Favorite Pink Floyd Song?

[mattmao]

the whole lot,but just remember roger waters is the main influence,just listen to his solo stuff and you will hear who made pink floyd tick.

[Duke Street Kings]

Echoes - Live at Pompeii, Oct 1971. Perhaps the best version. Its even captured on film and can be seen on UTube.

Other Floyd goodies

1) Paint Box
2) The Nile Song
3) Remember A Day
4) Interstellar Overdrive
5) Apples & Oranges
6) Cirrus Minor
7) See Emily Play
8) Biding My Time
9) Bike
10) Julia Dream

This is, IMHO, the most interesting list of favorite PF songs yet (Paint Box? Really?)

Mine:

(1) Remember a Day (possibly the best song of PF's psychedelic area - one of the more substantial psychedelic songs, ever)

(2) Fat Old Sun (solo just evokes a blazing sunset)

(3) Echoes (dreamlike, aquatic, conceptual - one of the Pink Floydiest of all Pink Floyd songs - if someone asked me what the essence of Pink Floyd was, this is the song I'd play.)

(4) Green is the Colour (sappy, but rustic; I like it)

(5) Childhood's End (the movie, The Valley, is worth watching - highly recommended for potheads or the pensive)

(6) Crumbling Land (IMHO, Pink Floyd's most underrated song - I love the harmonies and guitar in this one)

(7) Careful With That Axe, Eugene / Come in no. 51, Your Time is Up (disturbing, nightmarish, but powerful and from the gut)

(8) Time (my God, that solo)

(9) Us and Them (the best use of Rick Wright since Remember a Day)

(10) Shine on Your Crazy Diamond (good the same way Echoes is good - absorbing, but this time, more heartfelt and personal)

(11) Sheep (Pink Floyd's most violent song, arguably - and probably the song they rock hardest on - how can you not love a song with a lyric like "Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream / Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream")

(12) The Gunners Dream (heartwrenching, and the piano is beautiful here)

(13) The Fletcher Memorial Home (acidic sarcasm at its best - one of the best politically oriented songs I've ever heard.)

(14) The Final Cut (the naked soul of Roger Waters)

(15) Sorrow (absolute classic Pink Floyd, even without Waters - the guitar here is maximum Gilmour)



Waters
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(1) Every Stranger's Eyes - I've had a bit of clarity in recent years, which is in line with the thrust of this bit of Pros and Cons

(2) Towers of Faith - This land is my land! And this sand is my sand...and this band is *my* band!

(3) Folded Flags - No glory in death.

(4) What God Wants - What else is there to say about people who do evil in God's name?

(5) The Bravery of Being out of Range (In one song, Roger Waters summed up, in its entirety, the rationale and motivation for foreign wars. You could write books and studies on the subject, and you wouldn't, a hundred years from now, get any closer than Waters does in this song. He just nails it. I'd love to seize the airwaves and blast this across to every radio and TV in the United States)

(6) Home - When the cowboys and Arabs drawn down / On each other at noon, in the cool dusty air / Of the city boardroom / Will you stand by a passive spectator / Of the market dictators?

(7) Amused to Death - I would not be surprised, if this is precisely, how our species takes its last breath (They checked out all the data on their lists / And then / The alien anthropologists / Admitted they were still perplexed / But on eliminating every other reason for our sad demise / They logged the only explanation left / "This species has amused itself to death."

[logie_boy]

comfortably numb
echoes
shine on you crazy diamond
in that order

[PrideOfCucamonga]

BREATH....Breath in the air....

[Grape Ape]

Eclipse is an amazing song, Waiting for the Worms, Time, Wish You Were Here, Happiest Days of Our Lives. The Wall is a masterpeice of an album, and of course so are all their other albums.

[IceNine]

Any Colour You Like

[jessem98]

why has no one said "us and them"? its virtually the only one i actually enjoy

[cannabis=freedom]

why has no one said "us and them"? its virtually the only one i actually enjoy

Us and Them is an amazing song.

I also love Comfortably Numb, Hey You, Time, Money, The Great Gig in the Sky, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Echoes, Atom Heart Mother, Keep Talking, The Fletcher Memorial Home, Wish You Were Here, Have a Cigar, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, etc.

They're an amazing band. One of the greatest things ever to happen to music.

[wrasler]

i actually just burned a copy of their "live @ pompeii" dvd onto my computer. its sooo sick. anyways, my fave song is definitely comfortably numb. its epic.

[Nightcrewman]

See Emily Play

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