FBG'S TOP 100 PINK FLOYD SONGS - #01 - Comfortably Numb from The Wall (1979) (2 Viewers)

[zamboni]

While we're waiting for #5, here's a time waster to test how well you know all the lyrics to DSOTM:

Dark Side of the Moon Album Lyrics

Can you type the lyrics of Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' when typing almost* any word reveals the whole line?

www.sporcle.com

107/135. I know I would have got a lot better, but I had a visitor pop in my office and steal half my clock.

The time is gone, the quiz is over...

ETA: use the pause button next time on the quiz

 

[FatMax]

While we're waiting for #5, here's a time waster to test how well you know all the lyrics to DSOTM:

Dark Side of the Moon Album Lyrics

Can you type the lyrics of Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' when typing almost* any word reveals the whole line?

www.sporcle.com

107/135. I know I would have got a lot better, but I had a visitor pop in my office and steal half my clock.

The time is gone, the quiz is over...

ETA: use the pause button next time on the quiz

Didn't see a pause button. Crap.

 

[Manster]

I'm a big fan of Meddle. I love that One of These Days got such a high ranking! Fearless should be a lot higher on the list, and higher than One of these Days, imo.

 

[DocHolliday]

It's got heroic guitar work,

We’ve gone on ad nauseum about Dave, but to me Dogs is his very best work. Even better than Echoes and three more behemoths still to come - again, just my opinion.

Dave’s guitar work in Dogs is what carries the song for me. I don’t know if it is his best work but it is top notch. I liove the lyrics but the music outside of the guitar playing doesn’t move me as much as many other PF songs. I don’t listen to this album as much as their other work which may not be fair to Animals either.

 

[Anarchy99]

#05 - Brain Damage / Eclipse from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

Appeared On: 27 ballots (out of 33 . . . 81.8%)
Total Points: 456 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 55.3%)
Top Rankers: @jabarony @ericttspikes @Galileo @Dan Lambskin @Rand al Thor @Ghoti
Highest Rankings: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5

Early Mix, Pompeii Footage, Portsmouth - 1972, Boblingen - 1972, Boston - 1973, London - 1974, San Diego - 1975, Pulse, RW Acoustic

Live Performances: PF: 171, DG's PF 18, RW: 531

Covers:
Mike Masse, Jerry Cantrell, Dream Theater, Cosmic Charlie, Doobie Decibel System, Neil Francis
Brain Damage - Bim Skala Bim, Austin Lounge Lizards, Eddie Vedder, Mary Fahl, Henry Rollins, Robbie Krieger
Eclipse - Hans Zimmer, Billy Sherwood, Diane Coffee

The last of the demi-god songs (the next song got 102 more points . . . it took us 73 songs to get to a song with 102 points). Brain Damage was originally called The Dark Side Of The Moon and was a song that RW had been working on since the recording sessions for Meddle in 1971. A year later, by the time the band had started performing the song in live shows, the title was switched to Lunatic. At that point, the plan was to call the new album Eclipse: A Piece For Assorted Lunatics. The uncredited manic laughter is that of PF's then-road manager, Peter Watts. The "There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark." line is the voice of Gerry O'Driscoll, who was the doorman at Abbey Road Studios.

When the band reconvened after the American leg of the Meddle tour, RW brought with him a prototype version of Brain Damage. He had been playing the song during the recording of the Meddle album in 1971. Eventually the title would be used for the album itself. The song seemed to be inspired by their former band member Syd Barrett, who had endured a mental breakdown.

RW has stated the insanity-themed lyrics are, indeed, based on former Floyd frontman Syd Barrett's mental instability, with the line "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" indicating that Waters felt that he related to Barrett in terms of mental idiosyncrasies. The line "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes..." is referential to Syd Barrett's behavior towards the end of his tenure with the band; due to his mental problems, there were a few occasions where Barrett would actually play a different song than the rest of the band in the middle of a performance. It features a rather famous opening line, "The lunatic is on the grass..." The lyrics "You raise the blade, you make the change. You rearrange me 'til I'm sane." towards the end of the song refer to a frontal lobotomy.

