Is anyone else getting kind of sick of Pink Floyd?

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.

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.

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.

Are Pink Floyd overrated?

floydispink wrote: Anthony wrote: 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! Just as grown-up as Roger Waters perhaps: "f**k all that, we've gotta get on with these" (Not now John), "You f**ked up old hag" (Pigs), "I said: "f**k it then, take the kids back to town, maybe I'll see you around" (Go fishing) You know that Not Now John was written by Gilmour, right?

rogerthat wrote: The irony is that Anthony considers Mostly Autumn to be the best band ever....I can visualize Hugues laughing his a** off having read his MA reviews.

Edited by Anthony - January 03 2010 at 10:56

Raff wrote: Pekka wrote: floydispink wrote:  You know that Not Now John was written by Gilmour, right? Umm... what?  "Not Now John" was written entirely by Waters, and sung by Waters and Gilmour. Not that it matters in any way, since some people here seem to be unable to distinguish between using the occasional expletive in a song and writing a post of few lines where every other word seems to be the 'f-word'.

Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall are among the best sequential group of albums in prog.  Only Genesis and Yes achieved such consistency of brilliance over such a number of unfailingly great albums.

nope.

How can you all focus on Waters' paranoias when the PF history is made of at least 4 different periods? Nobody knew anything about R. E. Waters before The Wall. Do you think The Piper is overrated? Why there are 3 PF albums in the PA top 10? The only pop things they have done are on Obscured by Clouds that's a movie soundtrack composed in 3 weeks. And not bad at all. Does anybody think that Atom Heart Mother is pop? Or a saucerful of secrets? Or interstellar overdrive?