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Thanks, I'll try those! :)

Like many Pink Floyd fans I think breaking up Floyd albums into a song by song basis really take away a lot of their impact. You don't get to enjoy the experience of the album when the songs are played outside of the whole. Just what I think, TB.

Well, yeah. Might be true, but I just want a nice playlist over all my favorite songs. So this is just the way I'm doing it. :s
 

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Like many Pink Floyd fans I think breaking up Floyd albums into a song by song basis really take away a lot of their impact. You don't get to enjoy the experience of the album when the songs are played outside of the whole. Just what I think, TB.
Thats what I think as well about most if not all prog bands I listen to. Gotta listen to the entire albums of every second to enjoy the songs.
 

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Thanks, I'll try those! :)



Well, yeah. Might be true, but I just want a nice playlist over all my favorite songs. So this is just the way I'm doing it. :s

I still highly recommend listening to their albums start to finish.
 

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Like many Pink Floyd fans I think breaking up Floyd albums into a song by song basis really take away a lot of their impact. You don't get to enjoy the experience of the album when the songs are played outside of the whole. Just what I think, TB.

Yes that is exactly the way I approach almost all my favorite albums and it's especially true for concept albums they are intended to be played in sequence.:D
 

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I still highly recommend listening to their albums start to finish.

Well yeah, I'll do that :D
I just don't want all of pink floyds song to be on my playlist after I've sorted out which ones I like and those that I don't like. :)
 

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Well yeah, I'll do that :D
I just don't want all of pink floyds song to be on my playlist after I've sorted out which ones I like and those that I don't like. :)

I used to think along those lines, and still do to an extent. You'll find more that you like. Try Dark Side or The Wall if you don't want to go in order. I can see you liking Have a Cigar too from WYWH. I really am not a fan of their earlier stuff though. You seem to not like that sort of thing either :grinthumb
 

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Ill need to give the really early albums another listen to give my proper thoughts on those.
But until then I have to give Wish You Were Here another spin. That and Animals I can't get enough of. :D
 

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ah, youth....

That made me smile when I read it Architect.:)

One thing about dinosaurs like myself...:D...we grew up with vinyl albums and playing them in order was just natural. I never got up and skipped a track when I was listening to a record, sure some songs were better than others but generally speaking artists adapted very well to the 40 minute time restrictions on a record you didn't get nearly as much "filler" as you do on a 70+ minute CD nowadays. Although CD's are going extinct too, within 5 years everything will be dowloaded/digital copies only from music to movies and games. Can't say I'm happy about that either.

Anyway, it's become a habit for me, even now the only CD's I mess around with when it comes to order are compilations otherwise I play the albums from beginning to end in order always.

I am pleased to see younger people getting into Pink Floyd even if they are "cherry picking" favorite songs off their old classic albums.;)
 

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I think there are certain bands one can just listen to songs because that's how their albums are put together: just collections of songs. They don't tell a story or evoke a certain mood or atmosphere. Pink Floyd is not one of those bands, nor is Rush for example.

Led Zeppelin III is one of those albums for me I have to listen to the whole thing start to finish. It just evokes a warm summer day to me, lazing in a field somewhere in rural England. (not that I've ever been to England but LZIII would be my soundtrack to that scene)

But AC/DC, Queen, The Doors, ZZ Top, etc. give me a greatest hits collection and I'll be fine. :)
 

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