Uh-oh...Pink Floyd bashing

Discussion in 'Music' started by riptiderevolucion, Nov 2, 2004.

  1. riptiderevolucion

    riptiderevolucion Member

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    Who else here has never really gotten into Pink Floyd?

    It's not like I hate them but their music does almost nothing for me. I've had people try to turn me onto them but it never works. There's not much going on musically. I think their lyrics are good, but that's about it. "Ambivalent" best describes my feeling about Pink Floyd. Though I will say that if I was forced to listen to them for an extended period of time, I would probably choke myself.

    My step-father told me the only concert he ever walked out of was Pink Floyd. That cracks me up.
     
  2. Graham

    Graham Member

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    you have to be enlightened to appricate it thats all i am going to say :p
     
  3. gmdukes

    gmdukes Banned

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    only songs by them i like anymore are echoes, dogs, pigs, and sheep. and ummugumma is pretty trippy, too.
     
  4. hiddendoor

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    Apart from Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets which I really enjoy, that pretty much sums up my own feelings about everything else they did... though I'd probably fall asleep before I choked
     
  5. TheMadcapSyd

    TheMadcapSyd Titanic's captain, yo!

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    Nothing going on musicaly? Mate, I don't know what band you're listening to but it isn't Pink Floyd, that's 1 of the things that makes them so special, the fact that they've done almost anything you can think of musicaly.
     
  6. Kitaro

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    Right! :D

    Oh, BTW... please... DON'T FUCKING vote Bush... IT'S THE WORLD WHO'S ASKING IT.
     
  7. gmdukes

    gmdukes Banned

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    bush sucks
     
  8. Doran

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    Lets not try to make this political, so to end it, just go out and vote period.

    But yeah Floyd rocks and if you think they are good musicaly then you my friend are musicaly ignorant. Maybe there not your cup of tea, but to say they are lacking in the musical department is a joke.
     
  9. madcrappie

    madcrappie crazy fish

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    actually it makes me happy that not everyone likes Pink Floyd. If everyone liked them, Id definitely get turned off. I guess it takes a special taste to get into the floyd, really. Its usually an acquired one, and it took me awhile just to get into their music. but they have been my favourite band for a good 10 years now, and I dont think that will ever change.
     
  10. riptiderevolucion

    riptiderevolucion Member

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    Well said.
     
  11. sheeprooter

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    aquired taste

    listen to DSoTM beginning to end. and echoes! the song echoes off the album meddle is one of the greatest pieces of music ever IMO

    echoes is only second to Divided Sky by Phish (live, not studio)
     
  12. Graham

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    i like echoes, meddle, dsotm and wish you were here.. the other albums i aint fond of but theve done everything so your bound to find somthing you like
     
  13. Skelter

    Skelter Helter

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    Have you tried 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' ? I bet you've only heard the 70s pink floyd.
     
  14. Mua'Dib

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    well they are one of my favorite bands. its like they play emotion. its so trippy and amazing. the songs are beautiful and they are gods with their instruments. i really like them. and though you do not share the bliss i get when i listen to them, i respect your opinion. as long as you do not diss them.
     
  15. royharper

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    I'm not too keen on 70's Floyd either.

    But I love Piper and, of the post-Barrett/pre DSOTM shit, More, Meddle, parts of Ummagumma
     
  16. zoso_zeppelin

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    you guys (non- pink floyd liker people) are insane :)
     
  17. riptiderevolucion

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    I think Pink Floyd's compositional skills exceed their musicianship. Yeah, they sound good but they're not exactly unleashing virtuoso skills here. They'll break into a guitar solo and it's something a kid could come up with. I dunno...maybe I'm listening to the wrong songs but I can't think of a single one where I was like, "Damn, that's some playing right there." I'm always left thinking, "So much more could've been done with that." They mask the simplicity of their playing with grandiose themes and tripped-out mystique.
     
  18. bokonon

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    I've always rated Floyd pretty high, when you take into account Piper, Animals, Atom Heart Mother, The Wall and The Final Cut, then damn right you rate them high :)
    DSOTM, Meddle, Saucer, all rather good too!

    Then there's there rest which I never listen to, Ummagumma if a friend suggests it. More, Obscurred and everything after The Final Cut can vanish for all I care. But if you ask me five outstanding 10/10 records, and a few other cracking albums - That aint bad at all :p
     
  19. MBintheOC

    MBintheOC We're all mad here..

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    I want Piper & SFS really bad as well as Syd's "Barrett" & "Opel" albums. I've enjoyed "Madcap" immensly;) All I've heard are "Darkside", "The Wall" & some of "Animals" & "Wish u were here". Anything after The Wall, I must say, I'm not to interested in.
     
  20. SaF

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    I'm with you on this, Rip..Rev - I'm not keen on them either :sunglasse
     

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