Pink Floyd Appreciation Thread

^ Anisina - very good song, ruined by the M.O.R. sax solo, which I'm sure Gilmour could've done it much more tastefully himself.
I love TER, very respectable and enjoyable. Up there with the great 70's album for me. It was EXACTLY what I hoped for, especially in tribute to dear Wright.
I do, however, think that Guy Pratt should've been the only bassist on the album (Gilmour does a great job, no doubt).

Edited by Tom Ozric - April 08 2016 at 22:18

Affek wrote: "High Hopes" as one of the best Pink Floyd songs? You've gotta be kidding me. Literally everything (maybe except "Wearing the Inside Out") on The Division Bell can't stand up to the stuff with Roger Waters. "Two Suns in a Sunset" was much better as a farewell song.

Affek wrote: I've always felt like Gilmour-driven PF was a league lower than Waters-driven, not to mention Barrett era, as it's something completely different. .

Edited by Tillerman88 - April 09 2016 at 12:39

Affek wrote: Yeah, that's all that Internet is about. Endless arguing about the very same things. I think that Pink Floyd underwent drastic change in its sound after Roger had left. It became more, how should I put it, artifical, and that's something I don't like, not to mention my opinion on Gilmour himself - it's him who takes all the glory, while Roger is the one who did almost everything.

Gilmour takes all the glory? Really?
Roger did almost anything? Not exactly true. He was the driving force in the band for a while but in the process marginalized Wright and fell out with Gilmour.

Floyd wouldn't be Floyd without ANY member - Mason's rather perfunctory style of drumming suited the band PERFECTLY. Wright's talents and choice of equipment defined the Floyd sound, Waters was competent on the bass and a clever lyricist, and Gilmour is a guitar God, with a magic touch that belonged to Floyd. What an OUTSTANDING band.

I love Floyd with Waters at the helm, I love Floyd with Gilmour at the helm, but when they were an 'equal unit' (early 70's) - then there was a pure, magical chemistry happening.

What I meant was that David got all the recognition. He was the face of Pink Floyd and many people regarded him as the leader of the band. I remember that somewhere (I think it was his biography) Roger stated that he got no recognition at all. No one cared for him and that caused his frustration, so he purposefully ignored other members of the band. And it's still that way - most of the people think that PF was all about David, while it's not true. 

I always felt that from Dark side to The Wall (or The Final Cut, actually), Waters was considered the driving force and the face of the band. In some ways I do agree, but in others not so much. He sure was the one that came up with the concepts, which seems to be the first step (at least with this band) to create the masterpieces they did. However, I wouldn't say he was the most important factor to create those wonderful albums... at least not with Dark Side, Wish you were Here, and Animals (which I would consider my very favourite period from the band)... with this albums, it was still a matter of the whole band creating the great albums. About songs written by Gilmour... well, actually he didn't write many songs...
On Dark Side, I think there was none written by Gilmour... though he does have credits with the rest of the band at least on Time. Besides that one Dark Side is mostly Waters and Wright, and I'm not sure who's contributions I consider more important.
On Wish you Were Here... well, Shine On is credited to the whole band, so I woulnd't know who did the most important part of the songwriting. I obviously would guess that the guitar segments were written by Gilmour, and the keyboard ones by Wright... and perhaps the vocal ones by Waters? I think on the albums it actually sais who wrote which parts. Gilmour's song on this album is the title track, perhaps one of the more famous ones by the band and surely an important contribution on the album, though on a site like this one it may not be among the favourite ones.
On Animals, often considered already almost a Waters driven album, Dogs is actually mostly Gilmour (I understand the music is by Gilmour, and the lyrics, as always, by Waters, so the song is credited to both)... and since that song takes almost half the album, I would consider his contribution to that album really important (and since that's my favourite song from the album, that makes the contribution all the more important for me).
And even on The Wall... Waters wrote almost the whole album... but perhaps the most beloved song from it, Comfortably Numb (at least for the more serious Floyd fans, more casual ones might prefer Another Birck part 2), was mostly a Gilmour thing.
So, perhaps Gilmour didn't write so much for the band, but what he wrote was usually highlits on the albums... and that's considering songs written mostly by him only (which as it turns, are not so many), if we consider which bits of the more collaborative songs were written by him perhaps we would find even more highlights.
The thing, in the end, is that the band was at it's very best when they all worked together to make the magic happen, and none of them on their own could have achieved the same level as they did together.

Affek wrote: Yeah, that's all that Internet is about. Endless arguing about the very same things. I think that Pink Floyd underwent drastic change in its sound after Roger had left. It became more, how should I put it, artifical, and that's something I don't like, not to mention my opinion on Gilmour himself - it's him who takes all the glory, while Roger is the one who did almost everything.

^ I'm no expert on Floyd and while I like them I'm not what one would call a huge fan...but I have read some pretty nasty things by Waters in his interviews and he did 'mistreat' some of the band members toward the end. He might have been the one taking care of business and coming up with the 'concepts' but