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Floyd Favourites
Posted by David Wright on 11 October 2011 - 3:25pm.
I've enjoyed the recent Pink Floyd programmes on Radio 2 and Six Music. I wasn't really aware of this Richard Wright composition until today, it's rather lovely. What's your favourite Floyd track? Tracks from solo albums will be accepted as well.
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One Of These Days
I'm going to cut you into little pieces
I love Nick Mason's...
...oh shit oh shit moment at 4:33...
I once accidentally played Meddle at 45rpm
rather than the standard 33 1/3. Listening to 'One Of These Days' under these circumstances was surprisingly satisfying.
I once accidentally played "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue"
by Frank Zappa at 45rpm.
I've never been the same since
John Peel
played the whole of Eno/Fripp's No Pussyfooting at 45 on R1.
Of course, he never did *anything* like that again.
The young people of today miss out on all this fun.
he recovers well
but sometimes he didn't, which is why there is an edit on the Pompeii version of Echoes
My oh shit moment was when
I dropped a stick, instinctively reached down to the stick bag attached to the floor tom, only to pull out a brush...
Can I also say that in the mid 70s I affected a Nick Mason/Skunk Baxter 'tache/long hair combo :-)
Floyd on Fish
was my absolute favourite.
Fat Old Sun
delicious
Shine On
For me, Shine On You Crazy Diamond is simply wonderful from start to finish. The synth intro, THAT guitar phrase, the loving tribute to dear old Syd, the electronic washes in the second half. Lovely.
Live, though, Run Like Hell takes the biscuit. The full Floyd sound-and-light experience turned up to 11. Absolutely incredible.
Hard to name only one
I dearly love Shine On You Crazy Diamond, and in terms of VFM that would be the one to go for. But then there's Julia Dream, Echoes, Grantchester Meadows, Dogs, Comfortably Numb, Us And Them...
Paranoid Eyes
from the blog-dividing-tastic The F*n*l C*t.
It's not my favourite but it's great.
If not my absolute favourite...
then it's pretty damn close.
Bike
I'd give it to you if I could but I borrowed it
Remember A Day
Brilliant Gilmour version on Jools Holland, taped just after Rick Wright's death.
Thanks For This
I remember that,a moving version for sure, so soon after Rick's death.
My Dad is also called Richard Wright, but he's never stopped in the street about it.
Summer of 68
One of da Floyd's little unregarded gems. Love the very Beach Boys harmonies and that weird, slightly off kilter-ish (to me), but still rather beautiful trumpet.
See also Free Four, which has been mentioned in these parts before as one that's unjustly overlooked
Others I love unreasonably:
Pigs (Three Different Ones) - feels like a musical version of brutalist architecture. Makes me think of bleak grey concrete and hard edged decaying 70's urban landscapes. Plus a top grade insult to Mary Whitehouse
Final Cut: Paranoid Eyes, plus the little vignette that is Southampton Dock. Stingingly poignant and profoundly moving for me. Add that to the rage of Not Now John and it's worth the money for those three alone.
There are others of course, but I come back to all of these quite often.
From the first Floyd album I heard/owned
Comfortably Numb
Just beats Wish You Were Here to the top spot
Took me years to listen to, and enjoy, Dark Side Of The Moon. The one day something "clicked" and is now regularly played every couple of months or so
Usually it's Echoes if I have to
The first full flowering of the post-Syd mature style and probably the best. And I like that the lyrics don't tell me life sucks.
Dogs
...through headphones. Or Echoes. Preferably both.
Time
..from DSOTM....if only for this lyrical genius
So you run & you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but your'e older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Brilliant !!
for a right good freak-out
the Ummagumma version of Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun
this is close enough
I'll go early...........
.....'Candy And A Current Bun', 'Julia Dream' and 'Point Me At The Sky'.
Now for a compilation from the 66-70 period with 5 As, 5 Bs, Syd's 45, and quirky stuff like 'The Committee' soundtrack, the Joker's Wild EP, and didn't they also do a jingle for the Army or something?
It'll probably come round in the next but one batch of re-issues.
2025, I reckon!
Make that....
....'Currant Bun'.
Shine On
If I had to pick only one it would be Shine on You Crazy Diamond.....
I'll also add to the Final Cut appreciation society with "Two Suns In The Sunset"
dogs,
anything from the final cut, and this neglected one....
If forced to pick just one....
... I'd probably go with Echoes, but there are a couple of neglected masterpieces:
1. The Ummagumma version of Astronomy Domine (this isn't it, but it's rather fun):
2. The Narrow Way part 3 (also on Ummagumma, as it happens...)