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SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

Pink Floyd are the best band of all time - that's an accepted dogma. Disagreeing is like thinking the Sun goes round the Earth. Pink Floyd are so good, in fact, that their best song isn't on any of their albums and hardly anyone knows it - 'Scream thy last scream'.

The question, therefore, is not whether Pink Floyd are any good or not. The question is......which Floyd era is your favorite and why?

See poll.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

Saucer Full of Secrets and Umma Gumma are my favorites. Some Syd material in both of those.

I hear Syd is doing better these days. Or I heard that a couple years ago rather.

Pink Freud · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Daegu

The music I'm making these days is pretty fine....

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

I haven't really listened to Umma or the early stuff. But at Dongdaemun fleamarket I came across cassettes for a buck each and got nine Floyd including Umma, Atom Heart Mother and a few other early ones. Also later stuff like Delicate Sound of Thunder, Animals, etc. These tapes are new store stock just let go to let Cds thru.

Floyd never ages. Look at the Rolling Stones now and the Stones just look whacky. Some serious fellers those Floyds.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

Jugband Blues off of Saucer is my favorite Floyd tune. It was Syd's last cited contribution to the band's albums. He apparently dragged a Salvation Army band off of the streets and into the studio. Marvelous. the title track and Set the controls for the heart of the Sun never fail to blow me away.

I have heard some of the other work he did while cracking up. One tune, "Have you got it yet," features him playing fractured riff after riff, all totally unrelated, then asking his bandmates, "have you got it yet?" Funny, in a depressing sort of way.

Narrow Way is a great tune. I don't go so much for the Richard Wright j*&king off on the keyboards parts of Umma Gumma, but the live albumm is oustanding.

I can see why you don't like Waters' voice, but I think it has a smoky texture that fits in with the Floyd haze. unfortunately his rampant ego ruined the band. He has something in common with Frank Zappa -- the "I'm always right and you're a loser," mentality.

Still, if you don't think Waters' contribution was enormous, just listen to Monetary Lapse of Reason, um, I mean Momentary Lapse of Reason. It's like an album for a little kid.

I did like the Division Bell.

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

Atom Heart to DSOTM is the classic Floyd sound / era to me. Syd's Floyd was a genius with a band. It's not that often I'll just sit down and listen to a whole Floyd album all the way through these days, but if I did, it'd be Piper. Barrett and Madcap Laughs still get a lot of love and attention on my player.

Incidentally, David Gilmour has just released a new solo album entitled On An Island.

http://www.davidgilmour.com/ Turn your speakers on for a very brief taste. I've just got mine today, but there's some ritual to observe before the first listening. I'll get back to you.

semphoon · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: Where Nowon is

I love the Barrett stuff. At the very start, the images he paints are so playful. I love Pow R. Toc H (boom-chi-chi....boom- chi-chi.....DOI DOI...DOI DOI).

When I was 13 years-old , I "discovered" Pink Floyd. For the next 2 or 3 years, I would only listen to Floyd.

I consider The Wall to be the last real Floyd album (and even then, Rick Wright was getting paid as a session musician and I believe a session drummer played on the song "Mother" not Mason).

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

When I was an exchange student to Greece back in the '70s, I lived in a house in Middle Greece (Kalamos) that was three doors down from a house owned by a member of Pink Floyd. I never found out which member it was, but the story goes that it was given to him by his first wife, and his second wife didn't like it, so he didn't visit. Instead, he let friends stay there; while I was there, a Dutch stage troupe was in it--I was invited to dinner there one night. I tried finding something on internet about it, but only came up with one reference to PF and Kalamos.

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captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

First I heard was Dark Side of the Moon at age 14 or so. It was unearthly. It summed up the magic of life here, now, and yet not of this earth. And I was completely sober. When you're young you're open. And Floyd has so much going for it. At that time it was like, wow, somebody understands. They present doors, that band.

You guys make me curious about their early stuff, which I have now from the fleamarket (Umma, Atom Heart, etc.).

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

The early stuff's the best, CK.

Download the songs I mention above from your server of choice. No need to buy them - Floyd are rich enough.

seoulsucker · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

I'd have to say Animals is probably my favorite album.

I still feel incredibly lucky to have seen them (although not the full, orignal band) live in concert during their Pulse tour in '93.

cwemory · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Location: Gunpo, Korea

Syd Barrett era
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn may be the greatest British psychedelic album. It is more humorous, pop-friendly, and lighthearted than their subsequent works.

Thargelion · Joined: 05 Dec 2005

Requiem for a Post-War Dream

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul