Come in Poll #49, your results are up (Pink Floyd ballot poll results)

Great poll! The image selections RULED.

1. fearless
2. interstellar overdrive
3. see emily play
4. bike
5. lucifer sam
6. wish you were here
7. brain damage/eclipse
8. the final cut
9. arnold layne
10. astronomy domine
11. one of these days
12. scarecrow
13. jugband blues
14. the great gig in the sky
15. mother
16. apples and oranges
17. pigs (three different ones)
18. free four
19. two suns in the sunset
20. shine on you crazy diamond

syd barrett solo:
1. terrapin
2. dark globe
3. octopus
4. she took a long cold look
5. wolfpack
6. wined and dined
7. rats
8. baby lemonade
9. dominoes
10. golden hair

yeah image selections were fantastic, that 'high hopes' one esp

Great poll, great images, 'Echoes' a decent #1. Had lots of fun with this and only one of my picks didn't place!

1. Paintbox
2. Us and Them
3. Lucifer Sam
4. Breathe
5. Fearless
6. Summer '68
7. Any Colour You Like
8. Cymbaline
9. Echoes
10. Goodbye Blue Sky
11. See Emily Play
12. A Pillow of Winds
13. Grantchester Meadows
14. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
15. The Great Gig in the Sky
16. Flaming
17. Wot's ...Uh the Deal
18. Dogs
19. Remember a Day
20. Cirrus Minor

decent deserving (!)

I didn't do any advance research for the poll, rather just went off the cuff using pleasant memories as my guide. As such I ended up with the lone vote for "Give Birth To A Smile", the most cheerful track in the Floyd canon (even if it's not officially under their name).

1. Echoes
Fearless
Breathe
Astronomy Domine
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Us and Them
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Goodbye Blue Sky
Time
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Saucerful of Secrets
Have a Cigar
Welcome to the Machine
One of these Days
Lucifer Sam
Brain Damage/ Eclipse
Young Lust
When the Tigers Broke Free
Pillow of Winds
20. High Hopes

Mine:

1. Shine on you crazy diamond pts. 1-9

2. Echoes

3. Careful with that axe Eugene

4. Fearless

5. Sheep

6. Brain damage\Eclipse

7. Wish you were here

8. Have a cigar

9. Dogs

10. Pigs

11. Welcome to the machine

12. Breathe

13. The narrow way pt. 3

14. Wot's uh the deal

15. Cymbaline

16. Comfortably numb

17. Fat old sun

18. Us and them

19. The thin ice

20. The Gunner's dream

First poll participating, and a masterful job by Elvis! This was highly entertaining.

1. Time
2. Dogs
3. Wots...Uh the Deal
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Fearless
6. Comfortably Numb
7. Childhood's End
8. The Gold It's in the...
9. Echoes
10. Brain Damage / Eclipse
11. See Emily Play
12. One Slip
13. Nobody Home
14. Astronomy Domine
15. Have a Cigar
16. Cymbaline
17. Mother
18. Learning to Fly
19. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
20. Careful With That Axe, Eugene

1. Mudmen
2. Love Scene - Version 4
3. Astronomy Domine
4. Atom Heart Mother Suite
5. Echoes
6. Fat Old Sun
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. A Pillow of Winds
9. Dogs
10. A Saucerful of Secrets
11. Embryo
12. Time
13. Us and Them
14. Green Is the Colour
15. Fearless
16. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
17. See Emily Play
18. Bike
19. Wot's... Uhh the Deal
20. Careful with That Axe, Eugene

I was the only one that voted for "Mudmen" :(

And "Love Scene" (any version)

01 comfortably numb
02 one of these days
03 shine on you crazy diamond
04 dogs
05 a saucerful of secrets
06 breathe
07 fearless
08 sheep
09 time
10 echoes
11 careful with that axe, eugene
12 hey you
13 astronomy domine
14 us and them
15 interstellar overdrive
16 have a cigar
17 summer '68
18 brain damage/eclipse
19 a pillow of winds
20 wish you were here

The right song won. I'm not particularly a fan of the genre, but "Echoes" is everything that's right about progressive rock.

