Pink Floyd?

Pink Floyd are one of the best bands ever! They might be a tiny bit overrated, though. I love DSOTM, but it took me like six or seven listens to enjoy it to the max. Wish You Were Here is amazing, and The Wall is cool but it's a little bizarre. My favorite Pink Floyd songs are Brain Damage/Eclipse, Another Brick in the Wall, Time, and Learning to Fly.

Pink Floyd are my 10th favorite band. From a Christian perspective, I didn't hear anything wrong with the three albums I've heard.

Division Bell is a real trip.

Great band. Too bad the same few songs get played on classic rock radio stations. Those interested in really hearing what they're about should check out:

Ummagumma (just the live album, the studio album is ... um... an acquired taste.
Meddle
Wish You Were Here
The Wall (well, most of it, anyway)
Dark Side of the Moon is fine, but you've probably heard most of it until you're sick (see classic rock radio comment above). If you do give it a listen, do it with headphones on. That's the best way to experience it. No pun intended.

Pulse is probably the best of their many live albums.

And that's my two cents worth.

I don't know about people who get tired of Pink Floyd, but I can say after the sixth time I heard "Dark Side," I put it in my top 5 out of the 300 albums that I've heard. Wish You Were Here is almost as good, and "The Wall" is great.

On an unrelated note, I always wanted to be the creator of this emoticon.

I've been listening to them for years. They are my 2nd favorite band. I think the best song they (Pink) ever did was Shine on You Crazy Diamond. classic. My favorite, of course, is Led Zeppelin. .

One of my top 5 favourite bands

I liked them when I was in high school. I have "The Wall" album.

I don't listen to them much anymore.

Holy thread necromancy Batman!

Axver said:

Hey folks,

Is anyone here a Pink Floyd fan or interested in the band? I'm just starting to get into them - I've borrowed one CD, Pulse, and I think it's great, plus I also have a couple of videos that I haven't yet had the chance to watch. Don't yet really have a favourite song, although I do quite enjoy Comfortably Numb.

Anyone else enjoy their music?

- Andre

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Wow I just realised this thread goes back to 2003 and its only 3 pages long. Theres a few comments in 2003 and then a 10 year gap with a few more comments. Then another 12 year gap from another couple this year.

Thats amazing in that its lasted so long and two that not many people have commented. I cannot understand anyone not liking the Floyd as their music covers a wide range.

I never quite grew up with the Floyd as they began in the 60s. Which was really a completely different Floyd then. I was entering my teens in the 70s when their experimental music was peaking like Dark Side of the Moon and Animals.

Though my friend and I were into their earlier stuff like 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' and Ummagumma. Sid Barrat was a different Pink Floyd and unique in its own way and really the foundation of what was to come in alternative and experimental music.

Roger Waters was really the brains and pioneer I think for later Floyd. But Gilmore completely the picture and took them to another level.

Pulse is Gilmore without Waters. A bit like Beatles without Lennon. But still great music. Waters had his own style with albums like the Wall which was primarily his idea and he continued along that line in his solo career.

Waters was still going like Gilmore the last time I checked. I loved Pulse and the movie 'the Wall' which came out around 1980 or so. It was a artistist masterpiece for its time. They also had live stage versions where a giant wall was built and then dismantled to mach the album.

Waters often used other singers. I like his current replacement for Gilmore who sound a lot like him so they can still capture the Floyd sound but modernised. The Floyds music is having a revival in some nations where I think Pink Floyd was not as popular in the 70s, through to recently in Nations like Spain, Mexico and where this latest live performace was done in Prague, Czech Republic this year.

Not bad for an 82 year old lol.


Live in Mexico city in front of 300,000 fans 2016.


Live in Amsterdam in 2018