The song’s first line is “The lunatic is on the grass,” a general reference to “keep off the grass” signs and a specific memory of a beautiful lawn in Waters’ hometown of Cambridge (the square in between the River Cam and King’s College Chapel) on which he desperately wanted to run around. The songwriter would later remark that the real lunatics are the ones trying to prevent people from lazing on a nice patch of grass.

After road-testing most of the material from DSOTM, RW realized the suite of songs was missing something. It needed a song that tied all of the themes together. “I suggested it all needed an ending. I wrote Eclipse and brought it into a gig in Colston Hall in Bristol (the 8th stop of the tour on which the Dark Side songs were being played), on a piece of lined paper with the lyrics written out.” But it wasn’t titled “Eclipse” at the time; it was called “End.” That’s because Floyd were considering calling the entire album Eclipse, scared off of the original Dark Side of the Moon moniker because another British band, Medicine Head, was releasing an LP with that title. That album proved unsuccessful, Pink Floyd reverted to their plan and “Eclipse” became the name of the record’s final track. Lyrically, the conclusion does what Waters set out to achieve, forging bonds between many of the other songs on Dark Side.

RW on the meaning of the lyrics and the entire song: "I don't see it as a riddle. The album uses the sun and the moon as symbols; the light and the dark; the good and the bad; the life force as opposed to the death force. I think it's a very simple statement saying that all the good things life can offer are there for us to grasp, but that the influence of some dark force in our natures prevents us from seizing them. The song addresses the listener and says that if you, the listener, are affected by that force, and if that force is a worry to you, well I feel exactly the same too. The line 'I'll see you on the dark side of the moon' is me speaking to the listener, saying, 'I know you have these bad feelings and impulses because I do too, and one of the ways I can make direct contact with you is to share with you the fact that I feel bad sometimes.

DG on Brain Damage sounding like the Beatles: "No one ever thought about it. That's just the way one did things, probably because the Beatles had started it. If you listen to loads of records from that period, there's the style, the current fashion, for the type of sounds that you could do given the limited equipment that was available. Those 'Dear Prudence' guitar sounds [on Brain Damage] were done by knowing how to do it with an oscillator on one tape machine, wobbling it. There was also putting two microphones out of phase next to each other to get those thin, crackly, telephony-sounding backing vocals. I remember working hard on making it build and adding harmonies that join in as you go through the song. Because there's nothing to it - there's no chorus, there's no middle eight, there's just a straight list. So, every four lines we did something different."

"Chris Thomas came in for the mixes, and his role was essentially to stop the arguments between me and Roger about how it should be mixed. I wanted Dark Side to be big and swampy and wet, with reverbs and things like that. And Roger was very keen on it being a very dry album. I think he was influenced a lot by John Lennon's first solo album (Plastic Ono Band), which was very dry. We argued so much that it was suggested we get a third opinion. We were going to leave Chris to mix it on his own, with Alan Parsons engineering. And on the first day, I found out that Roger snuck in there. So the second day, I snuck in there. And from then on, we both sat right at Chris's shoulder, interfering. But luckily, Chris was more sympathetic to my point of view than he was to Roger's."

At one point, it was estimated that 1 in every 14 people in the U.S. under the age of 50 owned or previously owned a copy of DSOTM.

 

[Anarchy99]

Vulture Ranking (out of 165 songs): 10 + 9
UCR Ranking (out of 167 songs): 6 + 21
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): 16 + 23
WMGK Ranking (out of 40 songs): 7
Ranker Ranking (out of 132 songs): 9 + 14
Billboard Ranking (out of 50 songs): 29

Vulture Ranking (10 + 9 out of 165 songs): Impressive that, nearly 45 years on, the album’s foundation and themes have only strengthened, and deepened. John Rockwell — back then the New York Times’ senior writer on both pop and classical - heard something in the group that even Rolling Stone didn’t get. “To dismiss them simply as technically limited is philistine.” (A backward compliment, true.) You don’t have to like DSOTM, but so many years on it’s hard to deny the work’s thematic substance and seductive aural pleasures.

