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What song are you listening to right now

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Have one of my favorite albums open in iTunes right now, Therapy? ... Troublegum.

sandgk said:
I'd highly recommend Atom Heart Mother from the same group of kids.
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You can always identify a persons' degree of Pink Floyd-ness by how many albums removed from The Wall they are when they list their favorite Floyd album. Only casual listeners and people who merely like Floyd will ever list Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, or The Wall as their favorite.

Mine has always been Meddle. One of These Days and Echoes probably fall one-two in my list of favorite Floyd songs.
 
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thats an interesting way of looking at it. I always thought that darkside of the moon was the album that turned everyone on to floyd. well thats at least how i started listening to them. to tell you the truth the wall is still my least favorite of their albums.
 
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That seven year period from '73 - '79 saw Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. As a collection of four successive albums, this group of discs is unparalleled except by arguably Led Zeppelin or the Beatles over the course of the '70s ... well, hard core Jethro Tull fans might be the exception to the general public.

But it seems to me that every die hard Floyd fan that I know, those who own everything ever released by the group, will never name the usual suspects. For the most part, everyone I know who is off the deep end when it comes to Floyd will always name either Atom Heart or Animals, which is essentially the least known of the four discs that came out during that period between the mid/late '70s.
 
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Dryden said:
That seven year period from '73 - '79 saw Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. As a collection of four successive albums, this group of discs is unparalleled except by arguably Led Zeppelin or the Beatles over the course of the '70s ... well, hard core Jethro Tull fans might be the exception to the general public.

But it seems to me that every die hard Floyd fan that I know, those who own everything ever released by the group, will never name the usual suspects. For the most part, everyone I know who is off the deep end when it comes to Floyd will always name either Atom Heart or Animals, which is essentially the least known of the four discs that came out during that period between the mid/late '70s.
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I agree that people will often say animals or atom heart, but I tend to think that when people do that they just want to seem like they are some sort of connseur. Or they want to seem like "true fans" the fact is though that dark side of the moon, wish you were here, and the wall were amazing albums. It always makes me laugh when people attach some level of fandome to others by what specific albums they listen too. Being the least known does not mean that it is the best, only the one with the least amount of commercial appeal. These fans want to feel that they have some sort of connection with the band that is special and different so they gravitate towards the album that is lesser known. Another example of this is when fans of Beck talk about the Sea Change album. I guess all I'm trying to say is that commercial does not (in my mind at least) always equal sell out or pop. Sometimes it truely is the best stuff that the band put out.
 
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