Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun or Echoes and why?

[ArnoldLayne]

[cyberswede]

1. Man, every time you post one of these...

I have to go listen on youtube in order to provide a cogent answer.

[ArnoldLayne]

3. Check out the versions on Youtube of Set the Controls from 1972 Brighton(The Dome) and the one Live

at Pompeii. I'm curious to see which version you like better.

[cyberswede]

6. I can't decide! I like them both!

But, I was a deadhead for a long time - I'm used to hearing multiple versions of live songs, and I always find things to appreciate about any live performance I hear.

[d_r]

2. set the controls for the heart of the son

because of the drum beat

[cyberswede]

4. hmmm...

I like the middle section of Echoes (from about 5:30 to 8:30) because it's a little funkier than the rest of the song.

Similarly my favorite part of Set the Controls is when the tempo increases and the intensity builds from about 3:15 to 4:40.

But for the overall song, the rhythmic undercurrent throughout the first half of Set the Controls puts that one ahead.

[Ikonoklast]

5. Yes, to both.

Why?

Because, yes to both, that's why.

[Le Taz Hot]

13. ^^^^

What Ikonoklast said.

[Tom Ripley]

18. This ^

[CBGLuthier]

7. Echoes

I have always loved Meddle.
The Live at Pompeii performance.
It is one hell of a great jam buried within semi-experimental music with lovely obscure lyrics.

That long gliding note near the end.

[ArnoldLayne]

19. I still can't decide which one I like better. Maybe Echoes since that was the first song

I heard from Pink Floyd in 1973.

[csziggy]

8. I'd go for the Dark Side of the Moon

But then I'm old school.

[cyberswede]

9. Echoes (1971) and Set the Controls (1968) are older school than DSotM, silly!

[ArnoldLayne]

10. Ha Ha!! Good one

[csziggy]

11. Oh - those are before I got to hear any rock worth listening to

And no one I knew ever had any earlier Pink Floyd than Dark Side. Excuses, excuses!

[ArnoldLayne]

12. Yea

[cyberswede]

14. Hey...any Pink Floyd is better than none!

I hope you've listened to Animals!

[csziggy]

15. I never particularly liked the Animals

But I haven't heard much of their work. I guess I need to look up some of their stuff.

You see, the little town I grew up in didn't have a rock station. Lots of country western, no rock. And all my money went to my horse so I didn't have a radio of my own until well after I went to college. Even then, I didn't really start listening to rock until the late 1970s.

With YouTube and the internet I have discovered a lot of music I missed the first half of my life. And a lot of it is found through following links from DU!

[cyberswede]

16. You had a horse - that's cool!

I like some older country, like Patsy Cline, and bluegrass.

I like the group The Animals, but I was referring to the Pink Floyd album Animals.

[csziggy]

17. See - I don't know my rock at all

I'm wondering why I didn't pick up Animals - it came out about the time I was getting into rock a lot. But 1977 was a complicated year for me. Got married, bought a farm, went on a long "honeymoon". I may have been too busy to keep up with the new music right then.

Yeah, I had horses - it kept me out of drugs while in high school. If I had gotten in any kind of trouble, the horse would have been sold - I sold my soul for that horse. My parents were really smart people!

Then as an adult I bred horses, ran a boarding barn, did all the work myself with some help from my husband. Horses are why I've had both shoulders worked on (the left completely rebuilt), both knees replaced, carpal tunnel and ulnar nerve relocation on both hands/arms. Oh, add a bad back and many, many other injuries over the years. I can't do much with my horses anymore, so I mess around on the computer, genealogy, needlework, etc.