Pink Floyd Compilation
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Here's a compilation of all the Pink Floyd tracks that I like taken from their two greatest hits albums. I really love these tracks.
Pink Floyd playlist
I'd like to add a few more to that list but I can't be bothered going through all of their full albums picking out the good songs because I find much of their music too boring to listen to. Could anyone else suggest a few good tracks that aren't already in that Spotify play list? Many thanks.
Pink Floyd playlist
I'd like to add a few more to that list but I can't be bothered going through all of their full albums picking out the good songs because I find much of their music too boring to listen to. Could anyone else suggest a few good tracks that aren't already in that Spotify play list? Many thanks.
jjbomber
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I would open with In The Flesh. Floyd traditionally had quiet opening numbers but In The Flesh wakes people up.
I love the Animals album, I have most of the 1977 tour on bootleg. That tends to be my listening choice.
I love the Animals album, I have most of the 1977 tour on bootleg. That tends to be my listening choice.
Freddy58
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radiorog
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Tracks 1,3,4,5,6 on the album - relics, + the Nile song, also from relics. Its more of the early stuff, but I think classics.
manicm
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steve_1979 said:
By failing to acknowledge that Pink Floyd, at least in their prime period from 1971-1983, were an album band, and that ALL their albums were 'concept' albums, you'll never get the essence of their music by picking individual songs. It's a futile exercise, and the greatest hits albums were put out by the labels alone - the first one in 1985 as it was clear there wasn't a new album in sight. The band all but disowned the compilations. A Pink Floyd compilation album never made any sense at all.
And from an artistic point of view all their albums were pretty much complete from Dark Side to The Final Cut, albeit the last being their least popular.
You either like the Floyd or you don't. Believe it or not they're a marmite band, at least when Waters was in it. Geldof hated them, Madonna doesn't like them, punk hated them so much they printed 'I hate Pink Floyd' t-shirts. Pink Floyd were not a band for everyone, not least because of their politics (again when Waters was in it).
BigH
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manicm said:
Totally agree about complication albums, taking odd tracks out of context does not makes sense to me.
manicm said:
I know what you're saying and don't dissagree. I'm actually not an anti-album person. Some albums I like to listen to all the way through and some albums I only like a few tracks and prefer to make up my own compilations to suit.
When Pink Floyd first appeared on Spotify I listened to them for the first time and went through all of the albums from beginning to end. For the most part I found them a bit dull and wouldn't want to do that again but they were also interspersed with many moments of brilliance inbetween the dullness.
That playlist in OP sounds great to me (especially on the HD700's) with no boring bits that I don't want to hear. I was just hoping to add a few other good tracks to that list.
...and I know. I'm an audiophile philistine.
lindsayt said:
Good question. Of the top of my head I can't remember so I'll get back to you on that one when I get a chance to have a listen again. Might be next weekend though.
SteveR750
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The Wall and Final Cut had a huge impact on me, and are still in my list of all time favourite albums. I'm not such a huge fan of Dark Side, but then I'm a fan of Waters. Agree, PF are not really a band to compile a play list from.
matt49
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steve_1979 said:
Damn it, Steve, I was hoping you'd say: "all of them, it's all cloth-eared, portentous nonsense and dull as ditchwater".
matt49 said:
Yeah a lot of it is portentous nonsense and dull as ditchwater (IMO) but there's some sparks of genius and brilliance there too.
emperor's new clothes
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Have to agree with BigH.
Casting my mind back to Feb, 1972, the excitement of queueing to see them live was tempered by cold, rainy Coventry. The mood was lifted by someone down the line singing Syd Barret's Bike song. He could sing and knew all the words. See Emily Play and Arnold Lane were less successful. I had read great thinks about Floyd's "Quadraphonic" sound system, but the surround speakers were at the back of the stalls and I was in the circle. Doh. Roger Walters announced that they were playing "new stuff" which was embryonic DSOTM 2 years before release. Struggled with that at the time, but part two rocked with well known material. They played 92 concerts in that calender year - some achievement and all four were outstanding musicians with a superb sound system/PA. The SKY Arts Classic album series well worth a watch on the making of DSOTM and Wish you Were Here. DVD Pulse, sans Waters, contains DSOTM live.
