Come in Poll #49, your results are up (Pink Floyd ballot poll results)

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52 ballots sent. 121 tracks nominated.

I'll quickly move through the bootlegs and solo subpolls first.

Yay, let's do this!

http://i.imgur.com/NWq5WIq.gif

RULES

dog side of the moon

As a matter of fact, it's all bark really.

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#5. 21 November 1970 - Casino Montreux, Montreux (91 points, 3 votes)

http://youtu.be/bY7EFEOtj4Q

sweet, more bootlegs to check out

great title El

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#4. BBC Archives 1970-1971 (110 points, 3 votes, 2 number ones)

http://youtu.be/OvugH6hKyeo

sound on those recordings is sooo good

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#3. 17 Sep 1969 - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (126 points, 4 votes, 1 number one)

http://youtu.be/_NHHYCH3_fk

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#2. Zabriskie Point Sessions (139 points, 4 votes, 1 number one)

http://youtu.be/dGZKtmqE2Hc

Nice! I like the style you've gone with for the images.

I hope people check out that Montreux show. A real gem.

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#1. 9 May 1977 - Oakland Coliseum, Oakland (145 points, 4 votes, 1 number one)

http://youtu.be/GVcMdvlsw3s

is this the "spit in the fan" bootleg?

Dammit I forgot and missed the cutoff. I was gonna listen to Saucerful one more time...oh well.

Solo subpoll results later today and then we'll get into the long top 51 (yes, top #51) rollout tomorrow probably.

I didn't vote for bootlegs, since I've only heard a handful, but I just listened to Oakland again yesterday and thought, "Yeah, I would've voted for this." They really dig in and swing on that show. I actually prefer it to the studio Animals and WYWH (apart from Waters' attempts to harmonize, that is).

is this the "spit in the fan" bootleg?

It's from the same tour but a couple months earlier.

Spit boot is Montreal.

man I need to hear this Oakland gig

That Oakland gig is the last time they would play Careful With That Axe, Eugene live.

PINK FLOYD RULES

Listening to the Zabriskie Point sessions for the first time. The Violence Sequence is very much a prototype of Us and Them. Fascinating that Wright had been working on that melodic progression for that long.

So psyched for this poll. These bootlegs are AMAZING!

good bootleg picks. course with only five ballots (right?) the standard deviation is gonna be a bit high... i had #4 as my #1 and #1 as my #3. my other picks were the old syd boot "magnesium proverbs" for old times' sake, "violence in birmingham", a horrible quality audience tape from 1970 which nonetheless has live versions of "sysyphus", the main theme from "more", and a 25 minute jam based around "the violence sequence", and the "pro-shot in europe" video bootleg- some really nice floyd pro-shot vids are out there nowadays, almost all between '68 and '72. stuff like "corrosion in the pink room" is a must see for heads.

good bootleg picks. course with only five ballots (right?) the standard deviation is gonna be a bit high

There weren't many bootleg ballots (and fewer solo track ones), so it's probably best to view these as recommendations only. I'll post the full lists of everything once we're done.

Had 2 of the 5 in my list. And I wanted to vote for Montreux 1970 but actually put Montreux 1971, which is still a pretty good gig.

yay Oakland

poll already RULES

I dig the Chick Tract style.
This poll is already much fun.

Game delay. Solo subpolls tomorrow and then...

Game delay. Solo subpolls tomorrow and then...

so when is the main event ?

great graphics so far!

Loving this so far, great graphics too!

SUDDEN SOLO SUBPOLL RESULTS!

Of the few solo subpoll ballots only two solo tracks received more than one vote each, so they're the only finishers. Oddly enough, they tied!

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#1 TIE - I'm A Mineralist (from Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports)
145 points, 4 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/JADPCcpUbu0

Crap... that should be

109 points, 3 votes, 1 number one

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/solo01-theres_no_way_out_of_here.jpg

#1 TIE - There's No Way Out Of Here (from David Gilmour)
109 points, 3 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/1xUD6MWmSAc

Syd next and then the main event!

that's a lovely photo of dave gilmour

never heard a note of Nick Mason solo, but now i'm pretty keen!

For that period around About Face, DG was one handsome MF

"for that period"
DG was a handsome mf when he *joined* Floyd, let alone gone solo

sorry, had to

DG was a handsome man from birth to right around the time he had his ninth kid.

otm

Testicles: they're not a clown car (except they pretty much are).

If 99.9999% of the clowns died immediately after getting out, but I digress.

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#10 - No Good Trying
108 points, 3 votes

http://youtu.be/q1lAbB-wil4

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#9 - Rats
122 points, 5 votes

http://youtu.be/IvzW2jZGD-Y

That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

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#8 - Late Night
153 points, 5 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/b9gM-blNvdM

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#8 - Late Night
153 points, 5 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/b9gM-blNvdM

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#7 - Terrapin
157 points, 5 votes, 2 number ones

http://youtu.be/VaGRtH7h4oA

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#6 - Dark Globe
162 points, 5 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/xEr6w7P44Nk

Didn't vote any Syd on my ballot but Dark Globe's a worthy #1 in his category

Late Night is amazing.

god I really really need to spend a lot more time with those records

As much a hardcore Floyd fan as I have been over the years I never delved into syd solo beyond Madcap Laughs and whatever has come my way on boots. I'm looking forward to some new discoveries as the results play back.

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#5 - Dominoes
175 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/1tY1aNaIazA

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#4 - Golden Hair
186 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/V1SFIAsz3Go

Fab. Voted for most of these. "Late Night" was my #1 I seem to recall.

Assumed "No Good Trying" was uber-popular but fondness for Soft Machine might've skewed my worldview.

"Dark Globe" was pretty clearly a big influence on Wall/TFC-era Roger. Believe he has said he used to sing it to himself in the bath.

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#3 - Opel
203 points, 6 votes, 3 number ones

http://youtu.be/ioyZ5ESV-bU

Can't believe after all these years I've never bothered to find out what Syd's paintings looked like! Great job with these, Telecom.

Opel was my #1, truly such a bizarre, warped song.

"Opel" was also my #1. So strikingly beautiful - hard to believe it sat unreleased for so long.

Scary to imagine how many "Opel"s have been lost to the world.

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#2 - Baby Lemonade
227 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/_HK6-vE3jHk

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#1 - Octopus
269 points, 9 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/m_6PhexCMow

Too bad more people didn't compile a Syd list. I expected ILM peeps would be into that... Nice collection of songs, though.

I just didn't know enough... plan on fixing that soon. I have the 2LP of Barrett and Madcap Laughs, am I correct that the only other major record is Opel, or is there more?

That's basically it. There's a Peel Sessions EP and "Bob Dylan Blues" on a best of...

Main event tomorrow

forgot to vote. oh yeah better place, just saying

It's a damn shame that no recordings of Stars, Syd's very last band from 1972, seem to have survived. They played at least six gigs, several were recorded, and those tapes may still exist but their whereabouts are unknown. A possible exception is a show they played with Hawkwind in Jan. 1972 that the Easy Action label purchased from EMI archives and says they will issue this spring. At this point they called themselves the Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band, which is an accurate description of what the band was. Fred Frith from Henry Cow joined in on one date, maybe the one that survived. They played several old Floyd tunes including "Lucifer Sam", although another source claims there's no Syd-penned songs on the half-hour-long reel. In any case, this would be two years later than any other Syd recording any of us have heard which makes it an exciting prospect. That's all I know about it.

Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band is a pretty goddamn great name

one of my favourite things of Syd's is the instrumental of Golden Hair. really eerie and spare, like a reverb-heavy cousin to Nick Drake's Horn.

Elvis your images RULE

I didn't vote for any Syd bcz I'm lazy and haven't really dug in much...but it makes me grin like a loon seeing all the love

"Dark Globe" was my #1. I had always forgotten these opaque albums until I heard R.E.M.'s cover of it and I basically found my way in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Mqx7JDDfY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNYq-c0lBw

Is it time yet? Teeming with anticipation

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#51 - Money
134 points, 6 votes

http://youtu.be/cpbbuaIA3Ds

Bemused to find that their signature FM radio staple song didn't even finish in the poll top 50.

lol @ graphic

obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7kE61sWxX0

^^^sick!

ha, that version rules.

the b-side is a less impressive but still good vers of "have a cigar": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Br4nbTDSA

Always skipped this song on DSoTM, it sticks out like a sore thumb, like "Not Now John". Floyd's most lumpen moment.

One of the first songs I learned on the bass.

Not one of my choices, but the tremolo in this is ace.

I don't know if it was on the Classic Albums DSOTM ep (probably was), but I saw a thing where they broke it down into the individual guitar parts, and jeez, there's like five Gilmour tracks on there. And yet, it's still so sparse. Not a huge fan of the song, but it was pretty impressive the way they arranged it.

i'll say this for the dsotm take of money: at least it's not the "collection of great dance songs" re-recording. seriously listen to this weak sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMPD2LrB_4M

I sneaked Money on the end of my ballot. I do quite like it in truth - it's a pleasant ditty, I dig the bluesy touches, and the time signature and rhyme scheme is pretty cool - but I wish I'd left it off now. I'd rather be responsible for it not making it than making it.

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TIE #49 - Nobody Home
135 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/4QcJPAa787c

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TIE #49 - Goodbye Blue Sky
135 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/dGKs7dhPgWo

Left "Nobody's Home" off my ballot, but it's been in my head lately.

Thinking about Boomers being so unsatisfied with their 13 channels of shit or 57 channels with nothing on.

Damn, "Nobody's Home" was my #2

imo "nobody's home" is as good as that old Waters acerbic melancholia gets. not nec very "floyd" but vv good. even makes me like michael kamen.

I am dumb enough to have just realized the font is the intertitles on Live @ Pompeii.

I was hoping someone would notice that!

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#48 - In The Flesh?
137 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/MlR3wUPwJCg

definitely my preferred version of the 2 versions though not one I'd vote for.

I've had a really crappy day today and this is cheering me up significantly, even though I didn't vote (too hard!)

