Pink Floyd-Classic or dud

I thought that little red flashing LED was absolutely unique and wonderful while it lasted, not that I'd ever purchase or listen to the thing, understand. (My sister's boyfriend owned it.)

Christ, I heard him at New Year for the first time, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ALL ABOUT!??!??!?

In a lot of ways (you know, outside the A.L. Webberisms, "The Wall" is a pretty well realized work. The expanded DVD of the movie that came out a few years ago is excellent.

Wow.

I'm quite a fan of 'What Do You Want From Me' and 'Tearing The Inside Out' from that album, and High Hopes is pretty good, yeah. The rest can burn.

FWIW, in a poll some years back on Echoes (the "main" PF mailing list), Meddle and Animals were #1 and #2, I think.

"Summer '68" is great. When he's on, Rick Wright is such an inspired and distinctive voice -- anytime you hear an intriguing, unorthodox chord progression in a Pink Floyd song, it's probably him. (Which is a big part of why they went downhill so fast after Animals, though he didn't really contribute much to that album.)

I don't like Obscured by Clouds much but the live performances of the title track (plus "When You're In") are almost always terrific. Most of that album never got played live, though they did a few shows with "Childhood's End", and Gilmour played "Wots...uh the Deal" on his most recent tour.

The sound of the albums from A Saucerful of Secrets up to Meddle -- as in, the quality of the recorded acoustic -- is pretty much my musical ideal. Sometimes I think Meddle is the best-recorded album, like, ever.

I don't own anything after The Final Cut, because it's pretty much all dreck.

that always gives me the chills. overall, the texture of the album cinches it for me. thick and luxurious.

Sounds like one of the solos ("one of", oh dear) towards the end of "Dogs". I rate Animals quite highly among Floyd albums, probably because "Dogs" takes up so much of the album. Wonder if there were any Van Der Graaf Generator fans in the Floyd, as at least part of "Dogs" sounds to me like it takes its cue from the first part of "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers".

Still, T/S as abstract response to punk: Animals vs. Presence.

They did share concert bills together a couple of times. If memory serves, there was one 1969 concert that was PF, Fleetwood Mac, and VdGG.

That could just be the best concert bill ever.

Dave and Nick still have some cool friends from the old days.

Brent Hinds, in the Mastadon docu-making-of for Blood Mountain remarked that he wanted to end the album in a way akin to Floyd. Except, instead of dogs barking he was going to use a kitten. Hi-larious!

Already put my hand up

i'm putting it on right now

argh dogs is so good right now

although wish you were here is kinda awesome too

TS (or compare and contrast) -- Pink Floyd's "Echoes" vs. the Damned's "Curtain Call"

The conclusion of "Sheep" is one of my fave PF moments ever.

YES!!!

the part where the guitars burst into that beautiful descending thing? i think that's it! that's one of my fav PH moments ever as well!

It's like a little story built on guitar and ambience.

i'm gonna smoke now