Pink Floyd
Biography
Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in both sound and words. Despite their astral image, the group was brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over leadership and, ultimately, ownership of the band's very name. After that time, they were little more than a dinosaur act, capable of filling stadiums and topping the charts, but offering little more than a spectacular recreation of their most successful formulas. Their latter-day staleness cannot disguise the fact that, for the first decade or so of their existence, they were one of the most innovative groups around, in concert and (especially) in the studio.
While Pink Floyd are mostly known for their grandiose concept albums of the 1970s, they started as a very different sort of psychedelic band. Soon after they first began playing together in the mid-'60s, they fell firmly under the leadership of lead guitarist Syd Barrett, the gifted genius who would write and sing most of their early material.
Selected Discography
Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd
2001
The Division Bell
1994
Delicate Sound Of Thunder (Live)
1988
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
1987
The Final Cut
1983
The Wall
1979
Animals
1977
Wish You Were Here
1975
The Dark Side Of The Moon
1973
Obscured By Clouds
1972
Meddle
1971
Atom Heart Mother
1970
Ummagumma
1969
Music From The Film More
1969
A Saucerful Of Secrets
1968
pink floyd is possiblely the best of the psychadelic bands of all time . even in the 80s and 90s they where great . who ever wrote the band description on here needs to really listen to division bell . its a great albulm and the shows they performed were some of the best ever not the work of dinosaurs
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Best concert experience all time: saw Pink Floyd at Mile High stadium back in the 90's. Right as I walked in there was a group of police keeping the crowd from trampling some dude passed out face down in his own vomit. Dude got so messed up he didn't even make it to the opening band. It was then that I realized I was in for something really special.
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I grew up with Pink Floyd (thanks Dad!). I was born in 1981, so I had plenty of time to enjoy the music and build up a real appreciation for it. To this day, I am still a big fan of The Wall.
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I love Pink Floyd. Undoubtedly one of my all-time favorite bands. I do prefer the post Barret songs, but I love all of Pink Floyd, really.
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It's a preference which, I want to dedicate to this profile against the secret
terror and the number from that B**CH that,could not chain that neither one dol lard BILL from the national economy with the Sept.11/2001 attack continuation l ooking for and remaining on division line against our nation...hon o r s : "The Wall". by Pink Floyd >ticher< let the kids alone!! |
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whoever say Floyd was no good till after Syd died needs to do their homework.... . S y d only just recently died a few years ago.
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their song "In The Flesh" was banned because it was "racist".
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..."one could argue" that! I'd say it's sadistically brilliant for making anyone that listens to it want or even try to kill themselves.
Anyway, besides the whole Syd Barrett thing, Pink Floyd is probably my favorite band. |
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shaun dwyer....Are you a complete idiot or something? Gilmour used to be IN Pink Floyd. That's why he can play their songs at his concerts. He wrote a lot of their best tracks, even though he didn't write most of the songs. Roger Waters is great, too (I personally like Gilmour better).
The band became much better after Syd Barrett died (no offense Syd). "...one could argue, never did match the brilliance of that somewhat anomalous 1967 debut." REALLY? That hunk of crap? I don't even know how "o |
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One of THE GREATEST ROCK BANDS EVER!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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i just saw live in berlin
freakin mind blowing how many fans were there! i would of loved to have seen them live.... |
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Pink Floyd tickets 1973 Cow Palace S.F. $10.00 one hit of four way windowpane $2.50 a lifetime of memories PRICELESS!!! ! !
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"It's a shame that egos had to bring them down."
Isn't that how it normally works for humans? |
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For me there are gems on pretty much all of their works. It's a shame that egos had to bring them down.
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To have an appreciation for Pink Floyd is to have an appreciation for the beauty of sound. Listen to all of their works with an open mind. Some are more likeable than others. To only listen to the "Big 3" (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall) is a bit limiting. But by no means is it "one size fits all". Some like the very early stuff, some don't...some like the later stuff, some think it's a cheap knock-off, but it's really all about the beauty of sound.
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Wow, that last statement is just about as ignorant as a statement can be.
Do you even listen to your own Floyd station? Do you realize that you have a number of thumbed up songs on there that were written by Gilmour? You even have several of Gilmour's solo works on it. Why say something if it has no basis in fact? Remember, it is better to keep your mouth shut and have everybody think you a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. |
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Roger Waters made the band a success, he wrote all lyrics (deep). Gilmour is a cheap copy TRYING to sound like Pink Floyd.
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NOTHING comes close to these guys. NOTHING.<--- - - - -
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To say that Hendrix never got the dues owed him is like saying that Hitler was a bit pushy. All I ever heard about growing up through the 60' & 70's was how great Hendrix was. It got to the point that I hated and denounced him just because of the hype.
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Nothing trippy-er than a Floyd 3-D Laser Light Show!!! .....so when is ROSTER MCCABE gonna have a 3-D Laser Light Show?! ha that would be amazing..... g o t my glasses ready B}
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thank you for the comment on Hendrix he never really got the dues owed him.
if you have never heard Ummagumma, i suggest you do |
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I highly doubt that in the few months between the release of Are You Experienced and The Piper at the Gates of Dawn there was much influencing of musical styles between the two, anthony.
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I find it sort of funny that the only way they could create this music is if they are on some kind of drug. Now that I think about it, all visionaries were on something( Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Doors). Hendrix definitely was much more visionary than anyone else though. Without his redefining of the electric guitar and its sonic capabilities , there never would of been any Pink Floyd. so go listen to some Hendrix.
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Somehow this entry fails to mention that Syd Barret lost his mind to acid... or that Pink Floyd's launch into psychedelic pre-eminence came as leader's of tripping shows. Great Britain's Grateful Dead. Their story doesn't make sense without it.
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if i were given an ultimatum of choosing only one band to listen to for the remainder of my life..... pink floyd
pf has helped me to understand "how it was, how it is, and how it is going to be... top notch... |
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Pink Floyd has been my since bak in the 60s when i first started listing to them. Their music has always sent my mind whirling.Som e t h i n g about their music did mezmerize me and even now that iam in my early 70s it still does that thing to my head which has always h.ard to put into words.I can listen to them all day .
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Pandora does a good job, overall, but there are other electronic "space rock" bands that haven't been mentioned, like Hawkwind and Tangerine Dream ( the earlier stuff ). What makes Pink Floyd special is that they write great tunes. You can hum PF. And should :)
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welcome to machine blows my mind each and every time
a saucerful of secrets and ummagumma are my top albums from pink floyd... |
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