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I managed to listen to every single Floyd song in a little over 24 hours. Can't say I liked the earliest songs so much, but it was really cool listening to DSOTM the way it was intended, I enjoyed it a lot :D

I also liked another brick in the wall better when listening to it through the "the wall" album. :)
 

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I started listening to Pink Floyd recently, I saw an interview with krist novoselic (Nirvana bassist) where he talked about meeting a teenager on the streets and they got to talking, Krist soon found out the kid never heard the album, so he invited him into his house and they listened to the whole album together, and "it was really amazing". So i decided to give it a spin online, not as authentic as the original, tangible version im sure, but it was nice... kind of shed light on that 70s stereotypical disco-rock... if that makes any sense... <3 good times had by all.

I couldnt find the original video, it was laid back and with a 20 year old-something pseudo-retro "rock enthusiast". It was painfully obvious she had researched facts about nirvana right before the interview, it was edited to hell where you could tell she was about to ask a stupidly generic question any fan would know... but Krist was chill, gave me insight on the man behind the gibson. Anyway, im kind of hung on Pink floyd now, ill see hw long that lasts and if this is a music spin out of musicianal respect or a true muse recently discovered :)
 
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If there was one Floyd album I would say I don't dislike but consider it weak and not that memorable it is easily The Final Cut. Most of the latter albums have material memorable to me but that one didn't.
 

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Yeah, it's the only classic lineup album I've never gotten into. Struck me as a bad Waters solo album.
 

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The two albums to end their career on in Momentary Lapse and Division Bell were definitely better albums but still didn't hold a candle to what they did up until The Wall.

When I just think of the final two albums on their own merits and not compare them to their high points they are enjoyable albums.
 

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Yeah, it's the only classic lineup album I've never gotten into. Struck me as a bad Waters solo album.

I've been a huge Floyd fan for over 20 years and The Final Cut is the only one I can't get through. And I'm not a fan of Rog's solo work either. He's very political and i'm just not into that in music. I respect his political views on this screwed up world as whole, but politics is not something I discuss even with people I know. It's just too touchy and depressing.
 

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Oh, I'm a huge fan of their early work. In fact, I prefer it to their 70's "classic period" output.
I'm just saying as opposed to the pre Dark Side albums, the early Floyd is a bit more meandering and less cohesive than the albums from 1973- 1979, and and you really can pick and choose the great stuff, which is about 95% of it to me. :D

Hey, to each their own. :D The only pre-Dark Side album I can listen to is Meddle.

If there was one Floyd album I would say I don't dislike but consider it weak and not that memorable it is easily The Final Cut. Most of the latter albums have material memorable to me but that one didn't.

It's a very difficult album to listen to. Not because it's bad, but because of how depressing it is. Lyrically and conceptually it's excellent, but musically it's not very good. The David Gilmour solos on the album are excellent however. And Not Now John is awesome. Dogs is my favorite song from Animals too btw.
 
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Lyrical content doesn't bother me so much. A lot of songs I love have lyrics I utterly disagree with. The main thing I didn't like about The Final Cut and some of Waters' solo work is the monotone and dreary (but not in the good way) dulldrums.
I think he is a brilliant musician but works best when he works with musicians of equal creativity.
 

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I kind of like the "The Final Cut". to me it seems like the sequel to "The Wall" and although some of the songs seem melancholy (and they are) they do express a lot of emotion. Some songs are upbeat and totally enjoyable. I do not dwell on the lyrics and the politics and concentrate more on the music. There is a companion video out and it again brings back some of the characters that appear in the The Wall Movie.

Here is the description and the video

"Pink Floyd released a 19-minute "video EP" in 1983 for The Final Cut, essentially four music videos in a continuous sequence, directed by Willie Christie, who was Roger Waters' brother-in-law. Scottish actor Alex McAvoy, who played the teacher in the film version of The Wall, had a prominent role in the video EP. Waters appears (though all but his mouth is silhouetted) as a patient singing the lyrics to a psychologist on the grounds of the Fletcher Memorial Home.
The name of the psychiatrist, A. Parker-Marshall, was a swipe at director Alan Parker and producer Alan Marshall, both of whom Waters fought with for creative control during the making of The Wall movie."

Mp edit:Removed dead video
 

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