Animals has always been a personal favorite (sadistic Waters) yet last night listening to Meddle (not for the first time) I am astounded by its beauty and may have to jump ship. Its just so soothing, anybody else love this album, and all their other works. What would you say is your favorite?
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Wish You Were Here is my favorite. I love Animals too though. Never heard Meddle.
Animals has always been my favorite, Meddle is a very underrated album and "Fearless" is one of the best Floyd songs nobody knows about.
The most (sadistic Waters) Floyd album has to be The Final Cut, also a fav. of mine!
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On second thought (edit)
1. The Wall (easy call for me)
2. Obscured By Clouds
3. Animals
4. Pipers
5. Wish You Were Here
6. Meddle
7. Dark Side
Animals
1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. The Wall
4. Meddle
5. Animals
It's a three way tie between these but if you make me chose I guess I would rank them like this:
The Final Cut
Obscured By Clouds
Meddle
Dark Side should be considered but I think I just have about wore it out. The two soundtrack albums, Obscured By Clouds and More are must purchases for Floyd fans in my opinion. The live album from Umma Gumma is also a great one that I try to push on people all the time. Unfortunately you have to buy the studio album to get it.
QuoteIt's a three way tie between these but if you make me chose I guess I would rank them like this:
The Final Cut
Obscured By Clouds
Meddle
Dark Side should be considered but I think I just have about wore it out. The two soundtrack albums, Obscured By Clouds and More are must purchases for Floyd fans in my opinion. The live album from Umma Gumma is also a great one that I try to push on people all the time. Unfortunately you have to buy the studio album to get it.
I love the 2004 version of The Final Cut that has "When The Tigers Broke Free" as a bonus track, it fits in perfectly!
QuoteQuoteIt's a three way tie between these but if you make me chose I guess I would rank them like this:
The Final Cut
Obscured By Clouds
Meddle
Dark Side should be considered but I think I just have about wore it out. The two soundtrack albums, Obscured By Clouds and More are must purchases for Floyd fans in my opinion. The live album from Umma Gumma is also a great one that I try to push on people all the time. Unfortunately you have to buy the studio album to get it.
I love the 2004 version of The Final Cut that has "When The Tigers Broke Free" as a bonus track, it fits in perfectly!
Agreed! I always wanted a copy of that track anyway. It is a little wierd after listening to that album without it about a thousand times, but it is amazing how well it fits on there. I think it would have fit well on the Wall somewhere too. Do you have Waters' Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking? If you love The Final Cut, I think you will dig it.
QuoteQuoteQuoteIt's a three way tie between these but if you make me chose I guess I would rank them like this:
The Final Cut
Obscured By Clouds
Meddle
Dark Side should be considered but I think I just have about wore it out. The two soundtrack albums, Obscured By Clouds and More are must purchases for Floyd fans in my opinion. The live album from Umma Gumma is also a great one that I try to push on people all the time. Unfortunately you have to buy the studio album to get it.
I love the 2004 version of The Final Cut that has "When The Tigers Broke Free" as a bonus track, it fits in perfectly!
Agreed! I always wanted a copy of that track anyway. It is a little wierd after listening to that album without it about a thousand times, but it is amazing how well it fits on there. I think it would have fit well on the Wall somewhere too. Do you have Waters' Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking? If you love The Final Cut, I think you will dig it.
I had a copy years ago, really it's the only solo Waters cd I liked. I also thought that when I first got it, but as we said it fits like it was written for it. I think it was left off The Wall, or maybe recoded later just for the movie soundtrack.
Almost all of PF's albums are great. I even like 'More'. My current favourite album is 'Meddle' though. Can't beat a sidelong "Echoes". 8-)
1. Wish you were here
2. Meddle
3. Dark Side of the moon
4. Animals
5. The Wall
I'm surprised by all the love for Animals, which has always been my favorite - it seems like it was the least regarded by the press and others, but obviously differently by the fans.
QuoteI'm surprised by all the love for Animals, which has always been my favorite - it seems like it was the least regarded by the press and others, but obviously differently by the fans.
You know what they say about critics?? They sometimes blow!
PATGOD is my fav.
