Come in Poll #49, your results are up (Pink Floyd ballot poll results)

i'll say this for the dsotm take of money: at least it's not the "collection of great dance songs" re-recording. seriously listen to this weak sauce: 

"Goodbye Blue Sky" started very high on my ballot and slid once I felt it was kind of slight as a composition. But it has a fabulous sound. Multi-tracked David Gilmour voices is always a very nice thing.

yeah my opinion of the wall has changed a dozen times but i've always loved 'goodbye blue sky', somewhat surprised it's this low

otoh when i truly LOVED the wall, ie when i was 13, 'in the flesh?' was my fave track pretty easy

"Nobody Home" and "In The Flesh?" both featured on my ballot. Especially love "In The Flesh?" for its piledriving riff. Along with moments of Animals, did the Floyd ever rock harder than this?

Yeah, on their first record.

But I love both of those songs, too (both made my ballot). "Nobody Home" is one of the peaks of The Wall for me.

how many more tracks from the wall to come? four? more?

Xp they also rocked out some on More.

how many more tracks from the wall to come? four? more?

― balls, Thursday, March 13, 2014

i can think of five. maybe six if the lurkers come in heavy.

Glad to see 'Goodbye Blue Sky' place - never been able to get into The Wall as an album but I love that one.

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#47 - Apples And Oranges
139 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/WoXu6ufZ_9U

This barely missed my ballot -- it's one of the best earworms in their catalog. The guitar part is nuts.

Apples and Oranges is delicious! "I love she, she loves me."

the little climbing chord progression w/organ swells that occurs right before the main riff of "In The Flesh?" kicks in, is later reused as the progression for "Empty Spaces."

Ha! Never noticed this either. A little prelude piece.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/46-matilda_mother.jpg

#46 - Matilda Mother
140 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/OwKWLjnyjuo

The birth of King Diamond.

Uh-oh, we're gonna get Syd out of the way early then?

*resists obvious zing*

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#45 - Mother
147 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/p0HrrR9QDQU

Probably my favorite song on the first disc of The Wall. Still didn't break my top 15, though.

'In the Flesh?' was my #17. I didn't find room for 'Goodbye Blue Sky' - which was an oversight now that I think about it.

"Mother" was high on my list. A very haunting melancholy song.

otoh when i truly LOVED the wall, ie when i was 13, 'in the flesh?' was my fave track pretty easy

― balls, Friday, March 14, 2014 9:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not sure it was ever quite my fave, but otm re the 13 years old thing. At that stage The Wall was THE BEST ALBUM EVER.

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TIE #43 - Obscured By Clouds
159 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/z_vVFC7URkc

(have to go wide-angle on some of these graphics)

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TIE #43 - Any Colour You Like
159 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/W1oaXqBJRRQ

Loving the graphics btw. :-)

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"mother" as a lyric and performance is at once both powerful and completely rmde. think I felt that way even at 13.

but the solo... pretty sure it's the first one I ever learned and I don't expect to forget it. anyone who dismisses The Wall as the first waters solo record isn't hearing what I'm hearing.

sort of surprised to see both "mother" and "obscured by clouds" this low. this is gonna be interesting!

Wtf, I never noticed this before. Listening in Spotify, this isn't even in the same key. Is it just that the speed is messed up?

The version of "Money" on A Collection Of Great Dance Songs is a totally new recording. Capitol wouldn't release the rights to use it on the comp, so Gilmour re-recorded the whole thing himself - drums, keyboards, guitars, bass, etc. Dick Parry was called in again to duplicate the sax solo.

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#42 - Free Four
162 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/zFAsAVj7bKc

So glam! Starts off sounding like "The Slider"-era T-Rex.

look at those happy dudes

Was wondering when one of my votes would show up. I was a big enough Pink Floyd nerd in high school that I used a line from "Free Four" as my senior quote in the yearbook. "The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime." 23 years later, and I got zilch to recollect.

'any colour you like' ahead of 'money' is curious to me

look at those happy dudes

― mookieproof, Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:26 PM (4 minutes ago)

Yeah... kinda wish Dark Side flopped or had the same amount of success as Meddle et al, it would have been interesting seeing the band still be a cohesive unit for another ten years instead of becoming a Roger Waters backing band.

Didn't participate in the nominating thread or send in a ballot - as much as PINK FLOYD RULES, I haven't listened to them hard in years and years, and there's just too much catalogue (and too much real life also) to deal with. However, am excited and pleased about the results thread. Listening to the BBC bootleg right now. Extended "Fat Old Sun" was amazing.

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#41 - Hey You
175 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/TFjmvfRvjTc

(more results tomorrow)

worms ~~~> brain

"Free Four" rose high in my estimation upon heavy relistening to the Floyd oeuvre for this poll. better than "Spirit in the Sky"?

I used a Floyd quote from "The Gold It's In The..." for my yearbook. Should have a thread just compiling who used what Floyd line in senior year....

ACE graphic on hey you. The last 4 were on my ballot.

Goose eggs for me thus far. "Apples and Oranges" was a late cut, the only Barrett-era single I didn't vote for. Still rules regardless.

yeah, 'in the flesh?'! works great isolated as a song on it's own - when you're expecting a cymbal crash at the end you instead get a baby crying.

'any colour you like' ahead of 'money' is curious to me

"Any Colour You Like" ties the whole album together. It's the "Heaven Is A Truck" of Dark Side of the Moon. And yeah, as NTI says, it's still fresh and able to stand on two feet 40 years later.

"Money" I like for the solo/break, but the rest of the song was done better by the Easy All Stars..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9wxrhSqIhs

I had 'Any Colour' quite high on my ballot - I'd always liked it as part of the flow of the album but the last time I listened to DSOTM I really appreciated it as a piece in its own right. Naive Teen Idol otm re: the synth and the solo.

Yeah, I always forget about it (including for my ballot - duh), but that song really lets the bong hits flow.

easy allstars dsotm RULES, it has no business being so good but it just is