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Me and Jabarony.Fantastic work in here Anarchy. Thanks for making it happen. Did we find out who the 2 people were without Comfortably Numb in their top 25?
Me and Jabarony.Fantastic work in here Anarchy. Thanks for making it happen. Did we find out who the 2 people were without Comfortably Numb in their top 25?
Wot's all this, now?
Not anymore. :throwstomatoatjabarony:Wot's all this, now?
I thought it was a top secret ballot!!!
No. My top 4 are pretty set in stone. I had SOYCD I-V at 5 and VI-IX at 6. If they were combined it would have been 5.Looking at the balloting, I don't really see any way that SOYCD1-5 had a path to outscoring CN. So many people had it in their Top 5 to begin with. I guess a couple of people that ranked the song in the teens may have ranked it higher if it was considered one song . . . but it needed a lot more points to catch up. Anyone out there that would have scored SOYCD way higher if it was considered one song instead of two?
Come on you target for faraway laughter.Wot's all this, now?
I thought it was a top secret ballot!!!
Fantastic work in here Anarchy. Thanks for making it happen.
Had this #1 and part 2 #2. After part 2 appeared in the teens, I expected this to follow. Im surprised you all were able to separate the songs if you like this as much as you do. I really couldn't figure that part out#02 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5) from Wish You Were Here (1975)
Appeared On: 31 ballots (out of 33 . . . 93.9%)
Total Points: 641 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 77.7%)
Top Rankers: @Dwayne Hoover @PIK95 @turnjose7 @Todem @New Binky the Doormat
Highest Rankings: 1 x 5, 2 x 7, 3 x 2, 4 x 3, 5 x 3
Non-Rankers: @jabarony @BrutalPenguin
Early Version, London - 1974, Los Angeles - 1975, Oakland - 1977, DSOT, Knebworth - 1990, Pulse, Remember That Night, Pompeii, RW - 2023
Live Performances: PF: 111, DG's PF 302, RW: 232, DG: 91
Covers: Steve Lukather, Transatlantic, Jack Irons, Les Claypool, Stone Temple Pilots, 48th Collective, Greg Hoy, Malachai, Christy Moore, Clawfinger, Umphrey's McGee
The song started out called Shine On as a tribute to Syd. It was used to open shows on the 1974 tour. It was the first track they started recording in 1975, but it was the final song completed for the WYWH album (and took 7 months to finish). The band was having chemistry and communication issues, and struggled to get along.
RW was keen to carry on working, despite obvious tensions. “We pressed on regardless of the general ennui for a few weeks and then things came to a bit of a head,” he recalls. “I felt that the only way I could retain interest in the project was to try to make the album relate to what was going on there and then – the fact that no one was really looking each other in the eye, and that it was all very mechanical.” RW’s vision was cemented at a band meeting. “We all sat round and unburdened ourselves a lot, and I took notes on what everybody was saying. It was a meeting about what wasn’t happening and why.”
Waters extended further still his ideas of general themes of absence and detachment by opting to write yet more new material. "I suggested that we change Shine On to somehow to make a bridge between the first and second halves. Dave was always clear that he wanted to do the other songs (that ended up on Animals). He never quite copped what I was talking about. But Rick did and Nicky did, and he was outvoted so we went on.”
With DG and RW – the principal players in the band – at complete cross purposes, recording carried on, even if DG wasn’t convinced: “After Dark Side we really were floundering around. I wanted to make the next album more musical. I always thought that Roger’s emergence as a great lyric writer on the last album was such that he came to overshadow the music.”
Even by agreeing to disagree there was also a sense they were being held back by general lethargy, promoted by an alarming divorce rate within the band. Although his own marriage had hit the skids very recently, RW was able to divert his energies into songwriting. But in NM’s case his impending split “manifested itself into complete rigor mortis. I didn’t quite have to be carried about, but I wasn’t interested. I couldn’t get myself to sort out the drumming, and that of course drove everyone else even crazier.”
Having finally settled on what it was they were going to record, they set about putting it all down on tape. Shine On eventually featured their tour saxophonist **** Parry, who switches between baritone and tenor sax. Particularly problematic were RW’s vocal sessions. “It was right on the edge of my range. I always felt very insecure about singing anyway because I’m not naturally able to sing well. I know what I want to do but I don’t have the ability to do it well. It was fantastically boring to record, and I had to do it line by line, doing it over and over again just to get it sounding reasonable.”
Consequently further tensions surfaced as the boredom of the process took its toll and band members became increasingly disinterested in turning up for sessions at all. “Punctuality became an issue,” NM recalled. “If two of us were on time and the others were late, we were quite capable of working ourselves up into a righteous fury. The following day the roles could easily be reversed. None of us was free from blame.
