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

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RULES

dog side of the moon

As a matter of fact, it's all bark really.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/boot05-montreux.jpg

#5. 21 November 1970 - Casino Montreux, Montreux (91 points, 3 votes)

http://youtu.be/bY7EFEOtj4Q

sweet, more bootlegs to check out

great title El

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#4. BBC Archives 1970-1971 (110 points, 3 votes, 2 number ones)

http://youtu.be/OvugH6hKyeo

sound on those recordings is sooo good

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#3. 17 Sep 1969 - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (126 points, 4 votes, 1 number one)

http://youtu.be/_NHHYCH3_fk

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#2. Zabriskie Point Sessions (139 points, 4 votes, 1 number one)

http://youtu.be/dGZKtmqE2Hc

Nice! I like the style you've gone with for the images.

I hope people check out that Montreux show. A real gem.

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#1. 9 May 1977 - Oakland Coliseum, Oakland (145 points, 4 votes, 1 number one)

http://youtu.be/GVcMdvlsw3s

is this the "spit in the fan" bootleg?

Dammit I forgot and missed the cutoff. I was gonna listen to Saucerful one more time...oh well.

Solo subpoll results later today and then we'll get into the long top 51 (yes, top #51) rollout tomorrow probably.

I didn't vote for bootlegs, since I've only heard a handful, but I just listened to Oakland again yesterday and thought, "Yeah, I would've voted for this." They really dig in and swing on that show. I actually prefer it to the studio Animals and WYWH (apart from Waters' attempts to harmonize, that is).

is this the "spit in the fan" bootleg?

It's from the same tour but a couple months earlier.

Spit boot is Montreal.

man I need to hear this Oakland gig

That Oakland gig is the last time they would play Careful With That Axe, Eugene live.

PINK FLOYD RULES

Listening to the Zabriskie Point sessions for the first time. The Violence Sequence is very much a prototype of Us and Them. Fascinating that Wright had been working on that melodic progression for that long.

So psyched for this poll. These bootlegs are AMAZING!

good bootleg picks. course with only five ballots (right?) the standard deviation is gonna be a bit high... i had #4 as my #1 and #1 as my #3. my other picks were the old syd boot "magnesium proverbs" for old times' sake, "violence in birmingham", a horrible quality audience tape from 1970 which nonetheless has live versions of "sysyphus", the main theme from "more", and a 25 minute jam based around "the violence sequence", and the "pro-shot in europe" video bootleg- some really nice floyd pro-shot vids are out there nowadays, almost all between '68 and '72. stuff like "corrosion in the pink room" is a must see for heads.

good bootleg picks. course with only five ballots (right?) the standard deviation is gonna be a bit high

There weren't many bootleg ballots (and fewer solo track ones), so it's probably best to view these as recommendations only. I'll post the full lists of everything once we're done.

Had 2 of the 5 in my list. And I wanted to vote for Montreux 1970 but actually put Montreux 1971, which is still a pretty good gig.

yay Oakland

poll already RULES

I dig the Chick Tract style.
This poll is already much fun.

Game delay. Solo subpolls tomorrow and then...

Game delay. Solo subpolls tomorrow and then...

so when is the main event ?

great graphics so far!

Loving this so far, great graphics too!

SUDDEN SOLO SUBPOLL RESULTS!

Of the few solo subpoll ballots only two solo tracks received more than one vote each, so they're the only finishers. Oddly enough, they tied!

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#1 TIE - I'm A Mineralist (from Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports)
145 points, 4 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/JADPCcpUbu0

Crap... that should be

109 points, 3 votes, 1 number one

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/solo01-theres_no_way_out_of_here.jpg

#1 TIE - There's No Way Out Of Here (from David Gilmour)
109 points, 3 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/1xUD6MWmSAc

Syd next and then the main event!

that's a lovely photo of dave gilmour

never heard a note of Nick Mason solo, but now i'm pretty keen!

For that period around About Face, DG was one handsome MF

"for that period"
DG was a handsome mf when he *joined* Floyd, let alone gone solo

sorry, had to

DG was a handsome man from birth to right around the time he had his ninth kid.

otm

Testicles: they're not a clown car (except they pretty much are).

If 99.9999% of the clowns died immediately after getting out, but I digress.

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#10 - No Good Trying
108 points, 3 votes

http://youtu.be/q1lAbB-wil4

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#9 - Rats
122 points, 5 votes

http://youtu.be/IvzW2jZGD-Y

That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

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#8 - Late Night
153 points, 5 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/b9gM-blNvdM

well except for "high hopes," a wonderful song

Telecom, commendable job. Amazing rollout. This came at a tough time for me personally (thank you Floyd for not penning garden variety "i love you girl"/"girl you're breaking my heart" love songs!), so it was relieving to see many familiar names one after another, track after track that I've enjoyed for years for varying reasons. Got to hang with bros and do the laser floyd experience for the first time in decades, and, man, great to know some things in life are so constant, I was seventeen all over again. You owe it to yourself to take this in first hand if it rolls your way:

