Early Pink Floyd had nice longer jams but those little psychedelic songs suck.
Meddle era early 70s Floyd are probably my favourite, especially live.
Dark Side Of The Moon has some good ones but its overall way too polished and boring.
The albums after that suffer from the same problem.
**** late PF, obviously.

If I want whimsical I listen to David Thomas.
**** that stupid hippie ****.

Have you listened to his early solo albums? Whimsical af.

I never really listened to Pink Floyd beyond a few of their most known songs. What little I have heard, I like very, very little. Not sure what the hype was ever all about. I'm legit surprised OH and Frown likes them. I thought they'd be in here pronouncing the band pleb rock for pretentious teenage boys.

I never loved music that wasn’t great. I stand by my taste at any age.

You know why pretentious teenagers love Pink Floyd? Because Pink Floyd are ****ing brilliant. It’s pretentious 50 year olds who are ****ing lost.

They're not a vocals-centric band, and I know that's kind of your thing, so I can see why you might not like them. That said, they had a pretty eclectic style and their sound evolved a lot over the years so if you haven't heard much it's worth giving them more of a listen.

I am not crazy about them,either.Sure they have a couple nice songs but i think Pink Floyd is overrated.

What would the musical landscape be like today if Pink Floyd had never existed? They basically created a whole new genre back in the late 60s and early 70s. Judging artists in hindsight is pretty wonky. Yes, you either like them or you don't. But to call Pink Floyd overrated is simply idiotic.

Bands like Floyd, Sabbath, Zeppelin, the MC5, and the Beatles, laid the very foundation of a lot of the music that we listen to today.

What’s this genre called?

Progressive/Psychedelic Rock. Each existed in their own right but Floyd were the band that melded them together in a rock fashion.

Overrated is not the same as being unoriginal.

Overrated is not the same as being uninfluential.

Overrated is not the same as saying that I'm not a fan.

Overrated is not the same as being bad.

Overrated is simply based on how their common rating and status compares to what they've contributed to the music community. Dumbass parrots of music fans overstate Floyd's significance and innovation despite it being based on genuine significance and innovation. Get that through your ****ing head.

I agree.

The amount of space for music in humanity’s collective consciousness is limited. We know what Cecil Taylor contributed to music as an art form. We also witnessed the lack of media coverage of his death. Cecil Taylor’s music, from an artistic perspective, is far more important than Pink Floyd’s but Pink Floyd takes up a much larger piece of humanity’s collective vocalized music appreciation pie. Pink Floyd gets way too much of that pie. That’s a long winded way of saying Pink Floyd is, in fact, very overrated.

To call Pink Floyd overrated is idiotic.

Get that through your ****ing head.

What's more idiotic:

Acknowledging that one of the top 5 (estimate) most popular artists in the history of recorded music gets a little bit too much slobber on their dicks

or

Thinking that something can't be overrated because you like it

Hint: it's the second one.

Chula,

Does David Gilmour deserve to be 1000 times more famous than Allan Holdsworth?

More popular? Yes. What's the old joke? Would you rather play 10 notes to 1,000 people or 1,000 notes to 10 people?

Got to see Allan twice in small venues when I was back east. Rooms were packed both times. 98% male guitarists.

Jaw dropping even more in person. Also have seen Steve Morse, Al Dimeola, and John McLaughlin. Again, jaw bruises each time.

Incredible.

What is must be and what must be must be right.

I only stand by what I like in this very moment. Past iterations of me has always been on all sorts of embarassing musical misadventures.

I'd say I like a good amount of bands that are pretty musically oriented, but I want both the vocals and the music to feel fleshed out, generally. I like some purely instrumental music too, but yeah, I guess it's fair to say that I'm fairly vocally oriented. The way I would put it is that I'd rather have no vocalist than half assed vocals.

Would you say that "half-assed vocals" applies to Floyd?

I'm listening to "The Wall" right now to try and find out what I even feel about Pink Floyd. I haven't heard that much, really. If there's another album I should be hearing instead, feel free to show me the way.

My first instinct is to say that I don't exactly find the vocals riveting, but I might end up somewhat disagreeing with myself there.

The Wall's a good one but a bit drawn out for learning about the band. If you had to pick one record for an idea of their sound, it would be Dark Side of the Moon.

Allright, I was only a couple songs in so I've swithced to Dark Side of the Moon now.

That is singing you dork.

I know that you mean the style and emotion in his singing as opposed to his melodic virtuosity. That's why I called you a dork, because that's a huge part of singing that you're presenting as something separate.

Yes, Pink Floyd is. (I've given up trying to get the points you try to make. - You just enjoy picking people apart from your own pretentious sensibilities.)

Is Gilmour more popular than Holdsworth - Yes.
Is Pink Floyd overrated - No.
Is Brittany Spears more popular than Wagner - Yes.
Is Wagner overrated - No.

The question is not whether or not Gilmour is more popular than Holdsworth, it's whether he deserves to be. We are all very aware that Gilmour is more popular. At least try to have a discussion without wildly misinterpreting other people's posts and premises, it's better for everybody that way, sonny.

Surely you can't give up something that you've never started?

Waters sings to his lyrics. He's a very dark, deep, and cynical person (to put it mildly). He inflects his vocals with the emotions he had while writing the lyrics.

Read the words and then listen to how he delivers them.

Definitely, he's a very expressive singer and easily my fave of the Floyd vocalists.

^ Will check it out when you post a working link :laughing:
(EDIT: Was directed at that clip posted by Elph. I'm listening to it now.)

I've just been through the entire Dark Side of the Moon album. I listened to the first 1½ minutes of "Any Colour You Like" 5 times because it's undisputedly the best thing about this album. Also, I really didn't like "The Great Gig in the Sky".

With some disappointment, I have to conclude that I find the vocals of this band really damn boring. Just neither detailed, expressive or flamboyant enough to register in any way inside my brain at all. Musically, I get the appeal of Floyd better, even if I can't exactly see myself becoming a fan any time soon.

My favorite singers tend to be of a vastly different type than this. I'm a huge fan of Mike Patton, Kate Bush and Kyo from Dir En Grey. All very much on the more strange, wild and wide-ranging end of the scale. Tori Amos, Suzanne Vega and David Gahan being examples of another style of vocalist that I can really dig.

As far as vocalists in more of a rock style, I supposed the singers of Christian Mistress, Roxy Music respectively, as well as PJ Harvey and Shannon Wright are more my speed.

I feel like the vocals of Pink Floyd (at least on DSOTM) are quite in style with the Beatles - which is another band where the singing does nothing at all for me.

I'm just not a classic rock guy. If it's classic rock, but isn't Roxy Music - I don't like it.

Also those posted lyrics were sung by Gilmour :laughing:.

Toe stubbed. But you get my point.

This one got boring fast, I'm sorry. I don't really have any objections musically, even if I'm not too interested in it either. But the singing... pearls before swine or whatever but I just can't say that I like it at all.

I don't have years and years of familiarity with this band behind me, so I just don't have that connection with it that all you other guys do.

Nobody else commenting on this hilarious logic fail?

The vocals are pretty understatedly mellow ja. As a more atmospheric band, they're not really meant to be the focus.

Too easy.

I kinda suspected that to be the point. I find Gilmour's singing on DSOTM to be almost sleepy or lethargic in delivery. I want to describe the atmosphere as a sort of "moody chill". Don't know if anyone gets what I mean by that.

Try A Saucerful of Secrets and Meddle.

How do you you feel about Water's vocals?

Try this. Hardly any vocals but you might enjoy its energy. Or not. You may enjoy the bass at least.