Conquer Club

I thought if Led Zeppelin got a thread some other bands might as well get one too. So here we go a thread for everything Pink Floyd.

the best albums are piper at the gates of dawn, atom heart mother and meddle.

there, topic done... please lock

We need a band to say is balls compared to them.

Herman's Hermits.

Animals is a great album.

The Wall mos def had a huge impact on me as an adolescent. Dark Side is overrated, and you'll only think it syncs up with Wizard of Oz if you robotrip, so don't bother wasting your time.

but what if that is my idea of a fun saturday night
I wonder if blockbuster carries The Wizard of oz still

pimpdave wrote:Animals is a great album.

The Wall mos def had a huge impact on me as an adolescent. Dark Side is overrated, and you'll only think it syncs up with Wizard of Oz if you robotrip, so don't bother wasting your time.

to me none of the Pink Floyd albums are overrated.

This thread was done about a year ago and consisted of a string of posts attempting to persuade us that Dark Side is not the ultimate Floyd album...they failed
Wish you were here runs it pretty close though

pimpdave wrote:Animals is a great album.

The Wall mos def had a huge impact on me as an adolescent. Dark Side is overrated, and you'll only think it syncs up with Wizard of Oz if you robotrip, so don't bother wasting your time.

I totally agree. Animals is the best post-71 album.
Funny how they have been linked to drugs to such an extent even after Barrett.
They took less drugs than most bands (or comedians or actors) of the seventies..
The songs were about insanity, depression, the magical &mystical and even sci-fi rather than about tripping on drugs.

Saw them in '86 & '94 (3rd row center BOOYAH)...

There isn't a best Floyd album. They're all stellar; and there's not one that is sub-par.

R.I.P. Richard Wright

Piper at the Gates of Dawn was a very "Era" album. Hard to apreciate unless your from that generation. Atom Heat Mother ---somewhat the same.
Wish you Were Here, Dark Side, and Animals would be the top three of all time.
(Before Waters became too much of a control freak......)

The Wall is a masterpiece in it's own right, and I like The Final Cut as well but thats only if your a hardcore Waters fan.

No one.....and I mean NO ONE plays guitar like Gilmore.

Saw them live once, best concert experience in my life.


John

There is nothing bad to be said about Pink. I just watched the wall the other day.

But American DJs can lick my hairy nutsack. If I hear "money" 1 more frickin' time!!!!!! The band has nothing but hits and you can only find 1 song to play over and over for 30 years? GAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I just can't handle that song anymore.

lol
just put on Pink,
"How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"

So true.... ladies
I never caught that before.... I am to mature.

Juan_Bottom wrote:There is nothing bad to be said about Pink. I just watched the wall the other day.

But American DJs can lick my hairy nutsack. If I hear "money" 1 more frickin' time!!!!!! The band has nothing but hits and you can only find 1 song to play over and over for 30 years? GAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I just can't handle that song anymore.

True of so may bands. The Tourists made several brilliant albums. What do they always play? Their worst track, a Dusty Springfield cover I only wanna be with you!

Often the best-known track (at least to radio/wedding djs) is the least interesting.
Nominations?

After Humble Pie, Peter Frampton's band was Frampton's Camel and they had a couple great albums which includes the best cover ever of "Jumping Jack Flash". Record sales were OK... but not through the roof until they tour and release the recording "Frampton Comes Alive" . . . with the tunes Show me the Way and Feel Like I Dousing that wah wah wah wah wahhh vocal modulator thing. Best seller, but not his best album.

I still listen to Obscured by Clouds,
btw... which one's Pink?

comic boy wrote:This thread was done about a year ago and consisted of a string of posts attempting to persuade us that Dark Side is not the ultimate Floyd album...they failed
Wish you were here runs it pretty close though

Somehow I think i would have remembered that thread.

snufkin wrote:

pimpdave wrote:Animals is a great album.

The Wall mos def had a huge impact on me as an adolescent. Dark Side is overrated, and you'll only think it syncs up with Wizard of Oz if you robotrip, so don't bother wasting your time.

