What albums do u have?

(I have the wall and dark side of the moon)

Meddle
Darkside of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall

Would The Final Cut be a good next step? Or should I go for one of their older albums next?

I have almost all of them by now... except Music From The Film More, Ummagumma, The Final Cut, and Momentary Lapse Of Reason.

I have a good majority of their albums myself:
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
A Saucerful of Secrets
Atom Heart Mother
Relics
Meddle
Obscured by Clouds
Dark side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
The Final Cut
Momentary Lapse of Reason
Is there anybody Out There?
Also have Roger's live set he did several years ago(I saw him in Denver Colorado)

The Final Cut is a nice album but I tend to like A Momentary Lapse of Reason better. The Final Cut, as beautiful as the tracks are, feels real tense to me whereas AMLOR is more soothing.

[QUOTE=Carrionshine]Would The Final Cut be a good next step? Or should I go for one of their older albums next?[/QUOTE]

The Wall kind of prepares you for TFC, because it itself was basically a Waters solo album with few exceptions.

I used to be into the earlier Pink Floyd with Barrett more than Gilmour's era. I was hooked on "The Piper At The Gates of Dawn" for quite a while, and thought that most of their other stuff was okay at most, and it kind of got boring after a while. Now I'm way more into the Gilmour era.

[QUOTE=Apocalyptic Raids]I've seen bits of it in class before, but not the whole thing.[/QUOTE]

In class!? Woh that is awesome ... :thumb:

[QUOTE]Meddle
Darkside of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall

Would The Final Cut be a good next step? Or should I go for one of their older albums next?


[/QUOTE]

TFC is a great album, but so is Obscured by Clouds ... You could also look into Barrett-era Floyd for a completely different perspective on the band ...

[quote]Meddle
Darkside of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall[/quote]
Those were my first five too. I went with The Dvision Bell after that, and I wasn't disappointed.

My first five would be More, Obscured By Clouds, Dark Side Of The Moon, The Wall, and Wish You Were Here.

my 5
Pulse cd
WYWH
The Wall
DSOTM vinyl
Meddle

And now I have Pulse DVD extra

the first thigns I'm going to buy are:
DSOTM cd
Atom Heart Mother
The Devision Bell

My first five:

Dark Side of The Moon
The Wall
Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Meddle
Atom Heart Mother

I just can't decide mine tbh ... Animals is my favourite Floyd album so that will definately be there ... DSOTM for it's sheer difference to anything else created in history; then it's a big mix-up between WYWH, The Wall, OBC, Meddle, PATGOD and Relics. Heh Floyd sure did have the consistency in creating great albums ...

I really want to get Animals. :(

[QUOTE=Carrionshine]Meddle
Darkside of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall

Would The Final Cut be a good next step? Or should I go for one of their older albums next?[/QUOTE]
I'd Get Obscured By Clouds, or some of The Barrett era stuff if I were you.

[QUOTE=Apocalyptic Raids]I really want to get Animals. :([/QUOTE]

A lot of people don't like Animals as much as their other 70's albums, but I love it. I love how raw and angry it is. Instead of all the colors that all other Floyd albums give off, Animals is black, white, and grey. Very straight forward and stripped down, but very effective and powerful.

Top five:
Dark Side
Animals
Wish You Were Here
Meddle
Obscured By Clouds

PATGOD barely missed.

[QUOTE=Lunch] Instead of all the colors that all other Floyd albums give off, Animals is black, white, and grey.
[/QUOTE]

That is an awesome way of putting it ...

And to complete my Floyd collection I only need More! Is that any good by the way? What era Floyd is it?

More is good, I haven't listened to it in awhile though (I lost in when my hard drive on my old computer crashed). I think it's from 1970 so that should tell you something about the sound.

My 5 favorites:

Dark Side of The Moon
The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
The Wall
Animals
Wish You Were Here

So very cool thing just happened. I went to my doctors wearing my Animals shirt, he looks and says "Wow.. That's a pretty old, older than you."

I said, yup, a very good one haha. He says yeah, I've seen Floyd a few times, they were amazing, and I might go see Waters. Then we talked about Floyd for like 20 minutes. Go doctor.

When I first bought Atom Heart Mother, and brought it home to listen to, I was kind of dissapointed...

However, after giving it a few more listens, I quite like it now. :cool:

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast \m/

Guys this is a pretty dumb question but did Pink Floyd creative Psychedelic, Prog-Rock, both or neither? If they didn't start any of those then who started Psychedelic and Prog?

As Med said, Progressive Rock was generally popularized by the likes of King Crimson. However, I have some Moody Blues albums, most notably, "In Search Of The Lost Chord" which was released in 1968, before King Crimson. It's hard to judge who started the movement though, because there were a lot of underground prog bands in the 1960s.

As for Psychedelic Rock, I'd have to disagree with the Byrds starting Psych. From what I can hear, it spawned from early 60's Surf Rock, which lead to 60's Garage Rock, which was generally, in it's early state Instrumental Surf rock. Different elements came into play, and the Garage sound evolved. Add certain drugs into the equation, and viola.

