Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

I could see that you might just want a song here and there to make yourself a best of playlist. Do you really need, the whole Wall album for Another Brick in the Wall and Dirty Girls?

Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

That about sums it up.

manimal2878: Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

I could see that you might just want a song here and there to make yourself a best of playlist. Do you really need, the whole Wall album for Another Brick in the Wall and Dirty Girls?

Just as an excercise, can you point out to me the bad song here? For extra points, explain how the albums is not intended to be heard as a complete work.

Disc 1

1. In the Flesh? (Waters) - 3:19

2. The Thin Ice (Waters) - 2:29

3. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 (Waters) - 3:09

4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Waters) - 1:51

5. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (Waters) - 3:59

6. Mother (Waters) - 5:36

7. Goodbye Blue Sky (Waters) - 2:48

8. Empty Spaces (Waters) - 2:08

9. Young Lust (Gilmour / Waters) - 3:30

10. One of My Turns (Waters) - 3:37

11. Don't Leave Me Now (Waters) - 4:17

12. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3 (Waters) - 1:14

13. Goodbye Cruel World (Waters) - 1:17


Disc 2
1. Hey You (Waters) - 4:42

2. Is There Anybody Out There? (Waters) - 2:40

3. Nobody Home (Waters) - 3:24

4. Vera (Waters) - 1:33

5. Bring the Boys Back Home (Waters) - 1:27

6. Comfortably Numb (Gilmour / Waters) - 6:24

7. The Show Must Go On (Waters) - 1:35

8. In the Flesh (Waters) - 4:17

9. Run Like Hell (Gilmour / Waters) - 4:24

10. Waiting for the Worms (Waters) - 3:58

11. Stop (Waters) - :30

12. The Trial (Ezrin / Waters) - 5:20

13. Outside the Wall (Waters) - 1:44

The English Major: manimal2878: Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

I could see that you might just want a song here and there to make yourself a best of playlist. Do you really need, the whole Wall album for Another Brick in the Wall and Dirty Girls?

I own The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, and Division Bell.
I also own the cheeky "A Collection of Great Dance Songs" and the two-disc "greatest hits."
They are all record company promo discs.
The one that gets placed the most is A Collection of Great Dance Songs. Sometimes, I'll put in the Greatest Hits when I want to hear more than the seven or eight tracks on Dance Songs.

I missed this post earlier. So, what you're saying here is that you don't actually own any Pink Floyd albums? I recommend you pick up "Meddle", "More", and "Animals".

But particularly "Meddle".

downstairs: Pink Floyd sucks. The Beatles suck. Faith No More sucks.

/Do I have this right?

No, no, no. It's %BANDNAME% sucks, where %BANDNAME%="Anything you personally like".

jj325: Good for them. I'm all in favor of arists being able to distribute their work the way they want to.

/Wonder what they'll do with the windfall? Hopefully give it to Syd's family

Agreed.

However, in the long run it is in the artist's better financial interest to sell the songs individually. I don't need an entire album if I just want to listen to my favorite song that happens to be on that album, even if the artist has some grand vision for the packaged whole.

When consumers are forced to buy 15 songs for 15 dollars to get the one song they want... well... we already know what they'll do (they were doing it all through the late 90s up until places like itunes started selling single tracks for a buck).

Cyberluddite: Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

Perhaps Submitter isn't old enough to have heard anything Pink Floyd did before 1985, and believes that the post-Roger-Waters version is all there is to Pink Floyd.

As far as I'm concerned, the band Pink Floyd broke up in 1985, and the mediocre band that's used its name since then should be sued for fraud or trademark infringement.

I like to think they broke up in 1968, right after Syd's brain broke.

GurneyHalleck: Most people don't understand enough about music to appreciate what Pink Floyd was doing. And by "don't understand," I mean "haven't done enough acid."

Seriously, I don't really know too many Floyd fans who didn't do some kind of hallucinogen at some point in their life. There's a lot to their music that lies beneath the surface, and it's not easy to see unless you've squeegeed your third eye.