I totally agree. Animals is the best post-71 album.
Funny how they have been linked to drugs to such an extent even after Barrett.
They took less drugs than most bands (or comedians or actors) of the seventies..
The songs were about insanity, depression, the magical &mystical and even sci-fi rather than about tripping on drugs.

yes unfortunately when you delve into that sort of feild it can be linked to drug like behavior. I can't say how many drugs members of that band took and I don't think anyone who didn't have direct access to the band at all times could say either.

Iz Man wrote:Saw them in '86 & '94 (3rd row center BOOYAH)...

There isn't a best Floyd album. They're all stellar; and there's not one that is sub-par.

R.I.P. Richard Wright

I like most of what i've heard from them up through The Wall and some after it. I'm not as well-versed in what happened in the Post-Wall years but from what I've heard the albums while not necessarily bad do not live up to the music that came before them.

Widh You Were Here IS better than Dark Side Of The mOOn.

Rocket.

Juan_Bottom wrote:There is nothing bad to be said about Pink. I just watched the wall the other day.

But American DJs can lick my hairy nutsack. If I hear "money" 1 more frickin' time!!!!!! The band has nothing but hits and you can only find 1 song to play over and over for 30 years? GAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I just can't handle that song anymore.

It's odd that Money was the original big hit off of DSOM but in my opinion is probably the worst song on it. I think money is a great song in itself but the other songs on the album, especially Time, Us And Them and Brain Damage with Eclipse following it, are all better songs.

jonesthecurl wrote:

Juan_Bottom wrote:There is nothing bad to be said about Pink. I just watched the wall the other day.

But American DJs can lick my hairy nutsack. If I hear "money" 1 more frickin' time!!!!!! The band has nothing but hits and you can only find 1 song to play over and over for 30 years? GAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I just can't handle that song anymore.

True of so may bands. The Tourists made several brilliant albums. What do they always play? Their worst track, a Dusty Springfield cover I only wanna be with you!

Often the best-known track (at least to radio/wedding djs) is the least interesting.
Nominations?

I think this can be said about Baba O'Riley by The Who, Stairway to Heaven by Led Zep, more than one of The Rolling Stones songs, Don't Fear The Reaper by BOC (nothing wrong with this song but it's one of two songs I ever hear on the radio by BOC), Another Brick In The Wall p2 by Pink Floyd (really a good not great song) and Hotel California by The Eagles along with many more by other bands.

On top of that you can also say that there are great songs that never get played on the radio. I rarely hear anything by AC/DC prior to Highway To Hell w/one or two exceptions, I can't remember if I've ever heard Have A Cigar by Pink Floyd on the radio and you just don't hear anything prior to DSOM and rarely anything after The Wall.

Most radio nowadays is crap. Corporate programming has been driving it into the ground for ages... with Howard Stern-ish styled shock jock shows and the same rotation of songs. In any major market in the states, tune in a FM "rock" station morning show and they are so much alike it's hard to know what city you're in. The alternative college stations that once thrived with their album formats that introduced introducing new music to virgin ears are for the most part all dead. There are very few places left that ever go anywhere near what might be perceived as a cutting edge...
humor and pranks maybe, but rarely musically.

There's way too many radio rock songs out there that really need a vacation from the play list.

has anyone heard the Easy Star All-Stars tribute to Pink Floyd with 'The Dub Side of the Moon'

The entire album done in dub/regga... awesome

at the start of money, instead of cash registers, they have someone smoking a bong, coughing, and then re-drawing, synched up to the beat. Brilliant!

oVo wrote:Most radio nowadays is crap. Corporate programming has been driving it into the ground for ages... with Howard Stern-ish styled shock jock shows and the same rotation of songs. In any major market in the states, tune in a FM "rock" station morning show and they are so much alike it's hard to know what city you're in. The alternative college stations that once thrived with their album formats that introduced introducing new music to virgin ears are for the most part all dead. There are very few places left that ever go anywhere near what might be perceived as a cutting edge...
humor and pranks maybe, but rarely musically.

There's way too many radio rock songs out there that really need a vacation from the play list.

True and some of the songs they play were never great to begin with.

radiojake wrote:has anyone heard the Easy Star All-Stars tribute to Pink Floyd with 'The Dub Side of the Moon'

The entire album done in dub/regga... awesome

at the start of money, instead of cash registers, they have someone smoking a bong, coughing, and then re-drawing, synched up to the beat. Brilliant!

*smoke* *cough cough* *re-draw*

I could see that working