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Is "Fearless" not the greatest Pink Floyd album

pearlzepfanpearlzepfan Posts: 456
edited January 2008 in Other Music
I love it!!!!!


and I meant song, not album
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  • smarcheesmarchee Posts: 14,539
    what album is that from ?
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    It's a pleasant, mellow piece from Meddle. It's proto-ambient, if that isn't too pretentious a description of it.

    Here's my favourite Floyd song, though, personally:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7e1RUXUx7o
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Fearless is a great song. Great flow, odd tunings, trippy/ethereal vibe to it...what's not to love?
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  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    It's a pleasant, mellow piece from Meddle. It's proto-ambient, if that isn't too pretentious a description of it.

    Here's my favourite Floyd song, though, personally:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7e1RUXUx7o


    Assuming you mean that jokingly, nice.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    BinFrog wrote:
    Assuming you mean that jokingly, nice.

    Nah, I love Vegetable Man. I'm not a fan of post-Barrett Floyd at all, but I like Fearless largely because of the Syd-like feel of the song. Apparently the tuning used on Fearless was introduced to the band by Syd and, who knows, maybe they lifted the riff too? After all, they pinched the riff to Wish You Were Here from Van Morrison's Almost Independence Day. So I wouldn't put it past them. ;)
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    pearlzepfan wrote:
    I love it!!!!!


    and I meant song, not album
    ...
    'Meddle' is a great album and 'Fearless' is a beautiful song.
    From 'One Of These Days' to 'Echoes'... just a fantastic musical experience. I really loved it back in my stoner daze.
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  • pjl44pjl44 Posts: 9,227
    Meddle is one of my favorite Floyd albums. I went on a serious Echoes jag a few months back...
  • lalalalaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    'Meddle' is a great album and 'Fearless' is a beautiful song.
    From 'One Of These Days' to 'Echoes'... just a fantastic musical experience. I really loved it back in my stoner daze.
    One Of These Days is the song I use to introduce people to Floyd usually...works every time.
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Nah, I love Vegetable Man. I'm not a fan of post-Barrett Floyd at all, but I like Fearless largely because of the Syd-like feel of the song. Apparently the tuning used on Fearless was introduced to the band by Syd and, who knows, maybe they lifted the riff too? After all, they pinched the riff to Wish You Were Here from Van Morrison's Almost Independence Day. So I wouldn't put it past them. ;)


    I think it's an almost unlistenable song, but I love some of Syd's PF stuff like:

    Astronomy Domine
    See Emily Play
    Arnold Layne
    Bike
    Interstellar Overdrive

    Heck...all of PATGOD is great.
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  • BenzorBenzor Posts: 886
    Dogs is easily the greatest Pink Floyd song
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    pjl44 wrote:
    Meddle is one of my favorite Floyd albums. I went on a serious Echoes jag a few months back...

    It takes a month to listen to Echoes!

    In November I moved into a new house and I put on Meddle as I was unpacking. I hadn't listened to it much and I really dug it.
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  • GraspWhatYouCanGraspWhatYouCan Posts: 21
    Saturnal wrote:
    One Of These Days is the song I use to introduce people to Floyd usually...works every time.

    That's how I was introduced formally to Floyd (I knew 'Shine On...' years earlier, but that was it). My friend gave me his ear buds, told me to close my eyes and he blasted the song. I was hooked on the first chord.

    Fearless is a beautiful, airy song, but Echoes is my #1. On its own, Fearless is amazing, but in context with the rest of the album, it's on another level.
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Benzor wrote:
    Dogs is easily the greatest Pink Floyd song
    My fav as well.
  • inthefleshintheflesh Posts: 170
    Benzor wrote:
    Dogs is easily the greatest Pink Floyd song

    yup.

    and, easily the greatest guitar solo/s ever recorded
    was it?....
  • FedericoFederico Posts: 7,916
    pink floyd is my other "illness" besides pearl jam....its impossible to choose something..everything they´ve ever done is great....except maybe for some "momentary lapse of reason" tunes
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Benzor wrote:
    Dogs is easily the greatest Pink Floyd song
    I'll opt for another song from that very same album (Animals). "Sheep" is the best Floyd song. "Fearless" is very good, btw.
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  • GraspWhatYouCanGraspWhatYouCan Posts: 21
    tybird wrote:
    I'll opt for another song from that very same album (Animals). "Sheep" is the best Floyd song. "Fearless" is very good, btw.

    Yeah, Sheep is my #2, followed closely by Dogs. I was on a Binaural phase and now I may have to switch to an Animals phase... :)
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    GraspWhatYouCan wrote:
    Yeah, Sheep is my #2, followed closely by Dogs. I was on a Binaural phase and now I may have to switch to an Animals phase... :)
    Good point....been awhile since I gave that album a spin.
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 12,854
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    'Meddle' is a great album and 'Fearless' is a beautiful song.
    From 'One Of These Days' to 'Echoes'... just a fantastic musical experience. I really loved it back in my stoner daze.

    seamus is my favorite

    :)

    but the whole record is great

    one of these days Im going to cut you into little pieces
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Get_Right wrote:
    seamus is my favorite

    :)

    but the whole record is great

    one of these days Im going to cut you into little pieces


    SEAMUS? Worst song in the Floyd catalog?????
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  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    Benzor wrote:
    Dogs is easily the greatest Pink Floyd song

    I'd agree...







    if they hadn't recorded Atom Heart Mother.
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  • MohabMohab Posts: 310
    I like these four similar cuts -unknown song, narrow way, rain in the country and one off a bootleg thats like them. The unknown song off zabriski point is id say thier best studio moment.

    As for waters maybe the music from the body re cord, minus the geesin sound effects half

    seamus is the best off meddle, or maybe pillow of winds
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 12,854
    BinFrog wrote:
    SEAMUS? Worst song in the Floyd catalog?????

    I was being sarcastic...
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Get_Right wrote:
    I was being sarcastic...



    I was really hoping that was the case...hah
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 12,854
    BinFrog wrote:
    I was really hoping that was the case...hah

    impossible to pick just one favorite

    and that whole record is great
  • boxwine_in_hellboxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    I'm kind of partial to Shine On You Crazy Diamond....although it's more of a novella than a song.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,853
    awesome tune. there's some great multi-layered guitars by Gilmour on 'Fearless.'


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