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

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

^^^sick!

ha, that version rules.

the b-side is a less impressive but still good vers of "have a cigar": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Br4nbTDSA

Always skipped this song on DSoTM, it sticks out like a sore thumb, like "Not Now John". Floyd's most lumpen moment.

One of the first songs I learned on the bass.

Not one of my choices, but the tremolo in this is ace.

I don't know if it was on the Classic Albums DSOTM ep (probably was), but I saw a thing where they broke it down into the individual guitar parts, and jeez, there's like five Gilmour tracks on there. And yet, it's still so sparse. Not a huge fan of the song, but it was pretty impressive the way they arranged it.

i'll say this for the dsotm take of money: at least it's not the "collection of great dance songs" re-recording. seriously listen to this weak sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMPD2LrB_4M

I sneaked Money on the end of my ballot. I do quite like it in truth - it's a pleasant ditty, I dig the bluesy touches, and the time signature and rhyme scheme is pretty cool - but I wish I'd left it off now. I'd rather be responsible for it not making it than making it.

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TIE #49 - Nobody Home
135 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/4QcJPAa787c

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TIE #49 - Goodbye Blue Sky
135 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/dGKs7dhPgWo

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