― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Saturday, 6 November 2004 13:33 (twenty years ago)
― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 6 November 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago)
The TS motto, but how appropriate for a Floyd thread
― Bumfluff, Saturday, 6 November 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 6 November 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago)
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 6 November 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 November 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 November 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)
What a retard I am.
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 November 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 6 November 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago)
― dave q, Saturday, 6 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)
Floyd wins!
Rumour has it Johnny Rotten really is a Floyd fan. The "I Hate Pink Floyd" T-Shirt was a publicity stunt. Anybody know more about this?
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago)
(That felt really good.)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)
If you restricted it to Barrett era Floyd, I suppose you could make some kind of case, but I still wouldn't be having it. Far less all this late Floyd revisionism. Dreary, dreary stuff.
S
― Soukesian, Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)
(But... even worse, I sometimes wonder if Gilmour's Floyd may not have been so bad. "Learning to Fly" is really catchy and it's not so tediously miserable.)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago)
I should probably give Barrett another chance sometime. Piper sounded like a joke except for "Interstellar Overdrive" when I heard it some 5 years ago. I like Voivod's cover of "Astronomy Domine".
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― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago)
The Pistols hardly had any records! Great band in theory; in practice, don't listen to them.
Floyd are great until (and including) Animals.
It's always the best bands in a genre that get attacked. If Johnny Rotten had worn an "I hate Colosseum" T-shirt it would have looked daft.
― Keith Watson (kmw), Saturday, 6 November 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 6 November 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 6 November 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)
The dreariness is part of the appeal. Animals, Darkside, Atom Heart Mother, Piper, Meddle, Wish You Were Here, Ummagumma = all classic. The Wall is just too damn long.
― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 6 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)
I actually quite dig the Wall despite its inarguable pretention.
Johnny may have indeed hated Pink Floyd, but when I saw PiL at the Palladium on the tour for Album, the first song the band played (without John onstage) was "Kasmir" by Led Zeppelin.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 November 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)
But that was the PiL album that provoked (dumb) reviewer lines like, "Led Zeppelin is cool again." By that point the cat was out the bag.
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 6 November 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago)
I've heard this too, I'm fairly sure that it's true.
Saying he loves PF sounds like part 2 of the publicity stunt.
I love the Pistols but I loved PF longer as an adolescent (Barrett through Wish You Were Here period, I was tired of them by the time The Wall came out), so I gotta say PF.
― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 6 November 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago)
Oh, Pistols, btw. obv.
― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 6 November 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago)
But there were countless fucked-up, confused, pissed-off post-grunge mid '90s teenage whiteboys at my high school thought The Wall was a masterwork. Including, at one point that only ended shortly before I turned twenty, me.
Face it, the only 1977 pop culture event that Changed Everything Forever for my generation was Star Wars.
― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 6 November 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 November 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)
― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 6 November 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)
Fuck...all...that!
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 6 November 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago)
About themselves? Dear lord, no. McLaren might've, though.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago)
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 7 November 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago)
I remember reading, when Floyd's back catalogue was remastered for the CD market...
"The only bad thing about a pink floyd album is having to get up half way through and turn it over".
I concur.
― Coffee Cake, Sunday, 7 November 2004 11:25 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 7 November 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, and so was Chuck Berry, but I'd still rather listen to The Seeds or something. Maybe that's even a misleading comparison. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that landmark != good. I don't doubt the INFLUENCE of the Pistols was massive (it's pretty obvious), but if going strictly by which band I enjoy listening to more, it's gotta be Floyd.
― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)
He wasn't a Floyd fan as far as I'm aware - he was into Hawkwind as a lad. Also, because he liked some Peter Hammill, people assume that he liked Van der Graaf too but the two don't necessarily follow.
― Soon Over Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 7 November 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 7 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago)
I'm not sure I agree with that - but to be honest I'm far more interested in trying to imagine just how awful Pink Floyd with Sid might sound!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:34 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago)
― Burr (Burr), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago)
It's amazing how when you put Johnny Fucking Irritating Douchebag with people who can play their instruments, his inherent intolerability is completely neutralized and I love him (ie, Public Image Ltd is an infinitely better band and a group I would mark out as one of my high school favorites with the generic album as one of the 500 greatest albums ever recorded).
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)
Umm, name one band he fronted that could not play their instruments?
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)
― Burr (Burr), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago)
Do you think Sid could manage up to five, bless 'im?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)
By George, I think he's got it!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)
― Burr (Burr), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago)
Syd Barrett's songwriting is overrated, dippy twee Hobbit crap. Fuck a gnome.
Sincerely,"Have A Cigar" owns you, chump
― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago)
hahahahahahaha
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 November 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)
― dave q, Monday, 8 November 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago)
ouch
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 8 November 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 November 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)
As far as individuals go: Syd >>>>>>>>>>>> Sid. But you knew that already.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago)
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (1969)Can - Tago Mago (1971)Neu! - Hallogallo (1972)
... I know it's a minor observation but there ya go. Plus compare most of early Tangerine Dream and bits of early Ash Ra Tempel to "Saucerful of Secrets" - I'm surprised Floyd didn't sue.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago)
Oooh! I like these games! Could the next one in the sequence possibly be: Public Image Ltd - Metal Box (1979)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 12:00 (twenty years ago)
Anyway, they do of course easily beat SP, who are one of the most overrated bands ever, based on the completely ridiculous concept that was punk rock.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago)
I made this same connection for a review on the new Can remasters. It seems pretty feasible to me.
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago)
Normally, I'd say there can be no such thing as too many aggressive songs, but Geir's largely correct in that "aggressive" songs are not what the `Floyd generally excell at.
This statement, meanwhile....
...is pure, unhomogenized poppycock.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)
http://www.konzert-bilder.de/Verschiedenes/Pink%20Floyd-gross-40.jpg http://lacyroad.typepad.com/lacy_road/floyd.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago)