ABITWall 2 and Wish You Were Here: most popular songs???????

Eclipse · Post by **Eclipse** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 4:05 am

Don't you think these two songs are the most popular? I mean, almost everyone I know that is not a great PF fan or doesn't know many of their songs says that ABITW2 and WYWH are the best songs (or just know these 2 songs...).
What do you think??? Are ABITW2 and WYWH PF most popular songs????

Post by **drafsack** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:57 am

The reason they are known so well as they are often used on compelations or charity albums. Another one is Money.

Spinoza · Post by **Spinoza** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:15 am

yes indeed. When i ask my students if they know Pink Floyd, i almost always get "NO", but if i say " we don't need no education", most will say, o yes, didn't know it was Pink Floyd. It's simply because that song gets a lot of airplay and is sometimes on compilation albums. With guitarists WYWH is very known

Diin Jaffa · Post by **Diin Jaffa** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:20 am

Spinoza wrote:yes indeed. When i ask my students if they know Pink Floyd, i almost always get "NO", but if i say " we don't need no education", most will say, o yes, didn't know it was Pink Floyd. It's simply because that song gets a lot of airplay and is sometimes on compilation albums. With guitarists WYWH is very known

your students are stupid. You should give them detention or kick them out of school

eternalechoes · Post by **eternalechoes** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:21 pm

Comfortably Numb gets a lot of radio play too. I loved that song before I became a fan of Pink Floyd. I'd say the three most popular ones are ABINTW2, WYWH, and Comfortably Numb.

seamusz · Post by **seamusz** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:32 pm

I'm very glad that there are only a handful of songs that get airplay. Many a band are ruined because the radio stations beat their song to death by playing it 3 times an hour all day long. Pink Floyd is like a hidden treasure!!!

rollinder_ · Post by **rollinder_** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 4:30 pm

There's a chillout sompilation with WYWH on

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 5:27 pm

I hate ABITW2 and can't beelive how popular it is, everyone in my school knows it and nobody actually likes it

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:35 pm

Let alone undertsand it! They all think it's just a rebellious song...well, it's not. Or not 'only'.

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 10:08 pm

no, i think i came up for a list of the most popular songs that went something like this

1. ABITW
2. Money
3. Brain Damage/Eclipse
4. Wish you were here
5. Comfortably numb

Ridan · Post by **Ridan** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:39 am

ABITW and WYWH here are song which people who are very new to Pink Floyd or just pose to be Pink Floyd fans talk about. This irks me no less. Another one is Comfortably Numb. However I dont hate ABITW because a lot of people like it or it gets a lot of airtime.

On occasions I find myself listening to Floyd and people coming up to me (I am talking about Britney Spears fans here). They pick up the cover and go....wooo Pink Floyd...cool! Have you heard their song ABITW? Is it on the same album (I am listening to TDB) and I find myself going

....anyways.

Eclipse · Post by **Eclipse** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:54 am

yep.. if these people listen to Floyd's true good songs, like Shine On, Echoes, Time, Pigs (3do), Dogs, etc. , they'll probably become TRUE floyd fans.

Real Pink in the Inside · Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:56 am

Tommy wrote:
1. ABITW Part II
2. Money
3. Brain Damage/Eclipse
4. Wish you were here
5. Comfortably numb

These are definitely the best-known PF songs. ABITW Part II and Money are in a league of their own, though. They've been played so often that I actually do not mind skipping them every now and then when I'm listening to DSOTM and The Wall.

JML · Post by **JML** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 11:52 am

There's only two songs I have heard in radio by Pink Floyd: ABITW and Money. Most of the people who doesn't know Pink FLoyd, know ABITW2 and I have once heard it on radio, it was somekind of techno-version, included Happiest Days Of Our Lives.
Weird, I have heard many times Money from one local radio station, but no other Pink Floyd -songs. Maybe I listen wrong stations.

Useful Idiot · Post by **Useful Idiot** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 6:13 pm

Real Pink in the Inside wrote:
Tommy wrote:
1. ABITW Part II
2. Money
3. Brain Damage/Eclipse
4. Wish you were here
5. Comfortably numb
These are definitely the best-known PF songs. ABITW Part II and Money are in a league of their own, though. They've been played so often that I actually do not mind skipping them every now and then when I'm listening to DSOTM and The Wall.

I don't know about BD/E being third though. I've never spoken to anyone who just knew of a handful of Floyd songs, and BD/E was one of them. Maybe it's just me...