Is Pink Floyd... Boring?

Sasquamo wrote: Reminds me of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.  They played blistering fast solos on the saxophone, but if slow down what they're playing or jsut listen really closely, you begin to notice that they are not just doing random notes and scales, but are actually improvising amazing melodies.

oh look you dont understand...

its not What you play... (i mean that is important too) but im talking about HOW you play it

I won't vote because this poll is too polarizing.
I have mixed feelings about Pink Floyd, I mean I enjoy their music most of the time but I'm not astonished by it.

Absolutely not

Have you heard Echoes?

Sasquamo wrote: peter_gabriel wrote: Sasquamo wrote: I don't know, I haven't spent a whole lot of time with their music, but generally I think their music is kind of boring.  Call me shallow, but being a musician myself, I usually prefer to listen to music in which I admire and am really impressed by the skill of the musicians.  Pink Floyd just doesn't do that for me... being a musician myself too, let me tell you that musicians are not machines... are artists... and that is not only virtuosism ... its about the music from the soul   True, but it is possible to have soul and have it with virtuosity, I don't think you can really say that being really good takes away all emotions in the music.  Of course, that's just me.

no.. im with you too

of course you can be virtuoso and have soul.. but you say that you prefer music you admire... its like poeple i know that are about my age... and say.. "oh look dream theater's guitarist in that dvd sounds like he is really god"

so what makes you feel the sensation of music.... admiring a musician, or feeling him?

cause i really think that what i saw in that dvd was kinda boring... but really cool for someone who wants to see a machine hand and admire it...



sorry about my english anyway

... after Roger Waters' comments to Robbie Williams and Rap/Hip Hop music I have to say I'd prefer listening to "Sing when you're winning" to "Dark Side of the Moon" and, for example, OUTCAST to "Radio Kaos"... don't kill me I'm only a single man with a strange taste !

They can be boring, but on the whole, they are well worth listening to.

BTW, if anyone here happens to think that PF (or any other music, for that matter) is boring just because 'it's not complex enough' - what are you doing on a prog site? Better listen to this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ferneyhough

Or rather listen only to his most complex piece, or rather only to its most complex section, or rather only to its most complex note cluster...


Edited by Visitor13 - September 30 2006 at 08:49

Of course they're not boring - at least to me they aren't.

As to your above comments, The Lamb, I'd like to point out that such negative topics really don't add much to the forum. You (and everybody else) have the right to dislike even the most popular bands, but you should expect people to react strongly to such questions, especially when they are not supported by an explanation as to the reason why. Personally, I dislike being called a 'fanboy' (in case, that would be a fangirl...), and think such polls are a very effective way to provoke a flame war, as it has already happened in the past.

They are to me.  At least what I've heard from them.

not boring....  not at all..

no