With all the other little interlinked musical motifs on The Wall, I just recently realized that the little climbing chord progression w/organ swells that occurs right before the main riff of "In The Flesh?" kicks in, is later reused as the progression for "Empty Spaces."

love "Nobody Home" but it didn't make my ballot

"Goodbye Blue Sky" on the other hand: TOO LOW! the essence of The Wall even if not its best song. & Waters' best solo write on the album. the song still gives me the willies.

i'll say this for the dsotm take of money: at least it's not the "collection of great dance songs" re-recording. seriously listen to this weak sauce: 

"Goodbye Blue Sky" started very high on my ballot and slid once I felt it was kind of slight as a composition. But it has a fabulous sound. Multi-tracked David Gilmour voices is always a very nice thing.

yeah my opinion of the wall has changed a dozen times but i've always loved 'goodbye blue sky', somewhat surprised it's this low

otoh when i truly LOVED the wall, ie when i was 13, 'in the flesh?' was my fave track pretty easy

"Nobody Home" and "In The Flesh?" both featured on my ballot. Especially love "In The Flesh?" for its piledriving riff. Along with moments of Animals, did the Floyd ever rock harder than this?

Yeah, on their first record.

But I love both of those songs, too (both made my ballot). "Nobody Home" is one of the peaks of The Wall for me.

how many more tracks from the wall to come? four? more?

Xp they also rocked out some on More.

how many more tracks from the wall to come? four? more?

― balls, Thursday, March 13, 2014

i can think of five. maybe six if the lurkers come in heavy.

Glad to see 'Goodbye Blue Sky' place - never been able to get into The Wall as an album but I love that one.

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#47 - Apples And Oranges
139 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/WoXu6ufZ_9U

This barely missed my ballot -- it's one of the best earworms in their catalog. The guitar part is nuts.

Apples and Oranges is delicious! "I love she, she loves me."

the little climbing chord progression w/organ swells that occurs right before the main riff of "In The Flesh?" kicks in, is later reused as the progression for "Empty Spaces."

Ha! Never noticed this either. A little prelude piece.

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#46 - Matilda Mother
140 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/OwKWLjnyjuo

The birth of King Diamond.

Uh-oh, we're gonna get Syd out of the way early then?

*resists obvious zing*

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#45 - Mother
147 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/p0HrrR9QDQU

Probably my favorite song on the first disc of The Wall. Still didn't break my top 15, though.

'In the Flesh?' was my #17. I didn't find room for 'Goodbye Blue Sky' - which was an oversight now that I think about it.

"Mother" was high on my list. A very haunting melancholy song.

otoh when i truly LOVED the wall, ie when i was 13, 'in the flesh?' was my fave track pretty easy

― balls, Friday, March 14, 2014 9:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not sure it was ever quite my fave, but otm re the 13 years old thing. At that stage The Wall was THE BEST ALBUM EVER.

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TIE #43 - Obscured By Clouds
159 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/z_vVFC7URkc

(have to go wide-angle on some of these graphics)

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TIE #43 - Any Colour You Like
159 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/W1oaXqBJRRQ

Loving the graphics btw. :-)

xxposts

"mother" as a lyric and performance is at once both powerful and completely rmde. think I felt that way even at 13.

but the solo... pretty sure it's the first one I ever learned and I don't expect to forget it. anyone who dismisses The Wall as the first waters solo record isn't hearing what I'm hearing.

sort of surprised to see both "mother" and "obscured by clouds" this low. this is gonna be interesting!

Wtf, I never noticed this before. Listening in Spotify, this isn't even in the same key. Is it just that the speed is messed up?

The version of "Money" on A Collection Of Great Dance Songs is a totally new recording. Capitol wouldn't release the rights to use it on the comp, so Gilmour re-recorded the whole thing himself - drums, keyboards, guitars, bass, etc. Dick Parry was called in again to duplicate the sax solo.

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#42 - Free Four
162 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/zFAsAVj7bKc

So glam! Starts off sounding like "The Slider"-era T-Rex.

look at those happy dudes

Was wondering when one of my votes would show up. I was a big enough Pink Floyd nerd in high school that I used a line from "Free Four" as my senior quote in the yearbook. "The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime." 23 years later, and I got zilch to recollect.

'any colour you like' ahead of 'money' is curious to me

look at those happy dudes

― mookieproof, Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:26 PM (4 minutes ago)

Yeah... kinda wish Dark Side flopped or had the same amount of success as Meddle et al, it would have been interesting seeing the band still be a cohesive unit for another ten years instead of becoming a Roger Waters backing band.

Didn't participate in the nominating thread or send in a ballot - as much as PINK FLOYD RULES, I haven't listened to them hard in years and years, and there's just too much catalogue (and too much real life also) to deal with. However, am excited and pleased about the results thread. Listening to the BBC bootleg right now. Extended "Fat Old Sun" was amazing.

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#41 - Hey You
175 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/TFjmvfRvjTc

(more results tomorrow)

worms ~~~> brain

"Free Four" rose high in my estimation upon heavy relistening to the Floyd oeuvre for this poll. better than "Spirit in the Sky"?

I used a Floyd quote from "The Gold It's In The..." for my yearbook. Should have a thread just compiling who used what Floyd line in senior year....

ACE graphic on hey you. The last 4 were on my ballot.

Goose eggs for me thus far. "Apples and Oranges" was a late cut, the only Barrett-era single I didn't vote for. Still rules regardless.

yeah, 'in the flesh?'! works great isolated as a song on it's own - when you're expecting a cymbal crash at the end you instead get a baby crying.

'any colour you like' ahead of 'money' is curious to me

"Any Colour You Like" ties the whole album together. It's the "Heaven Is A Truck" of Dark Side of the Moon. And yeah, as NTI says, it's still fresh and able to stand on two feet 40 years later.

"Money" I like for the solo/break, but the rest of the song was done better by the Easy All Stars..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9wxrhSqIhs

I had 'Any Colour' quite high on my ballot - I'd always liked it as part of the flow of the album but the last time I listened to DSOTM I really appreciated it as a piece in its own right. Naive Teen Idol otm re: the synth and the solo.

Yeah, I always forget about it (including for my ballot - duh), but that song really lets the bong hits flow.

easy allstars dsotm RULES, it has no business being so good but it just is

(I have listened to the Easy All Stars version way way more than I have ever listened to the real thing. Certainly in the past few years. God I love that record. It really does have no business being as good as it is.)

((Sorry, back to lurking))

You talking about Dub Side Of the Moon? I agree, it's a really good album.

Never a big fan of "Mother." I went through a roller coaster with "Hey You," as I loved it when I first heard it in my classic rock phase, got sick of hearing it on the radio every five minutes, and then started to love it again in the context of The Wall.

Still think this thread should have been called "And the POLLS ate into his brain!"

irl lol @ Hey You img

I coulda voted for "Mother": love the sound of the acoustic on those "rips", into e.g. "mother will they break my heart", don't know what to call them. & the solo is ~emotional~

"Mother" was a late cut for me, but definitely one of my favorite Gilmour solos. For that matter, one of Waters' better vocals (not that the competition is particularly stiff).

Just Waters and Gilmour on this; no Wright (Ezrin played keys), no Mason (Jeff Porcaro subbed).

Well, shit, I didn't know this:

For the film, the song was re-recorded completely with the exception of David Gilmour's guitar solo. The lyrics were rewritten by Roger and changed into a more narrative-oriented style to work as film music (example: "Is it just a waste of time?" became "Am I really dying?").

I had 'Any Colour' quite high on my ballot - I'd always liked it as part of the flow of the album but the last time I listened to DSOTM I really appreciated it as a piece in its own right. Naive Teen Idol otm re: the synth and the solo.

― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, March 14, 2014 6:50 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I always forget about it (including for my ballot - duh), but that song really lets the bong hits flow.

― how's life, Friday, March 14, 2014 6:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Any Colour... rated high on my ballot (though I neglected to really prioritize anything past the top 5 or so) because it was an early moment of the specific way that Floyd RULES for me, precisely from having let the bong rips flow prior to listening...it's such a huge sounding tune with a lot of changes in a very short amount of time...less than 3 min isn't? It's one of the songs I can hear just by imagining it.

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TIE #39 - Cirrus Minor
180 points, 10 votes

http://youtu.be/Wwtc5I757Jc

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TIE #39 - A Pillow Of Winds
180 points, 9 votes

http://youtu.be/sctJuNYo59s

Voted for both! They really should be higher, A Pillow of Winds is so lush, I almost crashed my car after I was being lulled while listening to it at 2AM.

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#38 - Summer '68
183 points, 9 votes

http://youtu.be/uYLVbigYUfU

voted "cirrus minor" and "summer '68," both amazing, "summer '68" in particular is like a dizzying yet controlled hybrid of barrett and gilmour floyd

Honestly surprised to see "Summer '68" place. Happy as hell, but I didn't know anyone else really loved it.

Quick admin question: do folks want results over the weekend? Otherwise after I post the next few I can wait until Monday.

Trying to gauge how fast the roll-out should be.

I vote YES for weekend results.

also, GREAT photos!

keep 'em coming.

Quick admin question: do folks want results over the weekend? Otherwise after I post the next few I can wait until Monday.

Trying to gauge how fast the roll-out should be.

IMHO a faster pace would also be nice....

Would have had "A Pillow ..." and "Summer '68" on my ballot. Love those songs!

Only song I voted for from More was Nile Song. Hope it places. Oddly enough, I didn't have anything from Atom Heart Mother on my ballot... which was tough to achieve.

I had Summer '68 but no Pillow of Winds--forgot about it! Damn!

"Cirrus Minor" is top 5 for me, and "A Pillow of Winds" top 10. Glad that they have placed, but they deserve better placings. I expect that most of my faves will land outside the top 20 -- if placing at all.

Catching up...

Although I was again somewhat reticent due to its slightness as a composition (for instance, "Pillow..." was so slight that I just couldn't pull the trigger), "Summer '68" ended up being my #2.

