Favorite Pink Floyd album that......

Ledbetterman10

is NOT Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, or the Wall. this is for the hardcore fans of early Floyd only! Everybody and their brother loves those four!

anyway, i've long said Piper at the Gates was my favorite but recently i've decided that Obscured by Clouds has replaced it. Meedle is close too but I perfer live performances of Echoes and....well....Echoes IS Meedle. and i don't even know what to make of Seamus.


winner is.....Obscured by Clouds! what's yours?

InHiding80

The only one I have not on the list is Meddle. I owned "Momentary..." when I was in 2nd grade. My stepdad has seen them in concert a few times.

dan_vedder

Piper at the Gates of Dawn is sheer brilliance

Ledbetterman10

dan_vedder wrote:

Piper at the Gates of Dawn is sheer brilliance

god yeah. ever hear live versions of Astronmy Domine or Interstallar Overdrive? holy shit. they're amazing and they get even better once Gilmour replaces Syd.

another good thing about this album is you can play it for kids. if i have kids (which isn't soon i hope), i can see me playing songs like The Gnome, Scarcrow, and Bike for them as well as other Syd-era songs like See Emily Play and It Would Be So Nice.

kdpjam

i like relics.

VEDHEAD27

Thanks to my girl Meddledeal;)...I've rediscovered the sheer brilliance of Meddle and can NOT praise it enough! This one easily get my vote.

And yes Echoes!!!!!
.......But also FEARLESS!!!!!!!! FEAR-LESS!!!!!!!!

Jamal

I like Atom Heart Mother, although I know they have better albums

Drifting Away

Does Pulse Count?

if not then Divison Bell or Meddle

Evacuation Rules

More and especially Obscured By Clouds are my favorites.

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

as well as other Syd-era songs like See Emily Play and It Would Be So Nice.

Syd doesn't play on "It Would Be So Nice". He was gone by that point.

Scratchin a Letter

UMMAGUMMA

It's a bit silly but it gooooooood

brain of c

meddle.

tybird

brain of c wrote:

meddle.

what he said..........

FinsburyParkCarrots

Piper, for me.

moemoe6434

Atom Heart Mother.

BinFrog

Meddle or Obscured.

BinFrog

JWBusher wrote:

More and especially Obscured By Clouds are my favorites.



Syd doesn't play on "It Would Be So Nice". He was gone by that point.

Yup, it's a Rick song.

AllNiteThing

UmmaGumma for sure.

DCGARDEN

The final cut is very under-rated in my opinion. For those who don't have or never heard, it sounds like an extension of The Wall's more mellow tunes.

Atome Heart & Meddle only have a few good songs on each of them, but Final Cut is solid straight through

Hawkshore

I love Piper at the Gates of Dawn, probably the birth of psychedelic music for most and Interstellar just rocks! That said I have many fond memories of getting together with friends climbing this abandon rock quarry and baking out to Echoes.

....SO for sentimental reasons its go to be Meddle

Ledbetterman10

JWBusher wrote:

More and especially Obscured By Clouds are my favorites.



Syd doesn't play on "It Would Be So Nice". He was gone by that point.

this website (check underneath 1968) http://www.pink-floyd.org/barrett/whatif1.htm credits Syd and Richard Wright as writers of It Would Be So Nice. it could be wrong though and i suppose while i've always thought it to be syd singing (I haven't heard it in a while) maybe it is Rick.

and speaking of Rick Wright, anybody a fan of "Summer '68" from Atom Heart Mother? GREAT, GREAT, GREAT song!

MeddleDeal

VEDHEAD27 wrote:

Thanks to my girl Meddledeal;)...I've rediscovered the sheer brilliance of Meddle and can NOT praise it enough! This one easily get my vote.

And yes Echoes!!!!!
.......But also FEARLESS!!!!!!!! FEAR-LESS!!!!!!!!

aww i'm glad! That is why I named myself after one of the BEST Floyd albums of ALL time!! :cool:

Fearless, San Topez, and Echoes...how can you go wrong w/Meddle?!

