[Closed] Pink Floyd

Wish you were here is pure class,
The wall is brilliance
The rest is ok but not a massive fan of Meddle or Animals, apart from a few tracks.

For me Waters did the best stuff and his solo albums are really good, Pros and cons especially. I even like The Final Cut cut though and that's almost a Waters solo album.

I've been listening to the Endless River a bit over the last few days and initial impressions were if it wasn't good enough for the Division Bell why is it ok now! But it has started to grow somewhat. The best albums are growers. Amused to death took about 5 yers for me to really see it's genius

Any Colour You Like + Acid = good memories.

I've got a bike...

First saw them live at Bingley Hall, Stafford, just after they released Animals, and then Earl's Court after the release of The Division Bell. I've been to see Roger Waters three times most recently his Wall Tour. They are with out doubt the best concerts I have attended for the quality of the sound and the overall concert experience.

The band is just fantastic and that's really what I think

By the way which ones Pink

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn > Great
A Saucerful of Secrets -> Set the controls, rest hmm.
More -> Meh
Ummagumma -> 50% awesome, 50% the drugs don't work
Atom Heart Mother -> Best cover picture ever.
Meddle -> Great stuff.
Obscured by Clouds -> Must have listened to it a few time, can't remember a single song.
The Dark Side of the Moon -> Genius!
Wish You Were Here -> Beautiful.
Animals -> Start of the decline.
The Wall -> NO
The Final Cut -> Dirge
A Momentary Lapse of Reason -> Album title is almost accurate.
The Division Bell -> Dad rock.
The Endless River -> Probably more self indulgent twaddle.

IanMunro, I agree with you there, except I think Animals is great - the first Floyd I ever heard and I loved it right away. obscured by Clouds is an overlooked gem.
I saw them at Wembley in the Momentary Lapse tour and I thought they'd gone stodgy. For me, as others have remarked, the brilliance is in Gilmour's restraint as a guitarist. every note has a purpose. hearing him wring out endless variations on his solos on Comfortably Numb, for example, was a pity. also their sax player had the crappest mullet ever.
They weren't the same without Waters, either.
I won't be buying the new album.

Despite this thread being wrongly started, I'd like to say I don't like Pink Floyd. Just to, you know, have my voice heard.
I like millions of other things though, so I am pretty sure I'm not missing out.

I avoided all the later stuff for years, assuming it was all dull overblown dad rock… but then listened to [b]Division Bell[/b] in full in the summer and was totally hooked… love it. And Gilmour's [b]On An Island[/b]. Lovely.

[b]Momentary Lapse of Reason[/b] should still be avoided. Except Sorrow… that's okay. The rest is terrible.

“New” album is okay, but inessential.

I've always thought that there was a correlation between James Bod and Pink Floyd. You have your early, critically acclaimed, genre defining stuff (Sean Connery, Piper at the Gates of Dawn), a bit of a..er...'hiccup' (George Lazenby, Ummagumma), your indulgent and massive selling return to form (Roger Moore, Meddle & Dark Side of the Moon), the new guy who takes it in a different but somewhat patchy direction (Dalton, The Wall & The Final Cut) and then they both chug on into old age and mediocrity (Pierce Brosnan, Divison Bell & The Endless River). Daniel Craig has spoiled this model and therefore does not exist (unless Dave Gilmour can pull something pretty spectacular out his baldy hat).

Shut yourself away with - The Wall. Get into the theme of it its not individual tracks its a masterpiece, it doesn't jump aroud. Its dark and nasty at times but a masterpiece.

I really really like a lot of their stuff. And what always makes me smile is the way they had a "Ringo" track on most albums - where they let Richard Wright sing lead. Wearing the Inside Out being a classic of the genre. I love his singing but it's a bit forced.

Liked them since my childhood; The Wall in - I think - 1981/82 was eye-opening.

