Favourite Floyd? [Archive] - Kiwi Biker forums

Big Dave

11th September 2009, 16:18

Which one makes you pink?

I have played this song more than any other. Ever.
Paid a stupid amount of money for a master of the vinyl way back then too.

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Maha

11th September 2009, 16:27

MSTRS

11th September 2009, 16:36

Laava

11th September 2009, 16:48

How can you pick a favourite? That's just a headfuck!
http://outlandinstitute.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/floyd.jpg

Kickaha

11th September 2009, 16:51

T.W.R

11th September 2009, 16:53

slofox

11th September 2009, 17:07

I have lots of favourites....Grantchester Meadows was an early one, Money is another, Careful with that Axe Eugene, ....its a long list...

allycatz

11th September 2009, 17:11

Brain Damage and Comfortably Dumb

allycatz

11th September 2009, 17:11

Make that Comfotably Numb...duh!

spookytooth

11th September 2009, 17:12

phred

11th September 2009, 17:17

I agree, how can you chose between them.
There's Floyd then theres that other stuff that other people hurt their ears on.

oldguy

11th September 2009, 17:20

Great gig in the sky.
haha got any weed? Kick back and play the embedded Floyd yeah

kevfromcoro

11th September 2009, 17:36

still like another brick in the wall......

nadroj

11th September 2009, 17:42

Dark side of the moon for me!

Big Dave

11th September 2009, 17:54

How can you pick a favourite? That's just a headfuck!

It's an excuse to play pink floyd music on a friday afternoon ya clown.

yungatart

11th September 2009, 17:59

Shine On You Crazy Diamond!
But really hard to pick a favourite....they are all so good

boman

11th September 2009, 18:11

The Dogs of War live, Comfortably Numb, Coming Back to life, Run like hell, High Hopes, the list goes on and on and on. Anything off PULSE, Delicate Sound of thunder.

:rockon::wari:

Owl

11th September 2009, 18:14

Friday is a day for watching the clock and the end of the working week, so it'd have to be........

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slofox

11th September 2009, 18:31

Which is the song that contains the line

"No-one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun"

Anyone?

Fatt Max

11th September 2009, 18:38

Dark Side of the Moon for me, all up. Great memories of being on tour with a band in the Uk and playing a cassette tape of it over and over again in the van. We used to play 'The Great Gig in the Sky' at each soundcheck but no-one could get the vocal solo, so it basically sounded like shite, but it was good fun all the same.

Ah yes, memories......

enigma51

11th September 2009, 18:43

MSTRS

11th September 2009, 18:44

Which is the song that contains the line

"No-one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun"

Anyone?

Time. But you knew that...

StoneY

11th September 2009, 18:56

It's an excuse to play pink floyd music on a friday afternoon ya clown.

Today its TIME- tomorrow will be Crazy Diamond, Sunday will be Dogs Of War...
Thats the way it is with the Floyd its all so FUCKING GOOD!

edit: just made a nice playlist up - all floyd- cheers man set the mood

MisterD

11th September 2009, 20:09

Granchester Meadows...because well, I grew up in Cambridge and getting stoned listening to the track in the actual place takes it to another level of...something...like...wow...man...so rather than the band I found a youchoob link of the actual place so as you can all be jealous.

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James Deuce

11th September 2009, 20:11

This one!

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-easy--rider-

11th September 2009, 20:20

what about echoes? and sheep? and marooned on pulse. i dont know how they ever came up with some of their lyrics but they all kinda tell a story and are magic.

cave weta

11th September 2009, 20:21

'Time' and 'Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave, grooving with a pict.' how does that one go again? - tral la la la....

-easy--rider-

11th September 2009, 20:22

oh and what about the movie? now thats when you need some good drugs..

cave weta

11th September 2009, 20:26

Oooh ooh!!- DOGS! theres a good one. the dogs barking are heard by your pets waaay before you will hear them.

Kickaha

11th September 2009, 20:26

'Time' and 'Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave, grooving with a pict.' how does that one go again? - tral la la la....

like this
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Must be there weirdest "song"

Kevnz

11th September 2009, 20:30

and by the which ones Pink?

NZsarge

11th September 2009, 20:44

Mother and Great gig are my favs

Big Dave

11th September 2009, 20:55

This one!

I'm on my 5th JD, Co-pilot is away, and I really enjoyed that.

Kendog

11th September 2009, 20:59

Comfortably numb.

Gilmour on top of the wall at Earls Court in 1980, with the spotlight behind him. Send shivers down the spine.

davebullet

11th September 2009, 21:09

You owe it to yourselves before you die to listen to Pink Floyd on a DECENT stereo system.

