if you don't like them any explanation would be pointless
you can't ask someone to explain to you the reason why pink floyd are great. i guess that wouldn't help ya
plus why d'you care if you don't like 'em?

7/8 is a sick time signature

Barrett-era floyd were simply a mind-fuck, huge, psychedelic swirls and disorientating light shows- they were pioneers of the british psychedelic scene, and despite the fact a lot of barretts stuff was hippy rambling full of fantasy, gnomes, nursery ryhmes and acid-laden chaos, it struck a chord with the context of the time and theres certainly something very deep and meaningful about his work with floyd. songs from this phase of floyd:

astronomy domine
see emily play
arnold layne
interstellar overdrive
lucifer sam
bike
cirrus minor
the happiest days of our lives
remember a day

post-barrett floyd saw gilmour and waters (one of the best guitarists and bassists britians ever produced) strike up a creative, volatile relationship which spawned barren, darker music that belonged more to the outer-reaches of the solar system then in your living room CD collection. some classic albums are wish you were here and the two i dont really need to mention.

great gig in the sky
sheep
wish you were here
learning to fly
money
comfortably numb
shine on you crazy diamond (a tribute to barrett)
set the controls for the heart of the sun
another brick in the wall.

That song is called 'Money'. Booboo, everybody else has put this at the top of their list and you didn't get it - what's happening, are your powers waning?

Dude, he would have known the title to money...Everybody has heard of money, its their most well known song after Another Brick In The Wall Part 2.

Hey, he asked the question. I know the vocal starts off by singing 'Money', that doesn't mean that he's going to remember it.

So are 5/4, 5/8, 7/4, 9/4, 9/8, 11/4, 11/8, 17/8 and 18/8.


7/4 and 7/8 are two of the most common time signatures in prog.


4/4 is great and all, but it always gets all the attention, so not fair for the other guys. :(

Fair enough.

Have A Cigar has to be Floyds most underrated song ever. Awesome lyrics, amazing synth, great guitar solo, so funky, but hardly ever get's a mention...and didn't even make it on to their best of.

Anyway I'd recommend Darkside of the Moon (Album), Wish You Were Here (Album) & Animals All great, Animals is perhaps the least accessible tho.

Not a huge fan of the Wall, but Comfortably Numb is awesome.

DSOTM is great and all, but Pink Floyd have so much other great material.
Ummagumma has a whole disk of solo projects from each member, and tracks like 'The Embryo' from the Atom Heart Mother era show how Barrett's influence was being replaced.
Also, most of their albums have been recently reissued onto CD, like Atom Heart, maybe Pulse, Delicate Sound of Thunder?, and Momentary Lapse of Reason. This is just off the top of my head, but they're out there.