Pink Floyd Favourite Al***

In no particular order:

A momentary lapse of reason
Animals
Atom heart mother
Meddle
The division bell
Wish you were here

I like all Pink Floyd albums, but those 5 are certainly my favourites and most played.

...I can listen to and enjoy to some degree all of Floyd's albums except The Wall ....which for some reason I've never "got" - Waters got too far up his own a**s when he wrote this I reckon ...It's just all too bleedin' pompous (and yes I know PF have always sailed close to that particular wind)

...Best PF album? aw c'mon! the world and his wife KNOWS it's DSOTM ....let's not kid ourselves chaps!

Division Bell

Wish You Were Here

Dark Side

Pulse

quote:

Originally posted by Nathaniel:
Live version of Saucerful of Secrets on Ummagumma gets me singing.

That really has images going in my mind. The local lads and girls out for a few bevvies at the pub on Friday night. It's karaoke night and what does the DJ play? 'Dancing Queen', 'I Want To Break Free', 'Tainted Love' ... Nah

'Saucerful of Secrets'! I would love to see them singing along to that one. Perhaps we could also have some beatboxing to accompany 'On The Run'? (LOL)

Seriously ... It's a pity that the expression of opinions regard Pink Floyd's recorded work have given rise to the usual bunch of insults being thrown around. Totally unnecessary. I'm not going to say IMHO totally unecessary as that's a fact. People should be able to like what they want without being insulted by others.

Now pass me that Max Bygraves album. It's culture time.

I rember either hearing, or reading aninterview with David Gilmour who said that 'Wish You Were Here' was his favourite Pink Floyd album, and that 'Dark Side of the Moon' was Roger Water's favourite.

This might have been from before 'The Wall', but I don't think so.

Looking through this thread it does seem that they were a band that continued for so long that different people got to know them during different phases of their career, and that the phase they got to know first is often their favourite.

As mentioned above, I got started with Pulse only 5 years ago and it tends to be my album of choice when I reach for some Floyd. Since then I have picked up (in no particular sequence):

Wish you were here
Animals
Echoes
The Wall
The Delicate Sound of Thunder
DSOTM
A Momentary Lapse of Reason

When put in chronological order against the band's overall production, it becomes clear that my taste for the band is for their material from DSOTM onwards. Maybe I should try some of their earlier material, but to be honest, having checked on All Music for the track listing (handier than going to the rack for the album) I see that the tracks on Echoes that I don't like are all attibuted to Barrett as composer. If those tracks are any indication of the music in the days before DSOTM I won't be rushing to buy any.

Give "Meddle" a try. Not twiddly like early Floyd, just great music. "Echoes" is a 23-minute joy.



Ping!

quote:

Originally posted by Mike Lacey:
Give "Meddle" a try. Not twiddly like early Floyd, just great music. "Echoes" is a 23-minute joy.

I'll second this. If I had to have only one Pink Floyd album, it would be "Meddle".

Come to think of it, I do only have one Pink Floyd album, and it is "Meddle".

Is there a Pink Floyd album that hasn't yet been cited in this thread?

That says something about their output.

I quite like them all, but in different ways and on different occasions. I don't play The Wall very much at all, and like many others here I have over -done DSOTM.
The Final Cut does resonate with me because of the recorded voices of the old soldier(s?) who remind me of my grandfather, and Not Now John because I like hearing the gospel-ly backers singing 'fuck all that' - it makes me smile. Shouldn't, but does.

Momentary Lapse and Division Bell remind me of when I saw them live and work for me, and also of collapsing seating at Earl's Court and mass confusion. I need to have a herbal cigarette for most of the material pre-Atom Heart Mother, but there's nowt wrong with that.

quote:

Originally posted by JamieL_v2:
I rember either hearing, or reading an interview with David Gilmour who said that 'Wish You Were Here' was his favourite Pink Floyd album, and that 'Dark Side of the Moon' was Roger Water's favourite.

This might have been from before 'The Wall', but I don't think so.

Looking through this thread it does seem that they were a band that continued for so long that different people got to know them during different phases of their career, and that the phase they got to know first is often their favourite.