Even as I've gone back and forth with Floyd over the years, the juxtaposition of Wright's soft vocals in the verse, the Association-esque "ba-ba-ba's" in the chorus and the brash "Day In the Life"/"Penny Lane" brass in the instrumental section has always resonated for me. And my fond memories of learning to play it on piano and mimicking those brass parts at 14 years old makes it something of a sentimental favorite.

"Cirrus Minor" (and much of More) is an example of the rather lovely bucolic (and melancholic) side of Floyd that was dominant in the immediate post-Syd era but popped up a number of times over the years. Like a lot of posters I imagine, I discovered it on Relics. It's always reminded me of a graveyard outside a small British church in the summertime. It was #6 for me which feels way too high.

Agree that Waters' vocal on "Mother" is great – tho I think Dave's steals the show on the "Hush now baby baby..." section.

If I can follow an Eagles thread through eight weekends, I can certainly turn some brief attention to Floyd on a Saturday.

^^Well, yeah.

what did Don 'n' Glenn think of the Floyd?

That's them right here, right?

http://eagle-vision.tv/Content/Images/Brand/Pink%20Floyd%20The%20Story%20Of%20Wish%20You%20Were%20Here%2052.jpg

DON: Pink Floyd where, to me, one of the defining groups of the '70s, one of the only artists of the time to really call it as they saw it regarding the mental and, above all, the spiritual abyss our generation had become quagmired in.

GLENN: I went through a long period where I'd get up in the morning, dismiss my special friend from the night before, then put on The Wall on my stereo at La Fontaine. As I hoovered up the lines I'd freshly chopped on the cover, I'd silently thank god that we were so much better at disguising what miserable piece of shits we were in our music.

DON: Well, yeah.

'young lust' closest floyd came to eagles

DON: Pink Floyd where, to me, one of the defining groups of the '70s, one of the only artists of the time to really call it as they saw it regarding the mental and, above all, the spiritual abyss our generation had become quagmired in.

lol congrats this is A+ Don mind-meld.

^^Thanks! My 14 year old hooker thought so too!

we need a 'Too Much Time On the Eagles Listening Thread' thread

also A+

lol and of course dave q there ahead of us - Say something charitable about the Eagles.

somewhat related - TS: Radiohead vs Eagles

http://i.imgur.com/YUyzFOJ.jpg

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#37 - Grantchester Meadows
199 points, 9 votes

http://youtu.be/u0NWFI3zJfw

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#36 - Embryo
210 points, 9 votes

http://youtu.be/tI7ausgDjAw

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#35 - Cymbaline
211 points, 11 votes

http://youtu.be/qLw0C7CvL_8

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/34-the_nile_song.jpg

#34 - The Nile Song
222 points, 11 votes

http://youtu.be/ok8eeJXllUE

More results tomorrow. This thread RULES!

i love that youtube: be/ok8ee...

i should have voted in as i have a bunch of album. i just didn't have time to listen before voting.

*albums

great job Elvis!

YAY for "Cymbaline" (#6) & "The Nile Song" (#2)! Finally my ballot takes part in the RULING!

love that the mellow Floyd is doing so well, good job ilm

Very stoked about Nile Song. First real offbeat Floyd track from my ballot to place.

1. SEE EMILY PLAY

Otherwise this poll only rules 99%

really enjoying this poll but feel like such a dabbler now

Great stretch to finish on yesterday. I'm happy to see so much love for the post-Syd/pre-Dark Side stuff.

you guys doing a Spotify playlist for this poll? cause that would be awesome for the casual fan like myself.

"Grantchester Meadows" has always been a big fave of mine - top 5. Glad to see it place. Also happy for "Cymbaline" and "Embryo." Good stuff.

Pastoral post-Syd/pre-Dark Side is where it's at.

you guys doing a Spotify playlist for this poll? cause that would be awesome for the casual fan like myself RULE

― piscesx, Saturday, March 15, 2014 5:39 AM

fixed that for you

really glad to see "the embryo" make it- first pick from my ballot to hit the charts- since it's basically bootleg-only i wasn't sure it'd hit, particularly not as high as this. that said i fully expect at least one, possibly two more bootleg-only floyd cuts to come on the list.

the mellow stuff here, incidentally, rules even though i didn't vote for any of it- i had some mellow floyd on the charts, but it tended to be from zabriskie point, which i'm pretty certain didn't make it. had to leave off more but managed to hit every other record from piper to the final cut. weird to see the way the different eras are clumping together so far, though. when i did my ballot i was veering all over the map time-wise.

"Embryo" is on Works, right?

late to the party!

wow.... hey Ward Fowler, I feel you! Feelin like a dabbler over here too.
But on the other hand, a whole world of other floyd songs to now dig into & enjoy, so it's not a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination.

Pastoral post-Syd/pre-Dark Side is where it's at.

otm

xxp yeah it is but it's really just an unfinished demo. the original plan for studio ummagumma was for the four of them to each have their own solo bits and then all of them at once on the embryo, but they never finished it. unfortunately harvest put it out anyway on a sampler lp called "picnic" with one of those quintessentially hipgnosis covers (family at picnic wearing gas masks), and it's that version that was reissued on "works". floyd did wind up finishing the song and opened their sets with it for two years- it was part of both special hour-long "sounds of the '70s" shows they did for john peel, and it's the first of those recordings that's really the definitive go-to version of the song. an essential listen for anyone who digs this era of the floyd.

BBC "Embryo" kicks so much ass.

I've always wondered why "The Nile Song" was in fake stereo, but I love that it is--by being kind of annoying, it makes the song just a little bit more aggressive.

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#33 - Wots... Uh The Deal
236 points, 12 votes

http://youtu.be/0Ilb_57xUC4

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/32-on_the_run.jpg

#32 - On The Run
243 points, 10 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/VouHPeO4Gls

Boodle-oody-oodle-oodle, Boodle-oody-oodle-oodle

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/31-run_like_hell.jpg

#31 - Run Like Hell
251 points, 13 votes

http://youtu.be/ZfUkFLfHSsE

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/30-paint_box.jpg

#30 - Paint Box
256 points, 10 votes, 2 number ones

http://youtu.be/XkMUjhF8snU

Two number ones? Wow.

i can think of five. maybe six if the lurkers come in heavy.

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, March 13, 2014

Didn't make my cut but "Run Like Hell" is def one of those 5-6 and earns the spot based on Gilmour's work with the echo alone.

run like hell is a total jam imo

love the jangly guitar... kinda U2-ish

"Wots..." was the last track to drop off my ballot. Psyched to see it place.

Paint Box TOO LOW!

also dropped Wots late, didn't want to vote for all of Obscured. Paint Box made my ballot though. Rick Wright RULES

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#29 - A Saucerful Of Secrets
262 points, 12 votes

http://youtu.be/A_6oxkwJttM

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/28-remember_a_day.jpg

#28 - Remember A Day
264 points, 13 votes

http://youtu.be/AmSjEu57Lxs

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/27-another_brick_in_the_wall.jpg

#27 - Another Brick In The Wall part 2
275 points, 13 votes

http://youtu.be/x71uD9ybrzk

IF YE DONT EAT YER MEEET

This is the only Floyd song I knew for most of my life. Other than some Syd stuff, Scissor Sisters doing Comfortably Numb would've been the second. It meant Floyd were basically a complete mystery to me before the splurge for this poll. They still are, to be honest.

"Brick Part 2" was my #2. I'm glad they were forced against their will to make their best single.

ok, saucerful is my first "too low"! i mean, come on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxbVCBfidQk

Only one vote made it to my ballot so far. "Wots"
Brick 2 is their worst song IMO.

I was in a sociology A level class once with one of the kids who sang on Brick part 2.

"Remember A Day" was my #6, not least because of this lovely version performed a week after Wright's death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGFPEyZI1iQ

Only one vote made it to my ballot so far. "Wots"
Brick 2 is their worst song IMO.
--rOrD

crazy talk itt

I wonder if the Azimuth Coordinator (one of them anyway) is still in a glass case upstairs at the Victoria & Albert museum.

xp Thanks Euler for posting that Remember a Day clip - it's astonishing.

hope starting to diminish for 'high hopes'

Well well well, the timing couldn't be better for the revival of Laserium: Dark Side of the Moon, which I will attend tonight in Oakland in honor of this poll.

Listening to BBC "Embryo" right now HOLY HELL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaprUQnS3DA

I may have erred in not adding "Wots" to my ballot.

There are some phrases that are just so evocative of a certain time and place and moment in cultural history and "laser Floyd" really is one of them.

Nile Song & Any Colour You Like would've been high placers on my ballot

There are some phrases that are just so evocative of a certain time and place and moment in cultural history and "laser Floyd" really is one of them.

― "Endemic. What does that mean, man?" (Branwell Bell), Sunday, March 16, 2014 6:12 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h50-4_DC-9M

adore Remember A Day and had it very high on my ballot. one of those introverted nostalgic songs that manages to induce your own designs on nostalgia.

i cut Paint Work at the last minute, i think

http://www.airbrush.com.au/images/Custom%20-%20Pink%20Floyd%20driver%20side%20car%20500.jpg

charlie: now i'm imagining pink floyd doing this nation's saving grace. i'm not sure how i feel about that. paintbox is ok but "drinkadrinkadrinkadrink" kind of annoys me. i picked another token non-syd single; don't think it'll show but i didn't think anybody else loved wots... uh the deal as much as i did either, so one never knows.

best floyd ride in my book is the dsotm van covered in shag carpeting that's been cruising around indianapolis for the past decade.

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#26 - Atom Heart Mother
284 points, 13 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/-cpooUBkpjs

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#25 - Welcome To The Machine
287 points, 14 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/lt-udg9zQSE

Voted for both of these. AHM, I can't think of much to say about it. Machine is good, but seems kind of half-assed for a dystopian vision. A little like Doctor Who, maybe.

never liked machine, really

Atom Heart Mother is wonderful, and it only got more so when they played it live.

