About PINK FLOYD

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   Hi, friends. 

Despite the resume on Prog Archives, I would like to know your opinion about this wonderful Prog Band.

When and your feelings when you heard them at the first time. Your favorite albuns and music. Favorites members. Worst albums etc.

I think that there will be a lot of good and inteligent answers here.

Thanks.

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Jaja Macca Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: November 28 2008 Status: Offline Points: 61	Topic: About PINK FLOYD Posted: December 02 2008 at 21:01
	Hi, friends. Despite the resume on Prog Archives, I would like to know your opinion about this wonderful Prog Band. When and your feelings when you heard them at the first time. Your favorite albuns and music. Favorites members. Worst albums etc. I think that there will be a lot of good and inteligent answers here. Thanks.


Jaja Macca Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: November 28 2008 Status: Offline Points: 61	Posted: December 03 2008 at 01:08
	Well. I'm not enter in the discussion if they are or not prog. I Think they are. And I think they made wonderful music. Despite their musicians are not vituoses, but can anybody deny their talent? Waters with an econimic bass but all is there. And what about his dinossaurus voice? Wright made climatics "beds" to their sound and had a very beautiful voice. Mason worked with their cymbals majesctically. And finally Mr. Gilmour. Never a zillion notes per minute, byt one of most beautiful sounds of a guitar ever listened. And his voice is a trade mark in the sound of the 20th century music. Wonderful!!! My fav album are DSOTN and ANIMALS. And the worst is FC. I like the 2 Gilmour era albums. They are my number 2 on my Top Prog Ranking.


The Quiet One Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745	Posted: December 03 2008 at 12:26
	My fave list: #1 Meddle (Echoes) #2 Obscured by Clouds (The Gold it's in the...) #3 WYWH and Animals (SOYCD both parts, and Pigs (different ones)) #4 The Division Bell and DSOTM (What Do You Want From Me, Any Colour you Like) #5 Atom Heart Mother and AMLOR (Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast and One Slip) #6 The Final Cut and ASOS #7 The Wall #8 Ummagumma #9 PATGOD

Blacksword Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130	Posted: December 03 2008 at 12:32
	The Floyd are absolutely classic. Arguments about their prog credentials go over my head. They are obviuosly prog! But hey.. Animals is my favourite Floyd album. 'Dogs' is masterpiece, and an example of when the song writing genius of Gilmour and Waters really came together. Dont know all their pre-Meddle stuff, but, with the exception of'The Final Cut' I dont think they ever really put a foot wrong.

Vibrationbaby Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 6898	Posted: December 03 2008 at 12:44
	I hate Pink Floyd as much as I hate Jethro Tull.

Moogtron III Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616	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

zappaholic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 24 2006 Location: flyover country Status: Offline Points: 2822	Posted: December 03 2008 at 19:38
	You sure did start a lot of these threads.....
	"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken

TheCaptain Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2009 Location: Ohio, USA Status: Offline Points: 1335	Posted: March 28 2009 at 18:11
	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.
	Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.

The Quiet One Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745	Posted: March 28 2009 at 18:18
	^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.

Abstrakt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 18 2005 Location: Soundgarden Status: Offline Points: 18292	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

himtroy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 20 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1601	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.

ghost_of_morphy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 08 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2755	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.


WalterDigsTunes Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 11 2007 Location: SanDiegoTijuana Status: Offline Points: 4373	Posted: March 29 2009 at 02:10
	Or at least the Richard Gere stuff.

LeStaf Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: February 26 2009 Location: Québec Status: Offline Points: 92	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.
	LeStaff

himtroy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 20 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1601	Posted: March 29 2009 at 18:05
	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.

Calculate900 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: June 04 2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 87	Posted: June 05 2009 at 09:16
	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.

moshkito Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 17529	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!

progkidjoel Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 02 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 19643	Posted: June 05 2009 at 23:12
	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.


Pink Floyd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: March 23 2009 Status: Offline Points: 30	Posted: June 05 2009 at 23:48
	They're ok... i guess...

PinkPangolin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 26 2006 Location: Somerset (UK) Status: Offline Points: 213	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...