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

^^^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

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!

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#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?

Yeah, on their first record.

But I love both of those songs, too (both made my ballot). "Nobody Home" is one of the peaks of The Wall for me.

how many more tracks from the wall to come? four? more?

Xp they also rocked out some on More.

how many more tracks from the wall to come? four? more?

― balls, Thursday, March 13, 2014

i can think of five. maybe six if the lurkers come in heavy.

Glad to see 'Goodbye Blue Sky' place - never been able to get into The Wall as an album but I love that one.

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#47 - Apples And Oranges
139 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/WoXu6ufZ_9U

This barely missed my ballot -- it's one of the best earworms in their catalog. The guitar part is nuts.

Apples and Oranges is delicious! "I love she, she loves me."

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."

Ha! Never noticed this either. A little prelude piece.

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#46 - Matilda Mother
140 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/OwKWLjnyjuo

The birth of King Diamond.

Uh-oh, we're gonna get Syd out of the way early then?

*resists obvious zing*

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#45 - Mother
147 points, 8 votes

http://youtu.be/p0HrrR9QDQU

Probably my favorite song on the first disc of The Wall. Still didn't break my top 15, though.

'In the Flesh?' was my #17. I didn't find room for 'Goodbye Blue Sky' - which was an oversight now that I think about it.

"Mother" was high on my list. A very haunting melancholy song.

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

― balls, Friday, March 14, 2014 9:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not sure it was ever quite my fave, but otm re the 13 years old thing. At that stage The Wall was THE BEST ALBUM EVER.

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TIE #43 - Obscured By Clouds
159 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/z_vVFC7URkc

(have to go wide-angle on some of these graphics)

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TIE #43 - Any Colour You Like
159 points, 7 votes

http://youtu.be/W1oaXqBJRRQ

Loving the graphics btw. :-)

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"mother" as a lyric and performance is at once both powerful and completely rmde. think I felt that way even at 13.

but the solo... pretty sure it's the first one I ever learned and I don't expect to forget it. anyone who dismisses The Wall as the first waters solo record isn't hearing what I'm hearing.

sort of surprised to see both "mother" and "obscured by clouds" this low. this is gonna be interesting!

Wtf, I never noticed this before. Listening in Spotify, this isn't even in the same key. Is it just that the speed is messed up?

The version of "Money" on A Collection Of Great Dance Songs is a totally new recording. Capitol wouldn't release the rights to use it on the comp, so Gilmour re-recorded the whole thing himself - drums, keyboards, guitars, bass, etc. Dick Parry was called in again to duplicate the sax solo.