>Periods of straight up silence >Plain talking mixed in throughout the album >Instrumental sections are trash: they are boring, uninspired and repetitive >Brain damage is the only one with a good melody, but even that song is ruined by weird talking and shitty instrumentals >Nothing particularly difficult or impressive about any of the songs either >Regarded as one of the best albums of all time
Can someone explain why this is so popular? I just listened to it, and I can't understand why anyone would enjoy it. Do you have to be high for it to not sound like garbage?
released at the peak of the space age coupled with the use of synths to make it sound very spacey. Right time right place. I wouldn't say it's garbage but it's definitely not PF's best work (see: literally anything after this album up until A Momentary Lapse)
Christian Green
bait thread dont fucking reply
Carson Cooper
>Someone has a different opinion to me, therefore it's bait.
Kevin Taylor
sick quads, homie also fuck you, OP
Dylan James
>he doesnt like the live at Wembley '74 version of Any Colour You Like ya gay
Dominic Gomez
nope your "opinion" is objectively fucking shit dude, and the fact that you'd use such terrible bait to try and fling shit at a classic album is actually disrespectful. go die, and i mean that with the utmost sincerity.
Charles Thompson
Yeah, keep going for the bait then, you fucking retard.
Daniel Garcia
Quads of truth Saged and move on
Dylan Thompson
>if you're album doesn't align with general consensus, you should die I'm not even the guy you're responding too but if this is how you genuinely respond to people with differing opinions you're a retard.
I hear reddit has some very good safe spaces and echo-chambers if other people's opinions hurt you so much however.
Anthony Mitchell
Listening to an album that you clearly know is very popular, disliking it, and immediately making a thread on Yea Forums asking why people like this "garbage" is not an opinion. It's bait, and if you can't see that you're a bigger fucking idiot than OP.
Grayson Cooper
it wasnt a very spectacular era for pop music.
Ryan Bell
>70s >wasnt a very spectacular era for pop music stop posting any time retard
The silence is necessary to give people a break. Also the break between great gig in the sky and Money is justifiable considering it was made for vinyl and the disc would need to be flipped over at that point. Instrumentals aren’t trash. The electronic crap was brand new at the time and people hadn’t heard a lot of stuff like that before. Weird talking is a nice touch and adds to the insanity feeling of the album. >time doesn’t have a good melody >us and them doesn’t have a good melody >breathe doesn’t have a good melody Difficulty doesn’t mean good or bad. Simple is good sometimes.
You don’t need to be high for it to not sound like garbage, though it does help to be, you just need to not be an underage philistine
Luis Bennett
>The silence is necessary to give people a break If the album were half decent, people wouldn't need a break from the songs. >People hadn’t heard a lot of stuff like that before New is not necessarily good, and it doesn't explain why the album aged so well. >you just need to not be an underage philistine to enjoy the album So a philistine is someone who decides for themselves what they like, rather than following the masses?
Lucas White
>If the album were half decent, people wouldn't need a break from the songs. Is this what constant overstimulation does to your brain? I feel sorry for your generation.
Isaiah Nguyen
Does constant overstimulation cause me to prefer listening to music than silence? Get the fuck out of your ivory tower, user. You're grasping at straws with that one.
Landon James
ya Pink Floyd fucking sucks
like "The Wall" is a fucking terrible album too (worse than Darkside) I mean on "Another Brick In The Wall Part 2" has probably the WEAKEST and WORST tone out of any "Popular" song.
Listen, @ 7 seconds, listen to how SHIT the guitar sounds. (Another Brick In The Wall Part 2) youtube.com/watch?v=34ZmKbe5oG4
But no Gilmour had to play that shitty strat using the neck pick up. Like it sounds like shit.
Imagine if he used a Telecastor with the Bridge pick-ups on. (For instance Keith's guitar on "Honky Tonk Woman" youtube.com/watch?v=61jfm219ArA ) That's the tone they should have strived for.
I mean fuck even if he had just used the bridge pickup, it would have sounded so much better (it would have sounded closer to this guitar- youtube.com/watch?v=qjtRL2Omz6w)
Liam Perry
based
Jayden Sullivan
not even going to finish reading your post retard filtered
Wyatt Fisher
is this the most retarded user on all of Yea Forums?
Jackson Perez
I unironically agree.
Easton Murphy
Has a great atmosphere and feel to it. That combined with its pathetically shallow comments on life gives the appearance of depth
Dominic Wood
This album unironically fucking sucks. >b-but you don't understand you have to listen to it on acid!! Imagine having to be on fucking drugs to think an album is good. Jimi is good both sober and high. DSOTM is dogshit.
William Jones
>Periods of straight up silence >Plain talking mixed in throughout the album part of what makes it so special
Nolan Hall
>Nothing particularly difficult or impressive about any of the songs either That's what makes it so good. It's a pretentious as shit idea that Roger had, to make an album about the "meaning of life" or something, and you'd think he'd come up with complicated music. But it's an album that offer simple answers to complicated questions. Better than literally anything you could come up with if you were give unlimited time and money and immortality
sir, you are what they call in civilized world an "autist"
Dylan Harris
That's bullshit. There are thousands of albums with that stuff that are virtually unknown. Also, if I wanted to listen to talking or silence, I wouldn't listen to music.
>it's an album that offer simple answers to complicated questions. What questions and what answers? Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit, user.
Your arguments were quite justified, but then I saw your other replies and I realized that you are trying too hard not to like the album, yikes
Julian Hughes
It's a descent album, obviously it's not gonna be super challegening stuff if it sold 40 million copies.
I'd give it 2.5 / 5 or something, few good tracks.
Tyler Garcia
lol, I honestly feel like the people I have replied to are trying too hard to defend the album, and refuse any criticism towards it. If my arguments are justified, then "but that actually makes it good" is not a good counterargument.
Evan Moore
>>Periods of straight up silence >>Plain talking mixed in throughout the album >>weird talking >these are inherent negatives Holy moly pleb cassaroli
Adrian Stewart
Actually, I've rarely seen many people defend this album here, and if it's your first pink floyd album you've heard, you'd better listen to the next 3 albums Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall, maybe you'll like one of these.
aside from I've only responded to people defend the album.
Jaxon Smith
Correct
Tyler Johnson
It's a little overrated but still good. Time, Us and Them, and Money are all good and the sound effects are fairly tasteful for the album's concept. 9/10. And I listen to KC, Gentle Giant, Soft Machine, Caravan, Yes, Jethro Tull, Genesis (Trick and earlier), Can and Faust all the time, so it's not because I haven't heard enough prog that I like it.
