Any Pink Floyd fans out there?

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   Inuteroposted 9 years ago

   I've been listening to them for the past 2 years and have enjoyed every album. Something about their sound is just so perfect. That's just me, what do you guys think?

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      lobobrandonposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I'm listening to the Fletcher Memorial right now

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      Blond Logicposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      My husband is a fan and listens to them now and again. Them and the Stones, after that, music he says, isn't fit to be called music.

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      tsmogposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Count me in as a fan since the early 70's. Today a great fan of David Gilmour too!

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      PhoenixVposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I heard Pink Floyd for the first time on an AM Station over 4 decades ago and still think they are great.
      
      Pigs on the Wing

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      Rad Manposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I'd much rather listen to Pink Floyd than The Doors or Nirvana. I was about 13 when I bought my first Pink Floyd (8 track) Animals. Blew my mind. In case any of your are unaware, Pink Floyd needs to be listen to loud with head phones. That must be Zelkiiro's problem.

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         PhoenixVposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Pink Floyd has a great range of styles: Fearless

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            Rad Manposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            Much of it inspired by weed. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

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               Kathryn L Hillposted 9 years agoin reply to this

               whats good about it?

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                  Rad Manposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                  It produced good music without harming a soul.

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                     thirdmilleniumposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                     Except perhaps their own.
                     "Perhaps" is because if weed can create such divine music, it should be good

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      PhoenixVposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Dogs

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   rebekahELLEposted 9 years ago

   I don't know how anyone who loves music couldn't be a Pink Floyd fan.  I've been a fan forever.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 9 years ago

   I've always been a casual Floyd fan (I've seen "The Wall" numerous times and even attended a "Laser Floyd" show at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC many years ago) but it wasn't till recently that I even owned any of their CDs. In fact, I just picked up "Dark Side of the Moon" at a thrift store for a buck just a few weeks ago. Better late than never, eh?

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   humahistoryposted 9 years ago

   As a Floyd fan from the late '60's and early '70's I can say that I am yet to find another band that consistently produced excellent albums.
   Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, and Ummagumma are still my favourite albums, although much of what Syd Barrett did with them in the early days still resounds in my mind - such a loss!
   And more recently, the death of Richard Wright makes me think of my own mortality.

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   rebekahELLEposted 9 years ago

   One of my favorite performances of Comfortably Numb.  Every time I play this, the world disappears.
   
   click the box to x it off the screen and view on full screen.

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   thirdmilleniumposted 9 years ago

   I would be surprised to learn that someone is not a fan of Pink Floyd

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      Zelkiiroposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Right. Here.
      
      I hate Pink Floyd with a passion.

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         thirdmilleniumposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you, I love surprises.  But, do I suspect you are not serious?

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            Zelkiiroposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            I am serious. Pink Floyd are dreadful and boring.

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               Kathryn L Hillposted 9 years agoin reply to this

               I agree.

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                  Zelkiiroposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                  I think this is the first time we've agreed on anything. :V

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                     Kathryn L Hillposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                     I also hate the Grateful Dead.  Although the fans did contribute to the development of the internet. Yay dead heads.

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                        thirdmilleniumposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                        Hate Grateful Dead? What about the individual members? Jerry and peter?
                        What about their pinnacle of a song RIPPLE?

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                           Kathryn L Hillposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                           I have a friend who would've married Jerry Garcia if she could have. She  actually did get to know him. She would quit jobs in order to see a GD concert during the 80's. She now follows Furthur. I don't get it.

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   EncephaloiDeadposted 9 years ago

   We did a cancer charity event, our band opened with, "In The Flesh" followed by "Run Like Hell", it was a huge success.

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   EncephaloiDeadposted 9 years ago

   The Dark Side of the Moon became one of the best-selling albums of all time, and is in the top 25 of a list of best-selling albums in the United States. Although it held the number one spot in the US for only a week, it remained in the Billboard album chart for 741 weeks.
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon
   
   
   Not to shabby for dreadful and boring.

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      Zelkiiroposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      "[Michael] Bolton's achievements include recording eight top 10 albums and two number one singles on the Billboard charts as well as winning multiple American Music Awards and Grammy Awards."
      
      Your Ad Populum is invalid.

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         thirdmilleniumposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Ad Populum has a habit of creeping in when you express adulation but in this case, it is hardly so. I would put Pink Floyd in the top 10 of all time

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         EncephaloiDeadposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         What's wrong with Michael Bolton? How is that invalid? On what do you base that?

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            Zelkiiroposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            Everything.

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               EncephaloiDeadposted 9 years agoin reply to this

               Okay, so you hate Pink Floyd and you hate Michael Bolton. Any other very successful artists you hate that are loved my millions?
               
               What artist do you love? What music do you love?

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                  Zelkiiroposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                  You can browse my lists at your leisure:
                  
                  http://www.last.fm/user/Zelkiiro

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                     EncephaloiDeadposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                     Fair enough, you're into all kinds of Metal. I don't really listen to it cause I hear mostly obnoxious noise from no talent hacks. But, that's just my own personal opinion.

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                        Zelkiiroposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                        And you're free to enjoy your single-power-chord chugging pretentious synthesizer-noodling buttrock nonsense.

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                           EncephaloiDeadposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                           That wouldn't be Pink Floyd, sorry. You must be referring to another band.

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                           PhoenixVposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                           Anyone can play guitar. But when you master guitar, it can become an extension of your mind.

