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 yeah, the live disc definitely rules

the studio disc has its moments (David Gilmore's songs aren't bad and I've always enjoyed Several Species of Small Furry etc.), but overall I think there is a good reason why today was the first time I listened to it in probably 10+ years.

if I understand correctly, any of these individual songs could also be voted for in a tracks ballot, as per Elvis' ruling on unreleased songs

this is good because I might vote for "Rain in The Country"

I realize I wasn't clear enough... Yes, the unreleased tracks are fair game.

Is anyone planning on voting for "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" as two separate and distinctly tabulated tracks? If not, let's treat them as one.

Three ballots in so far.

Never forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw4sYDQesAg&feature=kp

would it count as trolling this poll if I voted for "One Slip"? because ~I might~

xp pvmic

def voting for "On The Turning Away"

Townshend's demo is slightly less bombastic:
http://youtu.be/oZGI7JdZBck
(and apparently Gilmour only used the lyrics, and set them to his own music)

xxp

the studio disc has its moments

Grantchester Meadows will be high on my ballot.

My best friend pimps for "One Slip." He exploits my love for Roxy Music.

One Slip has Tony Levin on bass

the fretless throughout the album is tasty: eg the little nudges in "On the Turning Away"

"On the Turning Away" isn't miles from "Hey You" (fretless again?) but no weird Waters vocal interlude is a plus

'momentary lapse' was terribly calculated (ugh the cover), but as a 14yo it was pretty much what i wanted -- glacial synths, big comfortably numb solos, no waters awkwardly muttering about anzio. i'm not too likely to vote for it, but i shan't disown it

happy to say i have never heard anything from the division bell tho

iirc, Gilmour only revived "Pink Floyd" because his solo sales were disappointing, and he (correctly) reasoned that he'd sell a lot more under the Floyd name. It's not like he had a burning desire to work with Mason or Wright -- not that he worked with them on Momentary Lapse for more than 10 minutes anyway.

I feel like Division Bell is a bridge too far for me.

Yeah I'm kind in the same boat as mookie w/r/t Momentary Lapse, 'Learning to Fly' was the first Pink Floyd song I knew and the boy I had a crush on at the time made ma copy of the album on cassette <3 lol. Doubtful I'd vote for it, lot of much better stuff to fill the 20 slots

*me

glacial synths, big comfortably numb solos[

I think of this as a genre---Queensyrche, Mike and the Mechanics, eg---about which i am, shall we say, ambivalent

presumably you are not 14 years old?

I've also never listened to The Division Bell but I'm gonna give it a try. I like High Hopes

"High Hopes" may just squeak in on my 20.

i sort of shudder at the thought of giving momentary lapse a fresh listen before voting but i suppose i should.

iirc i did like "one slip" at the time (though it would be a couple years before manzanera meant anything to me) and also the guitar on "sorrow" but i hated "learning to fly" then and don't expect to like it now.

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.