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

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

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

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.

"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

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.

I had to suck it up in the end, because my ballot felt v weird without DSOTM being represented

I have a few, but very few. WYWH got shafted.

"Cirrus Minor" FTW.

Ballot sent.

I'd think the "eighties" production actually strengthens Gilmour's songs: the echo gives them a grandeur. Otherwise these things are nullities.

I like the massive sequencing throb that runs through "Until We Sleep." Should have been an action movie back then.

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.

"A Pillow Of Winds" will be near the top of my ballot. Pastoral Floyd is totally my bag.

You must also please remember "Cymbaline."

"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?

Dam a top 20 is going to be hard! And I go no further than Animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pFV5yjx2XI

1st draft-44 tracks. Heavy on the early singles. Latest song is from the Wall. Non-LP track that's a shoe in- Embryo.

embryo didnt make the cut for me but its so good

greatest of floyd moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM0AiThBAt0

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

^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

I won't be emailing any ballot to Elvis, but i will attest...

Dark Side ... is one of the most over-rated albums ever.

The Wall is even worse in its epic adolescence.

Meddle is their best album in my view, and "One of These Days" is, by far, their best individual track.

...not really...

the Floyd are best with nuance and mood; few complete tracks can compete with the superior individual moments that they attain within so many particular moments from their fine catalog.

good talk

I can't seem to find the edit of "Another Brick Part 2" that I heard on the radio in 1979-80. Apparently, the 45 starts with drums/guitar comping, but the edit I used to hear started with the "oooh ooh ooh" bit after "The Happiest Days Of Our Lives." When does "Another Brick" start on the CD?

(also, best single they ever did, despite/because of Ezrin doing an end-run around them and saying, "Fuck you guys, you just made a disco single! Ha ha ha!")

cd single starts, I gather, where the 45 does: right into the beat. "The Happiest Days Of Our Lives" ends with the scream.

could vote for "The Happiest Days Of Our Lives" but I hate brick part 2. not as much as I hate "Young Lust" (what a vile song), but still.

top 5 most hated floyd songs:
young lust
brick part 2
money
the dogs of war
seamus

I think I just hate bluesy floyd

I also kinda hate "Have a Cigar", maybe replace seamus with that

i also hate brick 2. but i love what gilmour does on it. what to do, what to do....

I was listening to The Wall on the way into work today

I know lots of ppl hate it but I can't help it, I really do like it a lot even with all of the bombast and spine-crushing cynicism.

I talked about listening to it again on another thread, after thinking I would never feel the need to listen to it again.

Same complaints with it that I had with hearing the Use Your Illusion albums for the first time. What is with all the sound effects and unnecessary chatter? Not so much Jeri Hall's part as the groupie or the TV being on to old WWII movies, that's kinda cool. But the way Waters or Ezrin or whoever actually goes "Ooh, ouch!" in some bad overdub following the line "hurt the children in any way they could." on The Happiest Days.