The Pink Floyd Have always been my favorite band. I think they are one of the most original groups of all time and on top of that all there songs sound great. personally i love meddle and all the albums before that are the best, but i would have to say that all the albums are great even post waters. my favorite album is either Ummagumma or Piper at the Gates of Dawn if im in the right mood. so yeah i guess i just didnt think there was enough Floyd talk going on.
I would have agreed with you about 2 years ago...but my tastes have changed quite a bit....I still think they were a very talented group though.
they are one of my fave bands, but to say there isnt enough talk about pink floyd in these forums is an overstatement. there is a new "best floyd album" thread made about every other month..... amoung other things
They are up there (my personal favorite band) But Final Cut, Momentary Lapse of Reason, and The Division Bell were rather crap....but I consider those either Roger or Dave solo albums because honestly they both wrote everything and it was their music and ideas only. Rick Wright and Nick Mason had pretty much no contribution to MLOR and Final Cut, I dont think they even toured. Before The Wall the band was less dominated by either Waters or Gilmour so I believe together and with Roger and Dave on the same page they were creative geniouses. Meddle is probably my favorite album. but then again nothing beats the Syd days . Such a complete different Floyd sound and it is interesting to see how different Pink Floyd has sounded over the years with first Syd at the helm, then the band virtually actually working together, then Roger's ego trip, then Dave taking control. Just so many different eras with very different music in each. I like each in their own ways.
I love the Floyd! My bf in London burned me most of their albums & I have Piper on vynal & Syd's "Madcap Laughs" & "Barrett" on CD. I was so pleased they were on Live 8...I was very blissed out watching them. What a void in the music world since they've stopped recording & touring. I'd give just about anything to attend a Floyd concert (sighs). I have 2 say so far I like all the pre Dark Side albums, though CD 2 of Ummagumma isn't 1 of my faves. I also like Dark Side, WYWH, Animals & The Wall of course, & while the last 3 aren't the best, u gotta hand it 2 the 3 of them 2 try to go on w/o Roger Waters...especially since he never thought they could.
My favourite band ever, there have beeen better muscians and better songwriters, but Pink Floyd found the perect mix of them.
Everybody here love them... i think it' s nearly essential to love them if you pretend to be a hippie at least with Barrett or Waters as leader. But i think the same as "Imagine 17" ...he tell that the 3 last album where bad album... it's ok for me ...it's their 3 worst...but 2 of them are quite good but just not at the same level as before ("the final cut" and "division bell") And for the tittle of bad album i understand u very well for "A Momentary laps of reason" this is the only album of the Floyd that i can't save ...when friends critisice 60's 70's album i'm the first deffender (xpt for some Yes & ELP records) but when somebody kill this 87' album of the floyd i join their force...i can't defend that even if there's 2 good songs ...it's definitly not enough. ...But they've got an excuse ...which 60's 70's band don't recorded bad albums in the 80's ? Not a lot ...they became fathers (who try to protect their kids..."don't try drugs")...the drug/sex & rock n roll formula was 4 the first time not very actual (xpt 4 stupid 80's hard rock bands)...and with Reagan at the government and MTV plastic boys bands takin the control...it's perfectly normal they record sometimes a few shits along the way ... But definitly "Meddle" had something special...maybe it's more rock than all others Pink Floyd album ... their following album "Dark Side of the Moon" sadly mark a new era for the band ...it's a 2 polished/clean record for me ...i found it good ...but it's not my best. Piper it's probably my best Pink Floyd album...it's not perfect (1 or 2 songs maybe) but there's something different with Barrett at the control room...something magic and sometimes nearly alarming... we visit the borderline of psychedelia... and i like that even if the poor fell in the other side of the borderline... I found "Animals" and "The Wall" more agressive...even if only a few of them admit it ,both albums were a kick in the ass of punk rockers at that time ... From the greatest progressive bands of that time only The Floyd were not killed by the punk wave ... they suck their blood and recorded "The Wall" ...and i thanx Roger and co for this 180 degrees movement!
Because they're a bunch of wankers who have long, boring, drawn out songs which wouldn't even be good if you just condensed the best bits of them into one super song.