A big hug to whomever voted that #1, by the way. You rock.

voted for both as well

feel like ahm gets a bad rap in retrospect - it was a weird production and they all kind of disavow it. but then you listen to it and it's actually pretty cool

feel like welcome is the track that money/cigar should be but aren't. the spacey synths and sfx really work for me. everything hangs on the "it's all right" phrases, and everything about them is perfect.

which is good bc the guitar/ma, school/fool, star/jaguar lines are a bit duff.

yeah 'machine' made my ballot purely on synth overload

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#24 - Have A Cigar
330 points, 15 votes

http://youtu.be/hMr3KtYUCcI

The video for Welcome to the Machine scares the shit out of me...makes Steadman's stuff for the Wall look like Sesame Street

essential - http://youtu.be/J0Br4nbTDSA

there is little more tiresome than a perils of fame/anti-record company song, but i dig the soundz

and 'which one's pink' is a decent line

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#23 - Jugband Blues
342 points, 17 votes

http://youtu.be/xIc2EgS9MNg

yesssss

my favorite syd song

Total jam.

i'm guessing at this point nothing from the final cut will make it on... a shame but it doesn't really have one iconic breakout song so i guess it's understandable. four songs from my list placed so far, six i'm gonna definitively rule out by this point because any of them placing higher than #23 would be total madness... that leaves half my list!

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/24-have_a_cigar.jpg

Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

And Rick's all, "Roger, you hipster."

I believe that is the definition of looking down one's nose at someone.

yeah 'machine' made my ballot purely on synth overload

Stoked that Jugband made the grade. For me, it's the most resonant thing Syd did with the Floyd.

Love "Have a Cigar," that synth line is so evil.

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#22 - Pigs (Three Different Ones)
372 points, 17 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/gOqblSqx_VI

That number one is me. I love it.

so good

lol @ the image, Elvis. nice one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPoIexOXm20

A + on the image

Whoo!

In my attempt to spread the love evenly among all the eras (cuz they all rule) this song got cut but daaamn it is awesome and intense, love the keyboard line at the beginning, the effects on the vocals, all of it!

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/21-us_and_them.jpg

#21 - Us And Them
401 points, 17 votes

http://youtu.be/nDbeqj-1XOo

(my number 2 vote)

#dickparry

I can't remember where Us and Them was on my ballot, I hope I remembered to include it...goddamn this song is so gorgeous

listening to this on headphones feels like swimming in the ocean imo

mookie otm

that sax is so key, and gorgeous

the tone of it! everythign about it is righteous

alan parsons' head reeled

Phenomenal poll so far. Just an absolutely stellar job all around.

"Welcome to the Machine" still sucks, though. :P

I like Welcome To the Machine when I haven't heard it in a long time

and then after I have heard it once I send it back into hibernation

I get that's it's meant to be cold and whatnot why bcz machines but it's def a bit of a slog

but synth overload!

Was fortunate enough to see PF early enough on the '87 tour to get "Welcome To The Machine" - unbelievably awesome live.

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#20 - Careful With That Axe, Eugene
434 points, 20 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/4yI6zYT9Uo8

yess!

i was listening to ummagumma a lot when i first read c.s. lewis' space trilogy and for better or worse they now both remind me of each other

"Atom Heart Mother": the song and album that really got me into the Floyd. My gateway, if you will. But I can definitely see why they're all embarrassed by it now. "Tea! Coffee! Yeah!" It's goofy. They were tired of being called space rockers and wanted to try something different. Sure as shit beats Deep Purple's Concerto for Group and Orchestra, though. Did you know that still after all these years it's never been officially documented where the various sections start and stop? Somebody better get on that soon before they all die. The Gilmour solo at the end is in my top five favorite Floyd moments. BEST VERSION: studio version

"Us and Them": Beautiful! Rick Wright really was a goddamn genius. But you really gotta listen real hard to tell that it's "The Violence Sequence." At least I did anyway. But it's the spoken soundbites that really steal the show. Every time te song plays I mutter along to Roger the Hat. "Good manners don't cost nothing, you know." BEST VERSION: studio version, but I like the VIolence Sequence version better, if that counts.

"Careful with That Axe, Eugene": So good it almost got me kicked out of band in high school when I started jamming to it on the drums one day and let out the Roger Waters scream. BEST VERSION: Ummagumma

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/24-have_a_cigar.jpg

Band photos where one member refuses to play along

#20. Careful With That Axe, Eugene - 434 points, 20 votes, 1 number one
#21. Us And Them - 401 points, 17 votes
#22. Pigs (Three Different Ones) - 372 points, 17 votes, 1 number one
#23. Jugband Blues - 342 points, 17 votes
#24. Have A Cigar - 330 points, 15 votes
#25. Welcome To The Machine - 287 points, 14 votes, 1 number one
#26. Atom Heart Mother - 284 points, 13 votes, 1 number one
#27. Another Brick In The Wall part 2 - 275 points, 13 votes
#28. Remember A Day - 264 points, 13 votes
#29. A Saucerful Of Secrets - 262 points, 12 votes

#30. Paint Box - 256 points, 10 votes, 2 number ones
#31. Run Like Hell - 251 points, 13 votes
#32. On The Run - 243 points, 10 votes, 1 number one
#33. Wots... Uh The Deal - 236 points, 12 votes
#34. The Nile Song - 222 points, 11 votes
#35. Cymbaline - 211 points, 11 votes
#36. Embryo - 210 points, 9 votes
#37. Grantchester Meadows - 199 points, 9 votes
#38. Summer '68 - 183 points, 9 votes
TIE #39. A Pillow Of Winds - 180 points, 9 votes
TIE #39. Cirrus Minor - 180 points, 10 votes

#41. Hey You - 175 points, 8 votes
#42. Free Four - 162 points, 8 votes
TIE #43. Any Colour You Like - 159 points, 7 votes
TIE #43. Obscured By Clouds - 159 points, 7 votes
#45. Mother - 147 points, 8 votes
#46. Matilda Mother - 140 points, 7 votes
#47. Apples And Oranges - 139 points, 7 votes
#48. In The Flesh? - 137 points, 7 votes
TIE #49. Goodbye Blue Sky - 135 points, 7 votes
TIE #49. Nobody Home - 135 points, 7 votes

#51. Money - 134 points, 6 votes

Couple more results today and then I'll try to shotgun the remainder tomorrow.

Have a Cigar is like the slightly warmer Welcome to the Machine, one that I can listen to quite a bit and still enjoy

love that catchy cynicism *snaps fingers*

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#19 - Arnold Layne
435 points, 18 votes

http://youtu.be/ADTwlLIduPo

Too goddamn low if you ask me.

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#18 - The Great Gig In The Sky
456 points, 21 votes

http://youtu.be/ZAydj4OJnwQ

Dole side of the moon:
http://youtu.be/IoxsEnKMKfM

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#17 - Bike
479 points, 21 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/SmW17QvUhRM

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#16 - Brain Damage / Eclipse
527 points, 24 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/HZL0sNxP_28

Ah there we go, three in a row that were on my ballot. xp

Wow, BD/E seems low. Figured that'd be in the top 10.

bike c'mon

I'll have to do a vine tomorrow of how the hallway where I work reminds me of Welcome to the Machine.

kudos to whoever voted "bike" number one. now i'm pissed i didn't have it higher than #18 on my ballot. too low!

oh "careful with that axe" was my no. 1! glad it made it into the top 20

A big hug to whomever voted that #1, by the way. You rock.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 7:14 AM (6 hours ago)

Um, that was me. There were 3 tracks in contention for #1 on my ballot. On another day it might've been different. But I went with AHM for its epic-ness, the patchwork of sections/movements, the brass, the cello, the nonsense, the chanting, and the choral spine-tingles. And as Mr Snrub mentioned above, Gilmour shimmers on it too.

Hugs all round for this poll!

THIS POLL RULES.

slightly surprised and very happy to see "great gig" break the top 20. some days, it's the best track on DSOM.

Wow, BD/E seems low. Figured that'd be in the top 10.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 11:28 AM

Yeah, me too. Then again, it didn't make my top 10 (#18).

slightly surprised and very happy to see "great gig" break the top 20. some days, it's the best track on DSOM.

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, March 17, 2014 9:57 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"The Great Gig in the Sky" is the best track on Dark Side of the Moon. By a fair margin, too.

great gig is fucking beautiful

those audio recordings ;_; <3 :D

I can't remember if this was posted on the big Floyd thread, but back in 2008 Ron Geesin, an Italian Pink Floyd cover band, and the Royal College Of Music performed a full-out brass & choir "Atom Heart Mother." Special guest: David Gilmour. Video is incomplete but all the audio is there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJqfHaLUW18

thought Arnold would be top 10.
really do love Bike, slightness and all.

I'm the guy who voted Welcome to the Machine #1. My justification is that this is not only my favorite song off my favorite Floyd album, it seems to me a great autobiographical summation of what transpired with the band during their peak years. It has ridiculous amounts of amazing production (okay, I'm a fucking synth whore... whatevs), with an intense focus on extreme lows with the synthesized bass and pristine and crisp treble on the acoustic guitar. It's incredible. Perfectly simulating the futuristic elevator opening up to a cocktail party is such a great transition that is so visually affecting to me. Also the Gerald Scarfe visuals that go with this song are just as memorable - see them ASAP if you haven't. Love the ocean of blood with the waves that morph into hands grasping. My top four were essentially a four way tie for first.

Also surprised there weren't more votes for Arnold Layne. I mean, who here doesn't empathize with the mention of man with a "strange hobby"?

