No? My mistake.

Anyway, the Floyd. If you don't like them then don't listen to them I'd say. Nothing I've ever heard of them has made me want to go and investigate further, so I don't - simple. Don't think that just because they're PINK FLOYD (although this applies to every band) and you're a music fan then you should inherently love them.

It all sounds a bit Ford Mondeo/ Dire Straits to me - especially Money, a truly horrible song. A Great Gig In The Sky is like some sort of improv workshop visited by Yoko Ono.

Breathe is beautiful though.

...was Brain Damage. Four times on the trot. I was smoking something I shouldn't though, back in the day. It wasn't a good evening.

I never could stand them, especially DSOTM. However hearing it recently for the first time in twenty years it seems to me that the old Side One stood up quite well : not as overblown as I remembered, certainly not compared to some of the more recent pretenders. Breathe was rather lovely and Great Gig In The Sky was attractively bonkers, standing out against their tendency to mewl. However Side Two still blows, especially Money. At least Brain Damage doesn't actually make me hurl any more.

Still, it isn't The Wall. I have a special circle of hell reserved for that. And Hotel California.

Will be marking your homework tomorrow and an essay on why DSOTM is not for you, may get you an 'F'
...now get back to work

wish you were here still scrubs up pretty well IMO

And i can still hack meddle

Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is a good start.

If you don't like DSOTM, you probably won't like any of the later, post DSOTM stuff (Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall)as it's broadly similar to a greater or lesser extent.

You might want to try Meddle - the track 'Echoes' is generally quoted as the definitive Floyd piece but, to be honest, based on your comments, you probably won't like it :-)

If you've tried Piper, Echoes and DSOTM and didn't like any of them then I guess it's fair to say you don't like the Floyd. All credit for trying though. Too many people are willing to form a judgement based on recieved opinion.

...by any measure, but it may not be for you. Takes all sorts. But if you seriously want to know what all the fuss is about, give it a few listens, leave it a bit, try through headphones, under the influence, etc. It is not a pop record with cheesy predictable immediately memorable choruses. Its brilliance is pretty evident to me but often the albums you love for longest don't immediately grab you.

And WYWH and Meddle are also excellent.

Isn't that the way in? And available to download for £4.44 on Amazon surely worth a punt

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collection-Great-Dance-Songs/dp/B001IQR7P6/ref=s...

...of long songs. Atom Heart Mother, Echoes and Shine On. That'll do me.
Dark Side is like Sergeant Pepper, a chocolate souffle on the menu, instant whip in the mouth

I know he's a big Pink Floyd fan, and this association sort of put me off. It's not him per se that's the problem. It's the stereotypical image of the Pink Floyd fan.

Well, after seeing Rory McGrath priase it on Never Seen Star Wars I thought i'd give it a go...

And I'm rather glad I did. It wasn't what I'd expected - and was quite startled by much of it. I'm not saying I find it a work of god-like genius - but it's a record I'm pleased to own.

It's the swine flu, not DSOTM. You are listening to the wrong album. You seem to be listening to Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, which, as eny fule kno, is the lazy bit on Atom Heart Mother, where they ran out of ideas and mucked about while they sent someone out for more skins, and is uter crud of the swinish variety.

I think Pink Floyd are like Bob Dylan, you either like or hate them, there's little inbetween. It's a cliche, but Dark Side Of The Moon would be in my Top Ten Albums of All Time. Perhaps try listening to it when you are in a better frame of mind and your swine illness has hopefully cleared up as it was just a momentary lapse of illness.

you will find that you like Pink F no better.

I, like you, feel I owe them a certain sort of respect, a due deference. As a result, I have tried to get *it*. Lots. But I don't.

And the reason I disavow Floyd (and utimately, though not totally Radiohead) is for similar reasons that I disavow Iain Banks or Ian McEwan in literature.

It is because it represents a peculiarly English strain of clever dickery, an adolescent preoccupation with trying to be "shocking", and a facile reading of the world.
To wit - guess what - war is bad, institutions can be corrupt, and life can be a bit rubbish sometimes.

They have one song which I do play regularly - "Wish you were here". The rest. It's all very deep, you see.

So "Wish You Were Here" and wish you better.

you didn't choose "Ummagumma"
Best record to listen to when you're sick?
Todd Rundgren's "Healing"