Pink Floyd day
Faced with a trip to Birmingham for a (hugely exciting !) meeting, I decided on a themed music day and realised that I have every Pink Floyd album from "Meddle" onwards. So out they all came and I worked my way through them as I travelled up and down the A14, allowing me to draw the following conclusions:-
1) "Animals" is much better than I initally realised.
2) "The Final Cut" really doesn't work as driving music.
3) If I decide to do this again, I'll be making a special "Highlights from The Wall" CD for the occasion. While he sometimes has a sublime way with words, Roger Waters could moan for Britain at the Olympics and it was the only one that I found myself skipping tracks on.
4) Listening to 'The Dogs of War' (from "Momentary Lapse") with the knowledge that it's been voted worst Floyd track ever on more than one occasion makes you realise how really-not-very-good it is.
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Why start at 'Meddle'?
As well as all the Syd stuff, there's gems aplenty on 'More', 'Atom Heart Mother' and 'Obscured By Clouds'. I've long argued that that period, 1970/71, is Floyd's best. Listen to the two live Paris Theatre sessions presented by John Peel at http://www.floydpodcasts.com if you want proof. The versions of 'Embryo', 'Fat Old Sun', 'Cymbaline', 'Atom Heart Mother', and 'Green Is The Colour' sit very nicely next to the first ever performance of 'Echoes'. Great as 'Dark Side' undoubtedly is, it definitely saw them move into more mainstream territory, backing singers, saxophones and all.
Don't Leave Me Now
Animals is perhaps the forgotten Floyd album but has some of the bands best playing in it. I think so anyway. Agree with your comments re Dogs Of War-bloody terrible. Find it hard to listen to a lot of Roger's singing, bit of a whine. Will check out those links, Cheers.