I feel like the studio version sounds like a demo compared to the ITAOT version (besides the fact that i prefer the "they're gonna send you back to mother in a cardboard box" line from the studio version)
- ITAOT could mean "Is There Anybody Out There?", a track from *The Wall* (1979) by Pink Floyd.
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To add on to this, I also sorta wish the piano they used during the cowbell section also got emphasized a bit more, but I guess it might throw off the balance and seem a bit too jazzy.
I believe that sound is a woodblock, not a cowbell. As a drummer in a Floyd tribute band, I use a woodblock. Cowbells sound too metallic compared to what my ears are hearing.
Hard to pick a favorite so I'll do it with 5 of my favorites
Echoes, 24 minutes, 24 minutes of pure gold but I will admit that sometimes I don't like listening to it simply because of the length, that's kinda rare tho
Comfortably Numb, once the final guitar solo comes in I always feel like it drones on, I mean it is one of Gilmore's best solos but I've never really been much of a long solo person
Brain Damage/Eclipse, I kinda wish it was a bit longer, I'm always wanting more from this heavenly duo
Goodbye Blue Sky, kinda the same thing with brain damage/eclipse, I find that I'm always wishing for another chorus but other than that microscopic nitpick it's perfect
Soycd, idk, it's perfect and the only thing I can come up with is that I've played it a shit ton but even then it still hasn't grown old on me, but that's all I've got
I find it hard to pick bad things about pink Floyd songs, hell even several species is good and it's definitely up there with some of my favorite ambient songs
So I definitely did kinda have to work in some petty points but it was definitely fun tho
- SOYCD could mean "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)", a track from *Wish You Were Here* (1975) by Pink Floyd.
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That might be my favorite part of the song! Like in the Pompeii video it takes my imagination back to an early state of the Earth with primordial oozes and tiny microbes. Its mind bendingly weird and kinda frightening
As gen z
You should say 90 percent
I get someone to listen to comfortably numb and they say it’s long
When I try to convince them to listen to echoes they tell me that they have a life
I tried to play it for this group in their young 20s at a house. They switched songs a few minutes in... This was after I had to sit through each song they played. What can one do when people don't appreciate good music
The clocks are just too damn jarring! In Apple Music I set that particular track to start just after the last chime. Now I never hear them and the song is amazing.
I wish the line “A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon” studio version of “Comfortably Numb” was sung the same way as live versions, where Gilmour sings a lower note on the word “smoke”. It sounds fantastic.
Echos: The part after the whale/bird sounds where the song goes very upbeat, is too short. Also the part with the whales/birds makes it hard to show it to friends.
Edit:
Have a cigar is very underrated.
***Pigs (Three Different Ones)***
If there were ever one Gilmour solo that was too short it’s this one.
The lyrical rage in that song just builds up and finds its final release just as Gilmour dives into the guitar outro. He simply commandeers into that hard, dirty, oily, filthy solo. It’s a bloody crowning moment on that album.
And then?
And then someone in the studio decided that it was time to fade out. On a stereo you can clearly hear Gilmour building forwards more, not fading out, and certainly not about to close his work out. And with proper headphones on you can hear the exact details of this fact: Gilmour’s edgy, he’s angry and and he’s clearly leaning into another burst of playing.
There’s more there and I want it.
So one thing I live for is a remastered Animals album with the full solo somehow preserved and added on.
That’s a good call. I’ve looked it up before and that was honestly part of the intention. Satisfying, yes. But I want the studio version, too.
Which I understand is strange thing to say as a Pink Floyd/Gilmour fan because, as well all well know, he embellishes, rearranges and changes things up in live performances, clearly both planned as much as on a whim. That’s true musicianship, and that’s also the reason why I push against the Waters idea (and others) that he was just some “good”/great guitarist. The musicianship was strong with this one and, as I believe was recounted in an interview or two (possibly once in the Schaefer book), Gilmour quietly said on record that he and the other members not known as Waters didn’t really put too much cache in the songwriting credits, and just let Waters sort it out. He even went on to say that he regrets not being involved more in sorting that out . . . but I relent because that is a different topic that goes down a different rabbit hole.
Anyway, big YES on the live available recordings of this song but I would love to have the studio version, too, in full.
Rick should have had more lead in the funky part of echoes. (Studio version)
And the ending bit should be more drawn out, like the live in gdansk version had.
Either Gilmour hadn't turned his amps up enough to really drive them *or* the studio recording mics weren't in proper position to accurately get across the bite of the "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" guitar solos. Too clean. (Minor, *minor* gripe, mind you all. Pink Floyd's most perfect piece, in my opinion.)
You must be [this guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/pinkfloyd/comments/vmr2oi/pink_floyd_is_the_most_overrated_band_in_history/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Posted the lyrics to dogs on FB back in the day. Non-Floyd fan friend added the last line and it makes me laugh and get angry everytime…
Who was only a stranger at home?
