Pink Floyd fans here?

[Laxman_prodigy]

The Wall is the album I would most like to wipe from the annals of music history.

Really? Do you consider it that bad? I am quite surprised because there are very few who dislike Pink Floyd.

[Dixon Bainbridge]

Really? Do you consider it that bad?

Yes.

I am quite surprised because there are very few who dislike Pink Floyd.

I know lots of poeple that love it. I know as many that hate it. Thats whats so great about music, one man's Pink Floyd is another man's Celine Dion.

The only way I can describe sitting through The Wall is 'bowel scrapping". Middle class English people whine enough as it is, having to sit through 2 hours of Roger Waters self indulgent tirades about how no one understands him, is more than enough for most inteligent people. Yeah Roger, you were bullied at school, yeah Roger, people in authority put you down. At least you eat and have a roof over your head, unlike 3 billion other people in the world that live and die in a dustbowl.

Rant over.

[t0p]

I loved the albums Dark Side of the Moon and Wish you were here. When I'm tired and emotional, the song "Shine on you crazy diamond" can make me quite tearful as it reminds me of a friend who killed himself after some years of mental illness.

The really early Floyd makes me either very bored ("Interstellar Overdrive"... huh?) or very very bemused. Consider these insightful lyrics:

I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket,
A bell that rings
And things to make it look good.
I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it.

Later Floyd just makes me very angry that I actually paid for the garbage.

[cracker89]

told you you shouldn't have talked bout floyd...

All said and done, they're extremely trippy, beautiful musical scapes, lyrics tht are open to relative grasp and they all squabble like teenagers.

Though, yes, they're pretty extravagant, waters is too whiny at times and barret is what they mostly sang about after they kicked him out. nothing much to discuss. I wish they wernt so extravagant, i'd respect them a lil more. but no doubt, I love their compositions. Some of the best in the melodic-meloncholic spectrum..

@t0p - Yes, I see your point. And your choice in music is no concern of mine, however, consider these:

 Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

And as most things in life, you hve a right to exercise ur ability to be selective. You really must. Where you dont, you make do or walk away.

P.S.:floyd? after pints?

[mkendall]

Pink Floyd?

[jazzman8866]

It all depends what you are into. I love em. Trying to learn a few of their songs (guitar.) Go David Go.

[steve161]

Got it, and very funny. But what does a barber have to do with Pink Floyd?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgvAwBDbuIo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqKkNezFG-g&NR=1

[Khakilang]

I like Pink Floyd. But Pink is not my favorite color. Deep Purple is.

[wilee-nilee]

I like Pink Floyd, David Gilmore although not a shredder is a unique guitarist that is easily recognized. I was watching a special on fractal geometry on Public Broadcasting, I immediately recognized the music sure sounded like Floyd or Gilmore, and sure enough Gilmore wrote and performed the sound track. I think it was actually all the other members sans waters that were part of the soundtrack recording.

Gilmore and Waters and the whole group are individuals in their own style and expression in composition and playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqKkNezFG-g&NR=1

Thanks for this link I had never seen Gilmore play a steel guitar it makes sense for this tune. Looks like a custom made guitar not a true steel, hard to see if there any pedals.

[robsoles]

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict.

Umma Gumma - Studio Album.


If you are unaware of that track then you aren't really a Pink Floyd fan yet, keep listening.