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

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

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

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/boot01-oakland.jpg

#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!

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

#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.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd10-no_good_trying.jpg

#10 - No Good Trying
108 points, 3 votes

http://youtu.be/q1lAbB-wil4

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd09-rats.jpg

#9 - Rats
122 points, 5 votes

http://youtu.be/IvzW2jZGD-Y

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

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_pollsyd08-late_night.jpg

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

http://youtu.be/b9gM-blNvdM

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd08-late_night.jpg

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

http://youtu.be/b9gM-blNvdM

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd07-terrapin.jpg

#7 - Terrapin
157 points, 5 votes, 2 number ones

http://youtu.be/VaGRtH7h4oA

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd06-dark_globe.jpg

#6 - Dark Globe
162 points, 5 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/xEr6w7P44Nk

Didn't vote any Syd on my ballot but Dark Globe's a worthy #1 in his category

Late Night is amazing.

god I really really need to spend a lot more time with those records

As much a hardcore Floyd fan as I have been over the years I never delved into syd solo beyond Madcap Laughs and whatever has come my way on boots. I'm looking forward to some new discoveries as the results play back.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd05-dominoes.jpg

#5 - Dominoes
175 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/1tY1aNaIazA

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd04-golden_hair.jpg

#4 - Golden Hair
186 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/V1SFIAsz3Go

Fab. Voted for most of these. "Late Night" was my #1 I seem to recall.

Assumed "No Good Trying" was uber-popular but fondness for Soft Machine might've skewed my worldview.

"Dark Globe" was pretty clearly a big influence on Wall/TFC-era Roger. Believe he has said he used to sing it to himself in the bath.

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