Pink Floyd Appreciation Thread

Do we really need a thread like this?

The mighty Floyd are the band that got me into Prog 22 years ago.!!!!!!!!
and I am still a big fan after all those years. I have everything they ever did and some bootleg too. I am bless that I saw them when they last time they tour in the usa back in 1994 and still today it has been the greatest live show I ever seen. I recently saw TOOL on their 10,000 dream tour and I saw how much PInk Floyd Had influenced this great band brilliant. Prog is nothing without the mighty FLOYD!!!!!!!!!

I love porcupine tree because of their PF influence everywhere.
Radiohead :Ok computer is am excellent album beacuse of PF influence. they critics called them once they new PInk Floyd.
early Tangerine Dream is so incredible interesting beause of also the mayor influences of PF.
Dream Theater did the whole dark and they had amitted their big influences, tool and symphony x as well
Early Gong and Eloy are heavyly loaded with early floyd sound. essenciaI.

I think PT is the only prog band out there that albums like the wall and the dark side of the moon have been done in its intirely by the prog musicians themselves. Guys like steve howe, steve hacket, ian anderson, rick wakeman. jhon wetton, andrew below, tony levin, alan white, etc........
Ok who else?l. get my point.!!!!!!!
Prog would be nothing without the mighty FLOYD!!!!!!!!!


Edited by darksideof - April 22 2007 at 05:17

Pink floyd has been my favorite band all my life, Animals and the Wall and Atom heart mother are my fav albums  from this band. Does anybody know the  very good french  PF clone  called Negative zone, they really recreate the typically PF atmosphere as accurately as possible spanning their career from Pipers to the Wall in a confident manner with compositions that are all their own?.

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: Good news for me, Roger Waters is comming to Lima in March.   Iván

I already got my tickets for his show in Ottawa !

Also, an anonymous caller has bought me tickets to Rush. Dead serious. Somebody  has bought me tickets, but my mom won't tell me who.

R.I.P. Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett.

Where have you been with your appreciation thread some 10 years ago? I was then a big fan of Pink Floyd. I truly thought there couldn't be anything better. Now I can appreciate... not them, properly, but only my nostalgic feelings towards those years...

I like PF In USSR they used to be a Symbol of Art/Prog Rock, and even GENESIS and YES were less popular than PFs.

Dark Side,WYWH and Animals are really flawless.The Wall is weaker musically,but it has awesome movie-incarnation (one of my favouritest movies ever!).Early albums are Post-Rock parents

I would say they were certainly my introduction into the prog world.  But personally, I never thought of them as prog, even after I became a serious prog-head.  Their compositions were always to simplistic I felt, to be considered prog (I've never had any problem learning any of their songs just by listening and playing along.........the same can not be said for other prog "giants" like Yes or early Genesis).  Now though, I think they fit in the space rock sub genre of prog (like Hawkwind or Ozrics), though the later albums are certainly "symphonic".

My favorite era is still the pre-Darkside stuff.  My favorite album is still Meddle.  Dark side is a great album, but I just can't listen to it anymore.  I've heard it WAY too many times.  And I think it's popularity is blown out of proportion to how good the music is.

Still, all their albums had a profound effect on my early musical life, and certainly led the way for my appreciation of prog rock in general.  And I spent many hours painstakingly learning Gilmour's solos note for note, bend for bend, and nuance for nuance.  He had a tremendous impact on my guitar playing style and technique.

So, overall, though I almost never listen to them anymore, I have a very deep appreciation for everything they did and contributed to the music world and to my life.


Edited by infandous - January 19 2007 at 10:01

Got into Floyd around 1990 when I saw the movie The Wall, not sure whether I really liked it, but I have to say I was impressed (I was 11 then) and bought the album. I started to get into the music by 1993-94 and it was like discovering a whole new universe, and also started listening to progressive bands such as Marillion, Yes, Genesis (that I still listen to after all these years) and Dream Theater (that I don't any more). It also marked the beginning of my gradual loss of interest in my then favourite Purple, Rainbow, Maiden, etc. So it wouldn't be exaggerated to state that Pink Floyd is the most important band in my entire life and I still find most their albums (bar the last three) a turning point for modern music. Needless to say I own dozens of live bootlegs (or is it hundreds?), rare tracks, etc. Also, I have kinda obsession with the Animals album and tour... I think I'd better stop writing because this could go on forever :)

Edited by dedokras - January 19 2007 at 09:04

Until AMLOR, there is not a single bad PF album. AMLOR and afterwards... that's another story...

I'd rank order PF as follows, though it rotates fairly often:

Animals
Meddle
Dark Side of the Moon
Ummagumma
Wish You Were Here
The Piper At the Gates of Dawn
Atom Heart Mother
The Wall
The Final Cut
A Saucerful of Secrets
Obscured By Clouds
More
Division Bell
A Momentary Lapse of Reason

I think I got them all, if not... I'll have to get tested for memory loss...