8 choices here including the generic "other" choice which includes but is not limited to: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" "Mother" "Hey You" "Young Lust" "Time" "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" "Have a Cigar" "Welcome to the Machine" "One of These Days" And for you real old school Floyd fans, any Syd Barret song like "Astronomy Domine" or "Lucifer Sam" or any others. I am going to have to go with "Dogs" but just barely over "Comfortably Numb". Both of these songs are 2 of my all-time favorite songs to listen to just because of the guitar parts in them.
Have a Cigar and Time are probably my two favorites. Us and Them is up there too. Have a Cigar is one of those songs that I like to crank up in my car when Im pissed at something.
fearless - my all time fav. lucifer sam though they wouldnt be my faves, i also like the really silly syd tunes - bike, the gnome and scarecrow. very different from the later stuff.
ever since i was 12 i always said that my favorite song is "good bye blue sky" on a somber note i think i would like that song played at my funeral.
Its a toss up between Comfortably Numb, time, and Shine on you crazy diamond. I i had to choose amoung them i guess i would go with Comfortably Numb.
The thing about Pink Floyd is that, more so than any other band, you have to listen to their albums as a whole to really get into the Floyd experience. They are definitely more of an "album" band than a "song" band if that makes any sense. Having said that, though, my favorite Floyd song is a weird little, often overlooked track called "Is there anybody out there?" on The Wall. It sounds just like the palace music from Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. Comfortably Numb and High Hopes are great, too. The best album as a whole is probably Dark Side of the Moon.
Hard to pin down one specific favorite... the one I sing the most would probably be "When the Tigers Broke Free" from The Wall (movie) I also find myself singing the entire album of "The Final Cut" - what great melodies were in that one aw hell... I've liked literally everthing they did from DSOTM to The Final Cut. Interesting trivial coincidence: On the last album that Roger Waters was with PF... ..on the last song... ...in the last line... ..the last two words are... "the end" (sung by Waters) -- droxford
Agree with you fade on them being an album band than a song band, but something like that is not going to stop me from doing this thread!! The thing about Floyd to me is that albums like DSOTM, WWYH, and Animals are pretty much flawless as you can listen from beginning to end and there are some great songs (although long like "Dogs") on them. "Meddle" has 3 great songs in "One of These Days", "Fearless" (whoever said that, great choice!), and "Echoes" and the rest was stuff that I don't really care about, thus making the experience of listening to the whole album a little tough (especially listening to the worst Floyd song of all time in "Seamus"). With "The Wall", I find myself getting more and more used to all the tracks and you definitely have to listen to all the stuff in order to fully appreciate it. Still, too much weird stuff, even for Waters, on that album.
It's not in your poll but: Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict Best song title of the milleninum!!!!!! And who can forget Roger Waters doing his best Highlands unintelligible Scot impression..... But really, I'd have to vote for Us and Them or Great Gig in the Sky from Dark Side of the Moon.
I put CN based on the poll list but it probably is Time, and DSM is my fav album overall. US & Them & Run Like Hell are great songs too. The Furry Animals tune is pretty out there, if I could dig it up (I have not listen to it in like 10+ years) I wonder how my dogs would react.
the long song! 1st Dogs 2nd Atom Heart Mother: a) Father's Shout b) Breast Milky c)Mother Fore d)Funky Dung e)Mind Your Throats Please f) Remergence 3rd Echoes (also lets hear it for san tropez, fat old sun, wot's...uh the deal)
"Learning to Fly" from "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" is the song you speak of and it is probably the best song of the post-Waters era or as some fans call them "Pink Fraud" (I don't feel like that, though). It is either that song or "Sorrow".
