In Reply to: Animals is my favorite Floyd posted by blindness on September 16, 2025 at 21:57:46
I like Meddle a lot. Echoes is so good. Funny thing, though. That bird screech is so insanely high in the mix of the release that I had .... you had to turn it down. Then go back and turn it up after the screeches. It's a couple of times, right?
Have you seen Pompeii? The version of Echoes in that is awwwesome. It's on YouTube, but never the whole song. It's split for reasons I've forgotten. Ya, and I love St. Tropez, Pillow of Winds, and even frickin' Seamus. I used to love One of these Days, but I kind of get bored with it now.
TL;DR: I'd go Animals, I can't pick between The Wall and DSotM. Meddle (If there is a mix of Echoes out there where you don't have to turn it down during the screeches, Meddle maybe climbs up w/ The Wall and DSotR. Then WYWH. Regarding The Wall, for me, it starts with Mother. That was Side 2, Song 1. Start there and skip all the disco business. And, from there, to me, the whole is wayyyyyyy more than the sum of it's parts. I would never just play Hey You, Vera, or One of My Turns individually. But, in the middle of that Side 2-3-4 run, I don't know if there is any music that I like better.
Since I'm rambling, the segue from Dogs to Pigs is so awesome. The fading echoes of the word "stone", a few seconds of silence, then that scary organ by itself, then that scary bass that jumps out of the speaker.