Pink Floyd-Classic or dud

(looks nervously left and right; whistles innocently)

UM AND WHAT ABOUT ATOM HEART MOTHER???

and obscured by clouds. it's a toss up for me, my fav - it's just too hard. all of these are phenomenal.

I was listening to Ratatat the other day and it really reminded me of it!

summer '68 (8 not 9, right?) is CRAAAAAZY!

In the "Live At Pompeii" film, you see Gilmour doing just that, recording a solo note-by-note...

Upon moving to the West Coast, and this may simply be the friends that my wife has, but it seems like EVERYONE grew up learning to play Pink Floyd, as opposed to my bluegrass/blues upbringing. So, whereas Hendrix, Cream, Bill Monroe, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Tony Rice are common musical vernacular b/t my East Coast friends, all these Californians seem to immediately fall into Gilmour-era Floyd when in a jam setting. Somewhat frustrating b/c they aren't as tasteful and understated as Gilmour.

I actually haven't put on a Floyd album in a LONG time, and, upon reflection, I feel no need to. Still, they were relatively popular during my high school years, but, like Zep, Aerosmith, and BTO, I file them under the "Ah, yes....Floyd" category of memories.

For my money everything up to (and including) Wish You Were Here is good. Then Waters' misanthropy gets the better of their way and liking the Floyd is solely the preserve of over earnest slightly dim students.

i think, in the middle 90's they were Dud almost all the way among indie kids.
(Piper was always exceptional).

It's been one of my favorites ever since I first heard it, thanks very much -- and that was almost twenty years back.

That's against the law y'know.

It's like eating a cake, and then forgetting about it, and then getting a new cake. Sure, it's familiar, but it's still fucking cake!

i think, in the middle 90's they were Dud almost all the way among indie kids.
(Piper was always exceptional).

I have always championed Meddle/Dark Side/WYWH/Animals to skeptical guitar-solo-hating indie kids and Barrett-only snobs. It's funny that now indie rockers are deciding it's ok to jam, especially since they do it so much worse than their forebears.

Echoes genuinely terrified me when I was younger, this is true. Especially when listened to in the dark.

Their huge '70s hit LPs barely register with me anymore. As for everything post '79, I don't wanna know.

so dreamy...

OMG really?? i can totally stick in the wall right now - in fact i think i will. hold on.

okay here we go. see i like this.

haha, is that empirical evidence or WHAT??

i love the synth nostalgia thing they go for with the slow numbers. nice sheen to it.

How many goddamn reissues does this band need?

wow so nobody here talked about how great those 2011 remasters sound? cuz man, I think they sound amazing, tons of space and detail and heft to the sound.

Yeah, I agree. That was the first time I bought any Floyd on CD, and they sound fantastic.

i don't know any pink floyd masterings that _don't_ sound fantastic. except they fucked up the mono on that piper box set a few years back, i guess.

Did they? I thought it sounded fantastic, but it's the only mono Piper I've heard.

well i think it was just one of the channels that was fucked up. since we're dealing with a mono recording anyway it's not exactly the end of the world, y'know?

Chris Blair from Abbey Rd caught a lot of flack from the Hoffman types for cutting off the end of Flaming, introducing some clicks and a bit of a botch noise reduction/EQ combo.

i like everything pretty much except the final cut and atom heart mother!