it was a bit crap, especially when they stalled after the first number. Also not very loud. Wanted to be blown away. Wasn't. Dusseldorf was nice though.
Don't like either Gilmour / Water's solo stuff. Have 2 albums of the latter. None of the former.Don't listen to Water's stuff. A bit pants.

gets on my nerves. Just for being an average drummer who stumbled into a great band. It's just jealousy on my part, but there it is.

(My mate)

That big sticky thumb-print on side two of your Wish You Were Here..

That was mine.

But I was (successfully) trying to prevent a can of lager being tipped over your stereo.

I bought Roger Waters' Radio K.A.O.S. for on vinyl for 49p from the local Woolies when they were getting rid of their last LPs. I was robbed.

was the most annoying song of my teenage years, bar none.

One of my favourite Floyd albums that I play regularly. 'One Of These Days' and 'Echoes' are both excellent with headphones (and a nice glass of single malt).

'The Wall' was the soundtrack.

... and Pink Floyd in Maine Road on the following Monday, and came away from Floyd thinking about Prince.

is touring The Wall again in the autumn. I know a lot of Floyd fans hate it. I quite likes it

When he played The Wall in its entirety on the Friday Night Rock Show I smoked my first joint. By the time it finished I was on to my third.

I have never heard a Pink Floyd song other than on TV or at parties (I do live on Merseyside, lots of PF in that respect).
Never cared for them and never sought them out to 'educate' myself.
And don't feel any less for it.

I hear the sound of the most lush, expansive and expensive rush of sheer joy

they sound like they had used the best gear and had the best idea how to use it, plus the licks

I am verh drunk after a Word Magazine meet, please ignore me.

..is my favourite Floyd track. Once spent a most enjoyable evening in said meadows with Pink Floyd themed refreshment, followed by a few pints at the Blue Ball. Bliss. And hey, it's Friday night, so why not have it on a plate:

...and then worked in a bookstore where Dark Side Of the Moon got played a lot, and grew to like that too.

The rest is pants though - I'd rather chew on a whole roll of Bacofoil than have to hear or see anything from The Wall again.

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Have any of the Floyd 'knockers' heard the last Gilmour solo at the end of Comfortably Numb..I fill up at the mere thought of it..sod it,it's going on.

I know its a cliche to say you only like the Syd stuff but I literally only like the first album. I find the rest of it a bit too 'rich' and gloopy, gives me musical indigestion.

I don't wish to be regarded as a 'Floyd Knocker' and totally accept their elevated status among the massive. I admire them, as much as I admire Radiohead...who I can't listen to either for much the same reasons.

I like the story, the characters involved, and the pictures more than the music. I own 3 books about Pink Floyd plus a book by Guy Pratt the latter day bassist, a DVD documentary about Syd, but only 1 Pink Floyd Record. Hmmm...

For some reason (probably units shifted) the albums often quoted as the more obvious/ubiquitous (?) Floyd albums tend to be The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish you were Here. Personally speaking I'd put Animals and Meddle above any of 'em.
Any thoughts?

Let a lone a bell or a horn.

I think The Division Bell is their best album after Dark Side. Does that make me a bad person? In Waters' eyes I suspect it does.

After reading Pigs Might Fly by Mark Blake I feel I should revise my view. The picture of the post-Waters Floyd that emerges from Blakes book is a group that was very successful but lacking creative drive. They brought in so many external collaborators to fill the gap left by Waters that you could argue their recorded output was Pink Floyd only in name.

A very long time ago, me and a friend got stoned and listened to Dark Side Of The Moon, purely to see if we could figure out what all the fuss was about. We got about twenty minutes in and gave up.

Despite myself, I quite like a lot of their music. Give me Dark Side Of The Moon over Sgt Pepper any day.

The interview with Hans Keller is magnificent

Roger Waters is a much worse singing bassist than Paul Simonon ever was. I recall laughing out loud at Live8. What were they thinking. Guess Gilmour was sniggering up his sleeve.
I always found them rather dull until then.
My favourite thing about them is (as I read here lately) that DG gave a house to Shelter saying he didn't need it anymore. That's a great thing to do.

