# Anyone like Pink Floyd? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2001, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279 "2001-10-29T13:29:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/1 "2001-10-29T13:29:06Z")
Listening to “Wish You Were Here” at the moment. That’s got to be well up there. My top 5 are probably WYWH, DSotM, The Wall, Meddle, and Animals, but I’m struggling to rank them… Prob: 1 The Wall (best track: Comfortably Numb) 2 WYWH (best track: Wish You Were Here) 3 Animals (best track: all of it, but probably Pigs On The Wing) 4 DSotM (best track: Great Gig In The Sky) 5 Meddle (best track: Echoes - obviously) Anyone else like 'em? Anyone else think Division Bell was a travesty? Anyone think that Dave Gilmour is an amazing guitarist, but can’t lead a band for shít? They miss Roger Waters desperately! I hear he’s playing in Birmingham and London next year, doing stuff off the classic albums. Gonna try and get to that… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/2 "2001-10-29T13:43:00Z")
A johnny-come-lately, I see. I bought “Dark Side of the Moon” the week it came out and felt they had diluted their music for mass consumption. Most of their later stuff is a pale imitation of their earlier work. Top albums: 1. Atom Heart Mother (title track is their best song) 2. Ummagumma (“Careful with that Axe, Eugene.”) 3. Meddle (“One of These Days” or “Echoes”) 4. Wish You Were Here (“Shine On, You Crazy Diamond”) 5. Dark Side of the Moon (“Brain Damage/Eclipse”) ---
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/3 "2001-10-29T13:50:05Z")
I hated some of Atom Heart Mother, but thought some of it was really good! It lacked focus, I reckon, and it was very patched together, but some of it worked. Are you saying Animals onwards is a pale imitation? I reckon Animals and The Wall are Waters going down the pan emotionally, but I thought he made some great music on the way down. The Final Cut was taking things that bit too far, I think, but it was all still better than the post-Waters dirge. Liked some Barrett-era stuff (haha, the Bike Song still cracks me up) but I thought they were pretty amazing throughout the 70s… ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/4 "2001-10-29T14:59:53Z")
I love 'em. But **Reality** - you’ve a way to go to beat my dad on this one. IIRC, he heard them play tracks from the at-that-time _up and coming_ Dark Side of the Moon way back when. He remembers being freaked out by the sound of the cash registers in _Money_. pan ---
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/5 "2001-10-29T15:20:21Z")
I almost did a term paper (when I was a senior in high school) on **The Wall**. I still listen to them after all these years - I find Pink Floyd very relaxing. ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sorbust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sea\_Sorbust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sorbust)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/6 "2001-10-29T15:22:34Z")
Ahhhh. Echoes. Echoes! **Echoes!!** Ahhh! Oooo. Ah. **SHINE ON** , baby!, you crazy diamond, you! My (sheep-herding) dog used to _love_ listening to that Pict in a cave. And, of course, WYWH. 😉 And speaking of **Sheep:** Not to forget the **Three (kinds of) Pigs** and, of course, the **Dogs**. :o TRULY a (Doi! Doi!!) Touch of (musical) Power! But that Old Sun! How could everyone forget the Sun? Everyone remembers the (Dim Side of the) Moon but forgets the poor Old Sun. 🙂 Pass me a **Cigar** , please, to make my ride down the Gravy Train less like a trip on the **Celestial Highway** or the **Primrose Path**. (Whoops. Sorry. I slipped, in a minor hijack, I suppose, from music to its counterpart in literature. ☹ ) **Biffer Spice !** , you write: > [@](#): > > I hated some of Atom Heart Mother, but thought some of it was really good! It lacked focus, I reckon, and it was very patched together, but some of it worked. Of COURSE, you hated **Atom Heart Mother**. Of COURSE it “lacked focus”. THAT’s the way it was in the '50s! Dain’t you ever read history or anything? Go over to GreatDebates and check out the thread “How destructive is nuclear warfare”!!! “Out of focus”, patooie! “Patched together!”—Go read a history of the period;–and one that is _not_ CFR propaganda! **Time!** Where does the **time** go? (Probably into that cash register in **Money**. 😃 ) And where, oh, where, everyone, is applause for maybe the **best of the best: _Interstellar Overdrive_**? ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/7 "2001-10-29T15:25:27Z")
50s? Incidentally I love Atom Heart Mother. One of my most listened to albums. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/8 "2001-10-29T15:37:05Z")
[pretentious fan mode on] Harrumph. Obviously, anything after Syd Barett left the band is just a travesty. [pretentious fan mode off] _“I’ve got a mouse and he hasn’t got a house I don’t know why I call him Gerald. He’s getting rather old but he’s a good mouse.”_ ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/9 "2001-10-29T15:49:55Z")
wish you were here is simply awesome. Passes the test of time. ---
**Author:** ![WH1TE-T1GERESS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/48db29/32.png) [@WH1TE-T1GERESS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WH1TE-T1GERESS)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/10 "2001-10-29T15:53:03Z")
No actually I think they suck but everyone too there own 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BoiToi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@BoiToi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoiToi)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/11 "2001-10-29T15:59:00Z")
I like them, but I guess I’m the “mass consumption” type, having only come to learn about them through the material that made it to the radio. My brother and I used to play cuts off “The Wall” in various incarnations of our late-70’s/early-80’s band. I think I only had 3 albums, my favorite being “Wish You Were Here”, followed by “The Wall” and “Dark Side…”. Perhaps it’s a good time to get some of the others… ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sorbust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sea\_Sorbust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sorbust)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/12 "2001-10-29T16:01:42Z")
\*Originally posted by WH1TE-T1GERESS \* No actually I think they suck but everyone too there own 🙂 * * * Aghhh! The evidence is incontravertible! There is NO need for the jury to retire!! Somebody put that Wh1te Tigeress on **Barett’s Bicycle!** ---
