Favourite track from Ummagumma (studio)
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Topic: Favourite track from Ummagumma (studio)
Posted By: Progishness
Subject: Favourite track from Ummagumma (studio)
Date Posted: April 14 2021 at 23:53
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Which track off the studio disc of Pink Floyd's fourth album, and first double release, Ummagumma is your favourite? Please vote and comment.
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 00:00
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The Narrow Way parts 1-3 ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 00:48
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The Narrow Way, one of my favourite PF tracks. ------------- 
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Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 00:53
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Grantchester Meadows for me, as with Cirrus Minor or Julia Drean, it's Roger at his haunting best. ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 00:55
| Sysyphus |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 03:35
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Definitely one of Roger's. I'll give it to Several Species as its currently voteless.
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 04:44
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Ok, now it's clear that I can't vote in this kind of polls. I'm used to consider all the PF albums as a single whole thing. ------------- 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: Cristi
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 05:00
true, but not all their work is a single whole thing. Songs can be enjoyed separately.
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octopus-4 wrote:Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 05:35
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Yes indeed and as a massive PF fan, even though it's important to listen to each album in its entirety, there are always tracks that standout for you. ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 05:40
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Several Species, I love the lunacy of that piece. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 06:44
| The Narrow Way Parts 1-3 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 06:57
| The Narrow Way by a narrow margin. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 07:15
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Posted By: Mudpuppy64
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 07:19
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Wee Furry Animals wai a Pict |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 07:28
Well, would Grantchester Meadows and Several Species be the same without the fly? You are right, not all the PF albums are concept albums. Obscured by clouds it's just a collection of songs, but it's the way I'm used to listen to it. Voting a best song means excluding another, and honestly I can't choose. On Ummagumma studio side they are so different one from the other that it really depends on my actual state of mind. ------------- 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: Mirakaze
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 10:29
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I've always loved Sysyphus, truly one of a kind within the Floyd catalog. ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 10:40
you are taking this poll way too seriously. Of course the order of songs on an album matters, songs are in a particular order for a reason, especially with Floyd. You are right here.
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 11:08
| You should have left an option 'All of them'; I really cannot choose since this is one of my top Floyd albums... But for the sake of voting I will cast one for |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 13:22
| The Narrow Way. And particularly part 3. I really wanted to have a good live version of this song, played by the whole band (though it actually sounds as if it was played by the whole band here), but the ones on The Early Years don't really get it right... which is strange, since usually their live versions of the early songs are better... yet in this case, instead of expanding, it even has the final solo shorter. Oh, and Gilmour should really come back to this song and play it live in his solo concerts. Also, I'm missing the live tracks in the poll (yeah, I guess they were not included because they are not studio and / or they would have left the studio tracks without votes). |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 13:37
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I love the album, everything on this one is special. Very hard to vote really, all four have something great on offer. I'd vote for Rogers' two songs en bloc, but if I consider them individually, Sysyphus just about wins it with everything else not far behind. |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 13:49
I deliberately left them out as I shall also omit the other live albums in this series of polls. Essentially Ummagumma is two entirely disparate single albums that weirdly meld together to make a splendid double!
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 14:22
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Grantchester Meadows, but in reality I have always found the studio cuts on this a bit of a mess and have never really enjoyed any of them. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 14:47
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I went with Several Species etc. They never again released anything that weird.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 14:52
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Sysyphus. Great album! ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 19:02
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When I take out this album I always play Sysyphus and Grand Vizier. Several Species is nuts with Waters playing with tape loops. Grantchester Meadows is calming but the best part are the effects with the stairs paper and the fly. Most of Narrow Way sounds like it needs more work. I went with Grand Vizier because who doesn't like a good drum solo.
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Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 22:47
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Yeah the Narrow Way wasn't Dave's best work, but then again he's never (for me) made an entirely satisfying solo album either. ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Moyan
Date Posted: May 15 2024 at 16:16
| "Grantchester Meadows" |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 16 2024 at 00:44
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Grantchester Meadows, stands head and shoulders for me. ------------- 'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.' |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: May 16 2024 at 01:47
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The Narrow Way - Parts 1-3
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 29 2024 at 03:56
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I really like all of the tracks here, The Narrow Way in particular. Love the psych ambience to it and Part 2 have one of my favorite guitar riffs ever. The eerie Sysyphus is a close 2nd, and the experiments of Several Species and Grand Vizier's never fail to entertain me. Grandchester is a really nice tune too *fly SWAP!!* ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 29 2024 at 05:25
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 29 2024 at 07:53
| I have this album and actually listened to it a couple of weeks ago. However, I'm not really familiar with it enough to say which one I like best. Maybe part of that is that I don't really always pay that close attention to song titles. I do like several species though but not sure I would vote for it. |