I don't listen to them on a regular basis anymore but I revisit every 5 years maybe - complete band/solo discography + official live and various bootlegs. I just finished my quinquennial Floyd marathon last week (early August - mid Sept). I really took my time this year, listening to each albums multiple times.

Highlights: The early years boxes (get them all, man)
            Dark Side early 72 mix + Live at Wembley 74
            Animals (a good dozen listen)
            Plays the Animals (Oakland 77)
            The Wall Live 80-81

            Mister Wright two solo albums got a lot of spins too
            Waters In the Flesh live 2000 (maximum volume folks) unbelievably good.
            Waters The Wall (visual)
            Gilmour live at Gdansk + Pompeii (must haves)

An awesome trip indeed!
              

Checked active users, and saw this old popular thread being looked at, and thought it might be fun to revive it.

While I have taken long breaks from any Pink Floyd, and don't listen much to Pink Floyd these days, I never got sick of them. They have enough variety in their albums/ over the course of the career to have maintained my interest since I was a child. I still love all of the Pink Floyd albums up to and including The Wall.

I don't really care much what others think about them, it is one of the great classic rock bands. Referring to early posts: I don't compare it to bands such as ELP (much prefer Pink FLoyd to ELP or a lot of Prog, and tend to think of Pink Floyd as classic rock rather than Prog-proper even though it has music which can be called Prog-proper).

Over the last decade I have probably spent the most time listening to the pre-Dark Side of the Moon albums, and at one time I was particularly into Animals, Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. I loved re-discovering an album like Atom heart Mother a decade ago (hadn't listened to it in many years). Most don't know much these days I would think outside of Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, and it probably has a lot of supposed fans who say they like Pink Floyd as PF always had cool cachet (rather like Can, though less known, also has a cool, hip cachet).

Even though it's such an iconic album, I still got a little excited when I heard this music in this trailer.



Edited by Logan - September 19 2019 at 13:17

I'm Pink of Sick Floyd. The Atom Heart Piper is full of Secrets, and I Wish You wouldn't Meddle in the Dark Side of the Wall because, at the Final Bell, we will all be Obscured by Animals, or More than our Momentary Ummagumma can Reason. 

Edited by Ronnie Pilgrim - May 22 2010 at 20:46

moshkito wrote: HI,   I get more and more tired of "fans" that only like Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall and couldn't give a damn about the band, and its massive body of work, and then post here that this and that is their favorite.   Geee ... I like blondes too!   And sadly, the hardest part is the history of a lot of their things. Like considering "The Final Cut" a concept album when most of it was culled from The Wall and was originally designed to be in there, which would explain the cartoon and military stuff in The Wall WAYYYYYYYYYYYY BETTERRRRRRRRR than otherwise.   And I thought it sad, that no one mentions that for 2 years PF played "Gotta Be Crazy" and "Raving and Drooling" and that it appeared that it was going to be their next album after Dark Side of the Moon, and yet, when the next album came out, it was a copy of the concept in DSOTM and a song about the machine that they disliked (Welcome to the Machine) was added along with one slightly written by Roy Harper that pretty much stated ,... ohh well, now we're rich and having a cigar -- and Roy's comment was more sardonic than anything else, but I think that both Roger and David didn't feel comfortable singing it. ... I suppose that we could suggest that we were all so darn doped up (hope you weren't at the Sports Arena!) that you could not tell the difference in any of the material you were there for? Yeah!   The two songs were renamed and showed up the following year, not we're talking almost 3 years later, as two of the songs in "Animals" ... which also had its problems with the censors in the record company, btw ... read Storm's comments about the original cover, and then it was turned into a London ugliness sky thing almost as one of those "I don't care" or "might as well let it out" type of attitude. It was a bit of British satirical styled and comment, and I accept that. And the pink pig, of course is my favorite comment about the upper crust that was PF's main/important symbol in The Wall.   The only thing that makes me ... not sick, but bummed out ... is when folks that have no idea make something out of nothing ... I love the one about The Greatest Gig in the Sky being about death ... when it was originally a bunch of priests sermonizing all over anything you can think of (for over a year and it is on many bootlegs!!!!!!!) and Syd Barrett on top saying ... "people have stood, and cheered ... something they did not understand!" ... now let's talk about prophetic words ... and you know what? I don't think he was as crazy as many people make him out to be! ... that is as right on as anything else and it is so damn visible it's scary! That line can also be heard on many bootleg recordings.

About have a Cigar, unless there's some kind of hidden story, the booklet credits the song only to Roger Waters, and then at the end of the booklet it remarks "all lyrics written by Roger Waters". Some time ago I read they decided to have Roy Harper sing in that song just because he was recording in the same studios at the same time as Pink Floyd, and they thought it would be cool to invite him to sing and he agreed. I think Waters later said he thought that had been a mistake. And, by the way, song isn't only about "now we are rich, and we can have a cigar", it's a critic towards the Record Companies policies (as well as Welcome to the Machine).

And about Great Gig in the Sky, ofcourse I may be wrong, but I still think it is about Death. Maybe when they were playing the concerts before they put the album together and recorded it, they may have been thinking about a religious ceremony (and as a matter of fact, that makes sense with the final words from "Time"), but my guess is they changed their mind by the time of the album, or why else would there be so many quotes about death during the song?

HI,

Edited by moshkito - May 21 2010 at 18:29

Dellinger wrote: A Person wrote: Man Overboard wrote: And you have fractal-cat! I like my cat. This one has more fractals though. Is that Lucifer Sam?

Could be, I actually think I thought that when I first saw that years ago.

so this is where all the fun is lately, though the thread looks on its last legs

shockedjazz wrote: And is obvious i not pretending to change the opinion of the Floyds fans. Thats more dificult than disscusing the Gospel with a Texan.       - good one But Floyds fans are you trying to change mine and the opinion of the ones bored of them? The answer is yes. You fell utterly insoportable and despreciable that someone doesnt have your taste and say it? Your problem not mine.       - no I doubt that's it, I think people just like a good fight now & then, and if they feel like kicking some ass, why not make it over something worthwhile like standing-up for a favorite band  ..just a theory

Edited by Atavachron - February 14 2010 at 21:42

Man Overboard wrote: And you have fractal-cat!

I like my cat. This one has more fractals though.

Am I the only who thinks it ironic that a thread about being sick of Pink Floyd is 13 pages long?

Also, I love The Final Cut and Amused to Death.

Man Overboard wrote: Like the moment when the brakes lock! And you slide towards the big truck! (Oh no...) You stretch the frozen moments with your feaaaar! (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!)

and you hide. hide, hide Behind brown and mild eyes...