Layered on top of all that, there were constant technical and recording issues. When they finally recorded sections they were happy with, their were problems with the equipment. Or the technicians and engineers accidentally recorded over sections that had already been completed. At one point, the introductory section had a segment called Wine Glasses (most of which was absorbed into the main song. (They also recorded a track called The Hard Way, which I didn't have a good spot to list anywhere.)
Wrong thread?I listen to Spoon here and there - less than I should at least. After this that will change. Maybe he the best rock band no one really talks about.
Anyone who only wanted to devote one spot on their list to SOYCD gave the nod to the first half.Had this #1 and part 2 #2. After part 2 appeared in the teens, I expected this to follow. Im surprised you all were able to separate the songs if you like this as much as you do. I really couldn't figure that part out#02 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5) from Wish You Were Here (1975)
Appeared On: 31 ballots (out of 33 . . . 93.9%)
Total Points: 641 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 77.7%)
Top Rankers: @Dwayne Hoover @PIK95 @turnjose7 @Todem @New Binky the Doormat
Highest Rankings: 1 x 5, 2 x 7, 3 x 2, 4 x 3, 5 x 3
Non-Rankers: @jabarony @BrutalPenguin
Early Version, London - 1974, Los Angeles - 1975, Oakland - 1977, DSOT, Knebworth - 1990, Pulse, Remember That Night, Pompeii, RW - 2023
Live Performances: PF: 111, DG's PF 302, RW: 232, DG: 91
Covers: Steve Lukather, Transatlantic, Jack Irons, Les Claypool, Stone Temple Pilots, 48th Collective, Greg Hoy, Malachai, Christy Moore, Clawfinger, Umphrey's McGee
The song started out called Shine On as a tribute to Syd. It was used to open shows on the 1974 tour. It was the first track they started recording in 1975, but it was the final song completed for the WYWH album (and took 7 months to finish). The band was having chemistry and communication issues, and struggled to get along.
RW was keen to carry on working, despite obvious tensions. “We pressed on regardless of the general ennui for a few weeks and then things came to a bit of a head,” he recalls. “I felt that the only way I could retain interest in the project was to try to make the album relate to what was going on there and then – the fact that no one was really looking each other in the eye, and that it was all very mechanical.” RW’s vision was cemented at a band meeting. “We all sat round and unburdened ourselves a lot, and I took notes on what everybody was saying. It was a meeting about what wasn’t happening and why.”
Waters extended further still his ideas of general themes of absence and detachment by opting to write yet more new material. "I suggested that we change Shine On to somehow to make a bridge between the first and second halves. Dave was always clear that he wanted to do the other songs (that ended up on Animals). He never quite copped what I was talking about. But Rick did and Nicky did, and he was outvoted so we went on.”
With DG and RW – the principal players in the band – at complete cross purposes, recording carried on, even if DG wasn’t convinced: “After Dark Side we really were floundering around. I wanted to make the next album more musical. I always thought that Roger’s emergence as a great lyric writer on the last album was such that he came to overshadow the music.”
Even by agreeing to disagree there was also a sense they were being held back by general lethargy, promoted by an alarming divorce rate within the band. Although his own marriage had hit the skids very recently, RW was able to divert his energies into songwriting. But in NM’s case his impending split “manifested itself into complete rigor mortis. I didn’t quite have to be carried about, but I wasn’t interested. I couldn’t get myself to sort out the drumming, and that of course drove everyone else even crazier.”
Having finally settled on what it was they were going to record, they set about putting it all down on tape. Shine On eventually featured their tour saxophonist **** Parry, who switches between baritone and tenor sax. Particularly problematic were RW’s vocal sessions. “It was right on the edge of my range. I always felt very insecure about singing anyway because I’m not naturally able to sing well. I know what I want to do but I don’t have the ability to do it well. It was fantastically boring to record, and I had to do it line by line, doing it over and over again just to get it sounding reasonable.”
Consequently further tensions surfaced as the boredom of the process took its toll and band members became increasingly disinterested in turning up for sessions at all. “Punctuality became an issue,” NM recalled. “If two of us were on time and the others were late, we were quite capable of working ourselves up into a righteous fury. The following day the roles could easily be reversed. None of us was free from blame.
Layered on top of all that, there were constant technical and recording issues. When they finally recorded sections they were happy with, their were problems with the equipment. Or the technicians and engineers accidentally recorded over sections that had already been completed. At one point, the introductory section had a segment called Wine Glasses (most of which was absorbed into the main song. (They also recorded a track called The Hard Way, which I didn't have a good spot to list anywhere.)
