Disillusion Part 5 - Pink Floyd
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Topic: Disillusion Part 5 - Pink Floyd
Posted By: Flight123
Subject: Disillusion Part 5 - Pink Floyd
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 06:04
| At some point, we become disillusioned by our heroes and stopped buying their albums automatically on release (especially when younger and vinyl was expensive). At which point did this happen with Floyd (if, at all)? |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 06:05
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The Division Bell. ------------- 
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 06:25
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The Final Cut, which I assume will end up being the winner here, no doubt you'll get some PATGOD write in votes ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:06
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Division Bell ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:14
So these polls are basically for folks over 60?  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:15
Cheeky! I'm only 54 
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:21
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Cheeky is alright by me (unless you're commenting on my vivacious bottocks). I'm 34 so the only way to really play this game is if we do this with say erm Metallica  to which the answer would be Load.------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:23
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I'm 50 now and I haven't yet started buying anything by any band "automatically on release"... |
Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:24
| ...erm, right, yes, I admit the poll will have more resonance with more (ahem) senior members of the forum who 'lived' through the grand simplification of prog. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:26
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another album - "Animals" -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Neu!mann
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:33
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Animals was my last 'automatic' purchase too...but the disillusion happened later, when the radio airwaves were stuck on Another Brick in The Wall. ------------- "we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 08:38
| Though I love Pink Floyd, I never bought their records automatically. That being said, I've always enjoyed their music quite a lot. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 09:22
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The Wall was a poor representation of the band at the time it came out. Sappy! Don't have the minutest inkling to own it. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 09:56
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Animals. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 09:56
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Lapse and the subsequent live album DSoT, were the last PF I bought. By the time Division Bell came out, I wasn't listening to Floyd. On the menu was tons of RPI and fusion. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 11:30
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Not only I continued...now I buy also their cover bands... ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 13:12
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I'm a bit of a completionist... ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 13:33
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AMLOR. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 13:38
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Never been exactly on release. But my last buy was Animals |
Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 14:05
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For me, Obscured by Clouds. I already know every album inside and out, I can't stand the arena-rock phase and post-waters either, Animals is my only exception. It could seem harsh to some but it's my opinion ------------- Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV. https://www.soundcloud.com/user-322914325 |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 20:20
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oh that was easy... the greatest sh*t stain of an album ever released by a previously great band. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: February 17 2017 at 05:24
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Heard bits of The Final Cut on the radio and decided "nah". ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 24 2017 at 10:55
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Love Beach. ------------- |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 24 2017 at 11:41
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^You're too funny. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 24 2017 at 12:01
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Am I, really? ------------- |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: February 24 2017 at 12:19
Yeah but I love Floyd River too..........so I bought The Endless River
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Barbu wrote:Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 10 2017 at 13:51
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The Final Cut was the last one I bought on release, and I have never listened to A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (although I've heard the songs individually over the years)
------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 10 2017 at 15:26
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Besides that PA low rated best of collection from 2011 (Why'd I do it?), the last thing I bought from 'Floyd was 'Division Bell, used. Does that count? Don't know if I can get excited about 'Endless River. Without Waters, that and its two predecessors only amount to "Pink Floyd Presents..." ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: March 12 2017 at 23:31
| Never come across a Pink Floyd album that wasn't interesting in some way and continue to purchase Dave Gilmour and Rick Waters albums as they are released. |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: March 14 2017 at 05:38
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All PF and most solo releases. Not that everything is adored equally but these guys are too interesting to ignore. Must admit to some atavistic abhorrence to all the tribute albums... I have a symphonic one but it did not quite cut it. Oddly the best conversion from rock to classical arrangements (that I have heard) has been Led Zeppelin. Must see if I can track down those older releases David (as s/he then was) Palmer's works of Genesis and Tull and others. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 14 2017 at 09:28
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"Forget it, he's rolling." - Boon ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: August 04 2017 at 00:13
Mostly the same. All PF and most solos. Missing Wright's Zee, and both of Barrett's solo albums. When Zee was released, I saw it at Sam Goody, but there was a 30 minute line to check out and the most god awful metal music being played so I left. I never found it again. I've heard it on YouTube and it's not worth finding. I'm not a real big fan of PATGOD, so I wasn't really interested in Syd's two solo albums. I have to admit I like Gilmour's version of Dark Globe, so I will get around to listening to Syd's albums and then decide. I am not really a fan of tribute albums and most symphonic albums on paper seem good to me, actually aren't. See Yes's symphonic album, with Alan Parsons and some Yes men to see how it shouldn't be done. One of the most disappointing albums that I own. Anyway, back to PF, not a fan of David Palmers work on Objects of Fantasy. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's Hits of Pink Floyd is quite good. By far, the best of any of these albums (by any group), IMHO, is Us And Them The Symphonic Music of Pink Floyd. Jaz Coleman arranged and Youth produced. Just excellent. A must buy if you like symphonic albums. They really did a great job on the arrangements. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 04 2017 at 00:47
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The ZEE album is not that bad. Of course it has almost nothing to do with Pink Floyd apart of She Cuts Like a Diamond. The same can be said f Nick Mason's Carla Bley's album. The Piper is still one of my favorite albums and while it's true that with Syd we wouldn't have had any WYWH, I wonder what could have been if he was able to release more than one album with PF. On tribute albums, The Easy Star All Stars reggae cover of The Dark Side Of The Moon is amazing. During the years I've seen a lot of good PF cover bands. From the Australian Pink Floyd, to the Fluido Rosa and recently the Pink Floyd Legend (twice). Last year they performed Pink FLoyd At Pompeii using the same instruments of the original and two weeks ago Atom Heart Mother with choir and orchestra. The bassist and singer is identical in the voice to Roger Waters. This Saturday they will play a "Roger Waters Night" in Anzio, where Roger's daddy died. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 04 2017 at 10:34
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Well...I have never been a huge fan like so many here at PA....I bought all of the early albums because I started college in '69 and everyone was buying their records and even in high school I had some friends who bought the very early ones and played them...I didn't really get them then since I was only 15 then. The last purchase was Division Bell but I never play it...and I only rarely play Lapse of Reason. I don't even play The Wall much...heard it too many times on the radio and at peoples parties. Waters pretty much ruined my interest in Floyd anyway after his actions regarding the other members so Floyd is not something I even think about much these days. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |