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Post by theadmans on Mar 24, 2007 9:43:14 GMT
When I was younger I was into Punk and New Wave (and a whole lot of Krautrock stuff too). In fact the more obscure the stuff was the more likely I would be to listen to it. Other people (including my brother) listened to Pink Floyd but not me! Anyway last week was my 40th Birthday and I finally got a Headphone Amp (Little Dot II). Over the last couple of years I have also finally collected all of the Pink Floyd catalogue on CD. Have to admit this is good stuff (I was too busy trying to be cool when I a teenager to notice). So what is the best Pink Floyd album to listen to on Headphones - opinions please? The decision has got to be based on a combination of artistic merit and sound quality. I personally lean towards the early 70's stuff (although strangely not that keen on DSOTM - due to the female backing vocals). "Meddle" seems to be a winner to me.
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Post by Nigel on Mar 24, 2007 11:44:12 GMT
I have to say my decision does not really include sound quality, I just go for my favourite album from a musical perspective. Pink Floyd wise, my choice would be "Wish You Were Here". Although, you picked a gem with "Meddle".
"DSOTM" has always been regarded as a hi-fi nut's (headphone nut as well?) wet dream so I'd choose this album for best sound quality, pretty remarkable in that respect as well as containing some top musical moments.
I wonder if anyone will choose anything prior to "Meddle"?
Best wishes,
Nigel
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Post by PinkFloyd on Mar 24, 2007 13:26:12 GMT
Best Floyd album with headphones in my opinion is The Final Cut, without a shadow of a doubt!
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Post by theadmans on Mar 25, 2007 11:22:36 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion of The Final Cut. This was always an album that I could not not get on with thru speakers - too many vocals and not enough tunes. However, following your suggestion I listened for the first time on Headphones yesterday. Have to say I was amazed - so much going on that I had missed through my speakers.
I'm not saying it is Pink Floyd's best album (not by a long stretch), however, it is true that to properly apppreciate it you have to don the old cans!
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Post by rickcr42 on Apr 1, 2007 6:41:15 GMT
always had a liking for Animals played on headphones with my first listen to this album EVER being on a pair of honking huge KOSS PRO 4A's back when I could still remember what I had for breakfast so to this day is how I sub conciously think the album needs to be played (not the KOSS but cans ) -especially Sheep,a cut that SCREAMS one on onelinkyWhile a song like Pigs works either way-up close and personal or at volume pissing of the neighbors 'cause they are too fkn lame to enjoy the song linky linky loo
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Post by FritzS on Apr 1, 2007 16:11:15 GMT
Best Floyd album with headphones in my opinion is The Final Cut, without a shadow of a doubt! My favority is "The Final Cut" too, but in addition the SACD (dual layer CD/SACD) of "Dark Side of the Moon" even "The Wall", "Wish you Where Here", "Devision Bell", "Pulse", Roger Waters "In the Flesh" (Limited Edition / 2 CDs + DVD) My wish - more dual layer CD/SACD's from PF With akg K701 more fun that with senn HD600 ;D
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Post by PinkFloyd on Apr 1, 2007 22:07:22 GMT
If you guys want to really experience headphone listening at its best I can firmly recommend Roger Water's - Amused to death album.... not only one of the best albums of all time but also extremely well engineered, out of the entire Pink Floyd catalogue my favourite with headphones is The Final Cut. It's more of a Roger Waters influenced album but I like that.... anything after the Final cut is just the Dave Gilmour band IMO.... without Roger Pink Floyd are nothing more than a name. Meddle is worth buying just for "echoes" that bass just goes sooooo deep. I have quite a few different recordings of Meddle but my favourite is the Mobile Fidelity 24K gold copy (got almost all of Floyd's work on MoFi) I wouldn't class Animals as anything special with headphones, one of my favourite Floyd albums but certainly not one of the best through headphones! (IMO!) PULSE is a bastard well recorded album..... engineered by James Guthrie in Q-sound.... one of the best IMO but not true Floyd considering Roger wasn't part of the lineup but for a real headphone listening sensation you really must have a listen (and listen LOUD!) This recording is pretty accurate to the live show conveying quite a lot of the sound realistically...... only thing missing is the atmosphere but luckily I can remember it as I went to 4 of the earls court (London) shows (including the first one where the seats collapsed due to the high volume) If you want a thrill a minute ride then try PULSE...... unfortunately you won't get the light show, the ambience of the venue and all that but you are guaranteed a good rendition SQ wise through headphones. I'm fortunate to have seen Floyd on 4 nights (division bell tour)with a different mind altering substance on each occasion (and totally sober on one) so can create my own atmosphere from memory
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Post by Sol on May 25, 2007 11:53:35 GMT
If you guys want to really experience headphone listening at its best I can firmly recommend Roger Water's - Amused to death album.... not only one of the best albums of all time but also extremely well engineered, out of the entire Pink Floyd catalogue my favourite with headphones is The Final Cut. I bought Amused to Death .. and I have to say that opening track is superb. Real atmoshere with the valve radio edits, the emotional WW1 veteran's story, all underpinined by some fantatsic atmospheric guitar. Also those animal growls get me everytime - there's something rather . .. ahem ... animalistic about them - really gets those instinctual repsonses working overtime.