I didn't care for Arnold Layne when I first heard it, but my appreciation for it has grown immensely over the years since I read a newspaper column about five years ago explaining the motives of panty thieves, which is an apparently more common 'strange hobby' than Syd, myself, or most others are aware (I thought it was a Dan Savage advice column but a quick search didn't turn it up, although I did find someone else who mentioned the song in a comment - NSFW - slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/panty_raid_2 ). According to that column (i should perhaps insert a TMI warning here), panty thieves are usually youngish men who crave sex but are too socially inept to ever form a relationship with an actual woman, so in their minds the closest they'll ever get is to sniff or rub someone's panties. And that's when I realized "Arnold Layne" is *not* about a cross-dresser as is usually speculated. If that columnist was correct, well, Syd understood what was really going on some 40 years earlier. Hence, "oh Arnold Layne, it's not the same, takes two to know, two to know, TWO TO KNOW, WHY CAN'T YOU SEE?" In other words, rubbing yourself against someone's used undies doesn't even remotely replicate the feeling of actual intimacy with a real flesh-and-blood female. "Arnold Layne" was my #3. It's brilliant.

"Bike" scored high in my voting too. I love those two tympani hits between each verse (which sound like they were recorded in another room and then spliced in), and how they become slower each time. As does the rest of the song for that matter.

"Us and Them" and "The Great Gig in the Sky" were my only two votes from DSOTM. Am I the only one who hears a strong resemblance between "Us and Them" and the Alan Parsons Project hit "Time"? Even copped a title from another DSOTM cut. Maybe he subconsciously missed producing Floyd as he was recording it or something, or maybe that's just his style. I'm not familiar with Alan Parsons' own records beyond the hits.

Glad to see so many songs that barely missed my top 20 make the cut here. I thought I was amongst the few who loved "Pillow of Winds" and "Summer '68" and "Paint Box"....

This poll has made me realize how much I vastly underappreciated Rick Wright's talents

Woo Brain Damage / Eclipse was my number one :)

Great Gig always used to be my fave cut from DSotM, but in recent years the closure of BD/E has always excited me more

...but the sun is eclipsed by the mooooooooooooooooooooooon

Can't find it right now, but Us & Them was great for a pool sequence or something in Dogtown & Z-Boys.

I can't sleep and there are folks on the thread. Anyone want some results?

yes!

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#15 - Breathe
529 points, 21 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/R49d4f5sEs4

so beautifully sequenced, and the music itself... so masterfully weighted

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#14 - Sheep
571 points, 23 votes

http://youtu.be/tcRYdVlGXNQ

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#14 - Sheep
571 points, 23 votes

http://youtu.be/tcRYdVlGXNQ

a storming track slightly marred, in my view, by a particularly hyperactive Waters vocal. the closing sequence, where he calms down a bit, is great though.

yay sheep is great, personal highlight of animals

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#13 - One Of These Days
582 points, 23 votes, 4 number ones

http://youtu.be/aRPCrWPAtEQ

My number one!

^ their best pre-DSotM track imo

yeah, it's a pretty exciting track

Dogs, Shine, Time, Echoes, Fearless, Seamus, San Tropez, Young Lust, Learning to Fly, Several Species, Astronomy Domine, and Interstellar Overdrive. Not missing anything there, am I?

CN!

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/12-set_the_controls.jpg

#12 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
592 points, 25 votes

http://youtu.be/ieQZoY9PQlY

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#11 - Lucifer Sam
600 points, 25 votes

http://youtu.be/wbIMx2MYNXk

Top ten coming up later!

Dogs, Shine, Time, Echoes, Fearless, Seamus, San Tropez, Young Lust, Learning to Fly, Several Species, Astronomy Domine, and Interstellar Overdrive. Not missing anything there, am I?

― how's life, Tuesday, March 18, 2014 7:38 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Missing several likely top-10s actually. Including my #1!

I'm not expecting Species to place, but who knows? Wouldn't have been surprised to see Learning to Fly here, but this high?

Still hoping a few of my non-canonical faves will place

I don't think that was entirely serious

slightly surprised and very happy to see "great gig" break the top 20. some days, it's the best track on DSOM.

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:57 (10 hours ago) Permalink

days that end in "y"

OMG THE ECHOREC.

Man I have got to stop posting on this thread.

xxp - entirely, no, but partially. 7 of those to be exact!

xp: I know! Just realized that a fun subpoll could've been favorite Gilmour gear configurations...

http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=205

O god why did you link me that page. Now I am lost.

; ) sorry

Premium Gilmourizing

#13 - One Of These Days

TOO LOW

only 1.5 semi-Gilmour songs in the #10-#20 places... interesting...

I had a dream last night that I was working with some engineer on a new record and he happened to know the (young, 70s era) Floyd guys so he called Gilmour and Mason in and they played on the recording a bit and I was like "damn, Gilmour's guitar tone is amazing, maybe I've been wrong about DSOTM all this time". And then I listened to DSOTM and was like nah this is garbage. Nice guitar sound though.

then i woke up

a storming track slightly marred, in my view, by a particularly hyperactive Waters vocal.

oh i guess it's too late to hope "high hopes" places

Glad to see some more of my picks surface--Set the controls rated high for me... a song that only got better after discovering live performances.

aw man One of These Days didn't even bust the top 10

;_;

but yay 13 not's too shabby in the scheme of things

I've been trying to remember how sheep goes all day, it's driving me mad. Sparkle motion's quote hasn't helped but it made me lol

I can hear the whole rest of that album in my head, is the weird thing

the way dreeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaam turns into the buzzing synth line is awesome, always been my favorite bit.

The intro is probably wright's last real contribution to the band as well.

My top two picks - "One of These Days" and "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" - placed in that run, and I'm really surprised both missed the top ten. Especially "One of These Days"; I honestly thought it had a darkhorse shot at the top. Lottsa love to Elvis and the other two folks who voted it #1. You all rule.

Xp oh yeahhhh it's all flooding back.

p sure I'm one of the other #1 voters for One of These Days

Hmmm, somehow I don't think Childhood's End is gonna land in the top ten... still holding out for Fat Old Sun though.

one of these days was my #2, probably should have been #1

HOTS -

YOU RULE.

Mookieproof -

YOU NEARLY RULE.

"One of These Days" was in my top 10. First pre-DSOTM Floyd I remember hearing...in fact, it's still the only pre-DS song that occasionally pops up on "classic rock" playlists.

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#10 - Interstellar Overdrive
601 points, 24 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/4o2sA0vpA-4

haha at this point i know alot of stuff is gonna seems surprisingly low or TOO LOW but still wow

have given up hope for "Point Me At the Sky" :(

Somehow I FORGOT to put that on my ballot, so blame me for the low placement. I should have been top 5 for me.

interstellar yesssss so good

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/09-wish_you_were_here.jpg

#9 - Wish You Were Here
612 points, 24 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/NavVfpp-1L4

I'm not great at remembering all the lyrics to a song, but I know all the lyrics to this one.

stunningly low

my friend and i sang this over the phone together when I was in college. I don't remember if we were drunk but that is the only explanation I could possibly have for it

Never been able to get over "two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl". Sorry.

wywh was my #3. if they'd found a way to stretch it out by another few minutes and pack in a trademark gilmour solo it would almost certainly have been my #1, but I also think they did the right thing leaving it a perfect song instead of a perfect floyd jam.

Never been able to get over "two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl". Sorry.
--how's life

imo it's a measure of the strange waters/gilmour alchemy that in context this not only works completely but seems weighty enough to grace, I dunno, how many high school yearbooks? Millions, I'd have to assume, over the years.

Solo, gilmour could never write it and waters could never establish the musical context to sell it.

The best songwriting non-team ever.

Whatever makes Number One is also likely to be too low.

lol otm

how's life otm

love interstellar overdrive, last instrumental of the countdown?

oh wait echoes

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/08-comfortably_numb.jpg

#8 - Comfortably Numb
637 points, 25 votes, 2 number ones

http://youtu.be/_FrOQC-zEog

xps: I haven't glanced at it in a while, but I wish I could remove every line of my senior yearbook caption.

"Interstellar" was my #1. Perfect marriage of the Who and Sun Ra.

I first heard it via the Camper Van Beethoven cover.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/07-dogs.jpg

#7 - Dogs
656 points, 26 votes, 3 number ones

http://youtu.be/9lgOo8yEIPs

Gilmour's finest, all in a row.

comfortably numb: last great song either of those guys ever wrote?

started life as a gilmour composition. his vox and guitar carry it but waters gives him something to soar above.

Dogs shockingly low. I put it at #1, pegged it to land at #4 at the lowest. This is pretty much my favorite song by anybody ever. So many amazing aspects of this track I can barely put it into words. The last traces of the collaborative nature of Waters/Gilmour, flawless recording, amazingly structured and well sung by both. the bit where Gilmour's guitar sounds like a sinister laugh. Fuck I just love the hell out of this song forever.

dogs is great, otm

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/06-time.jpg

#6 - Time
667 points, 27 votes, 4 number ones

http://youtu.be/JwYX52BP2Sk

Forgot to vote, but would have been my number one.

So tempted to post the Wrathchild America cover but I don't want to have that on here forever.

oh man I forgot it too!

but yay, awesome placing. best part about that whole dark side of the wizard of oz was this track + the film

i still think of it whenever I hear it

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/05-astronomy_domine.jpg

#5 - Astronomy Domine
684 points, 25 votes, 3 number ones

http://youtu.be/pJh9OLlXenM

i was mad at myself yesterday when i realised i'd forgot to vote for my absolute fave PF song. just forgot to transfer it from paper to email; this whole time assuming it was in its right place. hasn't shown yet so am really impressed 'cuz i know it has to at this point....

Can't pronounce this one, but it was first or second on my ballot.

Fearless ftw

"One Slip" still has a shot!

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/04-shine_on_you_crazy_diamond.jpg

#4 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
837 points, 31 votes, 4 number ones

http://youtu.be/_uwEFG7pU-8

though this would top

Pronunciation guide: Domine rhymes with Astronomy.

My High Hopes for "Green Is The Colour" are ticking away.

2. Fearless
1. Echoes

One of these days was my #1!I love the double bass running through an echo unit and Wright's "sound effects".

TOO LOW

So the entirety of Wish You Were Here placed. Not surprising.

3. Young Lust
2. Fearless
1. Echoes

#3 would be shocking

I voted for exactly zero Wish You Were Here tracks.

