More Steinberger action here w/Kate Bush: http://youtu.be/Lk7AVm0Ome0
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 March 2014 10:06 (ten years ago) link
And more 80s Gilmour w/Townshend http://youtu.be/LeXf90OGTHE (actually, Gilmour is pretty great in this)
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 March 2014 10:08 (ten years ago) link
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
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
My favorite Gilmour solo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxYpsB_jdH8&feature=kp
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 March 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
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).
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― Euler, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
i'm probably going to vote like crazy for stuff that's been eroded by exposure. overplayed for a reason!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
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...)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
You Can live a long tome.
― Mark G, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
I'm going to vote for my favorite songs. I find that's the easiest way to approach these polls.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
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
― Euler, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob7XgVJonYs
ah shit I meant maxell, contact high from listening to that again, it's not my fault
― Euler, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
My "shortlist" has 40 songs. Slight problem.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
I'll make up for Syd shortages in other ballots.
― Taking Devil's Tower (by mashed potatoes) (WilliamC), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― Yarli Simon (rattled), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
no way dude you gotta vote for it! our votes will together...maybe get it on the countdown?
― Euler, Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
you mean the final poll when it's been whittled down? sure thing
― Yarli Simon (rattled), Saturday, 1 March 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
this is the final poll, vote now or never
― Taking Devil's Tower (by mashed potatoes) (WilliamC), Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
hey guys what did roger waters tell the witch doctor who asked for a second helping of dinner?
"dine on, you crazy shaman!"
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
Anyone who votes for Roger Waters' cover of "Across the Universe" should get a permaban:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3lWCZApDY0
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 1 March 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
I really like this version of "Wish You Were Here" with Stéphane Grapelli.
― Taking Devil's Tower (by mashed potatoes) (WilliamC), Saturday, 1 March 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that's a hoot.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 1 March 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
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.....
― Lee626, Saturday, 1 March 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Virginia, Plain and Tall (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 March 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link
I think most of my ballot is going to be Meddle + Animals + DSOTM
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 March 2014 01:58 (ten years ago) link
in fact I'm going with EZ Snappin's method and my ballot = my favorite songs, rip the bandaid off it goes BOOM, DONE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link
Surprisingly little DSOTM on my final list.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:09 (ten years ago) link
cmon man
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
after it's all done we should do a quick sub poll of best album covers, because fuck man they've had some awesome ones
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
today is where I say "man" alot, obv
I'd think the "eighties" production actually strengthens Gilmour's songs: the echo gives them a grandeur. Otherwise these things are nullities.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
"Come in Number 51" = "Careful With That Axe, Eugene." Please don't split votes between them.
I would vote side 1 of DSOTM if I could, but it feels wrong to extract songs from it - I love "Breathe," but it seems incomplete without the two tracks that follow.
"Embryo," anyone? There's a version on this 1970 concert which I am just seeing for the first time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nluPDDofsE4
― KCB (Kent Burt), Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
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
Maaaan, this post is so OTM.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
I had to suck it up in the end, because my ballot felt v weird without DSOTM being represented
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:27 (ten years ago) link
I have a few, but very few. WYWH got shafted.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:28 (ten years ago) link
"Cirrus Minor" FTW.
― KCB (Kent Burt), Sunday, 2 March 2014 03:14 (ten years ago) link
Ballot sent.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 March 2014 03:16 (ten years ago) link
I like the massive sequencing throb that runs through "Until We Sleep." Should have been an action movie back then.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 2 March 2014 07:13 (ten years ago) link
there's all these sort of pastoral placid pretty things fighting for space at the bottom of my ballot - Cirrus Minor, If, Stay, A Pillow Of Winds... I only now realize how much they did this kind of thing.
― sleeve, Sunday, 2 March 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
"A Pillow Of Winds" will be near the top of my ballot. Pastoral Floyd is totally my bag.
You must also please remember "Cymbaline."
― KCB (Kent Burt), Sunday, 2 March 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
"Delicate Sound of Thunder became the first rock album to be played in space, as Soviet cosmonauts took it aboard Soyuz TM-7. They left the cassette box on Earth to save weight. The members of Pink Floyd were present at the launch. The double LP was also the band's only album to be officially released in the Soviet Union by the state-owned label Melodiya."
are there killer tapes of Soviet bands from that era trying to sound like latter-day Pink Floyd?
― Euler, Sunday, 2 March 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
Dam a top 20 is going to be hard! And I go no further than Animals.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Sunday, 2 March 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pFV5yjx2XI
― Euler, Sunday, 2 March 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
1st draft-44 tracks. Heavy on the early singles. Latest song is from the Wall. Non-LP track that's a shoe in- Embryo.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Sunday, 2 March 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
embryo didnt make the cut for me but its so good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 March 2014 01:03 (ten years ago) link
greatest of floyd moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM0AiThBAt0
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 3 March 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
fyi after fairly complete review I'm putting my ballot together and pulling for "nobody home" or "when the tigers broke free" as the Sway of this poll
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 3 March 2014 06:45 (ten years ago) link
^both of those on my ballot FWIW
...which I had assumed was the prime contender for #1 in the 'loneliest voter' rankings. That's still probably the case, but maybe it'll be closer than I thought.
Anyway, VOTED
― Jeff W, Monday, 3 March 2014 09:42 (ten years ago) link