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Old 10-19-2014, 02:11 PM   #9651 (permalink)
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In terms of rock bands doing more interesting stuff in the early to mid 70s

King Crimson, Can, Hawkwind, Soft Machine, Henry Cow, Gong, Bowie, John Cale, Brian Eno, Zappa, Roxy Music, Van der Graaf Generator, Captain Beefheart, Slapp Happy, Neu! I would argue were much more interesting than Pink Floyd. If you want to go from the mid to late 70s I could make that list 10 times longer.

I don't doubt that in the 60s Pink Floyd were innovative and interesting, by the 70s, not so much.
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Old 10-19-2014, 02:14 PM   #9652 (permalink)
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And don't forget Supertramp. Crime of the Century is phenomenal.
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Old 10-19-2014, 02:21 PM   #9653 (permalink)
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Pink Floyd really wasn't all that popular during the 70s.
Not sure where you were living, but they were HUGE around my sphere.

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Crime of the Century.
One of the greatest albums of all time. Engineered by the long time Beatles dude Ken Scott.
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Old 10-19-2014, 02:22 PM   #9654 (permalink)
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I don't doubt that in the 60s Pink Floyd were innovative and interesting, by the 70s, not so much.
One of the reasons I've always considered '79 and the early 80s as Floyd being the most popular.
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Old 10-19-2014, 02:22 PM   #9655 (permalink)
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Pink Floyd really wasn't all that popular during the 70s until the '79 release of The Wall.
i think they were pretty well known before The Wall...i mean Dark Side of the Moon brought them world wide success and is still one of the highest selling albums of all time....plus they were already selling out stadiums on the Animals (In The Flesh) tour
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Old 10-19-2014, 02:34 PM   #9656 (permalink)
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I'm not trying to say that they werent popular at all during the 70s, I'm just trying to suggest that they really went mainstream in '79 with the Wall. Especially on into the early eighties.

The Dark Side of the Moon is probably my favorite single, I've been listening to that particular song today.
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Old 10-19-2014, 06:52 PM   #9657 (permalink)
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Man, I was hugely into The Wall when I was about 16. Had an enormous 6 by 8 foot poster in my room and everything. Performed "Hey You" in a band once and got some good reactions from the crowd.

I think that album probably speaks to disaffected teenagers in a powerful way, but it's hard as a 36 year old man to get particularly excited about it. When it gets to the The Trial and his crime turns out to be "showing feelings of an almost human nature" it's sorta hard to keep going along with it. Especially if you've seen the movie and know his bigger crime is probably turning into a fascist weirdo who sicks the dogs on his audience.

Still, I would defend the record, on the whole. There's a bit of whining going on, but I think it was from the heart.

Animals, I never really did get into. Dark Side and especially Wish You Were Here are more likely to get played nowadays.

And, geez, now that I'm getting older, "High Hopes" from The Division Bell starts to resonate more, even if it's recorded in a needlessly sterile way.
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Old 10-19-2014, 06:59 PM   #9658 (permalink)
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My top 5 Floyd albums that I find myself coming back to are

1- Meddle
2- Saucerful of Secrets
3- Wish You Were Here
4- DSOTM
5-Piper

The Wall is cool its just really nothing all that special, whereas Meddle I think is unique in the Floyd catalogue.
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Old 10-19-2014, 07:35 PM   #9659 (permalink)
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^I'm sad that Animals isn't part of that list. One of my personal favorites.
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Old 10-19-2014, 07:38 PM   #9660 (permalink)
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I could never get into Animals as much as I could some of there other stuff I don't know why
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