> interesting point. It seems johnny rotten used a t-shirt where it was
> written "I hate pink floyd" - anyway, it seems he *did* liked
> pink floyd.
I've never understood why there's this big hatred against Pink Floyd
among punk rockers and so forth. I'm not always in the mood for Floyd,
but when I am, boy are they great. And Dave Gilmore is a fantastic
guitarist. People seem so concerned about "oh what message do I send the hipsters if I listen to this CD?" or "I'm a punk rocker, I can't like this!" it's really sad.
Is it just that they were a big band at the time these others rose?
So the creators of one genre must be attacked by those of another?
Or was it because they did extended songs with great musicianship?
Which fell out of fashion?
I like to seek out the "seminal" artists. Pink Floyd is one
of them. They've given me moments of ecstasy. How can they
be "meaningless" and "dull" when people have followed them for decades?
(As far as pompous, every Johnny Marr interview I've read lately
sounds pompous to me, in the sort of "hipper than though" way. His web site was taken down, but when he answered fans' emails I thought he was a first-class
a*s. Which is odd from someone wasting our time in throwaway acts like Electronic. Talk about meaningless and dull....)
> well, i heard lots of progressive rock and pratically all these groups are
> really crap (genesis, jethro tull, rick wakeman...) but pink floyd is
> ANOTHER thing. Some moments of theirs are really from genius. Syd Barret
> was ok, he made excellent pop songs. But the rest of the guys wrote
> "set the controls for the heart of the sun", "shine on you
> crazy diamonds", "echoes", "time" and some other
> wonderful music.
It seems like half of Floyd's songs are about Syd Barret. It's kinda funny.
> as for smiths were fighting against pink floyd, i always remember that a
> proust`s character was an "avant-gardist" one and said to the
> Narrator that "Debussy was great and Chopin was old-fashionad".
> And the Narrator from Proust answered that Debussy loved too much Chopin.
> We shoud not make a confusion between "Art" and "Mode"
> - perhaps 1983 was the time to fighting against the past, as the
> impressionist fought against the classical peinture - but some of the
> classical ones were ART...
Yeah, and anyway, Morrissey did the song "Southpaw," who would've thought.
I really liked when he did that. Showed me he's got broader taste than
he lets on.