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I think it might be the definitive Pink Floyd song. Long but not an epic, strong keyboard/synth presence, not too acoustic, not too heavy. What do you think is their best?

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At this point, you should probably know that I have no idea what I'm talking about, but . . . anything on Animals? My favorite Floyd songs are "Free Four" and "Time," but there are affective reasons for that.

"Free Four" is good. A lot of Obscured by Clouds is good but it gets overlooked. "Wot's....uh, the Deal?" is terrific.

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that's one of my favorite albums--my lit teacher when i was 15 copied it for me. bought the album a week later, the cd a year later, and have played it (in some fashion) in every class i ever taught.

Time is probably the best known on Darkside, but Us & Them is the best song on the album. As far as difinitive Floyd, Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb. Mother is my favorite.

As to the original question, worst song by a favorite band, Rock the Casbah by the Clash and I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith are 1a and 1b in my world.

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I'm gonna maybe say something unpopular and say that no cut off The Wall can be definitive Floyd because of what a departure its production was from everything up to that point. (Side note: if you haven't already, check out Lou Reed's Berlin, another Bob Ezrin production, and try to conceptualize it as a spiritual precursor to The Wall. It's not nearly as sprawling or rawk-operatic, but both albums pretty well shout at you THIS IS A SAD ALBUM, WE ARE SONICALLY MANIPULATING YOU INTO FEELING SAD, EVERYTHING IS VERY SERIOUS AND AWFUL AND SAD.)

"Wish You Were Here" is a favorite of mine but leans too heavily on acoustic guitar, which I've never felt is a signature sound of theirs. "Have a Cigar" would be another candidate, but they farmed out the lead vocals to Roy Harper, so that's out. I could certainly hear an argument for "Pigs" on the same basis as mine for "Us and Them."

Is this a Pink Floyd thread yet? I feel like I should revisit them. If nothing else, I need to re-rip all my CDs, they're all 128 kb/s .wmas from 2004! How shameful!

EDIT: thought it is dubiously impressive that through all my dead laptops over the years, I managed to hang onto rips from the summer after high school.

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I can see all of your points...and this really doesn’t become a Pink Floyd thread until Frank whines about how much they suck.

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Water is wet
The sun rises in the east
Pink Floyd is terrible
Caller Bob is an genius

Poetry.

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You forget "Jimmy Page is Overrated"

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