Ledbetterman10

MeddleDeal wrote:

aww i'm glad! That is why I named myself after one of the BEST Floyd albums of ALL time!! :cool:

Fearless, San Topez, and Echoes...how can you go wrong w/Meddle?!

not to mention ONE OF THESE DAYS! an all-time great album even if the band is totally fucking around on Seamus. San Tropez is the type of song that you can lie on the beach listening to, which isn't exactly the Floyd's specialty.


all Meedle fans should check out the Live at Pompeii dvd for an AMAZING version of Echoes

AndySlash

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

this website (check underneath 1968) http://www.pink-floyd.org/barrett/whatif1.htm credits Syd and Richard Wright as writers of It Would Be So Nice. it could be wrong though and i suppose while i've always thought it to be syd singing (I haven't heard it in a while) maybe it is Rick.

Uh, did you READ that page? It's all hypothetical- a page describing what MIGHT have happened had Syd not left in April '68.

It's a Rick song. Syd was long gone.

And my pick for this thread is The Division Bell. Meddle is a close second.

Ledbetterman10

AndySlash wrote:

Uh, did you READ that page? It's all hypothetical- a page describing what MIGHT have happened had Syd not left in April '68.

It's a Rick song. Syd was long gone.

And my pick for this thread is The Division Bell. Meddle is a close second.

i know it's hypothetical but since that song already really exists, why would they put Syd's name there on the credit hypothetically? why say "well, in real life, Rick wrote this song but if Syd were around, they both would have wrote it." that doesn't make much sense to me. still, you're the third person who called me out on this so i guess i'm wrong. and i have gone and listened to it since my last post and it's sounding more and more like Rick.

another Division Bell fan? Waters would be PISSED

viggs20

Atom Heart Mother.

Evacuation Rules

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

i know it's hypothetical but since that song already really exists, why would they put Syd's name there on the credit hypothetically? why say "well, in real life, Rick wrote this song but if Syd were around, they both would have wrote it." that doesn't make much sense to me. still, you're the third person who called me out on this so i guess i'm wrong. and i have gone and listened to it since my last post and it's sounding more and more like Rick.

Syd appears on the following tracks:

Piper (whole album)
Saucerful (3 songs: Set The Controls, Remember A Day, Jugband Blues)
Arnold Layne / Candy And A Currant Bun (1st single)
See Emily Play / Scarecrow (2nd single)
Apples & Oranges / Paintbox (3rd single)
Vegetable Man / Scream Thy Last Scream (unreleased)

That's it.

Ledbetterman10

JWBusher wrote:

Syd appears on the following tracks:

Piper (whole album)
Saucerful (3 songs: Set The Controls, Remember A Day, Jugband Blues)
Arnold Layne / Candy And A Currant Bun (1st single)
See Emily Play / Scarecrow (2nd single)
Apples & Oranges / Paintbox (3rd single)
Vegetable Man / Scream Thy Last Scream (unreleased)

That's it.

i admitted my mistake about It Would be so Nice in my last post. good info though. however, are you sure he appears on Set the Controls? also, i'm almost positive that both he and Gilmour play guitar on Corporal Clegg. that's what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_Clegg says. however, i know this site can be incorrect, though the Floyd information on it is pretty good.

alobar

Obscured By Clouds by far.

"Childhood's End" is one of my favorite songs and "Wot's...Uh the Deal" is fantastic as well.

Evacuation Rules

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

i admitted my mistake about It Would be so Nice in my last post. good info though. however, are you sure he appears on Set the Controls? also, i'm almost positive that both he and Gilmour play guitar on Corporal Clegg. that's what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_Clegg says. however, i know this site can be incorrect, though the Floyd information on it is pretty good.

Well they're wrong. There is an excellent book called "Random Precision" that fully details all of Syd's recording sessions. I could list the exact dates for all of Syd's recordings, but I would have to dig it up.

Syd appears at the very end of "Set The Controls". It was recorded and mixed several weeks before Gilmour joined. It was actually the first song recorded for "Saucerful", right after they finished "Piper". The drums, bass, and guitar were all recorded live onto one track, so there's no way it features Gilmour.