\get off of my melting lawn

I made that same observation. Through high school I had about ten friends who were hardcore Floyd fans. They constantly argue the serious spiritual side of it all and what art it was. All ten of them were doing so many drugs that they were not above spraying WD40 into their shirts, pulling it over their face, and hyperventilating.

The rest of us just saw it as music by, and for, druggies.

Razorwolf: GurneyHalleck: Most people don't understand enough about music to appreciate what Pink Floyd was doing. And by "don't understand," I mean "haven't done enough acid."

Seriously, I don't really know too many Floyd fans who didn't do some kind of hallucinogen at some point in their life. There's a lot to their music that lies beneath the surface, and it's not easy to see unless you've squeegeed your third eye.

\get off of my melting lawn

I made that same observation. Through high school I had about ten friends who were hardcore Floyd fans. They constantly argue the serious spiritual side of it all and what art it was. All ten of them were doing so many drugs that they were not above spraying WD40 into their shirts, pulling it over their face, and hyperventilating.

The rest of us just saw it as music by, and for, druggies.

Then you should fault the user for being a farking retard, not the drug. I had already been a Pink Floyd fan for many, many years before I discovered LSD (I was a very well-behaved teenager). But that first night I ever took acid and listened to Dark Side of the Moon, I began to understand several fundamental truths. One of which is that they are one of the few bands that I will say, unquivocally, you cannot understand their music unless you have taken hallucinogenic drugs.

Not a very good day for EMI. Although I imagine that $60,000 will go mostly to the lawyers, and if anything is left it will be snorted by dinner time.

Wish You Were Here.

Name a bad song off that album.

/there are only 6 songs

Floyd albums are complete works of art. In order for a particular piece to retain its integrity, it must be listened to as a whole, from start to finish.


HotLonelyTeenageGirl: The English Major: manimal2878: Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

I could see that you might just want a song here and there to make yourself a best of playlist. Do you really need, the whole Wall album for Another Brick in the Wall and Dirty Girls?

I own The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, and Division Bell.
I also own the cheeky "A Collection of Great Dance Songs" and the two-disc "greatest hits."
They are all record company promo discs.
The one that gets placed the most is A Collection of Great Dance Songs. Sometimes, I'll put in the Greatest Hits when I want to hear more than the seven or eight tracks on Dance Songs.

I missed this post earlier. So, what you're saying here is that you don't actually own any Pink Floyd albums? I recommend you pick up "Meddle", "More", and "Animals".

But particularly "Meddle".

But more importantly, "Wish You Were Here."

.

you'll have to buy the whole crappy album to get the two good songs

Sigh. Yeah, but hasn't that pretty much always been the case with Pink Floyd albums? Except The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon.

/I cannot tell you how gravely disappointed I was in The Division Bell.

Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

In general, I agree. Doesn't mean the casual listener, or even the more advanced fan needs to own all the songs from a particular album...especially some of the more out-there stuff.

As much as fan as I am, I still find myself really only wanting to hear a couple tracks each off of stuff like More and Obscured by Clouds, and honestly, as much as I love Atom Heart Mother and Meddle, I don't remember the last time I felt like listening to them as whole albums...usually it's the suite/echoes, or the other songs, not both sides, know what I mean?

/maybe I need to get back on the drugs

Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

Obviously you've never heard Ummagumma.

Treygreen13: Not a very good day for EMI. Although I imagine that $60,000 will go mostly to the lawyers, and if anything is left it will be snorted by dinner time.

Tea time

Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

It must be fun taking something enjoyable like listening to music and turning it into the aural equivalent of a trip to the dentist.

Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

Or they should just buy the two-disc greatest hits.

/would you buy just one movement from a Mozart symphony?

Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd


The thread should have ended here.


Also, what's with this bullshiat that you need drugs to enjoy PF's music? I've been a huge fan for about as long as I can remember (I'm 27), and I haven't done a single drug in my entire life. I can put the albums on, sit back and enjoy and be completely sober and I don't see how I'm "missing" anything. And please don't tell me I need to go do drugs to see what I'm "missing". You'd have better luck getting a blind man to see again by taking him to Benny Hinn.

