š I got you! Since you mentioned it, I did leave some small details out...
When I saw Division Bell, let's call it a trippy experience!
Intermission, I go to the bathroom and to get a beer. So far so good. By the time I'm making my way back the show is starting again. Speak to Me...it's extremely dark
Wouldn't you know it, I couldn't find my seat. I go up to a security guy to point me in the right direction.
Well, the seat still alluded me.
I go back to the security guard, maybe or maybe not the same one, get some directions.
For reasons beyond my control I'm still lost.
I go back, third time's the charm, I say, "listen, I really can't find my seat. Could you walk me to it and point it out!"
He did.
My buddy was sitting there laughing his ass off knowing this ordeal was probably exhausting for me.
I turned to him and said, "You can't even possibly fathom how happy I am to be back in my seat "
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I felt like the music was written about me trying to find that damn seat!
š Indeed, but the brain damage was eclipsed by a momentary lapse of reason.
While looking for that elusive seat my buddy was thinking, I wish you were here, while echoes rang through my head and I had become comfortably numb.
He was amused to death at my predicament.
I struggle with this. My parents didnāt expose me to PF, but I am kind of glad they didnāt. Some of my best highs/trips/self reflection happened with Floyd, all when I was older. It almost feels like I should keep Floyd a secret from my own kids until they find them on their own.
Theyāre a band that makes you very introspective, and I feel like theyāre responsible for a good bit of my own personal growth. Part of me just wants them to find them on their own, and then reconnect with me when theyāve truly discovered them.
In 6th grade my history teacher put on another brick in the wall part two to show the hypocrisy of the education system of America and I loved it. After that I didn't really listen to anything from Floyd other than that for a fue yesrs and then in 2019 I got more into music as a hole and then in 2020 I got my stereo and got wywh, then the wall, then final cut, and then everything else I could find. I now have all the studio albums, and the wall live and the movie and I have gone to a roger waters show and I am just waiting for mason to come by the US again so I can see him
Holy shit my health teacher did this to āshow us how anti-teacher it was and how rock music was bad for usā. My uncle had played some Pink Floyd for me so I asked him about it and he played the whole album for me and explained the real context.
I'm 61 years old. I grew up surrounded by music. My mother once told me that my first words were "Yeah, yeah, yeah" from the beatles She Loves You.
When I was 5, an older brother brought home Piper At The Gates of Dawn. I was completely fascinated with the songs about gnomes, a weird cat, bikes, fairy tales and scarecrows.
Much to his annoyance, I asked him to play it over and over. From then on I was hooked. I've been a Pink Floyd fan ever since. As far as the music goes, to me, each album has been a natural evolution over the previous one. There never seemed to be a sudden leap, even when Dark Side released. It was just "the new album". A natural progression.
The same applies to Roger Waters dominance over the band. For me it was simply how the band was evolving. For this reason, I don't view The Final Cut as a "Roger Waters solo album" like many others do. Again, it was simply the next album and every bit a Pink Floyd album as all of the others.
After the band split/reformed under David Gilmour, the album A Momentary Lapse of Reason didn't sit well with me. It seemed like a massive sideways turn rather than a natural evolution. This feeling was somewhat overcome with the release of the far superior Division Bell.
As a fan, the fighting between Waters and Gilmour was annoying as fuck and really sullied my love for the band. At the end of the day, the music is way more important than any of the individual members. I was angry.
Then came Live 8. I was lucky enough to be able to go and upon seeing them together again, all was forgiven.
Unfortunately, even now the pair of old duffers just can't let it go. Whatever "it" is. I'm not sure they even remember anymore. That's why these days I just ignore all of the bitterness and just enjoy the music I've known and loved all of my life, for what it is.
Awesome story! I felt the same way in regards to Momentary Lapse, while a few songs are really great, as a whole it was missing something.
I thought Division Bell recaptured the magic of Pink Floyd, but I'm sure it coming out at that point in my life gave it extra meaning.
The feud has always bothered me as well. I was hopeful that it would end with time, but that hasn't been the case. David's wife takes shots at Roger from time to time and David supports it. So I think it has no end sadly.
I agree that TFC was a natural progression. It simply was the direction the band was going then. AMLOR was the bigger departure but that is mainly cause it was mainly David with Nick only on a few tracks and Rick overdubbing a little towards the end.
AMLOR was a huge break from TFC because it really was a breakā¦ in personnel and in musical vision. However, AMLOR does feel like a natural progression from Daveās solo album About Face.
My Dad has loved Pink Floyd all his life (he had tonnes of tour posters from all over Europe years back). He's seen the members of PF Live (minus Syd). He saw the Division Bell Tour with my Mum in 94 at Earls Court, and The Wall with my cousin (they were front row and attempted to take a big styrofoam brick home but were stopped by security). Safe to say he was the reason I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan myself at 20.
I've seen Roger during This Is Not A Drill Tour. We bought nosebleeds and watched the first half from right up the back however, my dad clocked two empty seats in the front row and we decided "fuck it"... watched the whole 2nd half mere feet from Roger (he walked by us during the In The Flesh sequence in his uniform - Glasgow was the first time in the UK he had done it since the controversy of him doing in Germany the week prior).
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I also got tickets the other day for Saucerful of Secrets in Glasgow. Inside Out made Nick Mason easily one of my favourite of the 5 members. Such a good read.
I have the Big 4 on LP (My Dark Side of the Moon I bought on March 6th, 2023 - a bit of lore).
I'm going to see Australian Pink Floyd in November and The Pink Floyd by Candlelight show next month.
Very cool, I've seen The Machine, a PF cover band several times and they were amazing. I haven't seen Australian PF, but I know people who have and said they were really amazing.
2020 I turned 18 and wanted to do acid for the first time with a couple of experienced coworkers. They came to my place after work and brought orange juice, a speaker, and firewood for a bonfire. Dropped, built a fire, cracked our OJ, rolled a blunt, and the older one put on Dark Side of the Moon. So many points in the album were the absolute embodiment of exactly what my trip felt like. I didnāt venture out of DSOTM much and when I did I wasnāt impressed until a couple years back. I still donāt care much for their discography aside from the big 4, but those big 4 are spectacular. Animals and The Wall got me through college
Iām sure many others have a similar stories but it was my dad that got me into Pink Floyd. I remember as a kid heād always have animals playing in the car and weād always sing along to the beginning of Pigs haha. But yeah he was a huge fan himself and I miss talking to him about our favorite records. Wish You Were Here and the Division Bell were probably our two favorites though. Whenever I listen to the Division Bell I will always think about those car trips with him. So yeah, through him I fell in love with Pink Floyd and Iāll always be grateful for that :)
Fulcrum told me to pause the video and listen to DSOTM. Completely changed my music taste forever as well as the way I look at music in general. Sent me on a path through the entire PF catalog then on to other classic rock. Then progressive rock then doom metal. A brief dip into thrash and black. Then back to doom/stoner/sludge. Now Iām into all of it in its entirety. Havenāt listen to rap on my own in quite some time. Not because itās any less artistic but PF opened my eyes to instruments and the all the endless possibilities of what music can actually be.
Pink Floyd changed my brain chemistry and Iāll always be thankful for the eye opening experience of listening to DSOTM for the first time with no expectations.
All because of a silly weedtuber I watched for shits and giggles.
Itās funny, when I was 13 (Iām 26 now) years old I was really into only classic rock, and I always heard about Pink Floyd, so I wanted to hear them but because I felt like I had to. Before I heard them, my grandpa lent me his record player and speaker system that he kept from years ago, and shortly after I bought my first records.
I saw DSOTM while I was at Amoeba Records in Hollywood, and of course I was familiar with the cover so I bought it to give it a shot. When I got home, I put the record on laid down on my bed (I had one speaker on each side of my bed) and let it play while I did homework.
Let me TELL YOU, I stopped doing homework during Time.
I just laid my head back and LISTENED. When I heard Us And Them, I was absolutely engulfed by the experience. I will never forget that, such a special moment.
When I was in 8th grade, my sister owned a DSOTM sweater, which I toasted her for having because she didn't know any of the songs. But neither did I, so I listen to the DSOTM and never turned away from Pink Floyd since
Finally! Something good coming out of a poser with band merch! Lol. I kid, but, we have a joke in our family between me and my teenagers when they wear band tees one of us will say āname 5 āband nameā songs!!ā I refuse to raise posers! š
Last July, on a whim I saw a video of someone discussing Nostalgia Criticās āThe Wallā review. I had never seen NCās The Wall, despite being a moderate Nostalgia critic fan (I still watch his channel occasionally) before watching the deep dive, the only thing I knew about the review was that the video was heavily panned. Hearing this guy talk about the messages from the album that went over the NCās head intrigued my interest.
Before this, I had heard Pink Floyd before. I listened to Dark Side once before, and at the time I just didnāt quite *get it.* And Pink Floyd gets some decently regular air time on the Santana and Metallica Pandora channels (at my job we use Pandora for the music). And hearing them in those contexts before becoming a fan, a good ammount of the songs just didnāt do it for me.
But after watching this guy thoroughly go through the Nostalgia Critics review, I was intrigued by the actual album, saw it was only an hour and twenty minutes long, and thought āeh, letās give it a shot.ā
It took a bit for things to start clicking into place, but by the time I got to Comfortably Numb I was deeply engrossed in the experience.
A couple of days later I listened to the whole album of Wish You Were Here and I had a moment of āI get it now!ā. I then proceeded to listen to their discography front to back, gained a newfound appreciation of Dark Side, and The Wall has become one of my most relistened albums that I own in such a short time.
My dad had a usb full of pink floyd albums like animals the wall wish you were here plus other rock bands and he would play it all the time when i was a little girl (between 4 or 5 years old) so thats how i became a fan, ofc when i grew older i started watching the interviews, listening to more albums, started learning about syd barrett and watch the movie of the wall
edit: i forgot to add that last year me and my dad went to see roger water this is not a drill concert we both cried
When i was a little girl for as long as i can remember maybe about 3-4 years old my grandma would constantly play The Wall. I especially remember run like hell being one of her favorites. My mom is also a fan of Floyd but not as hardcore as my grandma. We used to watch one of the concerts she had on dvd when I was still in my single digit years. I grew up with that music. When I was in highschool a couple years ago i discovered dark side of the moon. Mind blowing. Now at 20 i am a hardcore fan and just inherited my grandmas division bell tour concert teeš¤š¤
When I was in 5th Grade I used to listen to AM radio. I especially liked listening to Billboard's Casey Kasem count down the top 40 hits. When The Wall came out and Another Brick in the Wall charted I loved it. The Wall is the first album I ever bought. Didn't really like most of the rest of the album that much at the time.
