Best Pink Floyd Album
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Topic: Best Pink Floyd Album
Posted By: Gaston
Subject: Best Pink Floyd Album
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 07:23
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I've got an IP identifier and I will find out where you live if you vote for the final cut.
Oh yeah, and if anyone cares, I forgot Relics. Vote for "Tonight lets all make love in London" if you want to vote for Relics. -------------  
It's the same guy. Great minds think alike. |
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Posted By: progchain
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 07:26
Pink Floyd= Syd Barrett= The piper at the gates of dawn.
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Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 07:32
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Piper is a great album in my opinion. But my favorite: Floyd - Barrett = "Wish You Were Here". |
progchain wrote:
Also Atom, Umma, Meddle & Dark Side.Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 07:42
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My two fave Pink Foyd albums are Ummagumma & Obscured by clouds...with a slight preference for Ummagumma. ------------- 
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 07:51
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Really difficult choice : 'Meddle', 'Wish you were here', 'dark side of the moon' and 'Animals' are equally good ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 08:04
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To Stormcrow : Don't you think 'Wounded' is the best Enchant album ? ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 08:16
Perhaps! But "Juggling" was the album cover I could easily find to feature in my sig.... hence it's showcase below. |
Though I'm very fond of "Blink Of An Eye" as well.Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 08:38
| Tough decision, but I will have to decide on Dark Side, for its beautiful studio production and engineering. Animals would make a close second. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 09:55
OK, I understand. " ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Alexander
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 10:50
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My personal favorite is Animals. ------------- On A Dilemmia Between What I Need & What I Just Want 
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 11:14
 ANIMALS, HANDS DOWN NO CONTEST
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Posted By: arqwave
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 13:01
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to me is the first record, the most naive record of the band and the most strange, a masterpiece. the only record older than "in the court of the crimson king"!!! peace |
Posted By: elfangio
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 14:24
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I voted for Atom Heart Mother, because it deserved a vote IMO, and I really love it (and The Wall also deserves a vote, BTW), but my (real) favorites are Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. ------------- Great shredding is cheddar cheese on a taco (Ron Thal). "Mr Neal Morse from Mars, by way of Las Vegas and Nashville" |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 15:43
But this is not about which albums 'deserve a vote'.  The question is which album you think is the best. 
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Posted By: elfangio
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 15:51
I don't follow the rules  ------------- Great shredding is cheddar cheese on a taco (Ron Thal). "Mr Neal Morse from Mars, by way of Las Vegas and Nashville" |
Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 16:27
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I love Wish you were here and it introduced me to Roy Harper, who did vocals on 'Have a Cigar' but Animals is very good as well, the only two I own, yet...
------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... George Orwell |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 16:44
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Wish I Was There............. Probably THE best acoustic Prog Song ever... Better than Lucky Man or C'est La Vie. I've always loved long spaced out pieces like Shine on You Crazy Diamond. Welcome to the Machine: heavy and emotional. Have a Cigar sums up the music biz pretty good. Animals and DSOTM are great, too. But if I could only have one, this is it. |
Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 19:31
| Wish You Were Here, although Animals is just a hair behind it, and Dark Side, The Wall, Obscured By Clouds, Atom Heart Mother and The Division Bell are all just a little behind them. |
Posted By: lukeventura
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 10:51
| I don't get Wish You Were Here.. I mean it's good but the 3 middle songs don't really fit the mood of Diamond. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 11:04
I'm with you on that one m'man This is definitely the point at which Waters's dictatorship of Floyd's direction took full effect (coincidentally, perhaps, this was the point in time then Rick Wright's creative input to the band began to wane due to ill health - he admits that this was the first time he had gone into the studio with absolutely no ideas or themes written - he was sacked from the band proper following the recording & only ever appeared with Floyd again as a paid session musician; a situation which continued right up to the last time Floyd toured) - the album was Waters's first opportunity to rant fully at the British class system, and I feel this is even angrier an album than either 'The Wall' or 'The Final Cut'. The combination of Waters having effectively free rein in the studio, and the naked anger in the lyrical content, gave this album a harsh dynamic they never had previously, and never matched afterward. Catharsis, indeed, and to my mind, one of the real high points of prog-rock ------------- 
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 01:17
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Gaston: Don't bother with the IP identifier: I'm the one who voted for Final Cut. Why? Simply to get your goat, old chap... Actually, I probably play Animals and WYWH more than any others, but, being perfectly honest, Final Cut comes third for frequency of listening. Then AHM, UG and Meddle. Peace. |
Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 07:44
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Don't tell me you were the one who voted for The final straw. What is this world coming to. -------------
It's the same guy. Great minds think alike. |
Posted By: ronnie_147
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 03:25
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Best albums 1) Animals . This has to be the most impressive transition for Pink Floyd with its dark Water's lyrics, power gilmour guitaring, and phsycedelic melody 2) Wall. Close contender to Animals. A great collaboration. 3) Dark Side of the moon. The best selling Pink Floyd album 4) Wish you were here. It rocks.
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 04:10
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What a great band ... I can't believe Meddle is not even in my top half of studio albums! A Saucerful Of Secrets takes the prize for me ... maybe for the pure sentimentality of having all 5 members contribute ... but it's also got my favourite Waters (Set The Controls) and Wright (Remember A Day) songs ... sigh ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer. "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 04:32
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My favourites include: Wish You Were Here: A Prog Classic, Loads of Spacey Synthesizers, Excellent Guitaring and Great Lyrics. Dark Side of the Moon: One of their biggest selling Album, Great Songs, Ahead of it's Time. Animals: Great Songs, Excellent Guitaring, Songs you can Jam along too (especially Sheep). Meddle: Bluesy Throughout, Echoes is a Epic prog masterpiece, The last album not to feature Synthesizers as the first is Obsurred by Clouds. Piper/Saucerful of Secrets: Both albums Pioneers of Prog Music (in my opinion), Great catchy tunes, lots of experimentation, both have some humourous tracks (Coporal Clegg, The Gnome and Bike). I like the other album but the ones mentioned above are my Favourites.
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Posted By: Yurkspb
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 05:11
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So hard to tell between Piper and Wish You Were Here. The first one is unique, the latter is just immaculate. But let's say Wish is it. |
Posted By: Alfi
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 12:11
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Animals is the best - Wish You Were Here my favourite although i also like Obscured By Clouds. possibly because of the great input by Wright which i miss on some later albums. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 15:45
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Well Dark side of the Moon was my first ever Classic rock/Prog album ever befor i bought that album i only lisened to KoRn and Rage Agains the Machine and crap like that. (ok i still like RATM but hardly ever lisen to them any more, the KoRn CDs i have destoyed ------------- 
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 19:11
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i chose a momentary lapse of reason, even if it is the wall: this record is soooooooooooooo atmospheric. ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 19:18
well WYWH seems to be the fave so far. I like Final cut too tho. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 21:15
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Wish You Were Here is great but needs some editing. Shine On You Crazy Diamond bores the hell outta me. Too Spacy. Animals is a much better album in my opinion, along with DSOTM and Meddle. ------------- 
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Posted By: alchemist
Date Posted: May 12 2005 at 18:27
I love Dogs it's one of my favorite tracks of all times! So I'll have
to go with the amazing and magical ANIMALS, though DSOTM is also great,
comes in close second, if it wasn't for the boring track ON
THE RUN... ------------- no great genius has existed without a touch of madness... |
Posted By: Yanns
Date Posted: May 12 2005 at 19:32
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Wish You Were Here 2nd: DSOTM 3rd: Animals |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 15:31
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'Wish You Were Here' is their best on pretty much every level to me- it is a truly superb experience. However, I am also very fond of 'Meddle', 'Obscured By Clouds', 'DSOTM' and 'Animals', plus the Syd Barrett stuff I am very enamoured of too. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: May 31 2005 at 22:39
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IMHO: Wish You Were Here Meddle Animals Atom Heart Mother Dark Side(Too much pop influence) Ummaguma/saucerful(hard to pick one) Piper More Wall(Way too heavy and too much disco for PF) Obscured by clouds Final Cut
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Posted By: TLZ*
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 18:29
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Meddle.
You could even remove all the songs but Echoes and it still be the best. (IMHO) |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: June 20 2005 at 18:09
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Wish You Were Here
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 20 2005 at 20:16
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Very Tough decision. I voted for Animals. But, WYWH, The Wall, Meddle, DSOTM all come close. And The Final Cut isnt that bad of an album. ------------- 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: gdub411
Date Posted: June 20 2005 at 21:43
I like Relics, A Nice Pair, and Works.
