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Taking a Poll for my own gratification.
Do you like Pink Floyd with Roger Waters or Post Waters Floyd?
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1/3/2006, 1:30 pm
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Matilda Mother
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Re: Taking a Poll for my own gratification.
Hey Groovinpict..
This is a favorite question 
Sounds cool to get a beginning of the year perspective of what the hub members think.
Perhaps the hub has had an impact in determining which Floyd era resonates the best with floyd fans.
we'll add to the wall and invite people to give their responses and then come up with the preferences of various hub members from around the world.
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1/9/2006, 12:40 am
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Re: Taking a Poll for my own gratification.
I suppose that I should answer this since I started the thread.
I think that the years with Roger Waters were better than the post Waters time. There seemed to be more originality during that period. The Floyd was much better as a whole than when he left.
(I do like The division Bell but I had to listen a few times first.)
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1/9/2006, 8:18 pm
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Re: Taking a Poll for my own gratification.
Surely there can be no contest here? Although Roger arguably made the Floyd into his session band by the end of his tenure, his words, attitude and ideas lent at least as much to the popularity of the group as any of the tunes. IMHO.
Dave (and Rick) added their share of random brilliance, and maybe Roger needs his words to be tempered by their musical sensibilities to produce his best work (I see a similarity here with the Lennon/McCartney 'partnership', where the writers might become either too ascerbic or twee when left unchecked), but the enormous canon produced by RW cannot be compared with two albums without him.
(The Division Bell is growing on me too, damnit, but it still doesn't feel to me like 'proper' Floyd...Where's the insane laughter? Where are the screams of anger?)
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1/11/2006, 5:48 am
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Re: Taking a Poll for my own gratification.
My answer is pretty well rounded.
They sound like 2 different bands and I like both in different ways...
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3/21/2006, 1:12 pm
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Re: Taking a Poll for my own gratification.
I agree with M, PF didn't quite sound the same as they did on both AMLoR and Devison Bell. having that said, DSOTM didn't quite sound like AHM or Piper now did it, so in a way PF is like 3 different bands...
PF evolved over the years and post-Waters Floyd is yet another evolution. Of the post Waters stuff I like AMLoR best, maybe even better than The Final Cut. But overall I like the '70(AHM)-'83(Final Cut) era best.
Interestingly, the solo work of both Waters and Gilmour eclipses that of the latter day Floyd IMHO.
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Re: Taking a Poll for my own gratification.
I certainly agree with much of what has been said so far on this forum, I personally prefer Floyd with Waters as the were more lyrically strong but that is not to say that I don't like Floyd post Waters, Gilmour's guitar work is still immaculate and Mason is as tight as ever. The last Floyd gig that I made it to was at the Tennis Centre in Melbourne Australia in 1988, I was blown away by the experience. To find a sound desk recording of that very show was fantastic.
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8/15/2006, 9:21 am
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Re: Taking a Poll for my own gratification.
For me definitely with Waters! I like post waters, but the music just seems to be dry! Because it needs WATERs...lol, but I mean it.
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