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FBG'S TOP 100 PINK FLOYD SONGS - #01 - Comfortably Numb from The Wall (1979) (4 Viewers)
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Dwayne Hoover
Footballguy
I preferred it as one song as well, it was my #1. Then it became my #1 and #2 because it was impossible for me to separate it like that.
I think I expected it to show up around here but similar to the LZ countdown, my #1 was kind of far down in the rankings. IIRC for LZ, In My Time of Dying didn't even crack the top 25 so we did better here (and this is technically my #2), still a little disappointing. This song hits me on a lot of levels, its haunting, its melodic, it gets bright in spots as well, just all around epic in my opinion.
FatMax
Member
I won't be able to really dive into it until I get home this evening, but I'll absolutely listen and comment.
FatMax
Member
I'm also in the one song camp. I had the single song at #4, so that became my #4 and #5. I can't separate them. This is another one of those PF songs that could be my favorite, depending on the day you asked me, but never out of my top five. If someone asked me to name one song that best describes Pink Floyd's music, Shine would be the song. It's just beautiful.
FatMax
Member
Unfortunately, I was still in my years-long FFA hiatus then this went down, but I would have help you out here with the ranking. It's also my favorite LZ tune. Bonham kills it.
PIK95
Footballguy
I voted them One and Two as everyone should have.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I suggest you leave the room while we talk about your mother behind your back.
PIK95
Footballguy
And me expecting that it got zero votes and wasn't ranked.
DocHolliday
Footballguy
I had Brick part 2 at number 8 and I almost ranked it a few spots higher. It isn’t the most Pnk Floyd sounding of songs and it’s certainly a hit single. Some people think that’s a bad thing? A great song is a great song and this is a great song. As mentioned repeatedly, the guitar solo is outstanding but just tying the different pieces of this song so well together into the song is what makes it and PF special.
zamboni
Footballguy
Ooh, ah, is it just a waste of time?
PIK95
Footballguy
I'm not mad. Some people like blonde girls, some like brunettes, some even like red heads. I actually prefer hot ones while these Wall fans obviously go for the uggos. I shouldn't be surprised. People actually still pay to see Phish so yeah.
ericttspikes
Footballguy
This was the first Pink Floyd tune I heard. In 1979 I was a 5th grader and a kid brought in The Wall to music show and tell. "We don't need no education, We don't need no thought control" blaring in music class was about the greatest thing ever to 10 year old me. I was hooked.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
This so reminds me of something very similar. I took a music appreciation class in college to check off an arts requirement. The guy that was the teacher was a British concert pianist with a classical education and outstanding morals and virtue. He did the same thing. He told the students to each bring in a record to illustrate their musical interests. He said it was only fair, as he would be playing things that he liked the rest of the semester. He randomly selected 1984 by Van Halen and said, "Being a teacher, something called Hot For Teacher sounds intriguing. It should be quite invigorating!"
He announced: "Without further ado, here's a spiffy little number from Van Allen called Hot For Teacher. I do hope it's smashing!" He put the needle down on Side Two and let 'er rip. At maximum volume. I like loud as much as the next jamoke, but this was way too loud. The whole room was shaking. He swore he knew nothing about the band and started tapping his feet to the music. Then he started giving a critical review of the song, screaming over the music. The drumming was exquisite. He started snapping his fingers. He lamented it needed keyboards. Then he went off about the chord progressions and music theory stuff.
By the end he declared it "a riveting piece of modern music" and asked if this band was popular with our generation. I initially thought he was putting us on, but he had to have been a great actor to play out the whole thing totally deadpanned. I about died when he said it was "a swinging song with some exquisite grace notes." Who talked like that?
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DocHolliday
Footballguy
Shine part 2 didn’t make my top 25 but it is easily top 35 for me due to Dave’s guitar work. It is outstanding and is worth listening to over and over. Easy to understand why this made many of the top 25 lists.
DocHolliday
Footballguy
I think you’re mad.
FatMax
Member
The was amazing, BTW. I cannot believe I'd never seen that before now. Just when I thought I couldn't crush on Gilmour any harder, BOOM.
zamboni
Footballguy
Yup - that was also Roger's infamous spitting concert that was supposedly a big inspiration for The Wall (perhaps one of PIK's least favorite concerts then).