Figured the #1 slot would be either that or "Emily" - didn't see "Fearless" coming, and it did so with only one #1 vote. It's one of these tracks that got a high ranking from almost everyone having it on their ballot somewhere, often quite high up.

Great poll, and awesome graphics.

1. See Emily Play
2. Echoes
3. Arnold Layne
4. Apples and Oranges
5. Stay
6. Matilda Mother
7. Flaming
8. Bike
9. Us and Them
10. Lucifer Sam
11. The Great Gig in the Sky
12. Fearless
13. Astronomy Domine
14. Jugband Blues
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Remember a Day
17. Candy and a Currant Bun
18. Pigs on the Wing (8-track cartridge version with link section btwn pt.1 & 2)
19. Crying Song
20. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

oh hey am i the last one to know about this...

http://united-mutations.blogspot.com/2013/06/dark-side-of-moon.html

ok, my ballots:

1 Echoes
Crumbling Land
Scream Thy Last Scream
Dogs
The Embryo
Astronomy Domine
Two Suns in the Sunset
Time
Arnold Layne
A Saucerful of Secrets
Carefull With That Axe, Eugene
Wot's... Uh The Deal
Comfortably Numb
Point Me At The Sky
Atom Heart Mother
Lucy Leave
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
Sheep
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
20 Rain in the Country

1. Opel
2. No Good Trying
3. Late Night
4. Two of a Kind
5. Octopus
6. Golden Hair
7. Dominoes
8. Baby Lemonade
9. Rats
10. Lanky, Pt. 1

Gilmour/Wright/Waters/Mason Solo tracks:

1. I'm A Mineralist
2. There's No Way Out Of Here
3. Mrs. Throat Goes Walking
4. Bridge Passage for Three Plastic Teeth
5. More than Seven Dwarfs in Penis-Land
6. A Gentle Breeze Blew Through Life
7. Dance of the Red Corpuscles
8. (some song from Music From the Body, forget which)
9. Piddle in Perspex
10. Merry Xmas Song (Nick Mason)

Top five bootlegs:

BBC Sessions 1970-1971
Pro Shot In Europe 1969-1972
1977-05-09
1970-02-11
Magnesium Proverbs

also man i love prog but if "all-star prog tributes" aren't the worst thing on earth, they're damn near close

also, to the best of my reckoning here are the proper floyd songs (i.e. not counting like "wine glasses") that got zero votes at all:

It Would Be So Nice
Party Sequence
More Blues
Quicksilver
A Spanish Theme
Dramatic Theme
Sysyphus
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast
Seamus
When You're In
Absolutely Curtains
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3
Goodbye Cruel World
Vera
Bring the Boys Back Home
The Show Must Go On
Outside the Wall
One of the Few
Paranoid Eyes
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
The Fletcher Memorial Home
Signs of Life
The Dogs of War
Yet Another Movie/Round and Around
A New Machine
Terminal Frost
Sorrow
Cluster One
What Do You Want From Me?
Poles Apart
A Great Day For Freedom
Wearing the Inside Out
Take It Back
Coming Back To Life
Lost For Words

"a spanish theme" was robbed! but i could have voted for it and didn't, so i have no-one to blame but myself. also, for all everybody kept claiming to love rick, his song on ummagumma was the only one that didn't get any votes.

"It Would Be So Nice" and "Point Me At The Sky" are seriously buried. Aside from the original singles, the only place you can find them is the Shine On bonus disc, no?

YouTube has performances

That wasn't the question, the answer is "yes that is the only place wtf"

Ok, how about..

"No, It would be so nice is on my "Masters of Rock" pf compilation l.p. (Harvest, German I think)"

Now that I did not know! They are also on the bootleg LP " Dark Side Of The Moo"

Thank you, Mr Telecom. This RULED.

