What's Your Favorite Pink Floyd Song?

Heimdall · Post by **Heimdall** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:27 pm

Speaking of Roger, this was a great thing to see:

strike wolf · Post by **strike wolf** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:37 pm

Yeah it was great to see.

static_ice · Post by **static_ice** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:01 pm

strike wolf wrote:
static_ice wrote:Apologize for the few choices, and that I had to skip choices for some in-between albums like Meddle and Obscured by Clouds, but you know how short the polls are these days.

Anyway I have a tough choice between Dogs and The Trial (the climax of The Wall)... Both have excellent lyrics IMO, but then again as good as the lyrics, concept, and connections are in The Trial, the actual musicianship is obviously better in Dogs (just because The Trial is more about telling the story of The Wall) so I must go with Dogs.

*beats up static_ice because some of my favorite songs by them aren't mentioned*

No offense static those are all good choices (though a little surprised by a couple of them.)

If I had to pick, I would go with The Wall album as a whole.

I could list all of my favorites but it would be a long list featuring songs mainly from before Roger left.

Up until recently, Wish You Were Here was my favorite but i've heard it a lot in the last month and am getting tired of it.

I picked uhh based on the general hits/my personal favorites from the more popular albums (I know I missed Comfortably Numb but it was either that or the last choice...)

The1exile · Post by **The1exile** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:32 pm

Tough choice but I went with Shine On. Probably would be closely followed by Time, Welcome to the Machine and Hey You.

The Factory · Post by **The Factory** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:55 pm

Most difficult question ever made.

Seriously though, most of my favorites come from The Wall.

In The Flesh?
Comfortably Numb
Another Brick in The Wall (parts 1-3)
Run Like Hell

Have A Cigar (from Wish You Were Here) is also a personal favorite of mine.

Pink Floyd is such a consistently good band I can't narrow it down to just one though.

strike wolf · Post by **strike wolf** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:04 am

The Factory wrote:Most difficult question ever made.

I agree.

The Factory wrote:Seriously though, most of my favorites come from The Wall.

In The Flesh?
Comfortably Numb
Another Brick in The Wall (parts 1-3)
Run Like Hell

Another Brick in the Wall has never been my favorite song by them, not even in my top ten really.

As far as "In The Flesh," I like the second version of it better as a whole, but my favorite lyric out of the two comes from the first one. "...Claw your way through this disquise." that has to be really freaky when they start off a concert with that song (which I'm sure they have.)

The Factory wrote:Have A Cigar (from Wish You Were Here) is also a personal favorite of mine.

One of my favorites as well. I love the lyrics. A little bit of a different pace from most of the other songs I've heard from them but also one of my favorites.

The Factory wrote:Pink Floyd is such a consistently good band I can't narrow it down to just one though.

true. Also, if you're listening to their albums as a whole you see how many of the songs are designed to flow into each other as a sequence (especially in The Wall), like "Have A Cigar". It flows perfectly into "Wish You Were Here".

As far as "Welcome to the Machine" is concerned i've always like the song but for some reason it's always seemed to be the odd ball off of the Wish You Were Here album, at least in my opinion.[/i]

KidWhisky · Post by **KidWhisky** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:01 am

right now I would have to go with Welcome to the machine. However my favorite changes depending on how im feeling. I like money and Wish you were here as well.

KidWhisky · Post by **KidWhisky** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:15 am

Also why does everyone harsh on Gilmore. True he doesn't have the writing abilitys of Waters (the wall was put together real nice), but I think he sounds just as good. He did most of the lead vocals on Dark side and wish you were here, and the pulse album sounds pretty good.

static_ice · Post by **static_ice** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:26 am

KidWhisky wrote:Also why does everyone harsh on Gilmore. True he doesn't have the writing abilitys of Waters (the wall was put together real nice), but I think he sounds just as good. He did most of the lead vocals on Dark side and wish you were here, and the pulse album sounds pretty good.

I'm harsh on him because his solo album sucked (

), but I'm harsher on Waters, despite his aforementioned talents, for becoming the ego that broke up the band.

