I'll bet they had both good and bad gigs back in the day before they got rich and could afford the sound crew. My sister also saw the Stones in London in venues like the Roundhouse, these days in the tiny flat I live in I can't play any music loudly so I tend to listen in the car, recent faves as in the last 18 months in the car were some modern folk music bands but also the Rolling Stones 'Let it Bleed', particularly fond of Gimme Shelter, Country Honk, Let it Bleed, Midnight Rambler and You Can't Always Get What You Want. Being a lot younger than my sister I now agree with her that the Stones were way better than the Beatles, she was always more of a Stones fan.
The key is to enjoy all kinds of music, regardless of genre. Just enjoy it for what it is. Me and my wife have enjoyed each others music quite happily. She has enjoyed the pleasure of seeing Whitesnake, Black Sabbath and The Scorpions just as I have had a great time watching Beyoncé, Katy Perry and Rihanna. The only one we both hated was Robbie Williams, who decided he was going to do an entire set of swing music and disappointed us both!
Yeah I found Rob's comments about CD's amusing, just an 8 or 9 year age difference between me and young Rob and he likely completely missed the vinyl era, I had a large vinyl collection by as early as 1976. Indeed the first albums I ever bought were some of the great popular classical works.
The first time I remember hearing Pink Floyd was in a drama class when I was 11 or 12 and the teacher told us all to lie on the floor and act out what we felt to a particular song. She put on Careful with that Axe Eugene and I was hooked. For me, Wish You Were Here is their best album, not one weak song, and I agree with oss that The Division Bell is an excellent piece of work. Dark Side and Animals are also very good I don't like their earliest work at all. The Wall is brilliant in parts, Comfortably Numb for example, but misses in other areas. It's a shame that Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour fell out but having heard or read Mr Waters being interviewed several times I don't think that I could work with him either. I too enjoy Genesis, A Trick of the Tail being my favourite album closely followed by Lamb. I never liked Yes until the brilliant Trevor Rabin joined them (90210). I've been fortunate enough to see Rush live (1982 ish) and Marillion in their Fish days too. I'm not particularly into live music, which may seem odd as I used to be a part-time musician and have played in the region of 100 gigs, but there you go. I also have a soft spot for Camel whose Andy Latimer must be one of the most underrated guitarists.
I didn't like Floyd's early music too but Meddle was good (echos) And early Genesis I liked last gig I went to, was in 2015, Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited. Great Gig. Loved Firth of fifth.
I agree with Trick of the Tail being the best Genesis album. Of the two eras, I prefer the Peter Gabriel era to the Phil Collins era, but I think that album really hit the spot before they decided to go pop a couple of years later. I'm not a great fan of The Lamb really. It had some brilliant individual tracks on it but I find it a bit long winded at other times. Seen Rush so many times. they were my favourite band growing up. I first saw them in 1979 and saw them several times whenever they toured in the early 1980s. There used to be a pub in Reading called The Target which regularly had live music. One time I went there and there was this strange band on who seemed to have brought their own fans along with them and they were all leaping about the pub to "You take the High Road and I'll take the low road" at the instruction of the singer, who had a flag of Scotland pained on his face. That band turned out to be Marillion. I couldn't believe it when they became so successful later!
You're never too late, Rob I saw them live a few times and have everything CD (LP before) they made. I played "Animals" today and enjoyed it - the lyrics are dark - Roger Waters' gloomy ones.
This story shows what really happened, Rob https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pink-floyd-great-gig-in-the-sky-claire-torry-vocal/
Everyone has personal tastes and nobody can tell anyone else what is good and what isn't (the farmer said as he kissed the cow) , but I can't think of many polar opposites: Whichever one takes your fancy is your right:
Pink Floyd - I bought Meddle in 1971 and took it to school (5th Form) and loads of people loved it. I went to see them shortly after (and many times more as the years rolled by) and their gigs were never a let-down but more of a revelation. I became immersed and loved their spacey stuff and bought Darkside the day it came out in 1973. From Wiki: Throughout March 1973, The Dark Side of the Moon featured as part of Pink Floyd's US tour. The album is one of the most commercially successful rock albums of all time; a US number 1, it remained on the Billboard chart for more than fourteen years, selling more than 45 million copies worldwide. In Britain, the album peaked at number 2, spending 364 weeks on the UK chart. The Dark Side of the Moon is the world's third best-selling album, and the twenty-first best-selling album of all time in the US. 45 million bloody copies I think they lost the plot after "Animals" in 1977 and regained their better judgment with "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" in 1987. I saw them playing "Momentary Lapse" on tour in Washington DC and it was a tour-de-force. I suppose music depends when you were born and what was happening around you back in the day. I just always hated most pop music and still do. The occasional song sticks out but nowadays ambient and electronic music is mostly played through the headphones.
This is well worth a listen, Rob: Holy dog droppings - this sounds just as good as the day I first heard it
Ah, my wife and I hate each other's music with a passion. Celine Dion v Biosphere was never a good game