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Post by PinkFloyd on May 25, 2007 20:10:51 GMT
It's a real creeper that album and you'll find yourself growing to love it and hearing different things in it each time you listen to it.... the sign of a good album
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Post by leo on Jun 4, 2007 19:11:58 GMT
I just had to post, I'm currently listening to Amused to death through my main hi-fi rig, awsome!!! First track I honestly thought there was a dog in the other room! the first bit of track 13 sounds well strange. I'm not sure ho they did the recording on this album but its very impressive! the more you listen to it the more subtle details you notice like windchimes etc Sorry I can't recommend much regarding headphones but Final cut is excellent, mind you most of the older PF stuff sounds very good as well and its great music
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Post by serverbaboon on Sept 8, 2007 12:06:15 GMT
slightly off topic but...I have come to Pink Floyd rather late and having done Dark Side and the Echos (greatest hits?) and I'm wondering where to go next. I think I might be able to get hold of Wish you were here off a friend but with the exception of the Wall not heard of any of the titles mentioned here. Is animals the one with the flying pig? At the risk of being flamed... has anyone listened to DUB side of the Moon?
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 8, 2007 21:23:22 GMT
The best ever Floyd related headphone listen just has to be the pros and cons of hitch hiking (Roger Waters) just bloody incredible in places! BTW Leo, Amused To death was mixed in QSound (TM) " a new audio technology producing a wider, more natural sound field. To hear the QSound (TM) effect you must be positioned centrally between the two speakers. If the dog barking at the beginning of the record doesn't sound like he's in the yard next door then your speakers are out of phase." QSound (TM) Tech: Buzz Burrowes There you go
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 8, 2007 21:56:23 GMT
I'm wondering where to go next. Echoes is an absolute joke, bin it. There is no such thing as a "best of Pink Floyd" each individual album is one long concept track you cannot cherry pick sections and bastardise them all together on a "best of" compilation. Definitely get the wall and wish you were here next. I LOVE animals and saw them performing it live back in the late 70's.... It doesn't get the recognition it deserves IMO. Many people will tell you the final cut is crap, don't listen to them..... It's bloody awesome. The same people will tell you The Floyd were no longer valid after Syd barret left.... again, total crap IMO! The best thing that happened to them was Syd Barret leaving, it gave Roger Waters the opportunity to take the band in his mind blowingly innovative and creative direction. Syd Barret wasn't a "genius" as some claim he was a mixed up youth who consumed way too many drugs. IMO (and note I say "IMO") everything from Saucerful of secrets up to the Final cut is essential listening. The stuff the Dave Gilmour band produced after Roger Waters left is not too bad in its own right but it's not Pink Floyd as far as I'm concerned. As soon as Roger Waters said "bye bye" (or "fck off Gilmour") that was the end of The Pink Floyd (in MY opinion) he was the creative force behind the band and without him on board they lost the real driving force. Division Bell? GARBAGE! Momentary lapse of reason? Pallatable (just) but sorely lacking in progression... tired reworks. Yes, It is. Flying above Battersea power station. Do you know the giant inflatable pig actually slipped off it's tether and floated into the sky causing chaos with air traffic control at heathrow airport? Roger Waters actually copyrighted his idea of the pig so when he left the Floyd they were not allowed to use it, they got around it by adding bollocks to the pig (Roger's pig was a sow) so the creative "genius" of Dave Gilmour's lawyers was adding bollocks onto a pig. The bollockless waters pig eventually came back down to terra firma when one of it's trotters punctured way up in the sky. Just thought I'd mention the addition of bollocks to the pig and why they were necessary post Waters. Yes. Very good as it goes, I love dub. A saucerful of Pink, on the other hand, is pure SHITE. Pinkie (Bollocks free)
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Post by leo on Sept 9, 2007 14:26:21 GMT
The best ever Floyd related headphone listen just has to be the pros and cons of hitch hiking (Roger Waters) just bloody incredible in places! BTW Leo, Amused To death was mixed in QSound (TM) " a new audio technology producing a wider, more natural sound field. To hear the QSound (TM) effect you must be positioned centrally between the two speakers. If the dog barking at the beginning of the record doesn't sound like he's in the yard next door then your speakers are out of phase." QSound (TM) Tech: Buzz Burrowes There you go Yes, its bloody convincing for sure Also get your Filthy hands off my desert from Final cut still makes me jump now I've always liked Pinkfloyd, would love to have seen the older stuff live but it was a bit before my time only one I got to see was Pulse, still really enjoyed it though!
