So it turns out that there appears to exist a group of people who love Wish You Were Here and Animals, but dislike Dark Side of the Moon.
If you are one of those people, can I just ask... why?
Weird DSOTM Hate
Jordan Lee
Cooper Phillips
underage contrarians/dickriding pitchfork/fantano/etc drones
Ryan Hill
dsotm is popular
Jonathan Sanders
Jose Campbell
literally people in denial that they like more straightforward rock music. I like them all because they aren’t all that shockingly different from one another. The only Pink Floyd album thats really out there for its time is Pipers and even then it’s debatable how experimental even that is
Levi White
If I have this right, the site gives DSOTM a strong 9, WYWH lite 10 and Animals a strong 10. That's not really what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people who actively like WYWH and Animals but actively dislike DSOTM.
Aaron Miller
I don't really see dislike for it, just that it seems to be considered their best album by loads of people. I honestly can't say which album I like best (out of the 4 big ones) because I have a different attachment to each of them.
Benjamin Brown
DSOTM was never my favourite Pink Floyd, but I don't get hate towards it. It still has a bunch of good tracks.
Wish You Were Here is probably Pink Floyd's most accessible album, so it's obviously going to attract the most tourists. In that vein, I'm surprised by the lack of attention given to Meddle & Obscured by Clouds, which to me have a very similar feel to Wish You Were Here. But that's tourists for you.
Still doesn't explain why people who like Animals would dislike DSOTM though.
The Wall is another one that attracts disproportionate attention for being a "landmark concept album". No shit it's good, but still.
A lot of people who want to seem "in" with Pink Floyd get their earlier stuff with Syd. They don't seem to realise that's what everyone else is doing too.
AMLOR is the true Pink Floyd pleb filter.
Xavier Jenkins
>AMLOR is the true Pink Floyd pleb filter.
Brody Hughes
I like WYWH a lot
I'm indifferent on DSOTM but I will admit it has some perfect songs on it, namely Us and Them and Brain Damage
and I've never heard Animals
Grayson Edwards
You should probably give Animals a listen then.
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Sebastian Green
and Meddle & Obscured by Clouds
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Alexander Johnson
fpbp
good album, not their best but hating it because its popular reeks of pleb
Hunter Adams
I'm not one of those people, but I can sort of see why they exist.
DSOTM has a really polished, almost too perfect quality to it compared to Animals and WYWH.
It's definitely the most accessible Pink Floyd album, so a lot of contrarians hate it for that reason alone.
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Carter Lopez
>It's definitely the most accessible Pink Floyd album
Nah, that's WYWH. DSotM has weird instrumental interludes like On the Run and Any Colour You Like which would turn off a normie.
Cooper Lewis
>weird instrumental interludes
Those are my fave tracks on DSotM alongside 'Time'. The one I struggle with is "DUDE ODD TIME SIGNATURES LMAO" 'Money'.
Not cause of the odd time sig necessarily, I just think it's a bit shit.
Carter Rogers
WYWH has Welcome to the Machine, which in my experience really turns normies off.
The worst thing on DSOTM for normies is usually Great Gig in the Sky. On the Run is pretty short and Any Colour sounds cool so they usually get a pass.
Nathaniel Lopez
>Great Gig in the Sky
>tfw the best part of your album was improvised by some woman
Chase Clark
>They only paid her $500
Thot patrolled
Nolan Rogers
Surely a "normie" would find a couple minutes of novel weirdness more palatable than WYWH's lengthy prog sections?
Cameron Jenkins
brain damage seems to me like the most banal and uninteresting expression of weirdness
Like you know when cartoons depict asian/mexican/whatever music in the most unoriginal cliche filled stereotypical ways? That's how I feel about brain damage's verse chords
Caleb Lee
Animals sucks, the other two are good
Brandon Diaz
All three of those albums are about Syd
Thomas Edwards
It's because it's too popular and because of shit like this.
It's like the minecraft of music, where it's so universally praised and surrounded by obnoxious kids and oversaturation that it becomes cool to not like it anymore. That, and some people legit just dont like its poppier aspects.
Xavier Powell
>Animals is about Syd
no it isn't
Henry Brooks
it's a great album the first time you listen to it. after a few listens it loses its magic. it's just one of those kind of albums
Adam Sullivan
exactly this, couldn't say it better
Ian Cook
All songs Roger ever wrote are about Syd.
Jordan Evans
Honestly I don't HATE the album, I think it's a fine pink floyd album, but I just prefer WYWH better, and I need to listen to Animals again.
I fully agree with this too. DSOTM was one of the first records I got when I bought a turntable since my Dad had it in the basement. Over time I felt exactly this.
Jaxon James
wrong. Animals marked the beginning of a shift away from writing about Syd, and towards writing about "society" and his daddy issues.
Dylan Hill
I bet you are the life of the party.
Elijah Collins
this, it's just contrarianism
Chase Cox
wrong. I in fact do not attend parties.
Jackson Bennett
liking PF's 73-77 streak is cool, but this is their best album
Carter Carter
Sydger was real