I like Seamus, too, for its change of pace; it’s traditional blues (something the band could play very well – when I saw them in concert, their encore was a straight blues number. It was great, but it worked as an encore since it didn’t have the audience wanting more.*)
*The concert had gone on for 2 1/2 hours (with only eight songs played) and if they played something more like their usual stuff, they would have had to continue for a couple of hours more.
I do not at agree with all the hate for Money. It may not be typical of the Floyd, but it is still a great song and, by being so different, shows their range. Perhaps people think it is a sellout to commercialism, a deliberate attempt to make a chart hit, which it is in a way, but it brilliantly manages to sell out with a song about, and contemptuously satirizing, selling out.
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I, for one do not.
Exactly, and those two suffer from far too much ANGRY ROGER!
Anyway, the correct answer is A Spanish Piece.
I completely agree. Couldn’t have said it better. It’s a great tune in a similar vein to Welcome To The Machine.
Absolutely Curtains from Obscured by Clouds is even worse than Seamus. All that long out-of-tune, out-of-synch bleating that just goes on and on at the end… aaaagh!
“See Emily Play.” It’s the chorus, I think.
I don’t think the albums without Roger are PF albums, so there’s fewer targets. Seamus and Money are two of my favorite songs by them after Meddle, but so it goes.
My vote for least favorite song is Young Lust. Just a terrible, terrible, lame song. It’s almost like a Foreigner song got mistakenly put on the master tape. I suppose it moves the opera’s story along, but it’s not a great song, and it gets played on the radio all the damn time. I suppose because of it’s repeating “I need a dirty woman” in the chorus, which makes it far more of a sell-out song than Money, IMHO. Maybe it’s an inadvertent sell-out, but I’d rather have had more angry Roger, and a non-lame guitar solo, and a non-lame bass line, and just ugh.
Completely agree. 100% with no qualifications.
Well, I like it, but it’s certainly different from their usual stuff. It’s just part of the story the Wall is telling about this totally fictional rock star.
Yeah, it’s meant to be sort of a parody or caricature of a lame arena-rock song as part of Pink’s story arc, but the problem is that it ends up actually being a lame arena-rock song.
Damn, I never considered it could intentionally be that bad.
I hated the Syd Barrett ere, so I will go with See Emily Play,
Money, soley due to over-exposure.
I’d have to vote for “Dogs of War” or “A new machine.” Ick.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that, at some stage, Young Lust was a much longer, more complex song, but somehow the version on the album got stripped right down, possibly just for lack of space, which seems to have been a problem with The Wall. I agree that as it stands it is a very thin, unsatisfying song with almost no content, musical or lyrical.