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DEEPDEEP Posts: 274
edited September 2007 in Other Music
What would be on your Ultimate Floyd Greatest Hits compilation??
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,970
    the greatest hits package they put out (Echoes) is pretty good for a new fan, with a few grievances from me:

    WAY TOO MUCH Momentary Lapse/Division Bell stuff (5 songs counting both) and only one song from Saucerful of Secrets, nothing from Atom Heart Mother and only one song from Animals. An edited version of Dogs wouldn't have hurt. but really, Sorrow? High Hopes? get the hell out of here. get rid of that and throw on Have a Cigar or something. Learning to Fly and Keep Talking are more then enough from that era of Floyd. there are much more essential things for a collection like this that should have been included. and where the hell was RUN LIKE HELL?
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    the greatest hits package they put out (Echoes) is pretty good for a new fan, with a few grievances from me:

    WAY TOO MUCH Momentary Lapse/Division Bell stuff (5 songs counting both) and only one song from Saucerful of Secrets, nothing from Atom Heart Mother and only one song from Animals. An edited version of Dogs wouldn't have hurt. but really, Sorrow? High Hopes? get the hell out of here. get rid of that and throw on Have a Cigar or something. Learning to Fly and Keep Talking are more then enough from that era of Floyd. there are much more essential things for a collection like this that should have been included. and where the hell was RUN LIKE HELL?

    yeah, that comp was disappointing. i also didn't like the weird fading into and out of songs thing they did. i know they did it often on albums, but when you're jumbling their catalogue together, it was way too jarring. i also hated that they put an edited down echoes on there. that song belongs in all its 24 minutes of glory. there did seem to be a few weak choices as well.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Scream Thy Last Scream and Vegetable Man should be released officially, once and for all, on such an album. They're the two best songs in the Floyd catalogue, in my opinion.



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  • DocChicagoDocChicago Posts: 653
    FPC, your opinion is completely valid but in the great minority.


    I'll start with the Echoes tracklisting:

    1. Astronomy Domine
    2. See Emily Play
    3. The Happiest Day of Our Lives
    4. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
    5. Echoes
    6. Hey You
    7. Marooned
    8. The Great Gig in the Sky
    9. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
    10. Money
    11. Keep Talking
    12. Sheep
    13. Sorrow
    14. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7)
    15. Time
    16. The Fletcher Memorial Home
    17. Comfortably Numb
    18. When the Tigers Broke Free
    19. One of These Days
    20. Us And Them
    21. Learning to Fly
    22. Arnold Layne
    23. Wish You Were Here
    24. Jug Band Blues
    25. High Hopes
    26. Bike

    Get rid of these:

    2. See Emily Play
    7. Marooned
    13. Sorrow
    25. High Hopes
    26. Bike

    And then add:

    Careful With That Axe Eugene
    Fearless
    Free Four
    Brain Damage/Eclipse
    Run Like Hell
    Two Suns in the Sunset

    I've never seen anything special about Atom Heart Mother. Too... "orchestral."
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    4. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
    5. Echoes
    6. Hey You
    10. Money
    11. Keep Talking
    12. Sheep
    14. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7)
    15. Time
    17. Comfortably Numb
    19. One of These Days
    21. Learning to Fly
    22. Arnold Layne
    23. Wish You Were Here

    i think that's pretty much the one disc comp i made for them. only i spliced in the REAL echoes.
  • The VacantThe Vacant Posts: 271
    Speak To Me - Breathe
    Time - Breathe Reprise
    Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond I - V
    Fat Old Sun
    Sheep
    Comfortably Numb
    Astronomy Domine
    Brain Damage - Eclipse

    One of These Days
    Another Brick In The Wall pt. II
    Money
    Echoes
    Careful With That Axe, Eugene
    Hey You
    Wish You Were Here
    Shine On Your Crazy Diamond VI - IX

    Maybe throw in another Syd song or two, Fearless, Us & Them, Have A Cigar, Pigs (Three Different Ones), and/or Mother to round things off.

    Anything after the Wall should just be forgotten.
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,249
    I love that song not sure why all the hate for it. I'd have it in my top ten pink floyd songs for sure.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,970
    intodeep wrote:
    I love that song not sure why all the hate for it. I'd have it in my top ten pink floyd songs for sure.


