PINK FLOYD

Hahaha didn't expect you too but I enjoyed the ranking so much I want to see more rankings done by you. Any other non-pf related ranking you'd consider making sometime in the near future?

To not too

If I had to guess your top five pink floyd albums based on your top 20 song rankings I'd say it's:

1. Meddle
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Piper
4. Animals
5. Dsotm

There's not that many Piper songs in the top 20 but arnold layne and see emily play and jugband blues are there and they're all Syd' so I suppose you place their only full album with him highly.

Am I completely off with your top 5?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6HCykbHtBM

moka - well, since my day job is data analysis i did a breakdown of songs by relative ranking, and the top five were:

wish you were here (101.5)
dsotm (101.4)
animals (95.25)
atom heart mother (87.4)
meddle (83 1/3)

piper ranked seventh, below obscured by clouds

obviously my methodology is flawed, since it gives equal weight to "seamus" and "echoes", but it's still interesting data.

what do i actually listen to? usually the less popular stuff. i basically never listen to dsotm or the wall, except in weird cover versions. i listen to "animals" a fair bit. i also listen to "more" a lot because it's some of the least demanding music imaginable. i listen to "piper" but only in mono. i listen to lots of bootlegs too. especially the bbc stuff, but also lots of shitty audience tapes, particularly from 1970-1971 (pretty much any performance from those years puts the live half of "ummagumma" to shame). i'll wax rhapsodic about the version of "main theme from more" played on jan 18, 1970 in croydon, even though the sound quality is unlistenably poor, or insist to you that the version of "the journey" played in plumpton is a much better performance than the better-known concertgebouw version.

i put together a comp cd of some of my favorite floyd cuts in, i don't know, 2013 sometime. tracklist:

a pillow of winds
pigs on the wing (8-track)
crying song
see emily play
the narrow way part 3 (bbc)
wot's... uh the deal
crumbling land
sheep
lucifer sam
point me at the sky
fearless
the embryo (bbc 1970)
rain in the country
comfortably numb (gilmour's demo)
morning glory (from "alan's psychedelic breakfast")

...which represents what i listen to decently enough.

fwiw, the 'trivia' you tried to keep out of your writeup would of course be very welcome here

^^^

Mix tape I put together in (probably) 1984 after getting the Dark Side of the Moo bootleg, the Holy Grail of then-unavailable non-LP Floyd tracks:

- Side 1
Cymbaline
Lucifer Sam
It Would Be So Nice
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
Ibiza Bar
Chapter 24
Point Me at the Sky
See Emily Play
Jugband Blues
Arnold Layne
Candy and a Current Bun
Corporal Clegg
The Nile Song
Green Is the Colour

- Side 2
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part 1: Entrance
Astronomy Domine (Ummagumma live version)
Let There Be More Light
Embryo
Sysyphus, Part 3
Grantchester Meadow
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
A Saucerful of Secrets
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part 3: Exit

Dark side of the Moo was life-changing for me.

That's is genuinely very interesting.

Correction to my Floyd tape above:

What I assumed was "Sysyphus, Part 3" when I wrote out the track list way back when (because the vinyl didn't show track separations between the 4 parts), turned out in the CD era to be the first 3 minutes of Part 4: quiet keyboard and birdsong which leads handily into "Grantchester Meadow."

Also, the "Grand Vizier: Entrance" excerpt is only the flute part.

(Because you're all going to fire up Audacity and recreate this mix. Don't forget to tighten up the gap between "Corporal Clegg" and "The Nile Song"--1 second at most!)

Made a Spotify playlist of this - it hangs together way better than you'd think! Shows the continuity between Syd-era Floyd and the next few albums. Nice one, HL.

Omayyad was my gateway bootleg LP. I never got hold of Dark Side Of The Moo until Napster.

pre-Opel I used to have a Syd Barrett bootleg that used the Robyn Hitchcock cartoon of Vegetable Man as a cover. I'd give anything to have it back if only for nostalgic reasons.

It also had Singing a Song in the Morning on it.

http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/photos/var/albums/Pink-Floyd-Photos/tour-programmes/Misc/Cartoon%20-%20Vegetable%20Man%20by%20Robyn%20Hitchcock.jpg?m=1391961282

yeah that's the one.

Hear Lost Recording of Pink Floyd Playing with Jazz Violinist Stéphane Grappelli on “Wish You Were Here.” Love this!https://t.co/PkqpGXRUfQ pic.twitter.com/l2VwhnU9K4

— Open Culture (@openculture) September 11, 2017

is that different than the one on the deluxe Wish You Were Here?

P I N K F L O Y D R U L E S

no it's the same one

i wish they'd done a mix with the actual finished version of the song but with that layered in rather than this approach.

that take RULES!

one of my favorite paragraphs in rushomancy's great list was:

After a minute of a riff played through a distant radio - a sound effect which is beyond "working" or "not working" and is simply now just a part of our nature - the lyrics open with a series of comparisons which grow gradually more incongrous and off-kilter. Heaven and hell - we can understand these things. Blue skies from... pain? Did you mean rain? Was that a typo? Did I trade hot ashes for trees? The emotional resonance of the words is clear, but the order... are hot ashes heaven? Are trees hell?