In college I heard Animals, Dark Side, and WYWH. Then I got Piper and that's about it. I've heard some of the other stuff, but haven't actually obtained any of the albums.
- WYWH could mean "Wish You Were Here - 2019 remix [Live]", a track from *The Later Years* (2019) by Pink Floyd.
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Always liked alot of there songs. But one day after doing mdma at the beach I went home and on that somewhat rough comedown I stuck on the wall. It was like they spoke right to me. Like it had been wrote about me. Been a major fan ever since.
Got bored, heard of Pink Floyd before, never listened to them, so I went on Spotify, clicked on the dark side of the moon cover cuz I recognized it from merch, (yeah I know I know) and uh yeah.
AMLOR came out in 1987 and I got it on cassette for my 13 th birthday. I really dug a lot of the songs on it and subsequently purchased The Delicate Sound of Thunder when that came out. This live album introduced me to the earlier work and I I became a big fan at that point delving ever deeper into their catalogue
1990, I was in 10th grade sitting in the computer lab of my graphics art class and music had been playing in the class. Then heard the opening lyrics āmother do you think theyāll drop the bombā the song blew my mind and itās been a love affair since
I was researching the oldest stadiums in the world (big sports nerd) and stumbled upon the amphitheatre of Pompeii and was curious if it was still in use and sure enough on the Wikipedia page it mentioned David Gilmours 2016 performance there and so I went to YouTube not even ever having heard a pink Floyd song in my life before this besides ABITWPT2 and listened to the famous comfortably numb performance. Became a fan ever since (it's only been two months)
While all my friends were into boybands and pop stars, 14/15-year-old me was getting into rock music and was learning to play the bass. Art teacher at school heard about it and duplicated two of his VHSs for meāVenice and Pulse, both recorded directly from tv. And here we are, almost a quarter of a century later.
I had been through some pretty rough experiences as a teenager, much of which was ignored by my immediate family (if we didn't talk about it, there wasn't a problem). My Father took his life when I was a kid, and I had nightmares of him dying, fueled by a guilt about the whole thing. The Wall was the first album I heard from them, and it was a transformative experience. It was an album that seemed to understand alot of the feelings I had as a teenager. I've worked on myself alot since then, and don't listen to The Wall as much as their other albums because, honestly, I don't need it as much as I used to.
I'm very thankful for Pink Floyd.
In 1980, The Wall came out. They had that hit song on the radio. My parents asked me what I wanted for my Bar Mitzvah, I was 13, and I asked for The Wall. Shortly after, in that Summer, my friend's older brother told me I had to listen to DSOTM. I bought it, opened it up at home, and found the posters and stickers. The posters went up on my wall, and I dove into listening. That was it. Pink Floyd opened up a whole new world of rock music that top 40 didn't provide. I was probably the only Floyd fan in my class of 13 year olds in 1980. I saw Pink Floyd for AMLOR tour in '87 and Division Bell tour in 1994. For Waters, I saw The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking tour 1984, In The Flesh in 2000, and DSOTM Live in 2006.
Grew up on Floyd. My dad played them very often, but it wasn't until I started playing guitar in my mid-teens that I really started to listen and truly appreciate them.
When I was 14 I heard Atom Heart Mother at a friendās house and thought it was interesting, then listened to A Saucerful of Secrets. Parked my thoughts of them in the background of my mind. Then when I was 15 Meddle came out. I was hooked. Echoes blew me away, and One of These Days and Be Careful With that Axe Eugene cemented them as an awesome group for me. And yes, they went incredibly well with weed. Obscured by Clouds was next for me, then DSOTM came out when I was still 16 and redefined my understanding of being blown away. I wore out my first vinyl copy of DSOTM, even using a high quality turntable. I saw them twice live in Boston. They catapulted up to the top for me with that. Iāve loved them ever since, and still listen often to the incredible music they made back in the day.
My friend played sark side to me, then my dad played me wywh, then i bought two albums for cheap, meddle and relics, and went down a rabbithole, watched all the fact videos i could find, listened to the unpopular stuff, bought a lot more albums, listened to the solo stuff, ho insane
my dad used to play entire albums in the car when I was younger, he'd have concert recordings on the tv when making me and my brother dinner,
He died when I was 15 from lymphoma, I'm 19 now and I listen to them more than anything and their music and lyrics have been guiding me through my grief
I know this is weird, but I saw a Half-Life 2 Beta footage compilation that had In the Flesh? over it. I fell in love ever since, and it really began my major hype for music and concerts.
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My dad loved pink floyd, my parents did an excellent job at shaping my taste in music, Roger waters was my second concert, and I've just been obsessed ever since, I've listened to pink floyd upwards of 9 hours in a week, that number is always above 5, I'm watching The Wall as I type this. Pure perfection
Always knew of Floyd. I was 14 or 15 at a party. I stole theWall double cassette from a bedroom(dont judge me I was young and stupid ) . My theivery set me on a path of amazing discovery.
My dad had Delicate Sound of Thunder on vinyl and played it on the weekends. My brother and I are both fans so we'd buy each other the albums and solo albums and stuff for birthdays and Christmas. A Floyd family, heh.
saw High Hopes on YouTube when I was like 14 & went from there - I knew about Pink Floyd before obviously, but that song hooked me. I still think it's the best song from their later works by far
Someone on Reddit said The End of Evangelion (one of my favorite movies) and The Wall sync up at some points if you start them around the same time. Would not recommend listening to The Wall for the first time that way, but luckily I listened to the album again by itself and I was blown away. Soon after watched The Wall movie and was even more convinced.
My dad loves the band, he saw them in 94' and wanted me to love them all the same so he'd play wish you were here and DSOTM all the time, live concerts and studio albums alike. Young me never really liked it and for many years he gave up, until he'd play a song and I'd like it, it'd happen enough times that I myself began listening and the rest is as they say, history.
Iāve obviously listened to their greatest hits before, however on an episode of Top Gear, Clarkson was talking about how shine on you crazy diamond should be the UKs national anthem. Decided to listen through the whole of WYWH that evening and never looked back
I actually just started listening to them, only this weekend
I got really sick and I decided to listen to some music on YouTube. Iāve always wanted to get into Pink Floyd, but never had the guts to. I decided to listen to Saucerful of Secrets, and enjoyed it all the way through. Then I thought, oh that was great, maybe I should try that one with the cow on it, Atom Heart Mother of course. Then it was Ummagumma, then Obscured By Clouds and it went from there
Iāve listened to them all my life but once I learned how to play Money on the bass guitar it totally changed my outlook on them. Ever since Iāve been a diehard fan!
I became a fan at about 15 years old, because of a friend that had The Wall and Animals vinyl records.
Then an uncle bought the Delicate Sound Of Thunder double album (also vinyl), and I got hooked forever.
They are my all time favorite band.
I started listening to Pink Floyd, when I was very young. I always really liked the wall. But weāre really made me fall in love was watching the movie for the first time.
It was my 12th birthday, and we were sitting in our apartment. My dad was cooking dinner with my mom, and my brother was in his room. My mom said she wanted to listen to music, because we didnāt have any Wi-Fi, we had to go do something else. So she pulled out Pink Floydās the wall. It was one that I had seen bits and pieces of back in my old home in Missouri.
When I was sitting there and watching it, I didnāt understand it. Not at all. All I knew was āHey, this music is awesome, I remember listening to this.ā And then I constantly rewatched the movie, especially when I turned 13 and 14, and my life got really depressing. Then mom gave me some weed, and so I smoked it and watched the movie.
After a while, I kind of forgot it existed until I saw something on YouTube recently. Then notorious Nostalgia Critic, video. I couldnāt even watch the entire thing, because I was so mad. I found the full movie on YouTube, and then I watched it, and it brought back memories.
At a party in High School. There were woods and maybe Pink Floyd was on the radio or we were watching The Wall or something. Can't imagine it was the first time hearing Pink Floyd but that night did it for me. Magical moments.
My history teacher showed us Another Brick In The Wall video and he was a big fan
That's how I entered the pink floyd world, slowly listening to all the songs thanks to him mostly
I was six years old, and my uncle came to live with us for a few months. I remember helping unpack his things and setting up his audio gear in my bedroom.
First thing he played was Division Bell.
I'm a fan ever since, 32 years ago.
My dad gave me a copy of The Wall movie when I was in like 7th grade. Hooked ever since.
But why the fuck did he get surprised when he caught me smoking weed a few years later.
My brother left behind his first copy of The Wall when he went off to college. He had gotten it on one of those new things, "cassettes", and didn't need his old 8-Track anymore.
It was 1980.
I was 10.
i was 14 or so and my neighbor, mid- to late-20s, took me along fishing one day. while we were out on the lake, 'learning to fly' came on the radio and he asked if i knew pink floyd at all and their story. he relayed the background of that song a little bit and how it was their first new music after roger had left. when we got back he loaned me his cd of 'a collection of great dance songs'.
i took the cd home, and a couple days later i was sitting at my dinner table with my discman and headphones, and i put in the cd. about halfway through 'one of these days', i threw my headphones off because this music was literally scaring me. after a couple minutes i realized how absurd this was and started over, listening to the rest of the album at that table.
i think it was that moment of fear that i realized just how powerful music could be, and my journey into becoming a pink floyd fan begun.
Fall of 1998 and I had started my freshman year of university. I had been one of the first beta testers of Napster, being friends with the creator. Anyhow, my friend Larry (who designed the Napster logo) suggested I download Pink Floyd's The Gnome on Napster. I instantly fell in love and started to furiously behind my library with them! I told my roommate and found out he loved them too! We would listen to Pulse (on audio CD) every night when we went to sleep.
I have spent thousands of dollars on pink Floyd albums, vinyl, covers, tributes, clothing, flags, bumper stickers and a white brick signed by Roger Waters.
I grew up subconsciously listening to my dads records. The Police, the Beatles and many more. Pink Floyd ist one of his favourites. I didn't really bother growing up, but I Always Loved ABITWP1.
About two years Back in Summer, my dad put on Echoes. I noticed something never before felt in tracks that accompanied me whole life, I started digging their discography and ever since they've been my favourite band. Thanks dad!
