Is anyone else getting kind of sick of Pink Floyd?

SgtPepper67 wrote: I can't believe people complain about a band like Pink Floyd being played too much on the radio, lucky you! Here it's mostly reggaeton and that kind of sh*t except for a couple of decent stations.

I get tired of hearing "Hey You" but I don't have to listen. FM plays alot of Floyd, true, and its hard to box the bands style. Its not like Im gonna hear King Crimson on the radio anyway

I really like Pink Floyd and probably will for years to come, I take a break from them and can get a little burned out, but I doubt I will ever stop listening to them completely, especially because wish you were here and darkside of the moon are among my favorite albums of all time.

Petrovsk Mizinski wrote: chopper wrote: Dean wrote: TODDLER wrote:   I know that you may not believe me and I am not intent on going against your word. I have met many fantastic guitar players and keyboardists who sadly do not travel a road beyond Clapton. That realization within itself kills me. I have always been a bit confused about it. It might be the area that I reside in. Or possibly some really talented adults and  kids do not absorb music culture to that degree. It's hard to believe that a person would have abundance of talent and close doors on music history. It's quite insane when a kid has been working so hard to play a Clapton or Beck piece and progresses at a slow pace, while the next student has the ability to learn and play a technical fusion piece without effort in about 20 minutes time, then turns to me and says: please don't ask me to play this kind of music again, lets get back to playing Mississippi Queen by Mountain.    This example (which is based on years of experience), is what drives me to pose the simple but un-answered question in my mind as to how and why this happens? I am blown away by this reality and don't really have an answer for it. I am positive and more than willing to give adults and kids what they really want out of music. They just baffle me beyond belief. How do you describe the meaning of this? Or if there even is one? Don't you think this is strange? or is the reason or rhyme staring me in the face? But I think that your point sums it up, no matter how many musicians I have witnessed with this mentality.   I have had a similar experiences - I met a young guitarist who knew more about metal guitarists than anyone I've ever met and could rattle off riffs and solos with ease. He asked me who my faves were and I listed people like Beck, Gilmour, Catherine, McGeoch, Akkerman, Frith, Hackett and was met with a blank stare. However, this guy then went out and bought albums by most of these people, and his guitar playing changed as a result - the manic shredding didn't exactly disappear, but it became more refined, measured and controlled. I always despair at people who measure a guitarist's skill by the number of notes per second. And most of those who measure the skill of a guitarist by the number of notes per second are often beginner musicians anyway. I don't know a single musician who advanced beyond the point of beginner who thinks like that.

I believe that I am making reference to the social environment in much of South Jersey. Many fathers who would not allow their kid to learn a Beatles song simply because of the Christ statement. Parents that discourage a kid to learn jazz because they have issues with the black community. Dear ole' American Dad who expects the wife to wait on him, beats his kid and force feeds him the music of Clapton, ZZ Top and Jimmy Page. Various music is forbidden in his house. The guitar instructor has to teach only what the father wishes for his son to learn because it's the music he grew up on. Lack of culture, back in the woods methods and concepts and religion have influenced kids that have talent, to play lack-luster music. The sad reality of this is the fact that they stay on the same path. It's okay to play melodic and simple music but, if it's all your ever going to play, well then, you simply won't grow naturally. It's like being the turks  and going up against Dracula's army. There are many counties in south jersey where this remains vast and even more today. So it runs a little deeper than opinions on music. Many of these kids never see the real truth because of their upbringing. The ones that have a mind of their own sometimes end up feeling rather bitter after waking up to the realization they've been brainwashed, others don't. I think this occurs more in the United States. This mentality might be out-numbered in Europe by the artistic parents that insist on the child having diverse exposure in music. South Jersey hasn't too much of that. Here we have college musicians, bands, studio players etc. but we are still out-numbered by the people from Green Acres.  

Proggy Pogo wrote: Very simple answer to that one ...... NO!!!  I've loved Floyd for more than 30 years and will NEVER be sick of them.

Nope. Like most bands there will be times that I don't listen to them, but sick of them. Never.

Here's my prescription for getting sick of Pink Floyd: quit listening to it quit reading threads on the band.  It's really not too difficult.  If you like the band, listen to it less often.  There is a whole world of other music out there for you to try.  You know what I get sick of?  Moronic pointless threads.  I apologize in advance if that was a bit harsh.


Edited by Slartibartfast - January 11 2010 at 12:57

never sick o da floyd, just the ENDLESS magazine covers n features.........is there anything that fans dont already know abt the Wall, DSOTM etc etc etc etc etc etc?????

chopper wrote: Dean wrote: TODDLER wrote:   I know that you may not believe me and I am not intent on going against your word. I have met many fantastic guitar players and keyboardists who sadly do not travel a road beyond Clapton. That realization within itself kills me. I have always been a bit confused about it. It might be the area that I reside in. Or possibly some really talented adults and  kids do not absorb music culture to that degree. It's hard to believe that a person would have abundance of talent and close doors on music history. It's quite insane when a kid has been working so hard to play a Clapton or Beck piece and progresses at a slow pace, while the next student has the ability to learn and play a technical fusion piece without effort in about 20 minutes time, then turns to me and says: please don't ask me to play this kind of music again, lets get back to playing Mississippi Queen by Mountain.    This example (which is based on years of experience), is what drives me to pose the simple but un-answered question in my mind as to how and why this happens? I am blown away by this reality and don't really have an answer for it. I am positive and more than willing to give adults and kids what they really want out of music. They just baffle me beyond belief. How do you describe the meaning of this? Or if there even is one? Don't you think this is strange? or is the reason or rhyme staring me in the face? But I think that your point sums it up, no matter how many musicians I have witnessed with this mentality.   I have had a similar experiences - I met a young guitarist who knew more about metal guitarists than anyone I've ever met and could rattle off riffs and solos with ease. He asked me who my faves were and I listed people like Beck, Gilmour, Catherine, McGeoch, Akkerman, Frith, Hackett and was met with a blank stare. However, this guy then went out and bought albums by most of these people, and his guitar playing changed as a result - the manic shredding didn't exactly disappear, but it became more refined, measured and controlled. I always despair at people who measure a guitarist's skill by the number of notes per second.

And most of those who measure the skill of a guitarist by the number of notes per second are often beginner musicians anyway.
I don't know a single musician who advanced beyond the point of beginner who thinks like that.

Dean wrote: A B Negative wrote: TODDLER wrote: Sometimes I wonder if Tangerine Dream were influenced by the early Floyd.   TD were definitely influenced by PF. TD's debut album Electronic Meditation owes a huge debt to A Saucerful of Secrets (the track). Agreed. I recall Froese has said this in an interview at sometime.

I second that. When I first listened to Electronic Meditation (Micky is a huge fan of early TD), I noticed it often sounded like a dead ringer for ASOS (incidentally, my favourite PF album).