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Wot's... Uh The Deal - Pink Floyd

Neimenljivi wrote:Wot's... Uh The Deal - Pink Floyd

Ah! My favourite pink Floyd album is Obscured By Clouds! Although every song on the album means a great deal to me my favourite is Childhoods End. I'm going to listen to that now!

As a Pink Floyd fan have you ever listened to Porcupine Tree?

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

I love old rock and music means a great deal to me (I also play guitar in a band) so it's very hard for me to classify one of the bands I listen to as the best of them all, but if I would.. Well it would be Pink Floyd. And that means a lot since I really listen to a lot of great bands. As far as their best album goes - well I can not decide. Not in a million years. But the title would be fought amongst Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, The Division Bell. That's if I had to limit myself to top 5 lol. Each has it's own brilliance, Atom Heart Mother is still highly psychedelic, although of course not like the early stuff like Tonight Let's All Make Love In London or The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, as Syd hasn't had such a big influence on Atom Heart Mother as before, of course Dark Side Of The Moon, their first, I believe, concept album, is a masterpiece mainly because everyone really worked together, there were no disputes like later on and.. well music was their only concern. Wish You Were Here is a memorial to Syd and is also a masterpiece in itself, no argument there. The Wall is surely their best concept album with a story inside a story and with so many messages that can change your life, for better or for worse, that it's really stunning. Of course the best song, in my opinion, in that album is, funnily, the only song that was actually made by David, opposed to Waters making pretty much every other song if I am not mistaken, Comfortably Numb. I saw The Wall concert 2 times on Waters' tour - the first concert (I was right at the stage) was so great I couldn't bare not to see it again, from a different perspective (seats at the back - it really is a whole different concert due to all the visual stuff going on). Unfortunately I was not yet alive when the original The Wall tour was around the world. Anyway, the last Pink Floyd album in the top 5 Pink Floyd albums (and they are in no particular order, other than chronological one as I really can not decide which is the best of them) is the Division Bell in my opinion. Although Waters had separated Pink Floyd, thinking it'd be the end of it (perhaps that's also the reason for name of The Final Cut, which is supposed to be some sort of a sequence to The Wall and was also made mostly by Waters), I love the new energy and the ideas that album shows the rest of the members, now without Waters' supervision, had. Although I must say that I believe the album also tried to achieve some sort of reconciliation with Waters, or at least showed that David and the rest were ready to let go off the past.
I am also very attached to the messages these albums portray and I can really relate to them.

As for the Porcupine Tree - to be honest I haven't. Just listened to one of their songs while writing this post and it seems good, but I'd have to listen to more of their songs before I could make a judgment

Sorry for the long post.

~N

To begin with your ending, you've no need to apologise! I had goose pimples reading most of what you've said, Pink Floyd are as much of a part of my life as my face. I've had it as long as i can remember despite it taking many different outward perspectives the heart of which remains the same. I find great comfort in everything you've said.

I assure you I'm being perfectly honest here; the two albums i listened to immediately following listening to Obscured by clouds were Final Cut and Atom Heart Mother. This was done before you made your post.

I'm kicking the late 30s now so you can imagine where i'm coming from. The Wall was gifted to me on a signed vinyl gatefold when i was 4 yrs old, it was the only thing my father left me before patriating himself to Israel so you can imagine that (despite listening to it since i was 4) in my later more thoghtful years the songs on there held alot of importance to me. Daddy's flown across the ocean, leaving just a memory.

The first Floyd album i bought with my own money was Relics and i paid £9.49 for it on cassette (so i could have it on my walkman) when i was 12. I did a paper round in my summer holiday for 3 weeks to pay for it and i have to say it was the most remarkable thing i ever worked hard for! In fact, it reminds me of when i received seasons 1-9 of SG-1 through the post from a certain person not a million miles away from here. It was utterly life changing, a very affirmative experience.

Meddle was my next purchase and i got it on record after an older person told me that i would not get the full experience unless i listened to it on vinyl. The man was right, absolutely right. Meddle remains one of my favourites. You are quite right about Dark Side being their first concept album but i believe Meddle was their first experiment with conceptual composition. Echoes still makes my skin jumpy. I love the contrast between the concept of side 1 and the standard track by track of side 2.

You are quite right about The Final Cut and The Wall and, in fact, if you listen to Roger Waters' solo albums you'll get the whole story; i like to see The Final Cut, The Wall and Amused to Death as 3 parts to the same story.

I laid flowers on Syd's Mother's doorstep when he died. Hide our eyes from your Octopus ride! Hey-ho huff the Talbot!

Guns and Roses? What?

