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

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.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd03-opel.jpg

#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.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd02-baby_lemonade.jpg

#2 - Baby Lemonade
227 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/_HK6-vE3jHk

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/syd01-octopus.jpg

#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

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/49-goodbye_blue_sky.jpg

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

http://youtu.be/dGKs7dhPgWo

Left "Nobody's Home" off my ballot, but it's been in my head lately.

Thinking about Boomers being so unsatisfied with their 13 channels of shit or 57 channels with nothing on.

Damn, "Nobody's Home" was my #2

imo "nobody's home" is as good as that old Waters acerbic melancholia gets. not nec very "floyd" but vv good. even makes me like michael kamen.

I am dumb enough to have just realized the font is the intertitles on Live @ Pompeii.

I was hoping someone would notice that!

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/48-in_the_flesh.jpg

#48 - In The Flesh?
137 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/MlR3wUPwJCg

definitely my preferred version of the 2 versions though not one I'd vote for.

I've had a really crappy day today and this is cheering me up significantly, even though I didn't vote (too hard!)

With all the other little interlinked musical motifs on The Wall, I just recently realized that the little climbing chord progression w/organ swells that occurs right before the main riff of "In The Flesh?" kicks in, is later reused as the progression for "Empty Spaces."

love "Nobody Home" but it didn't make my ballot

"Goodbye Blue Sky" on the other hand: TOO LOW! the essence of The Wall even if not its best song. & Waters' best solo write on the album. the song still gives me the willies.

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: 

"Goodbye Blue Sky" started very high on my ballot and slid once I felt it was kind of slight as a composition. But it has a fabulous sound. Multi-tracked David Gilmour voices is always a very nice thing.

yeah my opinion of the wall has changed a dozen times but i've always loved 'goodbye blue sky', somewhat surprised it's this low

otoh when i truly LOVED the wall, ie when i was 13, 'in the flesh?' was my fave track pretty easy

"Nobody Home" and "In The Flesh?" both featured on my ballot. Especially love "In The Flesh?" for its piledriving riff. Along with moments of Animals, did the Floyd ever rock harder than this?