:44
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"You're never gonna die, you'll make it if you try " Interesting poll 5 vs 5 songs (actually 4 vs 5) but I ultimately went with WYWH ... although I'm happy that Animals is putting up a good fight ------------- A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 10:01
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Interesting one. Both albums were written around 1975 and the music is very similar. It's definitely Animals for me though. Wish You were here has too much stinkers (such as WYWH, Have a Cigar, and Shine on as well really  ) |
Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: October 27 2010 at 15:19
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Gettin' kinda close, folks! ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: Kevind217
Date Posted: October 29 2010 at 21:39
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Hmm...Animals, no question about it. In fact, I'm gonna assert it's at least Pink Floyd's 2nd best album (can't really decide whether I like Dark Side or Animals more). See, Animals actually has a nice acoustic ballad and 3 terrific rockers (I'm counting Pigs on the Wing as 1). Wish You Were Here just has a lengthy multi-part w**kfest and two so-so anti-establishment numbers. Sure, it has one of the most gorgeous ballads ever written, but the other numbers are borderline offensive to yours truly.
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Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: October 30 2010 at 12:43
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Animals |
Posted By: ndiego
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 16:51
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WIsh you were here, Animals comes close but WYWH may be my favorite album ever ------------- "What lies north of the North Pole?" Stephen Hawking "Poverty is the worst form of violence." -Mohandas Gandhi |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 19:48
This exactly ------------- To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica) |
Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 21:07
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It's Animals for me (even though I can't yet vote in the poll). I really like WYWH, but it think it drags out a bit too much.
------------- Z |