If I had to rank my favorites in order, I think it would go something like:
1- The Wall
2- Animals
3- Wish You Were Here
4- DSOTM
5- Meddle
I just love the Floyd too much to rank them, so scratch this list... lol. It's like each day I am in the mood for a different style of Floyd (sometimes Wish You Were Here, sometimes Animals, and others times Piper At The Gates of Dawn).
I just last night watched my Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii DVD as a matter of fact. I NEVER get tired of the smoking version of "Echoes" on this.
As for Roger solo... Pros and Cons is an excellent record, but I think Amused to Death is also VERY underrated.
It's funny that a few other people have mentioned it being a tossup between Meddle and Animals, but I stand right in that same boat...
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As for Roger solo... Pros and Cons is an excellent record, but I think Amused to Death is also VERY underrated.
ditto. Radio Kaos is the only one that doesn't do much for me.
Animals and Meddle are my personal favorites, but I haven't heard Obscured by Clouds properly. I'll have to pick it up soon.
Dark Side of the Moon is 100% brilliant. I couldn't say that about any other Floyd album.
If the version of Echoes that they played at Pompeii was on the album, I might have to switch to Meddle, but it's still an uneven album. You know? A song like Seamus is fun, but not a classic. But Fearless is also one of their best.
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As for Roger solo... Pros and Cons is an excellent record, but I think Amused to Death is also VERY underrated.
ditto. Radio Kaos is the only one that doesn't do much for me.
Radio Kaos is a heinous album. It's stunning that a genius such as Roger Waters could actually put that out. Amused to Death, however, is a classic.
You know, Pink Floyd is probably the only major band from the 60's and 70's I never really got all that into (although The Who might fall into that category too, but I find myself pulling out their GH albums moreso than PF).
I only own DSOTM and Wish You Were Here and very rarely listen to either
Love to read that people like "Amused To Death" as much as I do. Just an excellent record.
I will have to give Obscured... a few more spins myself.
I was able to record the audio for the Live at Pompeii DVD, so I fortunately can listen to the smokin live versions all the time!
Just curious... people's thoughts on "Atom Heart Mother"? Summer '68 is excellent.
I like Atom Heart Mother quite a bit - "If" is one of those near and dear tunes.
marmalade, I like marmalade...marmalade, I like marmalade...marmalade, I like marmalade...
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As for Roger solo... Pros and Cons is an excellent record, but I think Amused to Death is also VERY underrated.
ditto. Radio Kaos is the only one that doesn't do much for me.
Radio Kaos is a heinous album. It's stunning that a genius such as Roger Waters could actually put that out. Amused to Death, however, is a classic.
I had an Art Appreciation teacher in college that made us listen to Radio Kaos almost every day for a month in class ("class" consisted of listening to music and looking at art for about an hour followed by a half-hour discussion - man I wish college never would have ended).
He had me convinced that this was the most important piece of musical work in the history of the cosmos. I seem to remember him telling us that we were beeming this to the rest of the universe in hopes of finding other life.
Well, my buzz wore off and I later sold this gem for 3 bucks so that I could afford nickle draft night.
Doesn't it just have to be Dark Side? Just because it was played into the ground doesn't diminish its greatness.
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As for Roger solo... Pros and Cons is an excellent record, but I think Amused to Death is also VERY underrated.
ditto. Radio Kaos is the only one that doesn't do much for me.
Radio Kaos is a heinous album. It's stunning that a genius such as Roger Waters could actually put that out. Amused to Death, however, is a classic.
I had an Art Appreciation teacher in college that made us listen to Radio Kaos almost every day for a month in class ("class" consisted of listening to music and looking at art for about an hour followed by a half-hour discussion - man I wish college never would have ended).
He had me convinced that this was the most important piece of musical work in the history of the cosmos. I seem to remember him telling us that we were beeming this to the rest of the universe in hopes of finding other life.
Well, my buzz wore off and I later sold this gem for 3 bucks so that I could afford nickle draft night.
Doesn't it just have to be Dark Side? Just because it was played into the ground doesn't diminish its greatness.
I have no problem with Dark Side at all.
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Doesn't it just have to be Dark Side? Just because it was played into the ground doesn't diminish its greatness.
It's my favorite.
it is by far my fave too
Quoteit is by far my fave too
yep
This is a good Floyd book, updates the story and includes the Live 8 reunion and Syd's death..
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0306817527/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link