PIK95
Footballguy
Yeah, Wall bias...There’s good reason why many of the yet-to-come biggies will be ranked where they are.
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FBG'S TOP 100 PINK FLOYD SONGS - #01 - Comfortably Numb from The Wall (1979) (1 Viewer)
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PIK95
Footballguy
I had it at 12 fwiw.
zamboni
Footballguy
I wasn’t even thinking of The Wall - mainly the three priors.Yeah, Wall bias...There’s good reason why many of the yet-to-come biggies will be ranked where they are.
PIK95
Footballguy
I wasn’t even thinking of The Wall - mainly the three priors.Yeah, Wall bias...There’s good reason why many of the yet-to-come biggies will be ranked where they are.
I meant it has skewed the entire vote. Well, at least for non Walleyes.I wasn’t even thinking of The Wall - mainly the three priors.Yeah, Wall bias...There’s good reason why many of the yet-to-come biggies will be ranked where they are.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I get it. The Wall ain't your bag, baby. But you appear to be a very vocal minority. I went back and checked the Ranker list, which basically is a compiled ranking based on people voting for their faves like we are doing here (just with 1,000+ people instead). Here are the rankings for Wall songs in their Top 40: 1, 3, 11, 16, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 35, 39, and 40. That's 14 songs. I am not great at math, but I am pretty sure 14 is greater than 3 . . . which is what you said is the total of non-trash songs on the album. It doesn't make them right or you wrong. It just means there are some people that think the album isn't filled with trash or filler tracks.
PIK95
Footballguy
It's thread schtick at this point fwiw.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
We needed a villain besides Roger in here anyway. So thank you for assuming that role. It got more people to post. Let me know if you have any other hot takes that would incense people. Like not voting for Echoes or Money. You know, stuff like that.
PIK95
Footballguy
Money reminds me of a Wall tune, and it was very overplayed most of my life. And it's repetitive like CN. No vote for Money!
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I grew up outside of NYC. So I got NYC, Long Island, and Connecticut stations that played way more than what you got. Most stations had gimmicky programming. Two fer Tuesdays. Three fer Thursdays. Weekend rock blocks (4-6 songs from a band). A couple of stations even had a Floyd Power Hour. Floyd and Zeppelin were the top of the pyramid, and both got played a ton.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Really? It's one of their very best pre-DSOTM tracks.
Desert_Power
Footballguy
I have a clear top 3 of Pink Floyd albums and it doesn't include The Wall. That probably puts my rankings out of touch a bit.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Mother is an interesting choice to overplay. Not WYWH or Comfortably Numb?
@PIK95 has an excuse then since he lived behind a Wall
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Ditto. I had three Wall songs and one of them we've already seen (One of My Turns).
But you're used to that by now.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I did not vote for Money. Don’t hate it but never got that into it.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
Not sure we could do a Top 25 ranking project for Hall & Oates. Maybe Top 10.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
10 for me (I think).
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I could. Most of their '70s albums are great.
PIK95
Footballguy
Nope, they played alot of odd combos. I hate most Journey, but they played Wheel in the Sky so much. They are probably STILL playing it on the hour ffs.
Why are we not surprised.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I checked to see what is lurking in my H&O folder on my computer. I have 175+ songs, but only 75 or so are from H&O. Almost all the others are songs from Live From Daryl's House. I could make a Top 25 list. But not sure how many other FFA regulars could even name 25 H&O songs. I'd be happy to be wrong on that front.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Today I learned The Nile Song is for Hall & Oates fans.
jabarony
Footballguy
Perhaps PIK's CD player got stuck repeating Stop hundreds of times over and his hatred for the Wall filler was born?
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Uruk-Hai could probably do it. Dunno about anyone else.
My best friend from work could do it, but her eyes glaze over whenever I bring up FFA music threads.
jabarony
Footballguy
In case of an emergency fix of H&O, call
719-26-OATES
Anarchy99
Footballguy
Who else is there? Joan Jett? The Roots? Patti LaBelle? Chubby Checker? Will Smith?
jabarony
Footballguy
Ween.
zamboni
Footballguy
Lots of Philly soul. Plus The Hooters, of course.