Likewise, "Corporal Clegg" was recorded and mixed a few weeks after Syd left.

Syd and Dave do not appear together on any tracks - it's either one or the other.

"Saucerful" was recorded over a period of several months. Syd only appears on the 3 songs I mentioned, all of which were recorded in late '67 right after "Piper" was finished. The rest of the album was recorded in early '68 after Syd split.

The two Syd outtakes I mentioned are also from the early "Saucerful" sessions. They have bootlegged in excellent stereo...not to be confused with the poor sounding BBC versions. I can upload them to yousendit if anybody wants.

Evacuation Rules

I found the book!

Here's some exact details for you:

1/29/67: Arnold Layne / Candy And A Currant Bun
2/21/67: Matilda Mother
2/27/67: Chapter 24 / Interstellar Overdrive
3/16/67: Flaming
3/19/67: The Gnome
3/20/67: Take Up Thy Stethescope And Walk / The Scarecrow
3/21/67: Pow R Toc H
4/11/67: Astronomy Domine
4/12/67: Lucifer Sam
4/18/67: She Was A Millionaire
5/21/67: Bike
5/23/67: See Emily Play
*Piper released, Syd loses his shit*
8/7/67: Scream Thy Last Scream
8/8/67: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
10/9/67: Remember A Day / Jugband Blues / Vegetable Man
10/20/67: John Latham / In The Beechwoods
10/23/67: Paintbox / Early Morning Henry
10/26/67: Apples And Oranges
*Syd leaves, Gilmour enters*
1/18/68: Let There Be More Light
1/24/68: See Saw
2/12/68: Corporal Clegg
4/3/68: A Saucerful Of Secrets
*Saucerful released*


"She Was A Millionaire" has never been bootlegged because all the "Piper" multi-tracks were destroyed by the geniuses at EMI.

"Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man" have both been bootlegged in excellent stereo.

"John Latham" has never been bootlegged.

"Early Morning Henry" has never been bootlegged, and the master tape is lost.

"In The Beechwoods" has been bootlegged, but it was recorded through the air as Nick Mason played it on his stereo, so it sounds rather poor.

There are also several aimless, untitled instrumentals that were recorded in October '67. Only one of these has been bootlegged (and it's only a fragment).

Ledbetterman10

JWBusher wrote:

I found the book!

Here's some exact details for you:

1/29/67: Arnold Layne / Candy And A Currant Bun
2/21/67: Matilda Mother
2/27/67: Chapter 24 / Interstellar Overdrive
3/16/67: Flaming
3/19/67: The Gnome
3/20/67: Take Up Thy Stethescope And Walk / The Scarecrow
3/21/67: Pow R Toc H
4/11/67: Astronomy Domine
4/12/67: Lucifer Sam
4/18/67: She Was A Millionaire
5/21/67: Bike
5/23/67: See Emily Play
*Piper released, Syd loses his shit*
8/7/67: Scream Thy Last Scream
8/8/67: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
10/9/67: Remember A Day / Jugband Blues / Vegetable Man
10/20/67: John Latham / In The Beechwoods
10/23/67: Paintbox / Early Morning Henry
10/26/67: Apples And Oranges
*Syd leaves, Gilmour enters*
1/18/68: Let There Be More Light
1/24/68: See Saw
2/12/68: Corporal Clegg
4/3/68: A Saucerful Of Secrets
*Saucerful released*


"She Was A Millionaire" has never been bootlegged because all the "Piper" multi-tracks were destroyed by the geniuses at EMI.

"Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man" have both been bootlegged in excellent stereo.

"John Latham" has never been bootlegged.

"Early Morning Henry" has never been bootlegged, and the master tape is lost.

"In The Beechwoods" has been bootlegged, but it was recorded through the air as Nick Mason played it on his stereo, so it sounds rather poor.

There are also several aimless, untitled instrumentals that were recorded in October '67. Only one of these has been bootlegged (and it's only a fragment).

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