Pink Floyd

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This thread is enlightening.
Does anyone like cheese or have a favourite floor cleaning product?

 

[bluefuzz]

Given the importance of Pink Floyd

That needs some justification. In what way are PF important other than in Roger Waters' imagination?

 

[Mart68]

That needs some justification. In what way are PF important other than in Roger Waters' imagination?

They're important within the realm of popular music.

 

[bluefuzz]

They're important within the realm of popular music.

Yes, but how are they important?

Their musical influence was pretty much over by the time Syd was defenestrated. And by the late 70s they were almost exclusively the main symbol of everything that was wrong with rock music as evidenced by Paul Cook's t-shirt further up the thread. I suppose that's a form of importance but I feel that's not what OP meant ...

 

[Mart68]

Yes, but how are they important?

Their musical influence was pretty much over by the time Syd was defenestrated. And by the late 70s they were almost exclusively the main symbol of everything that was wrong with rock music as evidenced by Paul Cook's t-shirt further up the thread. I suppose that's a form of importance but I feel that's not what OP meant ...

Well you'd have to ask the o/p what he meant. I was too young to know or care about the whole punk vs dinosaur rock thing. I like them both.

In any case the Sex Pistols can't really talk, they ripped off an ABBA song.

Floyd sold a lot of records and had, still have, millions of passionate fans for both their incarnations. No doubt they influenced many subsequent artists. I think that counts for something.

 

[DanielT]

The guitar solo at the end of Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 is one of my all-time favorites.

Did you know that this guitar giant helped create parts of that solo?A source of inspiration so to speak:

 

[KSTR]

I completely freaked out when I heard Umma Gumma for the fist time, the studio album part mainly. I mean, you see a song title like "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" and think "WTF is this?", and then listening to it makes your head explode.
In general I like most of their stuff but lost interest and stopped buying albums after The Wall because my musical interests changed, Punk was the thrilling new stuff I got into.

 

[Sokel]

I like 'The Final Cut' .Possibly I'm the only one?

'Animals' is my favourite. I'm not much for the Syd Barrett years.

"One of the Few" is one of my all time favorites, I like both very simple or very dense stuff.

I like them all more or less I think, mainly because they are nice storytellers, the music just follows.

 

[Mr. Swordfish]

This thread is enlightening.
Does anyone like cheese or have a favourite floor cleaning product?

Absolutely! Shimmer for the win!

 

[Joe Smith]

I should add that while Roger Waters' solo work is a bit hit and miss, I do really like Amused to Death (particularly the title track and What God Wants) and the most recent Live album, This is Not a Drill, I thought was very well done - plus, a pretty great live recording.

 

[mglobe]

I was 17 when DSOTM was released, and saw it performed at Blossom Music Center that summer (1973). Prior to (and still) Meddle was by far my favorite. When I first heard DSOTM I wasn't sure how I felt about it. Too much in the way of radio ready songs, and lyrics that were tied to the real world bothered me compared to where they had been. But I did get on the DSOTM train, and still listen to it occasionally. It has aged, but not terribly. The rest of their catalog after DSOTM I find variable. I can't listen to The Wall. Never could. It has some moments, but I find it heavy handed, both musically, and particularly lyrically. For me, the magic of PF is and always was the musical interplay of Gilmour and Wright.

 

[DanielT]

I was 17 when DSOTM was released, and saw it performed at Blossom Music Center that summer (1973). Prior to (and still) Meddle was by far my favorite. When I first heard DSOTM I wasn't sure how I felt about it. Too much in the way of radio ready songs, and lyrics that were tied to the real world bothered me compared to where they had been. But I did get on the DSOTM train, and still listen to it occasionally. It has aged, but not terribly. The rest of their catalog after DSOTM I find variable. I can't listen to The Wall. Never could. It has some moments, but I find it heavy handed, both musically, and particularly lyrically. For me, the magic of PF is and always was the musical interplay of Gilmour and Wright.

DSOTM, a great album.

The Wall, well, there are a lot of good songs on that album, BUT too long. Even though it's the best-selling double album ever, I think if Pink Floyd had shortened it to one album, The Wall would have been great.

 

[Mr. Swordfish]

I think if Pink Floyd had shortened it to one album, The Wall would have been great.

It would join the list of double albums that would be improved by editing them down to a single albums:

Exile on Main Street
Physical Graffiti
London Calling & Sandinista
Tales from Topographic Oceans
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Blonde on Blonde
Songs in the Key of Life
The White Album

Maybe the The River, and Goodbye Yellowbrick Road, although like The Wall I can't say there's enough for a good single album.

 

[Joe Smith]

It would join the list of double albums that would be improved by editing them down to a single albums:

Exile on Main Street
Physical Graffiti
London Calling & Sandinista
Tales from Topographic Oceans
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Blonde on Blonde
Songs in the Key of Life
The White Album

Maybe the The River, and Goodbye Yellowbrick Road, although like The Wall I can't say there's enough for a good single album.

Have to disagree with this..."improved," no - more accessible for the mainstream, yes. The grab-bag nature of double albums is unique..."portmanteau" in nature. Exile, to me, is completely enjoyable all the way through, it was a Stones pinnacle. And not overly long. The White Album is, I'll paraphrase Paul here, "the f****** White Album." All of these could be shortened, but in doing so, they would not have the sheer SLAM that they had on each artist's catalogue.

With The Wall, it's kinda the same thing. Are there parts of it I might skip? Yes. But like Tommy and Quadrophenia and other story-concept albums, it does take one on a ride.

 

[Redacted]

If the reduced albums were 1 hour CDs, fine, but having one LP would cut too many tracks, not to mention the horrors of vinyl.

 

[MrBlueSky4470]

Can’t stand them.

Ha ha, thank you. Same here. For me, they're one of those bands I consistently avoid. Their songs contain good ideas, but the execution is awful – lame, soulless, cold. Strangely enough, almost every cover version of their songs is far superior to the original.

 

[SKBubba]

The main thing I remember about Pink Floyd is that when you went to a hifi store in the 70s, every turntable, amp and/or speaker demo came with a required spin of Money from Dark Side of the Moon.

 

[mpw]

I like Floyd a lot, favorite is DSOM on Lp. They did an interesting live event I think at Pompeii ?? I like their more spacey music.

 

[F1Fan72]

I like Floyd a lot, favorite is DSOM on Lp. They did an interesting live event I think at Pompeii ?? I like their more spacey music.

 

[Mart68]

The main thing I remember about Pink Floyd is that when you went to a hifi store in the 70s, every turntable, amp and/or speaker demo came with a required spin of Money from Dark Side of the Moon.

It was the first song I ever heard on CD too.