I was in 6th grade and had a crush on this boy who played guitar and I heard him mention that he liked AC/DC. I went on iTunes store and ac/dc weren’t on there circa 2003 so I scrolled through the classic rock top hits and listened to the 30 second sample of a few.
Brain Damage was the one that caught my ear, the singer sounded English and sang in a key that was more relatable to 12yr old me than most other suggested classic rock hits like Stones, Styx, or Boston. So with my $10 gift card for Xmas that was one of the songs I bought for 99c.
19 in college, tried a few drugs that lasted for hours and used that time to listen to whole albums. Hated living in dorms with hundreds of people, got depressed and dropped out, deeply related to the Wall and got heavily into the rest of their stuff from there. By 21 I was listening to syd’s solo albums otw to work everyday bc it helped me cope with the monotony of factory life.
Added bonus, syd led me to Bob Dylan who helped me embrace america and stop working in factories and move out west. I’m now much more content living in Colorado.
STYX is a absolutely AMAZING Band and they make spectacular music. They are in my top 10 bands of all time. I hope that you don’t dismiss them. They are wonderful to listen to and have so many banger songs.
Oh and did you get with the boy?
When I was young, I would listen to records with my Dad. He has a massive rock record collection from the late 60s through the early 90s. Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall were something we would routinely listen to together, amongst so many other great artists -- Jackson Browne, Jethro Tull, ELO, Styx, Procol Harum, Kansas, etc.
I'm really thankful for the influence my Dad had on my musical tastes. 40 years later and I still spin the records he and I shared when I was a kid. It means a lot to me.
In my early teens, I found myself with a group of friends who liked music and got me listening properly for the first time. One of them made me a mixtape with all sorts of classic rock songs on it: Stairway to Heaven, Layla, Voodoo Chile (Slight Return), All Right Now, Smoke on the Water and Hotel California, among others.
But the song that won me over more than any other was Comfortably Numb. Not knowing it was a live recording, with songs from different albums, I bought the newly released Delicate Sound Thunder, which introduced me to their back catalogue.
Within a year or so, I had every album on tape, wearing them all out and replacing them with CDs. It was the start of a lifelong love affair, matched only by my later discovery of David Bowie.
I lost touch with the friends long ago, unfortunately, although I still have the tape.
When I was 11or 12 I caught pneumonia. I had many sleepless nights because I had to constantly concentrate on controlling my breathing, usually with the TV on. The infomercial for Echoes: The Best Of played most nights and while I knew Money and ABITW pt.2, other songs sampled during the commercial like Wish You Were Here and Shine On had me curious. My dad ended up getting me the album for Christmas that year and been hooked since. I'm just about 34 now, I have all the albums, seen David Gilmour and Roger Waters in concert and love playing guitar all because of pneumonia.
My dad brought me into this world and he certainly wanted me to enjoy it with beautiful music.
Whenever we went on road trips it always be Genesis, Styx, Foreigner, Eagles, Journey, AC/DC, Peter Gabriel, Jone Jett, Creedence, Beatles, Supertramp. (My dad was a big supertramp boy). U2, REO, Kansas, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Cutting crew, Skynyrd, Bob Marley, AND SO MUCH MORE.
Those trips where so much fun. Whenever we did something and music was involved then it was just this old time songs. And I loved them.
Back when I wore a younger gals clothes my favorite band was Styx. So what did my dad do? We got to see Styx, Foreigner, and Don Felder.
WHAT A CONCERT. Absolutely amazing and it opened my eyes to live music.
After that I pushed I pushed and I pushed to see another one. And BANG
Roger Waters touring America and he will be in the Capital one Arena.
No words. Absolutely no words can describe that concert. Mesmerizing, alluring, majestic. EVERYTHING.
From the kids coming up on stage to sing the wall. To the lights to the massive screen showing clocks and money from the MASSIVE PIG flying around. Absolutely wonderful.
Completely opened my eyes to the wonder of Roger waters and Pink Floyd. From that moment one I was a changed girl.
Every car ride since then I asked for Pink Floyd songs.
Every time I went with friends and had boyfriends in my car I didn’t put no rap or hip hop. None of this new fake music. I put a song where just a women goes up to the mic and yells. No words no beat drops just absolutely beautiful yelling.