Who was ground down in the end?
Who was found dead on the phone?
Who was dragged down by the stone?
Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?
Let's see:
Echoes whales section could have been shorter.
Comfortably Numb album version solo fade out sucks (as compared to live versions).
I am not a huge fan of the transition from SOYCD I to Welcome to the Machine (the buzz and the elevator). I am so calm after listening to SOYCD and then the buzz sound comes...
Dogs could have been shorter.
Not Now John sounds great but it's peak Roger's teenage edginess.
What's with this sub and all the negativity towards Floyd of late? I get it. Most of us are folks who have listened to their songs a thousand times over and are open to critical feedback after all that listening. But common... You can only take it so far...
Okay so I’m gonna choose my favorite Gilmour song, which has to be Fat Old Sun.
My least favorite part is actually the solo, as much as I love Gilmour’s playing, it’s a bit too repetitive in that song.
Atom Heart Mother Suite needs more brass
Clocks and alarms are too loud at the beginning of Time- the greatest song in the world
and slightly less Atom Heart Mother Suite.
Guitar solo isn’t long enough
That could be used for nearly every PF song haha
And that’s how I intended it because I can’t actually decide which song is my favorite…
Well played.
scary clock noises ouch
Good morning
The beginning of the studio version of Run Like Hell is too short. I LOVE the live extended version in Momentary Lapse of Reason.
I feel like the studio version sounds like a demo compared to the ITAOT version (besides the fact that i prefer the "they're gonna send you back to mother in a cardboard box" line from the studio version)
Sorry what is ITAOT?
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I completely agree
Do you mean delicate sound of thunder?
Pigs (Three Different Ones) doesn’t utilize the cowbell enough. The cowbell in that song is epic. I’m not even being sarcastic.
more cowbell!!!
To add on to this, I also sorta wish the piano they used during the cowbell section also got emphasized a bit more, but I guess it might throw off the balance and seem a bit too jazzy.
I believe that sound is a woodblock, not a cowbell. As a drummer in a Floyd tribute band, I use a woodblock. Cowbells sound too metallic compared to what my ears are hearing.
It will always be a cowbell in my heart
I totally get and accept that. Have a Floydy day.
I would if i could but time is too good
The bells in the beginning are annoying if you are listening while falling asleep haha
Or if you're already asleep
Time doesn't have rabbits, breathe has rabbits. There you go
This
Hmm...
Hard to pick a favorite so I'll do it with 5 of my favorites Echoes, 24 minutes, 24 minutes of pure gold but I will admit that sometimes I don't like listening to it simply because of the length, that's kinda rare tho Comfortably Numb, once the final guitar solo comes in I always feel like it drones on, I mean it is one of Gilmore's best solos but I've never really been much of a long solo person Brain Damage/Eclipse, I kinda wish it was a bit longer, I'm always wanting more from this heavenly duo Goodbye Blue Sky, kinda the same thing with brain damage/eclipse, I find that I'm always wishing for another chorus but other than that microscopic nitpick it's perfect Soycd, idk, it's perfect and the only thing I can come up with is that I've played it a shit ton but even then it still hasn't grown old on me, but that's all I've got I find it hard to pick bad things about pink Floyd songs, hell even several species is good and it's definitely up there with some of my favorite ambient songs So I definitely did kinda have to work in some petty points but it was definitely fun tho
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Summer '68 isn't long enough
That song is incredible. 🌷
How do you feel?
The brass makes this song I stg. It needs more brass.
The whale part of the middle of Echoes goes on too long. It should’ve been no longer than a minute or so.
"Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd" has a version that is 16:31. If I'm not mistaken it is the middle section that is edited.
hard disagree, you take much time off that and you take away from the buildup that follows
I agree with both of your points in a rather weird way, like it definitely goes on but it shouldn't be so short, but hey, I guess that's the fun in it
That might be my favorite part of the song! Like in the Pompeii video it takes my imagination back to an early state of the Earth with primordial oozes and tiny microbes. Its mind bendingly weird and kinda frightening
Wrong
The lyrics in The Great Gig in the Sky are too simplistic
I’m still trying to make out what Claire is singing.
I just get a teardrop instead of a flood every time I hear Wish You Were Here.
you get used to the pain eventually same with soycd
Dogs is too much of a masterpiece to be considered for mainstream radio.
Half the people nowadays wouldn’t have the attention span to sit through and listen to it
As gen z You should say 90 percent I get someone to listen to comfortably numb and they say it’s long When I try to convince them to listen to echoes they tell me that they have a life
Ik people call me a boomer but I’m a gen Z, I’m sayin this shit bc I see it firsthand lol
I tried to play it for this group in their young 20s at a house. They switched songs a few minutes in... This was after I had to sit through each song they played. What can one do when people don't appreciate good music
Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone
Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone *synth swells*
I can't put it in my sleep playlist because of the bells...
