17-05-2018, 06:39 AM
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Re: Floydy's All-Time Top 1000 Favourite Albums
Originally Posted by Psmith
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If it's not too much trouble.20.Pink Floyd
19.Pink Floyd
18.Pink Floyd
17.Pink Floyd
16.Pink Floyd
15.Pink Floyd
14.Pink Floyd
13.Pink Floyd
12.Pink Floyd
11.Pink Floyd
10.Pink Floyd
9.Pink Floyd
8.Pink Floyd
7.Pink Floyd
6.Pink Floyd
5.Pink Floyd
4.Pink Floyd
3.Pink Floyd
2.Pink Floyd
No.1. P!NK
17-05-2018, 07:50 AM
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Re: Floydy's All-Time Top 1000 Favourite Albums
Originally Posted by Floydy
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Not an Eagles fan then, Spitty? 
17-05-2018, 03:45 PM
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Re: Floydy's All-Time Top 1000 Favourite Albums
Originally Posted by Ffosse
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I'll guess that there is a Queen album somewhere in there. And maybe another Meatloaf one.
17-05-2018, 03:52 PM
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Re: Floydy's All-Time Top 1000 Favourite Albums
No.20: “The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking” by Roger Waters (1984)The original draft of The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking was one of two unfinished albums which Roger Waters handed to the rest of Pink Floyd following Animals and its subsequent tour in 1978 in the view of working on the pieces and come up the next Floyd record. He asked Mssrs. Gilmour, Mason and Wright to choose either this album or something called “The Wall”. The band unanimously selected The Wall as the album they should begin work on – which was probably the right thing to do. Plus, there wasn’t much life left in the Floyd anyway following The Wall, as the band split (or went their separate ways unofficially) following The Final Cut in 1983, virtually a Waters solo album in all but name anyway.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Pros & Cons though, it’s a stunning piece of work but definitely works best as a Roger Waters solo album; I couldn’t imagine the subject matter and the way the album pans out as a Pink Floyd record. In the event, it’s a masterful album by Waters. It’s the story of a family (with the man in a ‘crisis’) taking a road trip in their car and the man getting fed up with it all and leaving them to carry on alone. He finds all sorts of things going on along his new journey: A beautiful girl hitch hiking, a lift in a truck, some wild and crazy dreams and the usual nightmarish visions that Roger Waters takes the listener on. It’s really well put together and the sound effects are superb. Eric Clapton was brought in to substitute for David Gilmour’s guitar licks.
I still play this album a lot and it sounds great full blast in the car.
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Full album (audio):
Personnel:
• Roger Waters – bass guitar, rhythm guitar, tape effects, lead vocals
• Eric Clapton – lead guitar, backing vocals, Roland guitar synthesizer
• Ray Cooper – percussion
• Andy Newmark – drums, percussion
• David Sanborn – saxophone
• Michael Kamen – piano
• Andy Bown – Hammond organ, 12-string guitar
• Madeline Bell, Katie Kissoon, Doreen Chanter – backing vocals
• Raphael Ravenscroft, Kevin Flanagan, Vic Sullivan – horns
• The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted and Arranged by Michael Kamen
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