Ha! Ha! Charade you are!

I love Pink Floyd. Up until The Wall. Although The Wall has its moments. Then after that it's just a big fat Meh.

For me, the "meh" doesn't set in until after The Final Cut. I really love that album.

I grew up listening to Division Bell on heavy rotation (seriously, I think I played it once a week from the ages of 10-13). Although their early stuff is certainly thematically more interesting, DB will always have a place in my heart.

i can't believe they gave a "4" to the more soundtrack. harumph.

one of my favorite pf items that pops up on shuffle every so often is an hour-long live bbc radio performance (hosted by john peel, whose tendency to refer to them as "the pink floyd" always made me smile for some reason) from 1971, before meddle came out. three songs - "fat old sun", "one of these days" and "echoes". beautiful, beautiful, beautiful...

Syntax, if you can somehow make that file available I would appreciate it very much.

Plleeeeeeeezzz!

That sounds awesome, syntax. (I think their official name WAS "The Pink Floyd" up until about that point, wasn't it?)

I had More and Obscured By Clouds both on vinyl in my teenage years (when it was ALL vinyl- heh), but I wasn't musically mature enough to appreciate the more subtle stuff back then.

i'll sharebee it when i get home this afternoon. :)

Nice article.

I grew up on a pretty steady diet of middle period Pink Floyd, to the point where I really have no use for it anymore. These days I can pretty much only stand the very early stuff (I'd say everything up to and including Relics). I don't deny the great musicianship of the later stuff; I just don't get much joy from listening to it.

And as tripped-out movie experiences go, Live at Pompeii kicks The Wall's ass any day.

And as tripped-out movie experiences go, Live at Pompeii kicks The Wall's ass any day.

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