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Points: 213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2009 at 04:17
Originally posted by Calculate900 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.


Oh bloomin' hec - I can't help it - you are so so right......
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2009 at 04:20
Originally posted by Jaja Macca Jaja Macca wrote:

 
Despite the resume on Prog Archives, I would like to know your opinion about this wonderful Prog Band.
 
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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Points: 43 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 00:36
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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Points: 87 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 15:39
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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