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: June 20 2005 at 21:54
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I'm with GDUB regarding relics, my first PF record ever (I was 9) but as an official album I choose Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 20 2005 at 23:06
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I like Wish You Were Here, Meddle and Animals. And Relics. |
Posted By: proger
Date Posted: June 21 2005 at 11:56
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Dark side- is my god... |
Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: June 21 2005 at 13:06
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01) Dark Side 5/5
02) Animals 5/5 03) Wish You Were Here 5/5 04) The Wall 5/5 05) A Momentary Lapse of Reason 4.5/5 06) Meddle 4/5 07) Atom Heart Mother 3/5 08) Obscured by Clouds 3/5 09) The Division Bell 3/5 10) Ummagumma 3/5 11) The Final Cut 2.5/5 12) A Saucerful of Secrets -/- (cannot rate it) 13) Piper -/- (cannot rate it) Never listened to the others, e.g. "More". ------------- You house proud town mouse ha ha, charade you are |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: June 21 2005 at 13:37
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Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here is the best album, I just love the sound of that VCS3-synth in WttM. But Piper, Saucerful, AHM, Animals, Meddle are also great
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Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 02:38
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Wish you were here is one of my pernal favorite albums ever. ------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 04:52
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I like The Division Bell album it`s great. Not much better than Wall DSOTM, WYWH or Animals but I like it the most.
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Posted By: fender101
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 07:44
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This changes everyday for me I think wish you were here is my favourite (SACD release coming early next year I cant wait) |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 08:00
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Listened the other day to number 1 and number 2,Wish You Were Here and Dark Side Of The Moon ... Wish You Were Here remains number 1... ------------- 
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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 08:26
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difficult to say ------------- 
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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 08:58
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I'm more fond of their psychedelic material done with Syd, than anyhting else (they have done). |
Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 09:23
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Hmm... I have to go with The Wall. Close with Animals though. But
animals was to short. Mainly because I could never get into Dogs so the
rest of it was like 20 minutes. (24:38, to be exact.) ------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: BrightonRocker
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 12:40
| Shine On You Crazy Diamond is too good for me not to not vote WYWH, but Piper is my next favorite. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 19:43
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the question is tooo hard buddy !!!!!! in my opion the best floyd albums are: best because their is not any weak spot on the album. darkside of the moon wish you were here animals the wall
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 12:31
| WYWH, followed by Animals and The Wall. DSOTM is a great album, but IMHO a step beneath these three. |
Posted By: Retrovertigo
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 13:57
| Wish You Were Here. Odd how Animals is winning over Dark Side, that's not represented on the top 100. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 16:55
| Dark Side Of The Moon. Even though Shine On You Crazy Diamond is better. But Dark Side is the best album. |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 16:56
How fitting, I was vote # 37 for Wish You Were Here. 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 17:22
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1) Wish You Where Here 2) Animals 3) Dark Side of the Moon |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 19:42
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Animals!
Devin Agrees |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 22:23
A correction to what I posted as a noobie: Wish You Were Here As you can see, I'm more fund of their earlier psychdelic stuff Still, WYWH is and will be my favorite ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Omayyad
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:20
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Posted By: assg
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 20:58
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1. Wish you were here (I find "Shine on.." the summit of prog) 2. The Dark Side of the Moon (a perfect circle) 3. The Wall 4. Meddle (Gilmou advances his power) 5.The Piper at the gates of dawn (the seed of the crazy diamond)
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Posted By: Dream Theater
Date Posted: August 26 2005 at 18:58
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1. The Dark Side Of The Moon 2. The Wall 3. Wish You Were Here ------------- [IMG]http://www.travelwithachallenge.com/Images/Travel_Article_Library/Sacred-Travel/Machu-Picchu-350.jpg"> [IMG]http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a63/panchopc1/machupicchu-1.jpg"> |
Posted By: progmaniaczka
Date Posted: September 19 2005 at 10:36
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wish you were here.. ------------- |
Posted By: Damen
Date Posted: September 19 2005 at 10:44
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ------------- "It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days." -Chris Squire |
Posted By: Prodigal
Date Posted: September 19 2005 at 11:12
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1. Dark Side Of The Moon 2. Wish You Were Here 3. Meddle 4. Animals 5. Atom Heart Mother 6. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 7. The Wall 8. A Saucerful Of Secrets 9. The Division Bell 10. Obscured By Clouds |
Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: September 19 2005 at 18:16
