Yeh, so since everyone here seems to like the Floyd, why not have a poll about your favorite CD?

I tried to include all the "best" proper studio albums, and i'd ask that you not vote for a compilation by chosing "something else".

The Wall, followed by Dark Side and WYWH.

Wish You Were Here, followed by Animals, then the Wall.

(Edit: Wonder if somebody's favorite album is Obscured By Clouds or More? )

Wish You Were Here because it was the first PF album I bought. I like them all though.

/off-topic
Something tells me this thread will be moved to the Off-Topic section.
/off-topic

Actually, it should have been started there to begin with.

Yes, you're so right.

Now, we're going have three Ping Floyd threads in the Off-Topic Section. Maybe someone should think about making a Pink Floyd Section. ;-)

Or, at least a specific "music/records/artists related" section would be a good idea. Somehow, music is with no doubt our key common point here at HA.

yeh, sorry... Forgot about the off-topic section

Please move it, mods!

My top ten Pink Floyd Albums:

1º) Wish You Were Here
2º) The Dark Side Of The Moon
3º) The Wall
4º) A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
5º) The Final Cut
6º) Animals
7º) The Division Bell
8º) P.U.L.S.E.
9º) Meddle
10º) The Delicate Sound Of Thunder

Wish You Were Here > The Dark Side of The Moon > The Division Bell

1) Ummagumma
2) A saucerful of secrets - The piper at the gates of dawn
3) Atom heart mother - Meddle

i voted for animals because this album is composed! (wish you were here is the weakest to me; come on,flame me)
so i'd say animals-meddle (both sides of PF) then atom heart mother-DSOTM-ummagumma-piper-the wall.
in fact wish you were here isn't the weakest(far better than momentary lapse..but is this PF?) : i forgot obscured by clouds. lol.

edit: i forgot atom heart mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I suggest Floyd flans out there to participate in this poll also:
http://www.misterpoll.com/519363917.html

If you want to go straight to results:
http://www.misterpoll.com/results.mpl?id=519363917

Others aren't?

that was in opposition to wish you were here, i meant there is an intention in the music, it's not just "coool".

Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On, followed closely by Maggot Br......um....

Oops...I thought this thread was about P Funk.

1) Atom Heart Mother
2) Dark Side of the Moon
3) Wish You Were Here

1.- Wish You Were Here
2.- Dark Side Of The Moon
3.- The Wall


I chose WYWH as my favorite because a long time ago I was in a cover band and we did some of "Shine" (not all of it, of course). And because the title song takes me straight back to a time when somebody I really loved was far away (not in a nuthouse, as in the song, but still, she kinda changed "cold comfort for change")
Dark Side is the first Floyd album I knew. I loved it. A friend of mine lent me the copy his dad bought. I had it for like 8 months, listened to it hundreds of times. Then he asked me for it. Funny thing is, that was the much-sought 1992 remaster. If I had bought it right away I would have it. But no, since I listened to it that much I though I could do without it for a little while. That little while turned to 5 years. I got the lesser 25th anniversary master.
The Wall I never have loved that much, I just has not got beneath my skin as the other ones. I love "In The Flesh" because I listened to it a lot when I got to med school and brings me back. I loved "Mother" when I heard Axl Rose singing it, then I found out it was a Floyd song, but I liked it with Guns better.
And I have always loved "Confortably Numb", it is one of my favorite songs. The guitar playing is on my all time top ten.
Those are my Floyd memories.

1 - Meddle
2 - Animals
3 - The Final Cut
third to last - UmmaGumma
second to last - The Division Bell
last - Pulse
B)

Null vote since I haven't heard all of them.

HA urgently needs an anti-smiley-abusage setting.

Something like preventing the engine from rendering more than 3 smileys per post. :B

If you're talking about studio albums... I'd have a hard time deciding. I love The Division Bell, but then I also love Wish You Were Here and A Momentary Lapse Of Reason. Depending on my mood and what I've been listening to lately, I could list any of them. I actually voted for Division Bell, although in 2 days time, things could look different...

My overall favourites are these (the order of 2), 3) and 4) is subject to change ):

1) Delicate Sound Of Thunder
2) The Division Bell
3) Wish You Were Here
4) A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
5) Dark Side Of The Moon


I'm starting to feel uncomfortable posting to all these threads - I'm posting more off topic messages than anything else here lately... I'll get my act together and stop now, I guess.

Interesting...Most of these results are predictable.

A 1/3 of the participants said that "no" PF album was their least favorite...makes sense, because they're all good. IMO, *bad* Floyd is better than *good* anything else anyway. Favorite cover...Shine On only got 1% (so far) of the votes!!! That's the coolest cover of them all!!! (even though I only saw it for the first time yesterday.) 2/3 of people seem to prefer Water's rejoining the band (as do I, even though I think he's kind of a jerk...PF needed his lyrical abilities).

And most people's favorite album *and* song is, of course "Wish You Were Here". And most people in THIS poll so far have voted the same way.

Well, I'm not gonna! Just because everyone else has! (J/K) I love WYWH, it's an outstanding album, but I've gotta say that my favorite of the albums I own so far is ...

Animals

All the songs on it are outstanding, with "Dogs" being a musical masterpiece. Water's words and Gilmour's guitar are at their very best. I can't get the opening guitar outta my head many days, but I never get tired of it...



ABSOLUTELY!!! And a Led Zeppelin section, too. And The Police. And The Beatles.

And of course, then they'll need a "Musical Groups/Artists Forum Administrator". Someone with a multitude of knowledge/interest in at least one of the most popular groups. I vote for Roberto! (Unless he'll be spread too thin with that *and* Rarewares *and* developing CDex.)

