Pink Floyd reuniting rumour?- Nick Mason

Play on the word "achilles" ;)

I really hope they reform for one last tour, a bit like PULSE. I'm a huge fan but I'm too young to have seen them play live, and I was in France when they played at Live 8. Would really love to see them live :)
 
Gilly said:
Huh? :confused:
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bah, i was hoping you'd say it out loud - like Achille's Heel...except A-Gilly's Heel...because you don't like prog. or you didn't last time we spoke.

it was funny(ish) in my head

edit: damn you Dave...beaten to my own joke :(
 
I got the achilles connection. I'm wondering what it has to do with anything :/

I don't get the connection.
 
because it's a type of music that might appear to be a weakness because you don't like it. not really meant to be taken seriously. i just remember how quickly you reacted when i told you Pure Reason Revolution were prog. "ugh, no. die"
 
I think today they are considered great for the wrong reasons, sort of cool because they were tripping off their **** all the time and people my age get together and giggle about it and mess about with ink-slides and go ahhh my corneas! ;)
 
Gilly said:
I think all their music is **** so it doesn't really matter what awards they've won...
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Pink Floyd isn't acquired taste. And it isn't a seasonal pro forma. It's a cannon, a bit like Vivaldi or Mozart. You don't have to like them, you don't have to listen to them, they might even create more bad emotions than good in your system. But you have to respect that their music is unreachable target for majority of musicians back in their time, now and forever in the future or acknowledge you don't know jack es about music. To say Pink Floyds music is **** per say is like claiming Da Vinci knew **** about painting or Andrew Lloyd Webber knows **** about muscials. You don't have to like it, but they have certainly done enough in their lifetime for you to take your hat off to them rather than start throwing profanities.
 
Thats rubbish though to be fair.

Da Vinci has to be respected because he was a genius.

Mozart. Genius.

Floyd. Bunch of dad rockers that got off their heads a lot and were liked by others that got off their heads a lot.

I see nothing worthy of any kind of praise in their music. I honestly don't understand what there is to like about it. Every other person you named I can do this with. Someone mentioned the Beatles earlier and that they don't like their stuff but they accept the impact they had on music. Well, the impact they had is obvious.

Floyds really isn't...
 
Gilly said:
Thats rubbish though to be fair.
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Interesting... it's like you were dropped from completely different planet, yet here you are.. fed with the same bread, grown by the same record shelves.. yet in some respects... isolation.. denial..
 
v0n said:
Interesting... it's like you were dropped from completely different planet, yet here you are.. fed with the same bread, grown by the same record shelves.. yet in some respects... isolation.. denial..
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Such a fantastic post :rolleyes:
 
dark side of the moon is still in
the american charts, now I know they are americans but for it still to be in the charts 33 years later must mean something.
it also comes in most lists of top ten albums compiled
 
It isn't often I agree with Gilly but I'm with him on this one.
I saw them on the Dark Side Of The Moon Tour, Animals tour and another one I've forgotten.
The first one in 74 was the first date I would take my future wife on because she was into them.
Two years ago I bought her the remastered DSOTM has a christmas present and after listening to it she actually stated that it was crap and she couldn't believe how much she was into it when she was a teenager.
The thing that got me about all 3 gigs was that no one spoke about the music but only spoke of the effects and for a rocker its all about the music.
I couldn't give a stuff about flying pigs.
The Live 8 reunion was 'nice' but still boring - in fact they bought the whole of the concert down for me.
I also struggle to think of an act that were influenced by Pink Floyd.
However, I will be buying the PULSE DVD when it comes out because I'm a collector.

Edit -
They influenced Mostly Autumn (who? you're all asking)
 
I'm not even going to try to letterbox Pink Floyd. They were revolutionary in their music. David Gilmore (whilst being a really pompous git) is an amazing guitarist, and Waters is a genius when it comes to writing music.

You don't have to like them, you don't even have to acknowledge them at all, because for every one of you that doesn't, there are thousands more that will.

They have played a major part in music history, and like it or not, they are not going to be denied that. Like I said my eagerness in the idea of them getting back together for another concert is entirely selfish. I doubt that I would go to see them if it wasn't a full production tho, I'd be happy to listen to the music and imagine it if that were the case.
 
William said:
I think today they are considered great for the wrong reasons, sort of cool because they were tripping off their **** all the time and people my age get together and giggle about it and mess about with ink-slides and go ahhh my corneas! ;)
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I consider them great through the music they made - their chord progressions, lyrics, structure, and of course Gilmour's fantastic work. I think DSOTM is a 15x platinum hit now - amazing success. DSOTM was the album that changed me, both in terms of musical perspective and the philosophical outlook on life.

I thought the music was a bit crap when I first started listening too, but it quickly grew on my - Shine on You Crazy Diamond was listened too far too much, and then Echoes - and finally all the albums.
 
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