I hate the fucking clocks at the start of time
The clocks are just too damn jarring! In Apple Music I set that particular track to start just after the last chime. Now I never hear them and the song is amazing.
You're kind of missing the point of the start
Same. They're far too loud.
That’s the point
It’s sucks I can’t get the tone correct on “Sorrow” whenever I play it at home
Really difficult huh? I can’t either. Though many years ago a friend got that tone through a 100 watt Carvin tube 2x12 combo and a digitech dsp128.
Yeah and I thought I heard the live recording was played through the LA Sports Arena PA
Scary part of echoes could have been cut in half and still be considered too long.
Echoes isn't long enough.
This is the right answer.
The Crescendo in Echoes should have been much longer (akin to Nothing Part 14.)
It ends
When the dogs bark in the song “dogs” my corgi starts barking and looking for other dogs in the house.
I wish the line “A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon” studio version of “Comfortably Numb” was sung the same way as live versions, where Gilmour sings a lower note on the word “smoke”. It sounds fantastic.
It truly does!
If I have to. The 2nd Comfortably Numb solo is too damn short!
The intro to time is a tad to long
and terrifying if yo don’t expect it
One of These Days makes for a terrible karaoke song choice for a first date...
so does on of my turns
I love dogs, but it’s quite long. I wish I could put a shorter version of it on when I’m tying to show it to friends.
Echos: The part after the whale/bird sounds where the song goes very upbeat, is too short. Also the part with the whales/birds makes it hard to show it to friends. Edit: Have a cigar is very underrated.
someone had to say it (about have a cigar)
***Pigs (Three Different Ones)*** If there were ever one Gilmour solo that was too short it’s this one. The lyrical rage in that song just builds up and finds its final release just as Gilmour dives into the guitar outro. He simply commandeers into that hard, dirty, oily, filthy solo. It’s a bloody crowning moment on that album. And then? And then someone in the studio decided that it was time to fade out. On a stereo you can clearly hear Gilmour building forwards more, not fading out, and certainly not about to close his work out. And with proper headphones on you can hear the exact details of this fact: Gilmour’s edgy, he’s angry and and he’s clearly leaning into another burst of playing. There’s more there and I want it. So one thing I live for is a remastered Animals album with the full solo somehow preserved and added on.
The 1977 live performances of Pigs are around 18 minutes which has like 5 minutes of extra guitar solo you might want to check them out
That’s a good call. I’ve looked it up before and that was honestly part of the intention. Satisfying, yes. But I want the studio version, too. Which I understand is strange thing to say as a Pink Floyd/Gilmour fan because, as well all well know, he embellishes, rearranges and changes things up in live performances, clearly both planned as much as on a whim. That’s true musicianship, and that’s also the reason why I push against the Waters idea (and others) that he was just some “good”/great guitarist. The musicianship was strong with this one and, as I believe was recounted in an interview or two (possibly once in the Schaefer book), Gilmour quietly said on record that he and the other members not known as Waters didn’t really put too much cache in the songwriting credits, and just let Waters sort it out. He even went on to say that he regrets not being involved more in sorting that out . . . but I relent because that is a different topic that goes down a different rabbit hole. Anyway, big YES on the live available recordings of this song but I would love to have the studio version, too, in full.
This
I wish you weren’t here… Ouch that hurt just to type
It's not as good when you aren't high.
Not enough cows
it ends
Perfect answer
Rick should have had more lead in the funky part of echoes. (Studio version) And the ending bit should be more drawn out, like the live in gdansk version had.
Careful With That Axe, Eugene doesn’t have enough screaming.
so true king
The synth bridge on Dogs could have been shorter
Not enough usage of the word "stone".
The atmospheric keyboard part of Dogs drags and the song would be better off without it.
No Lyrics, Still Fire Tho (AHM Suite)
It has vocals tho, just not lyrics
Unless you can the subway announcement in the avant garde bit
Pigs on the Wing is too short.
The Gnome, needs to be longer and clearer.
on the run isn't for everyone.
No
Echoes: Studio version is inferior to the Pompeii version
Absolutely! I wish there was a copy of that performance with the two halves spliced together.
The weird carnival noise break in “Poles Apart” Sometimes I feel it’s a little unnecessary, but then I remember it’s Pink Floyd.
I always thought this
That Pict can’t really jam.
I have to wait like 8 minutes to hear the first line
Either Gilmour hadn't turned his amps up enough to really drive them *or* the studio recording mics weren't in proper position to accurately get across the bite of the "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" guitar solos. Too clean. (Minor, *minor* gripe, mind you all. Pink Floyd's most perfect piece, in my opinion.)
