I'm trying to get into Pink Floyd.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

I'm a big fan of 70s rock, but I've never been that big on Pink Floyd. Not because I don't like them, but because I've never really been exposed to them beyond their "classic" songs like Money, etc.

So tonight I sat down and listened to Animals on a very good set of headphones and... Oh, my. Why the fuck didn't anyone tell me about this?!? Good lord, what beautiful music. I am beside myself.

[skygazer]

1. Under headphones is the best way to do it

Next try Dark Side. And then Wish You Were Here. Listen to WYWH on a beach if you can. There is something incredible about that music under headphones while watching waves crash. :hi:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. I've already gone through them.

Our media server at work has a ton of Pink Floyd. I've been working my way through their catalog. Jesus, One of These Days is possibly the best rock instrumental ever. I'm already playing with remixing it. But I still want to beat Gilmour over the head with his own guitar for the travesty he committed on Time. I like WYWH except for Welcome to the Machine, which gave me nightmares as a kid and doesn't fare any better now.

My boss has tickets to see Waters playing The Wall at the O2 arena in London... possibly the last time he'll be doing it. I think I should go.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. I'm glad you started with Animals - that's their best album, in my opinion!

Woo hoo!


Sorry it took you so long, but I'm happy as a lark that you are so thoroughly enjoying them with your first shot.

Good call on listening with headphones, too - Floyd really needs them.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. I use studio-quality headphones for listening to music.

Sony MDR V6es. You should try listening to the Flaming Lips' At War With the Mystics on good headphones sometime. Amazing stuff...

[Danger Mouse]

17. Animals IS a great album, definitely underrated.

Dogs, Pigs, and Sheep, all awesome.

[Bennyboy]

3. Meddle is where it's at!

I love the early stuff myself. Umagumma, Meddle,Saucerful of Secrets.....

[Dr. Strange]

4. Good choice.

Meddle and/or Wish You Were Here would be a good next step.

[lost-in-nj]

6. I third Meddle

:hi:


lost

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. I've already been through Meddle.

Not a huge fan of it, except for One Of These Days, which is possibly the best rock instrumental ever.

[Bennyboy]

9. There are some great live shows at Wolfgangs vault....

From various periods in the band's history. Not to mention every other single band that ever exisited. http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/

And you can dowload them with audacity. www.audacity.com

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. Dude, great find!

Many thanks!!!

[atomic-fly]

10. well

You have to be in the right frame of mind for them...cough,cough...but they are
a great band.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. 'Animals' was the first Pink Floyd album I heard in its entirety

and I also heard it the first time with headphones, in 1977. It has many interesting furri ani... uh, engineering tricks that you don't really get on room speakers, but at the time I wasn't politically savvy enough to really get the concept. (For one thing, I thought "Whitehouse" was a reference to the Mer'kin gummint.)

It's rather an overlooked album and remains my second PF favorite, after "The Wall."

[DS1]

12. Animals is great

Congrats on finding it!

[reformedrethug]

13. I remember when I was younger

Listening to some Floyd at a laser light show under the influence of some mind altering substances, MAN what an experience!!!

Even today when I hear Floyd I toke on the imaginary joint JUST because you have too.

[jpak]

15. "More" is highly recommended also

The cuts "Ibiza Bar" and "The Nile Song" especially...

[Orsino]

16. Animals is neat-o.

No hits on it, but all that groovy acoustic strumming is gorgeous.

[Danger Mouse]

18. For me...it's all about 'Echoes'....that most incredible rock song ever.

EVER.

[mitchum]

20. That's also the one for me

[Danger Mouse]

21. it's absolutely beautiful.

[mitchum]

19. Your time will come; Gilmour is bound to kick someone else out

:)

[Blue_In_AK]

22. Every Pink Floyd album is great

but my favorites are the early ones while Sid Barrett was still around. Piper at the Gates of Dawn was one of my very favorites in my early stoner days.

[Danger Mouse]

23. set the controls for the heart of the sun...

[Blue_In_AK]

24. It was just all so ................ trippy.

:hippie:

[Danger Mouse]

25. oh man, that whole album...i've never smoked weed, but if i did...

i would be listening to that.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. It's good on weed

and even better on acid. Ah, those were the days. It's a wonder I'm still here with brain cells intact.