Is anyone else getting kind of sick of Pink Floyd?

I'm Pink of Sick Floyd. The Atom Heart Piper is full of Secrets, and I Wish You wouldn't Meddle in the Dark Side of the Wall because, at the Final Bell, we will all be Obscured by Animals, or More than our Momentary Ummagumma can Reason. 

Edited by Ronnie Pilgrim - May 22 2010 at 20:46

Checked active users, and saw this old popular thread being looked at, and thought it might be fun to revive it.

While I have taken long breaks from any Pink Floyd, and don't listen much to Pink Floyd these days, I never got sick of them. They have enough variety in their albums/ over the course of the career to have maintained my interest since I was a child. I still love all of the Pink Floyd albums up to and including The Wall.

I don't really care much what others think about them, it is one of the great classic rock bands. Referring to early posts: I don't compare it to bands such as ELP (much prefer Pink FLoyd to ELP or a lot of Prog, and tend to think of Pink Floyd as classic rock rather than Prog-proper even though it has music which can be called Prog-proper).

Over the last decade I have probably spent the most time listening to the pre-Dark Side of the Moon albums, and at one time I was particularly into Animals, Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. I loved re-discovering an album like Atom heart Mother a decade ago (hadn't listened to it in many years). Most don't know much these days I would think outside of Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, and it probably has a lot of supposed fans who say they like Pink Floyd as PF always had cool cachet (rather like Can, though less known, also has a cool, hip cachet).

Even though it's such an iconic album, I still got a little excited when I heard this music in this trailer.



Edited by Logan - September 19 2019 at 13:17

I don't listen to them on a regular basis anymore but I revisit every 5 years maybe - complete band/solo discography + official live and various bootlegs. I just finished my quinquennial Floyd marathon last week (early August - mid Sept). I really took my time this year, listening to each albums multiple times.

Highlights: The early years boxes (get them all, man)
            Dark Side early 72 mix + Live at Wembley 74
            Animals (a good dozen listen)
            Plays the Animals (Oakland 77)
            The Wall Live 80-81

            Mister Wright two solo albums got a lot of spins too
            Waters In the Flesh live 2000 (maximum volume folks) unbelievably good.
            Waters The Wall (visual)
            Gilmour live at Gdansk + Pompeii (must haves)

An awesome trip indeed!
              

I used to be sick of the overwhelming dominance of PF in our culture, yet I'm not sick of the band and their music itself as I barely listened their albums/songs more than a couple of times. 

Edited by Odvin Draoi - September 19 2019 at 18:48

Nope, not sick of never will be. Pink Floyd is second only to genesis imo. In fact I listened to Pompeii tonight and it only reaffirmed how I feel. Also I think animals is only second to foxtrot as far as greatest albums of all time.

I've tired of a lot of the overplayed stuff, haven't listened to WYWH & DSOTM in years. Animals still holds up well for me and I still love the Piper to Meddle period. Saw Nick Mason earlier this year & hearing all that early stuff played live was a revelation. Happiest I've been listening to Floyd in a long time. Think I'll put Pompeii on.

Quite literally laughing out loud at this thread popping up, because:

Henry Plainview wrote: 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?

Edited by moshkito - September 20 2019 at 07:37

Anyone who gets into Pink Floyd will inevitably reach a burn out point and move on to other less popular bands however there's a reason pretty much everybody loves em some Floyd. They were really unique and one of the best bands ever. I don't visit them as much as in the past so you could interpret that as being sick of them but i prefer to view it as giving them space so that i DON'T get sick of them. I go through phases where i revisit them.

We Prog fans should be grateful that Pink Floyd was and is such a huge act. Many have discovered Prog via this great band. I will never tire of greatness: Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, ELP and Jethro Tull are considered the Big Six for a reason.