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I can't decide! They're all great (most of them are great)! I love Atom Heart Mother (the track). Wish You Were Here is great too. But I don't think there's a Pink Floyd album that doesn't have any filler. I'll have to go for Wish You Were Here, even though Shine on You Crazy Diamond has a bunch of filler. ------------- My recent purchases: 
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Posted By: Mnemosyne
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:53
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ATOM HEART MOTHER!!! ------------- I'm a Man-Owl-Fish. Creator-Observer-Muse. |
Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 01:54
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Favorite Flyod is animal, in patricular Pigs1 ------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |
Posted By: Yams
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 02:00
| WYWH, obviously. |
Posted By: Cygnus
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 03:22
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I am an ANIMAL |
Posted By: edible_buddha
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 06:25
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Hell im a bit confused.... Many have picked animals as the best album from floyd... OK, roger is angry about the british class system, but it needs to have the musical accompanyment to back it up, like on the wall... Sorry, ive actually found that album a little boring, thou i havent heard it for several months.... Maybe i need to give it another listen... On the positive side, i really couldnt decide which one is the best. Did vote for 'saucerful of secrets', but also love 'DSOTM', 'wish u were here', 'the wall', and 'the final cut'. Those other four albums could have easily taken out the title as well... Hell, just call them brilliant and be done with it. |
Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 07:12
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My favourite one's changed a couple of times. First, it was DSOM, then WYWH, but now I prefer Meddle. All of them are masterpieces, though. Perhaps Meddle is less "perfect", but it's more daring IMO ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 10:31
^ I wholeheartedly agree with that comment.  Though, my favorite Floyd album of all time is DSOTM.
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Posted By: eduardossc
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 10:44
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The best is definitely "Wish". "Shine on YCD" is the most touching melody in prog. It may as well be simple and not too prog but it is beautiful. Full of implicit energy, conviction, passion and heart. Anything else by Pink Floyd is cacophony when compared to this gem. The rest of the songs are not plain filler as in "ATOM", "MEDDLE" and "THE WALL". Well, "The Wall" is worth something for "In the flesh", "Comfortably" and "Run like hell", the rest is 60 minutes of filler. "Animals" seem to have just two fillers. However, "Dogs", "SHeep" and "Pigs" are filler after the main choruses. The rest of each song is copy-paste of those chorus with a middle section of nothing. "Dark side" is all filler. jajaja. No, seriously...only "On the run" is filler. However, this is album has no progressive rock whatsoever. It has some rock, classic rock in "Time" and "money". ...Are you gonna tell me "Us and them" is prog?. Itīs more like contemporary adult. |
Posted By: muffley_mirkin
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 11:26
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ANIMALS without a doubt. One of my favourite albums in any genre.
Anyone know of anything live from this album floating around cyberspace? |
Posted By: eduardossc
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 11:55
That was the best example and a perfect exercise of overrating an album. In the same way, you could also say "The final cut" is the ultimate perfection of minimalism. When in reality, it is nothing but an album with no music. |
Posted By: pepolo
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 17:23
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Atom heart mother - |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 22:27
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Its between Animals, WYWH, Meddle, and ATOM HEART MOTHER... I went with ANIMALS ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: professorchaos
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 22:29
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Partial to DSotM myself. Followed by "WYWH", then "TFC", then piper.
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Posted By: JohnSnow
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 22:49
| Without a doubt it is Meddle!!! |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 15:15
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Wish You Were Here is one of the best albums of all time and so it has to be this one closely followed by Animals and The Wall
one more thing THEY ARE NOT SPACE ROCK ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 15:54
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I voted for Wish You Were Here. That album is just perfect. Runners Up: Meddle Animals Piper/Saucerful Dark Side ------------- 
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Posted By: -bp-
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 18:56
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I voted for Animals but it's really a tie, Animals Wish You Were Here Dark Side Meddle in second ------------- 
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 19:30
The Wall! 
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Posted By: carlo394
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 09:15
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I'm uncertain with Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of The Moon. I voted for the 2nd ------------- ELP!!!!!!!! -----------------------------Excuse me for the ungrammatical, I'm not English! |
Posted By: Rockin' Chair
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 16:43
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ANIMALS AND THE DARK SIDE AT THE SAME LEVEL. I voted ANIMALS becouse it is underrated. But not in this forum, I agree.
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Posted By: krauthead
Date Posted: October 16 2005 at 18:00
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Animals is their best, it has always been so and it will stay so too, IMO though... ------------- *Dancing madly backwards on a sea of air* - Captain Beyond |
Posted By: Garbs
Date Posted: October 30 2005 at 15:51
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Glad to see a lot of folks here saluting Animals as Floyd's best work. It's an absolutely amazing album from start to finish. ------------- So here I am once more |