Pink Floyd

Thorns2010

Alright, this is something I've often wondered about this band.

Am I the only non-stoner that loves this band???

Now yes, I will admit that listening to them drunk, or a few times high was awesome, but even stone cold sober I love listening to them.

All the odd sounds, strange things, out of place noises is just..........well, excellent I must say.

So what say you? Do you enjoy Pink Floyd sober? Or is it just for the potheads?

Wilds

fucked up or sober one of the best "listens" of all time.

pearljgirl2010

Thorns2010 wrote:

Alright, this is something I've often wondered about this band.

Am I the only non-stoner that loves this band???

Now yes, I will admit that listening to them drunk, or a few times high was awesome, but even stone cold sober I love listening to them.

All the odd sounds, strange things, out of place noises is just..........well, excellent I must say.

So what say you? Do you enjoy Pink Floyd sober? Or is it just for the potheads?

I'm with you...one of the best bands ever. drunk, sober, high---amazing no matter what!

Fifthelement

Love 'em . . . sober or not

DewieCox

They have been the only 3rd favorite band I have ever had. I discovered them in HS, before I smoked or drank and loved them. People who think they are a "stoner" band are way off the mark, imo.

Take away anything that isn't guitar, bass, keys, or drums and its all still virtually the same music. Theres not nearly as much smoke and mirrors as one would think.

keeponrockin

Amazing band. One of, if not my favourites, of all time.

restlesssoul

let's hear it for Obscured By Clouds!!!!! HEY? god that album kicks.

i found this at a garage sale years ago, its okay.....really old stuff on there.....
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EpC1K6KZzNA/R ... ingles.jpg

DewieCox

restlesssoul wrote:

let's hear it for Obscured By Clouds!!!!! HEY? god that album kicks.

hip hip hooray. Animals and Meddle are my faves.

DocChicago

restlesssoul wrote:

let's hear it for Obscured By Clouds!!!!! HEY? god that album kicks.

i found this at a garage sale years ago, its okay.....really old stuff on there.....
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EpC1K6KZzNA/R ... ingles.jpg

That's the extra disc from the Shine On boxed set. I've got it hidden away somewhere myself.

I love listening to Pink Floyd in the car, and I'm certainly not drunk or stoned behind the wheel.

tybird

I love 'em....and I have never smoked pot.

I have enjoyed them under the influence of large amounts of alcohol. :twisted:

musicismylife78

Listen to Echoes.

Case closed

soulsinging

Thorns2010 wrote:

Alright, this is something I've often wondered about this band.

Am I the only non-stoner that loves this band???

Now yes, I will admit that listening to them drunk, or a few times high was awesome, but even stone cold sober I love listening to them.

All the odd sounds, strange things, out of place noises is just..........well, excellent I must say.

So what say you? Do you enjoy Pink Floyd sober? Or is it just for the potheads?

I kinda liked Floyd when I was a pothead, they were cool but nothing special. I actually liked Led Zep more in those days. But I don't smoke or do any drugs anymore and I find that I like Floyd more and Zep less. Weird huh?

like.echoes

Wilds wrote:

fucked up or sober one of the best "listens" of all time.

+1

Timeless - never gets old.

Blind3

I've been lucky enough to enjoy them sober for the last six years. I saw them first as an opener for The Who (July 24, 1968) and have enjoyed their music ever since.

dcfaithful

Pink Floyd is legendary, and they are good any time of day, and in any state of mind.

FinsburyParkCarrots

I love Syd-era Floyd. It's a trip even when you are completely sober.

I'm not a fan of post-Syd Floyd. I once had an acid trip with some miserable git who insisted on playing Animals over and over. I think he was intent on driving himself crackers, or boring me to death, or both.

analogueaddict72

I remember hearing Darkside under influence of a joint for the first time in my late 20's (I came to pot late in life) and finding quite a different experience. Although their music has a quality that for me doesn't need a drug to take me off somewhere else.

I find Floyd are a drug themselves, no other band can get me where they take me sometime, Shine On few minutes is practically just Rick Wright's keyboard until Gilmour's sublime guitar picks it up and no other piece of music can do this for me.

SOYCD is probably my favourite and it's a staple of my DJ sets when I get to play as I find it such a great opener as does PF when they have played live in the past. Echoes again simply the way it builds by the time we get to the very funky instrumental after the 2nd verse I'm in heaven, the version on Pompei is sublime.

I don't think you need drugs to appreciate Floyd despite their reputation of being a stoners band, I've only done the smoke myself and not progressed to anything harder so I don't know and at my age have no intention to experiment.