Fircoal · Post by **Fircoal** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:09 am

static_ice wrote:
KidWhisky wrote:Also why does everyone harsh on Gilmore. True he doesn't have the writing abilitys of Waters (the wall was put together real nice), but I think he sounds just as good. He did most of the lead vocals on Dark side and wish you were here, and the pulse album sounds pretty good.

I'm harsh on him because his solo album sucked ( ), but I'm harsher on Waters, despite his aforementioned talents, for becoming the ego that broke up the band.

meh, Laspe of Reason is ok, not bad. Division Smell is the real bad one.

The1exile · Post by **The1exile** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:33 am

I like AMLOR's cover, if nothing else. And Dogs of War, Learning to Fly and On the Turning Away are all also good songs, imo.

kalishnikov · Post by **kalishnikov** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:17 am

Comfortably Numb.

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:40 am

Heimdall wrote:Echoes (except the middle part)

That's so annoying, I hate having to fast forward every time i listen to it...

(not sarcasm).

suggs · Post by **suggs** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:03 pm

there will be no more
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH....

but then again, The Fletcher Memorial Home...

strike wolf · Post by **strike wolf** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:37 am

static_ice wrote:
KidWhisky wrote:Also why does everyone harsh on Gilmore. True he doesn't have the writing abilitys of Waters (the wall was put together real nice), but I think he sounds just as good. He did most of the lead vocals on Dark side and wish you were here, and the pulse album sounds pretty good.

I'm harsh on him because his solo album sucked ( ), but I'm harsher on Waters, despite his aforementioned talents, for becoming the ego that broke up the band.

QFT against Waters. As far as Gilmore's concerned. He was never really meant to be a great song writer, end of story.

KidWhisky · Post by **KidWhisky** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:51 pm

I havent heard gilmores solo album so I cant really say if i agree with you static. I may have to give it a listen.
Your right wolf gilmore was never meant to be a great writer, but he wasnt to bad either. Up until animals he did write some of the bands material, as did Wright. But he definatly wasnt as good as waters.
I think it was waters' move in taking over the band and all the writeing that eventually lead to their breakup. Unfortunate really. Anyway i still stand by my suggestion that gilmore is the better vocalist.

suggs · Post by **suggs** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:25 pm

Dave Gilmour=one of THE great guitarists of all time.
A darn good singer.
And wrote the music for: Time, Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here (the song), Dogs
as well as quite a bit of Shine You Crazy Diamond.
So not a bad songwriter...

Napoleon Ier · Post by **Napoleon Ier** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:38 pm

Similarity between Diana and Pink Floyd?

Their last hit was the wall.

suggs · Post by **suggs** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:45 pm

a cool joke :lol:

Heimdall · Post by **Heimdall** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:50 pm

Napoleon Ier wrote:Similarity between Diana and Pink Floyd?

Their last hit was the wall.

Lol

UselessTriviaMan · Post by **UselessTriviaMan** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:58 pm

I have a soft spot for the Division Bell album because I got to see 'em perform live on the Division Bell tour. It was hands-down the best concert I've ever been to.

But I gotta say that The Wall (the whole thing, not just individual songs) will forever be my Floydian favorite. Run Like Hell, Comfortably Numb, The Trial, Mother, and Goodbye Blue Skies deserve some props though.

suggs · Post by **suggs** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:02 pm

god i had forgotten about Mother. What an utter classic.

"Is it just a waste of time?"

static_ice · Post by **static_ice** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:14 pm

suggs wrote:god i had forgotten about Mother. What an utter classic.

"Is it just a waste of time?"

The whole album is classic. There's so much to it, it's crazy. People spend years studying all the little details; best concept album of all time, the only close competition it has is Dark side of the moon :lol:

strike wolf · Post by **strike wolf** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:17 am

KidWhisky wrote:I havent heard gilmores solo album so I cant really say if i agree with you static. I may have to give it a listen.
Your right wolf gilmore was never meant to be a great writer, but he wasnt to bad either. Up until animals..

He had a voice in The Wall. Helped Waters with some of the better songs on that album.

strike wolf · Post by **strike wolf** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:18 am

suggs wrote:Dave Gilmour=one of THE great guitarists of all time.

Yes, he was a phenomenal guitarist.

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