In the 53 years I've been on this earth, I'm ashamed to say I've never bought any Pink Floyd albums. I knew the band were great, so now I've made amends, starting with Wish You Were Here. What an utterly brilliant album. On order is Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.
My favorite band, I had all the albums on vinyl. First went to see them in Manchester 1974. I gave all my albums to my younger brother. Later on in life my brother bought me a Pink Floyd box set for my 60th.
Due to rugrats challenges, over the years, I gave up having a record player at home. I did purchase a couple of CD's which I played in the car, when on my own. Duly forgot to take them out of glove compartment when I part exchanged it, and when I finally remembered, it was too late. I still have my CD player Tape cassette attachment in the attic somewhere...
Can't name one of their songs, can't think of one, never bought nor listened to their music, my life is probably better for it
Out of all the big progressive bands of that era, Floyd's music is the one that has stood the test of time, some of their very early stuff is quite hard to get into but Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and later albums were magnificent, some of my favourite tracks today come from a later album named Division Bell. Sadly I never got to see them live, I did see ELP although I waited till the 1990s for that, and I saw Genesis and Yes live back in the mid 1970s but none of them have aged so well. Their music has been the backdrop to a lot of our lives over the last 50 years, you will recognise a lot as having been used as soundtracks and background in many tv and film productions.
An example of earlier hard to get into stuff although I love "Bike" From Division Bell, two of my favourites although I love teh whole album My sister saw them live in London clubs during this era back in the late 1960s when they were doing stuff like see Emily Play, this was a very famous track at the time.
Trust me, I actually have really enjoyed my life, had some experiences that didn't need enhancing with pink floyd, spice girls maybe, but pink floyd not
Pink Floyd are ok, but they never really grabbed me the way some bands do. I think they always sound just a bit too controlled and "perfect", althoughI do appreciate them - particularly Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You were Here. For me, 1970s Genesis were the best of the Prog bands. I think they had more character then Pink Floyd. I saw them in 1976. Unfortunately Peter Gabriel had left, but they still had Steve Hackett and had still retained the prog credentials at that time. I love the early Genesis/Gabriel videos on YouTube though. Genesis - The Musical Box , Belgian TV - Six Hours Live 2DVD Set - YouTube
I went in the opposite direction. I had several of those albums at the time but after a number of years I streamlined my music library as I went from vinyl, to cassette to CD then to iPod and finally now either YouTube or streaming. Mrs Ash streams and uses YouTube all the time. So we don’t own any of these albums anymore.
I saw Genesis in 76 for the first tour after Gabriel had left at the Apollo in Glasgow "A Trick of the Tail" and then later in Edinburgh for "Wind and Wuthering", Genesis were it for me in that era I was way more into them than any other band but they have waned on me and I was not so keen on later albums. Saw Peter Gabriel on his first solo tour at the Apollo as well and he was damn good. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was for me the pinnacle of Genesis it still stands up well even today, but Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot are still quite strong too. Like you I was very fond of Hackett's work.
I'm still old school when it comes to music, but with a modern twist. I used to have a huge CD collection, but 10 years ago, I ripped the whole lot to mp3 (320kbits CBR LameMP3) and now if I have any gaps, I tend to buy the CD I want on Ebay second-hand for a couple of quid and save those as digital format. If there's a new album I really want to buy when its released, I'll download the mp3 from Amazon. On the last count, I had something like 1200 albums dating back to when CD's first came out in the 80's - if I remember correctly, my first ever cd I bought from Woolies in Clevedon was Propaganda's A Secret Wish. That album is truly timeless, still sounds fresh today. I live in a part of Wales where mobile coverage is patchy at best, so these streaming services are no good.
You might be surprised, plenty of progressive fans would list the moody Blues, the Move and ELO quite high on their list of favourites too.
when i was 16..my pal's older brother went to see a new band playing at the birmingham town hall. next day--he said they were rubbish..and wouldnt go anywhere. Even had a daft name... the Rolling Stones..
I know a Scottish guy living in Hong Kong who lost quite a bit of money trying to promote a concert in Honkers of a new talent from Australia, he only sold a handfull of tickets so cancelled the event and refunded the cash, a short time later Mysterious Girl hit the charts and Peter Andre became a household name for teenage girls across the globe.
