Pink Floyd

[Mr. Swordfish]

To this day, despite loving Pink Floyd all my life, I don't remember nor know the stuff by the Pink or the Floyd from who they assembled their name.

Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Worth tracking down and listening to.

 

[CDMC]

Pink and Floyd were actually two different guys. To keep it confusing the band Pink Floyd was four entirely different guys. Well five in total, I suppose, although I confess no appetite for the Sid period.

I recall Waters saying in an interview how a lot of the early stuff was just garbage and he didn’t know how they didn’t get thrown off stage. I really liked the Waters stuff through Amused to Death and then it seems he just went completely off the rails and has become a vindictive and sad old man. Conversely, Gilmore continues to evolve and put out good music. All bands have their peak periods. For me with Pink Floyd is was Dark Side through Momentary Lapse of reason. Rush was 2112 through Power Windows, Genesis was selling England by the Pound through And Then There Were Three. I think a lot of what is viewed as a peak of any band is really how any individual listener relates to their music.

 

[Mort]

I'm the guy in the trenchcoat. Never understood the deep admiration of Floyd.

 

[GD Fan]

I'm the guy in the trenchcoat. Never understood the deep admiration of Floyd.

I don't understand this lack of understanding, I must confess.

But that's OK. However I would respectfully request that future WKRP video links, which should be encouraged, include Loni Anderson.

 

[Brian Hall]

Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii - Set The Controls To The Heart For The Sun Remastered​

 

[Audionaut]

Never understood the deep admiration of Floyd.

You don’t have to like Pink Floyd, and music is probably the most subjective art form of all. What deeply moves one person leaves another completely cold. We’ve probably all seen this play out enough within our own families.

Nevertheless, Pink Floyd is one of those cases where personal preferences and objective significance aren’t necessarily the same thing. You can find their music boring and still acknowledge that they set some milestones in the history of popular music.

The Dark Side of the Moon is still considered one of the most influential albums of all time and remained on the charts for years. Wish You Were Here and The Wall regularly appear on lists of the greatest albums of all time. Pink Floyd were also among the pioneers of the concept album, in which an entire album is understood as a cohesive work of art and not just a collection of individual songs.

Sonically, too, they were often ahead of their time, and their elaborate studio experiments, use of synthesizers, spatial effects, and innovative recording techniques have influenced generations of musicians, sound engineers, and producers.
Many elements of modern rock, progressive, ambient, and even electronic music can be traced, at least in part, to developments that Pink Floyd popularized.

That’s why you don’t have to love their music, but when music historians, producers, sound engineers, and countless musicians describe their work for themselves as a milestone, it’s clear that it has had a demonstrable influence on the development of modern music.

Your lack of understanding, as can also be read here on ASR, is shared by many when it comes to the Beatles, classical music, or jazz.
Admiration is not proof of quality for good music—as, in my opinion, musicians hyped today with millions of fans prove—but a lack of admiration is no counterproof either. If someone plays their absolute favorite music through their moving boom toilet bowl at 120 dB, entertaining the neighborhood in the process, that doesn’t mean everyone has to like it.

I myself have had some very good times with Pink Floyd and still consider them pioneers who paved the way for many other musicians.

 

[whereisbrian]

I listened to Pink Floyd until Waters left.
The band still had the same name, but it was something else entirely.
Roger's obsessions were missing.

After that, they gradually became a caricature of themselves, producing utterly uninteresting mainstream music.

The band's early albums are what interest me most.

Like Gilmour's later albums, they're technically very good, but just music for aging sixty-somethings (I fall into that category).

 

[Sokel]

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.

I like the Wall, a lot.
But I always liked it as it is, a soundtrack of a great movie (even if it's the other way around) .

 

[Puddingbuks]

Been there, done a little bit of that and now I have had enough.

 

[Redacted]

I listen to "Pink Floyd" mostly at live venues these days, where there are a couple of really good tribute bands on down where I live, in any given year, for £25. Guys who can play it and sing with extreme polish (and excellent "wiggly-ooh" ladies too). I always have a great time.

I've probably played the recordings to death over the years, like with so many other old bands.

I think it helps if they were new to you the first time round. My mates and I all saw Meddle sell out in our local record shop (Bedford Records in Leamington) and have wait until new stock came in a few days later. I had to take 2 copies back as they were unlistensble to with loud clicks at the beginning of Echoes - I knew then how terrible vinyl was! We'd all heard much of the previous records from older brothers etc., and all wanted to be part of that "far out" thing. Maybe it's the same for kids now with their own choice and styles of new music - who knows? I buy a surprising number of albums by recent artists!

 

[Audionaut]

I listened to Pink Floyd until Waters left.
The band still had the same name, but it was something else entirely.
Roger's obsessions were missing.

Back then, I bought the following LPs:
First, The Dark Side of the Moon > great, great, great
Wish you were here, even great but completely different in my opinion
Ummagumma
Meddle

The Wall > a bit too much of Waters obsessions, but a great Album too. For me. It’s subjective, of course.

 

[Joe Smith]

I do recommend heartily the latest waters live recording, This is Not a Drill. It's a good recording, thoughtful selections of his solo work and the Floyd catalogue. A nice workout for you speakers, for sure.

 

[DSJR]

'Echoes,' especially the middle part, set me on a path I've never fully deviated from and I wasn't a huge fan of DSOTM for some years, as we had a master copy and it was played so much for dems. Later on, I 'got' time and at my age now, I really DO get it, especially in our current 'Hanging on in quiet desperation' times!!! I can almost play this record in my head, so little need to play it often. Much of The Wall was demo fodder some years later and again, this feeling of over-familiarity...

I have nothing but the deepest respect for this band and ,my main beef is nothing to do with them or their albums, merely that we played so many of them to death at the time (not so much Animals however, as one needed to think more about what was being said I reckon, rather than using the sound quality to judge a HiFi sytem).

 

[krabapple]

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

Yes, it's called 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason' and it's actually both of those things.

 

[krabapple]

And by that it at least introduced the unusual 7/4 time signature to the unwashed masses ;-)

Only if they had never heard 'All You Need Is Love"

 

[krabapple]

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.

A common, trite take.
Most of these have more than two sides worth of worthy music. That's one problem.

 

[Rick63]

Before the thread gets locked, I'll make an on-topic post.

I've always enjoyed some of Pink Floyd's music but they're not on my list of favorite bands, largely because prog rock isn't a favorite genre of mine. Rush is easily my favorite prog rock band but even then, they pretty much lost me completely after Permanent Waves. I'm just not a big fan of synthesizers and such, I strongly prefer music with real stringed instruments/drumsets played by 3 or 4 people.

 

[Timcognito]

They started and were labeled as a psychedelic band and later hated the that moniker putting a cow on the cover of the Atom Heart Mother album to look different than the covers that were rage of the time.

 

[DVinylfan]

Thank you for all the replies to this thread. The Pink Floyd is an important band and Audio Science Review has a focus on getting the sound reproduction for music (and tv, movies, sound in general) right using measurements. I see those two projects as complementary and worth pursuing.
Please try and keep posts on topic!
If that's proving difficult, there are many diverse threads on this website where it may be more appropriate to post.
Thank you!

 

[Redacted]

Of the 4 members, post Syd, which brand of washing up liquid would you say aligns best with each member?