#3 San Tropez

do people actually like young lust?

my #1 hasn't placed yet. It is neither fearless nor echoes. I can't imagine it not being in the top 51.

#3 Several Species.... it is!

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/03-see_emily_play.jpg

#3 - See Emily Play
838 points, 31 votes, 7 number ones

http://youtu.be/nPf56QaRXhg

my #1

Didn't vote any Syd tracks, but it's great hearing these again.

No love for Animals?

My #1 as well.

Dogs, Pigs & Sheep all placed. I'd be surprised if Pigs on the Wing made it in the top 2.

Top 2 were called correctly upthread.

It will be fearless abd echoes

Surprised that See Emily Play beat Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/02-fearless.jpg

#2 - Fearless
886 points, 36 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/VrBGXbm4Rtk

http://i.imgur.com/89Ty7rB.jpg

#1 23894 points, 40 votes, 9 number one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5BJXwNeKsQ

I am shocked. Echoes got robbed!

lol

This poll has made it hard to get much work done today.

Nice.

What happened to "Let There Be More Light"?

"Learning To Fly" is dope fuiud

Totally shocked at the No1!

Premium Gilmourizing delivered the goods.

Is it fair to call "Fearless" this poll's "Sway"? I had no idea it was so revered among Floyd fans.

I actually have a "Learning To Fly" graphic. I'll run all those out later on.

They'll never rule alone...

Me either (re Fearless). I had to google it just now to find out which album it was on.

As an aside, waiting for #1 & sitting at my desk, Obscured by Clouds is sure sounding good right now. The Gold it's In the... is such a jam.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/01-echoes.jpg

#1 - Echoes
1008 points, 36 votes, 7 number ones

http://youtu.be/Jey20qVirXg

"give us a ping, rick"

one ping only

How many other tracks did the Echoes ping show up in?

Was my number one. Maybe not my favorite Floyd song, but it's definitely the one that's not easy to top.

Also, Echoes/2001 mashup so much better than the Wizard of Oz thing.

1. Echoes - 1008 points, 36 votes, 7 number ones
2. Fearless - 886 points, 36 votes, 1 number one
3. See Emily Play - 838 points, 31 votes, 7 number ones
4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - 837 points, 31 votes, 4 number ones
5. Astronomy Domine - 684 points, 25 votes, 3 number ones
6. Time - 667 points, 27 votes, 4 number ones
7. Dogs - 656 points, 26 votes, 3 number ones
8. Comfortably Numb - 637 points, 25 votes, 2 number ones
9. Wish You Were Here - 612 points, 26 votes, 1 number one

10. Interstellar Overdrive - 601 points, 24 votes, 1 number one
11. Lucifer Sam - 600 points, 25 votes
12. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun - 592 points, 25 votes
13. One Of These Days - 582 points, 23 votes, 4 number ones
14. Sheep - 571 points, 23 votes
15. Speak To Me / Breathe - 529 points, 24 votes, 1 number one
16. Brain Damage / Eclipse - 527 points, 24 votes, 1 number one
17. Bike - 479 points, 21 votes, 1 number one
18. The Great Gig In The Sky - 456 points, 21 votes
19. Arnold Layne- 435 points, 18 votes

20. Careful With That Axe, Eugene - 434 points, 20 votes, 1 number one
21. Us And Them - 401 points, 17 votes
22. Pigs (Three Different Ones) - 372 points, 17 votes, 1 number one
23. Jugband Blues - 342 points, 17 votes
24. Have A Cigar - 330 points, 15 votes
25. Welcome To The Machine - 287 points, 14 votes, 1 number one
26. Atom Heart Mother - 284 points, 13 votes, 1 number one
27. Another Brick In The Wall part 2 - 275 points, 13 votes
28. Remember A Day - 264 points, 13 votes
29. A Saucerful Of Secrets - 262 points, 12 votes

30. Paint Box - 256 points, 10 votes, 2 number ones
31. Run Like Hell - 251 points, 13 votes
32. On The Run - 243 points, 10 votes, 1 number one
33. Wots... Uh The Deal - 236 points, 12 votes
34. The Nile Song - 222 points, 11 votes
35. Cymbaline - 211 points, 11 votes
36. Embryo - 210 points, 9 votes
37. Grantchester Meadows - 199 points, 9 votes
38. Summer '68 - 183 points, 9 votes
TIE 39. A Pillow Of Winds - 180 points, 9 votes
TIE 39. Cirrus Minor - 180 points, 10 votes

41. Hey You - 175 points, 8 votes
42. Free Four - 162 points, 8 votes
TIE 43. Any Colour You Like - 159 points, 7 votes
TIE 43. Obscured By Clouds - 159 points, 7 votes
45. Mother - 147 points, 8 votes
46. Matilda Mother - 140 points, 7 votes
47. Apples And Oranges - 139 points, 7 votes
48. In The Flesh? - 137 points, 7 votes
TIE 49. Goodbye Blue Sky - 135 points, 7 votes
TIE 49. Nobody Home - 135 points, 7 votes

51. Money - 134 points, 6 votes

THIS POLL RULES!

As do you, E.T. Excellent job, excellent graphics.

Thanks, Elvis T.

Most considered graphics of any ILM poll roll-out to date, I reckon. Over and over, I was thinking "spot on image choice". Great stuff.

No kidding, it's been such a blast. This was my first ballot poll and it's been a lot of fun to see the results come in.

The first time I got really into "Piper", and I was reading along to the lyrics to "Astronomy Domine", it seemed sort of obvious that the internal rhyme scheme has basically been an eternal well they kept going back to, sometimes with embarrassing results ("Wish You Were Here").

fuckin A

(inter)stellar (overdrive) job on the rollout, Mr Telecom

as expected the pink floyd poll indeed RULES

Thanks for voting everyone! This more than makes up for the time I didn't get to do the Pink Floyd hour on my high school's pirate radio station.

Excellent poll, Elvis. Enjoyed it greatly.

Shine on, you crazy diamond.

http://www.minerals.net/GemStoneInTheRoughImages/quartz-rock-xl-arkansas.jpg

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/80-learning_to_fly.jpg

Was "420" that popular of a reference in 1987?

i like that nick signed over his face and that it looks like the plane signed it's name as rick

great poll. wish i had voted. thanks for doing it.

Wonderful job with the poll, Elvis!

Oh, I almost forgot - my poor representation of how my work hallway is a lot like Welcome to the Machine:

https://vine.co/v/MhdWMDQJvzh

Floyd:20, the ruling hour.

i like that nick signed over his face and that it looks like the plane signed it's name as rick

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 4:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf, the plane did more on the song than Rick did.

Can you do all the polls pl, elvis telecom

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/59-high_hopes.jpg

14 of my picks made it but the ones that didn't I'm pretty heartbroken about. Green is the Colour! Julia Dream! so pastoral...

syd maybe a bit overrepresented among the upper echelons, but i guess that's to be expected... top 9 are really good, really top notch picks. "fearless" a bit of dark horse- me i don't think it's really that much better than, say, "a pillow of winds"- but still a great song.

song i'm saddest about not making it on the list: scream thy last scream. yeah, i know it's unreleased, but i kind of figured everyone had heard it by now, and i really do think it's syd's best song.

by the way what was the highest-placing song from the final cut?

syd era - 11

post-syd pre-dsotm - 17

waters era - 23

post-waters - 0

right?

Ha, was just about to point out the absence of anything from The Final Cut.

xp

song i'm saddest about not making it on the list: scream thy last scream. yeah, i know it's unreleased, but i kind of figured everyone had heard it by now, and i really do think it's syd's best song.

I can't remember if I mentioned it in the other thread, but I first heard it a few minutes after I sent in my ballot.

Anyway, great poll, thanks Elvis T! This has been a great Floyducation for me.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/54-two_suns.jpg

so close, and yet...

Is there a consensus Final Cut pick?

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/81-several_species.jpg

did my #1 for "Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up" count? only one #1 for Eugene listed, and someone else claimed it

52. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk - 132 points, 7 votes
53. Fat Old Sun - 130 points, 7 votes
54. Two Suns In The Sunset- 123 points, 5 votes, 1 number one
55. Point Me At The Sky - 121 points, 6 votes
56. Childhood's End - 120 points, 6 votes
57. Flaming - 117 points, 6 votes
58. When The Tigers Broke Free - 110 points, 6 votes
59. High Hopes - 109 points, 7 votes

60. Pigs On The Wing - 106 points, 6 votes
61. See-Saw - 101 points, 4 votes
62. The Narrow Way - 99 points, 4 votes, 1 number one
63. Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up - 95 points, 4 votes, 1 number one
64. Let There Be More Light - 91 points, 5 votes
65. The Final Cut - 90 points, 4 votes
66. Green Is The Colour - 89 points, 5 votes
TIE 67. Scream Thy Last Scream - 85 points, 3 votes
TIE 67. Stay - 85 points, 4 votes
TIE 69. Vegetable Man - 80 points, 3 points, 1 vote
TIE 69. Candy And A Currant Bun - 80 points, 5 votes

TIE 71. The Gnome - 79 points, 4 votes
TIE 71. One Of My Turns - 79 points, 5 votes
73. Young Lust - 77 points, 4 votes
74. Chapter 24 - 76 points, 4 votes
75. The Gold It's In The... - 70 points, 3 votes
76. Crumbling Land - 69 points, 3 votes
77. Scarecrow - 67 points, 4 votes
78. Empty Spaces / What Shall We Do Now? - 66 points, 3 votes
79. Julia Dream - 64 points, 4 votes

80. Learning To Fly - 59 points, 3 votes
81. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict - 56 points, 4 votes
82. Not Now John - 54 points, 3 votes
TIE 83. Biding My Time - 52 points, 2 votes
TIE 83. Heart Beat, Pig Meat - 52 points, 2 votes
85. Crying Song - 51 points, 3 votes
86. Ibiza Bar - 49 points, 2 votes
TIE 87. The Trial - 48 points, 2 votes
TIE 87. Rain In The Country - 48 points, 3 votes
TIE 89 The Gunner's Dream - 41 points, 3 votes
TIE 89. One Slip - 41 points, 2 votes