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p.s. a good place for you to start with Porcupine Tree would be the album Stupid Dream

Echoes - Pink Floyd

Reading throughout your post now, I see you've mentioned it as well hehe I just came home from school so I just wanted something to chillax, and Echoes is one of those songs that always calm me down, no matter what mood I am in. I really like it's meaning, and in fact I think it could, thematically, also serve as one of the songs on The Wall, perhaps some sort of prelude for Pink's transformation into a fascist. Strangers passing in the street, by chance two separate glances meet [some sort of an alienated feeling that Pink was also heavily influenced by?]. And I am you and what I see is me [the scene with masks on the train, from The Wall movie, the whole school system in The Wall and so much more?].

Well I like The Final Cut as well hehe, to be completely honest - I do like all of their albums, but of course some more than others. What I really, really like about Pink Floyd is that their albums aren't just "meaningless" songs and meaningless lyrics, every word and every sound is carefully placed and stands for something. It'd be hard for me to find a song that is completely meaningless amongst their work. Let's take a look at Animals album for instance - it so much describes the social and political situation of our world in such a way one really has to see that the situation is, sadly, as bad as it is. I think some lines stand for pretty much everyone on the world after the elections for instance - I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused, sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used.

Yes I can imagine that your experience closely tied you to the song, and that it created quite a few 'bricks' in your life, just like Roger's and in Pink's. Honestly - who would not be influenced by such things? And in all fairness, anyone who really listens to the album can find a piece of themselves in the album, perhaps some 'bricks' in life or situations that one was in. Have you ever read The Wall analysis btw? If not - I do recommend it. I can give you link via PM if you want.

I am only 18 so I missed out on the whole vinyl mania, but I'd love to have the vinyls.
Also just like a month ago I found out my father's acquaintance is good friends with Gilmour and that they often go fishing together. I am so jealous, I lost sleep over it lol. I am still thinking whether it might be possible for my dad to contact the guy about it.

I wish I would have been able to do that. Syd was, after all, the start of Pink Floyd. It was only right of them to make him live forever through a song he hasn't wrote but was made for him. Do you know that years after Pink Floyd last saw Syd, just during the Shine On You Crazy Diamond recording a chubby, bearded guy none of them recognized walked in the monitoring room in studio and then after talking to him, they realized it was Syd?

I agree that they do have quite a few similarities. I wish a movie sequence to The Wall, with these two albums would be made. Then again, seeing how David and Nick performed at The Wall concert in O2 arena in London with Roger, and rumors are David and Roger have settled their differences, this might actually happen some day.

Well as a guitarist, albeit I do not like all of Guns N' Roses stuff, I can not overlook the brilliance of Slash's solos and the sole music they made. Most of it is great, no one can't argue that, even though Axl is an ass.

~N

Tell her this - Del Amitri

I thought I had a lot of Pink Floyd music and then Goo rocks up and starts talking about albums I've never heard of before

Moonlight Drive - The Doors

I have their whole discography

~N

Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin

I thought I had a lot of their discography but I don't. I have their early singles and then "A tree full of secrets" which is mostly a lot of rubbish and repeats and such. Then of course I have all the big albums. I think the only complete discographies I have at Metallica, The Doors and The Cure (Quite contradictory).

I'd look up these Pink Floyd albums but as I mentioned last week I'm on a PF cool down, the only song I could never stop listening to by Pink Floyd is "Wish you were here" it's on par with the current song I'm listening to and Metallica's "Nothing else matters" for greatest song of all time

My Time After A While - Buddy Guy

Wish You Were Here is a very good song yeah It's funny that some people believe it's a love song, when in reality it's a song also made for Syd and it talks more about companionship and friendship rather than deep love. As for Metallica - well I generally dislike their work.

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Ticks by Brad Paisley...ya I love my country music

Dmonix wrote:Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin

I thought I had a lot of their discography but I don't. I have their early singles and then "A tree full of secrets" which is mostly a lot of rubbish and repeats and such. Then of course I have all the big albums. I think the only complete discographies I have at Metallica, The Doors and The Cure (Quite contradictory).

I'd look up these Pink Floyd albums but as I mentioned last week I'm on a PF cool down, the only song I could never stop listening to by Pink Floyd is "Wish you were here" it's on par with the current song I'm listening to and Metallica's "Nothing else matters" for greatest song of all time

I've the full discography.

Somebody that I used to know - Walk off the Earth

Psyko wrote:

Dmonix wrote:Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin

I thought I had a lot of their discography but I don't. I have their early singles and then "A tree full of secrets" which is mostly a lot of rubbish and repeats and such. Then of course I have all the big albums. I think the only complete discographies I have at Metallica, The Doors and The Cure (Quite contradictory).

I'd look up these Pink Floyd albums but as I mentioned last week I'm on a PF cool down, the only song I could never stop listening to by Pink Floyd is "Wish you were here" it's on par with the current song I'm listening to and Metallica's "Nothing else matters" for greatest song of all time

I've the full discography.

I might have to marry you for that

As Tears Go By - Rolling Stones