Webfoot wrote: 

I just visited Eugene for the first time.  I suspect there are ALOT of Floyd fans in Eugene

 sbegf wrote: 
oh man, how fun was that?

 WonderLizard wrote: 
I am jealous, I would love to discover Pink Floyd all over again...

Universal art is that without time. This song could have been recorded last week or 40 years ago.

 drictor wrote: 

Well, US worker productivity is down this year.. Mine is down 16.8% since listening to RP.  However, my depression is down 23.7%, so that's a net gain in my book!

Excellent segue from Sarah McLachlan into this.

Until I started listening to RP regularly some 8+ years ago, I had not been much of a Pink Floyd fan. Oh, I knew who they were, the band members, the tragedy of Syd Barrett, and so on. But just weren't on my radar. They are now. I haven't rushed out and scooped up their entire back catalog, but I'm enjoying, many years after their heyday, their frequency on RP and getting to know and understand them as a band—indeed subtly different bands with the inevitable personnel changes.

Still epic genius after all these years - bravo gentlemen, bravo.

Bill, you're ruining my concentration!  Productivity 0, song 11.

 Jeff09 wrote: 
..and 'round and 'round and 'round.

10

 Proclivities wrote: 
The Khadafi of Floyd fans; eek.

Simply stupendamundus.  All other albums could turn to ash - if I had this one, I'd survive.

This may just be an underrated album.

 GermanG wrote: 


I mean contemporary history... right now...  all the way back to when we first sang, at the singing stage of evolution...  they didn't have any albums back then?  Were they cassettes?  I am rusty on technological evolution, but this album is the best since the formation of our solar system...

this is a great song...  absolutely incredible...  I remember when it can out...  feels like centuries ago...  time flies when I'm having fun...  sigh...

 

The rating knobs really need to go to 11 for tracks like this one.

 romeotuma wrote: 
While I agree with you, the fact that the history of humanity only had albums since the 20th Century made me smile....

One of my all-time favorites... a hands-down 10

 Deadwing wrote: 
Fearless is one of my faves too. the whole Meddle album in fact....

9 out of 10 doctors recommend Pink Floyd as a treatment for Dengue fever...

This and Fearless from Meddle are my favorite PF songs 

 breakloose wrote: 
Nice: kill all those who do not share your views. 

 chasech5 wrote: 

Can you imagine, it's 6:36 am in CA, but it's 3:36 pm in the Netherlands and boy is this song making me sleepy...

Nah. Its not that early stateside. Great way to wake up. Using the RP iTouch app with a radio dock.

===

Sjaaks wrote: 

I'm probably the only one here:

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwnnnnn

 smackiepipe wrote: 

I have it and it is interesting indeed. Particularly the scenes during the actual recording process. You hear sax solos and other parts that were modified and rearranged for the final take. And my feeling was that the final versions were perfect and could not be better. Also interesting was the actual mixing process when "all hands on deck" were required to push virtually all the faders during some segues.

 Proclivities wrote: 

To quote another famous Floyd album... "if I had may way I'd have all of you shot"

 unclehud wrote: 
People with "limited imaginations" tend to be very comformist.  They may be likely to think listening to the third-largest-selling album in the history of recorded music (and criticizing those who disagree with them), is doing something rebellious, imaginative, and individualistic (I don't mean you, or anyone else here specifically, unclehud). 
I can't say that I've ever "hated" any of this album - I even had it on 8-track in the mid-70's - but I am certainly tired of hearing most of it, particularly this dirge.  Others here obviously enjoy it immensely, and probabaly not because they want to "conform": that's cool too.  I can change the station when this "suite" comes on, but that does not mean that I have a "limited imagination".
-Peace

The Classic Albums program of the making of this album was excellent. Anyone ever catch it on cable? It's also available on DVD. If you never saw it, here's a description.