Pink Floyd

[Stephen]

Anyone else here a fan of Floyd? First let me say my love of them probably was not somthing I decided for myself. From the time I was in a crib my father was playing Floyd. He is a huge fan of them. He stoped listening to them for a bit but now my brother got him a cd he is back into them. I bought the cd Divison Bell a few years back. I loved it but never really tryed to find more of there stuff. Dad and I were talking today about them and I got interested again. So, I went to the local Wallyworld and found 3 Floyd cds reduced. (what are the odds)

Dark Side Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

All 3 are amazing cds...the only 2 cds I want now are Animals and the wall. Can't say I cared much for there real early stuff. But from Dark Side of the moon to Division Bell I liked there sound. So anyone else a fan? And if so, how did you find out about them?

[CephasWhite]

I started listening to Pink Floyd since the beginning of this week. I was listening to them on the radio and I tell ya, they sound really cool!

So yep, fan right here

My favorite song right now is Comfortably Numb.

[Stephen]

I just got done playing the 3 cds I got through...I gotta say of those 3 Wish you were here is my fav. I still need to get the wall. That and Animals. I was going to listen to Animals tonight and my brother left a Tool cd in dads Pink Floyd case.

King of town voice>I HATE TOOL!

[Zedian]

Pink Floyd are cool to listen to, I like Meddle the most, mainly since it is there most ethereal material. I still get a kick out of listening to Dark Side of the Moon and watching Wizard of Oz.

[CephasWhite]

I just got done playing the 3 cds I got through...I gotta say of those 3 Wish you were here is my fav. I still need to get the wall. That and Animals. I was going to listen to Animals tonight and my brother left a Tool cd in dads Pink Floyd case.

King of town voice>I HATE TOOL!

ROFL Yeah I am not a Tool fan either.

I don't have any of their CDs yet, I've only downloaded 5 of their songs right now, but I should take a look at Wish you were here CD. Sounds interesting.

[shooraijin]

I prefer Meddle, Obscured by Clouds and Atom Heart Mother (basically DSOTM and earlier). I've been Floydian since I was introduced to The Wall in high school, although The Wall and The Final Cut are too angsty for me to listen to now. I do like The Division Bell, however.

I think I have all of their albums in some form or another, and a few of the solo and bootlegs (including Richard Wright's excellent solo, which unfortunately cannot be printed on a G-rated board -- it's still a great album).

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I've heard a bit of Pink Floyd. What I've heard I enjoyed. Did you know "Dark Side of the Moon" was Herge's (the creator of Tintin) favourite record of all time? And Pink Floyd his favourite band. Had pretty good taste for a guy in his early 70s!

[Stephen]

I prefer Meddle, Obscured by Clouds and Atom Heart Mother (basically DSOTM and earlier).

Ah, I take it you are a Syd fan then? To be fair I have never heard any of the earlier stuff. I might check it out.

[shooraijin]

No, Syd left after Saucerful of Secrets. Those were pretty much in the murky days where they were larger than their London psychedelic roots, but smaller than they would be in the art rock scene after and during DSOTM. Their more inventive pieces were during this time, including One Of These Days and the titlepiece for Atom Heart Mother, which are large complex suites (including Echoes from Meddle, which consumes the entire second half of the LP and cassette).

[Stephen]

Oh ok...I am still learning the details on there real early days. I knew Syd was gone before Dark Side Of the Moon. At any rate I should try to find some of there early cds...

[CDLviking]

I really like their stuff too, but I'm not as knowledgable as you guys seem to be. I just think their songs are cool. My favorite is Comfortably Numb because the verses have a very personal meaning related to an event that deeply affected my spirituality as a child.

[ClosetOtaku]

In High School, Dark Side of the Moon was the album everyone bought, it seemed, after they got their first paycheck. It was on the Billboard Charts forever. I didn't buy it until college, but you heard it constantly on FM rock stations (back then, AM ruled, and FM was the exception).

I was a senior in High School when The Wall came out. Floyd played five shows each in New York and Los Angeles, and to say it was the hottest ticket of the decade (in the days of The Who, The Rolling Stones, Springsteen, Billy Joel, etc.) was an understatement.

I think The Wall appeared at the perfect time -- earlier or later it would not have quite had the impact it did. Pink Floyd's reputation and name recognition among the masses, built on Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals, couldn't have been better. At the same time, most of Europe and the U.S. were at the bottom of a very bad economic and social downturn, the Cold War was at its peak, and you could cut the depression with a knife. Out comes The Wall -- with its message of isolation and anger -- and it resonated like a tin can picking up a distant radio station. It became the anthem for the disaffected masses.

And, for Floyd, I think that was the zenith of their popularity, as the internal squabbles that had made The Wall possible basically destroyed the band. Subsequent Floyd albums just didn't have the right mix any longer.

I don't listen to The Wall anymore -- although I know the lyrics to songs like Comfortably Numb more faithfully than most scripture, I suppose -- but I do like putting on Dark Side of the Moon from time to time.

[Technomancer]

I got into Floyd sometime in highschool (couldn't tell you when), and a bit deeper during my first year at university. My roommate was a huge music buff (and formerly part of some Chilean heavy-metal band), so he had pretty much everything, including a lot of the early stuff. Overall though I think my favourite was the Division Bell. As for 'The Wall', there's a lot of good stuff on it, although the movie is very....Freudian.

[shooraijin]

That's a nice way to put it.