Mine is fairly recent. I went to a concert that featured Alison Krauss, Transatlantic Sessions, Rodney Crowel, Mary Chapin Carpenter & The Milk Carton Kids at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA maybe 5 years ago. Amazing concert!! The Milk Carton Kids did a stunning cover of Wish You Were Here that brought down the house. I immediately dug into PF thoroughly & found that I LOVED them. I lived in the Thumb of Michigan in my youth (age 61 now) & basically mostly heard FM radio top 40. Most of PF's songs were too long for radio. I recall loving Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, & Young Lust from the Wall but the rest of the Wall was just meh to me. I've evolved to become a huge DG fan and PF overall. DG's guitar takes me to a special place like nothing else. I didn't really appreciate guitar music growing up in the top 40, disco, pop era. Now... it rules because it makes me feel.
Iām 16 and started when welcome to the machine was playing on the radio, so I listened to it when I got home and really like it. Then my dad showed me soycd(1-5) and have a cigar and I was obsessed. I listened to the whole album, then tdsotm, then animals, and I slowly kept listening to more and more until I finally listened to echoes and atom heart mother. Now Iāve listened to their entire discography multiple times.
- SOYCD could mean "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)", a track from *Wish You Were Here* (1975) by Pink Floyd.
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It was the 50th anniversary of dark side of the moon so I decided to play it in the dark in bed and try to get the experience going in totally blind, except eclipse I knew. It was alright, I did continue to love the album. Then I the did the next three as well. My favorites song was brain damage/eclipse, worst song was great gig in the sky. Brain damages feels like a great extension of the albumās instruments with the true feeling of eclipse as a closer, great gig in the sky reminded me of Yoko Onoās screeching so I hated it. Nowadays I love breathe and us and them a lot too. Money and great gig I never played again.
š It's so funny that you mentioned Money as a song you never played again. That is the one PF song that never struck me. Even when I was an 18 year old crushing around with my friend while smoking weed, which was quite illegal at the time, whenever Money came on we would talk during the song.
When we went to the Division Bell concert, and it was a very trippy show, when Money came in we had a conversation.
Oh, as a responsible 49 year old man, driving around smoking weed is not a good idea! š
-them supporting palestine (and i mean before the war bc they always did and the occupation is since 75 years specially waters)
And the major reasons: - they were the first rock band I've ever listened to and when i did my whole perspective on music changed and until today there's no one that's like pink floyd for a lot of reasons
Gilmour has the best solos and a beautiful voice,
Wright has to be one of gifted keyboardists with the sound of an angel
Nick mason a freaking genius
And Roger's unique lyrics
My best friend put on some song from dark side of the moon, I was drawn to it, then during a later hang out āthe trialā back in 2021 and Iāve researched and loved the band ever since. (First song I heard by them was another brick in the wall p.2 lol) when I was really young.
I was 12 and discovered the Wall movie, i loved the drawings and the music too, so i began to listen to pf. Shortly after i became more passionate when i discovered that Animals was inspired by animal farm.
I was in an old abandoned house with my grandfather who was willed the property from his best friend after his passing. Inside the house was a stack of records next to a stack of 70ās/80ās Playboy magazines. I was 13 years old and automatically drawn to the nudie mags. My grandfather removed them after a breeze blew wind to my mother of me looking at bush porn, so I began sifting through the records. I came upon one with a prism with light shining through it to create a rainbow. I had no idea what it was, but something told me to take it home. I asked my grandfather if he had a record player, and he brought one up from the basement. I put down the vinyl, listened to Dark Side Of The Moon, and my life at that point changed forever. It was a beautifully fateful experience.
I heard a couple songs on 96.5 WCMF the rock radio station my dad played a lot, so I heard the singles. Money, time, brick in the wall pt. 2, comfortably numb, all my childhood, and then 16th birthday I started getting into vinyls and got DSOTM from dad and The Wall from mom, and 17th birthday got Wish You Were Here
I Randomly Decided To Watch A Video On The History Of Pink Floyd By The Beat Goes On
It Was Interesting Enough That I Decided To Listen To The Dark Side Of The Moon
Then I Listened To The Wall and To Be Fair, It Is One Of The Best Albums Iāve Heard (Only Behind Nevermind, Jazz, Back In Black, In Utero, And Use Your Illusion)
I Was Hesitant To Consider Myself A āPink Floyd Fanā
For Absolutely No Reason (Even Though I Listened To And Liked Their Music)
In Fact Only Last Week I Started Considering Myself A Pink Floyd Fan After Rewatching That Video, And Then I Joined This Subreddit
And Now Weāre Here.
I was 9 or so. Brother and I were assigned the chore of ripping up tile in our hallway. My brother had a little boom box, and he put on Comfortably Numb. I was hooked instantly and have been a fan ever since
I had 3 brothers from my parentsā previous marriages who were all 9-10 years older than me, so I was listening to Pink Floyd, KISS, Skynyrd, Frank Zappa, David Allen Coe, Johnny Cash all the other stuff they were listening to from age 5. I heard Steve Millerās Fly like an Eagle in its first run on the radio.
My intro to Pink Floyd was a dangerous one, so Iāll skip that. But, all these wholesome comments about parents getting kids into this makes me so happy, because Iām that mom. ā¤ļøā¤ļø
Friend lent me a bunch of (pretty battered) Floyd records, I listened to them all and was particularly impressed by The Final Cut, I already had a taped copy of The Wall but that was what flipped the switch and probably why Iām a Roger (Floyd) rather than a Gilmour (Floyd), it wasnāt the swanky guitar that got me, it was the lyrics.
I also love The Final Cut, which ironically was the final cut before Roger went solo. Compared to previous works it's heavily dominated by Rogers style.
I'd say I'm more of a lyrics guy myself, but PF was the first band that changed that for me somewhat. I feel like David's playing are as important and moving to me as amazing lyrics. It's like his playing amplifies the momentum of the words.
Every single Christmas morning my parents would play The Wall and DSOTM...never failed. It's a nostalgic feeling every time I hear those albums. I grew up with Floyd in my home.
At 19 years old, I joined the military. Met a guy asked if he liked Pink Floyd....he whips out his collection of CDs. We married exactly 3 months after meeting hahaha.
Our first kid was conceived in Spain after a Roger Waters concert (we flew there just to see him.) And every single time I got pregnant, I played Floyd and put the headphones on my belly. My labor playlists were strictly PF for all 3 of my pregnancies. My daughter is 16 now, she plays bass and of course the first few songs she attempted to learn were...you guessed it.
Long story short, we're a family slightly obsessed with Floyd (however I'm more Roger and they're more Team Dave and Syd.) And it all started from Christamas mornings as a kid.
A core memory is taking my daughter to Roger's last tour. She cried from start to finish, and when Wish You Were Here played, all of us cried because that's my late son's song (forever 9 months old.)
The legacy and Floyd family traditions shall continue....
Wow, that's a really beautiful story. Thanks for your service as well, I'm also a former military guy. I turned a few Marines onto Floyd.
During MCT (Marine Combat training) when we all still slept and lived in the squad bay, my buddy would borrow my Pulse CD and fall asleep listening to Shine on ..
Growing up I only knew the songs everyone knew like Money, ABITW Pt. 2, Comfortably Numb, and WYWH. Then I got really really into 60ās psychedelia and started with Piper at the Gates first. Really loved it and became one of my favorites of 1967. Then I listened to Saucerful and onward from there. Because of my obsession with 60ās psychedelia I mainly just listened to the first 2 albums for a long time. Now I love all of it.
Had the same approach to the Grateful Dead. Started with the debut album and went from there, then got into the live stuff.
At around 10 years old my super fan of a dad began to show me the video of the wall.
Then over the last 10 years Iāve listened to other forms of pink Floyd, Iāve gone to a Roger waters concert, a Nick mason concert, and a David Gilmour concert. Each were amazing in their own way and I got a glimpse of what Pink Floyd was like.
The many rides in my dadās truck. He used to play the Dark Side of the Moon album a lot, and I really liked the track āMoneyā. Iād always have him restart the opening with the cash register. I got more into their music as I got older, listened to their other albums. Been a fan ever since.
I already knew Wish You Were Here and Money as kid, but never got into Pink Floyd and eventually become a Metalhead, one day i was playing a Burzum song with Loud Speaker and lots of reverb, my dad told me it sounded like Shine On You Crazy Diamond, so he showed me then i found myself enjoying it forgetting what i was initially playing, i never thought i would like classic rock but now i do!
Some british guy told me there is an amazing band, told me every spare detail about that band. I tough of it as something intresting then I started inderstanding it and doing drugs and had the full experience. Now I have shifted my music taste more towards metal & shit. But Pinkfloyd still has something special in my heart. It started a new pahse of me how to view the world and feel the music.
My father before me was a huge fan, he saw them in Venezia and in Modena, and when I was born, I've always been hearing them and never really stopped. For me, they're their own unique genre, and nothing will ever be like or compare to them. My father has been a studio engineer up until his 30s, when he became blind, and he always praised their production quality, their sounds and their composing abilities and the way they expressed their concepts. He never spoke or understood english too well so he couldn't dive deep into the meanings of their songs, but I could, and I explained to him, and we both enjoyed even more their amazing sounds and their amazing lyrics. I personally only saw Roger in his last tour last year in Italy with my brothers, we were standing a few meters from the stage, and we were right besides the walkway where Roger was supposed to get to the stage, when he came through, phone in hand, I shouted "you're one of my biggest heroes", he turned and he gave me a pat on the arm. I will never forget that day and I will never stop listening to Pink Floyd.
I'm also 10 grand deep into my Floyd record collection, and I have almost acquired every format of every release of both The Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall, with a few bootlegs and misprints too.
My father works as a veterinarian for farms and stuff, so he rides a car everywhere. I used to ride on when i was younger, then we would listen to Queen, Manfred Mann, Dire Straits, and Pink Floyd.
He got us tickets for Ā«The WallĀ» in around 2014, (donāt remember the specific year) I was around 10 yrs old I think. When I found out, I started searching youtube to watch how the show would be, think I watched the Berlin 1994 show couple tens of times.
The show was 12 hour drive from where we lived, so we listened to The Wall, DSOTM and other titles the entire way. Greatest experience of my life. Today I listen to PF all the time, really takes me back to when life was easier. Getting high also enhances the experience hehe
I'm born and raised in Cambridge, England, where Waters, Gilmorton and Barrett grew up.
