never heard a note of Nick Mason solo, but now i'm pretty keen!
― charlie h, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 13:33 (ten years ago) link
For that period around About Face, DG was one handsome MF
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 13:35 (ten years ago) link
"for that period" DG was a handsome mf when he *joined* Floyd, let alone gone solo
sorry, had to
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
DG was a handsome man from birth to right around the time he had his ninth kid.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Testicles: they're not a clown car (except they pretty much are).
― Corporal Clegg, you've got a lovely daughter (WilliamC), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
If 99.9999% of the clowns died immediately after getting out, but I digress.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd10-no_good_trying.jpg
#10 - No Good Trying108 points, 3 votes
http://youtu.be/q1lAbB-wil4
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd09-rats.jpg
#9 - Rats122 points, 5 votes
http://youtu.be/IvzW2jZGD-Y
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
― KCB (Kent Burt), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_pollsyd08-late_night.jpg
#8 - Late Night153 points, 5 votes, 1 number one
http://youtu.be/b9gM-blNvdM
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd08-late_night.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd07-terrapin.jpg
#7 - Terrapin157 points, 5 votes, 2 number ones
http://youtu.be/VaGRtH7h4oA
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd06-dark_globe.jpg
#6 - Dark Globe162 points, 5 votes, 1 number one
http://youtu.be/xEr6w7P44Nk
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
Didn't vote any Syd on my ballot but Dark Globe's a worthy #1 in his category
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
Late Night is amazing.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
god I really really need to spend a lot more time with those records
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd05-dominoes.jpg
#5 - Dominoes175 points, 7 votes
http://youtu.be/1tY1aNaIazA
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd04-golden_hair.jpg
#4 - Golden Hair186 points, 7 votes
http://youtu.be/V1SFIAsz3Go
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd03-opel.jpg
#3 - Opel203 points, 6 votes, 3 number ones
http://youtu.be/ioyZ5ESV-bU
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
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.
― 30 seconds to the return of bruno (Spectrist), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
"Opel" was also my #1. So strikingly beautiful - hard to believe it sat unreleased for so long.
― KCB (Kent Burt), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
Scary to imagine how many "Opel"s have been lost to the world.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd02-baby_lemonade.jpg
#2 - Baby Lemonade227 points, 8 votes
http://youtu.be/_HK6-vE3jHk
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd01-octopus.jpg
#1 - Octopus269 points, 9 votes, 1 number one
http://youtu.be/m_6PhexCMow
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
Too bad more people didn't compile a Syd list. I expected ILM peeps would be into that... Nice collection of songs, though.
― KCB (Kent Burt), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
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?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
That's basically it. There's a Peel Sessions EP and "Bob Dylan Blues" on a best of...
― KCB (Kent Burt), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Main event tomorrow
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
forgot to vote. oh yeah better place, just saying
― r. bean (soda), Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― meet 'bronos' -- (Lee626), Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:36 (ten years ago) link
Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band is a pretty goddamn great name
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
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.
― charlie h, Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 March 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 04:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Mqx7JDDfY
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 07:24 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNYq-c0lBw
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Is it time yet? Teeming with anticipation
― octobeard, Thursday, 13 March 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/51-money.jpg
#51 - Money134 points, 6 votes
http://youtu.be/cpbbuaIA3Ds
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
Bemused to find that their signature FM radio staple song didn't even finish in the poll top 50.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
lol @ graphic
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 13 March 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7kE61sWxX0
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 13 March 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
^^^sick!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 13 March 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
ha, that version rules.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 March 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
the b-side is a less impressive but still good vers of "have a cigar": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Br4nbTDSA
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Always skipped this song on DSoTM, it sticks out like a sore thumb, like "Not Now John". Floyd's most lumpen moment.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
One of the first songs I learned on the bass.
― pplains, Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Alfred OTM.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 08:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv5uuhkS4j8
^^^ ideal for mornings
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:25 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
I like great dance songs.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
wait, how is "san tropez" spelled?
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
Saint-Tropez, no?
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
Fully agree with Alfred's choices. But what about Atom Heart Mother and its release date of Oct 70?
― doug watson, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
Oh I see, you've limited it to 71-79. And yet, what about AHM? Above or below The Wall?
― doug watson, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
oh yeah, i guess it is st-tropez
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 14 December 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link