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Just wondering what the preferences of NSer's are.

Edit: Poll's up, vote away.

Time

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Time
Crap, I forgot Time.

How about Hey You, I happen to like that song.

Why dont you have a
- pink floyd sucks option?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
That song has to have my favorite lyrics ever.

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

Tell me those aren't amazing.

Why dont you have a
- pink floyd sucks option?
Blashphemy!

Why dont you have a
- pink floyd sucks option?

If you don't like Pink Floyd, why the hell are you in here posting in the first place?

I have never even heard of that cigar song, but last time I checked Money and Learning to Fly were pretty popular also.

If you don't like Pink Floyd, why the hell are you in here posting in the first place?

Just on the slight slight hope that floyd fans might be convinced that floyd doesnt even sound good while stoned + this would = less airplay on popular radio shows = less time I have to listen to it in elevators, common areas etc etc

If you should go skating on the thin ice of life, don't be surprised when a crack in the ice opens under your feet.

Also, Money and to a lesser extent Another Brick in the Wall.

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
Teacher leave the kids alone
HEY, TEACHER LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE

Why dont you have a
- pink floyd sucks option?

How bout just not voting then.... anyways i would vote for time if it was up there.

I voted for Comfortably Numb but I think the entire Animals Album is their master work.

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand 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 the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And 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 desparation in the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

There should be a poll over which pink floyd album's the best... I bet that'd be a close race.

Money.

Shine on you crazy diamond is by far the greatest PF song.

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Under the leaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Over the mountain watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun

The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun

Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his question to heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving
Set the controls for the heart of the sun

The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun

There should be a poll over which pink floyd album's the best... I bet that'd be a close race.

UmmaGumma.

Very, very hard to decide, but I had to go with Another Brick in the Wall...

Following the path as it leads towards the Darkness in the North
Weary strangers' faces show their sympathy
They've seen that hope before
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
Before you the night is beckoning
And you know you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't catch the words they say
Close your aching eyes beyond your name

Mist is swelling, creatures crawling,
Hear the roar get louder in your ears
You know the folly was your own
But the force behind can't conquer all your fears
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
Before you the night is beckoning
And you know you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't catch the words they say
Close your aching eyes beyond your name

Throw your thoughts back many years
To the time when there was life in every morning
Perhaps a day will come
When the nights will be as on that morning
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
Before you the night is beckoning
And you know you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't catch the words they say
Rest your weary head, be on your way.

What, no 'Mother'?

always been partial to Brain damage....make what you want of that, also I quite like One of these days, and Set the controls for the heart of the song...ofcourse i like all the afformentioned too, but since no noe mentioned these few, i thought I would.

Time
What he said.

Absolutely Time... but of those listed, Shine On... wins.

Uncorked. No wait, that's Keith Floyd.

Bike then (I know it's not on the list but it should be)

IMHO, the best track from The Wall, though it wasn't on the album.

I voted for Brain Damaged/Eclipse tho. :)

Well, it was close... it was either "Welcome to the Machine", or "Comfortably Numb"... and in the end, Comfortably Numb wins it...

Mainly because, while the Pink Floyd version is (of course) definitive, the Sisters of Mercy cover version is pretty amazing, too...

I don't think there are many Pink Floyd fans here. I do think, however, there are many fans of The Wall. To me The Wall is the beginning of the end for Floyd. It is a self-indugent and pretentious Roger Waters ego trip. He doesn't have the writing talent or the voice to carry a double album and the story line is just plan boring. There is nothing cutting edge or artistically interesting about the album.

You want real Floyd pick up Welcome to the Machine, Animals, or Dark Side of the Moon. If you want edgy, artisitically innovative Floyd dig back into the bin for Clouds, Atom Heart Mother, or Ummagumma.

To me The Wall is the most overrated album of all time.

To me The Wall is the most overrated album of all time.

Hear, hear. Give me edge over self-indulgence anyday.

I think another brick in the wall part II We don't need no education is the best because it describes the battle between free thought and institutionalized blind followership that is exemplified in western secularism versus religosity.

I think another brick in the wall part II We don't need no education is the best because it describes the battle between free thought and institutionalized blind followership that is exemplified in western secularism versus religosity.

A searing indictment of sociopolitical indoctrination?

*yawns*

Hey teacher, leave them kids alone...

Woh's... Uh the deal is a good Floyd song. Or Obscurred by Clouds.

Set The Controls for the Heart of The Sun !!!!

heart of the sun
heart of the sun

Time, or money. Both of those are the most amazing songs I have heard in a good long while. Then again, I only own 3 floyd albums: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and (slap my for my stupidity of 12 year-old ignorance at the time of buying) The *gasp* Division *choke* Bell *shudder*. I feel so dirty....

On another note, I think that things like Arnold Layne are quite randomly funny at times. Although it was probably meant to be ironic, or something. I do that a lot with songs, completely missing their meaning. I think I have aspergers or something

Time, or money. Both of those are the most amazing songs I have heard in a good long while. Then again, I only own 3 floyd albums: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and (slap my for my stupidity of 12 year-old ignorance at the time of buying) The *gasp* Division *choke* Bell *shudder*. I feel so dirty....

On another note, I think that things like Arnold Layne are quite randomly funny at times. Although it was probably meant to be ironic, or something. I do that a lot with songs, completely missing their meaning. I think I have aspergers or something

Well, it's about a transvestite caught stealing women's lingerie off clotheslines, you know...? I don't know, is that ironic?

I don't think there are many Pink Floyd fans here. I do think, however, there are many fans of The Wall. To me The Wall is the beginning of the end for Floyd. It is a self-indugent and pretentious Roger Waters ego trip. He doesn't have the writing talent or the voice to carry a double album and the story line is just plan boring. There is nothing cutting edge or artistically interesting about the album.

You want real Floyd pick up Welcome to the Machine, Animals, or Dark Side of the Moon. If you want edgy, artisitically innovative Floyd dig back into the bin for Clouds, Atom Heart Mother, or Ummagumma.

To me The Wall is the most overrated album of all time.

A guy I knew in college used to say that Dark Side of the Moon *was* the last Floyd album... he considered Animals and Wish you were here to be "precursors" to the Wall.

jeremy is teh win ! =P

I think the entire Animals Album is their master work.
Yes! :D

Well, it's about a transvestite caught stealing women's lingerie off clotheslines, you know...? I don't know, is that ironic?
Nope, just randomly funny. Although sometimes I swear some English people just invent Irony within songs/literature/art just to lord it over Americans. I'm English, and it annoys me

Echoes, the whole thing. Or One Of These Days

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Under the leaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Over the mountain watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun

The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun

Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his question to heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving
Set the controls for the heart of the sun

The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun

Love that song! It's 3rd...

All that you touch
And all that you see
All that you taste
All you feel

And All that you love
And All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save

And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg, borrow, or steal

And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say

And all that you eat
And everyone you meet
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight

And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon

There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark.

I gotta say, damn the woman on Dark Side can sing. She's got a hell of a voice.

The Great Gig in the Sky

Also can't forget Echoes

I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like

Say what you want now, but as soon as "Wish You Were Here" comes up during the gig, it's the one where EVERYBODY sings along at the top of their lungs. If there was a referendum, I'd vote it to be our new national anthem...

I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like

It's got a basket, a bell
That rings and things to make it look good

I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it

It's got a basket, a bell
That rings and things to make it look good

I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it
You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world...
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

Good song, but not the best Pink Floyd has to offer.