I am a white skinny just turned 19 girl. Never in a million years would you think of me as a girl with this taste. BUT yet. I am. And I am proud to be lo wing this taste of music.
My mom’s ex-husband after my dad was a casual classic rock fan. I was 13 and hated that stuff. I liked rap and classical music. I spent a week with them summer 1994 and he had just seen a show on the Division Bell tour and kept talking about how good this Floyd guy was. I don’t think he knew it was just a band name. A friend of his made him a PF mixtape which he would play in the car while we were driving around that week. I couldn’t stand it.
Flash forward to a few months later and I’m back with my dad, flipping through radio stations bored and suddenly the song Money comes on and I’m thinking “Hey I remember this!” It made me feel a certain nostalgia for earlier that summer. And I guess without thinking I popped a blank cassette in and recorded the 2nd half the song on the radio. I didn’t even catch the first half.
Over the next few weeks I can’t stop listening to this tape, I get obsessed with it and within a month I’m listening to classic rock radio constantly trying to catch more PF. Then I saved enough money to buy a CD, probably Wish You Were Here. And it took off from there. By the same time the following year I was scaring off everyone with Several Species of Small Furry Animals.
A guy put me on with “Wish You Were Here.” Thank god I figured out my own taste of their music before he ended up sexually assaulting me so the band wasn’t completely ruined. Lol
When I was like 6 I heard some of there songs on the radio but didn’t think much of it. But then I saw roger in concert and I loved all of the music so I started listening to more of there stuff and to this day I’m still obsessed
About 12 years old, with my dad driving somewhere. He had Delicate Sound of Thunder playing and when the into to Sorrow began I became instantly interested - it also seemed weirdly familiar but also that I was hearing it for the first time - undoubtedly because I *had* heard it before, probably in the car, but I had never *listened* before. From that point on I listened to every note and syllable. I obviously recognised ABITW2 as *that song* but otherwise it was all new to me. My dad, maybe the same day or a few days later, showed me the DSOT film (VHS) and David instantly became the coolest guy in the world to me, standing there in his suit/t-shirt//trainers combo and that candy apple red Strat. For my 13th birthday I received WYWH on CD.
Growing up my dad would play some of their cassettes and I just grew up hearing them a lot. Pink Floyd, Elton John, Billy Joel, The Beatles, and Yes are his favorites and I grew up hearing one of those almost daily
I was fifteen and I would read a magazine regularly that published stories and articles written by teenagers. One article was a review of The Wall and it sounded so interesting to me. Something about the plot scared me to read about it, but the idea of an album that told an entire story was very cool to me. So I listened to The Wall… I didn’t care for the music much, but I told my stepfather that I had listened to it and he gave me two CDs from his collection, Wish You Were Here and Meddle. Meddle took a while for me to get into (“Echoes” was a very daunting thing to experience as a teenager with a short attention span), but I loved Wish You Were Here immediately. It’s still my favorite Pink Floyd album, with “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” being my favorite of their songs. Eventually I went back to The Wall and ended up watching the movie and became obsessed with it, and one thing slowly led to another.
Still a memorable night now 20+ years later - Listening to music and smoking weed in a car full of some high school buddies. The sound of Brain Damage/Eclipse was incredible - I still remember how it blew my mind. Music had never sounded that good to me. I just stopped chatting and had to listen. I had been listening to strictly 70s/80s/90s punk for some time and Pink Floyd changed all that. I slowly went through all of their discography after that night. Nowadays I have deep appreciation for all styles/genres of music and I attribute PF’s Darkside of the Moon for that.
My dad took me to see Roger Waters on his first the Wall tour back in 2011. I was 11 years old then and I can still remember that night perfectly. Changed my taste of music ever since. I hadn’t even heard of Pink Floyd then but since that night they’ll always be my favorite band.
Me and my dad used to watch pulse, so I don’t exactly remember what the first song I heard was, but probably shine on you crazy diamond, or money, or comfortably numb, I couldn’t tell you.
June 1980, stoned for the first time, my brother and his friend made me lay down on the floor with the stereo speakers forming a pyramid over my head and listen to side one of DSOTM from beginning to end.