UCR Ranking (6 + 21out of 167 songs): Brain Damage is one of the most powerful pieces in the Pink Floyd canon, not only because of those great, dam-breaking crashes of organ and backing vocals on the chorus or the “whistle through the graveyard” guitars, but because of the empathy that pervades the lyrics. Though not quite as brilliant and thrilling as its brother, Eclipse is a phenomenal finale, referencing nearly all of this LP’s components. In just over a minute, Waters reels off a litany of all-encompassing lines (all, everyone, everything …) that summarize the light and dark elements of life as a human being. Washes of Wright’s organ and echoing background vocals enhance the big finish. PF sticks the landing, as the song fades back into a quiet heartbeat.

Louder Ranking (16 + 23 out of 50 songs): DG supposedly had to convince a reluctant RW to take the lead vocal on Brain Damage, his sensitive meditation on mental collapse that came to signify the undoing of Syd Barrett. RW turned out to be the perfect fit, his vulnerable tone gliding over a serene melody and soft harmonies from a quartet that includes Lesley Duncan and Doris Troy.

WMGK Ranking (7 out of 40 songs): The closing piece to DSOTM, it almost acted as a preview to Wish You Were Here: Waters was thinking about Syd Barrett’s mental instability on lines like “...and if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes.”

Billboard Ranking (29 out of 50 songs): Unfolding with a guitar phrase adapted from The Beatles’ Dear Prudence, the Brain Damage / Eclipse conclusion to DSOTM seems to see PF making peace with their former leader, winking at Syd’s madness and acknowledging they’ll all likely be joining him there soon enough. But of course, the band lets a recording of their damn doorman undercut the album’s whole scheme at the end of Eclipse: “There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.”

 

[zamboni]

I love that Mike Masse acoustic cover - he’s awesome. Didn’t even know he covered BD/Eclipse. I caught one of his shows about 7 or 8 years ago and wasn’t part of his rotation then.

 

[Anarchy99]

Definitely limping toward the finish line . . . I am sure I had more tidbits, stories, and some interesting fodder to add along the way that I forgot about.

 

[zamboni]

I admittedly was one of the six voters that didn’t have BD/E in my top 25.

Nothing against it, as I love the song pair, but I couldn’t separate from Any Colour You Like. And if I didn’t love Us and Them so much individually, my only DSOTM vote would have been Time.

 

[FatMax]

My #8.

It's the perfect ending to one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. I remember in high school, I would always flub singing along with Eclipse ... getting one of the "all that you" lines out of place. I forced myself to listen until I could get it right without the song playing.

Priorities, man. Priorities.

 

[Anarchy99]

My #8.

It's the perfect ending to one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. I remember in high school, I would always flub singing along with Eclipse ... getting one of the "all that you" lines out of place. I forced myself to listen until I could get it right without the song playing.

Priorities, man. Priorities.

Yet you claim you had groupies. I am starting not to believe you.

 

[FatMax]

My #8.

It's the perfect ending to one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. I remember in high school, I would always flub singing along with Eclipse ... getting one of the "all that you" lines out of place. I forced myself to listen until I could get it right without the song playing.

Priorities, man. Priorities.

Yet you claim you had groupies. I am starting not to believe you.

No, no, not back then. It took years of cultivating and collecting to gain them all.

 

[Anarchy99]

My #8.

It's the perfect ending to one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. I remember in high school, I would always flub singing along with Eclipse ... getting one of the "all that you" lines out of place. I forced myself to listen until I could get it right without the song playing.

Priorities, man. Priorities.

Yet you claim you had groupies. I am starting not to believe you.

No, no, not back then. It took years of cultivating and collecting to gain them all.

That would explain all the shackles in your basement.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Dogs is amazing. I ranked it 7th and it could have snuck up another spot or two on the right day. I thought from the very beginning that this was easily the best of the three long songs from Animals, and I am glad to see that the consensus here agreed.

I am still stunned that anyone is reading those Vulture comments. As if we needed more proof that critics are generally miserable people who get off on ripping art made by actual artists when they have zero artistic talent themselves.

Ummm....that's exactly what critics do?

