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Post by shadowynne on Apr 26, 2019 16:53:34 GMT
Good man, what we listened to so far? Just the obvious A-listers so far. I got 'Foot in the Door'. And indeed it is. So getting to grips with these before... delving deeper... Comfortably numb has me spell-bound though. Listen to it over and over and over again... What would you recommend next? DSOTM? My favourite album is ummagumma. You just can't beat "several small species of small furry animals Gathered together in a cave grooving with a pict". Best song ever. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 26, 2019 17:27:51 GMT
Hmmmm. The answer to this question is a complicated one. Pink Floyd are primary an album band. I think the simple answer might to you be yes, but it's not the one I'd normally give. There's two real answers to the question of "what proper Pink Floyd album do I buy first?" and to see why I've said what I've said we need the track listing for One Foot in the Door en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Pink_Floyd:_A_Foot_in_the_Door1 "Hey You" (The Wall (1979))
2 "See Emily Play" (Non-album single (1967); appears on Relics (1971) and original US/Japan versions of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967))
3 "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" (The Wall)
4 "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (The Wall)
5 "Have a Cigar" (Wish You Were Here (1975))
6 "Wish You Were Here" (Wish You Were Here)
7 "Time" (Edited version on CD, Full version on vinyl) (The Dark Side of the Moon (1973))
8 "The Great Gig in the Sky" (The Dark Side of the Moon)
9 "Money" (The Dark Side of the Moon)
10 "Comfortably Numb" (The Wall)
11 "High Hopes" (Edited version) (The Division Bell (1994))
12 "Learning to Fly" (A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987))
13 "The Fletcher Memorial Home" (The Final Cut (1983))
14 "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Edited version of parts 1-5) (Wish You Were Here)
15 "Brain Damage" (The Dark Side of the Moon)
16 "Eclipse" (Early fade-out) (The Dark Side of the Moon) Lots of DSOTM here BUT you're missing over half of side one inc all of the first half and Time is edited. As much as I love WYWH, side one of DSOTM may be the finest side of a vinyl LP ever. Money's here, but then it skips to the climax with Brain Damage and Eclipse. OK that means you'll have skipped Us & Them, which I don't like, but from there the album builds towards the end. LOTS of Wish You Were Here on A Foot - Not heard a foot myself but I think I can make a stab a what they cut from Shine On 1-5 - what did you think of that? If you really enjoyed it then despite having more of the album already I'd consider getting Wish You Were Here first just for the rest of Shine On (parts 6-9). But you will buy both in short order so you might as well get it done in one go. They are the twin titans of 70s Floyd. Sadly I don't think the experience editions are available any more as they're superb. It's where you go next that's the interesting question. When I started out I knew 5 (I think) Pink Floyd tracks: Learning to Fly & On The Turning Away - both from the radio play they'd had in the 80s on Momentary Lapse of Reason's release - Money & Another Brick in The Wall - which are probably their two best known tracks to the Great British Public - and One of These Days - from a radio play I was fortunate enough to catch and get the record button down for. In early 1990 I went looking for a "Queen's Greatest Hits" style compilation with all five on and ended up with the live "Delicate Sound of Thunder". I put the tape in, Shine on you Crazy Diamond started and my life changed forever. A friend then did me copies of WYWH & Momentary Lapse of Reason, I got DSOTM for my 17th birthday and off we went. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 26, 2019 17:31:45 GMT
Do come back after whatever you buy next, tell us what you think and we'll tell you what to get next
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 26, 2019 18:02:56 GMT
Shine on you crazy diamond is my second favourite so far after Comfortably... I'm really stuck on Comfortably...
Gosh this is like a whole new world!
Great advice, gentleman. I'm going to get to grips with Foot, then take on DSOTM. But a longer Shine on...?! Oh mama... too much to listen to!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 26, 2019 20:41:51 GMT
Shine on 1-5 is on AFoot, but cut by about two mins, probably just before the vocals kick in,
Shine on 6-9 is on WYWH, with the song book ending the album at start and end
It was originally one 22 min long track - a complete live demo version is on WYWH Discovery Edition.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 26, 2019 21:49:48 GMT
I'd put Wish above Dark Side myself, but I know that isn't a majority view. Shine On is just amazing and the title track is one of my faves.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 26, 2019 22:11:47 GMT
So would I, but there's more of WYWH on what he's got than DSOTM
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 26, 2019 22:40:09 GMT
Clearly the right choice is the one you've suggested: buy both.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 26, 2019 23:07:29 GMT
He's going to anyway in the long run
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 30, 2019 11:45:50 GMT
I've just listened to Dark Side of the moon all the way through for the first time...
