Best Pink Floyd Song

[Lefty]

Best PK song? To answer this question, we would need one of those supercomputers and a few years to wait for the answer.

...but then we could only get an answer like "42"

So long and thanks for all the fish

 

[gratus fermentatio]

This is probably the most impossible question to answer that I have seen on this forum.

+1 There are so many & they're so good, it's pretty tough to choose just one. Everything from See Emily Play, which always makes me think of Emily Strange, to Marooned & everything in between.

Just a thought here, is Pink Floyd without Roger Waters still Pink Floyd?
Regards, GF.

 

[machinelf]

Legally? Yes. Artistically? Hell no.

Just a thought here, is Pink Floyd without Roger Waters still Pink Floyd?
Regards, GF.

 

[TheManes]

+1 on that.
How about Roger Waters Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking?

 

[northernlad]

Comfortably Numb is my all-time favorite song, period.

Fix'd.
It will be played at my funeral.

 

[superfluent]

Have been pinned in my listening room with PF the last hour or so. It's just too many songs that are good to pick a favourite, but right now "Hey You" is playing and before that "Run Like Hell".

I hate to go "audiophile" on you guys but not only is the musical performace legendary, but it is *exceptionally* well mastered as well (as all PF releases).

This is how all music should be mastered. It is redicilous that music recorded over 30 years ago completely obliterates any recently produced recordings when it comes to cheer sound quality. I've been playing at insane levels and it just does not sound bad.

It just sounds like "turn me up" and, because the neighbours where banging the walls for some reason I just turned it up until the clipping indicators on my amps started to flash.

H

 

[machinelf]

Oh, I love Roger Waters' stuff. In fact, I consider The Final Cut to be a Roger Waters album played by Pink Floyd.

However I don't think that Roger Waters on his own is PF any more than PF without him is the same band at all. All of this could be argued, of course.

+1 on that.
How about Roger Waters Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking?

 

[Rick500]

In fact, I consider The Final Cut to be a Roger Waters album played by Pink Floyd.

So does Pink Floyd.

 

[arturo7]

It is redicilous that music recorded over 30 years ago completely obliterates any recently produced recordings when it comes to cheer sound quality.

amen, brother

 

[EonBlue66]

Oh man, I forgot all about the Animals album. Dogs. Dogs is the best song they ever made.

Animals is one of my fav Floyd album with Dogs being my favorite track.

 

[superfluent]

amen, brother

One of my greatest interests besides music is music reproduction and hifi and while I could talk about crest factors and RMS values, all-passed crest factors and what not, I'll just conclude that when basically anyone can clearly hear that the new "remastered" MJ song "Billie Jean", for example, is totally destroyed...through the mono speaker of an IPhone (and yes, I dare you to play the original in lousy, lossy mp3 and the new one in Apple Lossless), something is wrong. Very wrong (f**k, you really wind me up, here ).

H

 

[arturo7]

Not only the playback, but the recording and the mastering has gone to hell in a handbasket as well.

 

[Airborneguy]

One of my favorite memories is lying on my back at Lake Ester way up in the Colorado Rockies far outside Leadville looking at billions of stars listening to Pink Floyd until I fell asleep. Not a drop of drug in my system, but I was flying.

 

[superfluent]

Not only the playback, but the recording and the mastering has gone to hell in a handbasket as well.

Ahhh, a sole friend...

It's the mastering I'm talking about. WTF is up with that s**t? I love music. I love choise. I love beer .

If we compare to beer, todays music mastring is much like preventing homebrewing. Todays music is like BMC -if you remove the alcohole. Remove *everything* and replace it with *water*. Bad water. And a foul smell...

I shouldn't but I will...... a friend of mine (a sound "scientist") has made a pretty neat software that can "visualize" mastring artifacts. It's still under development but since I've been playing around with it for a while now...

This is "Hey You" (from my 1994 CD remaster):

Contemporary U2 (or any other conteporary release ):

The important things to notice is the "histogram". Peaks at "bottom out levels" like for "U2" equals severe distortion, compression and leveling. SEVERE!

Histogram "PF" is textbook. As is crest factor and all-passed crest factor (close to the level of non all-passed).

This is of course all clearly audible with your crappy cellphone mp3 player. Yes it is. Really.

H

 

[superfluent]

And...*drumroll*...this distorted, extraoridnarilly ear-damaging ´s**t for a sound is what you let your kids listen to in their IPods and IPhones. But shure, if you want to damage your kid's ears with this s***t...don't blame me.

H

 

[machinelf]

Ah, more audiophiles!

They do this to their products, cripple it with DRM, charge extra, and then blame the internet for declining sales.

And...*drumroll*...this distorted, extraoridnarilly ear-damaging ´s**t for a sound is what you let your kids listen to in their IPods and IPhones. But shure, if you want to damage your kid's ears with this s***t...don't blame me.

H

 

[machinelf]

bu dum tish!

So does Pink Floyd.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Bastards!!! I've just wasted (Not actually wasted) perfectly good working time (losing money) listening to all kinds of PF stuff!

I've just ordered a DVD of Walters Wall live at Berlin, the best concert I've ever not seen live.

It's all your fault you bastards!!!!


PS....Thanks bastards!!! I just filled a hole in my life!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Oh yes.....The Trial is right up there for the fun element! Amazing stuff!

 

[HBHoss]

by the way, which one's Pink?

 

[jmp138]

Roger Waters live at the Berlin Wall is incredible, you will definitely enjoy it. Sinead O'Connor sings mother, phenomenal.

My favorite album would have to be meddle, or atom heart mother. Fearless is probably my favorite song of all time!

The early stuff, Piper at the Gates of Dawn and such, when Syd was still playing is very good, but I only listen to it very occasionally.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Roger Waters live at the Berlin Wall is incredible, you will definitely enjoy it. Sinead O'Connor sings mother, phenomenal.

I saw it live on TV in England when it aired and I was blown away. It was only seeing bits of it on youtube that reminded me that I can actually OWN it today and not just in my memory!

 

[Rick500]

One of the best memories I have (and I'm really more of a Dave fan than a Roger fan), was seeing Roger Waters at Earl's Court a few years ago. It just doesn't get much better than that. (Okay, well, it would have been better if it was Floyd and not just Roger )

 

[zman]

Everything on Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and Run like Hell, and everything else they have done

 

[steinsato]

I've always been a big fan of the live side of Umaguma, starting around 7min into Saucerful of Secrets. The bass line is pretty sweet.

 

[LeftyGorilla]

See Emily Play? Any Syd fans out there...?

yes yes yes.

My daughter (4yrs old) likes Effervescing Elephant and Baby Lemonade.

I like anything Roger Waters didn't get too carried away on.

 

[abf303]

i love
on the turning away

and i cant get enough of pros and cons of hitch hiking these days

 

[superfluent]

i love
on the turning away

and i cant get enough of pros and cons of hitch hiking these days

+1

PF "mother" is also good. Gdang, I can't make up my mind!

H

 

[dunnright00]

Best PK song? To answer this question, we would need one of those supercomputers and a few years to wait for the answer.

...but then we could only get an answer like "42"

So long and thanks for all the fish

If you're interested, I know this great Restaurant at the End of the Universe...

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

Tough to choose one but I guess it'd be Dogs for me.

The Roger Water's In the Flesh DVD is very good imo.