I don't care about the "zero artistic talent themselves" part, but good critics make honest assessments of the works they review, and that's not what this guy does. He's fixated on flawed preconceived ideas at best and a troll at worst.

Unfortunately, the fact that we're even talking about him is exactly why he writes what he does.

He deserves to be publicly shamed and I'm not going to apologize for it.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

#05 - Brain Damage / Eclipse from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

This is brilliant for all the reasons already stated. The only reason it's not on my list is that I didn't want to overload it with DSOTM and I'm not quite as moved emotionally by this as I am by the DSOTM songs that did make my list. (Also I think Brain Damage probably would have been improved with a Gilmour vocal -- Eclipse is best suited for Waters, though.) Pensive and soulful, this pair is an excellent capper to the sonic and philosophical themes of the entire album.

 

[jabarony]

#05 - Brain Damage / Eclipse from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

Appeared On: 27 ballots (out of 33 . . . 81.8%)
Total Points: 456 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 55.3%)
Top Rankers: @jabarony @ericttspikes @Galileo @Dan Lambskin @Rand al Thor @Ghoti
Highest Rankings: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5

Early Mix, Pompeii Footage, Portsmouth - 1972, Boblingen - 1972, Boston - 1973, London - 1974, San Diego - 1975, Pulse, RW Acoustic

Live Performances: PF: 171, DG's PF 18, RW: 531

Covers:
Mike Masse, Jerry Cantrell, Dream Theater, Cosmic Charlie, Doobie Decibel System, Neil Francis
Brain Damage - Bim Skala Bim, Austin Lounge Lizards, Eddie Vedder, Mary Fahl, Henry Rollins, Robbie Krieger
Eclipse - Hans Zimmer, Billy Sherwood, Diane Coffee

My #1. And it's not even close for me. Fantastic ending to my favorite PF album. My #2-#25 have varied greatly over the years, but this has been steadfast #1 for 30 years. I've left a good number of great songs of my list - Comforatbly Numb for example. While admittedly great, I've heard such songs enough to last a lifetime. That said I really do appreciate the hard work by Anarchy posting alternates, demos, covers, etc. that are breathing new life into these songs. It's very enjoyable.

BD/Eclipse will never fall into that category for me. I'll never hear it enough.

Now will someone please explain to me, which is the noun, and which is the verb???
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

#05 - Brain Damage / Eclipse from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

Appeared On: 27 ballots (out of 33 . . . 81.8%)
Total Points: 456 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 55.3%)
Top Rankers: @jabarony @ericttspikes @Galileo @Dan Lambskin @Rand al Thor @Ghoti
Highest Rankings: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5

Early Mix, Pompeii Footage, Portsmouth - 1972, Boblingen - 1972, Boston - 1973, London - 1974, San Diego - 1975, Pulse, RW Acoustic

Live Performances: PF: 171, DG's PF 18, RW: 531

Covers:
Mike Masse, Jerry Cantrell, Dream Theater, Cosmic Charlie, Doobie Decibel System, Neil Francis
Brain Damage - Bim Skala Bim, Austin Lounge Lizards, Eddie Vedder, Mary Fahl, Henry Rollins, Robbie Krieger
Eclipse - Hans Zimmer, Billy Sherwood, Diane Coffee

My #1. And it's not even close for me. Fantastic ending to my favorite PF album. My #2-#25 have varied greatly over the years, but this has been steadfast #1 for 30 years. I've left a good number of great songs of my list - Comforatbly Numb for example. While admittedly great, I've heard such songs enough to last a lifetime. That said I really do appreciate the hard work by Anarchy posting alternates, demos, covers, etc. that are breathing new life into these songs. It's very enjoyable.

BD/Eclipse will never fall into that category for me. I'll never hear it enough.

Now will someone please explain to me, which is the noun, and which is the verb???
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear.

It works on two levels?

The cloudbursts thunder in your ear. Verb = thunder
The cloud bursts thunder in your ear. Verb = bursts

 

[Desert_Power]

It’s not my favorite song (or the FFA’s) from the album, but it is the signature song on it.