, I just posted in the Money thread and used more than 3 smileys! I also voted in that poll, and was a bit surprised to see The Final Cut was the top least favorite album. I've also seen some people around here say they're not too crazy about it. Am I the only who likes it?

A music forum isn't a bad idea, in the Misc. category. However I haven't seen too many threads about Led Zepplin, or The Police or The Beatles. For me, the only other band I could talk about as much as I talk about Pink Floyd is Queen.

Had to vote for Atom Heart Mother because I've heard it a mere billion times versus DSOTM and WYWH which number in the trillions.

Honorable mention: Studio side of Ummagumma is excellent...especially the Waters & Gilmour tracks

It's all good baby!

xen-uno

I saw a funny Hallmark card that had a guy sitting at his desk at work on the front, with the caption being "Wish You Were Here..." on the front, and "...Instead of me" on the inside of the card.

What was Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Groovin' With A Pict about? When I heard it I thought maybe Syd had made a comeback...

I'm a Wish you where here fan, in fact it was one of the first CD's I bought in the 80's.

Right, only the initiated ones know about it.

The history behind that cover is pretty interesting. I suggest you buy Storm Thorgerson's Mind Over Matter.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...ce&s=books&st=*

(Before you ask: Yeah, i have it too)



Hehe. I don't develop CDex anymore. (Although I'm still admin for it)

But no, you guys won't catch me dead rejoining the moderator team. Got my share of Stress... (as Jan recently did)

Regards;

Roberto.

A great CD that is dismissed as a Roger Waters solo album by most Floyd fans; The Final Cut.

What's so special about it? My vote went to the Delicate Sound of Thunder cover.

Glad to see someone else who likes The Final Cut

I'll just switch to ASCII drawing!
Muhahaha!
Damn, never mind the formatting precludes it

Animals, by far. Long extended compositions that represent the height of Floyd's instrumental creativity (as opposed to sound effect creativity - Dark Side of the Moon, Ummagumma -, or lyrical creativity - The Wall - which is obviously eclipsed on other albums)

I also have a soft spot for Meddle (though I'm not fond of the feature-length Echoes) and DSOTM is right up there. The rest I own, but I find myself not listening to that much. Especially the post-Waters stuff which reaches and crosses the threshold into pretentiousness on nearly every track.

N/A since there are people like me who are (gasp) not Pink Floyd fans. Why hasn't this been moved to off-topic yet?

the only Pink Floyd song I have listened to in the past 15 years that I can remember is that one with the "We Don't need no education..." line

Another Brick In The Wall (Pt. II) from The Wall Album
rpop:
I like "The Final Cut" album very much, too

If by "intention in the music" you mean that the album has a cohesive theme, then Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, and The Final Cut all fall in that category. Maybe even The Divison Bell, too.

I thought Id be the only one for voting for The Division Bell.

In fact, I thought I would have been blocked.

But lo, it is in rjamorim's top 3!

For me: Wish You Were Here > Dark Side Of The Moon > The Wall > Animals > Meddle

(yes, I'm a fan of the 70's albums )

For me:

1) Wish You Were Here
2) Dark Side of The Moon
3) The Division Bell

I think The Division Bell is an excellent album. Though a lot of people don't seem to like it.

Yay! More votes for The Wall.

1) Wish You Were Here
2) Atom Heart Mother
3) Dark Side Of The Moon
4) Division Bell
5) The Wall
6) Animals

for the rest i don't have a particular order although i also like them alot

1) Animals
2) The Final Cut
3) The Division Bell
4) Obscurred By Clouds
5) The Early Singles

I voted for Wish you were here.

Actually I'm pretty surprised to see it being the winner so far. I would have thought Dark side of the moon or The Wall would be most people preferred PF LP.

the wall is an album you either adore or dislike. at least thats the experience i made with many other pink floyd fans. sure not everybody loves or dislikes it (i like it also although i don't think this is the best pink floyd album ever)

to dislike an pink floyd album for a pink floyd fan still means to love it if you know what i mean

All Argentinians should love The Final Cut. It was a libel against the Falklands war.

Who's pink floyd, seriously? I've heard the name before and that's about it. Should I be listening to them? I'm 18 BTW, and I generally listen to alternative rock, or nu-metal, but that's not really a genre. B)

I didn't know that - pray tell...?

Though I must warn you i'm English...

Anyways, I wouldn't have a clue about my favourite album, though my favourite track has to be Mother. I've never given each *whole* album a good listen to, though I have heard them all at some point. Problem is that I generally listen to PF while stoned which limits my ability to remember what was good...

My best friend Alex introduced me to them, but most other friends don't 'get' PF, so we end up playing other things when a crowd is here, which is a shame. Some PF is the most moving music i've heard, but some of it (to the unitiated) sounds like a 1960's version of Moby

Though my favourite gig *ever* has to be Roger Waters (fraid I never got to see PF) at Glastonbury last year. He had the full surround sound setup at the Pyramid field, which can cope with a crowd of 90,000 people. There was a lot of kerfuffle because other bands (like Super Furry Animals) wanted to use the surround kit, but he stipulated that only he should use it which seemed a bit anal, but it did make his set sound that much better. Even better was the fact that as he played the last note of the last tune, me and the girlfriend came up for air after having a bit of a romantic moment to see Alex look at us and throw up...

I would love to see RW get back in the fold, it's about time but he's a bit of an arrogant arse and it's not going to happen. Ah well.

I can't decide!

I do like the Final Cut, alot. Hated it when I frist bought it but grew to love it years later ..