The English Major: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I missed this post earlier. So, what you're saying here is that you don't actually own any Pink Floyd albums? I recommend you pick up "Meddle", "More", and "Animals".

But particularly "Meddle".

Now that I think about it, I might have Meddle. I'll have to check when I get home.

Meddle has my favourite PF song. . .Fearless.

Broktun: The English Major: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I missed this post earlier. So, what you're saying here is that you don't actually own any Pink Floyd albums? I recommend you pick up "Meddle", "More", and "Animals".

But particularly "Meddle".

Now that I think about it, I might have Meddle. I'll have to check when I get home.

Meddle has my favourite PF song. . .Fearless.


Fearless is great, but so is One Of These Days and Pillow of Winds.

Broktun: The English Major: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I missed this post earlier. So, what you're saying here is that you don't actually own any Pink Floyd albums? I recommend you pick up "Meddle", "More", and "Animals".

But particularly "Meddle".

Now that I think about it, I might have Meddle. I'll have to check when I get home.

Meddle has my favourite PF song. . .Fearless.

It has five of mine.... San Tropez, Pillow of Winds, Fearless, Echoes (of course), and One of These Days.

=)

Coco LaFemme: Broktun: The English Major: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I missed this post earlier. So, what you're saying here is that you don't actually own any Pink Floyd albums? I recommend you pick up "Meddle", "More", and "Animals".

But particularly "Meddle".

Now that I think about it, I might have Meddle. I'll have to check when I get home.

Meddle has my favourite PF song. . .Fearless.


Fearless is great, but so is One Of These Days and Pillow of Winds.

oh, come on now.

...Echoes...Echoes............ECHOES, anyone...????? I feel like I'm takin' crazy pills!

sugarmagnolia94: Coco LaFemme: Broktun: The English Major: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I missed this post earlier. So, what you're saying here is that you don't actually own any Pink Floyd albums? I recommend you pick up "Meddle", "More", and "Animals".

But particularly "Meddle".

Now that I think about it, I might have Meddle. I'll have to check when I get home.

Meddle has my favourite PF song. . .Fearless.


Fearless is great, but so is One Of These Days and Pillow of Winds.

oh, come on now.

...Echoes...Echoes............ECHOES, anyone...????? I feel like I'm takin' crazy pills!


Just because I didn't mention it doesn't mean I don't think it's a great song. Someone mentioned Fearless and I brought up a couple other songs on that side. It kinda goes without saying that Echoes is awesome.

GurneyHalleck: Seriously, I don't really know too many Floyd fans who didn't do some kind of hallucinogen at some point in their life.

I've never done any. Floyd when you're shiatfaced drunk is pretty damn fine though.

Coco LaFemme: Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd


The thread should have ended here.


Also, what's with this bullshiat that you need drugs to enjoy PF's music? I've been a huge fan for about as long as I can remember (I'm 27), and I haven't done a single drug in my entire life. I can put the albums on, sit back and enjoy and be completely sober and I don't see how I'm "missing" anything. And please don't tell me I need to go do drugs to see what I'm "missing". You'd have better luck getting a blind man to see again by taking him to Benny Hinn.

Just for the record, and history agrees with me on this.... trust me, dude: You should take drugs and listen to pink floyd. I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just saying that every person who has EVER taken LSD and listened to them says "Oh.". Every person.

manimal2878: Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

I could see that you might just want a song here and there to make yourself a best of playlist. Do you really need, the whole Wall album for Another Brick in the Wall and Dirty Girls?

Yes, this way you can hear other good song like Comfortably Numb. It's for your own good really.

Queue up Wish You Were Here, put your player on repeat and press play. You'll be good for days.

HotLonelyTeenageGirl: Coco LaFemme: Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd


The thread should have ended here.