I don't have a deep knowledge of Pink Floyd, mostly the hits, so this has been a quite interesting read.Thanks for running this @Anarchy99 and for all of the work involved.
I agree, but as this thread has proven, people have wildly different taste in everything. I mean right now, some where in the deep south, there is a dude rocking an american flag banana hammock. And he thinks it looks FABULOUS. So yeah, it happens.It's crazy to me that Fearless doesn't make someones top 25 Floyd songs
I mean right now, some where in the deep south, there is a dude rocking an american flag banana hammock. And he thinks it looks FABULOUS.
I mean right now, some where in the deep south, there is a dude rocking an american flag banana hammock. And he thinks it looks FABULOUS.
There's also a guy doing the same thing in Northern California, and he absolutely looks fabulous. Ask me how I know.
I had totally forgotten about it. It would have made my list if I didn’t kill so many of my brain cells listening to all that Pink Floyd.It's crazy to me that Fearless doesn't make someones top 25 Floyd songs
BTW, is SoCal still stealing your water? :Jungle:I mean right now, some where in the deep south, there is a dude rocking an american flag banana hammock. And he thinks it looks FABULOUS.
There's also a guy doing the same thing in Northern California, and he absolutely looks fabulous. Ask me how I know.
BTW, is SoCal still stealing your water? :Jungle:I mean right now, some where in the deep south, there is a dude rocking an american flag banana hammock. And he thinks it looks FABULOUS.
There's also a guy doing the same thing in Northern California, and he absolutely looks fabulous. Ask me how I know.
You and Steve MarriottWhile a good effort overall, I'm still upset that my favorite audio dog didn't make the list.
I was in the kitchen
Seamus, that's the dog, was outside
Well, I was in the kitchen
Seamus, my old hound, was outside
Well you know, the sun sinks slowly
But my old hound just sat right down and cried
And...I agree, but as this thread has proven, people have wildly different taste in everything. I mean right now, some where in the deep south, there is a dude rocking an american flag banana hammock. And he thinks it looks FABULOUS. So yeah, it happens.It's crazy to me that Fearless doesn't make someones top 25 Floyd songs
Holy crap, I also went to the PF laserium show there in ‘92. Have no idea the exact date since I was probably as stoned as I ever have been in my life.CN will always be #1 after a griffith park laserium show of the wall on shrooms back in 92, that song rippled through me
Holy crap, I also went to the PF laserium show there in ‘92. Have no idea the exact date since I was probably as stoned as I ever have been in my life.CN will always be #1 after a griffith park laserium show of the wall on shrooms back in 92, that song rippled through me
Vulture Ranking (2 out of 165 songs): More than anything else, there is a wistful melody here in the chorus, and the band lets it sink in, and go on as long as it needs to, tension rising each step of the way — another rare instance when you want something Pink Floyd is doing not to end.
I didn’t get to participate with the rankings as I was beyond swamped but it’s funny how I would have had to submit 2 lists, one for how I listen to pink floyd now and one for pre military when i listened under the influence of mary jane.
The experience to certain songs is definitely different, at least in my mind
CN will always be #1 after a griffith park laserium show of the wall on shrooms back in 92, that song rippled through me
Yup - I would probably agree with all of them, although I would include the soaring soloing on Echoes immediately preceding the funky part.My favorite four musical passages from Floyd:
The “funky” part of Echoes
Part VIII of SOYCD
The opening guitar solo on Dogs
The closing guitar solo on Comfortably Numb
1 | Comfortably Numb |
2 | Wish You Were Here |
3 | On the Turning Away |
4 | One of These Days |
5 | Hey You |
6 | Time |
7 | Astronomy Domine |
8 | Brain Damage/Eclipse |
9 | The Gunner's Dream |
10 | Young Lust |
11 | Careful With That Axe, Eugene |
12 | Have a Cigar |
13 | See Emily Play |
14 | Money |
15 | Fearless |
16 | Shine on You Crazy Diamond Part 1 |
17 | Mother |
18 | Echoes |
19 | Sheep |
20 | Welcome to the Machine |
21 | The Final Cut |
22 | Breathe |
23 | Fat Old Sun |
24 | Pigs on the Wing (Snowy White Version) |
25 | Childhood's End |
I actually like the PF version better. More proof I know nothing about music.The Scissor Sisters version was nominated for a Grammy. The original wasn't.
Redoing my list, this would be added.Big thanks to Anarchy and all the rest of you for a great thread.
24 Pigs on the Wing (Snowy White Version)