**Author:** ![Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misery_Loves_Co)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/13 "2001-10-29T16:34:20Z")
WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING unpopular view follows: **All of Pink Floyd is amazing.** The Wall is a consumate work of art, and I’d be hard pressed to select the best work off of it, though Comfortably Numb is arguably one of the best - (_jab at the anti-gilmour crowd: C. N. Is one of the few tracks of The Wall that Gilmour co-wrote. To imply that he’s some kind of second-rate hack doesn’t parse._). But who can discount “What Shall We Do Now?” (one of the tracks cut for the album), or The Trial, or Run Like Hell? Dark Side - excellent - personal favorite is (some part of) Time, “the sun is the same in a relative way but your older, shorter of breath, and one day closer to death” Though Momentary Lapse overall sounds like the band was trying to find a new way since the departure of Waters, it has some absolute gems: Sorrow being IMHO one of them. Division Bell, also: Keep Talking, What Do You Want From Me, and in particular High Hopes are fantastic. The thing is, it’s extremely difficult to compare Waters’ tortured-soul with Gilmour’s dark polish. There is still enough similarity on the surface of the two ‘versions’ of the band that one can identify them both as Floyd, yet the fundamental differences are jaring if you’ve decided that there’s only one ‘true’ Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sorbust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sea\_Sorbust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sorbust)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/14 "2001-10-29T16:49:51Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by_\* MLC \* > \*\*WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING > > unpopular view follows: > > **All of Pink Floyd is amazing.** > > \ > > The thing is, it’s extremely difficult to compare Waters’ tortured-soul with Gilmour’s dark polish. There is still enough similarity on the surface of the two ‘versions’ of the band that one can identify them both as Floyd, yet the fundamental differences are jaring if you’ve decided that there’s only one ‘true’ Floyd. You call of “dark polish” the author (IIRC) of **That Lazy Old Sun**? Doi, doi! DOI, DOI!! Truly a Toc H of Pow R!! Since, my friend, you have revealed you deepest fear, I suggest you take off in a ship equipped with **Interstellar Overdrive**. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. (Riinnngggg!!) (Sorry. I’m running out of cliches. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/15 "2001-10-29T16:55:14Z")
I’m with **MLC**. It’s all good. I own and enjoy pretty much everything by PF. I like the rawness, edginess and silliness of the early stuff, I like the big sound of the middle stuff and I like the psyche and produced quality of the later stuff. I love it all. Frankly, I think Waters was a god, but I loves me some Barrett and Gilmore as well. When I was in high school, I sat down once and wrote down, from memory, the complete Wall. A friend and I also used to have trivia contests about the Wall. Questions like, “What brand of matches does Pink’s father use to light his cigarette in the opening sequences?” 😉 _Julia dream, dreamboat queen, queen of all my dreams…_ _People pressing on my sides is something that I hate and so is sitting down to eat with only little capsules on my plate._ ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/16 "2001-10-29T17:04:43Z")
Would you care to tell me exactly how you feel? (I don’t even like you–I shouldn’t care at all!) But the memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime. See the splashing of the Kingfisher! I’m most obliged to you for making it clear that I’m not here. So I’m wondering who could be writing this song. But everything under the sun is in tune. I got a little black book with my poems in. When I’m a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in. Don’t be fitting with collar and chain or you’ll eventually be dragged down by a stone! ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sorbust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sea\_Sorbust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sorbust)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/17 "2001-10-29T17:14:35Z")
Oink, oink. Grunt, grunt. Bark, bark. Ooowwwww. Baaaaa. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Baroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@Billy\_Baroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Baroo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/18 "2001-10-29T17:37:17Z")
What about _Obscured By Clouds_? I love that one - I listened to it on vinyl recently. Free Syd Barrett! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/19 "2001-10-29T17:46:25Z")
To some extent, I wonder whether **RealityChuck** may be lamenting the fact that PinkFloyd became so hugely popular with Dark Side of the Moon. Before that, their audience was much smaller and was hardly mainstream. Floyd fans were a special club - you could meet someone at a party and if you found out that they were into PinkFloyd, you had a new friend. (Truthfully, the success of Meddle had already begun to broaden their fans and impact). I don’t think anyone’s mentioned **Relics** which has some great stuff you don’t often hear (like Paintbox, Julia Dream, Biding My Time, The Nile Song, and Remember a Day). I believe the first three of the cuts I’ve mentioned were not available on other albums despite the fact that “Relics” was a collection of Floyd’s earlier work. FWIW, I agree that **Atom Heart Mother** is their best. It’s certainly my favourite. [gloat] I had floor seats, just a few rows from the stage, for their concert during the Dark Side of the Moon tour. A highlight of my youth. [/gloat] ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sorbust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sea\_Sorbust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sorbust)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279/20 "2001-10-29T18:32:46Z")
With the sounds of **Julia Dream** running through my head, I have to ask you, **KarlGauss** , isn’t **Interstellar Overdrive** also on _ **Relics ?** _ (I had _ **Relics** _ on tape once upon a time but when I tried to replace it on CD, the store guy told me that they never cut a CD for _ **Relics.** _ Bummer!) Never knew that about the old-time Floyd fans but I have a VW Beetle (old style) so I think that I know the feeling. Cool. Wot’s, uh, the deal? “Marmelade. I love marmelade.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-like-pink-floyd/90279.md?page=2)