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Calculate900 
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 Topic: About PINK FLOYD
Posted: June 08 2009 at 15:39 |
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I remember the first time I really listened to Pink Floyd. My dad brought my sister and I to a laser light show set to "Dark Side of the Moon." After that, I couldn't stop listening to them. I would buy and/or rent CD's so I could put them on my iPod. I couldn't wait to get a new album, because all their stuff, including their experimental stuff, was very unique and different. It was unlike anything I've ever heard.
I've liked their music for a while, but only recently did they become my favorite band.
"Dark Side" is still one of my favorites, but it's not at the top of my list. I enjoyed "Piper at the Gates of Dawn," "Wish You Were Here," and "The Wall," but my favorite has to be "Meddle" because of "One of These Days," which is one of my favorite songs.
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Bufo
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Posted: June 08 2009 at 00:36 |
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My brother played Echoes for me in 1969, when I was 3 years old. I said it was "spooky music" and went back to my Donald Duck album.
They were my favorite band in high school, but I've played everything to death. These days, my favorite period by them is post-Syd and pre-Dark Side of the Moon, though I get more out of The Madcap Laughs than any of the Floyd albums, and the more Roger the later albums get, the less I find them listenable. That's not saying I like the post-Waters albums. I don't. They sound like retreads, with Gilmour borrowing things from the old albums. That's an artistic sin and always sounds lame. Let's twist again, like we did last summer? Surely, the answer is "no, not this summer."
"It's alright if we borrow from each other, but what we must never do is borrow from ourselves."
- Orson Welles, The Other Side of the Wind
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 04:20 |
 Jaja Macca wrote:
Despite the resume on Prog Archives, I would like to know your opinion about this wonderful Prog Band.
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OK, you asked for it. OVERRATED! And I probably like the least the albums that get the highest ratings here (except for Animals.) Piper and AHM were brilliant for their time. DSOTM is an obvious classic. Animals is an unobvious one but it gets a lot of love here. The Wall and The Final Cut are underrated here. Momentary Lapse isn't as bad as it's rep. I find the rest of their stuff boring.
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PinkPangolin
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 04:17 |
Calculate900 wrote:
They're easily my all-time favorite band.
Oh, and anyone who has not seen "A Saucerful of Secrets" from "Live At Pompeii" must do so. It's outstanding.
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Oh bloomin' hec - I can't help it - you are so so right......
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PinkPangolin
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 04:16 |
AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!! Help me - I'm trying not to talk about Pink Floyd It's so hard  You tempt me so...
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Pink Floyd
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Posted: June 05 2009 at 23:48 |
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They're ok... i guess...
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progkidjoel
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Posted: June 05 2009 at 23:12 |
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First song I can remember hearing was "In the flesh" on THE WALL, before I put it on my iPod.
I've only really listened to THE WALL and DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, I'd say the latter is better, IMHO.
I love both.
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moshkito
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Posted: June 05 2009 at 11:09 |
Hi,
Saw them 5 times ... and saw The Wall also in Quad sound in the Bay Area.
I have a soft spot for this band, and still is one of my favorites ... it is not, however, the best one in my book ... although what they have done artistically is probably more important than any other band ... and by this I mean the work with various different arts and artists to help define and create something different that no one else bothers to do.
Do I have a preference for which album? Not really?
Do I have a cut I like more than any others? Yeah ... the one they did not release ... they need to release the versions of "Raving and Drooling" that they did way before Roger turned it into a song that was nice but not half as good as the original!
Is DSOTM my favorite? No. Echoes is!
And my favorite concert of theirs? The DVD Live in Pompeii ... where you can see the music play ... and you do not have to worry about stars. You can see a band wanting to put together a visual display and you can see it take shape during a movie ... even if only fun visuals or as Nick said ... "a nice home movie" ...
The early version of DSOTM was also more fun and interesting ... the Greatest Gig in the Sly was not Claire Torry ... it was Syd Barrett and a bunch of priests sermonizing like crazy all over each other ... while in actuality the Clare Torry one became one of the most famous reasons as to why DSOTM became so big, in the end the other one is much more satisfying and makes much more sense in the flow of the concept of the work ... than Clare's bit does.