 

[jabarony]

#05 - Brain Damage / Eclipse from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)



Covers:
Austin Lounge Lizards
Eclipse - Hans Zimmer

Quite the difference in these 2 covers.

And I may have to go watch Dune.

 

[Desert_Power]

The lunatic is in my head...

 

[zamboni]

The lunatic is in my head...

 

[Desert_Power]

#05 - Brain Damage / Eclipse from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)



Covers:
Austin Lounge Lizards
Eclipse - Hans Zimmer

Quite the difference in these 2 covers.

And I may have to go watch Dune.

You should definitely watch Dune.

 

[Desert_Power]

#05 - Brain Damage / Eclipse from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

Appeared On: 27 ballots (out of 33 . . . 81.8%)
Total Points: 456 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 55.3%)
Top Rankers: @jabarony @ericttspikes @Galileo @Dan Lambskin @Rand al Thor @Ghoti
Highest Rankings: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5

Early Mix, Pompeii Footage, Portsmouth - 1972, Boblingen - 1972, Boston - 1973, London - 1974, San Diego - 1975, Pulse, RW Acoustic

Live Performances: PF: 171, DG's PF 18, RW: 531

Covers:
Mike Masse, Jerry Cantrell, Dream Theater, Cosmic Charlie, Doobie Decibel System, Neil Francis
Brain Damage - Bim Skala Bim, Austin Lounge Lizards, Eddie Vedder, Mary Fahl, Henry Rollins, Robbie Krieger
Eclipse - Hans Zimmer, Billy Sherwood, Diane Coffee

My #1. And it's not even close for me. Fantastic ending to my favorite PF album. My #2-#25 have varied greatly over the years, but this has been steadfast #1 for 30 years. I've left a good number of great songs of my list - Comforatbly Numb for example. While admittedly great, I've heard such songs enough to last a lifetime. That said I really do appreciate the hard work by Anarchy posting alternates, demos, covers, etc. that are breathing new life into these songs. It's very enjoyable.

BD/Eclipse will never fall into that category for me. I'll never hear it enough.

Now will someone please explain to me, which is the noun, and which is the verb???
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear.

It's a great song. I can't imagine getting tired of it.

 

[Rand al Thor]

My #8.

It's the perfect ending to one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded.

I agree with you that it's the perfect ending to a perfect album, and for that reason, my #4 ranking was maybe not high enough. In my opinion, only Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End from Abbey Road beats it for best ending of a great album. And no, I don't consider Her Majesty as the last song on that album.

 

[Rand al Thor]

I think I've thanked Anarchy several times in this thread, but just wanted to reiterate how much I really appreciate what you've put together here. I've been a member here since the yellow board but have never been that active and I just happened to stumble on this thread right at the deadline and just barely got my top 25 list in without the opportunity to think too much. I was rushed, and as usual at 2 in the morning, was probably a little drunk. After reading every single one of the write ups and listening to some of the songs again, my top 25 would look much different if I were to do it now. For example, I personally love "When the Tigers Broke Free" and put it at 22. Unlike that PIK95 *******, I absolutely love everything about The Wall. However, that album hits me a little differently than some people because (1) my dad died when I was young, (2) the first girl I loved cheated on me and left me, (3) my mom was super over protective because she didn't want me to get hurt anymore, and (4) I suffered from some serious depression throughout my teens and early 20s. So that album spoke to me in ways that other people just wouldn't get. But are those songs objectively "better" than Dogs, which I failed to include in my list? No, that's crazy talk. So if given another chance to think about the "best" PF songs, I'd drop songs like Tigers and a few other "filler" songs from the Wall and be more objective about my choices. Having said that, I still wouldn't include any Syd songs - they're just too damn weird and/or silly for me, and I don't know that any post RW songs are going to make my list either. But there'd be more from Animals and Meddle on my list. At any rate, I wonder how many people's list would look completely different if we submitted our top 25 at the end of the countdown?

 

[Galileo]

At any rate, I wonder how many people's list would look completely different if we submitted our top 25 at the end of the countdown?

I still like what I like. Outside of some minor jostling around (which could happen any day with or without a countdown), my list would not be significantly different.

 

[Anarchy99]

#04 - Time from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

Appeared On: 29 ballots (out of 33 . . . 87.9%)
Total Points: 558 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 67.6%)
Top Rankers: @Ghost Rider Friend of @PIK95 @BassNBrew @zamboni @Dan Lambskin @Desert_Power @Ghoti
Highest Rankings: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5

Initial Acoustic Demo, Early Mix, In Concert Video, Early Live Version, Brighton - 1972, New York - 1973, London- 1974, Los Angeles - 1975, DSOT, Pulse, Gdansk, Pompeii

Live Performances: PF: 147, DG's PF 133, RW: 388, DG: 83

Covers: Killers, Shadow Gallery, Pangaea, Dream Theater, Billy Sherwood, Godsmack, Weezer, Gov't Mule, Kelsey Wood, Dr. Cryptic

The last remaining track from DSOTM. Initially called Time Song, it is the only song on the album on which all 4 members receive a writing credit (the last time that happened). DG lost a bet with manager Steve O'Rourke, after wagering the album wouldn't even crack the U.S. Top 10. The song describes the phenomenon in which time seems to pass more quickly as one ages, often leading to despair in old age over missed opportunities of the past.

RW said the lyrics came from a eureka moment he experienced approaching age 30. He had spent his adolescence and young adulthood waiting for life to begin, only to discover that he was already living it. "I spent an awful lot of my life — until I was about 28 — waiting for my life to start. I though that at some point I would turn from a chrysalis into a butterfly, that my real life would begin. So if I had that bit of my life to live again, I would rather live the years between 18 and 28 knowing that that was it, that nothing was suddenly going to happen — that it was happening all the time."

"Time passes, and you are what you are, you do what you do. I suddenly thought at 29, ‘Hang on, it’s happening’, It has been right from the beginning, and there isn't suddenly a line when the training stops and life starts. … To be here now, this is it. Make the most of it. Maybe we all suffer from the feeling of lost opportunities, or you could have done better, or done more. Maybe it’s comforting to hear that feeling expressed in a piece of work that’s been as successful as this one. People often think, ‘If only … I could write the hit song, or have the success, everything would be okay.’ It’s very nice, but it doesn’t solve any of the problems you might feel about yourself.”

The long introductory passage of clocks chiming and alarms ringing were recorded as a quadraphonic test by Alan Parsons. The sound effects were not recorded for the album. "That was my idea to bring in these recordings of antique clocks, all recorded one at a time, on a portable tape machine, and then we transferred them all onto a multi-track tape, made them all tick and chime in sync," Parsons said. "PF liked that."

DG: "Parsons had just recently gone out with a whole set of equipment and had recorded all these clocks in a clock shop. And we were doing the son, and he said "Listen, I just did all these things, I did all these clocks," and so we wheeled out his tape and listened to it and said "Great! Stick it on!" And that was his idea."

Everything about Time was big: its cacophony of clocks, its sonic range from hushed tick-tocking to full-throated rock exuberance, its notions about the hourglass of life, its seven-minute length. It also might be DSOTM's hardest-rocking moment with bass digging deep into the song’s funky gait and DG burning through everything with his blazing arrow of a guitar solo coated in space echo. DG: “Some punch, some rock guitar. Once you’ve had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that’s a hard drug to kick.”

Vulture Ranking (out of 165 songs): 36
UCR Ranking (out of 167 songs): 2
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): 5
WMGK Ranking (out of 40 songs): 5
Ranker Ranking (out of 132 songs): 8
Billboard Ranking (out of 50 songs): 9

Vulture Ranking (36 out of 165 songs): It’s a rough call, but this is probably the worst actual song on DSOTM. (No need to post the rest.)

UCR Ranking (2 out of 167 songs): Nick brought the anticipation. Roger brought the wisdom. David brought the passion. Rick brought the soul. Here they are, folks, the members of PF, each getting their turn in the spotlight (and a writing credit) by working collaboratively. It wasn't always so balanced, but when everything under PF was in tune, the music was a richer experience. Not only does Time rock, it thrills, provokes, fascinates and draws your attention to the intricacies of the recording: Mason’s teasing rototoms and Wright’s punctuations of electric piano, DG’s tsunami of a guitar solo and RW’s self-critical profundity. The reprise of Breathe is the perfect sigh of a closer.

Louder Ranking (5 out of 50 songs): The effects that adorn Time are a prime example of how Pink Floyd’s working methods in the studio could transform a song. Without them Time might have been an Obscured By Clouds outtake. The ticking clocks that gradually grow in intensity before breaking out in a cacophony of alarms is just the beginning. How fortuitous that engineer Alan Parsons – en route to his own Project from an apprenticeship working with The Beatles – should have been dispatched a month earlier to make a series of field recordings for a sound effects album EMI was planning. And that deep sonorous guitar note that follows – how long did it take before DG and the band were satisfied that they had exactly the right sound? How deep? How sonorous? And then the tom toms that bring a syncopated edge to the rhythm; that’s not Mason flailing away on his drum kit. He’d found a set of rototoms – metal framed drums with no shell that are tuned by rotation – lying around the studio. All this happens before a word has been sung.

WMGK Ranking (5 out of 40 songs): It’s the last time the group co-wrote a PF song. Waters and Wright split the lead vocals, the last time Wright would sing lead for 20 years. The song is haunted by the passage of time and the idea that you’re not accomplishing enough. At a certain age the lyrics are scarier than anything you’ll hear in a punk or metal song.

Billboard Ranking (9 out of 50 songs): The cruelest trick that PF ever played on their stoner fans, setting the alarm clock to end all alarm clocks to go off right when DSOTM seems to be settling into its early mellow. Blame engineer Alan Parsons and his quadraphonic sound tests for that one, but credit the band to living up to so dramatic an intro with one of their best lyrics — about RW’s sudden quarter-life crisis — a trademark wailing DG solo, and the band’s first on-record reprise, of album opener Breathe, cleverly following the Time closing sentiment.

 

[zamboni]

It’s getting tedious to say another Gilmour solo for the ages, but here we are. And two more yet to follow.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

This thread has shown that Pink Floyd is likely the most unique band in history.

 

[BassNBrew]

#04 - Time from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

Appeared On: 29 ballots (out of 33 . . . 87.9%)
Total Points: 558 points (out of 825 possible points . . . 67.6%)
Top Rankers: @Ghost Rider Friend of @PIK95 @BassNBrew @zamboni @Dan Lambskin @Desert_Power @Ghoti
Highest Rankings: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5




Vulture Ranking (out of 165 songs): 36


Vulture Ranking (36 out of 165 songs): It’s a rough call, but this is probably the worst actual song on DSOTM. (No need to post the rest.)

So we're getting close to sniffing out the Vulture. @Anarchy99 who are the 4 that think Tom Brady wasn't a top 25 QB?

 

[PIK95]

I had Time 4th. I love it when a plan comes together. Years ago (2012ish?) I took my son to Fenway for a Red Sox dirty Yanks game. I got some monster seats, and we had a great time.

Anyway, there was some call the umps had to review, so everyone was just standing around waiting. All of a sudden Time exploded out of the PA (which was right behind us) and it was EPIC. After being startled everyone had huge smiles. Then it transitioned into I Want You Back and a dance party broke out on the monster. I'll never forget that.

 

[PIK95]

Looks like that Wall song I had 18th is going places. Great guitar solo, but so repetitive to me. I hope to see it next.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

 

[PIK95]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

That doesn't make the song repetitive. You're not even tryin to troll properly anymore - just throwing out ****.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

You should've changed the channel once you noticed that pattern.

 

[PIK95]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

That doesn't make the song repetitive. You're not even tryin to troll properly anymore - just throwing out ****.

To me it is repetitive. Whenever I hear it, I go into a manchurian candidate state and start drooling. I still ranked it 18th. Good tune, great solo.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

To me it is repetitive.

So you have a different definition of the word then the rest of the world?

 

[PIK95]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

You should've changed the channel once you noticed that pattern.

