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dr wu23 
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Firth of Fifth, one of my favorite Genesis songs,.....but Numb is the best thing from The Wall, an overrated album imho.
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genbanks
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 20:39 |
 dr wu23 wrote:
Firth of Fifth, one of my favorite Genesis songs,.....but Numb is the best thing from The Wall, an overrated album imho. |
100% agree
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m2thek
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 20:45 |
I think Comfortably Numb is a good song but nowhere near Pink Floyd's best work. Firth of Fifth on the other hand is definitively Genesis' best song. The fluidity and dynamic range of it is amazing. It also has multiple of my favorite musical moments ever (when the synth reprises the intro, and when the guitar solo finally dips into the flute melody).
I'd probably rank FoF in my Top 3 songs of all time; I don't think I'd even say CN is my favorite song on The Wall.
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tboyd1802
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 21:57 |
genbanks wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
Firth of Fifth, one of my favorite Genesis songs,.....but Numb is the best thing from The Wall, an overrated album imho. |
100% agree |
Couldn't have said it better.
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Wanorak
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Posted: August 17 2014 at 23:04 |
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Comfortably Numb by a hair.
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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addictedtoprog
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 00:49 |
I knew 'Firth' wud b leading 'Comfortably' here...
Gr8! to see love for the 'Numb' though 
Edited by addictedtoprog - August 18 2014 at 01:06
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snowsnow
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 02:29 |
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Two absolute classics!
Has to be Floyd's effort - Gilmour's guitar solo at the end is sublime...
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 02:34 |
Love both but I will vote for PF because this needs to be closer 
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melotron98
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 02:54 |
Meltdowner wrote:
someone_else wrote:
Firth of Fifth.
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Kazza3
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 03:02 |
Comfortably Numb is spellbinding. Firth of Fifth is very, very good, but it's a bit too intellectual compared to the sheer emotion of Numb.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 03:50 |
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The Mystical
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 05:02 |
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Comfortably Numb. I do like Selling England, but I find it to be very flawed.
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Mormegil
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 06:09 |
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Firth of Fifth +1 :-)
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 06:48 |
dr wu23 wrote:
Firth of Fifth, one of my favorite Genesis songs,.....but Numb is the best thing from The Wall, an overrated album imho. |
Firth gets my vote, and I completely agree with the second thing you said.
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Hercules
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 07:10 |
genbanks wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
Firth of Fifth, one of my favorite Genesis songs,.....but Numb is the best thing from The Wall, an overrated album imho. |
100% agree |
I agree 100% with the latter statement. Firth of Fifth has DWTTMK and The Cinema Show to compete with for best track on Selling England.
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Roj
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 07:55 |
I'm a huge Floyd fan and it's very rare I'd vote against them, however......
Comfortably Numb is an excellent song with a fantastic pair of guitar solos from Dave Gilmour but Firth of Fifth is one of the best prog tracks ever. I'm surprised the vote is this close to be honest.
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rogerthat
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 08:08 |
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Comfortably voted for Firth. I like Floyd overall more than Genesis but Comfortably Numb is not one of my favourites of the band.
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Libor10
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 10:18 |
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Firth is my winner without any doubt. One of the best Genesis songs (say it's in my top 5). Fantastic piano intro and the Hacket's solo on the same level... And yes, CN is great song with extraordinary good Gilmour's solo. But... frankly, for me it's not on par with FoF. In fact PF have many better compositions (One Of These Days, Echoes, Shine On You Crazy Diamond to name a few). On the other side my vote wouldn't be different with any other song (eh, probably...). But it'd be harder choice. This one wasn't.
And I'm rather surprised too the votes are relatively close.
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Gerinski
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 13:57 |
As good a song as Comfortably Numb is, and as good as Gilmour is on it, it's hard to understand how can a progger prefer it to Firth Of Fifth. If you told me my neighbour prefers it I'd understand, but a prog lover?  With my friends' amateur band we played a cover of Comfortably, surely sh*tty but without too much trouble, I wish we could even think of trying to play FoF.
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Posted: August 18 2014 at 13:58 |
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Gilmour's guitar solo > Hackett's guitar solo
"Firth of Fifth" overall > "Comfortably Numb" overall
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'Comfortably Numb' Vs 'Firth Of Fifth'
