[This message has been edited by inbetween (edited December 04, 1999).]

it is the best!!! lots of instrumental stuff.

(and that trick with wizard of oz works too!!)

-paco

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dance your cares away (buh buh)
worries for another day....
let the music play (buh buh)
down in fraggle rock
**down in fraggle rock**
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Shortly after that incredible, psychedelic album, they lost their creative genius Syd Barrett, and ever since then they went downhill, just coasting on his brilliance. They tried to make up for it with orchestral sounds & big stadiums & pomp, trying to re-capture it, but never quite succeeding.

PacoDG: What is this Wizard of Oz trick, with Dark Side?

Anyone seen that movie 'The Valley' that Obscured by Clouds is supposed to be the soundtrack for? (right?) Is it worth checking out?

Ok that's a bit unfair, but if you're like most people and all you've ever heard of P.Floyd is 'the Wall' or 'Dark Side of the Moon' ... check out the early material - you don't know what you're missing!

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If God ate mushrooms, would he see people? -- Steven Wright

The post up there is right, once you trip out listening to Floyd you do start a collection.
Mine consists of Wish You Were Here, Dark Side Of The Moon, The Wall, Momentary Lapse of Reason, and Division Bell.
The Wall is the only one I have had for more than 5 months.

Early Alan Parsons is a really good mix
with early Floyd, I guess because Parsons
was the mixing engineer for the classic
early floyd albums?

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The Doktor
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Each day has 24 hours
Each case of beer has 24 bottles
Coincidence?
I think not
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Dark Side - Classic; backbone of Pink Floyd's fame; allows you to float away

The Wall - Groove filled beats, very rebellious and packed with strong emotion; I listen to this album when the world isn't going my way

A Suacerful of Secrets - My favorite; very dark and bass oriented; puts you in a dark cave with only your mind to keep you company

Obscured By Clouds - Upbeat and creative; Floyd's most underrated album

Wish You Were Here - this album grows on you; it's very reflective and powerful

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd's first album; IF YOU DON'T LIKE LATE 60'S BRITISH ROCK THEN DON'T GET THIS ALBUM.

This should give you a good start. You can't go wrong if you start with Dark Side or the Wall. Trust me, once you listen to those two, you'll be hooked like all the rest of us. I bought all of my Pink Floyd albums in a span of 3 months!

Good luck

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Sometimes I feel like a nut; sometimes I...uh, yeah.

These are neat little tricks, but I prefer to stick with just the music and have the video happen in your head. Meddle is truly the best of the lesser known PF albums. Any new floyd fan should definitely check that one out. Echoes is contoured like a trip itself.

Its All Good!!!!!!

MM

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Seeing is believing.

-Primate

Animals is based on George Orwells book "Animal Farm" and Wish you were here is about Syd Barret...