Us kids were never allowed to be in charge of radio's in the 80's. Come on now.

 

[PIK95]

To me it is repetitive.

So you have a different definition of the word then the rest of the world?

"containing or characterized by repetition, especially when unnecessary or tiresome."
Na, that's exactly how I feel when it comes on.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

You should've changed the channel once you noticed that pattern.

Us kids were never allowed to be in charge of radio's in the 80's. Come on now.

I was able to switch stations when I wanted.

The point though is the SONG is NOT repetitive.
What you're trying to say was the "song was overplayed" which is no fault of the song itself (except in the sense people wanted to hear it because it was so good I suppose).

 

[Anarchy99]

Looks like that Wall song I had 18th is going places. Great guitar solo, but so repetitive to me. I hope to see it next.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one. Let me suggest . . . it's very unlikely that that song is next.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Looks like that Wall song I had 18th is going places. Great guitar solo, but so repetitive to me. I hope to see it next.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one. Let me suggest . . . it's very unlikely that that song is next.

Please warn him ahead of time so he can change the station.

 

[PIK95]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

You should've changed the channel once you noticed that pattern.

Us kids were never allowed to be in charge of radio's in the 80's. Come on now.

I was able to switch stations when I wanted.

The point though is the SONG is NOT repetitive.
What you're trying to say was the "song was overplayed" which is no fault of the song itself (except in the sense people wanted to hear it because it was so good I suppose).

Actually, because it was overplayed, it became very repetitive to me. I stand by my statement.

 

[FatMax]

#04 - Time from The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

My #6.

Though starting at this point, I feel like my 1-6 are all a bunch of #1s ... depending on my mood that day. When I made my list, Time was #6. Today it would probably be #2. Tomorrow ... who knows. Gilmour crushed this thing. I mean, Gilmour crushes a lot of songs, but this one is next-level in my mind. It's a testament to what happens when you put two world class musicians together. Despite their differences, Waters and Gilmour were never better than when together. I doubt either would admit that today, but it's obvious to the rest of the world.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

This thread has shown that Pink Floyd is likely the most unique band in history.

Time has shown that to be true.

 

[Manster]

I would have zero issue with Time being #1

 

[Dr. Octopus]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

You should've changed the channel once you noticed that pattern.

Us kids were never allowed to be in charge of radio's in the 80's. Come on now.

I was able to switch stations when I wanted.

The point though is the SONG is NOT repetitive.
What you're trying to say was the "song was overplayed" which is no fault of the song itself (except in the sense people wanted to hear it because it was so good I suppose).

Actually, because it was overplayed, it became very repetitive to me. I stand by my statement.

I'm applying the internet rule here and bowing out of this "conversation".

 

[Uruk-Hai]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

You should've changed the channel once you noticed that pattern.

Us kids were never allowed to be in charge of radio's in the 80's. Come on now.

I was able to switch stations when I wanted.

The point though is the SONG is NOT repetitive.
What you're trying to say was the "song was overplayed" which is no fault of the song itself (except in the sense people wanted to hear it because it was so good I suppose).

Actually, because it was overplayed, it became very repetitive to me. I stand by my statement.

It wasn't overplayed. You over-listened. Own it.

 

[PIK95]

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

You should've changed the channel once you noticed that pattern.

Us kids were never allowed to be in charge of radio's in the 80's. Come on now.

but so repetitive to me

There's two verses and two chorus' with two guitar driven bridges - how is it possibly repetative?

The radio stations played it every 4th song, over and over.

You should've changed the channel once you noticed that pattern.

Us kids were never allowed to be in charge of radio's in the 80's. Come on now.

I was able to switch stations when I wanted.

The point though is the SONG is NOT repetitive.
What you're trying to say was the "song was overplayed" which is no fault of the song itself (except in the sense people wanted to hear it because it was so good I suppose).

Actually, because it was overplayed, it became very repetitive to me. I stand by my statement.

It wasn't overplayed. You over-listened. Own it.

I was like ten. I couldn't escape it!

And other than that second solo, it was kinda boring to young me fwiw.