pink floyd openers poll

am i cheating by grouping pigs on the wing and dogs together? sure

kneejerk voted for "one of these days"

Atom Heart Mother

In the Flesh?

one of the best rock riffs ever, such a triumphant and exciting theme for an album that never reaches the same heights

kneejerk voted for "one of these days"

Pretty good opening track!

Yeah this is 'In The Flesh?' easily

pink floyd rules, btw

one of these days hell yes

slashes doing a lot of work here, brad lol

one of these days indeed rules, but shine on you crazy diamond 1-5 rules for 12 minutes.

hey i've always thought of "speak to me" and "breathe" as one thing

on early cd pressings speak to me & breathe were one track, so i'll give u that one!

can't have dogs tho

astronomy domine in a walk (because, yes, "dogs" is cheating; "speak to me/breathe" isn't)

voted for the best opener from the best album. which one you ask - well, ask yourself what my most vmic answer would be and it's that one

Shine On

Pink Floyd rules

The Endless River never happened, right?

astronomy domine vs. breathe

i just wanted animals to be a contender. "pigs on the wing" is so short :(

jokes on me though, i'm probably voting for "cirrus minor"

Shine On

Pink Floyd rules

voted for the best opener from the best album. which one you ask - well, ask yourself what my most vmic answer would be and it's that one

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would anyone have assumed "let there be more light" from this post

haha maybe it isn't the MOST obvious given it's only 5 minutes long, but yeah otm

saucerful rules. I like it better than atom heart, more, obscured, etc. I like how the cover of meddle (my fav) is kind of like looking at a region of the saucerful cover through a microscope

Voting SOYCD1-5 to undercut the edgelords. They all RULE though.

I’d also like to point out that they knew how to close a record as well.

you could say their sequencing RULES

Literally and in every sense.

Voted Obscured By Clouds, what a jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXaLZZ6M3M

shine on you crazy diamond 1-5 rules for 12 minutes.

Gotta go with “Speak to Me/Breathe”. Runner-up: “Obscured by Clouds”

1. one of these days
2. (tie) astronomy domine (live)/shine on u crazy d
4. speak to me/breathe

always had a major soft spot for "let there be more light" because side 1 of saucerful of secrets is so much better than i was led to believe as a kid the 'early stuff' is post-syd

Led to believe by Pink Floyd themselves.

I first heard Cluster One years after the album came out and found it quite moving - like, it’s pretty second-rate, but after the overblown & vibe-free Momentary Lapse era just hearing them play like they were listening to one another was really nice.

Having said that, I voted for Atom Heart Mother.

was robyn hitchcock's solo piano "astronomy domine" linked on here? or was that just on tyler w's blog? anyway at this point in his career he's probably played it more times than pink floyd... i have a good tape of the soft boys doing it with gilmour on guitar as well.

gary lucas does a pretty good version as well.

voted for In The Flesh? but it's a genuine squeaker over Speak to Me/Breathe

None of these are top PF for me but gotta go with Diamond

Cirrus Minor is lovely, one vote for that

Actually, the first song on The Wall is "Outside the Wall," though it's not listed first.

My initial thought was "One of These Days" but, even though it's by no means a favourite track of mine, "Astronomy Domine" is just such a brilliant way to start an album - and a career.

arnold layne also a fairly brilliant way to start a career

Yep, great music video, too.

because of the Syd connection, for me, this has to be "shine on you crazy diamond pts 1-5."

Easily astronomy domine

one of these days

i hear there's some sort of syd connection with "astronomy domine" as well

Ha

One Of These Days is such a jam.

But Astronomy Domine is one of the greatest opening tracks on any record ever so.... eat it, Meddle.

voted dogs because it's their best ever moment even though voting for it is clearly cheating

I also cheated, otherwise One of these Days.

Astronomy Domine is one of the greatest songs of all time so this is an easy one for me. The way it basically invented space rock buys still totally rocks. The guitar is just killer.

The Ummagumma version of Astronomy Domine is so fucking great.

If you're counting Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts II through V as part of the opener, it's this definitely.

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signs of life 0

ah... there is hope for this rotten world

a lot more love than i was expecting for "ummagumma"

mostly "piper at the gates of dawn" no?

ja mann

dumb joke sry

ah, ok.

i love ummagumma.

a lot more love than i was expecting for "ummagumma"

Hey, where was Sysyphus Pt. 1?

... on the part of the album that isn't the opening track ?

take it up with brad if you feel otherwise

I dig that Ummagumma : Piper confusion. Legendary way to reveal one's Floydian listening tendencies

This would've been a brutally hard pick for me between several of the least popular choices: Let There Be More Light, OBC (speaking of pairings, When You're In should've been listed with this), The Post-War Dream (my knee-jerk vote, if I were only given ten seconds to choose), Cluster One.