If you need drugs to make something good then their wasn't anything that great to start with in my view. The fact allot of great music was made under the influence of narcotics means for me their sounds they produce is the high and I don't need to partake to get the effect.

stargirl69

Love them in what ever state ........... I was brought up listening to Floyd ............ they have carried me through to adulthood,drunk,sober,stoned,straight ..... it no matter ........ Floyd will always be Floyd

audiodave

I love Pink Floyd, and I am not and never have been a pot head. :P

g under p

Saw them on Valentine's Day with an orchestra and band replicated the songs and lights almost as well as the original. Still a Led Zepplin replica band a month earlier rocked Palm Beach, FL and they were much better than PF.

Peace

loveatree

stoned or not...i like listening to pink floyd, their music is awesome!

PJBuckeye

Thorns2010 wrote:

Alright, this is something I've often wondered about this band.

Am I the only non-stoner that loves this band???

Now yes, I will admit that listening to them drunk, or a few times high was awesome, but even stone cold sober I love listening to them.

All the odd sounds, strange things, out of place noises is just..........well, excellent I must say.

So what say you? Do you enjoy Pink Floyd sober? Or is it just for the potheads?

I have never smoked, yet. And I love Pink Floyd. However, Phish and Bonnaroo = experimentation. So, I guess there might be one less nonstoner Floyd fan come June.

Sian-of-the-dead

I don't smoke much nowadays but I got into Floyd way before I even knew what a joint was... Thanks to my Dad, I've loved 'em since I was a kid... Infact, i'm off to see the Australian Pink Floyd next week :geek:

CJMST3K

Dark Side is one of the most clean, timeless sounding albums ever. The Wall is one of the most brilliant story-albums ever. Their early experimental stuff was really raw and awesome too.

Their latter stuff became almost Lite FM music... but it doesn't dismiss the magic they were early on.

Evacuation Rules

I like everything up to Animals. I think "The Wall" is the most pretentious pile of shit ever unleashed on the public. It should have been a single LP with 5 songs on each side. Floyd were completely out of control at that point.

analogueaddict72

I'm not the biggest fan of The Wall, it spoke to me more as an 18 year old but now it comes across as a double album with moments of brilliance but by then Water's vision had taken over and Gilmour was fighting not to include tracks.

It makes for an interesting project but I rarely find the time to stomach it in it's complete form, although there's no denying tracks like Mother, Young Lust, Hey You, Nobody's Home, Run Like Hell and of course the obvious one the sublime Comfortably Numb. The Final Cut stands up as a far more cohesive work than The Wall and I can go back to that more frequently than I can what can at times just amount to Water's having a good whine.

The Final Cut is about a subject closer to home for him and although his Father death impacted on all their work after Syd was thrown out it is on this album he writes about those feeling with the most brutal honesty and his attack and coupled with his attacks on the then Thatcher government and the pointless Falklands War still feel quite potent as opposed to it's predecessor.

I agree about 3 man Floyd most of it is pretty ordinary. Momentary has probably one track in the shape of Sorrow that I would regard as worthy of attention. Learning To Fly was just an excuse to get on the Radio and On the Turning Away is a blatant attempt to come up with a Comfortably Numb for the album and it's nowhere near as good. A Gilmour solo album when all said and done.

Division yields more, Poles Apart, Wearing the Inside Out and DG's finest post Waters track High Hopes but yes by then the band were more than just old men treading water. On those 3 especially the last it seems DG re-discovered a little Floyd magic amongst the photocopies that made up the rest of the album.

Sian-of-the-dead

Evacuation Rules wrote:

I like everything up to Animals. I think "The Wall" is the most pretentious pile of shit ever unleashed on the public. It should have been a single LP with 5 songs on each side. Floyd were completely out of control at that point.

I could not disagree more.

pearljim

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

Evacuation Rules wrote:

I like everything up to Animals. I think "The Wall" is the most pretentious pile of shit ever unleashed on the public. It should have been a single LP with 5 songs on each side. Floyd were completely out of control at that point.

I could not disagree more.

Amen to that Sian-of-the dead.

Having seen "The Wall" performed live at Nassau Coliseum it will always be to me a top 5 album of all time.

Floyd are definitely my all time fave band, with PJ my current fave.

BinFrog

Doesn't matter what state of mind you are in...Pink Floyd's music is transcendent.

Thorns2010

I'm finally getting back to this thread.

Anyway, I knew I wasn't crazy, and it wasn't just stoner rock, just that of my friends that like them (really only 1) he is a big pot head.

And most of my other friends aren't really that into music.

I need better friends!

Oh, and sorry, but I think The Wall is most excellent.

BinFrog

Thorns2010 wrote:

Oh, and sorry, but I think The Wall is most excellent.

And you feel the need to apologize....why?