Pink Floyd Appreciation Thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

highly appreciated to Roger Keith "SYD" Barrett.

without him PF would be nothing !!!

When I was about ten years old I was exploring my dad's record collection, as you do. I found an album with no writing on the front, just a photo of a cow, and I asked my dad what it was. It was of course Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother", and he played it to me (imagine that for a moment, your first ever hearing of Pink Floyd is the side-long AHM at the age of 10). Then he played me "Ummagumma".

That was in about 1972/3 and both albums are still my two favourite Pink Floyd albums to this day, and when I collected Floyd bootlegs a few years ago I focussed on the early years - I have maybe 100 CDs covering 1967-71, and maybe 15 covering 72-80.

rotten hound of the burnie crew

Enjoy this one "saucerful" fans...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf5dJnIw5vA&feature=related

Wink

It seems that we all have something in common. We all feel Pink Floyd as our pass to Prog rock waters Smile

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For me, they are heritage... For my dad, that is one of his favorite bands from youth. But, that is not only reason why I love them. Their solos are good example... Fantastic music textures by Roger Waters mixed with excellent poetry... And most of all-atmosphere in their songs...

My favorite period takes place from "Wish You were here", through "Dark Side of the Moon", to "The Wall"... Maybe it's the most commercial period for this band, but nobody's perfect Wink

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Edited by wolfvaga - February 20 2008 at 00:00

Lupus in fabula :)

Top 5 favourites:

1. Animals
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Dark Side
4. Atom Heart Mother
5.Oscured by Clouds

Top 5 songs:

1. Time
2. Pigs(three different ones)
3. SOYCD 1-9

4. Interstellar
5. High Hopes

I'm a Highway Starrrr....oh yes i am..!!!!

I'm reading the new Blake book on Floyd and found a funny Gilmour quote. He was asked recently what he would say to himself if he could give advice to the David Gilmour of 20 years ago. His answer was "Do less cocaine."

Apparently the Lapse tour was party time big time. The Floyd were always mostly drug free after Syd, but apparently only through the 70s. Sounds like the late 80s were a different story.

Also quite sad to read about how badly the skills of Mason and Wright had deteriorated at that point, it was understandable why Waters referred to them as "the Muffins." They pretty much had to have their parts played for them when the Lapse tour started, though thankfully both got much better after some road time.

Yes, my favourite band too:

First 5 albums discovered:

1. Dark Side
2. Wish You Were Here
3. The Wall
4. The Final Cut
5. Relics

Top 5 favourites:

1. The Wall
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Atom Heart Mother
4. Dark Side
5. Umma Gumma (discovered last of all)

Top 5 songs:

1. Atom Heart Mother suite
2. The Trial
3. Shine On part 2
4. Money
5. Great Gig

honourable mentions: Interstellar Overdrive / Biding My Time / Fat Old Sun (live 14-minute John Peel sessions jam)

I have been a Pink Floyd nut since first hearing Dark Side in 1994...they remain almighty Clap

I don't get the appeal of the post-Waters albums tho'...those two sound dated already and are cheap imitations of that special Floyd-sound from the Us & Them, Shine On & Welcome To The Machine pieces.

ProgBagel wrote:

Just listened to Animals...what a superb album. So very dark it is.

Indeed. Dark, bitter, even hostile. And excellent, one of my favourites by Floyd, and overall.

I'm about the same age as Dark Side, and I remember hearing it in the early 80's. It sounded... weird, like it was coming from another world, but at the same time very attractive. I got hooked.

For me the most important eras in the history of Pink Floyd are the mid-70's (DSOTM, WYWH, Animals) and the post-Waters era (because I was around and aware). I remember thinking "Floyd will never play gigs again, they will never make an album again" and then came Momentary Lapse... I was thrilled, and I still love that album, and the Division Bell.

Although in my mind Waters was the "brain" of PF, Gilmour has always been the beating heart, so it didn't bother me that much when Roger called it quits. Yes, the lyrical part might have suffered a bit, but at least for me the music remained glorious as ever. Check out the Pulse DVD if you don't believe me.

I'd like to recommend to any Floyd fan, the Black Holes in the Sky bootleg, it features the best version of Echoes ever, featuring a sax.

Just listened to Animals...what a superb album. So very dark it is.