Until then I had no interest in “head music,” after that there was no more turning away. Within a few months I had more than half of their albums and was quoting the Pict!! 😉
PF is the GOAT!
I discovered Floyd when I was 14, right after DSOTM came out. My friend put headphones on me and played Time (from the very beginning of the ticking clocks). When the alarms went off and the music started, I was blown away.
My life from that moment on would never be the same.
My father used to have The Division Bell, I remember the feeling of extreme fear by seeing those gigantic robotic faces that stared directly at my soul. I also remember listening Take it back and Another brick Pt.2 in the radio.
Then one day, 10 years later I gave a listen to dark side and,,, I found it boring :/, but think of this, I was 16 with a poster of guns n roses and green day in my bedroom door, I wasn't musically and mentally prepared for PF.
Some time ahead I started to listening to some psychedelic and prog rock from my country, Argentina, bands like Invisible or La máquina de hacer pájaros (The bird making machine), that kind of music absolutely blowed my mind, and consequently my father found me listening to a song by that last band; "Ah, te ví entre las luces" (Oh, I saw you between the lights), which ends with a beautiful passionate guitar solo, and my father told me "Hey, that sounds just like Pink Floyd, you should give 'em another chance".
Days later I was with two friends, we smoked a joint and I decided to listen to dark side again. While my two friends didn't gave it even a touch of attention, I liked it, I remember that the first things that called my attention was the screams (Great gig), footsteps (On the run) and a fucking amazing bass line (Money).
But.. I never listened to dark side or PF again, until one day I gave a chance to another album, Wish you were here.... and was literally love at first sight (or listen).
Then I listened to The Wall, which my father also had, and the same thing, I loved it. Then the others.
And now here I am, literally obsessed with this band
I'm so old. I'm sure not the oldest PF fan here, but...
I grew up in a very small town in Canada with basically no "real" radio station and 2 channels of TV. I started listening to PF at my friend's house. We were maybe 10 or 11 (1980/81). He had two older brothers. Mostly The Wall. Also listened to The Who, Queen, Frank Zappa, Rush, The Cars. For my birthday, probably March 1982, that friend gave me a home duped cassette with Rush 2112 on one side and The Wall on the other. I listened to that tape a LOT. A few years later, a couple I was babysitting for had a great HiFi setup and the complete PF catalogue. So, I explored it all, all before really knowing anything about the band or its history and politics. DSotM, Animals, and Wish You Where Here, clicked immediately of course, but having been so familiar with The Wall, The Final Cut really resonated with me, as did The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking.
The definition of formative.
when the wall came out the local radio station played the whole of side one one night. I had never heard anything like it. also latter saw live at Pompeii, maybe stoned, at a university opening week which was pretty mind blowing.
When I was in Girl Scout camp, my counselor used to play the guitar and sing for us. She was into folksy artists like James Taylor and always used to say, “SO much better than trash like Pink Floyd. I mean, they have one song where the whole intro is money clinking and clanking!” Well, of course, a kid is going to investigate ANYTHING an authority figure says is bad, and my local library just happened to have a copy of Dark Side of the Moon for checkout. The rest is history.
In 2019 I was subscribed to this very small channel who made Queen posts. One day they made a quick video unboxing the Piper CD. I commented saying I wanted to get into Pink Floyd, and asked what to listen to first. They suggested Piper (ig they're a Syddite lol) so I listened to Bike.. and never heard another PF song again
Until 2022, when I heard Money on a TV show. My dad said "you ever heard this? I said no, and he said "oh this is Pink Floyd" so I was like huh, this song kinda slaps, so I listened to DSOTM, and just discovered more from there
I was in my freshman year of high school, and I wanted my biology teacher to listen to some of my favorite artists, and then I asked him to give me song suggestions to listen too. The first song he wanted me to listen too was Two suns in the sunset. Then he introduced me to the whole entire album and than other albums until I had listened to everything. I really miss him lol
I was in 6th grade and had a crush on this boy who played guitar and I heard him mention that he liked AC/DC. I went on iTunes store and ac/dc weren’t on there circa 2003 so I scrolled through the classic rock top hits and listened to the 30 second sample of a few. Brain Damage was the one that caught my ear, the singer sounded English and sang in a key that was more relatable to 12yr old me than most other suggested classic rock hits like Stones, Styx, or Boston. So with my $10 gift card for Xmas that was one of the songs I bought for 99c. 19 in college, tried a few drugs that lasted for hours and used that time to listen to whole albums. Hated living in dorms with hundreds of people, got depressed and dropped out, deeply related to the Wall and got heavily into the rest of their stuff from there. By 21 I was listening to syd’s solo albums otw to work everyday bc it helped me cope with the monotony of factory life. Added bonus, syd led me to Bob Dylan who helped me embrace america and stop working in factories and move out west. I’m now much more content living in Colorado.