I really like 'Obscured by Clouds'.

In the song If, from Atom Heart Mother, Waters sings "If I were a train, I'd be late." When it comes round the second time he sings "If I were a train, I'd be late... again." Makes me smile every time. But then I don't have a social life.

I happily ripped a selection of tracks from DSOTM and I often listen to them on random shuffle along with all the other stuff on my player.

At Glastonbury 2002 I watched Groove Armada on The Other Stage instead of Roger Waters on the Pyramid. Groove Armada were brilliant, Richie Havens did a guest spot, but I can't halp thinking years later that I should have watched Waters.

That's my confession.

Not keen at all. In fact, as I've mentioned before, there are bits of their back catalogue which actually make me furious. I know. Calm down.

...in the early '70s, my two older brothers used to play Pink Floyd all the time and impress upon me that this was serious grown-up music, unlike the pop music (ELO, ABBA) I liked. On the occasions when I forced myself to listen to it, I thought Dark Side Of The Moon was dreary and overlong, and I never got past the first track of Animals.

Then punk came along, and it was alright to say I hated Pink Floyd. I was very happy. My feeling of relief has never really subsided and my loathing for Prog in general and the 'Floyd in particular is still as sharp as ever.

with the guy who lived at Knebworth House. Invited to a party there I was awoken at 6.00 a.m. the following morning by his dad ( Lord or Earl someone or other ) *conducting* 'Dark Side Of The Moon' on a disco system out in the courtyard at top volume.

I love The Wall. I grew up with it. I've never heard Animals and I despise Atom Heart Mother. Dark Side? - no great shakes. I'm very fond of the Syd/Saucerful era but I love the Wall. Oh, and I've never spent a penny on them....No, i did, I bought a patch in 1980, hey let's have a thread about patches!

...is possibly the greatest ever, but most all of the Syd stuff leaves me cold. I love the Final Cut, but believe that Gilmour was the soul of the group.

to me that - in my callow youth - I once bought records because I thought I should be listening to them rather than because I really enjoyed them (there was a lot of that in the 70s).

Can't listen to 'em nowadays - far too ponderous, portentious and pretentious. The one time I saw them live (at Liverpool Empire - they were tinkering with quad sound and had the biggest sound system I have ever seen in an indoor theatre) they were so loud they made my girlfriend's nose bleed - and also had a slightly malign stage presence (at one point, we had to wait between tracks whilst Waters had a cigarette).

A year later, I caught The Who live in Manchester on a particularly good night - virtually no light show, just four superb musicians playing their tits off for two hours. Moon was so exhausted at the end that he had to be helped from the stage. After that, it was no contest: The Who were a pukka rock band who did things to your pulse rate; Floyd just a bunch of fops really. And look at the type of people Waters and Gilmour turned out to be. If they got any more up 'emselves, they could be marketed as tampons...

a tribute band and it will be the aussie pink floyd tribute band

apparently they are deciding the set list by attendee online vote

that's what I call populism

a pub in Derby in the mid 90's and duibg the day witnessed them having trouble getting their circular stage screen through the side doors.

Been a Floyd fan for 40 odd years, and could never quite tune in to the "It was all crap after Syd" philosophy. Pre and post Syd I like in roughly equal measure.

When I was in school, my pal and I used to leave Echoes playing over and over on the stereo all night long. One night his mother ran into the room and demanded we stop playing "that graveyard music". Of course that only made us like it more. Still do.

I really love the Syd stuff, Meddle, Dark Side and Wish You Were Here.

Between Syd and Meddle they were mainly trying to find their feet and most of the post-Wish You Were Here stuff was turgid (particularly the unlovable Animals)

They are the only band that have made me physically sick. Four times. In the one evening. "Brain Damage", every time.

Although I was smoking that I shouldn't. This may be related.

