Is anyone else getting kind of sick of Pink Floyd?

I'm not sick of Pink Floyd at all, I'm kind of tired of people complaining about bands like Pink Floyd or The Beatles being popular and recognized, they deserve that, in any case it's the rest of the bands that are underrated. If you're tired of them or don't like them just don't listen to them.

PROGMONSTER2008 wrote: Raff wrote: PROGMONSTER2008 wrote: Floyd are 2nd or 3rd tier prog to me. They were limited to mellow prog because they didn't have the composition capabilities or musical talent to produce jazzed up prog. Mellow prog? I suppose stuff like "A Saucerful of Secrets" or "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" is mellow to you... Oh, well, everyone to their own. It's not my way to ridicule people's opinions, so I'll leave it at that, though I find your statement doesn't hold water at all.   almost every song in the 70's was mellow. You mentioned 60's songs ;)

Almost doesn't include One of these days, Welcome to the machine, Dogs, Sheep, In the Flesh, ABITW Pt-3?  I mean, that doesn't sound like almost.

defending pink floyd shouldn't have as much recognition as other seminal prog bands is something i can't agree with, but even so, what to say about the large amount of bands from italy (fro instance) that should have had as much recognition as those seminal prog bands?
All in all it's just a market problem, not that ppl can't eventually see that there are other bands doing things as marvellous as Floyd, but Floyd always incorporated a more radio friendly sound and that gave them much more propaganda and therefore that recognition.

Raff wrote: Anthony wrote: Floyd is the most overrated crap band ever! Come on, what are we talking about? Only David Gilmour has any talent, Waters and Mason are a lousy boring monotonous rhythm section, and all the lyrics that Waters can write can be summed up as "Boo hoo hoo, my daddy died in WW2, so the world sucks, they're all against me", while being blind for the fact that he's an arrogant a**hole himself! Come on, the popularity of Floyd is based on gimmicks and not on their music. Would "Money" have been a big hit without the cash registers? Would "Another brick" been a hit without the children's voices? I DON"T THINK SO! F*ck Waters, give me a band of real musicians. Like for example Yes. Nice to see people who are not able to express opinions without peppering their posts with expletives! It must make them feel so very  grown-up!

Edited by Anthony - January 03 2010 at 08:55

I have read Anthony0s post, while I was listening to ABWH "Let's Pretend". They are two different things. I agree about the musical skills, but they can't be compared. I think PF, Yes and Genesis are like the three fundamental colours. All the following prog music pays something to them, and all the other artists on PA are in some ways a mix of the three. How can PF be overrated if they have clearly inspired groups like Mostly Autumn, Porcupine Tree, Riverside, and in some way also groups in the Genesis area like Marillion and (Don't think I'm crazy) Camel?. In particular The Snow Goose is strongly floydian.Of course there are exceptions like King Crimson and Soft Machine or Magma. About Water's daddy and WW2, it was a period in Water's life, between The Wall and Radio Kaos, but Welcome to the Machine doesn't seem to be about anybody's father. Music is not only made of skill. If it was so we would only listen to Al di Meola or Jaco Pastorius or Billy Cobham. Does any of them give you the same vibrations as Echoes? Finally, "Close to the Edge' is a great album, but if I have to choose, I'll probably spin Meddle or WYWH instead.

Anthony wrote: Floyd is the most overrated crap band ever! Come on, what are we talking about? Only David Gilmour has any talent, Waters and Mason are a lousy boring monotonous rhythm section, and all the lyrics that Waters can write can be summed up as "Boo hoo hoo, my daddy died in WW2, so the world sucks, they're all against me", while being blind for the fact that he's an arrogant a**hole himself! Come on, the popularity of Floyd is based on gimmicks and not on their music. Would "Money" have been a big hit without the cash registers? Would "Another brick" been a hit without the children's voices? I DON"T THINK SO! F*ck Waters, give me a band of real musicians. Like for example Yes.

classicprogsovereign wrote: ...what is the progressive band that gets tons of airplay on the radio? Pink Floyd. Which progressive rock band has sold millions upon millions of records over their contemporaries, who are arguably better? Pink Floyd. Which band receives almost universal acclaim for a style of music that other bands did just as well, if not better? PINK FLOYD.

Is anyone else getting kind of sick of pink floyd?

No I'm not, and no I'm not just contradicting you

Anthony wrote: Floyd is the most overrated crap band ever! Come on, what are we talking about? Only David Gilmour has any talent, Waters and Mason are a lousy boring monotonous rhythm section, and all the lyrics that Waters can write can be summed up as "Boo hoo hoo, my daddy died in WW2, so the world sucks, they're all against me", while being blind for the fact that he's an arrogant a**hole himself! Come on, the popularity of Floyd is based on gimmicks and not on their music. Would "Money" have been a big hit without the cash registers? Would "Another brick" been a hit without the children's voices? I DON"T THINK SO! F*ck Waters, give me a band of real musicians. Like for example Yes.

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Uh, no, not really. I do think PF are a bit overrated (not too overrated, but they don't deserve all the hype compared to other seminal prog bands), and I'm not too much of a fan. Hence, when I'm listening to PF, I'm doing it in carefully measured amounts, and I don't get fed up.