Floyd albums and your emotions.

Ever have certain albums you like to listen to when you're in a certain mood? Whenever I'm really angry, I always like to listen to Animals, and when I'm sad or depressed, it's The Wall (I'm sure I'm not alone there). None of the other albums really apply to a certain mood.

Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - just for a general fun time
Ummagumma (live) - when I want to just chill and listen
DSotM/WYWH - when I want to try to understand the hype behind these albums...because I just don't get it (well, sometimes Darkside is good)
Meddle (mainly just Echoes) - when I'm in an intellectual mood or want to think
Animals - adrenaline pumping album, or when I'm angry
The Wall - when I'm depresssed or want to listen to what I feel is Pink Floyd's magnum opus

As for the others, I either don't listen to them much, or they don't have a profound effect on me.

All I know is that 'The Final Cut' is perfect for cutting yourself off form the rest of the world and being depressed.

Oh yeah, 'Piper at the Gates' is good if I'm pumped up and want to have a smashing good time.

However, everyday, I listen to at least two different Floyd albums.

When I'm in my calm, high(No, not by drugs!), in the clouds, soda drinking mode I prefere to listen to the more ethereal albums like Dark Side, David Gilmour, and the acoustic songs off of Atom Heart Mother and the laid back songs off of Meddle.
When I'm angry I also like to listen to Animals.
When going through depressing or stressfull periods I usually listen to The Wall or TFC.
Any other time I usually listen to Ummagumma and that early stuff.

By the way, has anyone here ever watched all of the stuff off of the Pompeii and DSotM DVD's and then The Wall all in the same sitting? The changing of moods and periods of Floyd are actually quite unsettling. I've never felt 'down' from listening to music, but that change in periods really kind of felt down-inducing! It's just so dry and dark and corpsey compared to the more wet and colorful liveliness of Pink Floyd as an actual band. It makes you wonder... whatever happened to the post-DSotM dream? Oh Roger! Oh Roger, what did we DO!? I really can't even bare to go from the transition of the Pompeii/DSotM DVD to The Wall DVD in one sitting. It's like having nachos w/cheese for dinner and a big piece of dried out steak for dessert.

I listen to DSoTM repedily at work cause it passes the time, and I don't catch much of it cause I wear one headphone.

When I want to relax I usually put in something early like meddle or AHM, or in the post water years like the division bell.

Animals, and OBC are good to rock out to.

Latley I've been listening to the raw bootleg of DSoTM (I personlly think it's better then the studio album)

BTW kinda off topic: "us and them" philamonic(sp?) DSoTM, plus a few other tracks played by the london philamonic orchestra..any thoughts on it?

It seems that every time I put on a Floyd album, there is some kind of down, or depressing element to at least a couple of songs. Not so much in thier earlier stuff, but man, the seventies brought on a whole different band altogether. When I listen to any Pink Floyd album, there are many different emotions running through my head; the emotions tend to change from song to song.

I tend to feel the same emotion everytime I hear any Floyd, happiness.

Each album evokes an emotion that doesn't really have a name, it's just, well, "I'm feeling very Animals-y today," or "I feel like Obscured By Clouds right about now." If that makes sense.

I put TFC on to have an emotional ride, some of the best and most heartfelt lyrics I've ever heard. I put it on the get depressed, simply.

Piper is great for something that rocks you, but is a little different from the White Stripes or 'Pablo Honey'. Astronomy Domine is awesome.

OBC is a record in itself, I can listen to it any time.

I put on DSOTM or the Pompeii 'Echoes' to get simply amazed. The fact that the music came from four people still defies me.

The rest is rarely listened to, which is not to say that it's horrible, I've just become burnt out on it. I only bought Animals on CD to complete my Floyd collection, same for TDB.

I hope that means you put on the LP often...

I put on Animals whenever I want to hear Gilmour's great guitar work (Dogs) or Waters' venom (Sheep).

I like it, I just never quite got into it. Perhaps it was the fact that I couldn't listen to it too often.

I always listen to Wish you were here when I want to listen something when I'm in front of the computer. when I'm a "thinker or a wanderer", I like to listen to The Wall.

When I`m angry I listen to Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Deep Purple. I listen to Pink Floyd when I feel good.

I guess I'm alone on this, but I don't listen to any particular album to evoke a specific emotion...

To me (and this is why I love Floyd), every song I hear fits my emotion or my thought process or my activity at the time I'm listening to it.

I've listened to songs like Echoes, Sheep & Breathe while in several different emotional states and everytime, the song fits my emotion, the song accentuates the emotion that I'm already feeling...

Every Floyd song is filled with so many different emotions, so many different moods & tones that it's impossible to say that this album/song makes me feel this way or that I listen to this album/son while I'm feeling a certain way.

For those of you who said you like Animals when you're angry/pumped up...try listening to Wish You Were Here or Meddel during those times...your emotion will stay the same, but you will experience it in a different way...

The simple fact that Floyd fits all aspects of life is what really got me into the music.

That is all...

-MMD74