I first heard it via the Camper Van Beethoven cover.

― If I had hands and you had a neck (WilliamC)

Me too! Also, I first heard "Astronomy Domine" via Voivod.

Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up
Us & Them
Wish You Were Here
Fearless
Comfortably Numb
Remember A Day
Goodbye Blue Sky
The Thin Ice
Brain Damage->Eclipse
The Great Gig In The Sky
One Slip
Unknown Song [on Zabriskie Point soundtrack reissue, sometimes called Rain in the Country I think?]
Free Four
Stay
Time
Dogs
Run Like Hell
Paint Box
Obscured By Clouds
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

also, to the best of my reckoning here are the proper floyd songs (i.e. not counting like "wine glasses") that got zero votes at all

And a full 40% of that list is Momentary Lapse and Division Bell material.

Some truly nice surprises - they never played "Fearless" live! Same with the clip below, until Gilmour did on his last tour, with Rick. Very happy this made the Top 40.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itxVfQ1MZOo

1. Time
2. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
3. Astronomy Domine
4. Great Gig in the Sky
5. Echoes
6. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part 1
7. The Nile Song
8. Dogs
9. Grantchester Meadow
10. Lucifer Sam
11. Money
12. Atom Heart Mother
13. Jugband Blues
14. Let There Be More Light
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Fat Old Sun
17. Goodbye Blue Sky
18. The Final Cut
19. The Gold It’s in the…
20. Green Is the Colour

1. Welcome To The Machine
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
3. Echoes
4. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
5. Time
6. Wish You Were Here
7. Dogs
8. The Trial
9. Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun
10. Brain Damage/Eclipse
11. One Of These Days
12. A Saucerful Of Secrets
13. What Shall We Do Now?
14. Bike
15. Arnold Layne
16. Mother
17. The Nile Song
18. Childhood's End
19. Scarecrow
20. Have a Cigar

1. Astronomy Domine
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
3. Lucifer Sam
4. Speak To Me/ Breathe
5. Fearless
6. Remember A Day
7. Echoes
8. Comfortably Numb
9. Cymbaline
10. One Of These Days
11. Brain Damage/ Eclipse
12. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
13. Atom Heart Mother Suite
14. Dogs
15. Interstellar Overdrive
16. See Emily Play
17. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
18. Matilda Mother
19. Wish You Were Here
20. High Hopes

1. One Of These Days
2. Embryo
3. Fearless
4. Careful With That Axe Eugene
5. Lucifer Sam
6. Astronomy Domine
7. The Nile Song
8. Echoes
9. Let There Be More Light
10. Bike
11. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
12. Candy And A Currant Bun
13. Cirrus Minor
14. A Saucerful Of Secrets
15. Interstellar Overdrive
16. See Emily Play
17. Arnold Lane
18. Paintbox
19. Jugband Blues
20. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk

Versions on Ummagumma disc 1 and Live At Pompeii preferred.

the last couple of days i've been really diving into songs like Bike and Scarecrow that showcase Syd's more stripped-bare childlike expressions. while some of his songs (Astronomy Domine, Chapter 24, etc.) have an intensely fixated and obsessive quality, these ones seem to exude a much rawer and more tender side. they have a really sincere and unique impact on me, imbued as they are with the kind of frivolity, zeal and abandon that is accepted as normal and healthy in children, but deemed strange and impractical in adults. well, the way i see it immaturity endures in adults in much more harmful ways than this, and listening to Syd extol his flagrant inner child is simultaneously a sad and joyful experience.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/91-mudmen.jpg

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/dnf-lost_for_words.jpg

DNF = Did Not Finish

my ballot:

See Emily Play
Lucifer Sam
Brain Damage/Eclipse
set the controls for the heart of the sun
Atom Heart Mother
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
In The Flesh?
Bike
Fearless
Corporal Clegg
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Breathe
Sheep
Hey You
A Saucerful of Secrets
Careful with that Axe, Eugene
Wot's... Uh the Deal?
Astronomy Domine
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
Dogs

a bit disappointed that Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk just missed the top 50