91. Mudmen - 40 points, 1 vote, 1 number one
TIE 92. Corporal Clegg - 37 points, 2 votes
TIE 92. The Thin Ice - 37 points, 2 votes
94. Love Scene - 36 points, 1 vote
TIE 95. If - 35 points, 2 votes
TIE 95. Is There Anybody Out There? - 35 points, 2 votes
97. Pow R. Toc H. - 33 points, 1 vote
98. San Tropez - 29 points, 2 votes
TIE 99. Baby Lemonade - 24 points, 1 vote
TIE 99. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives - 24 points, 1 vote

TIE 101. Marooned - 21 points, 1 vote
TIE 101. Moonhead - 21 points, 1 vote
TIE 103. Main Theme - 19 points, 1 vote
TIE 103. Up The Khyber - 19 points, 1 vote
TIE 103. Southhampton Dock - 19 points, 1 vote
TIE 103. On The Turning Away - 19 points, 1 vote
TIE 103. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party - 19 points, 1 vote
TIE 108. The Hero's Return - 18 points, 1 vote
TIE 108. Keep Talking - 18 points, 1 vote

TIE 110. Burning Bridges - 16 points, 1 vote
TIE 110. In The Flesh - 16 points, 1 vote
TIE 110. Lucy Leave - 16 points, 1 vote
TIE 110. Stop - 16 points, 1 vote
114. Your Possible Pasts - 14 points, 1 vote
TIE 115. The Hard Way - 12 points, 1 vote
TIE 115. Blue Light - 12 points, 1 vote
TIE 115. Waiting For The Worms - 12 points, 1 vote
TIE 115. Another Brick In The Wall part 1 - 12 points, 1 vote
TIE 115. The Post War Dream - 12 points, 1 vote
TIE 115. Give Birth To A Smile - 12 points, 1 vote
TIE 115. Don't Leave Me Now - 12 points, 1 vote

"if" SO low!

tremendous poll, Elvis!

really, really satisfying top 10, which i wouldn't have been able to predict, and certainly not in that order.

surprised how low Julia Dream and Scarecrow are. i almost voted for both of them.

I had Childhood's End pretty high on my list. That tune is like the dress rehearsal for Dark Side of the Moon with how they do the opening segue on the track.

This has been one of the best polls, very entertaining and solid interesting results.

My ballot (bold didn't place):

TOP 20 PINK FLOYD SONGS (ALL RULE)

1. One of These Days
2. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
3. Echoes
4. Astronomy Domine
5. The Great Gig in the Sky
6. Arnold Layne
7. Sheep
8. Interstellar Overdrive
9. Fearless
10. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
11. Us and Them
12. Free Four
13. Atom Heart Mother
14. The Nile Song
15. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
16. Jugband Blues
17. San Tropez
18. Cymbaline
19. Summer '68
20. Time

TOP 5 BOOTS

1. BBC Archives 1970-1971
2. Animal Instincts (5/9/77, Oakland Coliseum, Oakland)
3. Too Late For Mind Expanding (11/21/70, Casino Montreux, Montreux)
4. Earl's Court (5/18/73, Earl's Court Exhibition Hall, London)
5. Complete Concertgebouw (9/17/69, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam)

my ballot (1-20, top to bottom):

1. Interstellar Overdrive
2. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
3. A Saucerful Of Secrets
4. Astronomy Domine
5. On The Run
6. Comfortably Numb
7. See Emily Play
8. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
9. Brain Damage/Eclipse
10. One Of These Days
11. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
12. Fearless
13. In The Flesh?
14. Echoes
15. Nobody Home
16. Wish You Were Here
17. Jugband Blues
18. Your Possible Pasts
19. Run Like Hell
20. The Hard Way

loving the lower echelons! i think this is probably the only poll ever where "the trial" ties with "rain in the country". glad that the top "final cut" pick was also my pick, too! respectable.

sorry to whoever voted for mudmen at #1. we let you down, man.

i guess what i'm wondering now which songs got no votes at all... i'm seeing seamus (rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead must be so sad) and absolutely curtains.

surprised that "stethoscope" was so high! great jam, but the song itself (all one minute of it) is kind of actively terrible. :) i mean, i'd rank "pow r toc h" over it myself...

Did "Chapter 24" place at all?

Oh, yeah, 76.

Somebody voted for "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party"???

Here's mine. Prior to the poll, I'd heard "Paint Box" once or twice and never heard "Fearless" at all, thx ILM for clueing me in. Obviously, I think the earliest eras are the ones that RULE.

1. Paintbox
2. See Emily Play
3. Interstellar Overdrive
4. Bike
5. Fearless
6. A Saucerful of Secrets
7. Arnold Layne
8. Have a Cigar
9. Crying Song
10. Chapter 24
11. Take Up thy stethoscope and walk
12. Time
13. Wish You Were Here
14. Grantchester Meadows
15. Lucifer Sam
16. Echoes
17. Stay
18. The Nile Song
19. Comfortably Numb
20. The Great Gig in the Sky

my cheesy casual fan ballot:

Time
Have A Cigar
Learning To Fly
Us And Them
Wish You Were Here
Brain Damage
Fearless
Breathe (In The Air)
Young Lust
Interstellar Overdrive
The Great Gig In The Sky
Sheep
On The Turning Away
High Hopes
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Mother
One Of These Days
San Tropez
The Gunner’s Dream
Any Colour You Like

"Fearless" was a song i randomly stumbled across in my day of Spotify listening and was taken with, had no idea if it was well regarded or not

Cheers Al! we're the entire "San Tropez" contingent.

Here's mine...

1. One Of These Days
2. Us And Them
3. Echoes
4. Comfortably Numb
5. Time
6. Sheep
7 . Shine On You Crazy Diamond
8. Obscured By Clouds
9. Arnold Layne
10. Astronomy Domine
11. Remember A Day
12. Lucifer Sam
13. Main Theme
14. The Nile Song
15. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
16. Rain In The Country
17. See Emily Play
18. Welcome To The Machine
19. Cirrus Minor
20. Bike

1. See Emily Play
2. The Nile Song
3. Sheep
4. Paintbox
5. Fearless
6. Cymbaline
7. Arnold Layne
8. Lucifer Sam
9. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
10. Interstellar Overdrive
11. Ibiza Bar
12. Jugband Blues
13. On The Run
14. Candy and A Currant Bun
15. Astronomy Domine
16. Dogs
17. Remember A Day
18. Flaming
19. Brain Damage/Eclipse
20. Run Like Hell

This poll ruled.

63. Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up - 95 points, 4 votes, 1 number one

So this didn't get combined with "Careful With That Axe Eugene" like "The Violent Sequence" did with "Us and Them"? Bummer.

1. shine on you crazy diamond
2. comfortably numb
3. wish you were here
4. brain damage/eclipse
5. welcome to the machine
6. echoes
7. the great gig in the sky
8. obscured by clouds
9. mother
10. when the tigers broke free
11. one of these days
12. fat old sun
13. atom heart mother suite
14. nobody home
15. time
16. another brick in the wall pt 2
17. pigs on the wing (damn straight the snowy white one)
18. run like hell
19. fearless
20. waiting for the worms

this ballot is heavy on space rock, guitar solos, and poignant introspective little numbers about being roger waters. it RULES.

Thanks Elvis for the splendid poll and wonderful pictures! I'm pretty happy with the results, but Dogs will always be my #1

1. Dogs
2. Have a Cigar
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Sheep
5. Comfortably Numb
6. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
7. Time
8. Breathe
9. Pigs (3 Different Ones)
10. Welcome to the Machine
11. Pigs on the Wing (both parts)
12. Bike
13. See Emily Play
14. Lucifer Sam
15. Matilda Mother
16. Brain Damage
17. Another Brick in the Wall (pt 2)
18. Arnold Layne
19. Not Now John
20. Eclipse

good poll!

my ballot -

1 echoes
lucifer sam
pow r. toc h.
interstellar overdrive
the narrow way
one of these days
astronomy domine
shine on you crazy diamond
fearless
set the controls for the heart of the sun
see emily play
have a cigar
goodbye blue sky
careful with that axe eugene
sheep
a pillow of winds
welcome to the machine
let there be more light
mother
20 high hopes

Great poll! The image selections RULED.

1. fearless
2. interstellar overdrive
3. see emily play
4. bike
5. lucifer sam
6. wish you were here
7. brain damage/eclipse
8. the final cut
9. arnold layne
10. astronomy domine
11. one of these days
12. scarecrow
13. jugband blues
14. the great gig in the sky
15. mother
16. apples and oranges
17. pigs (three different ones)
18. free four
19. two suns in the sunset
20. shine on you crazy diamond

syd barrett solo:
1. terrapin
2. dark globe
3. octopus
4. she took a long cold look
5. wolfpack
6. wined and dined
7. rats
8. baby lemonade
9. dominoes
10. golden hair

yeah image selections were fantastic, that 'high hopes' one esp

Great poll, great images, 'Echoes' a decent #1. Had lots of fun with this and only one of my picks didn't place!

1. Paintbox
2. Us and Them
3. Lucifer Sam
4. Breathe
5. Fearless
6. Summer '68
7. Any Colour You Like
8. Cymbaline
9. Echoes
10. Goodbye Blue Sky
11. See Emily Play
12. A Pillow of Winds
13. Grantchester Meadows
14. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
15. The Great Gig in the Sky
16. Flaming
17. Wot's ...Uh the Deal
18. Dogs
19. Remember a Day
20. Cirrus Minor

decent deserving (!)

I didn't do any advance research for the poll, rather just went off the cuff using pleasant memories as my guide. As such I ended up with the lone vote for "Give Birth To A Smile", the most cheerful track in the Floyd canon (even if it's not officially under their name).

