wish you were here

funny cuz i used 2 enjoy Welcome... & Have a Cigar the least, but now the most

damn i forgot this at home today.

track 1 by such a long way it's not funny

i just don't know. i mean that's like my proper answer but really i crave Welcome to the machine. i mean those synths are kind of intoxicating!

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My favorite Floyd, give or take "See Emily Play." Gotta be "Have a Cigar" for me. "Everybody else is just greeEEEN."

"Welcome to the Machine" -- the story of Pink Floyd's downward arc of a career, obv.

You mean that downward arc that led to The Wall?

"Welcome to the Machine" gets my vote for the worst song this band ever recorded. And that is really really saying something.

omg what a terrible statement. welcome to the machine is one my fave songs of theirs and don't ask me to explain why.

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nice

omg what a terrible statement. welcome to the machine is one my fave songs of theirs and don't ask me to explain why.

Even with the Gilmour-taking-a-shit vocals?

didn't see this poll but have a cigar is my fav pink floyd song i think

it is pretty unique and great

oh wow... finally a poll where the only right answer actually wins

lol Have a Cigar is so entry-level floyd.

so pompous! look obviously the "correct" answer won but that doesn't mean it's correct, OK?

Even with the Gilmour-taking-a-shit vocals?

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.

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.

Pretty sure it's a movie studio, not an airport. I see zero runways.

we're just two lost souls
swimming in a fish bowl
year after year

Someone wrote that in my high school yearbook.

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.

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

http://www.toothgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/riding-the-gravy-train.jpg

My words on the http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2012/03/pink-floyd-wish-you-were-here.html album.

Nobody likes Shine On Pt 2?

i like it way better than welcome to the machine

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

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

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.

"We're so happy we can hardly count"

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

(sorry digression)

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97gP-1zyqQ

That rules.

Are you suggesting Pink Floyd rules?

I was expecting to be like "oh neat" but I actually teared up at moments, it's a really nice cover

making it ok to not want to be a shredder.

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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

Their music oozes atmosphere and that rules more than most things imo.

yes like "money" was pretty much as technical as they ever got

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