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Best acoustic (more or less) Waters?

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Grantchester Meadows 5 23.81%
If 3 14.29%
Pigs on the Wing (I +II) 3 14.29%
Mother 10 47.62%
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Old 09-17-2004, 10:56 PM
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Best acoustic (more or less) Waters?

Over the course of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters has produced some great mostly-solo mostly-acoustic songs. Sure, a couple of them wind up as full band songs, but the majority is Roger on an acoustic. What's your personal favorite? All four are absolutely stunning, to me, but I'd have to say If very narrowly beats Grantchester Meadows.
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Old 09-17-2004, 11:22 PM
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Well i'd say mother, though Dave sings the chorus and plays a very memorable solo. It's just such a rueful song, a mixture of love and remorse.
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Old 09-18-2004, 08:41 PM
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Grantchester Meadows but that was a hard one. As far a Mother is concerned, I really like the keyboards in that one, I seem to be drawn to that first.

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Old 09-18-2004, 09:42 PM
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i say pigs on the wing
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Old 09-18-2004, 11:31 PM
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Ouch...it's between "Mother" and "If" for me. Technically, "Mother" would only qualify as a half-accoustic song, what, with Dave's incredible solo (which, with the rest of the song, really makes it good). So considering that, "Mother" is disqualified, leaving "If."
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Old 09-19-2004, 12:01 AM
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I'd have to go with the little bit he improvised backstage in the opening scene of "In The Flesh: Live".. you know the one about the "trouser dick"..
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Old 09-19-2004, 03:02 PM
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That is quite a hard toos up between GM and If but If just clinched as I voted.
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Old 09-19-2004, 05:48 PM
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"If I were a good man, I'd understand the spaces between friends"

Definitely "If"
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Old 09-19-2004, 06:22 PM
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I've voted for Mother
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Old 09-20-2004, 03:37 PM
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Pigs on the Wing. Unequivocably. Especially with Snowy's electric solo in the middle.
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Old 09-20-2004, 03:43 PM
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I voted for "If". Mother doesn't really count for the reasons others stated - David's vocals are too much a part of the song for it to be an 'acoustic Roger'.

If is a great tune - insightful lyrics, Roger doesn't try to ober-sing it. My 2nd-favorite song on AHM (behind the title track, of course).

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