Pink Floyd Appreciation Thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Do you mean you're going to move PF to Xover, Dean? LOL

As a matter of fact, when the AR team was still one, I tried suggesting a move of PF and Jethro Tull to AR, with not a lot of success, unfortunately. Anyway, I think PF are one of those cases in which multi-tagging would be the best thing, exactly for the reasons you've put forward in your post.

I loved there progression from the early Syd days to Medddle, then the big 3. The Wall and onwards never contained me.

One interesting item from the Schaffner book I'm currently reading:

While Roger understandably gets flack for being power mad during the Wall period when Wright was dispatched, what often doesn't get brought up is that Dave not only agreed but might have been ready to fire Mason as well.

"Rick wasn't doing the job he was paid to do. He got the boot because he wasn't contributing in any way to anything." [Gilmour]

"Let's get rid of Nick Mason too!" [what Waters claims Gilmour said when they agreed to can Wright]

The book claims that as early as WYWH, Gilmour was pretty frustrated with what he saw as musical indifference by Mason. "As far as Gilmour was concerned, the real obstacle was his colleagues self-indulgent unprofessionalism. Much of Dave's impatience was directed at Nick Mason..."

Bringing this up just because I think many assume Roger acted alone and don't realize Dave was with him on the Wright thing.

Pink Floyd is great yeah. But remind also David Gilmours'new album "On An Island" together with the DVD. That's great too and I have to admit that the solo albums from Pink Floyd members are coming close to the level of Pink Floyd albums

I´m quite obsessed w. the Pompeii DVD now

Love these tracks A Saucerful Of Secrets

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there.

Heff wrote:

I also think Dark Side of the Moon is the most grossly overrated album in history, despite its obvious importance to the genre.

AGREED. It was great when I first got it, but then I gave it too many listens, and now I go out and take up my bottle, filled up high with gasoline, whenever "Time" starts playing in my head.

On-topic: Yes was my introduction to progressive rock, but it was Pink Floyd who sealed my fandom.

Just listened to Animals...what a superb album. So very dark it is.

I'd like to recommend to any Floyd fan, the Black Holes in the Sky bootleg, it features the best version of Echoes ever, featuring a sax.

ProgBagel wrote:

Just listened to Animals...what a superb album. So very dark it is.

Indeed. Dark, bitter, even hostile. And excellent, one of my favourites by Floyd, and overall.

I'm about the same age as Dark Side, and I remember hearing it in the early 80's. It sounded... weird, like it was coming from another world, but at the same time very attractive. I got hooked.

For me the most important eras in the history of Pink Floyd are the mid-70's (DSOTM, WYWH, Animals) and the post-Waters era (because I was around and aware). I remember thinking "Floyd will never play gigs again, they will never make an album again" and then came Momentary Lapse... I was thrilled, and I still love that album, and the Division Bell.

Although in my mind Waters was the "brain" of PF, Gilmour has always been the beating heart, so it didn't bother me that much when Roger called it quits. Yes, the lyrical part might have suffered a bit, but at least for me the music remained glorious as ever. Check out the Pulse DVD if you don't believe me.