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Post by gns on Sept 14, 2007 19:29:47 GMT
Not in my opinion. There is a message in there, and that's what I like about my music - discovering the message contained. In Division Bell there are deep references to hypocrisy and philosophies that may relate to differences between Gilmour and Waters, or even differences between them and Barret. The rear sleeve picture is provocative in my opinion, and taking this into consideration with the lyrics I can hear a particular sarcasm or protest either Gilmour against Waters, or Gilmour against society, or both (not that I have anything against Waters - his idea of building a wall between the group and the audience was pure genius in my opinion. Didn't it get dropped?).
All in all, a conflict of interests that makes Pink Floyd lyrics - no matter of which persuasion - very similar to that of another great band: Genesis. Whichever side you choose (and I'm not choosing) there's a lot more going on than meets the ear, and headphones are the great device that brings the extra interest to life.
Any further light that can be thrown on the relationship (or lack of) between Gilmour and Waters will be gratefully received by me, but please keep it as unbiased as possible to aid me and others who are interested in building up a "true" picture of the story.
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Post by gns on Sept 17, 2007 23:24:05 GMT
Anagram of Pink Floyd? Pifl, No Kyd! (Piffle, no kid - for the hard of understanding...) "I was persecuted and paralysed I thought everything else was just great" It's all done by mirrors!
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Post by 2knowtalent on Oct 4, 2007 21:03:30 GMT
for me it's "Animals"
it's musically lush, the lyrics are the some of the most misanthropic you'll find and the remaster has awesome SQ!!! SQ ditto's to the "Wish You Were Here" remaster.
(...I vaguely recall chemically-induced time dilation whilst repeatedly listening to Echoes)
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Post by Nigel on Oct 6, 2007 8:21:53 GMT
It's gotta be "Atom Heart Mother." We should start a new thread concerning 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' & who can hear what on their set up.
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Post by charleyphogg on Oct 7, 2007 3:20:36 GMT
Amused to Death is an amazing album. I picked it up right after it came out and loaned it out and don't have it any more, but it definitely needs to be replaced. Can't wait until I can enjoy it through headphones.
I'm not sure of the feelings on trader friendly concert recordings, but I feel this concert is so good, and such a good recording it must be shared..........
Roger Waters 2006-09-12 Madison Square Garden New York, NY USA
"A Roger in Manhattan" Pinkroioshn CDR-007 (PRS-CDR-007) Official 16bit Version
Digital Master FOB Recording Recorded from Front of Board, Dead Center Orchestra Section 7, Row C, Seat 9 The "Sweet Spot"
Neumann KM-150's (AK-47 Hypercardiod Capsules) > Apogee Minime > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack > 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (set fades, one minor patch, resampling to 16/44.1) > CD Wave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Recorded and Produced by danlynch 2006-09-13
This is the 16bit/44.1 version for burning. The 24/48 master has previously been seeded at yeeshkul.com.
Thanks to buffalofloyd for sending his external MT battery via UPS to me in time to master this show at 24/48.
First Set 01 In The Flesh 02 Mother 03 Set The Controls For the Heart Of The Sun 04 Shine On You Crazy Diamond 05 Have A Cigar 06 Wish You Were Here* 07 Southampton Dock 08 The Fletcher Memorial Home 09 Perfect Sense Parts 1 and 2 10 Leaving Beirut 11 Sheep
Second Set 01 Dark Side of the Moon (Encores) 02 Band Introductions/The Happiest Days Of Our Lives 03 Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) 04 Vera 05 Bring the Boys Back Home 06 Comfortably Numb
*Roger dedicated WYWH to the victims and families of 9/11, "the loved ones lost and the families left behind".
This release was first shared simultaneously on YEESHKUL tracker, PINKROIOSHN Hub, and IN FLOYD WE TRUST Hub. Thanks to those communities that share the live PF sound for free!
Flac Fingerprints: RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t01.flac:fa856d82e34ae3c91d6916fbc481df17 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t02.flac:5fc6740178ad755f726db70fe9f77ca7 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t03.flac:b376521bfc8b2444cbd6e2f37feb6155 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t04.flac:a7e9c95d0f05d05187f43a1b771be566 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t05.flac:6bbdcc9231446eb2d7213353de2d1a01 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t06.flac:48be69cf0b6056bf41d24bc64b8bb2f6 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t07.flac:dcde94f234cff17c54d35c16c45de657 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t08.flac:1ba54cbb3f3c8d031d81cf9ffc5f9459 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t09.flac:7fae866cef1fce0d8b57303a317fb5a5 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t10.flac:7c74b14e0aef5adb173dc1b3e039631c RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set1_t11.flac:277a2bb2461c06bf6b060a7bd1008bf4 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set2_t01.flac:507af133a05ebc25f43de8d28d79022e RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set2_t02.flac:6428fc27bf9f661aea2dfd47bef21f30 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set2_t03.flac:0c4a4fe684822d67615882cf1ca67bb5 RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set2_t04.flac:3fcf94e19cecdc9a731699fa7bbd076c RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set2_t05.flac:f66abbc59306499b93e06898e8dd666f RogerWaters2006-09-12_NeumannKM150s_16bit_Set2_t06.flac:60480d6f70faa05e10222f2681b158d2
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