Pink Floyd Best Song Survivor: Announcement Thread!!!

[cobl04]

Howdy there peoples, we have just decided over in the Pink Floyd thread to hold a Pink Floyd Best Song Survivor, starting early next week. There is enough support to well, support it, with the thread now standing at over 400 replies and over 30 posters in the thread as well. This competition will be a good one, as there is no clear winner in the Floyd catalogue, so it will be very interesting. The other benefit is that a lot of the Floyd’s songs are quite lengthy, and so therefore some albums are shorter in terms of songs, meaning we won’t be here for a year. As far as I know there were no others planned, we had someone from the Radiohead contingent outline there was no Radiohead survivor in planning (Lemel said he wanted ‘dibs’ on a Radiohead survivor next). So here’s the plan, enjoy, discuss any issues, whatever in this thread.

Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Astronomy Domine
Lucifer Sam
Matilda Mother
Flaming
Pow R. Toc H.
Take up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
Interstellar Overdrive
The Gnome
Chapter 24
The Scarecrow
Bike

A Saucerful of Secrets
Let There Be More Light
Remember a Day
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Corporal Clegg
A Saucerful of Secrets
See-Saw
Jugband Blues

Music from the Film More
Cirrus Minor
The Nile Song
Crying Song
Up the Khyber
Green is the Colour
Cymbaline
Party Sequence
Main Theme
Ibiza Bar
More Blues
Quicksilver
A Spanish Piece
Dramatic Theme

Ummagumma
Sysyphus
Grantchester Meadows
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
The Narrow Way
The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party

Atom Heart Mother
Atom Heart Mother
If
Summer ‘68
Fat Old Sun
Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast

Meddle
One of These Days
A Pillow of Winds
Fearless
San Tropez
Seamus
Echoes

Obscured by Clouds
Obscured by Clouds
When You’re In
Burning Bridges
The Gold It’s in the…
Wot’s… Uh the Deal
Mudmen
Childhood’s End
Free Four
Stay
Absolutely Curtains

The Dark Side of the Moon
Speak to Me/Breathe
On the Run
Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse

Wish You Were Here
Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts I – V)
Welcome to the Machine
Have a Cigar
Wish You Were Here
Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI – IX)

Animals
Pigs on the Wing 1
Dogs
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Sheep
Pigs on the Wing 2

The Wall
In the Flesh?
The Thin Ice
Another Brick in the Wall (Part One)
The Happiest Days of Our Lives
Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)
Mother
Goodbye Blue Sky
Empty Spaces
Young Lust
One of My Turns
Don’t Leave Me Now
Another Brick in the Wall (Part Three)
Goodbye Cruel World
Hey You
Is There Anybody Out There?
Nobody Home
Vera
Bring the Boys Back Home
Comfortably Numb
The Show Must Go On
In the Flesh
Run Like Hell
Waiting for the Worms
Stop
The Trial
Outside the Wall

The Final Cut
The Post-War Dream
Your Possible Pasts
One of the Few
The Hero’s Return
The Gunner’s Dream
Paranoid Eyes
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
The Fletcher Memorial Home
Southampton Dock
The Final Cut
Not Now John
Two Suns in the Sunset

A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Signs of Life
Learning to Fly
The Dogs of Life
One Slip
On the Turning Away
Yet Another Movie
A New Machine (Part One)
Terminal Frost
A New Machine (Part Two)
Sorrow

The Division Bell
Cluster One
What Do You Want From Me
Poles Apart
Marooned
A Great Day For Freedom
Wearing the Inside Out
Take it Back
Coming Back to Life
Keep Talking
Lost for Words
High Hopes

B-Sides and Non-Album Tracks
Arnold Layne
Candy And A Currant Bun
See Emily Play
Paintbox
Apples And Oranges
Julia Dream
It Would Be So Nice
Point Me At The Sky
Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Biding My Time
Scream Thy Last Scream
Vegetable Man
Heart Beat, Pig Meat
Come In Number 51, Your Time is Up
The Embryo
What Shall We Do Now?
When the Tigers Broke Free

 

[intedomine]

Fair concept, but I'm not a hardcore fan, I'd prefer Gin Blossom survivor.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Youse guys are crazy... good luck with this though..

I'd prefer Gin Blossom survivor.

I have a strange feeling you would be the only one voting

 

[Axver]

Summer '68 for the win!

... I'm being serious too.

 

[XHendrix24]

This will be awesome.

And even better, Piper's up first.

 

[Screwtape2]

The Animals round will be intense and ugly.

 

[cdisantis83]

My support is decisively behind Comfortably Numb. This ought to be fun.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

OK, I'm gonna have to study up -- I know very little from the first 7 albums before Dark Side.

But I love that song See Emily Play.

Have we ever done an R.E.M. song survivor? They have a good long catalog full of hits.

 

[DaveC]

My God, this is going to be tough. Wish I'd thought of it first!

 

[LemonMelon]

I'd prefer Gin Blossom survivor.

I would prefer shark attack survivor.

Oh, wait, you mean bands?

 

[LMP]

Fair concept, but I'm not a hardcore fan, I'd prefer Gin Blossom survivor.

There would have to be more than 3 songs for that though.

Floyd song survivor, cool.

The winner should be Sheep.

 

[GibsonGirl]

The winner should be Sheep.

 

[Zoots]

High Hopes FTW!

 

[jay canseco]

Echoes.

 

[Screwtape2]

Set Controls For The Heart Of The Sun FTW!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_0iZQ-TuA

 

[LMP]

I totally used Sheep for an English paper the other day; it was glorious.

 

[cobl04]

Well looks there's enough support, so that's great. Couple of questions... get it started after the Beatles comp has finished or just start next week? And polls open for one or two days?

And I reckon we could very well see Radiohead, REM, David Bowie and more competitions beginning down the track.

 

[LMP]

David Bowie next, no question.

He's the fucking man.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

One day for the polls or it will take forever.

 

[LMP]

One day for the polls or it will take forever.

How about people just pick their Top 3 of each album, then go from there. It'll eliminate a lot of filler (songs on The Wall) and get to the nitty-gritty faster.

 

[cobl04]

David Bowie next, no question.

He's the fucking man.

Then I can be involved too.

one day it is

 

[SeattleVertigo]

How about people just pick their Top 3 of each album, then go from there. It'll eliminate a lot of filler (songs on The Wall) and get to the nitty-gritty faster.

I don't have a top 3 for anything before DSOTM. <laughs>

 

[LMP]

Even Meddle?

That shit is baller, man.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Like I said, I need to go back and study up on early Floyd.

 

[intedomine]

With the impending release of IN RAINBOWS, wouldn't this be the most apparopriate time for Radiohead Survivor?

 

[Zoots]

With the impending release of IN RAINBOWS, wouldn't this be the most apparopriate time for Radiohead Survivor?

It'll be shorter too!

 

[intedomine]

It'd make the most sense to do it sooner rather than later, and aren't their more Radiohead fans than Pink Floyders on 'ere anyway?

 

[LMP]

It's probably around the same.

Personally, I'd like to see this:

Bowie
Floyd
Radiohead
R.E.M.
Bruce
Wilco

if we're doing Interland favorites.

 

[Zoots]

I'm definitely up for Floyd, Radiohead, REM and even say, Zeppelin!

 

[cdisantis83]

How about people just pick their Top 3 of each album, then go from there. It'll eliminate a lot of filler (songs on The Wall) and get to the nitty-gritty faster.

This is not a bad idea.