PIK95
Footballguy
You forgot the best....
The WhiteWALLS
The Whitewalls Band
Philly's Coolest Party Band! The Whitewalls are a 9 piece professional horn band that is fun and entertaining. The Whitewalls play a variety of R&B, Funk, Rock and Blues.
www.thewhitewallsband.com
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Nazz were the best rock band to come out of Philly in the '60s, and not just because Todd Rundgren was their main creative force.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
lardonastick
Footballguy
Dr. Dog
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
We didn't want to steal your thunder.
Tau837
Footballguy
Tau837
Footballguy
I like the Wall a lot but would rank it as their 4th best album:
- Wish You Were Here
- Dark Side of the Moon
- Animals
- The Wall
Rand al Thor
Footballguy
I don't know if this will interest anyone or not, probably only if you're a guitar player or into that kind of thing. But I was playing Hey You tonight on the guitar and thinking that if Dave couldn't play the acoustic piece on Is There Anybody Out There cleanly, how the hell did he pull of the picking pattern and fingering in Hey You? So I do some research and found out that all of the tabs I've ever seen for that song (and the way I've been playing it for 40 years or whatever) is not how Dave played it. He actually used something called Nashville Tuning where the low strings are replaced with high strings, and instead of playing it up on the 7th fret, it was all open chords down at the nut. If you all knew that already, why didn't anyone tell me? And if you didn't know it and want to see how to play it properly, check out this cover/lesson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7aUVM65Trw
As far I as can tell, it's the only PF song where DG used that form of tuning.
Edit to add - this is how all of us stoners always played the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWft81iHXuY
As far I as can tell, it's the only PF song where DG used that form of tuning.
Edit to add - this is how all of us stoners always played the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWft81iHXuY
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Rocky Balboa
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Yeah I’ll sit that one out.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers?
Anarchy99
Footballguy
#25 - Astronomy Dominé from The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)
Appeared On: 11 ballots (out of 33 . . . 33.3%)
Total Points: 128 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 15.5%)
Top Rankers: @Mookie Gizzy @jabarony @Joe Schmo @worrierking @turnjose7
Highest Rankings: 3 and 5
BBC - 1967, Tienerklanken - 1968, Ummagumma, SF - 1970, Essex - 1971, Montreux - 1971, Pulse, Miami - 1994 (B Side)
Softboys - 2001, South America, Abby Road, Gdansk, MSG - 2016, NM - Roundhouse
Live Performances: PF: 143, DG'S PF: 91, DG: 41, NM: 156
Covers: Voivoid, Claypool Lennon Delirium, Widespread Panic, Robyn Hitchcock & Rockfour, Mission Of Burma, Nash The Slash, Dredg, Atomic Bitchwax, I-Overdrive Trio, DUNE
We say goodbye to the Syd era in style, with perhaps the most remembered song from that period. After 23 years, Dave brought back the song for some dates of the 1994 tour. The song was originally entitled Astronomy Dominé (An Astral Chant). It was the only song on the 1994 tour with Gilmour, Mason and Wright performing without backing musicians.
The track includes their manager at the time, Peter Jenner, on a megaphone for the introduction. At the beginning of the song, he can be heard reading from an astronomy atlas, naming astrological star signs and astronomical facts ("Pluto was not discovered till 1930"), setting the tone for a song which evokes images of other planets — limestone rock and 'limpid green' underground pools of icy water, such as astronomers in the 60's thought might be found on Venus or Mars before the Voyager and other such satellite probes exposed the reality. In an additional bit of trivia, 'domine' is Latin for lord or master, usually used as a form of address. There is some Morse code at the beginning of this song, which was a way to transmit messages using a series of long and short tones. Plenty of people tried to decipher the code in this song, only to realize it was just a random series of tones with no meaning.
The song was reimagined in the Spring of 1969. This version is much more like heavy rock 'n' roll, and guitar has replaced and augmented the organ in many places where it didn't appear on the album version, most notably in the descending bridge. This version also includes an extended quiet organ solo in the middle, highlighting Rick's previously under-rated contribution to the tune. It became a popular live piece, and regularly included in the set, appearing as the first track on the live side of the album Ummagumma in 1969. By this time, David Gilmour was singing the lead vocals together with Wright, the song had been extended to include the first verse twice, and the instrumental in the middle included a very quiet organ solo before getting louder again back to the last verse.
