Poll--The Weakest Link: Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' Round 1

SmallestOceans

Speak To Me

dankind said:

HesCalledDyer said:

dankind said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Horos said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Fun fact: I knew half the songs but never heard the full album until I bought the Pulse CD where it’s presented live in its entirety. To this day, the only Pink Floyd albums I have are Pulse, The Wall, Division Bell, & Momentary Lapse. Should probably at least pick up Dark Side & WYWH.

Get Animals(my fave) and Meddle too.

Just listened to previews and I could get into them.  Really dig the sound of Fearless.  I'll have to do some crate digging in the near future.

“Fearless” is probably my favorite non-Syd Floyd song.

PJ totally ripped it off for “Who You Are.”

Hmm, care to expand on that thought as I don't hear any similarity between the two at all?

I ended up going thru the entire catalog.  I doubt I could really get into anything before Meddle except Piper.  There's a song here or there, but for the most part albums 2-5 are a bit too mindless for me.  Post-Meddle, the only thing I'm on the fence about is The Final Cut, I could probably get into it but it really seems too much like an abridged version of The Wall.  And I like The Wall, but it's a big enough adventure on its own that I don't know if I need more of it.

I read that Syd was only on the first two albums, with only "Jugband Blues" on the 2nd one?  If that's the case, I do actually dig his stuff. It was definitely a completely different band with him.

That scale outro in “Who You Are,” with the slow tom roll into the crash, is a motif that runs throughout “Fearless.”

For another (perhaps more clear) homage, listen to this. 

https://youtu.be/KiXwUS9FFgc

Sounds like a Screaming Trees song.

HesCalledDyer

Speak To Me

brianlux said:

DewieCox said:

brianlux said:

All these years I still wonder how on earth "Money" got so much air play.  If I never hear that song again... 

...but right now I have to go put on something to chase that ear worn back down into it's hole.

One of the greatest bass lines ever, kickass sax solo, relateable lyrics. 

As far as Floyd recommendations go, Saucerful of Secrets through to The Wall are all pretty essential if you dig the classic lineup.

Pink Floyd is a weird band for me.  I like the parts but not the whole.  Other than on a kind of academic level, I've never liked any of their albums enough to keep them.  They're interesting albums, the band put a lot of work into them.  It doesn't mean I think there's anything wrong with them- they just don't resonate with me. 

I get what you mean. I am definitely much more of a fan of the Gilmour led era, which is only the last 2 albums. (Endless River technically makes 3, but all that stuff came from the Division Bell sessions and was basically a tribute to Richard Wright).  When I was younger, I had a hard time getting into anything else.  It was all too stoner-y and acid trippy and I just wasn't into that.  I can go back now and appeciate it more for the music but as mentioned in my other post, much of the early stuff is still a bit too mindless for me.  For the time being, I still maintain that The Division Bell is the best album. (And I'll now run for cover from all the tomatoes being thrown at me. )

ed243421

On The Run

ed243421

On The Run

tbergs

Speak To Me

brianlux said:

One thing for sure, some weird and crazy shit happened back when that album came out.  Oh the stories!

Speaking of weird and crazy shit, what happened to your avatar Brian? You lost your sense of gravity!

bflynn1

Awesome album choice! Here's my "Time" themed tattoo. 

tbergs

Speak To Me

I am not much of a Floyd fan beyond the most commonly known songs, but this round is conveniently easy because of Speak not really being a song. To vote for anything else this round seems weird and on the level of leaving Red Dot in the running after round 1 of Yield.

Money may have been and is overplayed, but it is still a great song. No way it should go out this early if people could suspend their annoyance with radio overplay. It still won't pass the other 3 greats on this album for me.

Brain Damage and Breathe are tremendous and Time is one of my favorite songs.

tbergs

Speak To Me

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

mcgruff10 said:

I despise the song money. Ugh 

Dear Gawd Scruffy.

Leave it to you for the first crappy vote. The song is iconic. It’s not the best on this album, but it’s not the worst either.

Hmmm, says the guy who voted for Eclipse, which is basically the epic ending of Brain Damage, round 1. At least it has musical instruments and vocals, unlike Speak. You crazy yo!

HesCalledDyer

Speak To Me

tbergs said:

I am not much of a Floyd fan beyond the most commonly known songs, but this round is conveniently easy because of Speak not really being a song. To vote for anything else this round seems weird and on the level of leaving Red Dot in the running after round 1 of Yield.

Money may have been and is overplayed, but it is still a great song. No way it should go out this early if people could suspend their annoyance with radio overplay. It still won't pass the other 3 greats on this album for me.

Brain Damage and Breathe are tremendous and Time is one of my favorite songs.