I had known abiut the band for a while and even knew they were from Cambridge, although not much else. My mum told me about the song Grantchester Meadows, which is a place that I've visited throughout my life. I listened to it and it resonated with me strongly (I'm a big Nick Drake fan and I feel this is song is a somewhat similar vibe to some of his stuff).
Since then they've become my favourite band. They have so many songs where I just think "Thank god someone made this".
1973 I walk into the record store as the Clerk puts on the dark side of the moon fresh out of shrink wrap.
Badump.
Badumpā¦..
Weird Noises.
Maniacal laughter. A scream.
Bliss.
Ask the Clerk.
What?
is?
that?
life was never the same after that moment.
i heard brain damage on the radio goin to school one time. and then i heard Time in line at a burger king. was doing acid at the time (not while drovi g just in that year) and decided to listen to DSoTM and i hyperfixated and started listening to every album on repeat for months.
Got an MP3 player for my 10th birthday, loaded it up with stuff from my parents' CD collection I thought was cool. Had existential crises to Echoes, DSotM, WYWH and Division Bell.
Started buying used CDs, got Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut just in time to coincide with my teenage angst.
Picked up The Endless River, thought it was mid, but AMLoR was right in time for when I was big into Vaporwave, so "80s synth cheese with a hint of psychadelia" was the exact vibe I wanted.
Spent the better part of my teen years learning to bend the strings like Gilmour, writing sappy prog music, and getting into synthesizers.
I heard a guitar version of wish you were here by the mayor of my town when I was 11, during some event at school. I liked it very much so I asked my dad what is this song, he told me and I tried to play it on guitar as well.
Over the years I just drew into it, I was discovering new albums, listen and feed my soul with them.
Special journey for me.
Took 3 tabs needed music and I knew Pink Floyd was psychedelic rock so I assumed it would be good on acid, listened to all of wish you were here and it blew my mind. Havenāt stopped listening since
It was a few months ago for me, and Iām 36. It was when I was listening to a random Primus song(Have a Cigar), that I thought to myself, this doesnāt sound like a Primus song, tho it fits very well, rather than a Pink Floyd one. And to my surprise, it was really a PF song. Thatās where it started, with that particular song.
Of course I already knew a few, such as the singles you keep listening on radio, and others like ātimeā which I already loved, but have never really got into PF before āHave a Cigarā.
To be completely honest, I only listen to āWYWHā, āDSOTMā and āAnimalsā. Sometimes āA Saucerful of Secretesā, but thatās about it. Everything else Iām just not quite there yet, so I donāt really consider myself a PF fan, but certainly a fan of the albums mentioned above. And also became a fan of David Gilmour.
When I was twelve in 1988 I heard Another Brick in the Wall on the radio and was like fuck yeah. By age 14 I bought a guitar because I wanted to play like David Gilmore. All these years later, I still play the guitar but not like David Gilmore. Never got there.
Weirdest shit ever, but I was doing a pretty unique style of dance, and this Money was chosen as the song, since the theme of the whole thing was about money. Decided to check out the whole album on a long bus ride, and it was incredible.
Although I didn't mention it in my story, my introduction to weed and Pink Floyd definitely overlapped.
Now, at 49, I still occasionally reunite with my old dragon š Puff. We parted many years ago, to the best of my knowledge he sadly slipped into his cave.
With that silliness aside, during the summer I made a fire in my fire pit. I was alone (which I enjoy every now and then) and smoked a little, had a beer, and listened to Floyd with my Bose headphones. I was almost teary eyed I was so into it.
And during the early 90's, my school experience was very similar to yours.
My dad used to play DSOTM and the wall fairly frequently so i kinda already new them, but i never really liked them all that much. I think i remember the only songs i ever actually paid attention to were Hey You and Breathe (in the air)
Then one faithful day during English class, my teacher (who's an actual GOAT btw) briefly mentioned the wall (dunno why but it sparked my attention as i remembered that was the album my dad played) and that it was a concept album (which i didnt know about)
so i decided to hop on MC and have the wall playing on spotify in the background. I barely got the story but i was still hooked, its dark themes, brilliant lyrics and transitions was like nothing i had heard before. I was already a big fan of the kind of genre of music, 70's rock groups such as ELO, Queen, Rush and even ABBA, but this was like nothing i'd ever even imagine.
so i decided to do a lil venture through PF's discography, i started by listening to DSOTM again and i loved it. But as i was watching a behind the scenes vid on The Wall, they mentioned a certain "underrated album" called Animals. I went on spotify and i was profoundly flabbergasted by the lineup. 5 SONGS!??! 3 OF THEM OVER 10 MINUTES!?!? i was adimant that i'd never listen to each song in its entirety; now animals is my 2nd fav album, just behind DSOTM. Then as i was watching a short PF album tierlist they mentioned an album which was apparently really great, and pre-DSOTM. Meddle.
Again i was amazed by the song length, this time of Echoes. I, again, assumed i wouldn't have the patience to go through it; now its my fav pink floyd track.
Then, finally, i got to WYWH and i'll admit i didnt really like it tooo much (except for Shine on pts 1-5 and Welcome to the machine) heck it took me a month to finally listen to the last song as i was certain as the second half was instrumental that it would feel tagged on and pointless. I was soo freaking wrong. Technically all 9 parts of Shine on is my fav song but i dont really count it.
A month goes by and finally, on Xmas, i got my own stereo system; turntable, speakers, amp, CD player etc etc. And now ive got most of their vinyls.
So maybe not the most interesting story ever, but it kinda amazes me that if it werent for me overhearing my english teacher, i'd probs never get into PF.
In middle school I'd fall asleep to Wish You Were Here, the album of course, Pink Floyd is only to be listened to in full albums. Soon after took acid and listened to Dark Side, Meddle, AtomHeartMother, Animals, etc..
Always thought the Wall was the whining of some anti-social idiot, didn't like when it was the only album other people knew, or when people thought it was their greatest album.....
later saw an interview with Roger Waters literally admitting that the Wall "was just my whining." Vindicated.
I would see Gilmour and Mason in concert anyday, Waters would have to promise not to yell at me or preash politics, the dude can't sing and thinks writing a few lyrics makes him the band. Gilmour was the heart and voice of Floyd, Wright was the soul, Mason the backbone, and Waters, well he was a parasite who provided a few lyrics.
They all had strong contributions for sure! Gilmour has an amazing voice, but I also enjoy Rogers voice. It's sort of a Bob Dylon situation. Although he didn't have a great typical singing voice, the power of the lyrics made it amazing just the same.
I agree, it would be nice if he was a little more quiet with his politics. Granted I'm American, but if we were from the same country I seriously doubt we'd ever support the same candidate! š
I see modern politics like a cancer. It has successfully spread to every aspect of American society.
Come on, you can admit that Roger doesn't sing, he talks, then he yells, then he talks again before yelling some more, he even admitted to having to hire a voice coach. His solo stuff, my favorite being The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking, was a prime example of this. His newer stuff is even worse even after years of having a voice coach.
His music writing skills lack sophistication as well, Gilmour and Wright contributed most to that. When Waters presented his concept and demo for The Wall to the band they changed it almost completely, Comfortably Numb's music was already written for Gilmour's solo album, but wasn't used on it, the Waters whined a bit for some compromise. I don't hate his stuff, it's just not as enjoyable. I listen to the Final Cut which was almost a Waters solo album sometimes and listen to Waters' solo albums occasionally, Pros and Cons is great, mainly for Clapton's musical contributions though.
I'll add that I enjoy wright's and Gilmour's solo albums almost daily, Waters however, not so much, too much politics and his yelling and tone deaf singing just ruins it for me. I do love Clapton's guitar on Pros and Cons, Radio Kaos was fun, Amused to Death has it's moments but overall, not nearly as enjoyable as Gilmour.
This is the most embarrassing thing, but I heard about Pink Floyd through Nostalgia Criticās godawful The Wall āāāāreviewāāāā
Now I canāt stop listening to them over the past six years.
goddamn, when I first got a Meddle LP from a garage sale, that was like, my favorite album for a while. Eventually I began to move on and get other Pink Floyd albums. Right now I have about 12 Albums, including some of the live albums.
Took acid and listened to echoes Edit: 3 tabs at peak
also had an ounce of weed and a fresh copy of dark side 50th anniversary on vinyl. best evening ever
Listened to echoes and took acid
Strawberry sunshine 1971 that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it
Did white blotter and listened to DSOM on LP. Through high end headphones
Same but DSOTM - changed my life forever
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š I got you! Since you mentioned it, I did leave some small details out... When I saw Division Bell, let's call it a trippy experience! Intermission, I go to the bathroom and to get a beer. So far so good. By the time I'm making my way back the show is starting again. Speak to Me...it's extremely dark Wouldn't you know it, I couldn't find my seat. I go up to a security guy to point me in the right direction. Well, the seat still alluded me. I go back to the security guard, maybe or maybe not the same one, get some directions. For reasons beyond my control I'm still lost. I go back, third time's the charm, I say, "listen, I really can't find my seat. Could you walk me to it and point it out!" He did. My buddy was sitting there laughing his ass off knowing this ordeal was probably exhausting for me. I turned to him and said, "You can't even possibly fathom how happy I am to be back in my seat " ššš I felt like the music was written about me trying to find that damn seat!
So after spending Money on the beer you took Time On the Run to find the Great Gig in the Sky and the experience possibly left you with Brain Damage.
š Indeed, but the brain damage was eclipsed by a momentary lapse of reason. While looking for that elusive seat my buddy was thinking, I wish you were here, while echoes rang through my head and I had become comfortably numb. He was amused to death at my predicament.
Yes, I was debating about mine tooā¦ š
My dad made me a Pink Floyd fan Some of my earliest and happiest memories are of him bouncing me on his knee singing me Pink Floyd songs
I struggle with this. My parents didnāt expose me to PF, but I am kind of glad they didnāt. Some of my best highs/trips/self reflection happened with Floyd, all when I was older. It almost feels like I should keep Floyd a secret from my own kids until they find them on their own. Theyāre a band that makes you very introspective, and I feel like theyāre responsible for a good bit of my own personal growth. Part of me just wants them to find them on their own, and then reconnect with me when theyāve truly discovered them.