Dave: "Rick practically refuses to play some things on stage. Astronomy Domine I don't mind because it gets me off, it's like loud rock 'n' roll to me, but some numbers I hate doing." Nick: "I love Astronomy Dominé. It's such a great drum track in an interesting time signature. It's a fantastic bit of '60s philosophy mixed with a sort of psychedelic lyric." Roger: "We haven't done many tracks that had anything to do with science fiction at all — we did 3: Astronomy Dominé, Let There Be More Light, and Set the Controls. It just depended on what you read into it. Syd had one song that had anything to do with space — Astronomy Dominé — that's all. That's the sum total of all Syd's writing about space and yet there's this whole mystique about how he was the father of it all."
Pink Floyd got some attention when they toured the UK with Jimi Hendrix in 1967 (now there's a bill for the ages). Some places note that the song hit #6 on the UK singles chart (while others don't even list it as being released as a single). It was dropped from the live sets in mid 1971, but eventually reappeared as the first song in some sets on the band's 1994 tour. David Gilmour played the song during his 2006 tour, again sharing the lead vocal with fellow-Floyd member Richard Wright. Gilmour also performed the song on his 2015/16 Rattle That Lock tour.
Appeared On: 11 ballots (out of 33 . . . 33.3%)
Total Points: 128 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 15.5%)
Top Rankers: @Mookie Gizzy @jabarony @Joe Schmo @worrierking @turnjose7
Highest Rankings: 3 and 5
BBC - 1967, Tienerklanken - 1968, Ummagumma, SF - 1970, Essex - 1971, Montreux - 1971, Pulse, Miami - 1994 (B Side)
Softboys - 2001, South America, Abby Road, Gdansk, MSG - 2016, NM - Roundhouse
Live Performances: PF: 143, DG'S PF: 91, DG: 41, NM: 156
Covers: Voivoid, Claypool Lennon Delirium, Widespread Panic, Robyn Hitchcock & Rockfour, Mission Of Burma, Nash The Slash, Dredg, Atomic Bitchwax, I-Overdrive Trio, DUNE
We say goodbye to the Syd era in style, with perhaps the most remembered song from that period. After 23 years, Dave brought back the song for some dates of the 1994 tour. The song was originally entitled Astronomy Dominé (An Astral Chant). It was the only song on the 1994 tour with Gilmour, Mason and Wright performing without backing musicians.
The track includes their manager at the time, Peter Jenner, on a megaphone for the introduction. At the beginning of the song, he can be heard reading from an astronomy atlas, naming astrological star signs and astronomical facts ("Pluto was not discovered till 1930"), setting the tone for a song which evokes images of other planets — limestone rock and 'limpid green' underground pools of icy water, such as astronomers in the 60's thought might be found on Venus or Mars before the Voyager and other such satellite probes exposed the reality. In an additional bit of trivia, 'domine' is Latin for lord or master, usually used as a form of address. There is some Morse code at the beginning of this song, which was a way to transmit messages using a series of long and short tones. Plenty of people tried to decipher the code in this song, only to realize it was just a random series of tones with no meaning.
The song was reimagined in the Spring of 1969. This version is much more like heavy rock 'n' roll, and guitar has replaced and augmented the organ in many places where it didn't appear on the album version, most notably in the descending bridge. This version also includes an extended quiet organ solo in the middle, highlighting Rick's previously under-rated contribution to the tune. It became a popular live piece, and regularly included in the set, appearing as the first track on the live side of the album Ummagumma in 1969. By this time, David Gilmour was singing the lead vocals together with Wright, the song had been extended to include the first verse twice, and the instrumental in the middle included a very quiet organ solo before getting louder again back to the last verse.