I didn't like them before. This did not do them any favours.

australian band company caine did it for me

though as with your good self

I think putting the magic mushrooms in our chinese takeaway may have been a mistake

I was at the Floyd gig at Earl's Court when a section of seating collapsed and the show was abandoned. No-one was badly hurt but it was post-Hillsborough and the media was jumpy. It made the Nine O'Clock News. My mate and I went straight to a pub to watch the England game that was on, instead of phoning home. My wife was in tears and frantic with worry when I got back.

Atom Heart Mother

...and was fortunate enough to have ten minutes one-to-one time with him, when he was on a signing tour for his "Inside Out" band biography.

The perfect opportunity to put forward all those burning questions I harboured about Syd, Roger, David, Dark Side, The Wall...and all I did was ask him about producing The Damned's album.

but I downloaded individual tracks.

I've never sat through an entire album in one go. In fact, I don't think I could identify that many tracks apart from singles and the famous ones.

on a set of Pink Floyd CD-R bootlegs on Ebay. And it was worth it. Their worth as a live act is seriously underrepresented in their catalog - some incredible concerts from the 70's!

... until about 15 years ago when I finally broke down and bought DSOTM. I have a vinyl copy of The Wall, but I've never played it. I still can't stand Syd era PF (or his solo LPs).

There. That's my confession!

I went to the record company launch of Dark Side Of The Moon at the Planetarium. We were supposed to sit in reclining seats, watch the night sky and marvel at the masterpiece on offer. I had a lovely sleep. Never much got the Floyd after Syd. After growing up with The Beatles, and not being much of a druggy, Floyd didn't have much to show me till The Wall. In retrospect though there were one or two nice tunes.

I used to listen to Floyd a lot, but during Breathe, I thought Gilmour sang "it's good to warm my bum beside the fire" and my friend thought Wish You Were Here went "we're just 2 lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year..running over the same old ground.. and how we found the same old fish!!"

A mate of mine, who was a Floyd fanatic, was around my house and tripping the light fantastic. He asked if I could put some psychadelia on and after trying a few platters, I told him I had a new Floyd bootleg where they were trying out some new material.

What I actually played him was The Bonzos doing 'We Are Normal' which he hadn't heard before. For those unfamiliar with this song, the lyrics include lines such as, "We are normal and we want our freedom. We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon.".

From that day on he was convinced I had an obscure Floyd bootleg and was always asking me to tape it for him, or sell it to him. Even when I owned up he wouldn't believe me. I even played him the track, but he was convinced it wasn't the track I'd played him and had blew his mind.

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I still can't remember which ones belong to which song, but loved the line about Whitehouse being a town mouse when I was in my teens.

JANUARY 25TH 1980.

Erica Louise Thomas. Aged 16. The hottest girl in her high school year.

Danced to Another Brick IN The Wall Part 2.

The most erotic kiss ever during the guitar solo.

It was ALL down hill from here ..........

Took a wrong turning and just kept on going !!

my cousins boyfriend owned both dark side and relics and i'd sit there with his hi fi headphones on and try to 'dig it' ( iwas only 8 or 9 at the time) but much prefered band on the run' which, when you think about it, is a far more profound and entertaining LP than anything those oxbridge twats ever produced.

I had a cassette of Pink Floyd with Bike, Nile, Careful with that Axe Eugene, Arnold Layne etc. I played it over and over again and loved it. It was the early Seventies.

High School (1974) introduced the obligatory reverence for DSOTM, but WYWH came out, and took all the attention. I rediscovered DSOTM again later, and realised that it's a pretty basic rock record; a band playing together, not a (completely) trippy record of bleeps and bops like, say, Orbital.

I went to Art School in 1980 and The Wall was it. We listened to it over and over again, in various states of inebriation. But the magic seemed to disappear after that. Roger Waters got darker and the Pink Floyd I loved were a memory.

The later albums sounded more corporate, except for One Slip from AMLOR, which gave me hope that it wasn't all over.

Drugs and music like Pink Floyd's seem to go hand in hand, but it's a trap for younger players who might think they have to be constantly off their face/s to appreciate it. I was chasing the high from when I heard The Wall on acid ever since.

