The Rocinante Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Which album do you think is better, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, or The Wall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test4VitalSigns Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 love all those albums but ANIMALS is by far my fav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Sincerely, Annoyed early PF fan who likes all these albums but can't stand they get all the attention when their 1967-1972 period was so brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rocinante Posted May 30, 2006 Author Share Posted May 30, 2006 I liked the Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets, but this poll asks which one of those four were your favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kudzu Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Gotta be Dark Side of the Moon for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 QUOTE (The Rocinante @ May 29 2006, 08:29 PM) I liked the Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets, but this poll asks which one of those four were your favorite I understand completely, and that's cool. Forgive me my reaction, I just always got annoyed that the big 4 flashy popular PF albums ALWAYS take away all the attention from their psychedelic experimental period which is the music I truly love. Then again, I usually get annoyed that music I consider crap (and these 4 Pink Floyd albums are in no way that) always gets all the attention over the music I think is brilliant. Again, forgive me my bitter musical snobbish alienation. I'll shut up now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 I agree with goob that more album options should have been available, but I guess this is just to see which of the big 4 are peoples favorites. I went with Animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 i went with dark side, though they're all great. the wall i loved when i was younger, and while i think it's brilliant, about the most i can handle listening to it now is once every 2-3 years. brilliant, but way too depressing for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Grizz Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Wish You Were Here, but The Division Bell is my favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Scribbler Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Dark Side of the Moon for me. Got to agree with Mr Goober though, they did much better albums than The Wall. Roger Waters whingeing for a couple of hours about getting a smacked botty at school does not a happy listening experience make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnalschick Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 I guess The Wall is my choice.....after all, they're all great, but The Wall just stands alone I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" is my favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madra sneachta Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Vascillated between The Wall and DSOTM, but Comfortably Numb clinches it for me. The Wall it is!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tick Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 all great albums but i chose animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostGirl Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 QUOTE (madra sneachta @ May 30 2006, 07:35 AM) Vascillated between The Wall and DSOTM, but Comfortably Numb clinches it for me. The Wall it is!! My feelings exactly. Nicely put, madra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Yeah, here's The Wall's storyline in summery. I had a mother who loved me - woe is me!! I went to school - woe is me!! I had a girlfriend - woe is me!! My Dad died - woe is me!! I became a rock star - woe is me!! I slept with girls - woe is me!! I became rich - woe is me!! I became a little disconnected and a bit of a tosser - woe is me!! Hmmm. Roger, you know that bit at the end where the wall breaks down and you stop being a tosser. You got that bit wrong. I read an interview with him last year saying he was surprised that more Pink Floyd fans didn't following him into his solo career. He was promoting a really rather embarrassing opera he'd written about the French Revolution at the time. Irony-ometers to overload. Wish You Were Here got my vote, but I too prefer the early stuff to the polished uber-albums of the 70s. Love to all Disco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anagramking Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 I have to go with the Wall, also. It was the album that caused the split, though, unfortunately. There is something about sitting down and listening to it all the way through. DSOTM is been there, done that. I've listened to that stuff so many times already, but it's still a great album nonetheless. WYWH is enjoyable. I like all the parts of Shine on You Crazy Diamond, especially. I need to listen to Animals some more. I can't give a real opinion of it on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 I'm surprised that The Wall has taken such a dramatic lead. Well, maybe I shouldn't be as it sold a gazillion copies and has been immensely popular over the years. It's just that to me Dark Side is a much simpler, more straightforward, more elegant work, where The Wall is long, ponderous, depressing and a bit overblown. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great album, but it's so CONCEPT-Y, filled with some connecting songs that aren't that great on their own and serve the purpose only of perpetuating the sometimes cumbersome storyline. Dark Side on the other hand doesn't have a weak moment, and while it's a concept album, it's not a story. Sure Comfortably Numb is an amazing song, but the whole album doesn't exactly match that standard. Anyway, all the albums are great, but Dark Side is so far and away the best of the lot for me. Animals I would place second... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Yeah, I never quite "got" the Wall. Perhaps it's the most commercial of all their albums? I do happen to like "One of My Turns" as the song has some personal history to it. (Please attach it to the soundtrack of my life for the year 1984 alongside "Between the Wheels") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 ...and DSOTM does have my favourite side of any album, side 1's just glory all the way thru. One the Run, an all time favourite of mine - an early trance classic. And the beginning of Time, oh and Great Gig in the Sky. golden stuff... Love to all Disco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtron Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Animals gets my vote. I used to listen to The Wall stoned as a teenager, but now it doesn't do much for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMiltonBanana Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 30 2006, 12:24 AM) The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Sincerely, Annoyed early PF fan who likes all these albums but can't stand they get all the attention when their 1967-1972 period was so brilliant. Sincerely agrees that that era is the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuppetKing2112 Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Definitely Animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telegraphcreeklocal Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 THE WALL! So many great songs, then ANIMALS, WISH YOU WERE HERE and THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. My dog used to howl during the playing of DOGS! In the middle of the song when the guitars start howling. "And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softfilter Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 QUOTE (Test4VitalSigns @ May 29 2006, 11:03 PM) love all those albums but ANIMALS is by far my fav The Final Cut often overlooked very good stuff on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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