Define Infinity wrote:
U-hum. I must restate my statement about Pink Floyd and greatness. I think their early periods are fuckin' phenomenal. A Saucerful of Secrets, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother (This album is memorable, complex, dense, experimental as shit, goes beyond boarders of any imagination), and Meddle. All these albums are fuckin' excellent in my eyes (and I have given them many repeated listens). Then we have: Obscured by Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals: with Dark side being one of least favourites among the aforementioned and Animals and Wish being among the most played albums in my collection. Also, The Wall which I don't like that much, either. I mean it's easy listening Pink Floyd, right? The Final Cut... Ummm... another album I haven't listened to that much. Then Division which is very popish but I do like it, nonetheless. Although it obviously has no competition with the classic Floyds. And Momentary is probably an album I won't be buying any time soon!
In terms of Atom Heart Mother, I think it's a brilliant album listening to it right now once again. I mean its ideas are really out there... but isn't that the heights of artistic creativity when one pushes limit after limit in a void of eternal formlessness. That's the reason its has gotten so much hate and dislike I believe.
I have never done acid, but have mushroom quite a few times. Will never do psychedelics ever again but Animals and Wish You Were Here just with smoking weed (which was also several years back) was an absolutely phenomenal experience.
I agree completely on Meddle, brilliant album.
And my favourites are also Wish You Were Here and Animals, with Dark Side being my least favourite from the golden period, so we agree on quite a lot actually.
The "golden period", by the way, I consider to be everything from Atom Heart Mother to The Wall, including both of those albums.
As for the earlier stuff, I think Piper is ok (not a huge barrett fan), Saucerful is better. I like Waters' increased songwriting presence on it. Music from the film More is neither here nor there. Good background music, and it was their first film score after all. Umma Gumma, as I said, is patchy. A bit hit and miss.
The later stuff is what it is. Trying to recapture past glories and succeeding to an extent, with listenable, unoffensive albums.
Still, that "golden period" is 7 of the greatest albums ever recorded, which is more than enough to make them legendary and my favourite band.
Oh, by the way, if you don't like The Wall, you might hate the Final Cut. It's a lot like The Wall, but even simpler and gloomier.
emperorblackdoom wrote:
Animals always struck me as one of those albums that was perfectly made; I always feel like I'm hearing a band at the peak of their powers on that one.
Couldn't have said it better myself!