ETA: 32:14 mark
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ericttspikes
Footballguy
It really is incredible. Peak Floyd there.
jabarony
Footballguy
That's was great. I was digging it just sitting in my car. I imagine a quite a few Candians, with the light show, crowd energy, and full of Molson were getting OFF to that jam near the end.
zamboni
Footballguy
That was a heck of a few months for Montreal in 1977. In April, Andre Dawson started his Expos career on his way to NL Rookie of the Year. In May, the Canadiens completed a record 60 win/132 point season and won their second of four straight Stanley Cups. And two months later, concertgoers were able to get spit on by Roger Waters and hear an epic Gilmour performance.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
Yeah, 1977 was quite a fertile crop musically speaking for our friends in the north country. Besides PF, all of the following graced the stages of Montreal that year: Kinks, Styx, Frank Zappa, Rod Stewart, Ramones, ELP, Peter Frampton, J Geils, Cheap Trick, KISS, Supertramp, Hall & Oates, Boston, ELO, Jimmy Buffett, Eagles, Jethro Tull, Peter Gabriel, Blondie, Santana, Genesis, Queen, Thin Lizzy, and Beach Boys.
zamboni
Footballguy
No Rush, Triumph or April Wine - interesting. Guess they were focused southbound.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
April Wine played there that year. Just left them off the list. No to the other two.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I would have THDOOL/ABITW2 in my top 25. On its own, it just missed. It is the first Floyd song I remember hearing -- at age 8, how can you not forget kids singing "we don't need no education"? What sticks with me these days is Gilmour's guitar solo, one of his most lyrical and memorable.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
My rank: 6
The mellower and more experimental of the two halves of SOYCD, parts VI-IX are the perfect soundtrack for Netflix and chilling. Oddly, I used to hear this half more often than the first half on the Philly FM stations -- maybe it's shorter, maybe it fit more with the nighttime vibe, I dunno. The vocal passage here seems sadder than the one from the first -- there's real fatigue and wistfulness in Waters' voice when he sings "nobody knows where you are, how near or how far".
But it's Part VIII that puts this song as high on my list as it is. It is one of my favorite Floyd instrumental passages along with the "funky" part of Echoes, the first guitar solo on Dogs and the final guitar solo on Comfortably Numb. It's freaky and funky and impossible to get out of your head.
Clearly Vulture guy doesn't like anything more than three chords. Which makes me wonder why he's listening to Pink Floyd records.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
No one mentioned the weirdness with the lyrics? Waters sings (perhaps deliberately) "nobody knows where we are" instead of "nobody knows where you are" and then starts laughing shortly thereafter. And screws up (perhaps deliberately) other words as well.
The guitar fireworks happen in Part VIII, naturally. Gilmour and White are totally in another world -- the rest of the band seems not to know what to do. It's rare to hear this kind of fiery improvisation from a band that'll never be mistaken for the Allman Brothers or Jimi Hendrix.
Also, the cartoon pig balloon in the show poster looks like it snorted a boatload of cocaine.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
I stopped reading the Vulture parts of the thread a long time ago. LOL
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I can't help myself. It's a sickness.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
#15 - Mother from The Wall (1979)
Appeared On: 26 ballots (out of 33 . . . 78.8%)
Total Points: 311 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 37.7%)
Top Rankers: @jabarony @Ghost Rider @Joe Schmo @Rand al Thor @Dr. Octopus
Highest Rankings: 3, 4, 4
Band Demo #1, Band Demo #2, Rehearsal, Live Version, Film Version, RW - 1987, Sinead O'Connor - Berlin, RW - 2000, RW W/Lucius, Lockdown Sessions
Live Performances: PF: 31, RW: 565
Covers: Collective Soul, Pearl Jam, Natalie Maines, Quetzal, Amanda Palmer, Legion TV Show, Brit Floyd, John Wetton, Guns N' Roses, My Morning Jacket,
This track is about the character Pink’s relationship with his mother: him looking to her for guidance and advice, her responding by helping him to build the metaphorical wall that will serve to both protect and isolate him from the world.
Roger: "If you can level one accusation at mothers it is that they tend to protect their children too much. Too much and for too long. That's all. This isn't a portrait of my mother, although one or two of the things in there apply to her as well as to lots of other people's mothers. Funnily enough, lots of people recognize that and in fact, a woman that I know the other day who'd heard the album, called me up and said she'd liked it. And she said that listening to that track made her feel very guilty and she's got herself three kids, and I wouldn't have said she was particularly over-protective towards her children. I was interested, you know, she's a woman my age, and I was interested that it had got through to her. I was glad it had. The song has some connection with my mother, for sure, though the mother that Gerald Scarfe visualizes in his drawings couldn't be further from mine. She's nothing like that."
"My mother was suffocating in her own way. She always had to be right about everything. I'm not blaming her. That's who she was. I grew up with a single parent who could never hear anything I said, because nothing I said could possibly be as important as what she believed. My mother was, to some extent, a wall herself that I was banging my head against. She lived her life in the service of others. She was a school teacher. But it wasn't until I was 45, 50 years old that I realized how impossible it was for her to listen to me. She's not that recognizable. The song is more general, the idea that we can be controlled by our parents' views on things like sex. The single mother of boys, particularly, can make sex harder than it needs to be. Most of the songs I've written have always followed the lyrics. I've often tailored the music to fit the words, especially something like Mother."
On the album, co-producer Bob Ezrin played piano and organ for the track, not Richard Wright. Drummer Nick Mason didn't play on the track either. According to Roger, this was because Mason had trouble with the 5/4 time signatures and other changes, as "his brain doesn't work that way." Jeff Porcaro of Toto took his place. The song was totally re-recorded for the film. The acoustic strumming which began the album track is here replaced with a subtle but effective heartbeat and quiet bells. Gentle regimental drumming comes in at the end of the first verse, and is followed by orchestral instrumentation and very quiet acoustic guitar. A shorter version of Dave's original electric guitar comes in at the end of the third verse. The result is a quite different take on the original.
Vulture Ranking (out of 165 songs): 26
UCR Ranking (out of 167 songs): 27
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): 19
WMGK Ranking (out of 40 songs): 9
Ranker Ranking (out of 132 songs): 16
Billboard Ranking (out of 50 songs): 36
Vulture Ranking (26 out of 165 songs): Nick Mason supposedly couldn’t play the drums on this, and one of the lunks from Toto was brought in. Mother has its partisans; my friends Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, say that it’s the best track on The Wall. You might agree; the case for it is that Pink’s mother is a key part of the wall he’s building around himself, and the song as a whole is fairly not unsubtle. The case against it is that when it comes to Roger Waters, “fairly not unsubtle” is a highly relative benchmark. As I’ve said before I respect Waters’s attempts to make coherent works about things, a stark contrast to what a lot of bands were doing in the 1970s, outside of punk. I don’t want to be glib. But I don’t know if Waters’s own issues — brought up in the relatively protected realm of Cambridge, a rock star at 25 — warrant all this extremis. Waters is a lifelong committed socialist and understands that a lot of people in Britain had it a lot worse than he did. But in the end I don’t know if his particular artistry — un-self-conscious and unironic (as opposed to sarcastic) as it is — is up to the task of doing a rock opera about a rock star. You can learn a lot more about the rock-star condition — and have a lot more fun — with The Rocky Horror Picture Show, not to mention Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
UCR Ranking (27 out of 167 songs): Mother features another of David Gilmour’s standout solos, but so much more. It’s one of the double-album’s most nuanced tracks, building gently to rise and fall with Waters’ characterization of an overprotective mother, who harms by helping. As such, the recording – and Gilmour’s cotton-soft vocal delivery of the mother’s lines – depicts the inflicted damage without a hint of outrage. Pink’s yielding of adult responsibilities is suggested by shifts in meter. The ground shifts beneath him as his emotional wall rises in front.
Louder Ranking (19 out of 50 songs): Trading vocals, Waters and Gilmour slipped readily into character as smothered child and indulgent parent – while Mason struggled with the shifting time signatures and vacated the drumstool for Toto’s Jeff Porcaro (“Nick, to his credit, had no great pretense about it,” said Waters. “He just said, ‘I can’t play that’”). Superficially pleasant, with a swooping Gilmour solo, Mother had teeth, with Waters’ lyric examining the ruinous influence passed from one generation to the next (“Mama’s gonna put all of her fears into you”). In concert, the Gerald Scarfe-designed puppet said it all: a monstrous 35-foot matriarch that made the audiences feel as suffocated as Pink.
WMGK Ranking (9 out of 40 songs): Mother is an essential part of the narrative of The Wall, but like many of the songs on the album, it stands on its own. It tells Pink’s story about being overprotected by his single mother who lost her husband in the war (which mirrors Waters’ own story). Gilmour sings the part of the mother, while Waters sings Pink.
Billboard Ranking (36 out of 50 songs): A moderately overwrought power ballad from side one of The Wall that became a somewhat unlikely classic rock staple and remains one of the least appropriate songs to sneak its way onto Mother’s Day playlists every year. The song leans in a little too far into its more sarcastic moments (“Mama’s gonna wait up until you get in/ Mama will always find out where you’ve been”) but is much more affecting in Pink’s “Mother will she break my heart?” (and in the film, “Mother, am I really dying?”) questioning, the scared-little-boy side of Waters’ persona still obviously a source of real rawness for the singer.
I've always had a deep respect for our next song (although I am starting to hit a wall on the write ups . . . hoping for a second wind soon).
Appeared On: 26 ballots (out of 33 . . . 78.8%)
Total Points: 311 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 37.7%)
Top Rankers: @jabarony @Ghost Rider @Joe Schmo @Rand al Thor @Dr. Octopus
Highest Rankings: 3, 4, 4
Band Demo #1, Band Demo #2, Rehearsal, Live Version, Film Version, RW - 1987, Sinead O'Connor - Berlin, RW - 2000, RW W/Lucius, Lockdown Sessions
Live Performances: PF: 31, RW: 565
Covers: Collective Soul, Pearl Jam, Natalie Maines, Quetzal, Amanda Palmer, Legion TV Show, Brit Floyd, John Wetton, Guns N' Roses, My Morning Jacket,
This track is about the character Pink’s relationship with his mother: him looking to her for guidance and advice, her responding by helping him to build the metaphorical wall that will serve to both protect and isolate him from the world.
Roger: "If you can level one accusation at mothers it is that they tend to protect their children too much. Too much and for too long. That's all. This isn't a portrait of my mother, although one or two of the things in there apply to her as well as to lots of other people's mothers. Funnily enough, lots of people recognize that and in fact, a woman that I know the other day who'd heard the album, called me up and said she'd liked it. And she said that listening to that track made her feel very guilty and she's got herself three kids, and I wouldn't have said she was particularly over-protective towards her children. I was interested, you know, she's a woman my age, and I was interested that it had got through to her. I was glad it had. The song has some connection with my mother, for sure, though the mother that Gerald Scarfe visualizes in his drawings couldn't be further from mine. She's nothing like that."
"My mother was suffocating in her own way. She always had to be right about everything. I'm not blaming her. That's who she was. I grew up with a single parent who could never hear anything I said, because nothing I said could possibly be as important as what she believed. My mother was, to some extent, a wall herself that I was banging my head against. She lived her life in the service of others. She was a school teacher. But it wasn't until I was 45, 50 years old that I realized how impossible it was for her to listen to me. She's not that recognizable. The song is more general, the idea that we can be controlled by our parents' views on things like sex. The single mother of boys, particularly, can make sex harder than it needs to be. Most of the songs I've written have always followed the lyrics. I've often tailored the music to fit the words, especially something like Mother."
On the album, co-producer Bob Ezrin played piano and organ for the track, not Richard Wright. Drummer Nick Mason didn't play on the track either. According to Roger, this was because Mason had trouble with the 5/4 time signatures and other changes, as "his brain doesn't work that way." Jeff Porcaro of Toto took his place. The song was totally re-recorded for the film. The acoustic strumming which began the album track is here replaced with a subtle but effective heartbeat and quiet bells. Gentle regimental drumming comes in at the end of the first verse, and is followed by orchestral instrumentation and very quiet acoustic guitar. A shorter version of Dave's original electric guitar comes in at the end of the third verse. The result is a quite different take on the original.
Vulture Ranking (out of 165 songs): 26
UCR Ranking (out of 167 songs): 27
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): 19
WMGK Ranking (out of 40 songs): 9
Ranker Ranking (out of 132 songs): 16
Billboard Ranking (out of 50 songs): 36
Vulture Ranking (26 out of 165 songs): Nick Mason supposedly couldn’t play the drums on this, and one of the lunks from Toto was brought in. Mother has its partisans; my friends Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, say that it’s the best track on The Wall. You might agree; the case for it is that Pink’s mother is a key part of the wall he’s building around himself, and the song as a whole is fairly not unsubtle. The case against it is that when it comes to Roger Waters, “fairly not unsubtle” is a highly relative benchmark. As I’ve said before I respect Waters’s attempts to make coherent works about things, a stark contrast to what a lot of bands were doing in the 1970s, outside of punk. I don’t want to be glib. But I don’t know if Waters’s own issues — brought up in the relatively protected realm of Cambridge, a rock star at 25 — warrant all this extremis. Waters is a lifelong committed socialist and understands that a lot of people in Britain had it a lot worse than he did. But in the end I don’t know if his particular artistry — un-self-conscious and unironic (as opposed to sarcastic) as it is — is up to the task of doing a rock opera about a rock star. You can learn a lot more about the rock-star condition — and have a lot more fun — with The Rocky Horror Picture Show, not to mention Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
UCR Ranking (27 out of 167 songs): Mother features another of David Gilmour’s standout solos, but so much more. It’s one of the double-album’s most nuanced tracks, building gently to rise and fall with Waters’ characterization of an overprotective mother, who harms by helping. As such, the recording – and Gilmour’s cotton-soft vocal delivery of the mother’s lines – depicts the inflicted damage without a hint of outrage. Pink’s yielding of adult responsibilities is suggested by shifts in meter. The ground shifts beneath him as his emotional wall rises in front.
Louder Ranking (19 out of 50 songs): Trading vocals, Waters and Gilmour slipped readily into character as smothered child and indulgent parent – while Mason struggled with the shifting time signatures and vacated the drumstool for Toto’s Jeff Porcaro (“Nick, to his credit, had no great pretense about it,” said Waters. “He just said, ‘I can’t play that’”). Superficially pleasant, with a swooping Gilmour solo, Mother had teeth, with Waters’ lyric examining the ruinous influence passed from one generation to the next (“Mama’s gonna put all of her fears into you”). In concert, the Gerald Scarfe-designed puppet said it all: a monstrous 35-foot matriarch that made the audiences feel as suffocated as Pink.
WMGK Ranking (9 out of 40 songs): Mother is an essential part of the narrative of The Wall, but like many of the songs on the album, it stands on its own. It tells Pink’s story about being overprotected by his single mother who lost her husband in the war (which mirrors Waters’ own story). Gilmour sings the part of the mother, while Waters sings Pink.
Billboard Ranking (36 out of 50 songs): A moderately overwrought power ballad from side one of The Wall that became a somewhat unlikely classic rock staple and remains one of the least appropriate songs to sneak its way onto Mother’s Day playlists every year. The song leans in a little too far into its more sarcastic moments (“Mama’s gonna wait up until you get in/ Mama will always find out where you’ve been”) but is much more affecting in Pink’s “Mother will she break my heart?” (and in the film, “Mother, am I really dying?”) questioning, the scared-little-boy side of Waters’ persona still obviously a source of real rawness for the singer.
I've always had a deep respect for our next song (although I am starting to hit a wall on the write ups . . . hoping for a second wind soon).
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Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Way too low! I ranked this 4th, and there are days where this is my number 1. I actually prefer the version from the film, which feels more like a lullaby, and I prefer the last line before the first chorus of, "Mother, am I really dying?" The version Waters did at the Berlin show in 1990 with Sinead O'Connor and The Band is awesome as well (even if the final version used was from rehearsals due to a mess-up during the live show). Waters absolutely nailed this song.
PIK95
Footballguy
Speaking of sickness...
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
It was weighted down by PIK awarding it negative infinity points.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I get that not everyone likes every song, and not every person will have a connection to each song. I also prefer the film version. In my case, my situation was such that this song completely registers and resonates with me. My mother was built from the same mold and cut from the same cloth as the woman depicted in the song. She was also an overbearing single mother who thrived on nitpicking and pointing out your faults. I was the youngest child, so I got the over-protection routine in spades. She also started out as a teacher but gave that up to get married and start a family. She did the best she could to keep everyone happy but things didn't work out with her marriage.
By then she was unhappy and depressed, couldn't go back to teaching, and was generally a loner. The word crotchety would apply here. As the youngest child, I stayed living with her and supported her for years (and way too long). I looked at it as doing the right thing and sacrificing a few extra years to help support her. Then one day she went off the deep end and threw me out of the house ranting that I needed to support myself and grow up and stand on my own two feet (which was odd given that I paid rent, paid for our food, paid all my own expenses, and drove her around as she had no vehicle of her own).
She ended up starting to lose it mentally, and we eventually had to send her kicking and screaming to a nursing home. She died the first night there. I'm still not sure if that was by natural causes, whether she did something to herself, or if there was wrongdoing and malfeasance on the part of the facility. She was cremated very quickly, so there wasn't an investigation or exploration as to what happened. Anyway, very few songs make me emotional and well up, and this one tops the list. It didn't make my Top 10, mostly because it is very difficult for me to listen to without getting upset. The song came out in the peak season of all this . . . I was living alone with my mother and starting high school. I was the poster boy for this song.
By then she was unhappy and depressed, couldn't go back to teaching, and was generally a loner. The word crotchety would apply here. As the youngest child, I stayed living with her and supported her for years (and way too long). I looked at it as doing the right thing and sacrificing a few extra years to help support her. Then one day she went off the deep end and threw me out of the house ranting that I needed to support myself and grow up and stand on my own two feet (which was odd given that I paid rent, paid for our food, paid all my own expenses, and drove her around as she had no vehicle of her own).
She ended up starting to lose it mentally, and we eventually had to send her kicking and screaming to a nursing home. She died the first night there. I'm still not sure if that was by natural causes, whether she did something to herself, or if there was wrongdoing and malfeasance on the part of the facility. She was cremated very quickly, so there wasn't an investigation or exploration as to what happened. Anyway, very few songs make me emotional and well up, and this one tops the list. It didn't make my Top 10, mostly because it is very difficult for me to listen to without getting upset. The song came out in the peak season of all this . . . I was living alone with my mother and starting high school. I was the poster boy for this song.
PIK95
Footballguy
My single Mother played great music, was super positive, and very supportive all around. We were pretty poor but it didn't matter. Maybe that's one reason I can't relate to this tune.
When I was in college in the 90's, I had to listen to so many dorm dudes having all these weird conspiracy theories about the Wall tunes. THAT was annoying and got old quick.
Luckily they eventually moved on to OJ, and Biggie and Pac.
When I was in college in the 90's, I had to listen to so many dorm dudes having all these weird conspiracy theories about the Wall tunes. THAT was annoying and got old quick.
Luckily they eventually moved on to OJ, and Biggie and Pac.
zamboni
Footballguy
If the glove fits...
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Sounds like they needed to PUT.THE.BONG.DOWN.
Dwayne Hoover
Footballguy
Thanks for sharing your story.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Mother is one I definitely have to be in the mood for, but I’d say it’s appropriately ranked
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
We all understand how some shtick can get old quick.
PIK95
Footballguy
/thread
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I wasn't expecting this to be so polarizing. I don't hate it, but I prefer most of the other songs on Disc 1 of The Wall to it. As with many things Floyd, the best part is the guitar solo.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I don't think the song is all that polarizing. There were 26 people (out of 33) that voted for it. Only 6 other songs had more people vote for it. It just didn't get the volume of Top 10 votes as those other songs did. It's average ranking for those that voted for it was 14th (which is where I ranked it).
zamboni
Footballguy
Topical story from our friends at Ultimate Classic Rock, whether you agree or not
Worst songs on each PF album
Worst songs on each PF album
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I love songs where Roger and David trade vocals as different “characters” - their voices signifying different perspectives.
Grace Under Pressure
Footballguy
I ranked it 7. It's tops for me because of the combination of vocals, the guitar work, the importance to the storyline of the Wall, everything. This is a defining Pink Floyd song IMO.
Dwayne Hoover
Footballguy
To be honest, I didn't want to say it after Anarchy posted about how connected he was to the song but I have never connected with it myself.
I am probably closer to @PIK95 viewpoint about this particular song.
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