    I like that song too. but it has no place on a disc called "the best of Pink Floyd"
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    DocChicago wrote:
    I've never seen anything special about Atom Heart Mother. Too... "orchestral."


    "If" is a great chill song, and "Summer of '68" should have been a single.
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  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    In chronological order:

    Bike
    See Emily Play
    Atom Heart Mother
    Summer of '68
    Fat Old Sun
    One of These Days
    Fearless
    Echoes
    Speak to Me->Breathe
    Time
    Money
    Us and Them
    Brain Damage->Eclipse
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond
    Have a Cigar
    Wish You Were Here
    Dogs
    Sheep
    Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2
    Mother
    Hey You
    Comfortably Numb
    Run Like Hell
    High Hopes
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,171
    WTF Nobody has suggested Interstellar Overdrive??? The definitive psychedelic rock song
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,970
    Hawkshore wrote:
    WTF Nobody has suggested Interstellar Overdrive??? The definitive psychedelic rock song


    the Live in London version is the one of the greatest recordings ever.
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  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,171
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    the Live in London version is the one of the greatest recordings ever.


    Absolutely!!!....Love the improvisational feel to it
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  • marker_in_the_sandmarker_in_the_sand Posts: 272
    Hey You
    Have A Cigar
    Astronomy Domine
    In The Flesh?
    Welcome To The Machine
    One Of These Days
    Time
    Brain Damage
    Eclipse
    Wish You Were Here
    High Hopes
    Comfortably Numb

    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (the whole)
    Echoes

    Yay entire wish you were here on it. WYWH is their best album IMO.
    And after that The Wall but I think you should see The Wall in it's entirety and not as 26 invidual songs. With exception from Comfortably Numb, In The Flesh?, and Hey You
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  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    marker_in_the_sand wrote:
    Hey You
    Have A Cigar
    Astronomy Domine
    In The Flesh?
    Welcome To The Machine
    One Of These Days
    Time
    Brain Damage
    Eclipse
    Wish You Were Here
    High Hopes
    Comfortably Numb

    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (the whole)
    Echoes

    Yay entire wish you were here on it. WYWH is their best album IMO.
    And after that The Wall but I think you should see The Wall in it's entirety and not as 26 invidual songs. With exception from Comfortably Numb, In The Flesh?, and Hey You
    I like this list plus Pigs.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • DEEPDEEP Posts: 274
    cool...thanks for all the suggestions, i was trying to make a kick ass mp3 disc of floyd to listen to while traveling to and from work (bout a 45 min. drive). keep 'em coming!!
  • The VacantThe Vacant Posts: 271
    This thread prompted me to break out some live Floyd. Cymabline is a pretty badass tune live. Too bad the studio version is so muddy.
  • NickyNoochNickyNooch Posts: 629
    DEEP wrote:
    What would be on your Ultimate Floyd Greatest Hits compilation??

    A blank disc.

    Sorry I don't like pink floyd :)

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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    The Vacant wrote:
    This thread prompted me to break out some live Floyd. Cymabline is a pretty badass tune live. Too bad the studio version is so muddy.


    Great tune. I have some great live versions of it.
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  • hodgehodge Posts: 519
    Sorrow is awesome
    ..and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
  • U2rocksU2rocks Posts: 89
    I would say that Sorrow and High Hopes definitely deserved there spot on the comp.

    Also, come on....the Best of was a way for younger folks to get into Pink Floyd...and any self-respecting Floyd fan listens to the entire CD...not just the "hit songs". They were a true album band if there ever was one.

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  • Oh, JimmyOh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    How about Meddle,DSOTM,WYWH,Animals,The Wall, audio track to Live at Pompeii. As far as the post Waters, On the Turning Away, High Hopes, Coming Back To Life, A Great Day For Freedom.
  • faceinthecloudsfaceintheclouds Posts: 1,739
    how bout set the controls for the heart of the sun
    Just, not enough.
    I need more.
    Nothing seems to satisfy.
    I said, I dont want it.
    I just need it.
    To breathe, to feel, to know Im alive.
  • DEEPDEEP Posts: 274
    NickyNooch wrote:
    A blank disc.

    Sorry I don't like pink floyd :)
    thats a brilliant answer there
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