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Prog-jester 
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 Posted: January 19 2007 at 12:02 |
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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 
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Dieu
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Posted: January 19 2007 at 12:23 |
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Pink Floyd introduced me to progressive too, when I was 14 years old (I'm now 36). The Wall was the first CD I bought in 1986.
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Fassbinder
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Posted: January 19 2007 at 12:33 |
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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 still like The Wall, however...
Pink Floyd music was one of the most important steps in my way into progressive rock (if you count this as an appreciation), but now I hardly find an interest in listening to it...
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TheDrake
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Posted: January 19 2007 at 18:32 |
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The Wall, guys, The Wall.
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Chris H
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Posted: January 19 2007 at 18:42 |
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R.I.P. Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett.
If it weren't for Syd, I never would have picked up a guitar in the first place, never would be an avid fan of pyschedelic music, never would appreciate the little things in life. I actually have had the pleasure of speaking briefly with Nick Mason over the telephone to give my deepest regard to the family of Mr. Barrett and to wish Mr. Mason luck in his future. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
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Kim Ankara
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Posted: April 21 2007 at 07:05 |
Same, the first time I heard "On the Run" I knew I'd discovered something amazing. I also fondly remember hearing Money for the first time (I had never heard it on the radio). Pink Floyd are one of my favourite bands, luckily my dad has a box set of every album up to Dark Side, makes the back-catalogue purchasing a lot easier. I love nearly everything they've put out; the two soundtrack albums are my favourites along with Animals and Division Bell. |
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Posted: April 21 2007 at 09:22 |
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. |
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Maga
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Posted: April 21 2007 at 14:05 |
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dark side of the moon is my first memory ever, my mother used to play it for me when i was in her womb
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Dirk
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Posted: April 21 2007 at 18:04 |
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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?.
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glass house
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Posted: April 21 2007 at 18:59 |
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I know negative Zone Dirk. A pleasure to listen to.
At a young age I started to listen to WYWH amongst all my hardrock cd's. I still listen to it a lot. Pink Floyd is like a warm coat, i feel snug and comfortable in it.
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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 |
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Posted: April 22 2007 at 07:53 |
If you're talking purely about the engineering and production, then it is the best PF album ever. |
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Posted: April 22 2007 at 08:34 |
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Do we really need a thread like this?
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Posted: April 22 2007 at 11:09 |
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No one else is so creative to make music that you can so much drift away too and listen intensely, No one
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Posted: April 22 2007 at 23:35 |
same man, even though I didnt know they were prog until I listened to yes, I thought they were another classic rock band.
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Posted: April 22 2007 at 23:45 |
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Speaking of Pink Floyd, on youtube you can see a video of Gilmour singing "Comfortably Numb" with Robert Wyatt singing the part of the doctor. Its very good.
Dark Side of the Moon was the second prog album I got after ITCOTCK, though I didn't know either were prog at the time. |
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Posted: April 24 2007 at 17:00 |
hear hear |
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Floyd fans, don't miss this clip. It's the Floyd at their peak doing Astronomy while Syd was still together and lucid, but the real treat is after the performance watching them being interviewed by old BBC curmudgeon Hans Keller.....who pisses Roger off by scolding them for being too loud.
And what a joy watching Syd actually respond coherently, this is just before his rapid decline started. Hans speak both before and after the performance. Great video! Here's the link. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ts-2lg5fpQ4 |
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 11:35 |
Why not?
The first prog album I heard was DSOTM when I was a young kid in the 70s. I didn't know it was prog, I just knew I liked it (although the yodelling on The Great Gig In the Sky is too over-the-top for my taste).
In 1980 I was 13 and becoming more seriously interested in music. My Floyd collection consisted of Meddle and Relics. I loved sitting in the dark listening to Echoes or Interstellar Overdrive (and I still do).
I started playing in a band with my school friends. Our repertoire was mostly made up of Floyd songs.
I gradually got hold of all the Floyd albums and solo albums apart from Richard Wright's Wet Dream (I've still not heard it) and I'm eternally grateful to Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports for introducing me to Robert Wyatt's amazing voice.
Then it all fell apart. I love the bleakness of The Final Cut but it was obvious things couldn't continue the way they were going. After Waters left, things became too smooth for my liking. For me, Floyd without Waters (and Waters without Floyd) is missing that vital element that makes the difference between good and great.
Live 8 was very, very special but I'm glad the reformation didn't last - how horrible would it be if Waters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason made an album that was mediocre? Edited by A B Negative - May 12 2008 at 05:24 |
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 12:47 |
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How did I miss this thread?
Pink Floyd have been my favourite band since I was 13 (look at my profile and do the maths), from the moment of first hearing I was hooked, the music just slotted into a floyd-shaped hole that had naturally formed in the nether reaches of my brain and stayed there. Other bands have come and gone, leaving traces behind, but they all go and spoil it by making an album or song that I just don't like. I've never had that with Floyd ... Even A Momentary Lapse Of Reason is fine by me, not a classic any means, yet it's not squirmingly embarrassing like some of the low-points that other bands released during the 80s.
People seem to forget that Floyd were popular before Dark Side of the Moon - Atom Heart Mother was their first Number One album in the UK. All of their studio albums have been UK Top Ten hits - no other progressive band can make that claim.
Yet, I get the impression that Floyd never tried to please anyone but themselves, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here were never inteneded to be a huge crossover albums, they just made albums of music that they wanted to make - following no trends, or even wanting to set them. If they wanted that then Animals would have been a totally different album, The Wall would have never been recorded and The Final Cut would have been a Roger Waters solo album. The fact that they have become huge critical and commercial successes that have stood the test of time is a testament to the music, not to any hype or fashion-trend and I admire that.
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