I hate Pink Floyd! Who's with me!

Can't stand that boring self absorbed crap.

Flame away I'm wearing my fire suit!

You didn't just say that....


Why do you say it is self-absorbed?? Just curious.

IMO

Try "Meddle", try "Animals", try "Atom Heart Mother"... hell, even some of "The Wall" is good. But especially make a point to check out "Animals". Great lyrics...

But I think I can understand what you are saying.

One thing that really bugs me is people who claim to really be into the band, but just know Dark Side and The Wall. Some people like that tend to project the "Im a deep rock star" attitude.

Oh well.


Who do you endorse?

I'm a Animals fan for starters.
Johnny Cash
the list goes on and on

i've always been a fan of the group...... especially Roger Waters, a brilliant songwriter, IMO.........

May you burn on the dark side of the moon.

I like a lot of their stuff. One of the better bands of all-time.

And Rush! And Lynyrd Skynyrd except for Sweet Home Alabama. Oh, and Bob Seger except for a couple of songs on Against the Wind. There, that should deflect some of the flamage.

Mind telling us what you love?

I have a broad music palette I just never could see the appeal of floyd

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If you did, I bet your perspective on Floyd, and many other things, would change dramatically.

than they really do suck :)

But no I've never done acid.

because all in all we're just another brick in the wall.

Sounds to me like you hate Roger Waters. Sometimes he gets on my nerves too as if he were the only WWII kid who was traumatized by losing his daddy. He can get whiny but the music rocks. I love Pink Floyd......but I'm a lot older than you so maybe it's a generational thing.

Woof

but they're definitely not my favorite

and they'll kick it worse than Skittles can, and they can kick the ass of any other band out there.

The Floyd are the Kings. They are the George Clinton of bands. They are the Johnny Cash of bands. They are the God Almighty of bands. They are the level to which all bands can only aspire, but never achieve.

They are bigger than big, more over the top than over the top, and all around in a league entirely by themselves. And I really do mean that - there are a few bands I like more (though I do love Floyd), but in all seriousness, Pink Floyd, in terms of putting on a show, is far above anyone else, they are untouchable and unreachable.

I'd whoop em then they'd write a crappy song about it

I'm shaking my head in disbelief.

Might as well say that the earth is a hyperbolic trapezoid or that PCBs are a good daily rectal regimen.

:-)

that's already been done. See Wesley Willis.

I can see it now... "Pink Floyd Whooped My Ass."

Too bad he's dead.

-C

On some of earliest Sex Pistols' tours, Johnny wore a Pink Floyd tee shirt with his own scrawled words:

"FUCK Pink Floyd!"

As for myself, their music never appealed to me...

Go home and listen to them by yourself :P

Floyd kicks ass though.

His version of the little drummer boy was on the radio today...he should be shot and pissed on at daybreak for that one.

I think they are way too hyped, Only two songs I think are good are brick in the wall and thet money song

We're a clique!

:-)

I say it again Pink FLoyd sucks...and right now I'm listening to Uptown girl......that's how much they suck. I would rather listen to uptown girl than them.

Horribly overrated. My dad listened to them when we were kids and I've hated it ever since.

Just thought I'd break it to 'ya.

My dad usually has really good taste in music. Pink Floyd is just one glaring exception.

I dislike Floyd intensely. I remember someone playing them on my stereo, and I sat there and listened for about half an hour, and thought, Jeezus, this is the same two measures of music over and over again with slight variations! I said, "That's about enough of that!" and shut it off, which caused me to get into a fight with that someone, but oh well.

I also can't stand the Grateful Dead, so maybe it *is* just a generational thing. My much older fiance raves on about how *musical* these bands are, but I'm a fairly (mid-calibre) trained musician, and I just hear warped jazz modalities, and I never had much patience for abstract jazz in the first place.

I fucking hate them! Talentless fucks!

After that, it becomes too humorless and puffed up for me.

I prefer Zappa... (obvious?)

Or even Zep, who stayed amusing far longer..although even with them, the earlier is better rule is quite operative.

Syd rocks, though.