Other than that ... I can tell you that Pink Floyd is one of the few bands that did more ... WAY MORE ... with other arts to help develop and expand the value of their music and work, and as such they deserve all the credit they have and then some ...
The discussion about prog or not, is not worth it, as it ignores all the historical and quotidian information that helped develop this band into what it was. No man is an island ... except in rock'n'roll and prog boards, where people can not exist ... only a concept can!
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Calculate900
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Posted: June 05 2009 at 09:16 |
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They're easily my all-time favorite band.
The sounds they make that range anywhere from psychedelic to experimental to progressive are beyond amazing.
Oh, and anyone who has not seen "A Saucerful of Secrets" from "Live At Pompeii" must do so. It's outstanding.
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himtroy
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Posted: March 29 2009 at 18:05 |
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I don't understand why people constantly say that Alan Parsons imitated the Floyd sound. The cause of the similar sound is the way it's all recorded and mixed so well, and thats Alan Parson's all the way. He did it for his own band, he did it for Floyd. All those extra added sounds they did on DSOTM were Parson's. He went out and recorded the clock's and the cash registers without instructions to do so from anybody. As far as how much work is put it On the Run should be more credited to Alan Parsons than Floyd.
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LeStaf
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Posted: March 29 2009 at 07:46 |
Pink Floyd is the link between the psychedelic rock and the progressive rock.
In my opinion, it is a progressive rock band, with a unique and uncopied style (except maybe Tales of Mystery and Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe, by Alan Parson's Project, but he's a buddy, isn't he?).
Their particularity remains in the fact that their music is not much a performance in musical technique but a stunning performance in musical atmoshphere.
The other point is that should you hear one note of Pink `Floyd playing, you know it's Pink Floyd. All those years, they kept this outstanding original sound.
As far as I'm concerned, except for the Water's nervous breakdown years (The Wall, Final Cut), all those albums are very good stuff (even "The Valley" and "Atom Heart Mother"). They're all great witnesses of the march from the LSD era to the Human Be era.
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: March 29 2009 at 02:10 |
 Or at least the Richard Gere stuff.
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: March 29 2009 at 02:05 |
Floyd's first album is solid. Syd was a genius.
The experimental period peaks with AHM and Echoes.
DSOTM is overrated but still essential.
WYWH is WAY overrated! Floyd's worst best album.
Animals and The Wall showcase the new Floyd. If you like those, The Final Cut will please you as well.
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is underrated, but hardly essential. Get it before WYWH though.
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himtroy
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Posted: March 28 2009 at 19:56 |
I love a good amount of Pink Floyd. I put Piper At the Gates of Dawn up there with the best albums of all time most certainly.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: March 28 2009 at 18:52 |
Favorite period: 69-71 (exspecially live) Favorite songs: - Astronomy Domine
- A Saucerful of Secrets
- Remember a Day
- Green is the Colour
- The Embryo
- Fat old Sun
- Echoes
- All of DSOTM
- All of WYWH
- Dogs
- Pigs
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The Quiet One
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Posted: March 28 2009 at 18:18 |
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^wow, that's so cool, haha.
One of the clubs I go, where there are boats everywhere, there's one that has printed in the front the prism of dark side of the moon, and it's all painted black then. So cool.
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TheCaptain
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Posted: March 28 2009 at 18:11 |
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This story isn't entirely pertinent to this thread but it's about Pink Floyd. So instead of starting a new thread, I figured I'd just tag onto this one.
I was walking home from school today and I walked past one of the coolest cars I have ever seen. It was some standard blue Honda sedan - nothing special at first glance. Then I saw there was a brake light in the middle right above the license plate. Upon further investigation I noticed the brake light was shaped like the two statues from the Division Bell. I am by no means a fan of PF, but I could not help but be amazed by this level of fanboyism and sheer awesomeness.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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zappaholic
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Posted: December 03 2008 at 19:38 |
You sure did start a lot of these threads.....
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Moogtron III
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Posted: December 03 2008 at 15:31 |
I love Pink Floyd especially for three things:
- The magnificent video / dvd Live At Pompeii: about the best music video I ever saw
- The album Dark Side Of The Moon: about the best album I ever heard
- The song Shine On You Crazy Diamond: about the best song I ever heard
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: December 03 2008 at 12:44 |
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I hate Pink Floyd as much as I hate Jethro Tull.
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