"Comfortably Numb" was my favorite from the list. "Time," "Fearless," "Mother," "Shine On..." and "Dogs" are all right up there, though. Personally, I find "Wish You Were Here" to be their most flawless complete album. I always though "Money" really ruined the flow of "Dark Side of the Moon," but of course, I grew up in an era where you never had to change the sides of a record...
I voted for Us and Them... Comfortably Numb, Welcome To The Machine, Great Gig In The Sky, The Division Bell are all on my list, too...
Too hard to pick a fave, but I do like belting out "Money" when I'm driving alone... "think I'll buy me a football team."
Still haven't heard from subtomic, mateo, coma, and red (does he even post here anymore?) on this topic...
Time 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
Interesting question, Bob - unfortunately I do not the answer. I do know that it was one of a very few songs that Roger Waters actually "allowed" David Gilmour to put on the "The Wall" (meaning that Gilmour either wrote the song completely or got half the writing credit). I think I read somewhere that Waters didn't want it on there because it didn't really fit with the rest of the songs on the album but he did ask Gilmour to change the title to "Comfortably Numb" and then found a place for it (although Waters would never admit it, I think he realized how good of a song it was and that Gilmour's guitar parts to it were amazing).
It was about the downers (or were they uppers?) that performers often took before going out on stage, was it not?
time, breathe, money (hell, all of DSOTM), shine on..... the list could go on and on. but those are my favorites, i suppose. time is #1 for me though.
According to this 1979 interview (Roger Waters) you are right. http://home.mchsi.com/~ttint/watersinterview.html But I remember hearing an interview with Gilmour (who wrote it) that when he was young he had some sort of accident and spent quite a bit of time in hospital. He was recalling those memories. Manny, you are dead on in that Waters and Gilmour argued for years about the name of the song, with Waters winning out in the end. Comfortably Numb fit into his story "The Wall"
This is an absolutely great Floyd site, for anyone who hasn't seen it. http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/main.php?flash=present&quicktime=present Click on the Dark Side of the Moon-30th anniversery link and explore there a little. There is an excellent "article" (it's a transcript, actually) by James Guthrie that describes making a 5.1 remastered version of the LP. It's being sold on a hybrid SACD, which I've never heard. Has anyone? I was wondering exactly what you play it on and how it sounds. It recreates the surround sound the band used when they toured for the album. Apparently it's more than that, but it interests me because I saw them on that tour and the surround effect was new and incredible. There is also excellent high-quality extended clips from the record. I don't have a favorite song, but the lyrics BobFinn* posted are my favorite lyrics from Floyd. I guess I relate to them more now than when they were written. edit: the clips are the whole album, I think, just not continuously.
Hey Bob, I have always wondered on "Comfortably Numb" - does Gilmour sing the chorus parts? It seems a little too high for Waters but maybe it is Waters singing the chorus on that song.
Cool. Do you or anyone else know of any site that tells who sings which PF song? I know that a guy named Roy Harper (or something like that) sang "Have a Cigar" and that Gilmour sings most of "Dogs", but I would love to know about all the other songs.