In fact, you can throw in Yes, Dream Theatre, and all those other self-indulgent 1970's bands as well.

Then they got too commercial and pretentious for me.

No more humor or real weirdness.

(Sound of industrial strength flamethrower being pointed at HEyHEY)

Burn thou heretic! :grr:

OK, they've got a few dud tracks and a couple of half/half albums
but "Wish you were here", "The Wall" and "Division Bell" are more
than enough to compensate.

Nihil :hi:

In their early years, they all spent lots of time with tape recorders and the (primitive) synths of the era, with an ear toward getting as big and lush and (might as well say) ponderous a sound as possible. Nowadays, whatever it is they choose to write about-- how weird it was when Syd flipped out, or how ideologues are fucking us over, or how hard it is to reclaim one's innocence and find true love when you're a millionaire rock star-- is going to be delivered in humongous technicolor audio. If you like that kind of thing, nobody does it better than Floyd (although I would argue that Coldplay is trying to position themselves as the Next Floyd). If you think rock should be more of a homespun kinda thing, with more of the sense of sweat and grit and regular-Joe ideology, then you're not gonna have any use for Pink Floyd.

I tried to say this as non-judgmentally as possible. Me, I go back and forth on Floyd, *depending on the actual content of the songs.* I really admire Wish You Were Here and Animals, because I think the subject matter and the musical choices were worthy of the amazing Floyd production. And to prove it's not all about Roger Waters, I liked about half of Momentary Lapse too. But I severely dislike The Wall, I get into arguments about it constantly, I think it's a total piece of crap pandering to a caricature of alienated youth culture, and the music sounds like they did a case study of everybody who was on the radio that year. Your mileage may vary.

And I love the Syd Barrett stuff, but that was certainly an entirely different era, and effectively an entirely different band. One cliche that I think has a lot of validity is that Floyd has always been a tug of war between the musicians (Barrett, Gilmour) and the architects (Waters, Mason)-- but where I differ with most analysts is that I think it varies album by album as to who's winning.

Waters is a wanker.

Gilmore has never impressed me either. Same lick over and over and over.............

Syd Rules.

Seriously. Not everyone wants to hear 20 minutes of music before they finally get to the first lyrics of a song. Pink Floyd certainly isn't a 'quick musical fix' band by any stretch of the imagination.


My two cents worth.


Wish you animals were here up against the wall on the dark side of the moon for the final cut.:freak:

I thought I was alone all this time!

They're OK. But not profound. Or earth shattering. Or great.

Just OK.

:shrug:

...turned me off of them. The assholes at this station would play "Comfortably Numb" every fucking morning as I was trying to get myself awake and ready for work. Aversion therapy apparently can work.

My parents were hippies so I was already being exposed to lots of good music anyway.

I also don't like most people who like them too, and that extends to potential dates as well.

a thousand times, yes!

Their music is so rich and deep. I find that I can sit back and listen to them for hours, often musing over the deeper meaning of their songs. Rolling Stone ranked Dark Side no. 43 in the top 500 albums of all time!! I noticed that most of the haters out there never gave any reasons as to why they hate them. Have any of you actually listened to their stuff thoroughly? I know there music is a bit complicated, maybe its just a little too complicated for you to understand.:shrug: I don't think its at all necessary to have done acid or "marijuana" to fully apreciate thier music, although the affects of these drugs definately changes your preception and focus of the music for the better. I think thats why often people will ask if you've tried these drugs before listening to Pink Floyd, because it greatly enhances your experience of the band and makes it just that much more enjoyable. So I ask of all you haters out there to sit down when you have some time and actually listen to thier stuff intently. And maybe if you happened to have just puffed down a marijuana cigarette, or just dabbled in some psychedlic, put them on and see if your perception of them changes.

I guess that doesnt help my arguement

and I've always hated Pink Floyd. And I even grew up in the '70's. Yes, I like. ELP, I like. I don't mind overblown, I don't mind synth. I just can't stand Pink Floyd. Too teenage boy for me, I guess 'cause I've never been one, I'm a girl.

I fucking HATE Pink Floyd. They can suck my ass!