Pink Floyd is fast becoming my favorite band to listen to. What albums I do not own, I shall be fast acquiring. And yet...two of the many persons I idolize on sciforums, Xev and Tyler, seemed to consider Pink Floyd something to the effect of a pothead band, you know? Well, to hell with them! I find their songs to be brilliant, and you know what, you ubermensch aspirators? I haven't smoked a puff of the ganja in my fifteen year existence!

Gahh...makes me sick. I love Floyd. For those of you with a little time and an open heart, I would recommend these songs for starters:

Wish You Were Here
Goodbye Blue Sky
Money

Hopefully downloading (and listening to) those will sufficiently alter your depressing perceptions!

I think they got the "pot-head band" label due to the fact that they started out in the psychedellic era, and their material did, and does appeal to those who partake of :m: because of the long, complex instrumental ramblings, odd sound effects, etc...

BTW, if your intent on buying all their stuff, don't forget those "way-back" classics like :
Saucerfull of Secrets
Ummagumma
Obscured By Clouds...

"Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun", brother!
Rock on, and the detractors be damned!
;)

I do think Floyd are a pot band. But that doesn't mean I don't love 'em.

Now, okay, yes it's a drug story but it must be said. Last night I saw MMW and was fortunate enough to be on shrooms for the concert. When I got home I was somehow still peaking and listened to Dark Side of the Moon. It was spectacular. Even without drugs, DSotM is a great album. But believe me, dude, smoke a joint, see Dark Side of Oz, and you will understand why I call them a pot band.


All in all, floyd actually annoy the shit out of me sometimes. Occasionally they have really, REALLY melodramatic shit.

"hello...hello...hello......is there anybody in there?"

They sound like retards sometimes.

Oh yeah - my favourite song is Great Gig in the Sky. But it's only brilliant in the context of the album.

Meddle, Animals, Wish You Were Here and Dark Side.

oh that's my shiznit there. damn I love those albums.

I was fortunate enough to pick up a collection a few years ago containing about 8 cd's, from "A Saucerful of Secrets" up to "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", all in a black cloth covered box with various other bits and peices inside (like postcards of each released album cover, a history book etc.).

All were black cd's featuring the original album covers inset into the cases, and the spines were rather cool in that when you lined them up in chronological order, the spines formed the cover of "Dark Side of the Moon". Nifty - looks great in a CD display case.

I have no idea if it was a "real" collector's release or some sort of gimmick, because I picked it up while working in Malaysia and those guys aren't too huge on copyright laws...

I love the Floyd. The ideas, lyrics and music they came up with, beats every single band hollow. I really don't think the start of Comfortably Numb is melodramatic. Before the song a deep, 'is there anybody out there', erupts. I love their early albums as well, Piper, Saucerful etc. are all amazing. And yes Killjoy, Set the controls is an amazing song- the live version on Ummagamma is even more amazing. 'Time' has amazing lyrics as well.

Get a 15 sec. song called 'Stop'. It's on The Wall- it's just Waters' and the piano. Momentary lapse of reason is avoidable- i didn't like it too much, although Sorrow is another outstanding song. The Division Bell is another really good album. Basically get all the Floyd albums; from Piper to Meddle to DSOTM to their live albums- especially Ummagamma and PULSE. The live version of Comfortably Numb on PULSE is to die for.

just wanted to mention that I saw floyd do the entire wall album in berlin on july 4, 1988.. it was a 2-day concert with tons of other bands.. they were commemorating the berlin wall being torn down.. it was great except there were 250,000 people at the concert and we couldnt see a damn thing

we took pieces of the wall back with us as souveniers

don't really listen to floyd much anymore though

Meddle, Animals, Wish You Were Here and Dark Side.

oh that's my shiznit there. damn I love those albums.

haha. Ditto. Escpecially on the "shiznit"
WSWH and Darkside are two of the best albums I own.

No one every mentions The Final Cut. It's kind of like a postscript to The Wall. pretty good.

Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385306849/002-3420000-6097610?vi=glance), by Nicholas Schaffner.

The late Mr. Schaffner wrote a most excellent bio of the Floyd that no hammerhead should be without. In addition to clearing up the Syd story inasmuch as it can be cleared up, it also defuses much of the Roger/Dave politic that seems to infect many fans.

Floydian Slip (http://www.floydianslip.com/streaming.htm) is a Live/365 network internet radio station that I've just found. I have no idea how good they are yet.

Rumor has it via this site that Roger Waters may tour the US at least in 2004; the last tour was astounding; I don't know how good the DVD (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005U122/qid=1056760067/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-3420000-6097610?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846) is, but it can't be bad; the CD is incredible.

I'll listen to pretty much any Floyd, including Pink Gilmour and the various solo albums. (Wright's Reaching for the Rail is ... bad; kind of the Pink Floyd equivalent of DeYoung's Boomchild.) I prefer Dark Side, Meddle, WYWH, and Ummagumma. Live in Pompeii rocks.

Think, though, about the fact that Floyd recorded, essentially, next door to the Beatles, and never got together; it would have killed Syd, I think. But there's more to Pink Floyd than just the music. Comparing "Arnold Layne" or "Candy and a Currant Bun" to Dark Side presents the possibility of a very interesting story. And it is, as Schaffner's volume tells it.

Pink Floyd is more than drugs and music; it's a full-blown human experience.

But it does go really well with drugs .....

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Tiassa :cool:

i got this copy of a great symphonic pink floyd. it's the most beautiful thing i have ever heard in my life. <3

I think as a band, Pink Floyd has really evolved. I mean compare Piper with DSOTM, and compare that with The Division Bell. Such an incredible and complete evolution is amazing.

yep I grew up with me dad listening to Pink Floyd and it rubbed off on to me, just love the instrumental work they put together. :p