For an interesting spin on their early stuff, look for Relics (reissued by Capitol). Works also has some unusual tracks on it. One of the most intriguing tracks on Relics is Biding My Time (a scat-jazz piece that Floyd routinely did on their road shows), and Works has the previously unreleased track Embryo, which is amazingly expressionistic. (The band was very angry with Capitol for releasing it, as they called it unfinished, but their irritation is our fandom gain.)

[Blitzkrieg1701]

Oh good, I'm not the only one who thinks The Wall is severely over rated. I can admire the ambitious scope, and close to half of the songs are good, but there are too many stretches of depressed singer-songwritters doldrums("Vera" anyone?) for the whole thing to be interesting. I have to say, though, I saw an AMV on animemusicvideo.org that set the entire album to Evangelion clips and it was AWSOME (I mean, the dude even stuck "When The Tigers Broke Free" onto the beginning!)

Anyway, I'm a pretty big Pink Floyd fan now, but I arived there by a rather odd path. I never really heard any Floyd until I was around 14 and discovered classic rock stations, and I have to confess it took me a little while to warm up to their better known stuff. However, at that time I was REALLY into psychedelic rock and started reading stuff about Syd Barrett and their early record. Believe it or not, I bought Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Relics YEARS before Dark Side of the Moon! Yes, I was a strage one, I'll admit it, but I do recomend Syd's music (including his solo albums) with great enthusiasm.

As for the more familiar stuff, Dark Side , of course, deserves almost every bit of praise it's been given. However, I'd have to say that I like Obscured by Clouds almost as much. "Burning Bridges," "Mudmen," and "Stay" are, in my book, every bit as good as anything on the better known albums that followed, and "The Gold It's in The..." is cool for being so completely non-Floyd-like.

[shooraijin]

Actually, off Obscured by Clouds, "Wots Uh The Deal" is my favourite by far -- but I do like pretty much everything else except "Main Theme" which is rather meandering.

The movie that ObC is the soundtrack for is quite strange. I would be hesitant to recommend it here (much like Zabriskie Point; that soundtrack, including Floyd's sessions that were not used for the final audio print, is now in reissue and is worth a listen for the completist).

[greyscale42]

MY all time favorite band. My fav would have to be The Dark Side of the Moon though. Never really got into em until I was about 14 though.

[PumpkinKoRn52]

King of town voice>I HATE TOOL!

You have crossed me once again. For fear of getting band, I say only this: I disagree with you.

Anyway, those three cd's are awesome. The wall is one of their absolute best, if not the best. I like Dark Side of the Moon the best out of those three. Atom Heart Mother's another good one. And their live cd, The Delicate Sound of Thunder is another great one too.

[Stephen]

I doubt tool well let you join there band.

For fear of getting band,

If your being serious, suck it up. I was just making a joke. *take note of the King of Town voice* And no, you won't be banned for liking Tool. Now stop sidetracking the Pinkfloyd thread before I punch you in the ear.

Tyler Durden>you hit me in the ear! That was perfect!

[shooraijin]

Getting back on topic, nice choice of picture for the signature. That guy really is on fire, btw -- it's not a photographic effect. Under the suit, he's in a fire-retardant sheath. However, the "hair fire" spread and singed off his eyebrows shortly after the shot was taken.

[Stephen]

Whoa. I will be getting a shirt at hot topic that bears the same image Tuesday. Its on the cheapy table too. *laughs* I did not know he really was burning. Thats pretty hardcore. But what are a few eyebrows in the name of a cool cd cover. *laughs* I've lost mine in the past for far lamer things...

[Yamato145]

Pink Floyyd is frikkin greatness ... and the best brief explanation of their music is ... drug-induced

[shooraijin]

I wouldn't say that. Their earliest stuff is (the singles, PatGoD and SoS in particular), but with Syd Barrett's mental breakdown (no doubt hastened by his chemical proclivities), the rest of the band was pretty much scared straight.

This isn't to say that certain subcultures haven't embraced Floyd's music for their own purposes, but the band was pretty much clean post 1970 or so.

[PumpkinKoRn52]

I doubt tool well let you join there band. If your being serious, suck it up. I was just making a joke. *take note of the King of Town voice* And no, you won't be banned for liking Tool. Now stop sidetracking the Pinkfloyd thread before I punch you in the ear.

Tyler Durden>you hit me in the ear! That was perfect!

Wow, I horribly misspelt that. I did me banned, as a joke. I guess it wasn't funny.

Anyways, like he just stated, most of their stuff wasn't that drug-induced. There's actually a lot going on in their music, rythmically and such. They play in some odd time signatures from time to time, and have a lot of crazy work on the synthesizers.

[shooraijin]

Money is actually in 7/4 time. I still don't know how Nick Mason played through that.

[Maledicte]

I noticed it had a strange time signature...now I know what it is! what kind of person thinks up that kind of signature....GENIUS!

that's one of my favorite songs, by the way.

[shooraijin]

No tricks with the cash register, btw. That was done by splicing together tape by hand. Amazing that they got the timing as good as it is.

[Stephen]

My father just got in from work, and has lent me Animals by Floyd. More good music for me. Yay.

[Yamato145]

has anyone here heard the remake of "Wish You Were Here" by Wyclef Jean

[SpikeSpiegel306]

Lets just say I'm a former Fylodian. I guess I could still be one at heart, but for now PF just bugs me if I listen to them for too long. I used to be obsessed, I have The Wall DVD but I dont watch it unless I am introducing PF to a friend or something of that nature. They do have some rather interesting ways of presenting their music however and as a musician I respect them for their talent no matter how annoyed I get with it.