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/58-when_the_tigers_broke_free.jpg

In the end, I think I had enough graphics set aside for every track.

you did good, tiger

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/dnf-im_a_king_bee.jpg

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/60-pigs_on_the_wing.jpg

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/108-keep_talking.jpg

i salute the five other voters who repped for "when the tigers broke free"

elvis that's a helluva graphic.

oh wow did you not count "come in number 51" as "careful with that axe" because uh

anyway here's my ballot, all pre-dark side and final cut

1. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
2. Embryo
3. One Of These Days
4. Jugband Blues
5. Two Suns In The Sunset
6. Astronomy Domine
7. Fearless
8. Cymbaline
9. Paintbox
10. Cirrus Minor
11. When The Tigers Broke Free
12. Interstellar Overdrive
13. See Emily Play
14. Summer '68
15. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
16. Fat Old Sun
17. Obscured By Clouds
18. High Hopes
19. A Saucerful Of Secrets
20. The Nile Song

well except for "high hopes," a wonderful song

Telecom, commendable job. Amazing rollout. This came at a tough time for me personally (thank you Floyd for not penning garden variety "i love you girl"/"girl you're breaking my heart" love songs!), so it was relieving to see many familiar names one after another, track after track that I've enjoyed for years for varying reasons. Got to hang with bros and do the laser floyd experience for the first time in decades, and, man, great to know some things in life are so constant, I was seventeen all over again. You owe it to yourself to take this in first hand if it rolls your way:

http://i.imgur.com/c1yen1O.jpg

Pink Floyd were the first band I got into in a major way, like obsessively memorizing tracklists, song durations, chronology, mythology, the whole package, and taught me patience in listening, that 20 minute epics were perfectly acceptable beside the 3-4 minute pop dosage. I've always admired their theatre-of-the-mind textures and production, and well before I ever smoked a bowl I was super into the bizarro soundworld that albums like Atom Heart Mother and Saucerful provided; I'm the heretic who claims the studio portion of Ummagumma as their favorite work! I remember enthusiastically playing the mid-section of "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" on my walkman headphones to my father in the kitchen when I was 13, and he gave me the look that conveyed 'geez, you're going to be trouble'. The tape fuckery and layers on layers of sound that matter-of-factly communicated 'this is music, actually' were fundamental in my enjoying far more difficult works later, as well as influencing a decision to play percussion, loosely, in bands.

Bold did not place in top 51:

the narrow way
heart beat, pig meat
sheep
see emily play
careful with that axe, eugene
summer 68
seesaw
obscured by clouds
grantchester meadows
atom heart mother
remember a day
jugband blues
the grand vizier's garden party
point me at the sky
on the run
biding my time
crying song
lucifer sam
let there be more light
don't leave me now

Still amazed "Money" did not break the top 50

Treating number 51 and Eugene as different songs is nuts

I dunno.. I always thought of them differently.

superb poll
really top quality list

great graphics too

thanks ET it's been awesome!

1. Brain Damage Eclipse
Comfortably Numb
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Run Like Hell
One of These Days
Sheep
See Emily Play
The Great Gig in the Sky
Wish You Were Here
Echoes
Young Lust
In The Flesh?
Fearless
If
Dogs
When the Tigers Broke Free
Cirrus Minor
A Pillow Of Winds
Embryo
20. Nobody Home

My ballot (bold didn't place in top 50):

1. Comfortably Numb
2. Brain Damage/Eclipse
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
5. Mother
6. Run Like Hell
7. Breathe
8. Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2
9. Time
10. Dogs
11. The Great Gig in the Sky
12. When the Tigers Broke Free
13. Sheep
14. In The Flesh?
15. Two Suns in the Sunset
16. The Gunner's Dream
17. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
18. Echoes
19. Nobody Home
20. The Post War Dream

Also surprised by "Fearless" placing so high, a nice enough song but nothing to do with what makes Floyd great for me.