I think every album, no matter how overall skanky, has at least one gem and I really quite like Obscured by Clouds too... Actually Dark Side of the Moon is maybe over-played - it's Wish You Were Here that has the beautiful tracks..

Latter stuff has passed me by I must say..

Richard Wright brought some great songs in out of left field

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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.

Well if you're only 40...

To me Ummagumma IS Floyd. Did I tell you about the time I saw Floyd perform Dark Side of the Moon live before the album was released? No? Well it was brilliant, but the second half which was all Piper, Ummagumma and Meddle was 10 times better.

Another thumbs up for summer68! 😀

The proper songs on Atom Heart Mother are all ace. They could have been such a pop band back then if they'd wanted.

Oh, check out “Blue” on Gilmour's album for some great stuff by Wright. His final piece of perfection.

Oh… essential Wright download for you…

Zabriskie Point - Outtake - Love Scene - Version 4

Just love Gilmours facial expressions!

Kelvin, do you have a link for that plz?

Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way

I loved the wall as a lad,but when I was 17, my foreman, one Tuesday morning, offered me a spare ticket for the momentary lapse of reason tour. Maine road.
As soon as we got to the stadium I was separated from the folks I was with..
I've never been the same after that gig .
I eventually packed in my job and ran away to London on the back of it tbh.
I don't love everything they've done ,but I really really like a lot .
Slightly disappointed dezb sees no worth in the floyd...:-)

Slightly disappointed dezb sees no worth in the floyd...:-)

Just tastes innit. I really wish football got me remotely interested, I'd be more involved in conversation at work!
Each to their own & as long as dezb like what he likes, thats ok by me.

I think you'll find that Dez reckons any musicians over the age of 40 should be put down. He's really quite ageist. 😉

Dub Side of the Moon - Easy All Stars is a cracking tribute to a beautiful album. Most of you have probably heard it, but those of you who have not. Enjoy!!

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell?
Blue skies from pain?
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

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I was a massive teenage Floyd fan. I could probably still sing/hum along to all 5 of the main 70s albums start to finish. Me and a mate trekked all the way down to Earl's Court from Huddersfield to watch them in 1994, aged about 15 or 16. I confess I grew out of them after a bit, although I still have a soft spot for the early Syd Barrett/psychedelic stuff, and my records and CDs are still lurking somewhere about.

It's weird (and a bit depressing) to think that the 1994 tour I saw is roughly as long ago now as Dark Side Of The Moon was back then.

[i]I think you'll find that Dez reckons any musicians over the age of 40 should be put down.[/i]

DezB's heroes include...
Neil Young
Iggy Pop
Karl Hyde
Brian Eno
Richard D James
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:-)j

Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream

Just love Gilmours facial expressions!
Kelvin, do you have a link for that plz?

Google is your friend. Or Spotify. Zabriskie Point is one of my favourite films - one day I'll manage to get there!!

Love Live at Pompeii.

PF are ofter called 'pretentious' on here, but people never explain what exactly makes the music pretentious.

Never got it? Upper middle class art school bollocks, but then again it's probably too "clever" for me.... Dumb northern punk... Anything more than three cords and I get confused....

Well if you get down to the basics of Pink Floyd you will find it's twelve bar blues.

Probably ... But there's a lot of mush loaded on top, I do think Mr Gilmour is a truly talented individual who appears to do a lot of good work for charity etc but it simply doesn't relate to my musical past - it's a personal view rather than an artistic appraisal

Marmalade
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Marmalade
I like marmalade...

I've always liked Pink Floyd. Pretty unique band with their own style, great musicians and plenty of imagination. Live shows were immense too. Some might say pretentious even, but they could walk the walk.

Like everything they have done right up to Animals. It ended there for me. By that time I was wandering around with blue or red hair, drain pipes, 88 boots and a ripped t-shirt. The 70's were ace for music, late 60's were good also but it all came together in the 70's.

DSOTM is the second best concept album of all time after OK Computer. Lofty praise indeed.