Also, what's with this bullshiat that you need drugs to enjoy PF's music? I've been a huge fan for about as long as I can remember (I'm 27), and I haven't done a single drug in my entire life. I can put the albums on, sit back and enjoy and be completely sober and I don't see how I'm "missing" anything. And please don't tell me I need to go do drugs to see what I'm "missing". You'd have better luck getting a blind man to see again by taking him to Benny Hinn.

Just for the record, and history agrees with me on this.... trust me, dude: You should take drugs and listen to pink floyd. I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just saying that every person who has EVER taken LSD and listened to them says "Oh.". Every person.


For starters, I'm not a dude (I know, I know.....there's no girls on the internet). Also, I don't do drugs. That means, I don't do drugs. Didn't think that part was fuzzy. You just wasted precious seconds of your life telling me to do something there's not a chance in hell I'm going to do. Hope it was fun.


I think I'll go put on Obscured By Clouds now and have a Diet Coke.

Basically everything from Dark Side Of The Moon gets heavy radio play. It really amazed me when I bought it because I thought I'd be hearing new stuff.

ZAZ: Do any of Pink Floyd's albums come with instructions that they should be listened to as an album rather than a track at a time? I have seen that on some other 1970s music. Chicago II, I think.


No, and I have damn near all of them. However considering the fact they were known to do concept albums or themed pieces, it makes about a besquillion times more sense to listen to the album as a whole rather than pick them apart track by track. The songs were designed to flow in and out of each other and when you don't listen to them in the manner the band intended, you lose that.

HotLonelyTeenageGirl: manimal2878: Sinto: if someone really feels any Pink Floyd album only has a couple of good songs and the rest is crap, they shouldn't be listening to Pink Floyd

I could see that you might just want a song here and there to make yourself a best of playlist. Do you really need, the whole Wall album for Another Brick in the Wall and Dirty Girls?

Just as an excercise, can you point out to me the bad song here? For extra points, explain how the albums is not intended to be heard as a complete work.

Disc 1

1. In the Flesh? (Waters) - 3:19

2. The Thin Ice (Waters) - 2:29

3. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 (Waters) - 3:09

4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Waters) - 1:51

5. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (Waters) - 3:59

6. Mother (Waters) - 5:36

7. Goodbye Blue Sky (Waters) - 2:48

8. Empty Spaces (Waters) - 2:08

9. Young Lust (Gilmour / Waters) - 3:30

10. One of My Turns (Waters) - 3:37

11. Don't Leave Me Now (Waters) - 4:17

12. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3 (Waters) - 1:14

13. Goodbye Cruel World (Waters) - 1:17


Disc 2
1. Hey You (Waters) - 4:42

2. Is There Anybody Out There? (Waters) - 2:40

3. Nobody Home (Waters) - 3:24

4. Vera (Waters) - 1:33

5. Bring the Boys Back Home (Waters) - 1:27

6. Comfortably Numb (Gilmour / Waters) - 6:24

7. The Show Must Go On (Waters) - 1:35

8. In the Flesh (Waters) - 4:17

9. Run Like Hell (Gilmour / Waters) - 4:24

10. Waiting for the Worms (Waters) - 3:58

11. Stop (Waters) - :30

12. The Trial (Ezrin / Waters) - 5:20

13. Outside the Wall (Waters) - 1:44

I can:

Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2
Comfortably Numb
Young Lust

I'm being dead serious, for my money, Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2 is the weakest song on the album. The other 2 are just so overplayed as to border on hatred for me, and this is coming from a guy who was in what was basically a Pink Floyd cover band for 5 years and was musical director on one theatrical Version of The Wall and played Pink in another (where I met my wife, interestingly enough). For me, the 2 best songs on the whole album are Vera and Bring The Boys Back Home, and if you wanna talk Waters' original vision, When The Tigers Broke Free.

But it's all moot, because Animals and Meddle blow the Wall, DSOTM and WYWH out of the water as time goes by.

Boy do I ever love the music tab. For 6 days out of the week, it's trolltastic headlines and Lady Gaga / U2 / Nickelback / Creed shiat, then one day for posting obscure metal bands.