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    Posted: January 01 2010 at 14:25
I've got a little story to share. 
Alright, I make a lot of lists; many of which are dedicated to progressive rock. In fact, I was making one of this exact kind the other night. I kind of hit that point where I couldn't think of ANY more songs to place on the list, so I foolishly went onto the Rock and Pop section of Yahoo! Answers to find some suggestions.
Every...single...answer...said 'you need more Pink Floyd', when they had at least 14 songs ranked already. One of the answerers complained about the absence of "Another Brick in the Wall Part II"! I didn't get any suggestions for the other great bands on the list, no Kansas, King Crimson, or Genesis recommendations!

And this isn't only on Yahoo! Answers...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. 

Trust me, you can ask any classic rock junky about Pink Floyd, and they'd claim to be all-knowing in the realm of progressive rock music. I dare you, ask them about Van der Graaf Generator or Family, and they'd be totally lost. This is what I mean. Pink Floyd is a great band, sure, and one of the best prog bands, without a doubt, but, I mean, COME ON. What did they ever do that makes them so much better and so much more popular than Tull, Yes, and ELP?
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First of all, that is your just punishment for reading Yahoo Answers.

Second of all, because they wrote DSOTM and The Wall, which, for whatever reason, are seminal rock albums. 

Third, what contemporary bands sounded like Pink Floyd? Gilmour's style is unique.

Fourth, why do you even care what the unwashed masses think?


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Pink Floyd is indeed very overrated.
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I just don't think it's fair that other bands, which are arguably much better, get no recognition, and are stuck standing in Floyd's shadow. 
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Life isn't fair. While you wrote that post about music you were able to buy, eighteen people starved to death.
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Much in life isn't fair, and I think this is a pretty tiny issue. I understand what you're saying, but I can't see why other people's (arguably false or not) opinions would make me get sick of a band or another. 

Just recently I went through another Floyd binge, listening to their whole catalogue, many albums many times, and I just keep falling deeper in love with them.
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And what exactly do you want me to do about that?
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And, really, I'm just kind of getting sick of their music altogether; not that any of it is bad, I've just heard it all too much!
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Originally posted by classicprogsovereign classicprogsovereign wrote:

And what exactly do you want me to do about that?
I don't care what you do, I'm just tired of reading variations of this thread.
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It's a popular topic?
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Back when Pink Floyd was all I knew, it did get tiresome sometimes. But now, the more I explore prog, the more I apretiate them and find comfort and pleasure in going back to their music once in a while. 
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Exactly.
Like I said, I do recognize their influence, I do think they're a great group, sure, I just don't think they deserve the recognition they get, you know, above Gentle Giant and the likes.
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Pink Floyd are as good as they're hyped up to be. They're brilliant.

But I no longer listen to them. Why? I still enjoy them as much as I previously did, and my musical taste hasn't changed to exclude them, but there's just other, newer stuff (no so much more recent in time, just new to me) which I'm getting into.

So, perhaps I am a little annoyed when I hear Floyd on the radio. I'm more annoyed by the fact that people never know anything other than Another Brick In The Wall Part II - and they don't even call it part II. Either that, or Money.
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i know what you are going through i personally f**king hate when i hear OMG pink floyd Is the best band ever
or know one can top David Gilmour and those people are probably talking about the DSOTM perod and after that while they haven't really listened to their older albums which are much better exept Obscured By clouds and Ummagumma which are only a MEH albums
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Ummagumma is my favorite Floyd album

Avant-garde gets a big thumbs up from me.
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If you stick around long enough, yes, there are a lot of people who complain about the major artists being overrated as if such a statement is clever or interesting or even worthy of discussion. I don't like a fair chunk of classic prog these days, but it's not necessary to have a thread to validate my opinion.

And even if I did, I would put it in the right forum! ;-)
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Originally posted by classicprogsovereign classicprogsovereign wrote:

Exactly.
Like I said, I do recognize their influence, I do think they're a great group, sure, I just don't think they deserve the recognition they get, you know, above Gentle Giant and the likes.


recognition goes hand in hand with influence and impact..  today's cynicism doesn't fly about hype and mass marketed music and un-deserving groups that can't sing or play instruments yet look good and sell a lot of albums and thus are 'recognized'. Floyd gets the recognition they get because they deserve it..

whew..... if I had an hour... I'd explain why.  However since I don't...  just look at the impact Floyd had in several of the various sub-genres here. They pretty much created one by themselves.. and were major influences in several others. There simply is no more influential group on this site... other than the Beatles of course haha.
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Been listening to them since 1980 or so....and I still get the goosebumps every time I throw on Piper, DS, Wall, and of them.  Love them. 

I've heard thousands of albums from every genre and no, I never tire of Floyd or Syd solo.  I may not play them often anymore because I have so much else to hear, but when i do, it's pure pleasure.  Smile
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There is one thing I want to say; there's a difference between recognition and popularity. Well, there's a difference between POSITIVE recognition and popularity; I don't see the Velvet Underground selling thousands of records a day. Influence and recognition go hand-in-hand, but recognition and popularity do not, if that makes any sense.
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