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                     Rad Manposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                     Well, I did see a Metallica in there.

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   RachaelLeflerposted 9 years ago

   I love Pink Floyd, I can't get enough of The Wall in particular. I just think that it's cool because they aren't afraid to express viewpoints that shock society and push boundaries, and The Wall in that the story explores layers of subconscious psychology is appealing to me with my interest in psychoanalysis and surrealism. The movie is really cool. I like Division Bell and Echoes too.

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      PhoenixVposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      The Thin Ice

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    Beth37posted 9 years ago

    "We don't need no education!"
    
    Uh... yes you do, you just used a double negative.

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       bBereanposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       Double negative notwithstanding, surely you agree with the sentiment; "We don't need no thought control ."

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          Beth37posted 9 years agoin reply to this

          If I agree with that line, do I have to agree with the next, which I believe was, "The teacher's got them in the classroom. Teacher leave them kids alone." (Was it them or those?) I don't remember... what a peppy little number that song was though.

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             Zelkiiroposted 9 years agoin reply to this

             Peppy? "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. II" sounds like the band's falling asleep during the recording. I've heard drone metal more enthusiastic and uptempo.

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                Beth37posted 9 years agoin reply to this

                I was kidding.

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       EncephaloiDeadposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       Actually, the sentence is correct, it refers to not needing "no education" which is the same thing as saying "We need education"

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          Rad Manposted 9 years agoin reply to this

          I remember trying to explain that to my friend when I was a kid, but they didn't get it either.

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          John Holdenposted 9 years agoin reply to this

          Actually double negatives are quite common in informal speech in England and it does in fact mean "we don't need any education" referring to the common use of education to prepare factory fodder and to stop people thinking for themselves and make them just another brick in the wall.

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             Rad Manposted 9 years agoin reply to this

             Right, so we've got these kids saying they don't need no education which means they do need an education, but because they are uneducated they don't know it and by no getting the education they are building a wall.

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                John Holdenposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                No, no, no. The use of double negatives is not a sign of a lack of education.
                By not getting an education in being good little bricks they are avoiding being just another brick in the wall.

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                   Rad Manposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                   Oh, like equating education to thought control? It's funny though that's not how I see education, I find it's much easier to control the ignorant.

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                      John Holdenposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                      Exactly!  The theory is that much modern education is designed to keep people in ignorance.
                      
                      We don't need any education.
                      We don't  need any thought control.

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             EncephaloiDeadposted 9 years agoin reply to this

             That's interesting, John. That would make sense with the next line in the song, "We don't need no thought control", which I assume, references the "education" being taught in British schools, which I assume is not really education at all, but as you say, preparing factory fodder.

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                John Holdenposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                You've got it,, but I doubt British education is vastly different to US education.

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                   EncephaloiDeadposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                   Good one!

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    Motown2Chitownposted 9 years ago

    Amazing.  Even a discussion about a band can elicit anger and reveal a need to fight to the death to be right.  Crazy.
    
    All that aside, I like Pink Floyd.  I've only been exposed to their most popular stuff, but I've always been amazed and impressed by their ability to express real, raw emotion in such an artistic and enjoyable way. 
    
    My absolute favorite is "Wish You Were Here."  Anyone who has ever experienced a deep depression can identify with it, I think.

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       Beth37posted 9 years agoin reply to this

       ? I didn't read back... did that happen somewhere?

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          Motown2Chitownposted 9 years agoin reply to this

          Always does.

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             Beth37posted 9 years agoin reply to this

             If you're referring to me Motown, you are mistaken... again. You have wrongly lashed out at me before. You apologized once, realizing you misunderstood, I told you not to worry about it, and then within a matter of an hour, lashed out again. I didn't defend myself, I seldom do. For whatever reason, you have made up, in your mind, for me to be a villain. This is another example... I had heard that joke about PF on a British comedy show last night and thought of this thread so I found the thread and shared it. There were a few jokes about how the song was "peppy" and out of no where, you say there was a war??? I wish you were not so fast to jump to conclusions quite so often. We all do it at times, it's understandable, but you seem quite often, completely off the mark with me.

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                Motown2Chitownposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                I wasn't referring to you.  At all.  Sorry if you read it that way.  I also wasn't lashing out.  I was making an observation-mostly about how emotional and defensive people get in the midst of disagreements-even about something as simple as music.

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                   Beth37posted 9 years agoin reply to this

                   Im quite relieved then, Im sorry for misunderstanding. As I said, I didn't read back. I must have missed the war.

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                      Motown2Chitownposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                      I was referring to the very strong exchange between another couple of posters. One says I do, the other says I don't and rather than allowing for variances in musical taste and moving on, they begin to insult and denigrate the tastes of the other.
                      
                      That's all.

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                         Beth37posted 9 years agoin reply to this

                         Ok, thanks for clarifying.

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                            Motown2Chitownposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                            No problem.  Sorry for the confusion. 

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                               Rad Manposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                               There was confusion all right!!!

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    bethperryposted 9 years ago

    Most of their early work, I feel, is pretty juvenile, but they progressed a lot in their post-Syd Barrett years.And while I wouldn't say all their music appeals to me, I do love "Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall".  Additionally, I think  the film adaptation of "The Wall" is outstanding, one of the best movies EVER made.

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    chrisnstarposted 9 years ago

    Been a Pink Floyd fan for 40 years!

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