James Deuce

11th September 2009, 21:13

I'm on my 5th JD, Co-pilot is away, and I really enjoyed that.
Pleased to be of service.

TonyB

11th September 2009, 21:40

Comfortably Numb*, Learning to Fly, Shine on You Crazy Diamond

I rate pretty much all Floyd songs, but these are the ones that give me goose bumps.

* The version on Delicate Sound of Thunder is my fav. Many moons ago when I was learning to play the guitar, my tutor listened to it and said something like "if I'd played that solo, I'd put that guitar down and never pick it up again"

Shadows

11th September 2009, 21:45

Oooh ooh!!- DOGS! theres a good one.

Fuck yeah. Don't forget Sheep! Pigs is good too. Fuck, the whole albums a masterpiece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5njyzcqeOo

Laava

11th September 2009, 23:09

It's an excuse to play pink floyd music on a friday afternoon ya clown.
Oh so it's just an excuse! Thank fuck for that, the question was way too hard for me! As you were.

SARGE

11th September 2009, 23:37

the entire Animals album.. Shine on you Crazy Diamond, One of these Days, Brain Damage/ Eclipse, Wish you were Here, Careful with that Axe Eugene, The Show Must Go On and Young Lust

thought you were on a program BD.. how do i get a program that includes 5 JD's?

Big Dave

12th September 2009, 00:31

Walk 5km to get them.

Brian d marge

12th September 2009, 04:52

The Auckland planetarium was ,,,,many years ago having a pink Floyd evening

3d lazer show

and Floyd

possible the best night of my life ,,,with some help from BOB chuff chuff Marley

recommend it if its still going

Stephen

YellowDog

12th September 2009, 06:30

Lots of good Floyd stuff.

Some say, "Music to commit suiside to"

Find it to be very well produced and thought out myself.

I don;t have a favorite as Floyd has music to suit all moods.

flyingcr250

12th September 2009, 07:54

StoneY

12th September 2009, 08:26

Which is the song that contains the line

"No-one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun"

Anyone?

TIME the one posted right above your post mate ;)

GREAT song played it super loud for my kids theyre converts- YAY
My 13 year olds loaded up her mp3 with Dark Side lol

Kendog

12th September 2009, 08:44

TIME the one posted right above your post mate ;)

GREAT song played it super loud for my kids theyre converts- YAY
My 13 year olds loaded up her mp3 with Dark Side lol

MP3 Floyd heaven (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2294144).

Naki Rat

12th September 2009, 10:48

Which is the song that contains the line

"No-one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun"

Anyone?

Time
(Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) 7:06

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Sounds like a Friday song to me.

vifferman

12th September 2009, 11:40

You Pink Floyd fans owe it to yourselves to buy the David Gilmour DVD "Live at the Royal Albert Hall". Or better still, buy the Blue ray version.

Boob Johnson

12th September 2009, 13:51

You owe it to yourselves before you die to listen to Pink Floyd on a DECENT stereo system.
Sennheiser HD-595's here, bloody magic!

To answer your question Dave, impossible to answer ONE favourite, like asking to pick ya favourite child! That and many Floyd albums are best listened to from start to finish rather than cherry picking songs.........IMHO.

Favourite PF album(s)?

In no particular order

1) Meddle
2) The Final Cut
3) Animals
4) Wish You Were Here
5) DSOTM
6) The Wall
7) A Momentary Lapse of Reason
8) Obscured By Clouds

& Roger Waters first solo album

9) The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking <--- been thrashing this lately, bloody magic stuff. Eric Clapton did all the lead guitar word on this album.

Crank out this song BD, my fav song off the above Roger Waters album, Claptons guitar work is EPIC!!

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Crasherfromwayback

12th September 2009, 14:19

For me...as I think it's so true to most of us!

Elysium

12th September 2009, 14:33

Best version of this song ever done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3R2PgMiTvw

No video but the audio from their 17 Sep 1969, Concertgebow, Amsterdam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpgDdT3jZV4&feature=related

jrandom

12th September 2009, 14:37

Sennheiser HD-595's here, bloody magic!

But what do you plug them into?

All a good set of headphones will do for most people is allow them to hear how shit their PC sound card is. If, indeed, they can distinguish the crappiness of their hardware from the aural mangling of their 128kbps MP3s.

If anyone wants to get good sound out of a computer, btw, I can recommend M-Audio (http://www.m-audio.com/) sound cards.

* The version on Delicate Sound of Thunder is my fav. Many moons ago when I was learning to play the guitar, my tutor listened to it and said something like "if I'd played that solo, I'd put that guitar down and never pick it up again"

Really? I think that recording sounds kinda like... arse. Even at his best, Gilmour has lazy fingers; he's not a particularly good guitarist.

IMHO.

MSTRS

12th September 2009, 14:45

Really? I think that recording sounds kinda like... arse. Even at his best, Gilmour has lazy fingers; he's not a particularly good guitarist.

IMHO.

Who gives a toss? Lazy or not, as a part of the whole, Gilmour brings a magic to the music. And you'd sit there in judgement of his abilities, like you are some sort of god-like player yourself.
Back to your hidey-hole, young Pottymouth.

jrandom

12th September 2009, 14:54

Who gives a toss? Lazy or not, as a part of the whole, Gilmour brings a magic to the music.

So you agree that he's slow on the strings, then? Good to see it's not just me noticing it.

It works for most of their studio recordings, but it gets a bit ugly at points during DSOT. The perils of live performance, eh?

And you'd sit there in judgement of his abilities, like you are some sort of god-like player yourself.

One doesn't need to be a guitar strummer to judge his abilities. A proper musical education on real instruments (and a decent set of ears) suffices.

Crasherfromwayback

12th September 2009, 14:55

like... arse.

Where's my fucking beer?

jrandom

12th September 2009, 14:57

Where's my fucking beer?

Where's mine?

Is someone going to call the brewers and settle this? I'm on the road all day during business hours, now. Don't you work near a phone?

Crasherfromwayback

12th September 2009, 14:59

Where's mine?

Is someone going to call the brewers and settle this? I'm on the road all day during business hours, now. Don't you work near a phone?

Noddy...YOU were the one that was going to ring them and ask if there were any UN NATURAL ADDITIVES in Steinlarger...not me.

I'm still REAL thirsty.

Voltaire

12th September 2009, 15:00

Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.....on vinyl ...that you had to search ages for as it was 10 years old and well hard to find.
Who remembers the Record Warehouse in Durham lane and the one under what is now Whitcouls on Q st.
Hunting out old records....ah those were the days.....

jrandom

12th September 2009, 15:03

Noddy...YOU were the one that was going to ring them and ask if there were any UN NATURAL ADDITIVES in Steinlarger...

'Unnatural additives' wasn't the wording of the bet, and you know it, sunshine.

Good thing the discussion was posted in public so that I can remind you of it, eh?

I'll enjoy that dozen lagers with no added sugar in due course.

:sunny:

Crasherfromwayback

12th September 2009, 15:15

'Unnatural additives' wasn't the wording of the bet, and you know it, sunshine.

Good thing the discussion was posted in public so that I can remind you of it, eh?

I'll enjoy that dozen lagers with no added sugar in due course.

:sunny:

"No additives, no preservatives" was my bet. Prove it other wise was what I said.

jrandom

12th September 2009, 15:18

"No additives, no preservatives" was my bet. Prove it other wise was what I said.

Roger that; I'll get confirmation of the cane sugar and/or corn syrup they put in standard Steinie real soon now. Or sometime before Christmas, anyhow.

And yes, both of the above are additives as far as beer is concerned.

Crasherfromwayback

12th September 2009, 15:25

Roger that; I'll get confirmation of the cane sugar and/or corn syrup they put in standard Steinie real soon now. Or sometime before Christmas, anyhow.

And yes, both of the above are additives as far as beer is concerned.

I don't know of many beers that don't have sugar...so you'd best make sure 'Pure' doesn't have either of those sugars whilst you're at it you crazy diamond. Shine on.

jrandom

12th September 2009, 15:29

I don't know of many beers that don't have sugar...

This is why people from the Hutt and people from West Auckland tend to get on well.

you'd best make sure 'Pure' doesn't have either of those sugars whilst you're at it you crazy diamond. Shine on.

It doesn't. Sez so on the label, dunnit? Water, malt, hops and yeast. Like that law in Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot) that said you can't label something 'beer' which has anything else (like sugar) in it.

S'the whole point of marketing the 'pure' thing. Beer consumers are starting to cotton on to what the real stuff should taste like.

Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and buy me my dozen.

Boob Johnson

12th September 2009, 16:13

But what do you plug them into?

All a good set of headphones will do for most people is allow them to hear how shit their PC sound card is. If, indeed, they can distinguish the crappiness of their hardware from the aural mangling of their 128kbps MP3s.

Really? I think that recording sounds kinda like... arse. Even at his best, Gilmour has lazy fingers; he's not a particularly good guitarist.

IMHO.
Agreed Delicate Sound of Thunder is not my fav by a long shot either but to label Gilmour "not particularly good" is laughable, if not foolish. Honestly man, get off the crack pipe <_< :laugh:

Guitarists get better with age & he has been shit hot for a long long time.

The 2nd song on the 1975 album "Animals" (Dogs) has a guitar solo in it, bout 3 or 4mins long, an epic effort & that was over 30 years ago!

Sound card: I have my Senn's plugged into an Audigy2 ZS. A great card when first released & still does a great job today. Runs my Logitech Z-2300's well & ran the Z-5500's well also when I had a set of them. When this card dies ill most likely upgrade to an "Auzentech X-FI Prelude 7.1".

The sky is the limit with audio as you well know & the industry has gone mad if you ask me, I mean who the EARTH pays USD$15,000 for a set of headphones ffs!! Are they 15 times better than a $1,000 pair? <_<

Music bit rate: I converted my 200 odd CD collection to .mp3 format & all @ 320 kbps. Took an awful long time to do but well worth it..........until the 1TB RAID0 (4x250GB SATAII's) decided to drop, lost over 800GB of data :( :2guns:

tri boy

12th September 2009, 17:00

+1 for Animals.
Particually "Pigs. Three different kinds"
Yeah, thats right scummy.......................

jonbuoy

12th September 2009, 18:05

Echoes 1&2 live at pompei - so far ahead of its time.

Kickaha

12th September 2009, 18:34

Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.....on vinyl ...

I still have that album somewhere on vinyl along with Saucerful of Secrets and a few others

Naki Rat

12th September 2009, 19:36

Echoes 1&2 live at pompei - so far ahead of its time.

+1 and the Pink Floyd lads looking oh so young :Punk:

Genestho

12th September 2009, 21:43

TIME
Great Gig in the Sky
Young Lust
Learning to Fly
Dogs of War
Wish you were here
Another Brick in the Wall
Comfortably Numb
Shine on you Crazy Diamond

vifferman

13th September 2009, 07:28

Really? I think that recording sounds kinda like... arse. Even at his best, Gilmour has lazy fingers; he's not a particularly good guitarist.
LOL.
I was watching and enjoying Gilmour playing live on the DVD I bought a few weeks ago, and #2Son (who has four guitars (five if you count mine), and plays guitar, bass, violin, piano and keyboards) says: "He's got crap technique, y'know!"
"Oh really?"
"Yeah - lookit him hanging his thumb over the top of the neck, and he's only using 3 fingers at most for most of the time!".
"I don't care - it sounds good."

SixPackBack

13th September 2009, 08:24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMNWHLPSgBE&feature=fvw

SixPackBack

13th September 2009, 08:45

Break out the blender, nothing like a magic mushroom milkshake and some 'Floyd to shake the weekend loose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlIisoo-FHM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daKRz2w4D44&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed0fHvLkYVw&feature=related

vifferman

13th September 2009, 15:44

Break out the blender, nothing like a magic mushroom milkshake and some 'Floyd to shake the weekend loose.
LOL.
What was I listening to..? The Rock, I think it was. Whatever - whoever it was said back in the day, if you licked David Gilmour (or in fact any Floydie), you'd see flying unicorns. (All the LSD leaching out through the skin).
In fact, I suspect that would've been true of only Syd Barrett (RIP).

MisterD

13th September 2009, 17:51

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0oiJKdLnFrI/SQ2c3iTT67I/AAAAAAAAAqA/vIRJ0DGQ5W8/s400/keith+flory.jpg

Big Dave

13th September 2009, 18:53

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0oiJKdLnFrI/SQ2c3iTT67I/AAAAAAAAAqA/vIRJ0DGQ5W8/s400/keith+flory.jpg

I *knew* you would go there when I say it warr you.

http://johnstodderinexile.files.wordpress.com/2006/05/Floyd%20Patterson.jpeg

Phurrball

13th September 2009, 19:06

My response to the first few pages of this this thread was to get Pulse, put it in the CD player, hit the random button and let Floyd and my (moderately) HiFi do its work.

Teh electronic brain can choose the order, as all are worthy.

My cat and I are enjoying it.

I shall now commence cooking dinner. Floyd and food. Quite existential really.

Pedrostt500

13th September 2009, 19:15

Used to have most of the floyd albums on Vinyl once, lots of drunken parties destroyed most of them, they used to do jam sessions of interstellar overdrive that would go on for a couple of hours.

nudemetalz

14th September 2009, 12:39

Shine on you Crazy Diamond !!!!
Without a doubt.
Reminds me of good times when my Dad was alive.

But yes, it is a hard one. "Comfortably Numb" is another favourite.

Stirts

14th September 2009, 12:54

Far, far, far too many favourites to choose and it also really depends on the mood I am as to what songs/album of theirs I listen to. But the songs that never fail to move me.....

Is There Anybody Out There?
Comfortably Numb
Dogs of War
Learning to Fly
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Hey You

I just need to read the title of these and I get that tingle/goose bumpily feeling.