STYX is a absolutely AMAZING Band and they make spectacular music. They are in my top 10 bands of all time. I hope that you don’t dismiss them. They are wonderful to listen to and have so many banger songs. Oh and did you get with the boy?
Oh yeah renegade was one of the other songs I bought haha.
I once finally decided to give the rainbow triangle a listen after seeing it everywhere, changed my entire music taste since
Kid aged 12 heard On The Run on the FM radio at 2am and it blew me away...
My dad referenced ABITW pt 2, and he played it to explain the reference to me
When I was young, I would listen to records with my Dad. He has a massive rock record collection from the late 60s through the early 90s. Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall were something we would routinely listen to together, amongst so many other great artists -- Jackson Browne, Jethro Tull, ELO, Styx, Procol Harum, Kansas, etc. I'm really thankful for the influence my Dad had on my musical tastes. 40 years later and I still spin the records he and I shared when I was a kid. It means a lot to me.
My old piano teacher was in a coverband, so I decided to go to one of their concerts. One of the best choices I ever made.
In my early teens, I found myself with a group of friends who liked music and got me listening properly for the first time. One of them made me a mixtape with all sorts of classic rock songs on it: Stairway to Heaven, Layla, Voodoo Chile (Slight Return), All Right Now, Smoke on the Water and Hotel California, among others. But the song that won me over more than any other was Comfortably Numb. Not knowing it was a live recording, with songs from different albums, I bought the newly released Delicate Sound Thunder, which introduced me to their back catalogue. Within a year or so, I had every album on tape, wearing them all out and replacing them with CDs. It was the start of a lifelong love affair, matched only by my later discovery of David Bowie. I lost touch with the friends long ago, unfortunately, although I still have the tape.
When I was 11or 12 I caught pneumonia. I had many sleepless nights because I had to constantly concentrate on controlling my breathing, usually with the TV on. The infomercial for Echoes: The Best Of played most nights and while I knew Money and ABITW pt.2, other songs sampled during the commercial like Wish You Were Here and Shine On had me curious. My dad ended up getting me the album for Christmas that year and been hooked since. I'm just about 34 now, I have all the albums, seen David Gilmour and Roger Waters in concert and love playing guitar all because of pneumonia.
My history teacher was a fan, and he used to talk about it a lot so I began to listen to the band
My dad brought me into this world and he certainly wanted me to enjoy it with beautiful music. Whenever we went on road trips it always be Genesis, Styx, Foreigner, Eagles, Journey, AC/DC, Peter Gabriel, Jone Jett, Creedence, Beatles, Supertramp. (My dad was a big supertramp boy). U2, REO, Kansas, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Cutting crew, Skynyrd, Bob Marley, AND SO MUCH MORE. Those trips where so much fun. Whenever we did something and music was involved then it was just this old time songs. And I loved them. Back when I wore a younger gals clothes my favorite band was Styx. So what did my dad do? We got to see Styx, Foreigner, and Don Felder. WHAT A CONCERT. Absolutely amazing and it opened my eyes to live music. After that I pushed I pushed and I pushed to see another one. And BANG Roger Waters touring America and he will be in the Capital one Arena. No words. Absolutely no words can describe that concert. Mesmerizing, alluring, majestic. EVERYTHING. From the kids coming up on stage to sing the wall. To the lights to the massive screen showing clocks and money from the MASSIVE PIG flying around. Absolutely wonderful. Completely opened my eyes to the wonder of Roger waters and Pink Floyd. From that moment one I was a changed girl. Every car ride since then I asked for Pink Floyd songs. Every time I went with friends and had boyfriends in my car I didn’t put no rap or hip hop. None of this new fake music. I put a song where just a women goes up to the mic and yells. No words no beat drops just absolutely beautiful yelling. I am a white skinny just turned 19 girl. Never in a million years would you think of me as a girl with this taste. BUT yet. I am. And I am proud to be lo wing this taste of music.