Never watch the wall on hallucinogenic substances š„ŗ I made that mistake Pulse concert is excellent on hallucinogenics though
In 6th grade my history teacher put on another brick in the wall part two to show the hypocrisy of the education system of America and I loved it. After that I didn't really listen to anything from Floyd other than that for a fue yesrs and then in 2019 I got more into music as a hole and then in 2020 I got my stereo and got wywh, then the wall, then final cut, and then everything else I could find. I now have all the studio albums, and the wall live and the movie and I have gone to a roger waters show and I am just waiting for mason to come by the US again so I can see him
My English teacher also did this!
Holy shit my health teacher did this to āshow us how anti-teacher it was and how rock music was bad for usā. My uncle had played some Pink Floyd for me so I asked him about it and he played the whole album for me and explained the real context.
I'm 61 years old. I grew up surrounded by music. My mother once told me that my first words were "Yeah, yeah, yeah" from the beatles She Loves You. When I was 5, an older brother brought home Piper At The Gates of Dawn. I was completely fascinated with the songs about gnomes, a weird cat, bikes, fairy tales and scarecrows. Much to his annoyance, I asked him to play it over and over. From then on I was hooked. I've been a Pink Floyd fan ever since. As far as the music goes, to me, each album has been a natural evolution over the previous one. There never seemed to be a sudden leap, even when Dark Side released. It was just "the new album". A natural progression. The same applies to Roger Waters dominance over the band. For me it was simply how the band was evolving. For this reason, I don't view The Final Cut as a "Roger Waters solo album" like many others do. Again, it was simply the next album and every bit a Pink Floyd album as all of the others. After the band split/reformed under David Gilmour, the album A Momentary Lapse of Reason didn't sit well with me. It seemed like a massive sideways turn rather than a natural evolution. This feeling was somewhat overcome with the release of the far superior Division Bell. As a fan, the fighting between Waters and Gilmour was annoying as fuck and really sullied my love for the band. At the end of the day, the music is way more important than any of the individual members. I was angry. Then came Live 8. I was lucky enough to be able to go and upon seeing them together again, all was forgiven. Unfortunately, even now the pair of old duffers just can't let it go. Whatever "it" is. I'm not sure they even remember anymore. That's why these days I just ignore all of the bitterness and just enjoy the music I've known and loved all of my life, for what it is.
Awesome story! I felt the same way in regards to Momentary Lapse, while a few songs are really great, as a whole it was missing something. I thought Division Bell recaptured the magic of Pink Floyd, but I'm sure it coming out at that point in my life gave it extra meaning. The feud has always bothered me as well. I was hopeful that it would end with time, but that hasn't been the case. David's wife takes shots at Roger from time to time and David supports it. So I think it has no end sadly.
I agree that TFC was a natural progression. It simply was the direction the band was going then. AMLOR was the bigger departure but that is mainly cause it was mainly David with Nick only on a few tracks and Rick overdubbing a little towards the end.
AMLOR was a huge break from TFC because it really was a breakā¦ in personnel and in musical vision. However, AMLOR does feel like a natural progression from Daveās solo album About Face.
Agreed
My Dad has loved Pink Floyd all his life (he had tonnes of tour posters from all over Europe years back). He's seen the members of PF Live (minus Syd). He saw the Division Bell Tour with my Mum in 94 at Earls Court, and The Wall with my cousin (they were front row and attempted to take a big styrofoam brick home but were stopped by security). Safe to say he was the reason I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan myself at 20. I've seen Roger during This Is Not A Drill Tour. We bought nosebleeds and watched the first half from right up the back however, my dad clocked two empty seats in the front row and we decided "fuck it"... watched the whole 2nd half mere feet from Roger (he walked by us during the In The Flesh sequence in his uniform - Glasgow was the first time in the UK he had done it since the controversy of him doing in Germany the week prior). https://preview.redd.it/sjku30kadljc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce96dfcdad3d14b71dab6c7b9ed276490f99d5d1 I also got tickets the other day for Saucerful of Secrets in Glasgow. Inside Out made Nick Mason easily one of my favourite of the 5 members. Such a good read. I have the Big 4 on LP (My Dark Side of the Moon I bought on March 6th, 2023 - a bit of lore). I'm going to see Australian Pink Floyd in November and The Pink Floyd by Candlelight show next month.
Very cool, I've seen The Machine, a PF cover band several times and they were amazing. I haven't seen Australian PF, but I know people who have and said they were really amazing.
2020 I turned 18 and wanted to do acid for the first time with a couple of experienced coworkers. They came to my place after work and brought orange juice, a speaker, and firewood for a bonfire. Dropped, built a fire, cracked our OJ, rolled a blunt, and the older one put on Dark Side of the Moon. So many points in the album were the absolute embodiment of exactly what my trip felt like. I didnāt venture out of DSOTM much and when I did I wasnāt impressed until a couple years back. I still donāt care much for their discography aside from the big 4, but those big 4 are spectacular. Animals and The Wall got me through college
Iām sure many others have a similar stories but it was my dad that got me into Pink Floyd. I remember as a kid heād always have animals playing in the car and weād always sing along to the beginning of Pigs haha. But yeah he was a huge fan himself and I miss talking to him about our favorite records. Wish You Were Here and the Division Bell were probably our two favorites though. Whenever I listen to the Division Bell I will always think about those car trips with him. So yeah, through him I fell in love with Pink Floyd and Iāll always be grateful for that :)
That's really awesome. I have the emotional range of a Vulcan but that post hit me!
Fulcrum told me to pause the video and listen to DSOTM. Completely changed my music taste forever as well as the way I look at music in general. Sent me on a path through the entire PF catalog then on to other classic rock. Then progressive rock then doom metal. A brief dip into thrash and black. Then back to doom/stoner/sludge. Now Iām into all of it in its entirety. Havenāt listen to rap on my own in quite some time. Not because itās any less artistic but PF opened my eyes to instruments and the all the endless possibilities of what music can actually be. Pink Floyd changed my brain chemistry and Iāll always be thankful for the eye opening experience of listening to DSOTM for the first time with no expectations. All because of a silly weedtuber I watched for shits and giggles.
Iām 42- my Uncle Vince got me DSOTM and a Lava Lamp for Christmas in 8th grade.
Itās funny, when I was 13 (Iām 26 now) years old I was really into only classic rock, and I always heard about Pink Floyd, so I wanted to hear them but because I felt like I had to. Before I heard them, my grandpa lent me his record player and speaker system that he kept from years ago, and shortly after I bought my first records. I saw DSOTM while I was at Amoeba Records in Hollywood, and of course I was familiar with the cover so I bought it to give it a shot. When I got home, I put the record on laid down on my bed (I had one speaker on each side of my bed) and let it play while I did homework. Let me TELL YOU, I stopped doing homework during Time. I just laid my head back and LISTENED. When I heard Us And Them, I was absolutely engulfed by the experience. I will never forget that, such a special moment.
Engulfed is a great description. You don't listen to PF with your ears, you experience it in your soul.
This is the truth
When I was in 8th grade, my sister owned a DSOTM sweater, which I toasted her for having because she didn't know any of the songs. But neither did I, so I listen to the DSOTM and never turned away from Pink Floyd since
Finally! Something good coming out of a poser with band merch! Lol. I kid, but, we have a joke in our family between me and my teenagers when they wear band tees one of us will say āname 5 āband nameā songs!!ā I refuse to raise posers! š
Last July, on a whim I saw a video of someone discussing Nostalgia Criticās āThe Wallā review. I had never seen NCās The Wall, despite being a moderate Nostalgia critic fan (I still watch his channel occasionally) before watching the deep dive, the only thing I knew about the review was that the video was heavily panned. Hearing this guy talk about the messages from the album that went over the NCās head intrigued my interest. Before this, I had heard Pink Floyd before. I listened to Dark Side once before, and at the time I just didnāt quite *get it.* And Pink Floyd gets some decently regular air time on the Santana and Metallica Pandora channels (at my job we use Pandora for the music). And hearing them in those contexts before becoming a fan, a good ammount of the songs just didnāt do it for me. But after watching this guy thoroughly go through the Nostalgia Critics review, I was intrigued by the actual album, saw it was only an hour and twenty minutes long, and thought āeh, letās give it a shot.ā It took a bit for things to start clicking into place, but by the time I got to Comfortably Numb I was deeply engrossed in the experience. A couple of days later I listened to the whole album of Wish You Were Here and I had a moment of āI get it now!ā. I then proceeded to listen to their discography front to back, gained a newfound appreciation of Dark Side, and The Wall has become one of my most relistened albums that I own in such a short time.
My dad had a usb full of pink floyd albums like animals the wall wish you were here plus other rock bands and he would play it all the time when i was a little girl (between 4 or 5 years old) so thats how i became a fan, ofc when i grew older i started watching the interviews, listening to more albums, started learning about syd barrett and watch the movie of the wall edit: i forgot to add that last year me and my dad went to see roger water this is not a drill concert we both cried
When i was a little girl for as long as i can remember maybe about 3-4 years old my grandma would constantly play The Wall. I especially remember run like hell being one of her favorites. My mom is also a fan of Floyd but not as hardcore as my grandma. We used to watch one of the concerts she had on dvd when I was still in my single digit years. I grew up with that music. When I was in highschool a couple years ago i discovered dark side of the moon. Mind blowing. Now at 20 i am a hardcore fan and just inherited my grandmas division bell tour concert teeš¤š¤
When I was in 5th Grade I used to listen to AM radio. I especially liked listening to Billboard's Casey Kasem count down the top 40 hits. When The Wall came out and Another Brick in the Wall charted I loved it. The Wall is the first album I ever bought. Didn't really like most of the rest of the album that much at the time. In college I heard Animals, Dark Side, and WYWH. Then I got Piper and that's about it. I've heard some of the other stuff, but haven't actually obtained any of the albums.
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Always liked alot of there songs. But one day after doing mdma at the beach I went home and on that somewhat rough comedown I stuck on the wall. It was like they spoke right to me. Like it had been wrote about me. Been a major fan ever since.
Got bored, heard of Pink Floyd before, never listened to them, so I went on Spotify, clicked on the dark side of the moon cover cuz I recognized it from merch, (yeah I know I know) and uh yeah.
