Thread: Favourite Pink Floyd songs?

I saw Pink Floyd, minus Roger Waters, in Dallas back in....um....say, 1992 or so. It was a great show, worth driving four hours for and avoiding the tornadoes on the way home.


They came to Austin back in 1986 I believe and I chickened out of going...I was only 13 and had no one to go with.

I won't make that mistake again with any super band.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

...while I was falling asleep and I hit that incredible point where music becomes the most beautiful thing you can imagine and it seems to be more than just sound, it becomes the entire universe surrounding you and pulsing through you...

I tried explaining this to my mom once and she thought I was high...I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one

Originally Posted by Xei

They didn't deny it was about drugs; that whole album is clearly psychedelic, something the Beatles were pretty straight about. Lennon just said the title was a coincidence. He also pointed out that he had no reason to lie, as he was always candid about all of the other drug references and stuff. The title actually came from a picture his son drew of a classmate; Lucy is a real person, the drawing does indeed exist, and loads of other people corroborate it (here is a Snopes article, in fact).

There are marijuana leaves on the cover of the album, so they clearly were not denying that they were into drugs in general. McCartney even admitted in an interview in the late 60's that he had done LSD. John said he tripped on acid about 1,000 times. They still allowed a great mystery to go on about "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and what it's about.

I just checked Wikipedia, and it says Paul admitted in 2004 that the song is about LSD. I didn't know that until just then. However, I don't think there has been an admission yet that the initials of the title were meant to be LSD. That is what keeps the chatter going. You and I are chattering about it now. I think John's story about Julian's nursery school painting is a total crock. John wrote a song about acid trips, and the initials of the title are LSD, but John didn't realize the "coincidence" until after the album was released? Yeah, right.

Animals is their best album. Wish You Were Here and Obscured by Clouds are awesome too. And The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. And Meddle. I only like a few songs from Dark Side of the Moon (On The Run is cool, probably the first techno song) and The Wall got boring fast.

Wish You Were Here is my favourite from Pink Floyd

It's hard to pinpoint my absolute favourite songs. Shine On You Crazy Diamond fukken rules, but the panic attack I had while the song "Welcome To The Machine" was playing in my head and associating with the feeling of dying, was LIFE CHANGING. In probably the worst way possible but nonetheless, the most intense effect of a song ever.

I'd like to try to describe the panic attack in a bit more detail... because it was a pretty interesting experience, definitely a drug induced moment that felt like psychosis for a split moment. Luckily there's nothing lingering from it.

Standing there washing dishes with Lindsey, prolly about midnight or so, and Lindsey is telling me about how her mom leaves so many cups out on the counter. I am feeling fuzzy, my brain fried from the dxm trip/in the comedown I feel sizzling, and my slow response is "she leaves coffee in some of the cups, about halfway..." and then I realize something is off with my response. At first I felt like it was genuinely a proper response. There was a song repeating in my mind at this time, something that felt like it was perfectly fitting for the mood, Welcome to the Machine by Pink Floyd.

The rest of the panic attack can be described like being on a conveyor belt towards a pit in hell, heading towards what felt like "death", and on either side of the conveyor belt, were like "things" calling out behind prison bars. Imagine walking through a prison corridor with hands reaching out, telling you, "WELCOME" but in the most sick and twisted and at the same time depressed and tormented way. Beckoning my into the depths of hell.

The song continuied to repeat in my head, and it clicked that "Welcome to the machine" was, in my mind, a metaphor for being pulled into death. I looked around me, and everything was hollow. There was a certain disconnect, like I had floated out of my body, my "self" had poured out of my face, it really looked like my vision had fallen and was just sinking. There was no sense of self, I really did feel dead, but in such a cold, silent way, that was utterly terrifying.

Luckily it didn't last long, afterwards I was horribly shaken, apparently I'd been shaking and just looked really terrified.

Also, isn't there a fuller version of Speak To Me with the vocals/screaming that last a lot longer? That would have to be another one of my favourites. The vocals are just so intense, feels like such a crazy metaphor for being pulled out of your mind.

Echoes is my favorite song by pink floyd. Time is my second favorite.

Originally Posted by Woodstock

The Wall. I think it's more like one long song than just an album.

Originally Posted by Woodstock

... The Wall got boring fast.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

Look at the dates on both of those posts. 2 months is long enough to get tired of an album. And to answer the question (again): currently, my favorite Pink Floyd song is Welcome to the Machine.