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

oh jesus this is terrible. might be better without lyrics.

okay "on the turning away" has some nice playing but the lyrics are balls and it's just "comfortably numb" lite. weird to me that there are thousands of guitar dudes out there chasing this tone.

i kinda like that one too :/

fwiw i can live with "sorrow" though again please stop singing words

coincidentally heard Learning to Fly on the radio yesterday. actually sounded... bearable. i'll have to listen through MLOR just for old time's sake. absolutely none of the songs will make my ballot though.

hey i can liveblog the division bell too if you guys want

there but for the grace of god etc

i got plenty of time for the DB actually.

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2014/02/16/17-truedetective2.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

it's just "comfortably numb" lite. weird to me that there are thousands of guitar dudes out there chasing this tone.

it's like i don't even know you

It's really hard to think of most of the Dark Side of the Moon as being separate tracks, as the instrumental pieces are so well orchestrated in how they segue from one piece to the next.

Speak to Me/Breathe/On the Run
Time/Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us & Them/Any Color You like
Brain Damage/Eclipse

And really Us & Them to Eclipse to me runs as one big piece really well.

Time you got the clocks which breaks up things. You flip the side on the LP and/or the cash register kind of breaks it up at Money, but man the rest just goes.

u forgot breathe (reprise)

also you are generally rong, no offense

Division Bell has some great space-rock production (I love the first minute of "Keep Talking," for example), but the songwriting and those ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ATROCIOUS vocals sink it. Their worst album.

i don't know, i was really drunk at the time

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

weird to me that there are thousands of guitar dudes out there chasing this tone.

During the recording of About Face, Gilmour swapped out his Floyd-era effects and amps for a "modernized" chain of Boss effects and those 80s-era Fender amps and (gack) Mesa Boogies. The same rig continued into AMLOR where the main guitar was one of those headless Steinbergers.

Gilmour has mentioned that he'd like to do a new mix of AMLOR with "the 80s mixed out of it." Maybe some distant reissue...

per the (amazing) propeller heads at gilmourish it was fenders and a solid-state gallien-krueger for the recording. the mesas didn't come out until he toured on it (so you can hear them on A Delicate Sound of Thunder). he never gave up the strat/muff/hiwatt thing tho.

btw tbqh i'm totally coming around on Boss pedals lately. simple, cheap, easily replaceable, no screwdriver required if you run batteries and they sound plenty good enough for any room I'd ever play. I'm tired of playing the boutique game maaaaan.

I recently made myself a playlist of my favourite post-Piper/pre-DSOTM pastoral psyche Floyd songs, my ballot's probably going to be pretty heavy on that stuff.

Anybody remember Gilmour sharing musical guest duties with Buster Poindexter on SNL? Cause I just found the video, headless Steinberger and all...

http://www.jukebo.com/david-gilmour/music-clip,ah-robertson-it-s-you-ft-snl-band,53x8m.html

More Steinberger action here w/Kate Bush: http://youtu.be/Lk7AVm0Ome0

And more 80s Gilmour w/Townshend http://youtu.be/LeXf90OGTHE (actually, Gilmour is pretty great in this)

both great songs! keep 'em coming! really enjoy gilmour in his "hey is that somebody's dad up there?" phase

steinberger is kinda hilar but also fits his style and tbf is zero percent cornier than a strat

My favorite Gilmour solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxYpsB_jdH8&feature=kp

Random thoughts:

Never been a huge Syd stan. Interstellar Overdrive will probably be my highest-ranking Piper vote.

I don't know if I can vote for anything off Dark Side. The Wall at least has bits and pieces that haven't been completely eroded by exposure for me.

Conversely, am likely to vote for everything off Wish You Were Here, with possible exception of title track (see erosion, exposure).

"Never been a huge Syd stan. Interstellar Overdrive will probably be my highest-ranking Piper vote."

same for me. I LOVE the Syd era singles, though. I don't enjoy listening to Piper, though, and I've tried so many times: yesterday again. & the reason I'll (probably) vote for Interstellar Overdrive is because it was the go-to song for high school garage jams with people we didn't know that well...probably b/c of the Camper Van Beethoven version, which everyone knew well. lol @ suburban Atlanta around 1990.

i'm probably going to vote like crazy for stuff that's been eroded by exposure. overplayed for a reason!

I know, but I can live a long time without hearing "Us and Them" or "The Great Gig in the Sky" again. (Except of course that I can't...)

You Can live a long tome.

I'm going to vote for my favorite songs. I find that's the easiest way to approach these polls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob7XgVJonYs

this is going to be VERY high on my ballot

I got a bootleg of the early Floyd singles & related ephemera about a decade ago & this one in particular memorexed me. sinister lope -> AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob7XgVJonYs

ah shit I meant maxell, contact high from listening to that again, it's not my fault

My "shortlist" has 40 songs. Slight problem.

I'll make up for Syd shortages in other ballots.

"Come in Number 51" is absolutely the best goddamned thing EVER. It's probably good for me to rewatch that every now and then. Funny how these things work though because as much as I dig that and similar I've got NO time for Floyd circa '72 and beyond. Won't be taking part in the poll, just wanted to pay my respect for their stuff that truly (IMHO)does rule.

no way dude you gotta vote for it! our votes will together...maybe get it on the countdown?

you mean the final poll when it's been whittled down? sure thing

this is the final poll, vote now or never

hey guys what did roger waters tell the witch doctor who asked for a second helping of dinner?

"dine on, you crazy shaman!"

Anyone who votes for Roger Waters' cover of "Across the Universe" should get a permaban:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3lWCZApDY0

I really like this version of "Wish You Were Here" with Stéphane Grapelli.

Yeah, that's a hoot.

Gilmour has mentioned that he'd like to do a new mix of AMLOR with "the 80s mixed out of it." Maybe some distant reissue...

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, March 1, 2014 12:56 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's a few hundred albums and songs I'd like to hear with "the '80s mixed out of it". That would be a good thread BTW, '80s albums that would be excellent if they didn't have that cheezy '80s production.....

IIRC, the remaster team claimed Mason had come in and redone the drums, and they were also going to harvest Wright's keyboards from live tapes.

I think most of my ballot is going to be Meddle + Animals + DSOTM

in fact I'm going with EZ Snappin's method and my ballot = my favorite songs, rip the bandaid off it goes BOOM, DONE

Surprisingly little DSOTM on my final list.

cmon man

though to be honest I am kinda with earlnash, it was hard for me to pull out single tracks from DSOTM as I think of it as one great big ~experience~

maaaaaaaan