I'm...
Changed....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 30, 2019 11:53:55 GMT
HURRAH!
Now do WYWH!
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 30, 2019 17:29:52 GMT
Yep. We have a new favourite. Shine on you crazy diamond is... perfection...
And, obviously, I've read up on their History, which makes it all just so... so...
I'm actually quite moved....
For God's sake where has this music been all my life...?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 30, 2019 19:36:26 GMT
Yes, yes it is. :-)
If you look on the WYWH experience edition there's a version recorded live in concert a year before WYWH was released where Shine On is performed as one unit, 1-9
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 30, 2019 21:09:51 GMT
Good day for shockers!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 30, 2019 21:22:43 GMT
I am celerating by listening to Shine On You Crazy Diamond. I have started on WYWH, not sure I'll get to any of the others I have... I think I own 10 or so different varieties, not 100% sure....
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 30, 2019 21:32:51 GMT
I....
I need to process...
It's like they wrote this stuff for the 45 year old me... It makes.... sense....
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Post by Shockprowl on May 9, 2019 20:31:25 GMT
How have I got to 45 years of age and not listened to Pink Floyd.
How can this happen.
(I... I want someone/thing to blame.)
Still only own Foot and the tracks Big Phil sent me, but been watching LOTS of documentaries and reading LOTS AND LOTS about them and listening over and over and over again.
Can't stop singing Shine on to myself over and over and over again.
How have I got to 45 years of age and not listened to Pink Floyd....
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Post by blueshift on May 9, 2019 20:38:19 GMT
Wait, is that what's going on here? Have you only JUST heard Pink Floyd???
What else haven't you heard?
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Post by Shockprowl on May 9, 2019 20:49:16 GMT
I don't know...
I... just don't know....
Was always a Beatle man. Non-musical family... Dad liked Buddy Holly, which was nice... brother got into weird rave shit. The kind The Doctor plays all the time. Hate that. I just... I just missed- missed
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Post by Shockprowl on May 9, 2019 20:50:02 GMT
I'm 45.
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Post by Shockprowl on May 9, 2019 20:51:05 GMT
I suppose that's the point of music.
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Post by Pinwig on May 9, 2019 21:08:38 GMT
What else haven't you heard? How would he know? |
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Post by Benn on May 10, 2019 8:54:17 GMT
Well, he does dismiss all metal music as 'Screechy noise', so I suspect he's missed an awful lot of good stuff there.
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Post by Shockprowl on May 10, 2019 14:49:03 GMT
I had some friends in my youth who listened to a lot of heavy metal. I totally appreciate the skill involved, it's almost operatic, but it just does nothing for me!
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Post by Pinwig on May 10, 2019 20:45:00 GMT
Well, he does dismiss all metal music as 'Screechy noise', so I suspect he's missed an awful lot of good stuff there. Never a truer word spoken. |
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Post by Pinwig on May 10, 2019 20:46:17 GMT
I had some friends in my youth who listened to a lot of heavy metal. I totally appreciate the skill involved, it's almost operatic, but it just does nothing for me! See that just makes it sound like you listened to a couple of Queen tracks and dismissed the whole genre... |
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Post by Shockprowl on May 10, 2019 20:54:40 GMT
No I like Queen. They're like the Beatles.
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Post by Pinwig on May 10, 2019 20:59:33 GMT
Queen are like the Beatles...
You need a good slap you do.
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Post by Shockprowl on May 10, 2019 21:13:31 GMT
Nonesense, Man! You can hear it! Oh they're very different as well, but there's the same depth and spirit.
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Post by Shockprowl on May 15, 2019 6:45:29 GMT
I need DSOTM and WYWH on CD for the car whilst I'm whazzing around. Might get Piper too. Do I get remastered or not-remastered?
Ebay has a lot of remastered...
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