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It was a band that always intrigued me when I was a kid, because it was obvioulsy extremely popular and well known by many….. bet yet, despite its success during mid seventies its band members seemed rather anonymous and off the radar.
The group imo could have walked down most U.K high streets totally unrecognized, and that was during times when 'Dark Side Of The Moon' seemed to be in the U.K Charts forever!
And when 'Another Brick In the Wall' single was a mega hit it was that cartoon-video that promoted and accompanied the song. And that was the only Pink Floyd song that I can remember being released as a single.
When I was in school I always perceived them (rightly or wrongly) along with Prog-Rock music to be ‘campus bands’ preferred by intellectual deep thinking types and people doing stuff like economics degrees at Leicester University.
The guy in the local workingman’s club liked Alvin Stardust and the guy in the university debating union liked Pink Floyd and Genesis.
It was a band that always intrigued me when I was a kid, because it was obvioulsy extremely popular and well known by many….. bet yet, despite its success during mid seventies its band members seemed rather anonymous and off the radar.
The group imo could have walked down most U.K high streets totally unrecognized, and that was during times when 'Dark Side Of The Moon' seemed to be in the U.K Charts forever!
And when 'Another Brick In the Wall' single was a mega hit it was that cartoon-video that promoted and accompanied the song. And that was the only Pink Floyd song that I can remember being released as a single.
When I was in school I always perceived them (rightly or wrongly) along with Prog-Rock music to be ‘campus bands’ preferred by intellectual deep thinking types and people doing stuff like economics degrees at Leicester University.
The guy in the local workingman’s club liked Alvin Stardust and the guy in the university debating union liked Pink Floyd and Genesis.
Brick in the wall only beaten by Mull of Kintyre for dirge
Seemed to be in the single charts for an eternity.
And L.P's 'Bat Out Of Hell"....."War Of The Worlds" seemd to be forever in charts also!
Now your talking Meat and Ellen on Whistle test was red hot . Years have flown I always saw Pink Floyd has having the attitude that the audience was extremely lucky to see them . Utterly arrogant And as I suggest,pretentious and overlong .
Emerson Lake and Palmer were my idols but they are arrogant too.
Seemed to be in the single charts for an eternity.
And L.P's 'Bat Out Of Hell"....."War Of The Worlds" seemd to be forever in charts also!
Now your talking Meat and Ellen on Whistle test was red hot . Years have flown I always saw Pink Floyd has having the attitude that the audience was extremely lucky to see them . Utterly arrogant And as I suggest,pretentious and overlong .
Emerson Lake and Palmer were my idols but they are arrogant too.
Now your talking Meat and Ellen on Whistle test was red hot . Years have flown I always saw Pink Floyd has having the attitude that the audience was extremely lucky to see them . Utterly arrogant And as I suggest,pretentious and overlong .
Emerson Lake and Palmer were my idols but they are arrogant too.
I’ve blown myself up here
Those were the days, so much character, so much indivduality, so much uniqueness, so much inventivenss, so many different genre's and so many star performers and so many L.P's sold.
And I knew a guy who once saw Screaming Lord Sutch arrive on stage in a coffin during the 1970's. You dont get that from 'dub'....'trance' ....'hip-hop'....or your latest X=Factor winner!
Those were the days, so much character, so much indivduality, so much uniqueness, so much inventivenss, so many different genre's and so many star performers and so many L.P's sold.
And I knew a guy who once saw Screaming Lord Sutch arrive on stage in a coffin during the 1970's. You dont get that from 'dub'....'trance' ....'hip-hop'....or your latest X=Factor winner!
I was sent to piano lessons from the age of 7 with Emrys Jones in Kildare St and hated being taught classical music . I packed it in eventually early teens . My father bought a Hammond Organ for our home and played hymns on it. I refused to go anywhere near it. Then Keith Emerson came along in the Nice . I saw them live in south Wales and was not the same again. I went back to the keyboard
Those were the days, so much character, so much indivduality, so much uniqueness, so much inventivenss, so many different genre's and so many star performers and so many L.P's sold.
And I knew a guy who once saw Screaming Lord Sutch arrive on stage in a coffin during the 1970's. You dont get that from 'dub'....'trance' ....'hip-hop'....or your latest X=Factor winner!
I watched ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones in a YouTube discussion with Queens Brian May and both agreed that we will never again see unique bygone musical decade stuff, because so many different styles/genres were in existance at the same time.
Glam, prog-rock, country, rock n' roll, punk rock, new-wave, country rock, heavy metal, mod/ska, disco and 'traditional' easy listening. In times when Queen were at number one with 'Bohemian rhapsody' and Laurel and Hardy at number three with 'Trail of the lonessome pine'.
And times when The Stranglers were chart topping with 'Nice n' sleazy' whilst Guy Marks was doing something completely different with 'Loving You Has Made Me Bananas'. Unique times! Maybe even slightly insane?
I watched ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones in a YouTube discussion with Queens Brian May and both agreed that we will never again see unique bygone musical decade stuff, because so many different styles/genres were in existance at the same time.
Glam, prog-rock, country, rock n' roll, punk rock, new-wave, country rock, heavy metal, mod/ska, disco and 'traditional' easy listening. In times when Queen were at number one with 'Bohemian rhapsody' and Laurel and Hardy at number three with 'Trail of the lonessome pine'.
And times when The Stranglers were chart topping with 'Nice n' sleazy' whilst Guy Marks was doing something completely different with 'Loving You Has Made Me Bananas'. Unique times! Maybe even slightly insane?
Music today absolute dirge. Off my head I will name 10 great albums and i mean great albums from the 70s Desire Bob Dylan London Calling Clash Rattus Norvegicus Stranglers Some Girls Rolling Stones Unknown Pleasures Joy Division Paranoid Black Sabbath Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin Hejira Joni Mitchell Damned Damned Damned The Damned Hunky Dory Bowie
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