Now I can enjoy all Pink Floyd's on shuffle, mixed in with everything else from that time and since. And The Wall has some great tracks; Hey You, Young Lust. And when I saw and heard David Bowie perform Arnold Layne and Comfortably Numb with Dave Gilmour on his live DVD, it all came together. Also, the Pulse DVD is exceptional.

That's enough from me.

to the floyd tribute show
she is 18
she said
I think I have heard of him

Oh dear, it had to be made public at some stage..
My father got me several tickets to see DSOTM at Earls Court when it was first released. I was about 13, maybe 14. One was given to Karen at school but only after she showed me her bountiful chest. It was very impressive, I still feel such a heel, but it was worth every one of those few seconds. If only I had got her a back stage pass too..
Wonder where she is now, and if she remembers that moment quite as clearly as I do...

....when I tried my very first exotic cheroot.
It's never sounded so good since I (allegedly) 'grew up'

It is much a historic instrument as any of the famous guitars in rock's back pages.

The VCS3 synth was used to do the 'widdly-widdly-widdly' sequence in On The Run, and many of the other strange noises therein. It is used for much of Welcome To The Machine and is (although you don't notice it at first) all over The Wall.

... I only know 'Bike' and 'Astromony Domine' from the Syd years and have no major intention of listening to any more. They're like 3 different bands under one name really. I Am a huge Floyd fan. but 1970-1980 was their best stuff in my humble. Waters got really dreary by The Final Cut (although The Wall, in all its dreary-ness was a work of true brilliantness). I do confess to loving A Momentary Lapse of Reason sometimes, in all its glossy, shiny, eighties slickness, even though it was practically a Gilmour solo album. The Division Bell was a major return to proper Floyd as far as I'm concerned, but in a competitive 90s world. There's echoes (no pun) of some of their seventies stuff in there.

And as for the drumming thread, I'm a drummer and think Mason's work on the 'good' period (70-80) was near perfect for the music. Some of the drums on The Final Cut and AMLOR were session players as Waters had done everything but dwindle Mason's (and Wright's)confidence to zilch by 1981. Carmine Appice and Jim Keltner provided drums mostly, along with some drum machines.

I loved them over the years, and played the albums to death, but now don't care if I never hear Money or Great Gig in the Sky ever again.

I got The Wall out recently after a 10-year moritorium and it still sounded too familiar. The note-for-note live recreations Gilmour's been touting for the last 20 years don't add anything so I've given up on them too. I wonder if he's as sick of playing those songs as I am.

..and I genuinely prefer Easy Star AllStars' Dub Side... to the original.

I started to lose interest in them when "Animals" was released. "The Wall" completely left me cold and I have never heard about half of it or any of the subsequent albums.

I think the 70s era Floyd are one of those band's who people have a very deep relationship with and then kind of grow out of. I'm not quite sure why this is but I do have 2 theories.

1: They initially appear to be a band of substance but perhaps repeated listens reveal that a large part of their appeal is in the elements of their records which have an almost cinematic quality (the sleeves, the voices on Dark Side, the effects, the ambient bits, etc). It may be, therefore, that listening to Floyd albums repeatedly, is rather like watching the same film more than once. No matter how much you love the film, you will get bored after a few viewings. There is, of course a way around this, which is to take a break between "viewings", so I haven't heard Dark Side for a good few years and I hope that when I return it will remind of why it meant so much all those years ago.

2: Its the weed...

Not mad on Pink Floyd but adore 'The' Pink Floyd.
That word 'The' is crucial.
Great hair, great clothes, swinging London.....as opposed to the rubbish hair, rubbish clothes and dour black and white London of the following decade.

Any chance that EMI will put out a decent retrospective of the 60s including the '68 singles and 'The Committee' soundtrack.
Didn't they also do a public information film for the army or something?

My full stop is pretty much where my full stop is for everything.....about '72.
Never knowingly listened to 'Dark Side Of The Moon' and I don't intend to start now!

has over time become my favorite Pink Floyd album. There's some great songs on there. On Free Four Roger Waters gets across everything it took him two whole albums to do with the Wall in a tight four minutes and it's a catchy little bugger to boot.