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David Gilmour said "Wish You Were Here" is their best work and I tend to agree with that. Live @ Pompeii is also amazing
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:That was their best song, but Animals was their best album The entire WYWH album is my favorite. I like Animals but it's too bleak. I'd even prefer Meddle over Animals because the songs are relatively cheerful or upbeat and not intensely political / depressing
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Jul 26, 2014 06:45
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:ive listened to wish you were here a billion times and didnt notice until literally a couple hours ago that the last notes of shine on you crazy diamond are the tune to see emily play smdh weird, I've never noticed this before
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Jul 26, 2014 07:07
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Poorleg posted:I like it too. Not their best, but a few awesome moments. Yes Fletcher Memorial is awesome. Gilmour does some good guitar work on Fletcher Memorial Home and Not Now John. I like those two from Final Cut
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Jul 26, 2014 07:38
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Myron Baloney posted:It's as much what they don't seem to want to talk about as what they say, watch some youtube interviews maybe or read this I read that after the rest of the band had sort of severed ties with him and he was no longer a band member, Gilmour was curiously enough the one who still would go visit him and make sure he was receiving all his royalty monies and so on.
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Jul 27, 2014 08:04
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Prallax Litovsk posted:Confession time: I don't listen to PF much anymore and I also listened the poo poo out of Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking as well as Amused to Death. Gilmours solo stuff is good also, but comparing the albums to Waters' basically makes me think that however big of an rear end in a top hat Waters is, he must've been largely responsible for how thematically whole PF's albums were, because while Gilmour writes a kickass song, he can't (or just doesn't) integrate it into any album narrative. I definitely think of Waters as the de facto leader and muse for the band, with Gilmour as second in command. It seems like he began to develop an ego-complex once they started to become really famous and commercially successful (e.g., opting not to ride in the limousine to concerts with the rest of the band, but instead taking a helicopter). He wanted to kick Rick Wright out of the band circa The Wall / Final Cut, complained about Nick Mason not being able to keep time properly, and by the time they recorded the Final Cut, Gilmour was so sick of his bullshit that he was just coming in and recording his guitar tracks separately so they were not even both present in the studio simultaneously. Waters' solo albums are bleak / cynical and depressing and they lack Gilmour's airy vocals and awesome guitar work. Gilmour's are good musically but not as lyrically interesting or thematically consistent and cohesive, like you said. I think the synthesis of all 4 members' creative input was what made PF great, although Nick Mason sort of humbly admits that he was just along for the ride.
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