Re: Yet to find anyone who rates Piper, Dark Side and The Wall as all excellent albums
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Re: Yet to find anyone who rates Piper, Dark Side and The Wall as all excellent albums         

Group: rec.music.progressive · Group Profile
Author: Raja
Date: Mar 16, 2008 14:21

On Mar 16, 3:42 pm, e...@chinagreenelvis.com wrote:
> They're all kind of landmark albums for the Floyd if you consider the
> subject. I mean, Piper was Syd Barrett's baby, it was what established
> Floyd in the world of recorded music. It was a ridiculously successful
> album so it's not just a landmark for Floyd but for music in general
> as well. Dark Side of the Moon is something like one of the top
> selling albums of all time if I'm not mistaken, and it's arguably the
> "best" Pink Floyd album there is. Then you have the Wall, which is
> Roger Waters' brainchild, and it signifies a complete turn for the
> band in general. It's really the beginning of the end for the band,
> despite being a musical masterpeice. By the time the Final Cut had
> been made, the "Pink Floyd Sound" had been completely eradicated...
>
> It's true that most people probably like one or two but not the third.
> They are very radically different from each other in terms of style,
> meaning, and mood. Unless you're a Pink Floyd Fanatic, of course, and
> even then us Fanatics have our albums which we would rather skip out
> on... Relics and The Final Cut for me...

Inspite of being a big Floyd fan, I can say Floyd were the most hit
(Dark Side) or miss (Atom Heart Mother) of the great bands (even at
their peak).
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