Squonk wrote:
If you could only take 3 Albums of Floyd on an Island, what would they Be?
Mine
Wish you were here
Meddle
A nice pair (the boxed Piper at the gates.. and Saucerful of Secrets)
I have every release, and as indicated above I love both (er.. make that three and 1/2) phases of the band. For some reason, these are the three that resonate with me:
The Final Cut
The Wall
DSOTM [or add, interchangeably,
Animals or
WYWH].
About the Waters/Gilmour/Barret debate, although its much more nuanced than this, isn't the bottom line not that all these combinations were just
different, and not
better/
worse?
The Final Cut IMO would never have been the album it is without Gilmour's two mind-blowing, soul-wrenching solos on
Fletcher Memorial Home and the title track. Any of Dave and Polly's lyrical musings on
Division Bell just starkly highlight the absence of Waters' lyrical brilliance. The whimsical catchiness, and simple musicality, of some of the Syd stuff vs t
he Wall and
Final Cut are poles apart (oops, PF pun alert), but simply different.
And I think Wizard has pointed out an important observation - what perhaps bummed many guys out about the
Final Cut era was exactly the fact that it was so brutally sad. Personally and politically. I have never heard starker, more personal emotions than on the middle section of that title track. You don't make that up to fill an album. It sucked from you emotionally, and sometimes music is supposed to do the opposite - uplift, inspire, or simply make you wanna dance or get down and dirty - but better or worse? Those are IMO simply inapplicable and inappropriate paradigms in this discussion.