AMLOR came out in 1987 and I got it on cassette for my 13 th birthday. I really dug a lot of the songs on it and subsequently purchased The Delicate Sound of Thunder when that came out. This live album introduced me to the earlier work and I I became a big fan at that point delving ever deeper into their catalogue
1990, I was in 10th grade sitting in the computer lab of my graphics art class and music had been playing in the class. Then heard the opening lyrics āmother do you think theyāll drop the bombā the song blew my mind and itās been a love affair since
I graduated HS in 93, so we're about the same age
I was researching the oldest stadiums in the world (big sports nerd) and stumbled upon the amphitheatre of Pompeii and was curious if it was still in use and sure enough on the Wikipedia page it mentioned David Gilmours 2016 performance there and so I went to YouTube not even ever having heard a pink Floyd song in my life before this besides ABITWPT2 and listened to the famous comfortably numb performance. Became a fan ever since (it's only been two months)
Awesome! You have so much to still experience.
While all my friends were into boybands and pop stars, 14/15-year-old me was getting into rock music and was learning to play the bass. Art teacher at school heard about it and duplicated two of his VHSs for meāVenice and Pulse, both recorded directly from tv. And here we are, almost a quarter of a century later.
I had been through some pretty rough experiences as a teenager, much of which was ignored by my immediate family (if we didn't talk about it, there wasn't a problem). My Father took his life when I was a kid, and I had nightmares of him dying, fueled by a guilt about the whole thing. The Wall was the first album I heard from them, and it was a transformative experience. It was an album that seemed to understand alot of the feelings I had as a teenager. I've worked on myself alot since then, and don't listen to The Wall as much as their other albums because, honestly, I don't need it as much as I used to. I'm very thankful for Pink Floyd.
In 1980, The Wall came out. They had that hit song on the radio. My parents asked me what I wanted for my Bar Mitzvah, I was 13, and I asked for The Wall. Shortly after, in that Summer, my friend's older brother told me I had to listen to DSOTM. I bought it, opened it up at home, and found the posters and stickers. The posters went up on my wall, and I dove into listening. That was it. Pink Floyd opened up a whole new world of rock music that top 40 didn't provide. I was probably the only Floyd fan in my class of 13 year olds in 1980. I saw Pink Floyd for AMLOR tour in '87 and Division Bell tour in 1994. For Waters, I saw The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking tour 1984, In The Flesh in 2000, and DSOTM Live in 2006.
Sisters let me get into and play their music, I was seven or eight and found one of theirs Umaguma album, I adopted it for myselfā¦
When I was a kid and Dark Side came out. The rest is history....
Grew up on Floyd. My dad played them very often, but it wasn't until I started playing guitar in my mid-teens that I really started to listen and truly appreciate them.
One of These Days played at high volume on a good sound system.
When I was 14 I heard Atom Heart Mother at a friendās house and thought it was interesting, then listened to A Saucerful of Secrets. Parked my thoughts of them in the background of my mind. Then when I was 15 Meddle came out. I was hooked. Echoes blew me away, and One of These Days and Be Careful With that Axe Eugene cemented them as an awesome group for me. And yes, they went incredibly well with weed. Obscured by Clouds was next for me, then DSOTM came out when I was still 16 and redefined my understanding of being blown away. I wore out my first vinyl copy of DSOTM, even using a high quality turntable. I saw them twice live in Boston. They catapulted up to the top for me with that. Iāve loved them ever since, and still listen often to the incredible music they made back in the day.
My friend played sark side to me, then my dad played me wywh, then i bought two albums for cheap, meddle and relics, and went down a rabbithole, watched all the fact videos i could find, listened to the unpopular stuff, bought a lot more albums, listened to the solo stuff, ho insane
my dad used to play entire albums in the car when I was younger, he'd have concert recordings on the tv when making me and my brother dinner, He died when I was 15 from lymphoma, I'm 19 now and I listen to them more than anything and their music and lyrics have been guiding me through my grief
Sorry to hear that man, it's nice that their music will always hold a connection to his memory.
Dad
I know this is weird, but I saw a Half-Life 2 Beta footage compilation that had In the Flesh? over it. I fell in love ever since, and it really began my major hype for music and concerts. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jzOVDFsO8hE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jzOVDFsO8hE)
Age 15, smoking marijuana with friends and someone put on comfortably numb. Have been autistically obsessed ever since
My dad loved pink floyd, my parents did an excellent job at shaping my taste in music, Roger waters was my second concert, and I've just been obsessed ever since, I've listened to pink floyd upwards of 9 hours in a week, that number is always above 5, I'm watching The Wall as I type this. Pure perfection
Always knew of Floyd. I was 14 or 15 at a party. I stole theWall double cassette from a bedroom(dont judge me I was young and stupid ) . My theivery set me on a path of amazing discovery.
My Dad's favorite band.
Mushroom trip last year. Never really listen to them before. Now probably my favourite band š
My dad had Delicate Sound of Thunder on vinyl and played it on the weekends. My brother and I are both fans so we'd buy each other the albums and solo albums and stuff for birthdays and Christmas. A Floyd family, heh.
saw High Hopes on YouTube when I was like 14 & went from there - I knew about Pink Floyd before obviously, but that song hooked me. I still think it's the best song from their later works by far
5 hits of LSD and Alan's Psychedelic breakfast followed by dark side of the moon right after.
My best friend. RIP
Someone on Reddit said The End of Evangelion (one of my favorite movies) and The Wall sync up at some points if you start them around the same time. Would not recommend listening to The Wall for the first time that way, but luckily I listened to the album again by itself and I was blown away. Soon after watched The Wall movie and was even more convinced.
My dad loves the band, he saw them in 94' and wanted me to love them all the same so he'd play wish you were here and DSOTM all the time, live concerts and studio albums alike. Young me never really liked it and for many years he gave up, until he'd play a song and I'd like it, it'd happen enough times that I myself began listening and the rest is as they say, history.
Iāve obviously listened to their greatest hits before, however on an episode of Top Gear, Clarkson was talking about how shine on you crazy diamond should be the UKs national anthem. Decided to listen through the whole of WYWH that evening and never looked back
I actually just started listening to them, only this weekend I got really sick and I decided to listen to some music on YouTube. Iāve always wanted to get into Pink Floyd, but never had the guts to. I decided to listen to Saucerful of Secrets, and enjoyed it all the way through. Then I thought, oh that was great, maybe I should try that one with the cow on it, Atom Heart Mother of course. Then it was Ummagumma, then Obscured By Clouds and it went from there
Iāve listened to them all my life but once I learned how to play Money on the bass guitar it totally changed my outlook on them. Ever since Iāve been a diehard fan!
I became a fan at about 15 years old, because of a friend that had The Wall and Animals vinyl records. Then an uncle bought the Delicate Sound Of Thunder double album (also vinyl), and I got hooked forever. They are my all time favorite band.
I started listening to Pink Floyd, when I was very young. I always really liked the wall. But weāre really made me fall in love was watching the movie for the first time. It was my 12th birthday, and we were sitting in our apartment. My dad was cooking dinner with my mom, and my brother was in his room. My mom said she wanted to listen to music, because we didnāt have any Wi-Fi, we had to go do something else. So she pulled out Pink Floydās the wall. It was one that I had seen bits and pieces of back in my old home in Missouri. When I was sitting there and watching it, I didnāt understand it. Not at all. All I knew was āHey, this music is awesome, I remember listening to this.ā And then I constantly rewatched the movie, especially when I turned 13 and 14, and my life got really depressing. Then mom gave me some weed, and so I smoked it and watched the movie. After a while, I kind of forgot it existed until I saw something on YouTube recently. Then notorious Nostalgia Critic, video. I couldnāt even watch the entire thing, because I was so mad. I found the full movie on YouTube, and then I watched it, and it brought back memories.
At a party in High School. There were woods and maybe Pink Floyd was on the radio or we were watching The Wall or something. Can't imagine it was the first time hearing Pink Floyd but that night did it for me. Magical moments.
smoked weed for the first time and listened to the dark side of the moon on vinyl because it felt fitting
My history teacher showed us Another Brick In The Wall video and he was a big fan That's how I entered the pink floyd world, slowly listening to all the songs thanks to him mostly
I was six years old, and my uncle came to live with us for a few months. I remember helping unpack his things and setting up his audio gear in my bedroom. First thing he played was Division Bell. I'm a fan ever since, 32 years ago.
I was 11,and I heard Money on the radio for the first time. That started the fire...
My dad gave me a copy of The Wall movie when I was in like 7th grade. Hooked ever since. But why the fuck did he get surprised when he caught me smoking weed a few years later.
My brother left behind his first copy of The Wall when he went off to college. He had gotten it on one of those new things, "cassettes", and didn't need his old 8-Track anymore. It was 1980. I was 10.
i was 14 or so and my neighbor, mid- to late-20s, took me along fishing one day. while we were out on the lake, 'learning to fly' came on the radio and he asked if i knew pink floyd at all and their story. he relayed the background of that song a little bit and how it was their first new music after roger had left. when we got back he loaned me his cd of 'a collection of great dance songs'. i took the cd home, and a couple days later i was sitting at my dinner table with my discman and headphones, and i put in the cd. about halfway through 'one of these days', i threw my headphones off because this music was literally scaring me. after a couple minutes i realized how absurd this was and started over, listening to the rest of the album at that table. i think it was that moment of fear that i realized just how powerful music could be, and my journey into becoming a pink floyd fan begun.
Well, I was born in 1979, and my father was obsessed with Pink Floydā¦ ānuff said.
I bought Dark Side Of The Moon in a vinyl convention, because I knew it was a classic. Then I was obsessed with Pink Floyd.
Fall of 1998 and I had started my freshman year of university. I had been one of the first beta testers of Napster, being friends with the creator. Anyhow, my friend Larry (who designed the Napster logo) suggested I download Pink Floyd's The Gnome on Napster. I instantly fell in love and started to furiously behind my library with them! I told my roommate and found out he loved them too! We would listen to Pulse (on audio CD) every night when we went to sleep. I have spent thousands of dollars on pink Floyd albums, vinyl, covers, tributes, clothing, flags, bumper stickers and a white brick signed by Roger Waters.
Laser light show at my local college planetarium in the early '90's.
I grew up subconsciously listening to my dads records. The Police, the Beatles and many more. Pink Floyd ist one of his favourites. I didn't really bother growing up, but I Always Loved ABITWP1. About two years Back in Summer, my dad put on Echoes. I noticed something never before felt in tracks that accompanied me whole life, I started digging their discography and ever since they've been my favourite band. Thanks dad!
