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11 April 2016
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Atom Heart Mother above Piper and Animals?Interesting.
AHM’s got some very lovely numbers on it, y’know. 
I haven’t even heard the whole album yet, and I’m loving it already! 
I would go
Dark Side Of The Moon
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Wish You Were Here
Meddle
Animals
A Saucerfull Of Secrets/The Wall
Both have very high highs, but have lows as well. Don’t Leave Me Now on The Wall especially stands out as a low. Also I love Jugband Blues. Could be my favorite standalone Floyd song.
Interesting. I’ve always seen that one as a high point.* 
What exactly do you dislike about it?
*heck, pretty much all of The Wall is a high point for me! T’is my favourite Floyd album, after all. (Look no farther than my ramblings on the PFS and you’ll see it for sure.) 
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Atom Heart Mother above Piper and Animals?
I’ve always been mad, I know I’ve been, like most of us have. You had to explain why you were mad, even if you were not mad. 
Yes, I really dig that album, even though, with my mind, I don’t think it’s as good as Piper or Animals. I just love the atmosphere of it, I guess.
I would go
Dark Side Of The Moon
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Wish You Were Here
Meddle
Animals
A Saucerfull Of Secrets/The Wall
I approve 
Also I love Jugband Blues. Could be my favorite standalone Floyd song.
‘Jugband Blues’ is a wondrefool thing– the most perfectly haunting exit a Crazy Diamond could have. It’s just so well-placed and well-performed and I’m getting teary just thinking about it 
My top five Pink Floyd songs as of right now are (roughly in order, but not really):
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’
‘Breathe (Breathe In The Air)’
‘Echoes’
‘See Emily Play’
‘Time’
…with very honourable mentions to ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘Wots… Uh The Deal’, ‘A Pillow Of Winds’, ‘If’, ‘Jugband Blues’, ‘Remember A Day’, ‘Comfortably Numb’, ‘Julia Dream’… oh (mad) bugger, there are too many honourable mentions; this might turn into top ten. I suck at picking favourites. 
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10.04am
26 January 2017
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Pillow of Winds. So good.
Top five songs?
Jugband Blues
Tie: Echoes/Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Time
Have A Cigar
Young Lust
I won’t count side two of Dark Side, although thats the stuff.
Its too hard to place any songs off Piper without placing all of them, but some standouts are Bike, Flaming, Matilda Mother , and Pow R. Toc H.
Rip Syd. Rip Rick.
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10.09am
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Interesting. I’ve always seen that one as a high point.*
Don’t Leave Me Now sounds directionless to me. I guess that’s part of the emotion in the song, but its such a poor vocal performance from Roger that none of it comes across to me. When I listen on vinyl, its similar to Revolution Nine, where I get time to go make some Easy Mac before the next song.
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10.12am
26 January 2017
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Is anyone here buying that new Pink Floyd box set that costs between 550 and 700 dollars depending on where you buy it?
I won’t be buying it. Floyd things were already expensive when I bought them the first time. Being from this generation has its downsides.
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11.32pm
11 April 2016
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WeepingAtlasCedars said
Interesting. I’ve always seen that one as a high point.*
Don’t Leave Me Now sounds directionless to me. I guess that’s part of the emotion in the song, but its such a poor vocal performance from Roger that none of it comes across to me. When I listen on vinyl, its similar to Revolution Nine, where I get time to go make some Easy Mac before the next song.
Interesting. 
I always thought that Roger did a great job on the vocals (or at least in the sense that they matched up well with the emotions in the track).
Actually, now that I think of it, I can’t recall any vocal performances from Rog that I don’t think he did a good job on…. 
…Oh well! 
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Offline I’ve been reading a bunch of stuff on Syd Barrett, sort of trying to figure him out (which, I realise, is utterly futile, but I’m a Floydnut and I do futile things). I don’t think he was schizophrenic, and I don’t think LSD was the whole problem. I think he was already eccentric and (mentally) rather delicate, and the combination of sudden fame and too much LSD really messed things up.
That’s just my take on it, though. There are too many theories on his situation as it is; as I said, it’s quite futile for me to provide another one.
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Offline I think he just got tired of the scene and wanted to go home and paint.
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9.55am
26 January 2017
Offline A big part was fame. He would keep songs secret from the producers so that he could play them at the Ufo in front of an audience. He hated the record industry and what he thought it did to his music.