Alot of people credit The Beatles to inventing Psych Rock in 1966, with their album "Revolver" which is just not true. Psych really got it's start from 1963 into 1965 (formation of The Grateful Dead) and on into 1966. Again, everything is quite hard to judge, from the incredible amount of underground Psych bands in the 60's.

Anyways, from their I believe that Psych then turned into heavier rock, which eventually spawned Metal. That's just my opinion though.

To answer your question, Pink Floyd began recording their first album in 1967. A generally late start for a Psych band. However, they started playing in 1965. Evidently, they didn't start it, but helped to [I]popularize[/I] it.

Psych was popularized by a lot of west coast bands like Med said, although it's difficult to say who started it. I think Prog was defined by King Crimson, but the origins can be traced back to the Beatles, Moody Blues and a couple others.

^ Yes. Alot of Psych started in California, hence it's roots in Surf.

Would you guys consider Pink Floyd to be more creative than a band that started, say, black metal?

It's hard to say. However, Pink Floyd aren't the most creative band I've heard from their era, and style.

Pink Floyd didn't invent Psychadelic or Progressive Rock, but they did invent Space Rock :) 1967's [i]Piper At The Gates Of Dawn[/i] was the first album to have that "space rock" sound, and the song [i]Astronomy Domine[/i] is pretty much [i]the[/i] definitive space rock song, not to mention the first. Pretty much all the elements of space rock are there: the planet-centric lyrics, the weird distorted human voices, high-pitched squealy guitar, droning bass, off-kilter drumlines, crazy song structure, etc. etc.

^^ True. Very true.

I suppose we could say roughly then things went like this:

Instrumental Rock >> Surf Rock >> Garage Rock/Folk Rock >> Psych Rock >> etc...

I dug out The Wall and DSOTM t'other day and I have reached the following concluions: I found The Wall to be on the whole an amazing album, that has to respected for its ambition, and well, for being the best concept album in existence IMO. But I found it quite depressing in places.

As for DSOTM, that is really their 'genius' album. I re-discovered how amazing it was all over again.
NP- Time

^Why in the hell did you ever forget how good they were? :mad:

[QUOTE=RNR]^Why in the hell did you ever forget how good they were? :mad:[/QUOTE]
haha. 123'd. I have almost my entire Pink Floyd discography on almost constant rotation. I do take a break from certain era's though, I'm on a bit of a Dave binge recently.

NP - Poles apart.

[QUOTE=MrConeman]haha. 123'd. I have almost my entire Pink Floyd discography on almost constant rotation. I do take a break from certain era's though, I'm on a bit of a Dave binge recently.
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NP - Poles apart[/B].[/QUOTE]

That is my favourite Gilmour-era song by a long way, followed by Coming Back To Life probably ... it's just that when Waters left the music kinda moved towards more peaceful themes ... if you know what I mean ...

Waters-era all the way :thumb:
[QUOTE]
It's hard to say. However, Pink Floyd aren't the most creative band I've heard from their era, and style.[/QUOTE]

I kinda disagree with this to be honest man; DSOTM for example is a completely unique album ...

DSOTM, I agree it is a very unique album.

[QUOTE=Collis]That is my favourite Gilmour-era song by a long way, followed by Coming Back To Life probably ... it's just that when Waters left the music kinda moved towards more peaceful themes ... if you know what I mean ...[/QUOTE]


I've always liked High Hopes (the guitar solo is wow..) and Wearing The Inside Out.

High Hopes is the best song of the Gilmour led era, I refuse to accept any other opinion.

[QUOTE=Collis]I kinda disagree with this to be honest man; DSOTM for example is a completely unique album ...[/QUOTE]
I'd say they were one of the most creative for their time but not for [I]Darkside[/I]...etc; [I]Piper of the Gates of Dawn[/I] was [B]easily[/B] their most unique album.

Well this could get interesting. PATGOD might be more unique because DSOTM has a similar style to WYWH, OBC, and some of their later work (at least more so than Piper's similarities with any other Floyd album), but does that mean Piper is more creative?

Their most unique album was probably [I]Animals[/I], really, because you have the pairing of [I]Piper At The Gates Of Dawn[/I] and [I]Saucerful Of Secrets[/I].

You could also pair up [I]More[/I] and [I]Obscured By Clouds[/I], [I]Meddle[/I] and [I]Atom Heart Mother[/I], and concievably connect [I]Wish You Were Here[/I], [I]Darkside Of The Moon[/I], [I]The Wall[/I] and [I]The Final Cut[/I], though perhaps in a bit more twisted fashion.

And it's easy to put [I]A Momentary Lapse of Reason[/I] with [I]The Division Bell[/I].

But [I]Animals[/I] has that unique kind of "vibe", that dark proto-punk imagery that you hear in a lot of [B]Dogs[/B] and [B]Sheep[/B].

I actually think [I]Animals[/I] was one of their least creative albums. It sounds like any old Progressive band could have pulled that off. I think they lost a-lot of their uniqueness on [I]Animals[/I]. [I]Saucerful Of Secrets [/I]doesn't sound at all like [I]Piper[/I]; a mere mediocre attempt at replicating a masterpiece. (except for the one Barrett written song)

Nothing is better than The Wall on Vinyl.