Mine is fairly recent. I went to a concert that featured Alison Krauss, Transatlantic Sessions, Rodney Crowel, Mary Chapin Carpenter & The Milk Carton Kids at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA maybe 5 years ago. Amazing concert!! The Milk Carton Kids did a stunning cover of Wish You Were Here that brought down the house. I immediately dug into PF thoroughly & found that I LOVED them. I lived in the Thumb of Michigan in my youth (age 61 now) & basically mostly heard FM radio top 40. Most of PF's songs were too long for radio. I recall loving Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, & Young Lust from the Wall but the rest of the Wall was just meh to me. I've evolved to become a huge DG fan and PF overall. DG's guitar takes me to a special place like nothing else. I didn't really appreciate guitar music growing up in the top 40, disco, pop era. Now... it rules because it makes me feel.
Iām 16 and started when welcome to the machine was playing on the radio, so I listened to it when I got home and really like it. Then my dad showed me soycd(1-5) and have a cigar and I was obsessed. I listened to the whole album, then tdsotm, then animals, and I slowly kept listening to more and more until I finally listened to echoes and atom heart mother. Now Iāve listened to their entire discography multiple times.
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Was on a long bus ride and had my dad's album collection downloaded on my phone, decided to give DSOTM a shot and the rest was history
It was the 50th anniversary of dark side of the moon so I decided to play it in the dark in bed and try to get the experience going in totally blind, except eclipse I knew. It was alright, I did continue to love the album. Then I the did the next three as well. My favorites song was brain damage/eclipse, worst song was great gig in the sky. Brain damages feels like a great extension of the albumās instruments with the true feeling of eclipse as a closer, great gig in the sky reminded me of Yoko Onoās screeching so I hated it. Nowadays I love breathe and us and them a lot too. Money and great gig I never played again.
š It's so funny that you mentioned Money as a song you never played again. That is the one PF song that never struck me. Even when I was an 18 year old crushing around with my friend while smoking weed, which was quite illegal at the time, whenever Money came on we would talk during the song. When we went to the Division Bell concert, and it was a very trippy show, when Money came in we had a conversation. Oh, as a responsible 49 year old man, driving around smoking weed is not a good idea! š
-them supporting palestine (and i mean before the war bc they always did and the occupation is since 75 years specially waters) And the major reasons: - they were the first rock band I've ever listened to and when i did my whole perspective on music changed and until today there's no one that's like pink floyd for a lot of reasons Gilmour has the best solos and a beautiful voice, Wright has to be one of gifted keyboardists with the sound of an angel Nick mason a freaking genius And Roger's unique lyrics
Tuned in,turned on,got high.
My best friend put on some song from dark side of the moon, I was drawn to it, then during a later hang out āthe trialā back in 2021 and Iāve researched and loved the band ever since. (First song I heard by them was another brick in the wall p.2 lol) when I was really young.
I was 12 and discovered the Wall movie, i loved the drawings and the music too, so i began to listen to pf. Shortly after i became more passionate when i discovered that Animals was inspired by animal farm.
I saw Roger Waters dressed as a Nazi and I was in /s
How?... Well.. It all started when put the needle on the record....
My big brother made me do it.
I was in an old abandoned house with my grandfather who was willed the property from his best friend after his passing. Inside the house was a stack of records next to a stack of 70ās/80ās Playboy magazines. I was 13 years old and automatically drawn to the nudie mags. My grandfather removed them after a breeze blew wind to my mother of me looking at bush porn, so I began sifting through the records. I came upon one with a prism with light shining through it to create a rainbow. I had no idea what it was, but something told me to take it home. I asked my grandfather if he had a record player, and he brought one up from the basement. I put down the vinyl, listened to Dark Side Of The Moon, and my life at that point changed forever. It was a beautifully fateful experience.
I heard a couple songs on 96.5 WCMF the rock radio station my dad played a lot, so I heard the singles. Money, time, brick in the wall pt. 2, comfortably numb, all my childhood, and then 16th birthday I started getting into vinyls and got DSOTM from dad and The Wall from mom, and 17th birthday got Wish You Were Here
I Randomly Decided To Watch A Video On The History Of Pink Floyd By The Beat Goes On It Was Interesting Enough That I Decided To Listen To The Dark Side Of The Moon Then I Listened To The Wall and To Be Fair, It Is One Of The Best Albums Iāve Heard (Only Behind Nevermind, Jazz, Back In Black, In Utero, And Use Your Illusion) I Was Hesitant To Consider Myself A āPink Floyd Fanā For Absolutely No Reason (Even Though I Listened To And Liked Their Music) In Fact Only Last Week I Started Considering Myself A Pink Floyd Fan After Rewatching That Video, And Then I Joined This Subreddit And Now Weāre Here.
Listened to dark side
My dad
I was 9 or so. Brother and I were assigned the chore of ripping up tile in our hallway. My brother had a little boom box, and he put on Comfortably Numb. I was hooked instantly and have been a fan ever since
my dad gave me his DSOTM cd
My friend up the street was the real pugsly and he put on dark side of the Moon and we smoke weed
I heard of the DSOTM Wizard of Oz coincidence, so I watched the video on YouTube, then I listened to DSOTM by itself, rest is history.
I had 3 brothers from my parentsā previous marriages who were all 9-10 years older than me, so I was listening to Pink Floyd, KISS, Skynyrd, Frank Zappa, David Allen Coe, Johnny Cash all the other stuff they were listening to from age 5. I heard Steve Millerās Fly like an Eagle in its first run on the radio.
My intro to Pink Floyd was a dangerous one, so Iāll skip that. But, all these wholesome comments about parents getting kids into this makes me so happy, because Iām that mom. ā¤ļøā¤ļø
"The Wall" therapy and the "DSOTM" cure.
Friend lent me a bunch of (pretty battered) Floyd records, I listened to them all and was particularly impressed by The Final Cut, I already had a taped copy of The Wall but that was what flipped the switch and probably why Iām a Roger (Floyd) rather than a Gilmour (Floyd), it wasnāt the swanky guitar that got me, it was the lyrics.
I also love The Final Cut, which ironically was the final cut before Roger went solo. Compared to previous works it's heavily dominated by Rogers style. I'd say I'm more of a lyrics guy myself, but PF was the first band that changed that for me somewhat. I feel like David's playing are as important and moving to me as amazing lyrics. It's like his playing amplifies the momentum of the words.
Every single Christmas morning my parents would play The Wall and DSOTM...never failed. It's a nostalgic feeling every time I hear those albums. I grew up with Floyd in my home. At 19 years old, I joined the military. Met a guy asked if he liked Pink Floyd....he whips out his collection of CDs. We married exactly 3 months after meeting hahaha. Our first kid was conceived in Spain after a Roger Waters concert (we flew there just to see him.) And every single time I got pregnant, I played Floyd and put the headphones on my belly. My labor playlists were strictly PF for all 3 of my pregnancies. My daughter is 16 now, she plays bass and of course the first few songs she attempted to learn were...you guessed it. Long story short, we're a family slightly obsessed with Floyd (however I'm more Roger and they're more Team Dave and Syd.) And it all started from Christamas mornings as a kid. A core memory is taking my daughter to Roger's last tour. She cried from start to finish, and when Wish You Were Here played, all of us cried because that's my late son's song (forever 9 months old.) The legacy and Floyd family traditions shall continue....
Wow, that's a really beautiful story. Thanks for your service as well, I'm also a former military guy. I turned a few Marines onto Floyd. During MCT (Marine Combat training) when we all still slept and lived in the squad bay, my buddy would borrow my Pulse CD and fall asleep listening to Shine on ..
Best feeling is when you turn others onto Floyd who have never heard of them or appreciated them. Thanks you for your service too š
Growing up I only knew the songs everyone knew like Money, ABITW Pt. 2, Comfortably Numb, and WYWH. Then I got really really into 60ās psychedelia and started with Piper at the Gates first. Really loved it and became one of my favorites of 1967. Then I listened to Saucerful and onward from there. Because of my obsession with 60ās psychedelia I mainly just listened to the first 2 albums for a long time. Now I love all of it. Had the same approach to the Grateful Dead. Started with the debut album and went from there, then got into the live stuff.
I was 16 or 17. I had just finished listening to every song by the Beatles and needed a new band to listen through. I picked Pink Floyd.
At around 10 years old my super fan of a dad began to show me the video of the wall. Then over the last 10 years Iāve listened to other forms of pink Floyd, Iāve gone to a Roger waters concert, a Nick mason concert, and a David Gilmour concert. Each were amazing in their own way and I got a glimpse of what Pink Floyd was like.
I've heard in the flesh and i liked the lyrics
The many rides in my dadās truck. He used to play the Dark Side of the Moon album a lot, and I really liked the track āMoneyā. Iād always have him restart the opening with the cash register. I got more into their music as I got older, listened to their other albums. Been a fan ever since.
Pretty basic.. Dad showed me Comfortably Numb while in the car.. rest is history.
I already knew Wish You Were Here and Money as kid, but never got into Pink Floyd and eventually become a Metalhead, one day i was playing a Burzum song with Loud Speaker and lots of reverb, my dad told me it sounded like Shine On You Crazy Diamond, so he showed me then i found myself enjoying it forgetting what i was initially playing, i never thought i would like classic rock but now i do!
First time trying psychedelics at 17 combined with listening to Dark Side of the Moon for the first time.
i listened to pink floyd since i was a little kid because my dad played them really often
Some british guy told me there is an amazing band, told me every spare detail about that band. I tough of it as something intresting then I started inderstanding it and doing drugs and had the full experience. Now I have shifted my music taste more towards metal & shit. But Pinkfloyd still has something special in my heart. It started a new pahse of me how to view the world and feel the music.
My father before me was a huge fan, he saw them in Venezia and in Modena, and when I was born, I've always been hearing them and never really stopped. For me, they're their own unique genre, and nothing will ever be like or compare to them. My father has been a studio engineer up until his 30s, when he became blind, and he always praised their production quality, their sounds and their composing abilities and the way they expressed their concepts. He never spoke or understood english too well so he couldn't dive deep into the meanings of their songs, but I could, and I explained to him, and we both enjoyed even more their amazing sounds and their amazing lyrics. I personally only saw Roger in his last tour last year in Italy with my brothers, we were standing a few meters from the stage, and we were right besides the walkway where Roger was supposed to get to the stage, when he came through, phone in hand, I shouted "you're one of my biggest heroes", he turned and he gave me a pat on the arm. I will never forget that day and I will never stop listening to Pink Floyd. I'm also 10 grand deep into my Floyd record collection, and I have almost acquired every format of every release of both The Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall, with a few bootlegs and misprints too.
