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Pick your favorite in each bracket

Comfortably Numb
5 (33.3%)
Wish You Were Here
10 (66.7%)

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Re: Pink Floyd Songs Tournament
« Reply #60 on: May 11, 2017, 03:54:24 PM »
Had it been possible, I could have modified my vote.

Can a moderator please enable this feature?

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Re: Pink Floyd Songs Tournament
« Reply #61 on: May 13, 2017, 09:56:31 AM »
Had it been possible, I could have modified my vote.

Now you can!

I'll probably start the next batch up tomorrow.

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Re: Pink Floyd Songs Tournament
« Reply #62 on: May 13, 2017, 03:12:44 PM »
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Re: Pink Floyd Songs Tournament
« Reply #63 on: May 15, 2017, 09:40:19 AM »
Round 1, Part 4 results:

Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 vs. Up the Khyber (9-0)
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast vs. Embryo (2-5)
A Saucerful of Secrets vs. Pow R. Toc H. (3-6)
Arnold Layne vs. Mudmen (8-2)
Have a Cigar vs. The Gunner's Dream (7-3)
Vera vs. Fat Old Sun (6-5)
The Trial vs. Southhampton Dock (7-3)
Careful with That Axe, Eugene vs. It Would Be So Nice (5-3)


Not sure how we got a 6-5 score with only 10 voters, but moving on....

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Re: Pink Floyd Songs Tournament
« Reply #65 on: May 15, 2017, 09:51:11 AM »
Not sure how we got a 6-5 score with only 10 voters, but moving on....

I could easily have voted for "Vera", so am pleased to see it move forward, glitch or no. :)

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Re: Pink Floyd Songs Tournament
« Reply #66 on: May 15, 2017, 10:18:15 AM »
Easiest batch yet. I had a clear favorite in each match. That said I'm curious to read opinions that vote against my choices.

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Re: Pink Floyd Songs Tournament
« Reply #67 on: May 15, 2017, 10:19:47 AM »
1. Time vs. Wot's... Uh the Deal?

This is dredging up that old "best vs. favorite" argument inside me. Time is one of the most iconic PF songs. By most metrics it's the "better" song here. It's more elaborate, better produced, has a lot more going on with a complex structure. The lyrics are more insightful. But Wots is just more my speed. Maybe I'm too burnt out on DSotM in general and Time in particular, but I love the gentle pleasantness of Wots (despite its terribly clunky title).

2. Bring the Boys Back Home vs. Chapter 24

Like its companion Vera, this was one that really bugged me back in the day but now I have a lot of appreciation for it. It's such an oddball song to be in the middle of this album, but it totally works, and it's strangely moving. However... I love Chapter 24. That loping bassline, the clarinet and bassoon (I think it's clarinet and bassoon, anyway). The only thing is it's a bit repetitive and feels like it could be like 40 seconds shorter. This one is tough, but I vote to Bring the Boys Back Home.

3. Is There Anybody Out There? vs. Paranoid Eyes

I love the calm beauty of ITAOT, and it's one of my favorite sequences in the film. Great guitar pattern by Gilmour. But it's up against some stiff competition. Paranoid Eyes is a fantastic track, with a calm beauty of its own. Some of the production flourishes give me chills. Jeez this one is a hard choice, but I'm going with Eyes.

4. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 vs. One of the Few

Fortunately this is an easy choice. I like OotF, but it's pretty slight. As for Brick, I think part 1 is my favorite, love that breezy guitar solo. Definitely Brick.

5. Welcome to the Machine vs. The Fletcher Memorial Home

I love the sonic landscape of Machine, with the weird industrial-sounding synth and pulsing bass contrasted against the bright acoustic guitar. It's a good tune to just get kind of lost in. But the vocals I'm not a big fan of. There's not a lot of them, but they bug me. The vocals on Fletcher are a little whiny-sounding in places, but the lyrics are superb. I get lost in this song too. And it has a great solo. Yeah, it's Fletcher for me, though I fully expect it to get creamed in this matchup.

6. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI–IX) vs. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert

Wow, we've got a lot of Final Cut in this batch. No contest here, though. Hands is an amusing aside, Shine 6-9 is the conclusion to an epic masterpiece. And it has some of the funkiest music PF ever managed. And I'm a sucker for funk. Easy vote for Shine.

7. Run Like Hell vs. Stop

Length isn't everything, but it's pretty easy to vote against these short little songs. Stop is fine and has a perfect place in context of the album (I like how they implemented it in the film too) but Run Like Hell is one of my favorites. That driving urgency really works. Run Like Hell for me.

8. Goodbye Blue Sky vs. Ibiza Bar

Hmm, I don't hate Ibiza Bar as much as I thought I did. It's a lot less obnoxious than its companion piece, The Nile Song. Still, it's no match for Goodbye Blue Sky, one of the most gorgeous songs PF ever did. Goosebumps happening when I listen to it.

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Re: Pink Floyd Songs Tournament
« Reply #68 on: May 15, 2017, 10:37:53 AM »
1. Wots... Uh The Deal is a perfectly fine song with a terrible title. Not that it would matter since it's up against what I would call a highlight of DSOTM if that album wasn't all highlights. Time, easily.

2. I'll throw in a vote for Chapter 24 because I love its wacky space lyrics. Bring the Boys Back Home is very good in The Wall, but loses a lot when it's on its own.

3. Is There Anybody Out There, OTOH, is still very powerful on its own. Paranoid Eyes is pretty decent but peters out around the halfway point.

4. It feels like half of the songs I can't recognize just by the titles are from The Final Cut. This one really shouldn't be recognized by anyone anyway, so Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 lives on, though it'll have a tough time in the next round I think.

5. One of the best songs on The Final Cut can't really compete with Welcome to the Machine, a song I don't listen to that often but really should, it's great.

6. I'm sensing a theme. Sorry Martin, this is the "eliminating The Final Cut" round. SoYcD Part IImoves on.

7. Amusing match-up, if only for the titles. Also a very easy one. I mean, how can you even stop if you don't Run ?

8. Ibiza Bar, along with The Nile Song, is one of my guilty pleasures. I know it's dumb (and Young Lust is essentially PF making fun of those two a decade later) and no great but... Gilmour is having fun, and I never loved Goodbye, Blue Sky all that much. It's fine, and it doesn't need my vote anyway.
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Re: Pink Floyd Songs Tournament
« Reply #69 on: May 15, 2017, 11:31:05 AM »
4. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 vs. One of the Few

Fortunately this is an easy choice. I like OotF, but it's pretty slight. As for Brick, I think part 1 is my favorite, love that breezy guitar solo. Definitely Brick.
It's interesting how over time, part 1 has become my favorite Brick too. I don't want to say it's because part 2 has been heard almost as frequently as "Sweet Home Alabama" in my lifetime, and I will still vote part 2 deep into this tourney, but yeah, that breezy guitar is only bested by "Goodbye Blue Sky" on The Wall. It's like how I love the ominousness of this version over the delivery of Part 2.


7. Run Like Hell vs. Stop

Length isn't everything, but it's pretty easy to vote against these short little songs. Stop is fine and has a perfect place in context of the album (I like how they implemented it in the film too) but Run Like Hell is one of my favorites. That driving urgency really works. Run Like Hell for me.
It's obvious that songs from The Wall mostly have a greater value with me because of the film. (The one exception being the portrayal of the judge in The Trial. That song plays better without that image.) Some parts of The Wall have aged as early 80s MTV, but Run Like Hell remains one of its most powerful sections, especially following In The Flesh. I remember when I learned of The Wall, this was one of the most controversial scenes because of the depictions of violence, especially racial and sexual. Those moments still have impact, but I've seen much worse, much less responsible from a lot of other movies. I don't think you can view this through a modern prism and say that Alan Parker crosses a moral line.


The song that improves the most from the movie is "Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do Now". The flower sex can be debated, but I still say the music is better with it. It's the What Shall We Do Now part after that resonates strongly with me, and the animated attack on commercialism and institutions.