1. Echoes
Fearless
Breathe
Astronomy Domine
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Us and Them
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Goodbye Blue Sky
Time
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Saucerful of Secrets
Have a Cigar
Welcome to the Machine
One of these Days
Lucifer Sam
Brain Damage/ Eclipse
Young Lust
When the Tigers Broke Free
Pillow of Winds
20. High Hopes

Mine:

1. Shine on you crazy diamond pts. 1-9

2. Echoes

3. Careful with that axe Eugene

4. Fearless

5. Sheep

6. Brain damage\Eclipse

7. Wish you were here

8. Have a cigar

9. Dogs

10. Pigs

11. Welcome to the machine

12. Breathe

13. The narrow way pt. 3

14. Wot's uh the deal

15. Cymbaline

16. Comfortably numb

17. Fat old sun

18. Us and them

19. The thin ice

20. The Gunner's dream

First poll participating, and a masterful job by Elvis! This was highly entertaining.

1. Time
2. Dogs
3. Wots...Uh the Deal
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Fearless
6. Comfortably Numb
7. Childhood's End
8. The Gold It's in the...
9. Echoes
10. Brain Damage / Eclipse
11. See Emily Play
12. One Slip
13. Nobody Home
14. Astronomy Domine
15. Have a Cigar
16. Cymbaline
17. Mother
18. Learning to Fly
19. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
20. Careful With That Axe, Eugene

1. Mudmen
2. Love Scene - Version 4
3. Astronomy Domine
4. Atom Heart Mother Suite
5. Echoes
6. Fat Old Sun
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. A Pillow of Winds
9. Dogs
10. A Saucerful of Secrets
11. Embryo
12. Time
13. Us and Them
14. Green Is the Colour
15. Fearless
16. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
17. See Emily Play
18. Bike
19. Wot's... Uhh the Deal
20. Careful with That Axe, Eugene

I was the only one that voted for "Mudmen" :(

And "Love Scene" (any version)

01 comfortably numb
02 one of these days
03 shine on you crazy diamond
04 dogs
05 a saucerful of secrets
06 breathe
07 fearless
08 sheep
09 time
10 echoes
11 careful with that axe, eugene
12 hey you
13 astronomy domine
14 us and them
15 interstellar overdrive
16 have a cigar
17 summer '68
18 brain damage/eclipse
19 a pillow of winds
20 wish you were here

The right song won. I'm not particularly a fan of the genre, but "Echoes" is everything that's right about progressive rock.

Figured the #1 slot would be either that or "Emily" - didn't see "Fearless" coming, and it did so with only one #1 vote. It's one of these tracks that got a high ranking from almost everyone having it on their ballot somewhere, often quite high up.

Great poll, and awesome graphics.

1. See Emily Play
2. Echoes
3. Arnold Layne
4. Apples and Oranges
5. Stay
6. Matilda Mother
7. Flaming
8. Bike
9. Us and Them
10. Lucifer Sam
11. The Great Gig in the Sky
12. Fearless
13. Astronomy Domine
14. Jugband Blues
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Remember a Day
17. Candy and a Currant Bun
18. Pigs on the Wing (8-track cartridge version with link section btwn pt.1 & 2)
19. Crying Song
20. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

oh hey am i the last one to know about this...

http://united-mutations.blogspot.com/2013/06/dark-side-of-moon.html

ok, my ballots:

1 Echoes
Crumbling Land
Scream Thy Last Scream
Dogs
The Embryo
Astronomy Domine
Two Suns in the Sunset
Time
Arnold Layne
A Saucerful of Secrets
Carefull With That Axe, Eugene
Wot's... Uh The Deal
Comfortably Numb
Point Me At The Sky
Atom Heart Mother
Lucy Leave
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
Sheep
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
20 Rain in the Country

1. Opel
2. No Good Trying
3. Late Night
4. Two of a Kind
5. Octopus
6. Golden Hair
7. Dominoes
8. Baby Lemonade
9. Rats
10. Lanky, Pt. 1

Gilmour/Wright/Waters/Mason Solo tracks:

1. I'm A Mineralist
2. There's No Way Out Of Here
3. Mrs. Throat Goes Walking
4. Bridge Passage for Three Plastic Teeth
5. More than Seven Dwarfs in Penis-Land
6. A Gentle Breeze Blew Through Life
7. Dance of the Red Corpuscles
8. (some song from Music From the Body, forget which)
9. Piddle in Perspex
10. Merry Xmas Song (Nick Mason)

Top five bootlegs:

BBC Sessions 1970-1971
Pro Shot In Europe 1969-1972
1977-05-09
1970-02-11
Magnesium Proverbs

also man i love prog but if "all-star prog tributes" aren't the worst thing on earth, they're damn near close

also, to the best of my reckoning here are the proper floyd songs (i.e. not counting like "wine glasses") that got zero votes at all:

It Would Be So Nice
Party Sequence
More Blues
Quicksilver
A Spanish Theme
Dramatic Theme
Sysyphus
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast
Seamus
When You're In
Absolutely Curtains
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3
Goodbye Cruel World
Vera
Bring the Boys Back Home
The Show Must Go On
Outside the Wall
One of the Few
Paranoid Eyes
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
The Fletcher Memorial Home
Signs of Life
The Dogs of War
Yet Another Movie/Round and Around
A New Machine
Terminal Frost
Sorrow
Cluster One
What Do You Want From Me?
Poles Apart
A Great Day For Freedom
Wearing the Inside Out
Take It Back
Coming Back To Life
Lost For Words

"a spanish theme" was robbed! but i could have voted for it and didn't, so i have no-one to blame but myself. also, for all everybody kept claiming to love rick, his song on ummagumma was the only one that didn't get any votes.

"It Would Be So Nice" and "Point Me At The Sky" are seriously buried. Aside from the original singles, the only place you can find them is the Shine On bonus disc, no?

YouTube has performances

That wasn't the question, the answer is "yes that is the only place wtf"

Ok, how about..

"No, It would be so nice is on my "Masters of Rock" pf compilation l.p. (Harvest, German I think)"

Now that I did not know! They are also on the bootleg LP " Dark Side Of The Moo"

Thank you, Mr Telecom. This RULED.

I first heard it via the Camper Van Beethoven cover.

― If I had hands and you had a neck (WilliamC)

Me too! Also, I first heard "Astronomy Domine" via Voivod.

Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up
Us & Them
Wish You Were Here
Fearless
Comfortably Numb
Remember A Day
Goodbye Blue Sky
The Thin Ice
Brain Damage->Eclipse
The Great Gig In The Sky
One Slip
Unknown Song [on Zabriskie Point soundtrack reissue, sometimes called Rain in the Country I think?]
Free Four
Stay
Time
Dogs
Run Like Hell
Paint Box
Obscured By Clouds
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

also, to the best of my reckoning here are the proper floyd songs (i.e. not counting like "wine glasses") that got zero votes at all

And a full 40% of that list is Momentary Lapse and Division Bell material.

Some truly nice surprises - they never played "Fearless" live! Same with the clip below, until Gilmour did on his last tour, with Rick. Very happy this made the Top 40.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itxVfQ1MZOo

1. Time
2. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
3. Astronomy Domine
4. Great Gig in the Sky
5. Echoes
6. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part 1
7. The Nile Song
8. Dogs
9. Grantchester Meadow
10. Lucifer Sam
11. Money
12. Atom Heart Mother
13. Jugband Blues
14. Let There Be More Light
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Fat Old Sun
17. Goodbye Blue Sky
18. The Final Cut
19. The Gold It’s in the…
20. Green Is the Colour

1. Welcome To The Machine
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
3. Echoes
4. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
5. Time
6. Wish You Were Here
7. Dogs
8. The Trial
9. Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun
10. Brain Damage/Eclipse
11. One Of These Days
12. A Saucerful Of Secrets
13. What Shall We Do Now?
14. Bike
15. Arnold Layne
16. Mother
17. The Nile Song
18. Childhood's End
19. Scarecrow
20. Have a Cigar

1. Astronomy Domine
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
3. Lucifer Sam
4. Speak To Me/ Breathe
5. Fearless
6. Remember A Day
7. Echoes
8. Comfortably Numb
9. Cymbaline
10. One Of These Days
11. Brain Damage/ Eclipse
12. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
13. Atom Heart Mother Suite
14. Dogs
15. Interstellar Overdrive
16. See Emily Play
17. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
18. Matilda Mother
19. Wish You Were Here
20. High Hopes

1. One Of These Days
2. Embryo
3. Fearless
4. Careful With That Axe Eugene
5. Lucifer Sam
6. Astronomy Domine
7. The Nile Song
8. Echoes
9. Let There Be More Light
10. Bike
11. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
12. Candy And A Currant Bun
13. Cirrus Minor
14. A Saucerful Of Secrets
15. Interstellar Overdrive
16. See Emily Play
17. Arnold Lane
18. Paintbox
19. Jugband Blues
20. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk

Versions on Ummagumma disc 1 and Live At Pompeii preferred.

the last couple of days i've been really diving into songs like Bike and Scarecrow that showcase Syd's more stripped-bare childlike expressions. while some of his songs (Astronomy Domine, Chapter 24, etc.) have an intensely fixated and obsessive quality, these ones seem to exude a much rawer and more tender side. they have a really sincere and unique impact on me, imbued as they are with the kind of frivolity, zeal and abandon that is accepted as normal and healthy in children, but deemed strange and impractical in adults. well, the way i see it immaturity endures in adults in much more harmful ways than this, and listening to Syd extol his flagrant inner child is simultaneously a sad and joyful experience.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/91-mudmen.jpg

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/dnf-lost_for_words.jpg

DNF = Did Not Finish

my ballot:

See Emily Play
Lucifer Sam
Brain Damage/Eclipse
set the controls for the heart of the sun
Atom Heart Mother
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
In The Flesh?
Bike
Fearless
Corporal Clegg
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Breathe
Sheep
Hey You
A Saucerful of Secrets
Careful with that Axe, Eugene
Wot's... Uh the Deal?
Astronomy Domine
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
Dogs

a bit disappointed that Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk just missed the top 50