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Pink Floyd were the first band I got into in a major way, like obsessively memorizing tracklists, song durations, chronology, mythology, the whole package, and taught me patience in listening, that 20 minute epics were perfectly acceptable beside the 3-4 minute pop dosage. I've always admired their theatre-of-the-mind textures and production, and well before I ever smoked a bowl I was super into the bizarro soundworld that albums like Atom Heart Mother and Saucerful provided; I'm the heretic who claims the studio portion of Ummagumma as their favorite work! I remember enthusiastically playing the mid-section of "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" on my walkman headphones to my father in the kitchen when I was 13, and he gave me the look that conveyed 'geez, you're going to be trouble'. The tape fuckery and layers on layers of sound that matter-of-factly communicated 'this is music, actually' were fundamental in my enjoying far more difficult works later, as well as influencing a decision to play percussion, loosely, in bands.

Bold did not place in top 51:

the narrow way
heart beat, pig meat
sheep
see emily play
careful with that axe, eugene
summer 68
seesaw
obscured by clouds
grantchester meadows
atom heart mother
remember a day
jugband blues
the grand vizier's garden party
point me at the sky
on the run
biding my time
crying song
lucifer sam
let there be more light
don't leave me now

Still amazed "Money" did not break the top 50

Treating number 51 and Eugene as different songs is nuts

I dunno.. I always thought of them differently.

superb poll
really top quality list

great graphics too

thanks ET it's been awesome!

1. Brain Damage Eclipse
Comfortably Numb
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Run Like Hell
One of These Days
Sheep
See Emily Play
The Great Gig in the Sky
Wish You Were Here
Echoes
Young Lust
In The Flesh?
Fearless
If
Dogs
When the Tigers Broke Free
Cirrus Minor
A Pillow Of Winds
Embryo
20. Nobody Home

My ballot (bold didn't place in top 50):

1. Comfortably Numb
2. Brain Damage/Eclipse
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
5. Mother
6. Run Like Hell
7. Breathe
8. Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2
9. Time
10. Dogs
11. The Great Gig in the Sky
12. When the Tigers Broke Free
13. Sheep
14. In The Flesh?
15. Two Suns in the Sunset
16. The Gunner's Dream
17. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
18. Echoes
19. Nobody Home
20. The Post War Dream

Also surprised by "Fearless" placing so high, a nice enough song but nothing to do with what makes Floyd great for me.

Fearless was a bit of a surprise for me as a Pink Floyd song. I had heard it around before I picked up the album. A couple of times because Meddle was playing in the background somewhere, but mostly through a friend playing and singing on acoustic guitar. I had always taken it for a Led Zeppelin song. So when I finally delved into Meddle on my own, it was a huge, pleasant shock to have this song I had always been hearing while out and about. I agree that it didn't sound much like the Floyd I knew at the time, but have since course to see it as a culmination of the mid-period mellow rock stuff (wots in the deal, etc)

Wots uh the deal

xps well it's your poll and I guess nobody asked for clarification the way they did with other songs but I think the commonly accepted view is the same as wiki's:

Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up" is a re-recording of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene," originally released as a b-side in December 1968.

Also surprised by "Fearless" placing so high, a nice enough song but nothing to do with what makes Floyd great for me.

combined Eugene + #51 woulda been tied for 15 in the poll, so no big shakeup there

Elvis, do you have a graphic for #51? would love to see it

My ballot

01. Two Suns in the Sunset
02. Biding My Time
03. Run Like Hell
04. Have A Cigar
05. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
06. The Final Cut
07. Money
08. Sheep
09. On the Run
10. Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do Now?
11. Not Now John (album version)
12. Nobody Home
13. The Nile Song
14. The Hero's Return (Parts 1 and 2)
15. When The Tigers Broke Free
16. Bike
17. One of My Turns
18. Apples and Oranges
19. Careful with That Axe, Eugene
20. One of These Days

love my two suns in the sunset people

Damn, it just occurred to me that I completely forgot about "Biding My Time." Would have absolutely voted for it. Fantastic tune.

Stripped trombone breakdown is epic on that one.

Elvis, do you have a graphic for #51? would love to see it

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/63-come_in_number_51.jpg

lovely

Mr. Telecom, we just may want all the graphics for all the songs.

Ask away!

(a lot of these do come from http://pinkfloyded.tumblr.com - which is run by Floyd-head Martin Kennedy of All India Radio)

That's #63, arf...

Top 3 in this poll barely sound like the work of the same band

yeah, interesting that. they have stretches of carefully assembled uniformity (all of Dark Side, most of The Wall), and yet they've consistently reinvented themselves and are capable of significant disparities, even within the one album.

"Stay" (my #5) their most uncharacteristic song I can think of, especially being only one album removed from DSotM. Am i forgetting one?

http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/all-165-pink-floyd-songs-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html

way too favorable to the waters era.

very boring safe list. "Wish You Were Here" is ok but ive never been impressed with it. something about the internal rhyming makes me think they were just trying to cop Barrett's 1967 mwriting style to re-create Astronomy Domine

"See Emily Play" is the best Floyd imo and one of the best pop singles of all time

Weird list. Spends half the time droning on about how he doesn't like Syd then puts Bike right up there. Very pedestrian ratings otherwise. Think "prefers 79 Floyd to 67 Floyd" is the biggest flag that I am living in a different musical universe to someone.

the pink floyd group i'm part of has been ripping it to shreds since it's been published. something might come out of it. stay tuned.

atonal bashings and funny sound effects in soi-disant psychedelic happenings in Swinging London, most of it of little or no aesthetic interest this many years on.