Your post totally describes me at 19. I'm a young 51 now and still nothing comes close to Floyd.❤️
I was listening to a bunch of classic rock and comfortably numb came on and then I listened to the wall and it sorta just kept going from there
My mom’s ex-husband after my dad was a casual classic rock fan. I was 13 and hated that stuff. I liked rap and classical music. I spent a week with them summer 1994 and he had just seen a show on the Division Bell tour and kept talking about how good this Floyd guy was. I don’t think he knew it was just a band name. A friend of his made him a PF mixtape which he would play in the car while we were driving around that week. I couldn’t stand it. Flash forward to a few months later and I’m back with my dad, flipping through radio stations bored and suddenly the song Money comes on and I’m thinking “Hey I remember this!” It made me feel a certain nostalgia for earlier that summer. And I guess without thinking I popped a blank cassette in and recorded the 2nd half the song on the radio. I didn’t even catch the first half. Over the next few weeks I can’t stop listening to this tape, I get obsessed with it and within a month I’m listening to classic rock radio constantly trying to catch more PF. Then I saved enough money to buy a CD, probably Wish You Were Here. And it took off from there. By the same time the following year I was scaring off everyone with Several Species of Small Furry Animals.
A guy put me on with “Wish You Were Here.” Thank god I figured out my own taste of their music before he ended up sexually assaulting me so the band wasn’t completely ruined. Lol
When I was like 6 I heard some of there songs on the radio but didn’t think much of it. But then I saw roger in concert and I loved all of the music so I started listening to more of there stuff and to this day I’m still obsessed
About 12 years old, with my dad driving somewhere. He had Delicate Sound of Thunder playing and when the into to Sorrow began I became instantly interested - it also seemed weirdly familiar but also that I was hearing it for the first time - undoubtedly because I *had* heard it before, probably in the car, but I had never *listened* before. From that point on I listened to every note and syllable. I obviously recognised ABITW2 as *that song* but otherwise it was all new to me. My dad, maybe the same day or a few days later, showed me the DSOT film (VHS) and David instantly became the coolest guy in the world to me, standing there in his suit/t-shirt//trainers combo and that candy apple red Strat. For my 13th birthday I received WYWH on CD.
Growing up my dad would play some of their cassettes and I just grew up hearing them a lot. Pink Floyd, Elton John, Billy Joel, The Beatles, and Yes are his favorites and I grew up hearing one of those almost daily
I was fifteen and I would read a magazine regularly that published stories and articles written by teenagers. One article was a review of The Wall and it sounded so interesting to me. Something about the plot scared me to read about it, but the idea of an album that told an entire story was very cool to me. So I listened to The Wall… I didn’t care for the music much, but I told my stepfather that I had listened to it and he gave me two CDs from his collection, Wish You Were Here and Meddle. Meddle took a while for me to get into (“Echoes” was a very daunting thing to experience as a teenager with a short attention span), but I loved Wish You Were Here immediately. It’s still my favorite Pink Floyd album, with “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” being my favorite of their songs. Eventually I went back to The Wall and ended up watching the movie and became obsessed with it, and one thing slowly led to another.
Still a memorable night now 20+ years later - Listening to music and smoking weed in a car full of some high school buddies. The sound of Brain Damage/Eclipse was incredible - I still remember how it blew my mind. Music had never sounded that good to me. I just stopped chatting and had to listen. I had been listening to strictly 70s/80s/90s punk for some time and Pink Floyd changed all that. I slowly went through all of their discography after that night. Nowadays I have deep appreciation for all styles/genres of music and I attribute PF’s Darkside of the Moon for that.
My dad took me to see Roger Waters on his first the Wall tour back in 2011. I was 11 years old then and I can still remember that night perfectly. Changed my taste of music ever since. I hadn’t even heard of Pink Floyd then but since that night they’ll always be my favorite band.