Dave: "Rick practically refuses to play some things on stage. Astronomy Domine I don't mind because it gets me off, it's like loud rock 'n' roll to me, but some numbers I hate doing." Nick: "I love Astronomy Dominé. It's such a great drum track in an interesting time signature. It's a fantastic bit of '60s philosophy mixed with a sort of psychedelic lyric." Roger: "We haven't done many tracks that had anything to do with science fiction at all — we did 3: Astronomy Dominé, Let There Be More Light, and Set the Controls. It just depended on what you read into it. Syd had one song that had anything to do with space — Astronomy Dominé — that's all. That's the sum total of all Syd's writing about space and yet there's this whole mystique about how he was the father of it all."
Pink Floyd got some attention when they toured the UK with Jimi Hendrix in 1967 (now there's a bill for the ages). Some places note that the song hit #6 on the UK singles chart (while others don't even list it as being released as a single). It was dropped from the live sets in mid 1971, but eventually reappeared as the first song in some sets on the band's 1994 tour. David Gilmour played the song during his 2006 tour, again sharing the lead vocal with fellow-Floyd member Richard Wright. Gilmour also performed the song on his 2015/16 Rattle That Lock tour.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
Vulture Ranking (out of 165 songs): 8
UCR Ranking (out of 167 songs): 14
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): 25
WMGK Ranking (out of 40 songs): 17
Ranker Ranking (out of 132 songs): 29
Billboard Ranking (out of 50 songs): 26
Vulture Ranking (8 out of 165 songs): This was the lead-off track to Piper - more evidence that Barrett also had something to say on guitar. The beginning here is as dramatic as anything Pete Townshend was coming up with at the time. The vocal track is much less interesting, but there’s something big and powerful coming out of Barrett’s crazed brain. It’s unquestionably a major song, its hints of chaos and even danger a landmark in the development of psychedelic rock. The descending guitar line is a little trite - compare it to the thunder of “Sunshine of Your Love,” for example — but its low-fi nature has its own charms, and almost a punk feel. And it really worked live. (Not sure who told Syd “domine” needed an accent, though.) Unfortunately, Barrett’s beginning was his end. By the time the band had finished its first album, it was obvious Barrett was damaged. There’s no official diagnosis of his condition, but based on the surviving record it seems safe to say that Barrett was an early acid casualty. “He completely disappeared into himself,” a friend said. And when, temporarily, he came out, he did things like trade away his car to a passerby for a pack of cigarettes. His ability to contribute deteriorated to the point where the band brought on Gilmour to play guitar for him; they even thought they might pull off a Brian Wilson arrangement, where Barrett could stay offstage and write the songs. But that couldn’t happen. Eventually the band stopped picking him up for performances, and Gilmour stepped up to become the group’s main vocalist.
UCR Ranking (14 out of 167 songs): Astronomy Domine led some to classify PF as space rock, a label they resisted. Listening to it, you can understand why that tag was such an easy one for fans to affix. Barrett takes listeners not just on a journey to the stars (and the moons of Uranus and Saturn), but to a whole other world with imagery that can’t help but fire the imagination (“the icy waters underground,” “a fight between the blue you once knew”). The sonics are spellbinding, particularly the descending, chromatic progression matched with a piercing howl that could be the sound of a star burning out. But, like Barrett, before it crumbles, it burns so very brightly.
Louder Ranking (25 out of 50 songs): Talk about laying down a marker. The opening blast from Floyd’s debut LP is a psychedelic freak-out from the pen of Syd Barrett, inspired by his burgeoning interest in all things celestial and kick-started by manager Peter Jenner listing names of various planets through a megaphone. Barrett and Rick Wright share vocals, although it’s the breathless interplay of the whole band that really impresses. Wright’s organ and Waters’s truculent bass keep the ship docked in orbit, while Nick Mason doles out flurries of drum fills and Barrett heads into the cosmos with echo-delay guitar and an exploratory sense of awe. Astronomy Domine remained part of Floyd’s live shows even after Barrett’s departure, despite them baulking at the suggestion that it was a prime example of ‘space rock’.
WMGK Ranking (17 out of 40 songs): Written by Syd Barrett, it sees him sharing vocals with Richard Wright. The haunted jam saw Barrett looking to the stars, and figuring that other planets would be just as scary as this one: “Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania, Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten.”
