OK, you finally got me - I'm gonna check out some Pink Floyd. My dad was into them, so I automatically disdained all things Floyd as a kid (rebellious punk that I was), and nothing I've heard from them on the radio has turned my ears on. But, a) I've heard a few snippets from them that make me think there's something there to check out, and b) 10 million Elvis fans can't be wrong.

So where do I start?

Animals is pretty good.
Wish you Were Here is also a good one too.
others will have different opinions.

my favorite is Animals

ummagumma
darkside of the moon
animals
meddle
live at pompeii

id go with those to start

the wall and dark side of the moon are just classic.
atom heart mother is older but good too.

plus works , momentary lapse of reason , the final cut.

start by dropping acid and watching the wall

THE WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey rob

Meddle is pretty amazing.

It might be best to start with the classics...on second thought...while Animals is my favorite, I did start with The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon...I think that may have to be the rite of passage

animals is a must. the wall is good but just skip over the radio songs. wish you were is another great album too. stay away from dark side. you've heard it all on the radio cause thats all they play.

lies

go get live at pompeii and youll enjoy yourself

As far as radio goes, most Floyd is pretty uninteresting out of context. Songs like have a cigar, dirty woman, another brick in the wall II, etc... are annoying every time I hear them on the radio, but at the same time I love listening to those albums, even those particular songs. It's all about the context. Floyd made albums, not singles.

And who are you calling hippies? What are you, the drummer of that horrible band move the rabbit?

sorry, I couldn't resist. I was missing all the recent drama threads.

Everything before "The Wall" is quality. Live In Pompeii is worth the price just for "Echoes" and "Us and Them" alone.

Honestly, I think older Pink Floyd is better.
But Steve, have you heard Amon Duul II?

animals is zeee best!

See, I should probably mention that I've seen The Wall 45 thousand times, but at a relatively young age (sophomore in high school), and most of the significance completely escaped me at the time. (My then-foster brother watched it four times a day, every day, on large amounts of acid, for about a month straight. So I'd come home from school and he'd be sort of sitting there staring at the TV, unreachable. For me it was just a blur of hammers and shaved eyebrows, but I'm imagining it'd be easier to get into now.)

Amon Who What?

that movie is amazing.

Amon Duul II. Check 'em out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_D%C3%BC%C3%BCl_II

Check out the album "Yeti"

hey...who this?

Ha - So after making a big show of asking, I went ahead and DLed "Piper at the Gates of Dawn," ignoring all the advice I was given. Which is typical of me. We'll see where I go next.

unlike anything they've done since that...definitely an interesting album

naw thats a good record you just gotta take in fact that syd barret wrote most of the early stuff where roger waters wrote the 70s stadium rock stuff



sean......now whats your a/s/l

sean who? i know many seans!! whats a/s/l

I so love early Pink Floyd

Steve you should watch the Live at Pompeii DVD

haha sean shrapnel

Get "Relics" ..my favorite song of that era is the nile song .

I ain't sean him for years.

go shower hippie

oh....whats good fucker!

weed, titties, and free money

dont forget beer!!

like the beatles, pink floyd varies a lot over its career. The most popular were Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. Both of those are good times all the way through.

Wish You Were Here is also good, as is Animals.

anyone else ever prefer moody blues or king crimson to floyd?

Oh man, Moody Blues. My dad was obsessed with them.

woo!

The Wall is my favorite...and watch the movie now-it's way better when you get it. Wish You Were Here, Dark Side and Animals are all good shit.

Piper was OK. Definitely different, and it must've been pretty jarring for its time. Ummagumma, I liked a lot. (More the studio disc than the live one, but both were good.) I'll probably do Dark Side, next - believe it or not, I've never actually listened to that record.

I prefer the stuff with Syd. Less stuffy. Do it.

he did, he downloaded Piper at the Gates first

haha woops. I tend to not read things before I reply.

obscured by clouds
more soundtrack

find bootlegs from 1970

that is a good one, opening song kills

obscured by clouds
atom heart mother
animals
MEDDLE

all Pink floyd is worth buying, there are no disappointments.

umm final cut

bennyhillifier

bennyhillifier

bennyhillifier

Live in Pompeii.

Re-actor
Meddle
Dark side Of The moon. (played to death by classic rock stations, but who cares.)
Saucerful Of secrets
More Soundtrack
ummagumma - The live tracks are amazing. The rest is like a bad acid trip. (You might enjoy it.)

Oh, and The Wall.

as far as i'mconcerned you can't go wrong with anything , i even like "the final cut". i don't own anything without Roger Waters

the live 2disc set of the wall called Is there anybody out there is incredible

love this band, so much

do you have that live set from the garden and can i get a copy

yes and yes

i could download yahoo messenger, you around for a while?

Is that the one where they are in the empty coliseum?
That one rules.

yeah got blown off tonight so with no ride ill be in till someone wants to come get me.

Obscured By Clouds



Wish You Were Here

oh and just because everyone was jizzing all over Animals (Pink Floyd without Syd ain't Pink Floyd IMO):

Animals

i understand the sentiment, you gotta admit though, for losing there primary songwriter they did pretty good