All in all you're just another vote in the POLL! The Pink Floyd ballot poll thread (ILM Artist Poll Thread #49) - VOTING CLOSED

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Before going any further, please get your set and setting squared in the space-time perception of your choice. (it's 2:00am here in Glendale and I'm listening to More. "Main Theme" just started).

So here we go. Put on some Floyd and come up with your TOP 20 PINK FLOYD TRACKS. Put them in order. Feel free to describe how much each track rules. Email them to me at quartzcity at gmail dot com by midnight Pacific Time on MARCH 11 2014.

Standard ILX poll allocation in effect: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12.

Pink Floyd rules so much that you may want to include the following optional lists:
- Your top 10 Syd Barrett solo tracks
- Your top 10 Gilmour/Waters/Wright/Mason solo tracks. Feel free to include anything from Zee, Fictitious Sports, or Mason's CD of car engine noises if you dare.
- Your top 5 Pink Floyd bootlegs/live shows. Could be either omnibus boots like Total Eclipse or any of the live recordings, but I'll combine different releases of the same show.

Contention points:
I feel that both sections (parts I-V and VI-IX) of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" should be combined into one SOYCD vote instead of splitting the votes. On the other hand, I think the three "Another Brick In The Wall"s should be separate. I've always thought of them that way, but if completely out of my tree please say something. Hell if I know what I'm going to do if someone votes for "The Hero's Return part 2."

...and go!

Have I missed anything?

Helpful list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Pink_Floyd

Very excited for this one :)

Top 20? That's great! Have to make some difficult choices!

Feel free to include aneverything from Zee, Fictitious Sports, or Mason's CD of car engine noises if you dare.your ballot won't be counted

fixed

agree that the Brick in the Wall tracks are disparate enough to be counted separately, but i won't have room for any of them.

really excited about this poll. my very favourite PF songs kinda already stand out in my mind, but ranking them is going to be extremely difficult.

I agree with Elvis Telecom's positions on Shine On and Another Brick in the Wall.

And the POLLS ate into his brain!

What about the stuff listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unreleased_Pink_Floyd_material Is that in-game?

I agree with Elvis Telecom's positions on Shine On and Another Brick in the Wall.

― how's life, Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:50 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know this is a totally dick move going into a poll thread and loudly complaining about the band being polled so i'll keep it short and only do it once. i've never liked pink floyd. i didn't like them in junior high when some goth kid was explaining to me how deep "the wall" was (see - it's a metaphor for LIF). their lyrics are faux-sophisticated, the songs are mostly long + tedious, + waters is a POS. nb i did get some satisfaction from listening to dark side alongside wizard of oz while heavily drugged a few months ago but that is the most joy i've ever gotten out of this band. i do not begrudge anyone voting for them, and like i said, i promise not to make complaining about them a habit + gum up the works. but consider this my ballot: fuck this band forever.

good to know

their lyrics are faux-sophisticated

to loosely quote Minor Threat: at least they're fuckin trying.

This one's for you, Mordyhttp://www.ilxor.com/s.png.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlxCP0fhsI

well-played pp

good thing the lame kids have left so we can talk about how much this band RULES, now that they're gone let's break out the hash

just want to remind everybody to take a listen to "Paintbox" before your final ballot

this poll rules

Floyd never changed my life or anything*, but they've produced some great material and I'll def be voting.

* In fact I hated them for a while when Brick Pt 2 seemed to play hourly on local radio...

I just hope the Barrett era doesn't end up walking this. The Waters era rules and I'll be repping for it throughout this thread. The Gilmour era... nah.

trust that "Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up" & "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" are to be counted separately?

is stuff like the zabriskie point sessions elidgible or is it considered a bootleg (or would i be the only person voting for these tracks anyway)?

you def won't be the only person voting for those

they RULE

yes they do!

as far as Zabriskie, there were 3 tracks officially released on the soundtrack, but the entire "sessions" could be voted for as a boot if I understand correctly.

lobbying post for voters not to forget Obscured by Clouds, an odd record I've come to love over the years

let's be fair, it wouldn't be a pink floyd poll without someone saying that they sucked

Brain Damage/Eclipse. 1 song or 2 songs?

I'm thinking two.

agreed

definitely

'Time' for the win. probably my all time favourite ever rock song.

ok as a card carrying member of the PINK FLOYD RULES club I am ashamed to admit that I have never listened to Animals until today

& it RULES wtf was I waiting for all these years

oh duuuuude

yeah Animals is awesome, I love it

I was listening to Piper on the way into work, sleeping on a dandelion etc

So if Brain Damage/Eclipse is 2 songs does the same go for Happiest Days of Our Lives and Brick 2?

uh oh

I always think of Eclipse as the outro to Brain Damage. I don't know, separately they only feel like half a song and I probably wouldn't vote for them.

Can't believe you didn't go with "How should I complete the POLL?"

*deletes bookmark"

I don't think many people would vote for Happiest Days of Our Lives by itself so I don't think it really matters if you merge it with Brick 2 or not

xxp

What about In the Flesh?/In the Flesh

Brain Damage/Eclipse is one awesome song. This is not Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid, people.