When criticism becomes marketing - part x of infinity.

I respect the Barrett amen corner; but the plain truth is that it’s hard to come up with one Barrett song that’s as good as, say, “Waterloo Sunset” or even “Pictures of Matchstick Men.”

I want to throttle whoever wrote this, the wrongest sentence of rock criticism ever written.

I always say that inventing progressive rock was probably a dumb idea, but it was Pink Floyd’s dumb idea. One of the Spinal Tap ironies is that they weren’t that good at it!

oh do shut up

this list was made by a person for whom PINK FLOYD RULES was not a governing idea

it's so fussy and granular and uuuuuugh even the songs i like the joy has been sucked out

dancing to architecture at its finest :/

Spinal Tap was actually really good at what they did

Before I read the piece, the posted quotes made me think, "hm, this sounds like it was written by- [clicks link] yep, that fuckin' idiot."

He was one of the original co-hosts of Sound Opinions when it started as a radio show in the '90s. At one point, the subject of the AACM/Art Ensemble of Chicago came up, and Wyman said, "Yeah, free jazz, that's where the musicians just do whatever they feel like and they don't listen to each other." Greg Kot kept trying to cut him off to save Wyman from embarrassing himself further, but he kept going in that vein until a defeated-sounding Kot cut to commercial.

Hot take: I absolutely adored that list. Not the order, or even the viewpoints, but the observations were engaging, often hilarious and steeped in 40 years of all of us living with this band. I loved how he broke down how Waters wrote fragments to give himself more writing credits, and hence, more publishing (a trick he says Gilmour learned later on) -- and how that contributed to the many band problems. I love how he's kind of on the fence in a lot of places as to whether he even cares for the band that much (a view that I share). And I like how he was unashamed to go through every fucking note the band played in often painstaking detail and then put a top 5 together that every dipshit waving a lighter would agree with.

Some highlights:

“Sorrow": Again, we have the droney sounds with some Gilmourian ruminations up top, again going on for minutes. Then comes something like a beat, which on inspection comes from a poorly programmed friendly local synthesizer rather than, you know, the band’s actual drummer.

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104. “Corporal Clegg,” A Saucerful of Secrets (1968): This is a downright comical example of how bad Pink Floyd was immediately post-Barrett.

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100. “Learning to Fly,” A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987): I hate this song for the same reason I hate “Owner of a Lonely Heart” or Permanent Vacation: It’s an overproduced, fraudulent piece of commercial crap designed to distract people from the fact that, while the name of the band on the label hasn’t changed, the creative people behind the music have.

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From the live Astronomy Domine on Ummagumma: “This is a Barrett song, so it has more energy and melody than most Floyd excursions like this. But also listen to Wright’s contribution, coming between the four- and five-minute marks. This is not a dynamic player.”

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Shine On 6-9 (this is a particularly good one): The first five parts of “Shine On” kick off the album and as a whole remains one of the band’s most beloved compositions. The secret is that the second iteration of the song, which closes the album with another four parts, goes off the rails after the first of these. Had it ended after six minutes it would have been an effective reprise. The last two parts mar this fairly magnificent conception with overindulgent, aimless, musically uninteresting, and out-of place wankery. Someone really needed to take Richard Wright’s clavinet away from him, too.

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Meanwhile, Richard Wright’s contributions to the band had become marginal. As the band had to hustle to get The Wall ready for a 1979 release, Wright bridled at losing some of a planned vacation. (Note that it had been two-and-a-half years since Animals had come out.) Waters fired him — or rather, made his manager fire him, a great rock-star dick move — and the other band members, with one eye on their suffering bank accounts, went along. Amazingly, the band hired Wright back as a session player for the shows. In his autobiography, Nick Mason notes that Wright was in fact the only person who made money on that tour;

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Sheep: “This is accompanied by some appropriate and long-overdue actual rock at the end — Gilmour pulls a great-sounding guitar sound out of his ass — and you can even hear Mason breaking a sweat. (Sometimes you actually feel for Waters when it comes to his lazy bandmates.)”

I listened to their seventies albums.

so you’re saying I should sell my copy of The Wall then

for kindling

Alfred OTM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv5uuhkS4j8

^^^ ideal for mornings

Preferring the A Collection of Great Dance Songs version of “Money” to the original is quite a “challop” as they used to say around here.

I like great dance songs.

wait, how is "san tropez" spelled?

Saint-Tropez, no?

Fully agree with Alfred's choices. But what about Atom Heart Mother and its release date of Oct 70?

Oh I see, you've limited it to 71-79. And yet, what about AHM? Above or below The Wall?

oh yeah, i guess it is st-tropez