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

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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

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

http://youtu.be/b9gM-blNvdM

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

http://youtu.be/VaGRtH7h4oA

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#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.

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#5 - Dominoes
175 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/1tY1aNaIazA

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#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.

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#3 - Opel
203 points, 6 votes, 3 number ones

http://youtu.be/ioyZ5ESV-bU

Can't believe after all these years I've never bothered to find out what Syd's paintings looked like! Great job with these, Telecom.

Opel was my #1, truly such a bizarre, warped song.

"Opel" was also my #1. So strikingly beautiful - hard to believe it sat unreleased for so long.

Scary to imagine how many "Opel"s have been lost to the world.

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#2 - Baby Lemonade
227 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/_HK6-vE3jHk

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#1 - Octopus
269 points, 9 votes, 1 number one

http://youtu.be/m_6PhexCMow

Too bad more people didn't compile a Syd list. I expected ILM peeps would be into that... Nice collection of songs, though.

I just didn't know enough... plan on fixing that soon. I have the 2LP of Barrett and Madcap Laughs, am I correct that the only other major record is Opel, or is there more?

That's basically it. There's a Peel Sessions EP and "Bob Dylan Blues" on a best of...

Main event tomorrow

forgot to vote. oh yeah better place, just saying

It's a damn shame that no recordings of Stars, Syd's very last band from 1972, seem to have survived. They played at least six gigs, several were recorded, and those tapes may still exist but their whereabouts are unknown. A possible exception is a show they played with Hawkwind in Jan. 1972 that the Easy Action label purchased from EMI archives and says they will issue this spring. At this point they called themselves the Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band, which is an accurate description of what the band was. Fred Frith from Henry Cow joined in on one date, maybe the one that survived. They played several old Floyd tunes including "Lucifer Sam", although another source claims there's no Syd-penned songs on the half-hour-long reel. In any case, this would be two years later than any other Syd recording any of us have heard which makes it an exciting prospect. That's all I know about it.

Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band is a pretty goddamn great name

one of my favourite things of Syd's is the instrumental of Golden Hair. really eerie and spare, like a reverb-heavy cousin to Nick Drake's Horn.

Elvis your images RULE

I didn't vote for any Syd bcz I'm lazy and haven't really dug in much...but it makes me grin like a loon seeing all the love

"Dark Globe" was my #1. I had always forgotten these opaque albums until I heard R.E.M.'s cover of it and I basically found my way in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Mqx7JDDfY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNYq-c0lBw

Is it time yet? Teeming with anticipation

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#51 - Money
134 points, 6 votes

http://youtu.be/cpbbuaIA3Ds

Bemused to find that their signature FM radio staple song didn't even finish in the poll top 50.

lol @ graphic

obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7kE61sWxX0

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