#101

I know I post this every time Collins comes up but

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#102

I’ve put this on now. If I’m not into it I’m going to smash up a Boss pedal in protest.

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#103

At their best they were properly great and I like all the stuff up to the wall to some degree… Got a soft spot of the syd Barrett era and quite a lot of stuff up to dark side of the moon rules

Find it interesting which bands are considered acceptable from the 70s…

#104

It’s a perfect visual representation of what happens in my mind whenever I think about Sussudio.

#105

yeah like Bowie is clearly a lot more pretentious and pseud than pink floyd surely

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#106

Also, we don’t talk about Syd Barrett enough. He was a curly haired wizard moppet and his solo output, such as it was, is a constant delight. The original space cadet.

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#107

his songs about gnomes certainly weren’t as good as pink floyd’s

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#108

Mate people never shut up about Syd Barrett

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#109

very sad story but his music wasn’t very good, feels uncomfortable to listen to as well

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#110

You’ll be a long time breaking that pedal. Don’t listen to the studio disc, listen to the live one!

#111

great tunes, great lads, great haircuts its a 5

#112

Going to be honest with you, it’s not looking good for my Multi Overtone pedal

#113

roger waters might be personally an arsehole but at least he likes bernie sanders!

think he was pro corbyn as well

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#114

Bam, it will come back to you
Bam, it will come back to you

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#115

is he an arsehole? Just comes across as angry about stuff

#116

Genuinely great in the 70’s. 4 out of 5 easily.
I went to see Waters the other year, and it was superb, when the big songs drop it’s genuinely thrilling, like ‘oh we’re dining at the top table tonight’.

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#117

The live disc is great. The studio disc is not.

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#118

I did like Saucerful of Secrets tbf

#119

I’ve got plenty of time for Pink Floyd. Meddle probably the album I resonate with most. ‘Fearless’ an astronomical track. Maybe being born in the USA and not having parents grown up with an over exposure to them being from England, makes me like them more? I don’t know. Pretty shocked at all the 1’s and 2’s I’ve seen so far tbh, but to each their own.

Haven’t listened to the non-Waters Floyd all that much outside a couple of singles ‘Learning to Fly’ and ‘On the Turning Away’, but

Used to trade live bootlegs back in the day and have some great Pink Floyd shows from the Boston Garden, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia on their Wish You Were Here '75 tour.

A band I’ve never gotten sick of in my life and re-visit fairly often. Going to throw on ‘Meddle’ now as a result.

5/5

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#120

I’ll admit I didn’t get properly into them until quite late on. Liked what I heard as a kid though, y’know the famous ones, but I had a real phase of getting stupidly into prog rock in about 2012-ish. Yeah, some of it was horrible unlistenable shite, but some was properly amazing. Sort of how Floyd are in general.

I think they’re very much a band ‘of their time’, but as they operate across (mainly) 3 decades, it brings out the best and worst of each era. Like, the weirdy hippy Barrett stuff transforms into the dark, mammoth Waters & Gilmour stuff, which then slips into the cold, sterile Waters stuff, which then kinda peters out into the just Gilmour & Mason stuff.

The early stuff is patchy, and not always to my personal tastes, but that run of Dark Side, WYWH, and Animals is pretty sweet. That said, some of the live stuff is really good. Embryo, that one they never recorded but definitely should’ve done, is ace, as is Careful With That Axe Eugene, Set The Controls… there’s definitely a world beating record somewhere in that vast collection of early stuff if you cobble it together. I quite admire just how big their discography is, but of course it usually means the quality control is off for a lot of it.

Nick Mason’s book Inside Out is also a really good read, and some of the Barrett stuff in there is genuinely heartbreaking. Waters is also a bit of a dick these days, as he’s always on RT and his frothing love for Julian Assange is a bit of a weird hill to die on after all this time.

Anyway, for me it’s a 4/5

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