Billboard Ranking (26 out of 50 songs): Appropriate that the first song to ever appear on a Pink Floyd LP should begin with the sound of their manager reading the names of the planets over a megaphone, and unfold with zooming guitars, Morse code synths, pounding drums and disembodied vocals. The band would find many new and innovative ways to ready their brew for mass consumption — and it's been rightly pointed out that the band never really sang about space that much after this — but all the ingredients for their mega-success were still pretty much right there from the beginning.
Up next, another Wall track (sorry @PIK95) . . . based on something that actually happened in real life.
UCR Ranking (out of 167 songs): 14
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): 25
WMGK Ranking (out of 40 songs): 17
Ranker Ranking (out of 132 songs): 29
Billboard Ranking (out of 50 songs): 26
Vulture Ranking (8 out of 165 songs): This was the lead-off track to Piper - more evidence that Barrett also had something to say on guitar. The beginning here is as dramatic as anything Pete Townshend was coming up with at the time. The vocal track is much less interesting, but there’s something big and powerful coming out of Barrett’s crazed brain. It’s unquestionably a major song, its hints of chaos and even danger a landmark in the development of psychedelic rock. The descending guitar line is a little trite - compare it to the thunder of “Sunshine of Your Love,” for example — but its low-fi nature has its own charms, and almost a punk feel. And it really worked live. (Not sure who told Syd “domine” needed an accent, though.) Unfortunately, Barrett’s beginning was his end. By the time the band had finished its first album, it was obvious Barrett was damaged. There’s no official diagnosis of his condition, but based on the surviving record it seems safe to say that Barrett was an early acid casualty. “He completely disappeared into himself,” a friend said. And when, temporarily, he came out, he did things like trade away his car to a passerby for a pack of cigarettes. His ability to contribute deteriorated to the point where the band brought on Gilmour to play guitar for him; they even thought they might pull off a Brian Wilson arrangement, where Barrett could stay offstage and write the songs. But that couldn’t happen. Eventually the band stopped picking him up for performances, and Gilmour stepped up to become the group’s main vocalist.
UCR Ranking (14 out of 167 songs): Astronomy Domine led some to classify PF as space rock, a label they resisted. Listening to it, you can understand why that tag was such an easy one for fans to affix. Barrett takes listeners not just on a journey to the stars (and the moons of Uranus and Saturn), but to a whole other world with imagery that can’t help but fire the imagination (“the icy waters underground,” “a fight between the blue you once knew”). The sonics are spellbinding, particularly the descending, chromatic progression matched with a piercing howl that could be the sound of a star burning out. But, like Barrett, before it crumbles, it burns so very brightly.
Louder Ranking (25 out of 50 songs): Talk about laying down a marker. The opening blast from Floyd’s debut LP is a psychedelic freak-out from the pen of Syd Barrett, inspired by his burgeoning interest in all things celestial and kick-started by manager Peter Jenner listing names of various planets through a megaphone. Barrett and Rick Wright share vocals, although it’s the breathless interplay of the whole band that really impresses. Wright’s organ and Waters’s truculent bass keep the ship docked in orbit, while Nick Mason doles out flurries of drum fills and Barrett heads into the cosmos with echo-delay guitar and an exploratory sense of awe. Astronomy Domine remained part of Floyd’s live shows even after Barrett’s departure, despite them baulking at the suggestion that it was a prime example of ‘space rock’.
WMGK Ranking (17 out of 40 songs): Written by Syd Barrett, it sees him sharing vocals with Richard Wright. The haunted jam saw Barrett looking to the stars, and figuring that other planets would be just as scary as this one: “Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania, Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten.”
Billboard Ranking (26 out of 50 songs): Appropriate that the first song to ever appear on a Pink Floyd LP should begin with the sound of their manager reading the names of the planets over a megaphone, and unfold with zooming guitars, Morse code synths, pounding drums and disembodied vocals. The band would find many new and innovative ways to ready their brew for mass consumption — and it's been rightly pointed out that the band never really sang about space that much after this — but all the ingredients for their mega-success were still pretty much right there from the beginning.
Up next, another Wall track (sorry @PIK95) . . . based on something that actually happened in real life.
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