Best Band....EVER!
How could I not post something about Floyd, my favorite band ever, even though just about everything had already been said?
My first Floyd--Dark Side, and yes, I would wear the shirt in an instant. Talk about a statement!
My favorites--Pre-Dark Side, post Syd. Atom Heart Mother--the song itself is a 25 minute instrumental, and the finale is another 12 minute long instrumental, Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast. Meddle is a classic, and Echoes is probably their best individual piece of work (note how their recent greatest hits collection was entitled "Echoes.")
Hidden Moment: Seamus from the album Meddle. A straightforward blues track with a hound dog howling in the background. The dog makes the track. The blues bit is interesting, as they were heavily influenced by blues artists, and the name Pink Floyd comes from two bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
Fact: They were not as completely drugged up as you might believe. Sure, they did drugs, it was the 60's, but Syd basically fried his brain on acid, and this freaked the rest of them out and they laid off.
Trippiest: Ummagumma by far.
Overall, while Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and the Wall were all great albums, I prefer the more experimental stuff they did earlier. For those of you who do not know their pre-Dark Side stuff, get down to your record store quickly!
