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: amy
Date: Mar 16, 2008 15:36

On Mar 16, 4:21 pm, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 3:42 pm, e...@chinagreenelvis.com wrote:
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>> 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...
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>> 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...
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> 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
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Still having trouble with the fact that people have different tastes
Raja?
If the whole world were like you then there would be only 10 bands in
the whole
world, ten albums in the whole world, everyone would own a Seven-
Eleven,
and everyone in the world would be an obsessed, compulsive Indian
Hijra
with serious mental deficiencies. Now would that be any fun? go kill
yourself
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