Pink Floyd

[TheStinger]

I love Pink Floyd with a passion. They are a band with such a tortured history (Syd going crazy, Roger also going a bit crazy with power) but they just churned out brilliant album after brilliant album. Sure, the last few efforts by Gilmour were not of the same echelon as before but theywere still better than 90% of the albums out at the time.

I prefer to think of Floyd albums rather than individual songs, I mean DSOTM is just an opus and needs to be listened to from start to finish to appreciate the magnitude of the album. Having said that though, I do have some favourite songs...

Comfortably Numb
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Dogs
Wots...uh the deal?

Too many to mention. This band is what every other band wants to be.

 

[Madtiger2006]

While Floyd were cool i've always considered them 2nd or 3rd tier when ranking strong 70s prog related bands. Animals is my fave followed by Meddle and Obscured by clouds. They have some cool stuff from 1970 too on Atom heart mother, Relics and More. Dark Side and Wish you were here aren't albums I listen to much. A cool mellow blues based band. I like some of their psychedelic stuff on Saucerful of secrets and Piper at the gates of dawn. Composition/musician wise they fall behind a number of bands though

 

[00Stinger]

While Floyd were cool i've always considered them 2nd or 3rd tier when ranking strong 70s prog related bands. Animals is my fave followed by Meddle and Obscured by clouds. They have some cool stuff from 1970 too on Atom heart mother, Relics and More. Dark Side and Wish you were here aren't albums I listen to much. A cool mellow blues based band. I like some of their psychedelic stuff on Saucerful of secrets and Piper at the gates of dawn. Composition/musician wise they fall behind a number of bands though

No way PF are a 2nd or 3rd tier band of the 70's.
They would be in the top 5-10 bands of all time. DSOTM was in the US billboard top 100 for something like 10 years thats how popular that album alone was. The Wall was probably the biggest stage production any band has ever done.

 

[Madtiger2006]

No way PF are a 2nd or 3rd tier band of the 70's.
They would be in the top 5-10 bands of all time. DSOTM was in the US billboard top 100 for something like 10 years thats how popular that album alone was. The Wall was probably the biggest stage production any band has ever done.

I don't rate bands on how popular they are
You see rubbish bands playing at big stadiums all the time

 

[Dagless]

I don't rate bands on how popular they are
You see rubbish bands playing at big stadiums all the time

Ah there it is. Was worried for a second there.

 

[Sun_King]

No way PF are a 2nd or 3rd tier band of the 70's.
They would be in the top 5-10 bands of all time.

In the top 10 all time quite easily. Imagine how much better they could have been if Syd stayed sane. Their 70's work is extremely well regarded as it is but if you throw in Barrett's songwriting talent and well...

 

[smasha]

See Emily Play -what a rippaaaa.

My fav is Animals.

The keyboards are orgasmic.

No guitar has the emotion of those keys.

 

[HARKER]

My Big 5 are Tull, Camel, Gentle Giant, Caravan and Genesis these days

Jesus, you are pulling them back from a long way there.


Pink Floyd have a sound that still seems ripe today.
DSOTM is still sounds as fresh and as innovative as ever. Parsons' jewel in the crown.

Caravan? In the land of Grey and Pink. Ahh, them days

My top 5: Pink Floyd, Genesis, Hawkwind, Yes and Nektar

 

[HARKER]

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Just thought to drop this one for those that may not have known of Nektar.
Quite a broad and varied discography, but don't go past 1980.
Seriously downhill from there.

 

[Dogma84]

Great gig in the sky!!... when the vocalist first comes in...man, i just cant describe the feeling that gives me...utter euphoria.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

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Just thought to drop this one for those that may not have known of Nektar.
Quite a broad and varied discography, but don't go past 1980.
Seriously downhill from there.

Heh. Iron Maiden are fans. Check out their cover of Crying in the Dark/King of Twilight.

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[Fossie 32]

My son is 21 too and just discovered PF - yay! We had them on all the way when we went for a trip today

The Live At Pompei DVD is great too

 

[smasha]

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Just thought to drop this one for those that may not have known of Nektar.
Quite a broad and varied discography, but don't go past 1980.
Seriously downhill from there.

Got a double vinyl compilation of them with a great version of Remember The Future and this song is on it as well.

Looks like MT and I have another progger on board.

Welcome mate,even though you aren't a Tiger.

English Warrior,a piefan ,is a progger too.

Not much prog fans around especially that love the great prog of the early 70's.

 

[smasha]

Heh. Iron Maiden are fans. Check out their cover of Crying in the Dark/King of Twilight.

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Steve Harris is a progger.

Love all the old 70s prog.

 

[Sun_King]

What do the prog rock fans here think of Klaatu?

 

[dumb]

Great gig in the sky!!... when the vocalist first comes in...man, i just cant describe the feeling that gives me...utter euphoria.

is probably my favoritest song, ever, though i don't listen to floyd as much as i used to. have pretty much most of their stuff, at least a dozen albums anyway.

couple of david gilmour quotes stick in my mind - atom heart mother should be burned and buried, struck off. agree with him, it is a bit of a stinker.

he said once with a tinge of sadness that he never got to listen to the album (DS moon) from the perspective of someone who did not make the album.

quick list of my fav pf tunes

the great gig in the sky
careful with that axe eugene
a saucerful of secrets
lucifer sam
the nile song
echoes
set the controls for the heart of the sun (a few umma gumma live versions in this list)
shine on 1


anyone heard dub side of the moon? quite good if you don't mind a bit of that.

