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Everyone has one fave Floyd song no matter how much they hate them. Well thats what I reckon. Me...it's "Breathe" for the way the guitars burst in like an exhale of smoke...

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Careful With that Axe, Euguene"

― Oliver, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Lucifer Sam". It's good to go-go dance to. I don't hate them like I hate the Doors. They're just sound very sluggish most of the time, post-Syd.

― Arthur, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Jugband Blues".... If I knew why I liked a Pink Floyd song, I would stop liking it.

― Keiko, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Syd-era = "Insterstellar Overdrive" Gilmour = "Echoes" Waters = something off the Final Cut or "When The Tigers Broke Free"

― gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.thesquirrels.com/mooncover.jpeg

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Brain Damage" The only possible prelude to "Eclipse"

― Tim DiGravina, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned is that you or Weird Al Yankovic?

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Point Me at the Sky

― Shaky Mo Collier, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neither nor.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

arnold layne

― keith, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" I don't even think it's their best song (whatever that would be), but these days it's my fave.

― Lee G, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"See-Saw"--languid, spooky, sad, sweet, fading into a psychedelic ocean which is an anagram of our dreams which is an anagram of our nightmares okay now I'm talking rubbish so I'll stop but really it's a good song silencio

― Joe, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'High Hopes'...certainly the best post-Roger Waters thing they did, but it would have been a great song on any of their albums.

― Jordan, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Syd: "Astronomy Domine". Pre-DSOTM: "One Of These Days". Post-DSOTM: "Sheep"

― Chris Barrus, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Two suns in the sunset.

― clotion, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Money

― ejad, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

syd..."see emily play"

rick..."paint box"

roger and dave....anything from 'live at pompeii' except the lame dog howling song

― , Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I cannot believe that no one has said "FEARLESS", (from 'Meddle') the most exquisitely psychedelic ballad EVER!!

― Keith McD, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Matilda Mother". That, or the howling dog song. Just ignore the vox and lyrix or better yet pretend Gilmour's using Waters as a fire hydrant. (Geddit? 'Dogs'?)

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Young Lust"

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the final cut.

― cecilia, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Like almost everything!! "See Emily Play", "Careful with that axe" (version on Umma Gumma preferably) and "Hey You" especially.

― Anna Rose, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm gonna cheat.

Syd-Floyd: "Interstellar Overdrive."

Roger-Floyd: Atom Heart Mother (which, along w/ Ummagumma and portions of The Wall, is why I consider Waters to be a poor man's FZ)

Gilmour-Floyd: "Run Like Hell"

Rick Wright-Floyd: "Paint Box" (one of their nicer, most unheralded songs IMHO) and the organ midsection of "Arnold Layne"

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's all about Echoes.

― Damian, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Candy And A Currant Bun" or "Apples And Oranges". Syd wuz robbed!

― Paul, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Atom Heart Mother for me. I love the big farty brass fanfares in it, plus there's none ov that bloody awful gloomy singing

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

'Time'.

― pisces, Friday, 1 June 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

'A Saucerful Of Secrets' (Ummagumma version)

― Just got offed, Friday, 1 June 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Cirrus Minor

― Bob Six, Friday, 1 June 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

Probably Apples and Oranges or Echoes, but Summer '68 is my favorite that no one picked yet.

― marmotwolof, Friday, 1 June 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

interstellar overdrive

― strgn, Friday, 1 June 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

"Shine On Your Crazy Diamond". Easily.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 1 June 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

I know I'm crazy but "Arnold Layne".

― oscar, Friday, 1 June 2007 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

haven't heard Meddle, but from what I have heard..."Sheep" in a landslide.

― "real person" (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

Comfortably Numb

― redmond, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

hmmm, I'll go with "The Gold It's in the..." for being jumpenest hippie tune pink floyd ever had.

― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

I poo echoes

― Bored American Aerospace Defense Command (BORAD) (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

Sheep for me. And I love it all until Final Cut. I can't get that one at all.

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

try this Nick Mason/Wyatt song

― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

Great Gig In The Sky - beautiful chord sequence.

― davek_00, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

I just want to make it perfectly clear that I am not even regarding Syd in this thread...Syd-era Floyd deserves its own OPO thread...imho lumping together Barret-era Floyd and Waters-era Floyd is like counting Joy Division and New Order as only one band, and the only reason that they didn't change their name after kicking out Syd is bcz Roger Waters is a humongous asshole.*

*This is a fact. Proven by science.

― sunshiney liquor and candy-coated ulcers (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

You do know that Syd only appeared on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets? Hardly an era, since Saucerful is just a live cd and Piper is merely Pink Floyd's debut album - in which I can easily dispute that it's all sub-par in some way except possibly the jam songs (ie Saucerful of Secrets). See Emily Play and Arnold Layne are like weirdo pop rock songs - they are just - weird. And they are the only real highlights after Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive.

sorry I know you know this, but, syd barret floyd can be easily tossed aside by some critics such as myself.

― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:07 (seventeen years ago)

oops, 'saucerful' isn't the live one I was thinking of.

― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:08 (seventeen years ago)

The joke is better if you don't give it away.

― Bored American Aerospace Defense Command (BORAD) (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

shit - Ummagumma only has Barret on Astronomy Domine, know what I'm saying?

― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:11 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, it's a good song.

― Bored American Aerospace Defense Command (BORAD) (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

chapter 24!

― vain_bowers, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

i'm listening to all these syd songs on youtube, and no, I don't think it's possible for me to understand the greatness ::sigh:: sorry, don't mean to ruin anyone's holiday

― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

I'll get over it, somehow.

― I Was a Teenage Armchair Hongro Fan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:21 (seventeen years ago)

shit - Ummagumma only has Barret on Astronomy Domine, know what I'm saying?

RONG. The live version of "Astronomy Domine" on Ummagumma was recorded in April 1969 - long after Barrett's departure.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:28 (seventeen years ago)

umm, Capt. Lorax you didn't really disprove what I said at all...unless I'm mistaken, Ian Curtis appeared on a whopping two Joy Divison albums before he unfortunately did away with himself and the band changed their name to New Order...you don't see many OPO: Joy Division/New Order threads around do ya?

All I was saying was that I wasn't ranking Sheep higher than the Syd-era stuff, since I do rank that really high...all you said was "Syd Barrett sucks!!!" which is fine, too...

― Roy Orbison is really just the male Patsy Cline (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:38 (seventeen years ago)

I still standby what I said upthread in 2002. If anything, I'm more convinced that "One Of These Days" is my full-stop OPO Floyd pick. The madmen of the Y33sku1 site put together a three CD set of live "One Of These Days" from 1971 through 1974 and it's great to see it transform from a somewhat tentative tape/Binson experiment to a MASSIVE ten minute long auto-destructive wind tunnel with Moog solo.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:47 (seventeen years ago)

echoes

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

"Time," to be really boring and pick my favorite song on my favorite album of all time.

But my real answer is the 8-hour perfectly programmed and segued Pink Floyd megamix that I have never actually attempted to make.

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)

Emily.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 02:18 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

fearless

― nostormo, Monday, 30 September 2013 11:40 (twelve years ago)

― how's life, Monday, 30 September 2013 11:43 (twelve years ago)

(excluding the Barrett era songs of course)

― nostormo, Monday, 30 September 2013 11:46 (twelve years ago)

Oh, I have very little use for the Syd Barrett era.

― how's life, Monday, 30 September 2013 11:56 (twelve years ago)

Comfortably Numb.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 30 September 2013 12:23 (twelve years ago)

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