Casting my mind back to Feb, 1972, the excitement of queueing to see them live was tempered by cold, rainy Coventry. The mood was lifted by someone down the line singing Syd Barret's Bike song. He could sing and knew all the words. See Emily Play and Arnold Lane were less successful. I had read great thinks about Floyd's "Quadraphonic" sound system, but the surround speakers were at the back of the stalls and I was in the circle. Doh. Roger Walters announced that they were playing "new stuff" which was embryonic DSOTM 2 years before release. Struggled with that at the time, but part two rocked with well known material. They played 92 concerts in that calender year - some achievement and all four were outstanding musicians with a superb sound system/PA. The SKY Arts Classic album series well worth a watch on the making of DSOTM and Wish you Were Here. DVD Pulse, sans Waters, contains DSOTM live.
jjbomber
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emperor's new clothes said:
Rumours abound that Gilmour laid down the bass lines during the 70s as Waters playing wasn't up to standard with the new studio technology exposing his playing ability.
manicm
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jjbomber said:
Waters has repeatedly self-proclaimed he was never really interested in playing instruments. Indeed the credits in Amused To Death include 3rd party bass players. Having said that in concert he does all bass duties and is probably a more accomplished player than he ever was in Floyd. Also, those who criticise him for his lack of playability conveniently ignore the fact that he played rhythm guitar on Animals and Another Brick In The Wall, as well as on his solo album Pros And Cons. And he's actually very good recently on an acoustic steel string if you watch any videos of him.
And from Dark Side to The Wall he and Nick Mason were responsible for most of the sound effects.
manicm
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matt49 said:
Yeah you're probably drinking from NME's old kool-aid. And I don't get this cliche of the floyd. Right up to and including 1971's Meddle they were still using the fantastical Barrett template. Then in 1973 when lyrically they decided to get leave their past and get a bit more lyrically serious they're suddenly 'pretentious' and 'portentous'?? I never got that notion. And loathe the band or not Waters' lyrics from 73 to 83 were great. Thing is any NME hack now loves Wish You Were Here - in total contrast to when they critically took a hammer to the album in 1975. Today not even the harshest critic would call it a bad album. With the benefit of....
The thing is as prog rock bands go, Pink Floyd actually progressed, in stark contrast to Yes etc. Maybe people hated their intelligence. As David Gilmour once joked - at least you'll get more mileage from a 'I Hate Pink Floyd' t-shirt than a 'I Hate Yes' t-shirt.
And in 1977 their album Animals was ironically as angry and aggressive and loud as anything that came out of punk. It out-punked punk. It's as pointed as any Nirvana album.
manicm
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lindsayt said:
I say that with tongue slightly in cheek - have you heard the album? It's angry, snarling, aggressive. It's when Waters' cynicism kicked in at high gear - and here in a good way.
And the artwork is just genius - I still have it on vinyl. You really have to see the full blown lp artwork.
matt49
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manicm said:
Well, we all say things with tongue in cheek now and again.
matt49 said:
I don't actually have strong feelings about PF (and I never read NME). To be fair, they're the victims of having had something approaching cult status, which rarely does anyone any favours. And they got played to death when I was in my teens. The fact that they're intelligent (which I'm not denying in general -- though I don't find anything intelligent in e.g. 'Another brick in the wall') may have worked against them. But I think what people objected to most was the excessive earnestness and humourlessness of DSOTM, which seems to me a fair charge.manicm said:
Pink Floyd? Cult status?
More like well marketed, mainstream, corporate entities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums
More like well marketed, mainstream, corporate entities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums
matt49
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lindsayt said:
They certainly did at my school back in the '70s. Sid Barrett was worshipped, and even after him PF managed to persuade quite a few people, with songs like 'Have a Cigar' and 'Welcome to the Machine', that they were sincerely standing up to the music industry. There was reverence aplenty.
And then punk happened and people realized the error of their ways.
Sounds more like a mass craze than a cult.
Like skateboards were a mass craze in the late 70's early 80's. Or Top Trumps at the same period. Whilst something like Avalon Hill games were more of a cult.
Pink Floyd; mass craze. Roy Harper; cult.
Something that I never figured out at the time, was the marketing hype induced tribalism, where if you were a punk you were supposed to hate prog rock. I've always enjoyed both.
It's like going to a Sisters of Mercy gig in the 80's. Where the Goth thing was all about being an individual, doing your own thing and being different to everyone else. When you went to the gig almost everyone was dressed in black...
Like skateboards were a mass craze in the late 70's early 80's. Or Top Trumps at the same period. Whilst something like Avalon Hill games were more of a cult.
Pink Floyd; mass craze. Roy Harper; cult.
Something that I never figured out at the time, was the marketing hype induced tribalism, where if you were a punk you were supposed to hate prog rock. I've always enjoyed both.
It's like going to a Sisters of Mercy gig in the 80's. Where the Goth thing was all about being an individual, doing your own thing and being different to everyone else. When you went to the gig almost everyone was dressed in black...
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