bigblackshed – Member
Pink Floyd, like Genesis, were and still are a very big part of my musical identity. BUT with both, and many other bands, I’m not a fan of all of their work.
For Floyd it’s Meddle to Animals. I like bits of The Wall but I don’t “get” most of Roger Waters. For Genesis it’s Foxtrot to Wind and Wuthering, plus a few odd bits and pieces.
To label Floyd as rubbish is, to me, quite insulting. They have influenced huge amounts of music that followed. To say you don’t like or get it is perfectly fine. I don’t like The Smiths. To some it’s their musical awakening and still holds their affection. I can appreciate that Johnny Marr has influence lots of guitarists, but he doesn’t “float my boat” musically.
Each to their own.
It took me a very long time to really appreciate The Smiths, it must be said. I can now appreciate Marr’s skill as a guitarist, and How Soon Is Now sends shivers down my spine with the very first opening notes, but otherwise I aggree wholeheartedly with this.
Oddly enough, and despite not owning a working turntable, I bought a Pink Floyd vinyl album today!
My intention is to get a mate with a vinyl fixation and the appropriate equipment to do a digital copy.
Why would I bother? It’s a bootleg, often considered to be the best live bootleg ever recorded, Pink Floyd Winter Tour ’74, which has Raving and Drooling, You’ve Got To Be Crazy and Shine On You Crazy Diamond, songs that eventually appeared on Wish You Were Here and Animals
Plus I saw them on this tour at Bristol Hippodrome, so it was irresistible.
It also effectively only cost me £5, ‘cos I’d just sold some old vinyl to the same dealer for £20, and she let me have it for £25, rather than £30.
Bargain! 😀