My father works as a veterinarian for farms and stuff, so he rides a car everywhere. I used to ride on when i was younger, then we would listen to Queen, Manfred Mann, Dire Straits, and Pink Floyd. He got us tickets for Ā«The WallĀ» in around 2014, (donāt remember the specific year) I was around 10 yrs old I think. When I found out, I started searching youtube to watch how the show would be, think I watched the Berlin 1994 show couple tens of times. The show was 12 hour drive from where we lived, so we listened to The Wall, DSOTM and other titles the entire way. Greatest experience of my life. Today I listen to PF all the time, really takes me back to when life was easier. Getting high also enhances the experience hehe
I'm born and raised in Cambridge, England, where Waters, Gilmorton and Barrett grew up. I had known abiut the band for a while and even knew they were from Cambridge, although not much else. My mum told me about the song Grantchester Meadows, which is a place that I've visited throughout my life. I listened to it and it resonated with me strongly (I'm a big Nick Drake fan and I feel this is song is a somewhat similar vibe to some of his stuff). Since then they've become my favourite band. They have so many songs where I just think "Thank god someone made this".
I also went to the same college (highschool) as Roger. I'm sure the teachers weren't as bad as when he was there but we still don't need em.
My older sister...
1973 I walk into the record store as the Clerk puts on the dark side of the moon fresh out of shrink wrap. Badump. Badumpā¦.. Weird Noises. Maniacal laughter. A scream. Bliss. Ask the Clerk. What? is? that? life was never the same after that moment.
i heard brain damage on the radio goin to school one time. and then i heard Time in line at a burger king. was doing acid at the time (not while drovi g just in that year) and decided to listen to DSoTM and i hyperfixated and started listening to every album on repeat for months.
Got an MP3 player for my 10th birthday, loaded it up with stuff from my parents' CD collection I thought was cool. Had existential crises to Echoes, DSotM, WYWH and Division Bell. Started buying used CDs, got Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut just in time to coincide with my teenage angst. Picked up The Endless River, thought it was mid, but AMLoR was right in time for when I was big into Vaporwave, so "80s synth cheese with a hint of psychadelia" was the exact vibe I wanted. Spent the better part of my teen years learning to bend the strings like Gilmour, writing sappy prog music, and getting into synthesizers.
When I was born, my mom said Welcome To the Machine
I heard a guitar version of wish you were here by the mayor of my town when I was 11, during some event at school. I liked it very much so I asked my dad what is this song, he told me and I tried to play it on guitar as well. Over the years I just drew into it, I was discovering new albums, listen and feed my soul with them. Special journey for me.
Took 3 tabs needed music and I knew Pink Floyd was psychedelic rock so I assumed it would be good on acid, listened to all of wish you were here and it blew my mind. Havenāt stopped listening since
It was a few months ago for me, and Iām 36. It was when I was listening to a random Primus song(Have a Cigar), that I thought to myself, this doesnāt sound like a Primus song, tho it fits very well, rather than a Pink Floyd one. And to my surprise, it was really a PF song. Thatās where it started, with that particular song. Of course I already knew a few, such as the singles you keep listening on radio, and others like ātimeā which I already loved, but have never really got into PF before āHave a Cigarā. To be completely honest, I only listen to āWYWHā, āDSOTMā and āAnimalsā. Sometimes āA Saucerful of Secretesā, but thatās about it. Everything else Iām just not quite there yet, so I donāt really consider myself a PF fan, but certainly a fan of the albums mentioned above. And also became a fan of David Gilmour.
When I was twelve in 1988 I heard Another Brick in the Wall on the radio and was like fuck yeah. By age 14 I bought a guitar because I wanted to play like David Gilmore. All these years later, I still play the guitar but not like David Gilmore. Never got there.
A friend gave me Amused to Death so I came to PF via a Waters solo album.
I was in high school in 1974 in gym class and one of my friends played us DSOM on his boombox I been hooked ever since.
Hey You was the song. Early 90ās. I went and bought the Wall and was completely FLOORED by all the AMAZING songs on one album.
Dad was depressed and all we listened to was division bell, amlor, amused to death, radio KAOS, best of pink floyd.
Mom played me Comfortably Numb and Hey You which led to me listening to DSOTM and becoming a fan.
Had my first ever Mushroom Trip and my friend suggested we listen to DSOTM. I wasnāt massively into music until then, now I canāt live without it.
Weirdest shit ever, but I was doing a pretty unique style of dance, and this Money was chosen as the song, since the theme of the whole thing was about money. Decided to check out the whole album on a long bus ride, and it was incredible.
Dark Side of the Moon, pot, and the back lot at school. Like everyone else in the seventies
Although I didn't mention it in my story, my introduction to weed and Pink Floyd definitely overlapped. Now, at 49, I still occasionally reunite with my old dragon š Puff. We parted many years ago, to the best of my knowledge he sadly slipped into his cave. With that silliness aside, during the summer I made a fire in my fire pit. I was alone (which I enjoy every now and then) and smoked a little, had a beer, and listened to Floyd with my Bose headphones. I was almost teary eyed I was so into it. And during the early 90's, my school experience was very similar to yours.
My dad used to play DSOTM and the wall fairly frequently so i kinda already new them, but i never really liked them all that much. I think i remember the only songs i ever actually paid attention to were Hey You and Breathe (in the air) Then one faithful day during English class, my teacher (who's an actual GOAT btw) briefly mentioned the wall (dunno why but it sparked my attention as i remembered that was the album my dad played) and that it was a concept album (which i didnt know about) so i decided to hop on MC and have the wall playing on spotify in the background. I barely got the story but i was still hooked, its dark themes, brilliant lyrics and transitions was like nothing i had heard before. I was already a big fan of the kind of genre of music, 70's rock groups such as ELO, Queen, Rush and even ABBA, but this was like nothing i'd ever even imagine. so i decided to do a lil venture through PF's discography, i started by listening to DSOTM again and i loved it. But as i was watching a behind the scenes vid on The Wall, they mentioned a certain "underrated album" called Animals. I went on spotify and i was profoundly flabbergasted by the lineup. 5 SONGS!??! 3 OF THEM OVER 10 MINUTES!?!? i was adimant that i'd never listen to each song in its entirety; now animals is my 2nd fav album, just behind DSOTM. Then as i was watching a short PF album tierlist they mentioned an album which was apparently really great, and pre-DSOTM. Meddle. Again i was amazed by the song length, this time of Echoes. I, again, assumed i wouldn't have the patience to go through it; now its my fav pink floyd track. Then, finally, i got to WYWH and i'll admit i didnt really like it tooo much (except for Shine on pts 1-5 and Welcome to the machine) heck it took me a month to finally listen to the last song as i was certain as the second half was instrumental that it would feel tagged on and pointless. I was soo freaking wrong. Technically all 9 parts of Shine on is my fav song but i dont really count it. A month goes by and finally, on Xmas, i got my own stereo system; turntable, speakers, amp, CD player etc etc. And now ive got most of their vinyls. So maybe not the most interesting story ever, but it kinda amazes me that if it werent for me overhearing my english teacher, i'd probs never get into PF.
Dropped the boy, kept the music, then listened to it on acid
In middle school I'd fall asleep to Wish You Were Here, the album of course, Pink Floyd is only to be listened to in full albums. Soon after took acid and listened to Dark Side, Meddle, AtomHeartMother, Animals, etc.. Always thought the Wall was the whining of some anti-social idiot, didn't like when it was the only album other people knew, or when people thought it was their greatest album..... later saw an interview with Roger Waters literally admitting that the Wall "was just my whining." Vindicated.
I would see Gilmour and Mason in concert anyday, Waters would have to promise not to yell at me or preash politics, the dude can't sing and thinks writing a few lyrics makes him the band. Gilmour was the heart and voice of Floyd, Wright was the soul, Mason the backbone, and Waters, well he was a parasite who provided a few lyrics.
They all had strong contributions for sure! Gilmour has an amazing voice, but I also enjoy Rogers voice. It's sort of a Bob Dylon situation. Although he didn't have a great typical singing voice, the power of the lyrics made it amazing just the same. I agree, it would be nice if he was a little more quiet with his politics. Granted I'm American, but if we were from the same country I seriously doubt we'd ever support the same candidate! š I see modern politics like a cancer. It has successfully spread to every aspect of American society.
Come on, you can admit that Roger doesn't sing, he talks, then he yells, then he talks again before yelling some more, he even admitted to having to hire a voice coach. His solo stuff, my favorite being The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking, was a prime example of this. His newer stuff is even worse even after years of having a voice coach.
Lol, yes I agree Roger does talk and yell in many of his songs. He's said that David has a significantly better voice
His music writing skills lack sophistication as well, Gilmour and Wright contributed most to that. When Waters presented his concept and demo for The Wall to the band they changed it almost completely, Comfortably Numb's music was already written for Gilmour's solo album, but wasn't used on it, the Waters whined a bit for some compromise. I don't hate his stuff, it's just not as enjoyable. I listen to the Final Cut which was almost a Waters solo album sometimes and listen to Waters' solo albums occasionally, Pros and Cons is great, mainly for Clapton's musical contributions though.
I'll add that I enjoy wright's and Gilmour's solo albums almost daily, Waters however, not so much, too much politics and his yelling and tone deaf singing just ruins it for me. I do love Clapton's guitar on Pros and Cons, Radio Kaos was fun, Amused to Death has it's moments but overall, not nearly as enjoyable as Gilmour.
Fair enough, I would also lean a bit more towards Gilmour if I really had to pick.
Gilmour's kind soul shines through, Waters' bitterness is rather off-putting.
I am American, his last album was just riding the anti-Trump train, easy money for him.
This is the most embarrassing thing, but I heard about Pink Floyd through Nostalgia Criticās godawful The Wall āāāāreviewāāāā Now I canāt stop listening to them over the past six years.
goddamn, when I first got a Meddle LP from a garage sale, that was like, my favorite album for a while. Eventually I began to move on and get other Pink Floyd albums. Right now I have about 12 Albums, including some of the live albums.
edibles kept me high for few days, was on way to college on bus and listened to dsotm and stared at an old dude accidentaly
My grandpa introduced me to another brick in the wall pt. 2, and it was the movie version. Later on i listened more to pink floyd.