I would vote for it as a single song. No preference about Happiest/Brick 2 though.

Nobody ever turns off the radio after "Brain Damage" and before "Eclipse" and thinks they've heard a complete song.

just want to remind everybody to take a listen to "Paintbox" before your final ballot

Yes! There's a good chance this could be my #1.

PINK FLOYD RULES

are you guys gonna be doing this every 5 minutes for this whole thing

no

sweet

Every 2 minutes.

PINK FLOYD RULES!

OK I'm finally going to participate in a ballot poll. Psyched about this one.

when does rollout start?

oof, I thought it was end of day tomorrow. in that case let me ask again:

are we counting "Us & Them" and "The Piano Sequence" / whatever else it's been called on bootlegs together? it helps that it was labeled as "Us & Them (Rick Wright piano demo)" on the Immersion box. so I hope so! o/w I will vote for both.

me too, midnight dates always confuse me

when does rollout start?

The bonus polls (bootlegs, solo, Syd) will roll out tomorrow and then I'll just start working through them. Ballots are pretty diverse so it'll probably be the top 50 tracks

are we counting "Us & Them" and "The Piano Sequence" / whatever else it's been called on bootlegs together? it helps that it was labeled as "Us & Them (Rick Wright piano demo)" on the Immersion box. so I hope so! o/w I will vote for both.

I'm counting them together.

can we count all of pink floyd as one song y/n

where it segues seamlessly from one of those EEE-YAAAESSSAAAWWWWWW! into a David Sanborn saxophone solo.

I was mistaken, by the way. The anguished segue happens on The Gunner's Dream. So no Sanborn.

Dude, that's a great moment on that song.

"the gunner's dream" is badass as hell, nearly on my ballot

haha the bit I quoted is on that song too

btw i'm gonna name my next cat 'dick parry'

― mookieproof, Saturday, March 1, 2014 5:54 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is my favourite post itt

voted!

38 ballots, 114 tracks with votes

Elvis, do you want me to change the thread title to reflect that the poll is closing tonight?

Yes please!

ballot sent! my first ilx poll!

lol @ pink floyd's 'related artists' in spotify

Sent! I just listened to the stuff I had laying around. I was able to observe how kinda sorta throwaway soundtrack stuff (Nile Song, Ibiza Bar) would be foundation material for another band's legend.

46 ballots in. They all RULE (seriously!)

wow it's gonna be a real party!

we'll need to dust off the oil slide projector

I had one of those as a kid! A toy version of a psychedelic oil slide projector. The slides were little disks that worked like a lava lamp using heat from the projector's light bulb. I didn't quite understand yet what it was supposed to be used for, and accidentally sat on and broke one of the slides which left a stain on the sofa that remained for the next 15 years.

47th ballot just sent!

I always end up waiting until the last moment in these polls and quickly put something together, obviously completely forgetting about many great songs. Anyway, I voted at least.

feel like at this point I can admit that much as I wanted to I couldn't deny brick pt2 a spot on my ballot. great solo plus there was real wtfness in the floyd dropping a surprise disco track even if it was a bit plodding.

It's hard to convey how pervasive disco was in the late '70s, so much so that everyone from the Stones to Barry Manilow to the Beach Boys to KISS felt they had to dip their toes in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enzNePWJvI4

First ballot poll I ever participated in... it ruled.

I kind of surprised myself with my choices--2 tracks from Final cut on my shortlist... but I didn't have the nerve.

This is one of the few polls in which i have no idea what will be in the top 5. i.e. there's no critical consensus at all what the best song from DSOTM is. I also don't know how the relative rankings of the Barrett vs. Waters eras will play out.

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Some last minute listening by the fireside confirmed I like Richard Wright a lot more now than I did as a teen. VOTED.

Just submitted my ballot. God that was hard.

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Roll out tomorrow...

You are fast! Thanks for the quick results.

psyched

I got my vote in under the wire last night. wish i'd had more time to explore the catalog but i gave myself a day to listen to a bunch of Floyd and throw together my ballot.

Perfect gif

I kind of surprised myself with my choices--2 tracks from Final cut on my shortlist... but I didn't have the nerve.

That gif is hilarious.

bang a gong, get it on.

thanks for spotting that. (xxxpost)

damn forgot to vote, will be rooting hard for "Great Gig in the Sky"

what was the final ballot count?

Do you mean... The final cut?

the Final Cut, as it were

DAMMIT YOU ALWAYS DO THAT

Did not make this deadline, which sucks (in my head I had till the end of today). Will be following the rollout for sure though!

I think a measure of a good/great poll is finding totally new stuff to like in an artist I thought I had passing familiarity with, and this one was one of the best. A song I barely knew two weeks ago was my #1, and a song I'd never heard two weeks ago was my #5. I'm excited for the results.

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

Since I don't dare say it in the results thread, I will here:

"Dogs of War" has aged surprisingly well – much better than a lot of AMLoR. For a song I couldn't stand 25 years ago, today it sounds like a purposeful nod to Floyd's blues roots. The lyrics aren't nearly as frightening as I remember and the Tom Scott solo break is actually kind of awesome.

Ok, carry on...