Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

Their best song post DSOTM, IMO

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 6w

I think Animals clears DSOTM as an album, but it’s still only my 2nd favorite album of theirs, Wish You Were Here is my favorite album of theirs and Have A Cigar is definitely my favorite post-DSOTM track of theirs

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 6w

Echoes is my favorite Pink Floyd song overall, but that’s also pre-DSOTM

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

Wish you were Here is absolutely their best album as a whole. I think Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 1 is tied with Dogs as their best song DSOTM onward. My personal fav track on Meddle is One Of These Days.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 6w

I mean yeah, Wish You Were Here kicked off my big prog rock era I had my senior year of high school, I got a lot of love for Pink Floyd for getting me into prog. I also think they’re Baby’s First Prog Band though, so I’m like “If you like Pink Floyd a lot, go listen to some Soft Machine and King Crimson” and that makes people think I dislike Pink Floyd when I really love them and just want people to get into more prog than JUST them lmao

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

My dad is my prime example of this lmao, he LOVES Pink Floyd and Tool, but really hasn’t branched out further into progressive music, because those are just the two BIG prog bands. He’ll be like “I just love how unique their style is” and I’m sat there like “Yeah it’s unique in the mainstream, because most prog is simply not mainstream”

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 6w

ngl Wish You Were Here is kind of a weak song for me, weighs down the entire album.

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Anonymous #2 6w

I’m gonna go ahead and say this take results from overexposure, since it is by far their most popular track and gets the most airplay outside of the album

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Anonymous #2 6w

Wish You Were Here as a song kinda bores me too, but mostly because I’ve heard it about a gazillion times on classic rock radio, same goes for Money and Happiest Days/Another Brick Pt. 2

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Anonymous #2 6w

Wish you were here is an absolutely fantastic track that conveys so much longing and cold emptiness over the loss of Syd Barrett. It’s very powerful and well written and produced, I just think that it has been played to the point that people get tired of it and stop seeing what’s special about it.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 6w

I also don’t get why WYWH of all the songs on that album became the radio hit ad nauseam when Have A Cigar is right there and fucking bangs

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

I think it’s because tonally and thematically, Have A Cigar is the odd one out on the album. While every other WYWH track conveys this sort of cold, bleak, empty loneliness, Have a Cigar is this snide, almost parody critique of music execs. Thematically, it fits more in line with a track like “Money” than what was going on in WYWH. Still a great track, just kind of a shift away from what the rest of the album is doing.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 6w

That’s actually exactly what makes it pair so well with Welcome To The Machine, in my opinion

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 6w

Welcome To The Machine is mostly about being on the band side of an exploitative record deal, Have A Cigar is about the executive side of that very same deal, I think that’s what makes them twins even though they’re so different

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

money is overplayed but also really good imo

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Anonymous #2 6w

but the radio version sucks, they literally cut the best part

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Anonymous #2 6w

me tweaking the fuck out because my local rock station decided to play Parabola by Tool without Parabol first

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

like yeah I get you can’t just play like 13 minutes straight of one song that’s technically two songs, but at that point you just don’t get to play the second one

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

somewhat unrelated but the wish you were here era versions of the songs on Animals are awesome. the live versions of “you gotta be crazy” (dogs) is so good

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Anonymous #2 6w

the 1974 wembley show has the early versions of both sheep and dogs. i wish we had more quality recordings from the 70s

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

mfw the radio station fucks around and plays a prog song without its necessary precursor from the album

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