Some time in highschool my parents went out of town and my two best friends and I took some acid and spent several hours diggin gthrough my stepdad's massive record collection. Among all the amzing shit we dug out and discovered this day (Captain Beefheart, The Shaggs, Stooges, old Meat Puppets, Wipers, Sun City Girls... My stepdad has pretty great taste in music) we found Pink Floyd's Ummagumma. There is some awesome shit on there if I remember and I was really surprised because I hated Pink Floyd then, minus that track Interstellar Overdrive from their first album.
Rodger Waters can suck my cock though. Crap. But not totally.
Band: Pink Floyd
32Interesting... Neither I nor Pink Floyd like the old stuff (pre Meddle). I watched some DVD about the making of DSOM, and Gilmore said he got tired of that phase of psychedlic noodling.
My reaction to old Floyd is similar to my reaction to the VDGG "Pawn Hearts" record. At first it is really awakening, because it is so weird, but then it is just too nuts to listen to, and kind of wears on my psyche. That said, Pawn Hearts is much better psychedelic music than Pink Floyd could ever hope to muster.
My reaction to old Floyd is similar to my reaction to the VDGG "Pawn Hearts" record. At first it is really awakening, because it is so weird, but then it is just too nuts to listen to, and kind of wears on my psyche. That said, Pawn Hearts is much better psychedelic music than Pink Floyd could ever hope to muster.
Band: Pink Floyd
33I like Pink Floyd.
Every single bit of it, except maybe the last one with Roger Waters in 1983. Maybe I like that one too, I just haven't spent much time with it, and the few times I listened, I didn't hear anything that drew me back.
NOT CRAP. BY ANY MEANS.
Every single bit of it, except maybe the last one with Roger Waters in 1983. Maybe I like that one too, I just haven't spent much time with it, and the few times I listened, I didn't hear anything that drew me back.
NOT CRAP. BY ANY MEANS.
Band: Pink Floyd
34CRAP. I never got the appeal. Not even on the first record. "Bike" is a good song, I guess.
I think Hendrix' influence on the whole psychedelic movement is about a hundred times greater. And any Hendrix record is about a thousand times better than anything Pink Floyd ever did.
A very dull band to me.
I think Hendrix' influence on the whole psychedelic movement is about a hundred times greater. And any Hendrix record is about a thousand times better than anything Pink Floyd ever did.
A very dull band to me.
Band: Pink Floyd
35My first exposure to the band was "Another Brick In The Wall" which every kid in elementary school touted as this grand revolutionary song, and I remember being bored to death with it, hence I got off on a very very bad first impression.
I appreciated them, especially the Syd years, over time, but only recently did I bite it and decide to pick up everything up to and including The Final Cut.
They got worse, more or less, as the years and albums went by, but I agree with whoever highly rated Obscured By Clouds. I rate More similarly, for the same reason: the band were actually best when they were time limited in the studio. I also rate Ummagumma for being their least focused output, which somehow made them sound better, the studio side especially.
Dark Side Of The Moon unfortunately reinforced that the more eons they took in the studio, the better off they were. That said, Dark Side isn't terrible... I'm just tired of it. Wish You Were Here and Animals are slightly better. That's where everything stops being "GREAT".
The Wall is a bore, minus a song or two, and The Final Cut is alright, but not a revelation, but the last gasp of the last crucial era of the band. (Unfortunately, all Roger Waters solo has been so inferior to even the Gilmour led Pink Floyd, which is depressing.)
Piper is their pinnacle, still.
I'm puzzled by the Syd hate here. Most of you haters would highly rate Comets Of Fire but not Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn? Are all of you guys high? Maybe you should be?
I appreciated them, especially the Syd years, over time, but only recently did I bite it and decide to pick up everything up to and including The Final Cut.
They got worse, more or less, as the years and albums went by, but I agree with whoever highly rated Obscured By Clouds. I rate More similarly, for the same reason: the band were actually best when they were time limited in the studio. I also rate Ummagumma for being their least focused output, which somehow made them sound better, the studio side especially.
Dark Side Of The Moon unfortunately reinforced that the more eons they took in the studio, the better off they were. That said, Dark Side isn't terrible... I'm just tired of it. Wish You Were Here and Animals are slightly better. That's where everything stops being "GREAT".
The Wall is a bore, minus a song or two, and The Final Cut is alright, but not a revelation, but the last gasp of the last crucial era of the band. (Unfortunately, all Roger Waters solo has been so inferior to even the Gilmour led Pink Floyd, which is depressing.)
Piper is their pinnacle, still.
I'm puzzled by the Syd hate here. Most of you haters would highly rate Comets Of Fire but not Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn? Are all of you guys high? Maybe you should be?
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Band: Pink Floyd
37sunlore wrote:CRAP. I never got the appeal. Not even on the first record. "Bike" is a good song, I guess.
I think Hendrix' influence on the whole psychedelic movement is about a hundred times greater. And any Hendrix record is about a thousand times better than anything Pink Floyd ever did.
A very dull band to me.
And to add to this, I love Syd solo. All of his records are great. I enjoy them on many more levels than as mere monuments of desintegration (which is arguably a legitimate way to to think about/enjoy them). I'd take a song like "Golden Hair" over the entire PF catalogue, any day.
I sometimes think that Syd's weird-out in 1967 was a deliberate attempt to free himself of a band that he felt somehow limited him. Is crazy thought, but it would've been cool.
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Band: Pink Floyd
38evolu wrote:Pink Floyd with Syd - Not Crap
On all other occasions - Crap
Pink Floyd - Crap
you right!!!
Band: Pink Floyd
39This is one of my all time favorite bands. I never really listen to them anymore, except maybe for nostalgia. My favorite albums are probably Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, and Animals.. I didn't like the Syd Barret stuff so much. I've never really done drugs, but this band has very visual music. It's hard to articulate but they seem to inject me with a feeling of connectedness to some kind of dream state. I often dream with my eyes open, so I'll often mix reality with dreams when I sleep. I also have lucid dreams... So maybe in some sense I have had psychedelic experiences w/o drugs. But anyway. I think it takes a certain personality type (or drugs) or something to see the crazy psychedelic things in their music that seem to cause this state of mind. Some people I talk to see it and others don't see anything at all...
Sometimes the lyrics are pretty ridiculous, sometimes the guitar solos are self-indulgent (hey- at least he doesn't do any shredding), but overall not crap. Also, it has become commonplace for bands to have at least one weird instrumental ("experimental") song on an album, as if some kind of afterthought. When pink floyd went into those noisey interludes, there was almost always something worthwhile going on. It fit the mood that was established and was not boring. You can tell there was some youthful enthusiasm going on because they were kind of pushing the envelope (as far as major label stuff goes). I'm sure they were just fucking around but in my opinion it turned out really cool.
Sometimes the lyrics are pretty ridiculous, sometimes the guitar solos are self-indulgent (hey- at least he doesn't do any shredding), but overall not crap. Also, it has become commonplace for bands to have at least one weird instrumental ("experimental") song on an album, as if some kind of afterthought. When pink floyd went into those noisey interludes, there was almost always something worthwhile going on. It fit the mood that was established and was not boring. You can tell there was some youthful enthusiasm going on because they were kind of pushing the envelope (as far as major label stuff goes). I'm sure they were just fucking around but in my opinion it turned out really cool.