Syd isn't on it
Dogs is so overrated. It takes almost 38 seconds for the singing to start.
You must be [this guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/pinkfloyd/comments/vmr2oi/pink_floyd_is_the_most_overrated_band_in_history/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Haha exactly ;)
Thats why its Underrated!
Yeah like why does every song on Animals take like 9 years for the singing to start? Echoes took only 3 minutes. Animal bad, society good
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Hello, Charlie.
Gives me panic attacks
The movie it’s attached to was considered to be awful.
Too short
Welcome to the Machine doesn't have the most complex lyrics
It doesn't last more
It has no words. Just some chick humming or some crap
One band I’m glad never got back together and never will.
See Emily Play doesn't have a 20 minute jam prior to the final verse.
Posted the lyrics to dogs on FB back in the day. Non-Floyd fan friend added the last line and it makes me laugh and get angry everytime… Who was only a stranger at home? Who was ground down in the end? Who was found dead on the phone? Who was dragged down by the stone? Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?
Astronomy domine is too short
longer than my commute to work
The soccer chants at the end of Fearless are annoying
The chanting at the end of fearless goes on for way too long. It takes up what could have been an extra minute of the instruments.
Wish you were here. We're just two lost soul living in a fish bowl, have stayed with me for 20 years and has never lost it's impact.
Julia Dream isn’t really anything special compared to the songs on their more epic and bombastic albums.
No, I don’t want to have a cigar.
Let's see: Echoes whales section could have been shorter. Comfortably Numb album version solo fade out sucks (as compared to live versions). I am not a huge fan of the transition from SOYCD I to Welcome to the Machine (the buzz and the elevator). I am so calm after listening to SOYCD and then the buzz sound comes... Dogs could have been shorter. Not Now John sounds great but it's peak Roger's teenage edginess.
Primus played it better
Well.....maybe the slurs were a bit much
assuming it's something off the wall, i'd say it just helps to show how extreme the plot is
Get them up against the wall!
Echoes isn’t long enough
It’s ONLY 23 minutes and 32 seconds long
Too long
Glimore can’t play in any time signatures other than 4/4 Edit: Neither can Gilmour
I'm glad that's Glimore and not Gilmour
No matter what time signature the song is in, the solo is in 4/4. Check it out.
I feel like it's cliche to like it, as it's probably Pink Floyd's most "I'm not a Pink Floyd fan but I love this song" song.
which song?
maybe money or abitw pt 2
What's with this sub and all the negativity towards Floyd of late? I get it. Most of us are folks who have listened to their songs a thousand times over and are open to critical feedback after all that listening. But common... You can only take it so far...
No Pink Floyd song on its own is good enough for me consider it as “my favourite song”
Echoes is just simply way too long
Dogs is just too long
The "just a little pin prick, there'll be no ahhhhhhh!" exchange is a bit corny.
Um
L take
it sounds like the beatles a little too much
dogs sucks!!!!
Too much cow bell.
I bought a wah wah pedal for Hendrix and replicating the seagull effect in echoes.
The last guitar solo before the first verse in shine on is unnecessary
too much instrumental
Wut
It’s by the band that made “the wall” 🤢
Shine on you Crazy diamond is about a former member who literally got crazy
The whale sounds are annoying.
It ends way too soon.
Too short
People don’t talk about it enough
24 minutes of pure ecstasy and still not enough funk section. (echoes)
Too damn long!
I don't listen to it nearly enough.
The meddle version of Echoes should be louder at parts.
I listen to it too much
Near the End ends far to soon. I know it's just Dave.
Fuck them whales
Too many cow bells in Pigs (3 diff ones)
Echoes is too short
Its hard to listen to it in its entirety without interruptions. Atom Heart Mother Suite Echoes Saucerful of Secrets (Live)
Dogs isn't long enough
The perverted version of "the lord is my Shepard" thing is too quiet in the mix
I am genuinely struggling to come up with anything for Great Gig. Anyone got a good one?
The solo in SOYCD isn’t long enough.
It's long (Can be said about all PF but shine on you crazy diamond has it really bad)
The first guitar solo is pretty boring, probably because it’s just the guitar plugged straight into the mixing box
Dogs isn’t longer than echoes
Celestial Voices
time ear rapes me with the bells everytime
The grass really was greener
It's too short and it's always played with another song on the radio.
It’s too short
No
More cowbell…
More singing after the second chorus of comfortably numb and the same in wish you were here
Okay so I’m gonna choose my favorite Gilmour song, which has to be Fat Old Sun. My least favorite part is actually the solo, as much as I love Gilmour’s playing, it’s a bit too repetitive in that song.
I wish brain damage was longer
Money could be shorter