I agree. Kind of a silly reason to vote something as weakest.  Money is not weaker than a 1 minute intro of random sounds. Come on!

jeffbr

Speak To Me

tbergs said:

I am not much of a Floyd fan beyond the most commonly known songs, but this round is conveniently easy because of Speak not really being a song. To vote for anything else this round seems weird and on the level of leaving Red Dot in the running after round 1 of Yield.

Money may have been and is overplayed, but it is still a great song. No way it should go out this early if people could suspend their annoyance with radio overplay. It still won't pass the other 3 greats on this album for me.

Brain Damage and Breathe are tremendous and Time is one of my favorite songs.

Completely agree with that. I mentioned that the in the Led Zep poll when the cool kids kept voting for Stairway as the weakest song, even early on. Clearly it was because of "overplay", but it isn't a weak song. Money may not be the greatest song (and it isn't), but as you say, it certainly isn't weaker than Speak by any measure that I can imagine.

ed243421

On The Run

^ you’re questioning people’s opinions?

I’m not cool, but I would listen to every other song on IV before I put on stairway, therefore it’s my weakest, which is what we’re doing here, right?

PJ_Soul

Speak To Me

jeffbr said:

tbergs said:

I am not much of a Floyd fan beyond the most commonly known songs, but this round is conveniently easy because of Speak not really being a song. To vote for anything else this round seems weird and on the level of leaving Red Dot in the running after round 1 of Yield.

Money may have been and is overplayed, but it is still a great song. No way it should go out this early if people could suspend their annoyance with radio overplay. It still won't pass the other 3 greats on this album for me.

Brain Damage and Breathe are tremendous and Time is one of my favorite songs.

Completely agree with that. I mentioned that the in the Led Zep poll when the cool kids kept voting for Stairway as the weakest song, even early on. Clearly it was because of "overplay", but it isn't a weak song. Money may not be the greatest song (and it isn't), but as you say, it certainly isn't weaker than Speak by any measure that I can imagine.

At least with that one, though, there wasn't a non-song to vote for instead, lol. Every song on Led Zep IV was a whole actual song, so it was legit if someone selected Stairway to Heaven before some other song if they felt like it. Saying Money (or anything) is worse than Speak to Me just makes no logical sense IMHO. How could anyone actually hate Money so much they think it's worse than 1 minute of noises?

mrussel1

jerparker20 said:

I’ve never viewed “dark side” as a collection of individual songs, but as a complete work. This is album is in my top five most listened to albums ever. Listen to the whole thing on Thursday. There are no weak spots in this album. All the parts make it work.  My vote was more, or less, a closed-eye dartboard throw. 

Completely agree.  I didn't realize there was more than one song. 

mrussel1

Has anyone ever listened to the official 5.1 bluray release? As great as the vinyl is,  listening to it in true surround,  mixed for that format,  is mind blowing. 

I'm happy to share the .iso file for anyone as I believe it's out of print.  If it's not,  then I won't. 

my2hands

Speak To Me

tempo_n_groove said:

derbydave said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm out this one...

I'm good until Wish You Were Here...
not a weak link on that record.

I've never listened to this album.  Just wasn't my thing...

??????????????

my2hands

Speak To Me

Anybody that votes for Time sucks, luckily nobody has yet lol

Ledbetterman10

Us And Them

Obviously Speak To Me has no chance of surviving this round, so I went with Us and Them. Was never a fan. And that's in spite of the fact that I think it's a good song. But it just doesn't do it for me. 

Part of me thinks Brain Damage and Eclipse should be linked together here, but then again, I like Eclipse way more than Brain Damage so I would vote them as two different songs in a poll like this.

But Eclipse did stand on it's own one time. Remember when it closed the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in London? Fantastic...

https://youtu.be/WS2Xw1xr7o4

Ledbetterman10

Us And Them

No clue why the youtube link and not the video posted there. But oh well...

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Eclipse

my2hands said:

Anybody that votes for Time sucks, luckily nobody has yet lol

First guy who does wears the 10C dunce cap for two days.

I’ll see about a fitting for Scruffy’s fat head. Should probably make preparations right now.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Eclipse

tbergs said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

mcgruff10 said:

I despise the song money. Ugh 

Dear Gawd Scruffy.

Leave it to you for the first crappy vote. The song is iconic. It’s not the best on this album, but it’s not the worst either.

Hmmm, says the guy who voted for Eclipse, which is basically the epic ending of Brain Damage, round 1. At least it has musical instruments and vocals, unlike Speak. You crazy yo!

Yah I think I voted poorly upon reflection. I’ll up my game from here on out though so don’t worry.

It was a bit of a mindbend coming off Bon Jovi to this though. An evil Jedi mind trick in reality. Not cool.