However, it only takes listening to his music to tell that theres something off about the guy
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10.10am
26 January 2017
Offline Also my all time favorite album Revolver turns 50 today. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn does as well. August 5th is quite
the holiday.
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10.14am
18 April 2013
Offline We should remember that Syd’s quality of being “off” was a positive influence on other artists–Robyn Hitchcock, for example. There’s nothing wrong with being yourself.
“We all shine on, like the stars, and the moons, and the sun.”
“Shine on, you crazy diamond.”
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We should remember that Syd’s quality of being “off” was a positive influence on other artists–Robyn Hitchcock, for example. There’s nothing wrong with being yourself.“We all shine on, like the stars, and the moons, and the sun.”
“Shine on, you crazy diamond.”
Of course! I love Syd’s ‘off’ness as demonstrated in his lovely, offbeat songs about linen-thieves, lonely scarecrows, and octopus rides, but I just think it’s rather sad the way things wound up. There’s something about his story post-Floyd that puts me in mind of ‘Time’.
sir walter raleigh noted
Also my all time favorite album Revolver turns 50 today. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn does as well. August 5th is quite the holiday.
Indeed, but Piper is only 49.
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10.34am
26 January 2017
Offline Silly Girl said
sir walter raleigh noted
Also my all time favorite album Revolver turns 50 today. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn does as well. August 5th is quite the holiday.Indeed, but Piper is only 49.
Right you are. I was so excited by the matching dates that I forgot to double check my facts.
Nevertheless today is a great to to celebrate Syds masterpiece along with Revolver .
I can’t help but imagine what Nick Rick and Roger were thinking when Syd came to them with this material.
“Syd, this is great stuff, but what the hell are you talking about?”
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10.42am
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Offline sir walter raleigh said
I can’t help but imagine what Nick Rick and Roger were thinking when Syd came to them with this material.
“Syd, this is great stuff, but what the hell are you talking about?”
Ha! 
Nah, I doubt they’d even pause to wonder at it; ‘oh, it’s just Syd being Syd.’
Anyway, I’ve got Piper queued up and ready to go… along with Revolver . Two of my favourite psychedelic masterpieces!
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10.42am
18 April 2013
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Of course! I love Syd’s ‘off’ness as demonstrated in his lovely, offbeat songs about linen-thieves, lonely scarecrows, and octopus rides, but I just think it’s rather sad the way things wound up. There’s something about his story post-Floyd that puts me in mind of ‘Time’.
I see it sort of like “Watching The Wheels .” It always looks more sad to people on the outside than it does to us when we do something that runs counter to what society expects of us.
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10.45am
26 January 2017
Offline “I guess I just wasnt made for these times” comes to mind as well. But that’s for another thread.
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10.48am
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15 February 2015
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Silly Girl said
Of course! I love Syd’s ‘off’ness as demonstrated in his lovely, offbeat songs about linen-thieves, lonely scarecrows, and octopus rides, but I just think it’s rather sad the way things wound up. There’s something about his story post-Floyd that puts me in mind of ‘Time’.I see it sort of like “Watching The Wheels .” It always looks more sad to people on the outside than it does to us when we do something that runs counter to what society expects of us.
I don’t know, but I get the impression that Syd Roger* was actually rather lonely and directionless at times.
Watch the wheels too long, and they’ll roll away from you; and then one day you find that the time is gone, song is over…
*’Syd’ only existed during the Floyd years. After that he was Roger– to himself, at least.
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10.58am
18 April 2013
Offline He never stopped creating, though. Remember, visual art was his first love.
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11.43am
18 April 2013
Offline What I find interesting about his paintings is that he would often destroy them, sometimes taking a photo of them before doing so. That shows that to him the creative process is more important than the material result or what we end up doing with it. Maybe it is somewhat selfish, but I feel the same way. I used to write poetry, and the process was always more important to me than the end result. Eventually, I came to mistrust words because they don’t really say what we want them to. There is no absolute.
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26 January 2017
Offline I used to spend all class meticulously crafting different psychedelic drawings, which became popular among my friends, and when they would ask to see them, I would have thrown them away. I started giving them to a friend who wanted to keep them fod himself, but for me they were a way to expell creative energy and practice my drawings. I wasn’t trying to display anything, I was just passing time doing what I love.
Thats one of the reasons I love Syd so much. He puts off this effortlessness that I can’t quite place but he never loses a sense of passion and connection in the music. It feels like an outpour of his genius, and he doesn’t care what anybody thinks of any of it. He’s doing it for him. One of the reasons he was so influential.
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