 

[HARKER]

Looks like MT and I have another progger on board.
Welcome mate,even though you aren't a Tiger.

English Warrior,a piefan ,is a progger too.
Not much prog fans around especially that love the great prog of the early 70's.

I can't announce myself a progger as such, but most won't be embarrassed to go back to the riches of the late 60s - early 70s.
The world was your oyster if you were a musician as an anything goes attitude prevailed.
The weirder the better, it seemed yet we still got our classic bands through this genre in, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Jethro Tull and Yes.
Not sure there will be 5 bands from the 2000s that will be carried in such high esteem as the aforementioned, in the future.

Sadly the best of music is behind us.
We'll have the odd band that will hit on a new formula but never again in the volume we got through that early period of experimental music.
Never again.

 

[Madtiger2006]

I can't announce myself a progger as such, but most won't be embarrassed to go back to the riches of the late 60s - early 70s.
The world was your oyster if you were a musician as an anything goes attitude prevailed.
The weirder the better, it seemed yet we still got our classic bands through this genre in, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Jethro Tull and Yes.
Not sure there will be 5 bands from the 2000s that will be carried in such high esteem as the aforementioned, in the future.

Sadly the best of music is behind us.
We'll have the odd band that will hit on a new formula but never again in the volume we got through that early period of experimental music.
Never again.

Music doesn't have to be new or experimental for me. It all comes down to who's composing the songs and the instruments being used. Jazz/Classical based rock all the way

 

[HARKER]

Music doesn't have to be new or experimental for me. It all comes down to who's composing the songs and the instruments being used. Jazz/Classical based rock all the way

I know what you're getting at, but we won't see another era where the birth of so many sounds emanted from.

Think of it:

Psychedelic: Byrds, Small Faces, Jefferson Airplane etc.
Electronic: Karftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream etc.
Progressive: King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Gensis, Yes, Roxy Music etc.
Heavy Rock: Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC-DC etc.
Glam Rock: T-Rex, Alice Cooper, Gary Glitter etc.

You can always go back and attribute influeneces back to Mozart if you wish, but within a handful of years we were commercially exposed to talent from all areas and new sounds to blow our minds.

To some degree we have exhausted the well and for whatever we find interesting and new today, it will never supercede the excitement of those late 60s - early 70s.
I just don't see how it can

 

[Prog Rocker]

Gasometer you are 100% right,i saw Floyd in 87-88 M.L.O.R. Tour they never,ever toured here here after that,not on the Division Bell tour.Saw Roger do D.S.O.T.M. and i was 10 rows from the front! AWESOME!!!!

 

[HARKER]

Gasometer you are 100% right,i saw Floyd in 87-88 M.L.O.R. Tour they never,ever toured here here after that,not on the Division Bell tour.Saw Roger do D.S.O.T.M. and i was 10 rows from the front! AWESOME!!!!

My apologies guys.
I had the year 1994 firmly implanted as to when I saw Floyd.
1988 sounds, well just too long ago, but that is the case it seems.

Still feels like yesterday.

 

[Madtiger2006]

To some degree we have exhausted the well and for whatever we find interesting and new today, it will never supercede the excitement of those late 60s - early 70s.
I just don't see how it can

That would all have to with what young people were exposed to in the late 60s compared to what young people have been exposed to now. Back then it would have been classical, jazz and beatles, doors, cream, hendrix, nice etc. You wouldn't have that big a % of young people being that exposed to those bands. Even if you did, those same people would be exposed to 80s American hard rock and metal which they get into also. That's where it all goes downhill imo.

 

[Basti28]

A massively influential band.

Bands like Tool wouldn't be around for starters if not for Floyd.

My favorites:

Everything on Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb, Us and Them, Nobody Home, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun and Echoes.

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[smasha]

I can't announce myself a progger as such, but most won't be embarrassed to go back to the riches of the late 60s - early 70s.
The world was your oyster if you were a musician as an anything goes attitude prevailed.
The weirder the better, it seemed yet we still got our classic bands through this genre in, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Jethro Tull and Yes.
Not sure there will be 5 bands from the 2000s that will be carried in such high esteem as the aforementioned, in the future.

Sadly the best of music is behind us.
We'll have the odd band that will hit on a new formula but never again in the volume we got through that early period of experimental music.
Never again.

Agree totally Harker.

Such a great period of music.

Never will we see the likes of bands like those again.

Well in this country anyway.

Aragon used to be cool and there was a band from Sydney called Aleph in the 70s that were like Yes but no prog in Australia.

SAme old guitar basicx rubbish we've heard a million times befrore.

LOL,not that I don't like the basic stuff,but I'm hankering for a bit of theatre-a real rock show-prog style.

Guitar has just totally killed everything off.

Another thing,todays generation just don't get prog.

It doesn't move them.

A basic 4/4 beat with a melody used a million times before only with a different vocal will get todays gen up and about prouncing "genius" lol.

The Arcade Fire is a good example.

LOL in the 16th century we had classical,then we had jazz now we have Nickleback.

Can you see the pattern forming?

 

[smasha]

A massively influential band.

Bands like Tool wouldn't be around for starters if not for Floyd.

My favorites:

Everything on Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb, Us and Them, Nobody Home, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun and Echoes.

[youtube]646KtkEcPm8[/youtube]

Tool's biggest influence was King Crimson.

I know DAnny CArey is influenced by alot of old 70s prog and was heartened when reading Modern Drummer back in the 90s ,that he's a big Barriemore Barlow fan(drummer from Jethro Tull).