What are your top 5 PF songs?
Is Division Bell an underrated album?
Thoughts on Waters? Gilmour?
If all 4 members of PF could reunite for 2 songs what would they be?
My answers:
1) Comfortably Numb
2) Wish you Were Here
3) High Hopes
4) Mother
5) Time
Division Bell is the album which got my into Floyd back in the 90s- my college roommate left it in the dorm one summer and I used to love walking on the beach listening to "Marooned". I think it's highly underrated. Love "Keep Talking" and "Lost for Words"
I think Waters was an ass but Gilmour probably could have been a little more forgiving especially later as Waters seemed more conciliatory. I think the band lost a little under Waters but Gilmour Mason and Wright carried it on very well.
I'd love to hear them all play Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell.
He wasn't the only one with a distaste for ALW. Here's Crowded House in Chocolate Cake:
Not everyone in New York would pay to see Andrew Lloyd Webber
May his trousers fall down as he bows to the queen and the crown
I don't know what tune that the orchestra played
But it went by me sickly and sentimental
I've been trying to master ...Crazy Diamond. He is a GOAT.
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and try to tackle Gilmour's work? I've made a lot of progress on the solo from Time and it's fun as hell to bust that out at loud volume, but his tone is just so damn elusive! How'd he get that in 1973?
I've been trying to master ...Crazy Diamond. He is a GOAT.
Yeah, that's next on my list. I dabbled with it some time ago and found an awesome tone for Guitar Rig 5 that someone had shared. That's a great piece of software for shit like this.
I've dabbled a bit and we did Run for a few years in one of my first cover bands. But I never cover stuff exactly the same as the original... lol. I know he had a Duncan pickup in the black strat, and he used Dallas Arbiter Fuzz and a bunch of MXR Phasers. HiWatt heads for the wall and a leslie speaker cab for the crazier stuff.. lol. I think his tone is mostly in his hands though, he has a pretty specific style especially when it comes to leads.
Pulse itself is hard to top. It might be my favorite concert video of all time. The visuals and music are superb.
My 5 songs would be:
(1) Comfortably Numb
(2) Hey You
(3) Brain Damage
(4) Wish You Were Here
(5) High Hopes (they used to play the music video for High Hopes at my gym for time to time and I would always stop and stand there for 6-7 minutes and just enjoy it)
These 4 men created so much great music together. It's just a shame they wasted so much time being mad at each other.
Echoes
Shine on you crazy diamond
Dark side of the moon (it’s essentially one long song)
Turning away
Wish you were here
Is Division Bell an underrated album?
Yes - an awesome album
Thoughts on Waters? Gilmour?
Waters is an egomaniac
Gilmour is one of the best guitarists of all time for his style alone
If all 4 members of PF could reunite for 2 songs what would they be?
Shine on you crazy diamond
Echoes
Next 3 in no particular order, all are great.
Wish You were Hear
Animals
The Wall
Crazy!
1. Time
2. Echos (pompeii version)
3. Dogs
4. Us and them
5. Shine on you crazy Diamond
Would also love to hear Fearless, and perhaps Arnold Layne or See Emily play though we would need Barret for the last two.
As the years go on I appreciate Wright more and more. Each member was essential. Shame it couldn't last....but meddle through the wall was one heck of a run. Favorite band ever.
2. Time
3. Have a Cigar
4. Brain Damage
5. Goodbye Blue Sky
2 Songs: Time and Another Brick in the Wall (cheating because its 3 parts)
Shine on you crazy diamond all parts (I’ll cheat and count this as one)
Dogs
In the flesh, the thin ice, another brick in the wall part 1 (counting it as one sorry) it’s basically one big song in my view with different parts and it’s perfect rock opera music.
I’ll add that I can’t choose just one from dark side since it’s the greatest album of all time and it just can’t be done. I choose the whole album.
1. Comfortably Numb
2. Us and Them
3. Shine on You Crazy Diamond
4. Interstellar Overdrive
5, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
Crazy!
I was at a Disco Biscuits show at Hammerstein and they covered the first part of Echoes to close the first set. Then they started fogging the stage and peetering out of the song,entering the "whales part." The band snuck off stage for set break as the whales was intermission music over the PA. There soooooooooo many people freaking out because they ate acid and didnt know what was going on. I was laughing my ass off. Then 20 mins later, they snuck on stage again and resumed the song. It was fucking awesome.
I’m surprised the thread went that long before it was mentioned. One of PFs best songs
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I’m really surprised how popular Echoes is - I thought I was on e of the few to love that song.
Crazy!
I was at a Disco Biscuits show
My condolences.
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I’m surprised the thread went that long before it was mentioned. One of PFs best songs
My favorite
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I’m surprised the thread went that long before it was mentioned. One of PFs best songs
My favorite
the only song i was able to request back in the day --i called WDAH and got through and requested Fearless. Think I made a wise choice.