omg what a terrible statement. welcome to the machine is one my fave songs of theirs and don't ask me to explain why.
― Surmounter, Friday, 6 June 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
nice
― Surmounter, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Even with the Gilmour-taking-a-shit vocals?
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 7 June 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't see this poll but have a cigar is my fav pink floyd song i think
― ciderpress, Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
it is pretty unique and great
― Surmounter, Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wow... finally a poll where the only right answer actually wins
― kenan, Saturday, 7 June 2008 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
lol Have a Cigar is so entry-level floyd.
― kenan, Saturday, 7 June 2008 04:41 (fifteen years ago) link
so pompous! look obviously the "correct" answer won but that doesn't mean it's correct, OK?
― Surmounter, Saturday, 7 June 2008 04:53 (fifteen years ago) link
If I'm remembering my Floyd lore correctly, Welcome To The Machine is Gilmour double-tracked with Waters in the background. One of the verses needed to be pitch-shifted up because neither of them could hit the note.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 7 June 2008 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
title track is sooooo good...the Floyd at their most Dylanesque, at least in Gilmour's vocal, until the wonderful scat at the end. And I don't know enough about music to say for sure but the chords at the end seem unresolved---I'm sure someone else can quantify this for me. The wind at the end is the album cover to me, going into the second "Shine On" where the fire catches on. also I love the album cover, pretty iconic no? It's an album about being in a huge rock band, I guess, and the cover looks like an airport, with businessmen doing their dirty work in the foreground.
― Euler, Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty sure it's a movie studio, not an airport. I see zero runways.
― kelpolaris, Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
we're just two lost soulsswimming in a fish bowlyear after year
Someone wrote that in my high school yearbook.
― Mark, Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Welcome to the Machine should have won. Have a Cigar, glad to see it only got two votes. Like it but there's far better.
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Would have voted WTTM. Unless I actually did but didn't bother advertising this fact. It's wonderful where the rest of the album is merely good. Pink Floyd's second-best record after Ummagumma IMO, not that I listen to 'em much at all these days
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.toothgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/riding-the-gravy-train.jpg
― (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 22 July 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
My words on the http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2012/03/pink-floyd-wish-you-were-here.html album.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
Nobody likes Shine On Pt 2?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
i like it way better than welcome to the machine
― Treeship, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
i love the way ilx deals with time jumps. "1 month passes...." it's so poetic and really emphasizes the way this board continues to accumulate content, like this massive epistolary novel-like work that sprawls in different directions and never ends, vaster even than the fantastical play in kaufman's synechdoche, ny. there is also a sad quality to it, as people communicate across time.
o jimmywine dyspeptic, how i wish you were here
― Treeship, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:02 (eight years ago) link
feel like i can enjoy this record if i actually put it on, but man some of it ... "have a cigar" came on the radio when we were driving somewhere last weekend and i thought: "this is the worst."
I mean, it still ruled, but
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:02 (eight years ago) link
no i agree with you. that song sucks.
pretty much all pink floyd songs that are fixtures of classic rock radio suck except for like, comfortably numb.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
"We're so happy we can hardly count"
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
I'd be happy if I never heard the title track of this album ever again. 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', on the other hand...
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
Dopey realisation that musically Have A Cigar could account for ~80% of Goblin's schtick. Harper totally slam dunks the performance as well.
Returning to this album for the first time since abandoning it sharply following regulation mid-teen fixation. I have slightly better headphones now.
― Thank You (Fattekin Mice Elf Control Again) (Noel Emits), Monday, 12 August 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
So much of my entire musical development and ethos can be traced back to obsessively listening to Shine On circa age 14. I don't think there's anything in recorded music that tops it. Hadn't listened to it in maybe 15 years or more, decided to throw it on, and it doesn't just hold up but reveals new things to me.
Also really glad to have discovered Gilmour early as a guitar influence, making it ok to not want to be a shredder.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 November 2020 06:03 (three years ago) link
Shine On Part 2 rules as much as the rest of the album (f-off, upthread naysayers). By its very nature as the slow diminuendo opposite to Part 1's glorious build, Part 2 was unlikely to get votes over Part 1.
It's a beautiful dying away, and the last several minutes are as masterful as anything Rick Wright ever did.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 30 November 2020 06:37 (three years ago) link
it’s majestic & beautiful & powerful also it RULES I don’t know if there’s another guitarist that gives me a deeper feeling of joy than Dave he shreds happiness <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 November 2020 06:53 (three years ago) link
last Sunday we listened to the remastered Delicate Sound of Thunder & his voice isnt great but his guitar is just *chefs kiss*i dont even like that concert a ton but it’s still good to just hang out with? idk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 November 2020 06:55 (three years ago) link
(sorry digression)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 November 2020 06:56 (three years ago) link
I agree with H. Lump. I probably would have voted for the second half of Shine On, just for Part IX, which is really Richard Wright's last notable contribution to Pink Floyd music (with the partial exception of the long electric piano solo that starts Sheep). It's the perfect capstone to the album.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 30 November 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97gP-1zyqQ
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 7 December 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
That rules.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 10 December 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
Are you suggesting Pink Floyd rules?
― calstars, Thursday, 10 December 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
I was expecting to be like "oh neat" but I actually teared up at moments, it's a really nice cover
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 December 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
making it ok to not want to be a shredder.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, November 29, 2020 11:03 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
i've been thinking all week about how important and cool it was that pink floyd was the prog rock band that was not at all about technical ability
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 December 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
Their music oozes atmosphere and that rules more than most things imo.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 10 December 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
yes like "money" was pretty much as technical as they ever got
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 December 2020 01:39 (three years ago) link
When he plays the "fast" solos on Dogs you can hear that he's really not a speed player, but he finds a way to put so much fear and rage and sadness and tension into his sound in that solo
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 December 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link