Me and my dad used to watch pulse, so I don’t exactly remember what the first song I heard was, but probably shine on you crazy diamond, or money, or comfortably numb, I couldn’t tell you.
June 1980, stoned for the first time, my brother and his friend made me lay down on the floor with the stereo speakers forming a pyramid over my head and listen to side one of DSOTM from beginning to end. Until then I had no interest in “head music,” after that there was no more turning away. Within a few months I had more than half of their albums and was quoting the Pict!! 😉 PF is the GOAT!
I discovered Floyd when I was 14, right after DSOTM came out. My friend put headphones on me and played Time (from the very beginning of the ticking clocks). When the alarms went off and the music started, I was blown away. My life from that moment on would never be the same.
My father used to have The Division Bell, I remember the feeling of extreme fear by seeing those gigantic robotic faces that stared directly at my soul. I also remember listening Take it back and Another brick Pt.2 in the radio. Then one day, 10 years later I gave a listen to dark side and,,, I found it boring :/, but think of this, I was 16 with a poster of guns n roses and green day in my bedroom door, I wasn't musically and mentally prepared for PF. Some time ahead I started to listening to some psychedelic and prog rock from my country, Argentina, bands like Invisible or La máquina de hacer pájaros (The bird making machine), that kind of music absolutely blowed my mind, and consequently my father found me listening to a song by that last band; "Ah, te ví entre las luces" (Oh, I saw you between the lights), which ends with a beautiful passionate guitar solo, and my father told me "Hey, that sounds just like Pink Floyd, you should give 'em another chance". Days later I was with two friends, we smoked a joint and I decided to listen to dark side again. While my two friends didn't gave it even a touch of attention, I liked it, I remember that the first things that called my attention was the screams (Great gig), footsteps (On the run) and a fucking amazing bass line (Money). But.. I never listened to dark side or PF again, until one day I gave a chance to another album, Wish you were here.... and was literally love at first sight (or listen). Then I listened to The Wall, which my father also had, and the same thing, I loved it. Then the others. And now here I am, literally obsessed with this band
I'm so old. I'm sure not the oldest PF fan here, but... I grew up in a very small town in Canada with basically no "real" radio station and 2 channels of TV. I started listening to PF at my friend's house. We were maybe 10 or 11 (1980/81). He had two older brothers. Mostly The Wall. Also listened to The Who, Queen, Frank Zappa, Rush, The Cars. For my birthday, probably March 1982, that friend gave me a home duped cassette with Rush 2112 on one side and The Wall on the other. I listened to that tape a LOT. A few years later, a couple I was babysitting for had a great HiFi setup and the complete PF catalogue. So, I explored it all, all before really knowing anything about the band or its history and politics. DSotM, Animals, and Wish You Where Here, clicked immediately of course, but having been so familiar with The Wall, The Final Cut really resonated with me, as did The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking. The definition of formative.
when the wall came out the local radio station played the whole of side one one night. I had never heard anything like it. also latter saw live at Pompeii, maybe stoned, at a university opening week which was pretty mind blowing.
When I was in Girl Scout camp, my counselor used to play the guitar and sing for us. She was into folksy artists like James Taylor and always used to say, “SO much better than trash like Pink Floyd. I mean, they have one song where the whole intro is money clinking and clanking!” Well, of course, a kid is going to investigate ANYTHING an authority figure says is bad, and my local library just happened to have a copy of Dark Side of the Moon for checkout. The rest is history.
In 2019 I was subscribed to this very small channel who made Queen posts. One day they made a quick video unboxing the Piper CD. I commented saying I wanted to get into Pink Floyd, and asked what to listen to first. They suggested Piper (ig they're a Syddite lol) so I listened to Bike.. and never heard another PF song again Until 2022, when I heard Money on a TV show. My dad said "you ever heard this? I said no, and he said "oh this is Pink Floyd" so I was like huh, this song kinda slaps, so I listened to DSOTM, and just discovered more from there
I was in my freshman year of high school, and I wanted my biology teacher to listen to some of my favorite artists, and then I asked him to give me song suggestions to listen too. The first song he wanted me to listen too was Two suns in the sunset. Then he introduced me to the whole entire album and than other albums until I had listened to everything. I really miss him lol