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Poll Question: Your order of preference?
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From my point of view, 

Meddle is a minor work.

The others are masterpieceses, Saucerful isnt true prog but wonderful...

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Atom Heart Mother, Saucerful, Ummagumma, Meddle.


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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

I'm gonna play all 4 of the albums at the same time, and see if something shows up that helps me vote ... some of these rip up my mind more than any dope ever did!

I'm not sure I ever listened to any PF and thought that one album was better than the other ... it was PF!

I don't really think in terms of better (well, sometimes I do that too, but not in regards to this poll), but I certainly know that Meddle is closer to my heart than... A Momentary Lapse of Reason. And to be fair Heart of the Matter asks for: Your order of preference?. You may not have an order of preference, but it's not the same as "better".
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Ummagumma first choice - the live album is just the essential Pink Floyd. It's tight between the other three. 


Perhaps wrongly, I'd tried not to figure in the live album as I thought that was a bit unfair, as for me, it does give the rest a significant star-rating lift.  Incidentally, I recently treated myself to the Live: Fillmore West 1970 2CD set, which I'm sure you'll love. It extrapolates their classic, pre=Meddle material almost to breaking point...
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Atom >> Meddle >> Secrets >> Umma (not a fan of Gumma, if the album had been called UmmaUmma, I'd probably love it)

reason why AHM is better than Meddle? No offensive tracks like Seamus & San Tropez.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

reason why AHM is better than Meddle? No offensive tracks like Seamus & San Tropez.

but Echoes is better than anything on AHM... let's just say, the highs are higher and the lows are lower?
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

reason why AHM is better than Meddle? No offensive tracks like Seamus & San Tropez.

but Echoes is better than anything on AHM... let's just say, the highs are higher and the lows are lower?

I'd put the two epics on the same pedestal (and in the top 3 Floyd tracks), so it's a tie.
Sure OOTD is better than the rest of AHM, but the rest of Meddle is weaker than most/all of AHM's flipside. (Pillows & Fearless being on the same level than If & Summer).
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I never understood what is supposed to be wrong with San Tropez. I think it's perfectly lovely. I don't mind Seamus either. As I find the rest of it absolutely fantastic, Meddle is my favorite Pink Floyd album. Or perhaps even one of my favorite albums, period.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

I'm gonna play all 4 of the albums at the same time, and see if something shows up that helps me vote ... some of these rip up my mind more than any dope ever did!

I'm not sure I ever listened to any PF and thought that one album was better than the other ... it was PF!

I don't really think in terms of better (well, sometimes I do that too, but not in regards to this poll), but I certainly know that Meddle is closer to my heart than... A Momentary Lapse of Reason. And to be fair Heart of the Matter asks for: Your order of preference?. You may not have an order of preference, but it's not the same as "better".


Yes, that's the intention of my opening question, thank you both for bring it up. Observing people's usage of comparative terms when they didn't want to pick just one candidate, I thought: Why don't we vote for the order, instead of the album? That entails a limitation to 3 or 4 albums (if we wish to have all permutations at hand) but in exchange, votes don't have to leave any of them out. In a "traditional" poll, you have to post your order of preference, if any. In this "in-a-row" approach, you'd have to post who you want to dismiss (if any), or, eventually, your opinion that no particular order applies.

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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

I never understood what is supposed to be wrong with San Tropez. I think it's perfectly lovely. I don't mind Seamus either. As I find the rest of it absolutely fantastic, Meddle is my favorite Pink Floyd album. Or perhaps even one of my favorite albums, period.

I would trade away those two tracks with (their next "album") Obscured By Clouds' better tracks where they wouldn't be such an ear-sore and more in sonic with OBS' sonics, as opposed to Meddle's sonics (even the artwork announces the unique sounds inside). Seen from the outer sleeve's POV, it starts & ends phenomenally well, but the middle part is disappointing (IMHO)

At worst, I would've included Axe and Cymbeline (not yet available to the wide public) instead.. 

Ditto with the two minutes of You'll Never Walk Alone at the end of Fearless. Not worthy of Floyd's sonics.
BTW, Pompeii's worst moment is the Knobs dog howling. was there a need to replicate the "joke" in Seamus inside Meddle?
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

with the two minutes of You'll Never Walk Alone at the end of Fearless. Not worthy of Floyd's sonics

I've cried many times to those two minutes (I'm a Liverpool-fan btw)
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I am also a fan of 'San Tropez' - a light cocktail hour jazzy number which fits in the the overall romantic theme of the album (a theme which they never explored again). And I'd love to have seen 'Biding My Time' (another romantic song) released on Meddle, had it not been included on Relics which had been released earlier in the year.
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