The transition from "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" to "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2," when it lands in F major - man, that's a beautiful thing!

Gang, I just wanted to pop on to say that The Soundtrack to 'More' still rules. That is all.

yeah, rules.
kind of related: http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/2017/10/pink-floyd-massed-gadgets-of-auximenes.html

nice- I loved that the first time around. I just discovered the existence of Realisation & Dramatisation - the 'beat' version of the More Theme, of course, rules

More and Obscured by Clouds are both great!

The two genders:

https://i.imgur.com/fmRGW5b.jpg

ok that prism is just way too big. fucking texans.

We just finished a week long indulgence in the entirety of last year's box set, audio and visual -- I even saw the movies in full -- and I'm still pondering how to put my thoughts together. Quite an experience.

Are you thinking... Pink Floyd rules?

anybody who watches "more" in its entirety has my deepest sympathies.

'Choppy' would be an understatement, especially in terms of characterization of main dude. Absolutely beautiful footage, though; Schroeder and his cinematographer knew what they were doing. (Similarly with La Vallee).

PF 1969-71 still feels slept on by a lot of people, if it's true, it's a real shame.

Might not be slept on if Pink Floyd themselves had anything good to say about it - though I suppose "Meddle" is in there, they seem to approve of that.

Well, it's their patchiest era, so it's not surprising that that particular era is slept on. Although I suspect "slept on" isn't correct term... millions of people at this stage have probably heard those albums - it just so happens many don't like 'em.

tbf I suppose "The Wall" isn't patchy, it's consistently shite.

They hated the way Atom Heart Mother turned out, and Ummagumma feels less like an album from the time and, well, an archival release from right now -- if that had all surfaced as part of the box and had never been heard before, I wouldn't've been surprised at all. The box really does a great job in not only reclaiming the era more thoroughly but conveying why they had such an intense following not only out of the gate but after what in any other situation would have been a crippling switch-out of lead creative figures. I was consistently intrigued by the size of the crowds, festival settings or otherwise.

tbf I suppose "The Wall" isn't patchy, it's consistently shite.

― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.)

i kind of assumed that until listening to the whole thing through again... it really isn't! it's got good stuff on it and awful stuff on it. bob ezrin's production also makes it a lot more listener-friendly than "atom heart mother" is.

i won't say '69, but '70-'71 they were consistent, and consistently great, as a live band - if i only could judge by the studio albums i'm not sure '70-'71 floyd would be my favorite era.

They were pretty good in '69, the problem I have with '71 is that "Echoes" is so outrageously overrated by everyone - esp. the band, that story they tell about about Rick Wright playing the opening notes thru the Binson like it was the Holy Grail...

Meddle works precisely because it isn't all "Echoes" -- you have to have that first half as is. And we do, thankfully. I love how all over the place it goes, and at its breeziest it's not far at all from Obscured by Clouds. Thinking on which: seeing how the songs actually work in both the Schroeder films -- strictly diagetic, as songs on radios, tape players, etc that the characters have to hand or are listening to -- I really enjoy taking them all now less as 'Floyd' songs and more as them creating their own weird little riffs or reinterpretations of sounds and styles around them. I forget which song on Obscured it is, but there's a cut that's essentially their take on Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," and made me realize that if they just ever wanted to be some sort of easy good time boogie band they always had it in them. (See also, getting back to Meddle, "Seamus.")

"the gold it's in the", right?

of course there's always this, syd barrett's 1972 attempt at a "boogie band". this tends to be undermined a certain amount the presence of fred frith on guitar.

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

No, I think "Free Four" is the one that sounds like "Spirit in the Sky", except nowhere near as good, I don't need to hear Floyd doing blues/ boogie etc tbh. (xp)

was in my hometown yesterday and saw a smart car covered in pink floyd decals and with the license plate PNKFLYD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAwfSntPic

this alt take of "Matilda Mother" is insanely good. "And finding she was left alone we tiptoe to the telephone NINE! NINE! NINE!" one of the coolest outtakes ever here!

listening to The Early Years tonight <3 "Walk With Me Sidney" i really dig the early stuff it is almost a punk/noise take on the blues at times. "Double O Bo" is sick

THE PINK FLOYD RULES

was in my hometown yesterday and saw a smart car covered in pink floyd decals and with the license plate PNKFLYD

Sounds less like a Smart Car and more like a RULES CAR.

Heads up:

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/14/pink-floyd-kqed-1970/

In short: this is an unaired performance of "Astronomy Domine" that was done for the KQED broadcast that year, but which did NOT surface on the box set last year.

in short, it RULES obv

i like the v intense angry face Rog is making towards the end

Meanwhile Roger gets an asteroid named after him:
https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%26%2310003%3B&object_id=495181