Jamie

That might have been one of my interviews! I do remember in about '99 or 2000 interviewing all the Floyd (separately of course).

Dave and Rick's favourite was Wish You Were Here. Roger rated The Wall (of course) and Dark Side, and his 1992 solo album Amused To Death (yes I know!). Nick said his favourite was Dark Side because it was "fun to make" and because "it was the last time I got a writing credit".

They all seemed to hate Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma and, oddly, nobody seemed to remember More, a rather charming and underrated album.

When it comes to The Wall I actually prefer the live version "Is There Anybody Out There?" To me it has a lot more feeling and certainly a more menacing quality. Perhaps Ezrin's production is the problem with the original?

steve

quote:

Originally posted by Mike Lacey:
Give "Meddle" a try. Not twiddly like early Floyd, just great music. "Echoes" is a 23-minute joy.



Ping!

Hi Mike,

I have ordered a copy and see how I get on with it. Thank you for the recommendation.

Cheers

Brad

quote:

Originally posted by Paper Plane:
Perhaps Ezrin's production is the problem with the original?

No problem with the original in my books. I love it - one of my fave ever albums.

quote:

Originally posted by munch:
Kevin,
Nick has always had a soft spot for Atom Heart Mother.
Always wanted to play it live again.
Stu

Stu, you are probably right, because I probably didn't even ask NM about it. DG and RW, the latter especially, seemed to dislike it intensely and Rick seemed to think it was a bit of a failed experiment. Dave's attitude has obviously softened over the years because he played the title track at the Cadogan Hall in Chelsea back in 2008 - and very good it was too.

Thanks Kevin.

I am sure it was your interview if it was around then. Was that part of the BBC4 Pink Floyd night a little while back too?

I must admit I am with PaerPlane on the production on 'The Wall', apart from my dislike of the overly narrative angle of the album, I was surprised how unlike a rock album it sounded to me.

That said it is an album that has a different aim to the albums preceding it, and if you like that aspect I quite understand why so many people love the album, I just happen to not be one of them.

quote:

Originally posted by munch:
Kevin,
Did you record your interviews?
Or just take SH?
What mag or paper were they for??
Stu

Stu, in my 20-odd years as a hack I never had shorthand! I used to write in a curious code which only I could decipher. How I got away with I'll never know! Most of my music interviews however were recorded using a Sony microcassette recorder. I probably still have the tapes somewhere - but nothing to play them on!

I used to write for a number of UK, Canadian, US, German and Japanese mags, most of which no longer exist! I must be cursed - can't remember where the Floyd stuff appeared, I used to churn out stuff at such an enormous rate in those days. Sadly most of my personal archive a decade ago when the cellar flooded.

I had an odd career, writing about coated fish one day, interviewing Yoko Ono the next, reviewing art later in the week and writing about whisky on Saturdays. I tended to write under different pseudonyms, reflecting the rather schizophrenic nature of my "writing" career.

BTW, Nick Mason was one of the most amusing and charming people I ever interviewed.

quote:

Originally posted by Kevin-W:
Dave's attitude has obviously softened over the years because he played the title track at the Cadogan Hall in Chelsea back in 2008 - and very good it was too.

My photos of that are on my BookFace page.

Hurrah for me.

A close call between Wish You Were Here and The Wall.

I also LOVE Meddle, DSOM, Animals, Relics and pretty much all of their earlier stuff including Atom Heart Mother, Saucer etc.
I'm not so keen on Division Bell which was the last album I bought of theirs....

Dave Gilmore, guitar on Comfortably Numb - PRICELESS!

I'm probably in the unusual position for a forum member in listening tonight to " A saucerful of secrets" for the very first time.

What I find truly amazing is that they ever got to make another album!

Is this the difficult second album or what.


I was listening to Thin Lizzy's Shadows of a Blue Orphanage earlier today and was thinking how poor it was and I'm finding saucerful just as uninteresting.

Like a lot of music I like but realise it's more memories fuelling my interest and enjoyment (Boomtown Rats being a good example) I think this is one you really had to be around for.


SJB

I'm going to be different here and say - the final cut.



And another vote for Meddle.