Maiden Voyage
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Animals
Wish You Were Here
Those are the Goats for me. All 3 are perfectly executed IMO. I will admit that the early stuff is stuff largely blind for me.
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Echos is the best Pink Floyd song.
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Animals
Wish You Were Here
Those are the Goats for me. All 3 are perfectly executed IMO. I will admit that the early stuff is stuff largely blind for me.
Razorback
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Like I said, the definition argument is of no interest to me. I asked people to look beyond the literal meaning of what I said precisely to avoid this kind of discussion. If my intent was merely to point out that a song can't be 23 minutes long then I'm trivially wrong and there's nothing of interest to explore. I'm talking about how length affects experience. People come up with these messy labels because they point to a useful distinction. Feature films have to be at least a certain length. They have a short-film category at the oscars.
I'm just pointing to a feeling I have about songs of that size that make them not exactly fit entirely inside the "song" category if we're imagining a venn diagram. Clearly you don't feel that way. That's fine.
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ChorizoPicozo
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Animals is the most underrated Pink Floyd album
Maiden Voyage
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ChorizoPicozo
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Nice.I finally got it on vinyl this year.
ÆMNE22A!C
NO PAIN TRANCE CONTINUE
I'll give it a re listen soon.
It's been more than a decade so.. I've grown older and I'm curious how I'll will interpret/feel now that I'm in a different headspace.
Charade you are...
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John_Ryder
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This remix at 18:15 is one of the best moments in music I've ever heard.
Wildebeest
Member
I think people don't like Animals because it is when the band finally broke, in terms of no longer dealing with Roger Waters' ego. To make money with the wall, they had to bring someone in to manage him and make his stuff presentable.
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Dr. Acid Avatar
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To me Animals is one giant song!
ÆMNE22A!C
NO PAIN TRANCE CONTINUE
Woke up put on YouTube on watched/listened to Echoes (pompei) with my morning coffee. It's been a while..Thanks OP
Going for cardio and have my music ready
Had a full listen on the stairmaster and it got me to remember why I didn't listened to it al lot (even tho musically and such -sorry my English lacks expressing myself- is very very good) I was rocking out lol. Anyways it remembered me about it's themes, meaning and lyrics. If that makes sense. It's one big confrontation with a lot I very very much dislike about our society. You know? So yeah. Very depressing and heavy. Can't take that on the regular. Objectively though, very very good album for sure.
Breathe used to be my favorite for a long time, especially when also listening to it's prologue <3
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InfiniteCombo
Banned
For Pink Floyd, I can't listen to songs randomly or out of order, especially from their 70s albums.
They were the first band I ever listened to whose songs flowed into each other on the album. It's an awesome experience.
They were the first band I ever listened to whose songs flowed into each other on the album. It's an awesome experience.
PaddyOCanager
Member
This. I don't know how you can pick a best Pink Floyd "song". The only way I ever listen to them is by pressing play on track 1 and listening until the music stops.
Catphish
Member
Also, it's depressing as fuck. I love it, but thems facts.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Whole DVD is amazing!!
Roger Waters recent display against the West got me reflecting a lot on what I thought of my favourite Pink Floyd song as a child.
Another Brick in the Wall.
It was the first tune I bought from a jukebox and I felt so cool hearing it blare out across the restaurant. I think the staff even turned it up.
At home I listened to the 45 all the time in my playlist with Meco Star Wars. But I find myself looking back now on what that song actually meant to me then.
The meaning to me wasn't terribly complex back then. I thought it referred to teachers before ww2(and those that remain in system) who kept students ignorant of new ways of being. To watch out for these types that try to make others alter their behavior and dress to conform to old 20th century norms that led to the war. They're the enemy. It was, to me, a marching song to get away from 20th century conformity meant to keep my generation in 20th century roles. That interpretation is rich in childhood's self-importance as it should be, but tbh, back then I thought my generation was born into a new age where all that stuff from the 20th was fading away. The future garden was safe, growing and the weeds only had to be maintained. How great the horizon seems when close to the ground. Looking back now the internet widened horizons and the garden.
The "dark sarcasm" thrown back in their face as we have access to other information, teachers, libraries, and each other.
The song taught us to consider the types stuck in 20th century indoctrination to be dangerous, to not take their shit and don't believe them for a moment.
While I can see another interpretation that Waters may see now, from putting the song into the context of his generation, it's still a giant fuck you to people like Waters to me.
Reverse subversion. I wonder if the song contributed to the different dark sarcasm of Generation X as it did to mine.
Another Brick in the Wall.
It was the first tune I bought from a jukebox and I felt so cool hearing it blare out across the restaurant. I think the staff even turned it up.
At home I listened to the 45 all the time in my playlist with Meco Star Wars. But I find myself looking back now on what that song actually meant to me then.
The meaning to me wasn't terribly complex back then. I thought it referred to teachers before ww2(and those that remain in system) who kept students ignorant of new ways of being. To watch out for these types that try to make others alter their behavior and dress to conform to old 20th century norms that led to the war. They're the enemy. It was, to me, a marching song to get away from 20th century conformity meant to keep my generation in 20th century roles. That interpretation is rich in childhood's self-importance as it should be, but tbh, back then I thought my generation was born into a new age where all that stuff from the 20th was fading away. The future garden was safe, growing and the weeds only had to be maintained. How great the horizon seems when close to the ground. Looking back now the internet widened horizons and the garden.
The "dark sarcasm" thrown back in their face as we have access to other information, teachers, libraries, and each other.
The song taught us to consider the types stuck in 20th century indoctrination to be dangerous, to not take their shit and don't believe them for a moment.
While I can see another interpretation that Waters may see now, from putting the song into the context of his generation, it's still a giant fuck you to people like Waters to me.
Reverse subversion. I wonder if the song contributed to the different dark sarcasm of Generation X as it did to mine.
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Wildebeest
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Roger Waters was a member of the "Silent Generation". One of the first big "boomer" pop stars was David Bowie, and he wrote his own scathing diss track to the previous generation.
This is about them being perceived as having a sort of shallow self-obsession. Stereotypical Generation X bands like Nirvana were also known for being very introspective and perhaps one of the best known Gen-X superstars, Kanye West, is known for being a ridiculously self-obsessed narcissist. But Gen-X are also known for loving Bowie.
NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
I got high with my dad and listened to Pink Floyd a few weeks ago. Just two old dudes talking about old music. It was pretty cool
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InfiniteCombo
Banned
I absolutely love this song, great choice! The whole "Heroes" album, and even more so "Low," are masterpieces.
This is what he had to say about Money in 1993:
"Money interested me enormously," Waters remarked on the twentieth anniversary of Dark Side. "I remember thinking, 'Well, this is it and I have to decide whether I'm really a socialist or not.' I'm still keen on a general welfare society, but I became a capitalist. You have to accept it. I remember coveting a Bentley like crazy. The only way to get something like that was through rock or the football pools. I very much wanted all that material stuff."
Gen X does love Bowie... and the Doors. Could only imagine what the idiots of today's internet would have said relentlessly and without insight about those two back in the day.
Densmore recalls the singer explaining to him that “kill the father, fuck the mother” section was essentially about getting rid of the “alien concepts” which society installs in us as human beings.
Can you picture what will be? So limitless and free
The West is the best.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Pink Floyd is legendary not because just one song.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Where is the cancel button?
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
I said in my opinion. You can like them all you want.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Yeah and my opinion is that your opinion suck ass.