PINK FLOYD, REUNITED, IS ON

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Lemurnator said:
How the fuck are The Ramones and Pink Floyd related? Wouldn't bands like The Velvet Underground, New York Dolls and shit have been bigger influences on a PUNK band? Rather than an art rock band....
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The Ramones started playing simple Rock and roll as a backlash to the masturbatorial, progressive, arena-touring stuff of the popular acts of the time. Pink Floyd didn't influence the sound of the music, they just influenced them to pick up instruments and play music they wanted to hear.
 
I'm not the biggest fan of PF, but holy shit, if you didn't get chills down your spine when they played Wish You Were Here/Comfortably Numb, you probably don't have a pulse. Roger Waters and David Gilmour haven't played together in almost 25 years. This is fucking immense.
 
Forgotten_Taco said:
MTV's coverage sucks ass.
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Actually I was ecstatic they let PF play almost all 4 songs uninterrupted until the end when they interrupted to let us know we're listening to a great performance by PF...The director should be shot!
 
I gotcha covered, FoneBone. Edit: and you too, johnn.

Mind you, anyone who says PM or any begging whatsoever will get ignored. :p
 
A "reunion" performance does not consist of 3 or 4 songs. Sorry.

You know, this kinda makes me mad. You all realize how many lives have been touched by Pink Floyd's music. And the only thing they can do, after all these years which would have felt like an eternity for long time PF fans, is a 3 or 4 song set? Unbelievable. I mean, to millions upon millions of people this IS the best band in the world, don't forget.

The fans deserve better, I think. If that's all you are gonna do... don't get back together.

It's like being with a beautiful girl with no faults (that never ages) for 10 years, and having an amazing sex life every day during that time period. But then she leaves you for like, 35 years, and when she comes back to you all she does is squeeze your balls for like 10 seconds, give you a kiss and buy you a happy meal. Get the fuck outta here.

I'm NOT crazy, the analogy makes sense you bastards.
 
25+ years of waiting, but not even 25 minutes. Sad. I'm not bitchin' so much as I feel bad for hardcore PF fans.
 
You gotta realize that this wasn't a restart, but a final goodbye. Gilmour apparently said this was their sendoff--and after 20+ years of infighting, this was all the gift any Floyd Fan could ask for.

 
Diablos said:
25+ years of waiting, but not even 25 minutes. Sad. I'm not bitchin' so much as I feel bad for hardcore PF fans.
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The very fact they're within TOUCHING distance of each other is enough for me, (although, I'd be even more stoked if they'd played all 9 movements of Shine on You Crazy Diamond...) :)
 
Matlock, you are a bastard.

Could a mod please re-title this thread? I logged on, saw this and thought that a new tour must have been announced after/during their set.

Entered, and... :(
 
Matlock said:
You gotta realize that this wasn't a restart, but a final goodbye. Gilmour apparently said this was their sendoff--and after 20+ years of infighting, this was all the gift any Floyd Fan could ask for.

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i refuse to believe this news

lalalalalalaaaaaa i can't hear you lalalalalalalalalalala

=(
 
FoneBone said:
What really sucks is that I have/had no way of seeing this, because I have neither cable nor broadband. Sigh.
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Hopefully the various DVD releases for Live 8 at year's end has the full Pink Floyd set.






Diablos said:
A "reunion" performance does not consist of 3 or 4 songs. Sorry.

You know, this kinda makes me mad. You all realize how many lives have been touched by Pink Floyd's music. And the only thing they can do, after all these years which would have felt like an eternity for long time PF fans, is a 3 or 4 song set? Unbelievable. I mean, to millions upon millions of people this IS the best band in the world, don't forget.

The fans deserve better, I think. If that's all you are gonna do... don't get back together.

It's like being with a beautiful girl with no faults (that never ages) for 10 years, and having an amazing sex life every day during that time period. But then she leaves you for like, 35 years, and when she comes back to you all she does is squeeze your balls for like 10 seconds, give you a kiss and buy you a happy meal. Get the fuck outta here.

I'm NOT crazy, the analogy makes sense you bastards.
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You're a moron.
 
Absolutely great performance, Easily my pick for best performance of Live 8. Roger and Dave harmonizing PERFECTLY in Comfortably Numb is the motherfucking best moment of the last 10 years, IMO.

The only thing I could have asked for would be a complete rendition of Shine on you Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-9.
 
My mum raised a good point when she said "this isn't very good, but I imagine if you were on acid this music would be very inspiring." The Who were way better, best act of the whole show in my opinion.
 
swander said:
My mum raised a good point when she said "this isn't very good, but I imagine if you were on acid this music would be very inspiring." The Who were way better, best act of the whole show in my opinion.
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Tell your mum that she's a player hater.
 
PF's preformance was adequate, they were never a fantastic live band. Frankly I expected worse. The setlist was a bit predictable though, I was at least hoping they kicked if off with In The Flesh, but no such luck.

The Who on the other hand stole the show. Kinda sad that two(?) old geezers plus their backup band were way better than U2,Coldplay and any number of other modern "rock" bands put together. Geez, music sucks nowadays.
 
:lol

So many haters, so little time.

And god, saying they're an adequate band with no stage show? :lol

It's obvious some of you are teenagers who haven't watched a thing before nineteen nineteen nineteen eighty five.
 
CrunchyB said:
PF's preformance was adequate, they were never a fantastic live band.
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That's not even an objective opinion, Pink Floyd wrote the book on how to put on an astounding live show.
 
lockii said:
That's not even a subjective opinion, Pink Floyd wrote the book on how to put on an astounding live show.
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No, they introduced tons of props. Inflatable pigs, brick walls and lightshows.

Very cool, but they're not the Rolling Stones or The Who.

They are a studio band at heart. Same with the Beatles.
 
Diablos said:
There are torrents of this in divx format, and a FLAC audio boot as well.
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You'll notice how I actually have a link to something. Get me something better and I'll host that instead.
 
Holy....fucking...shit...
You know, Live 8 was actually on when I was eating dinner last night, but they listed some bands before going to commercial, I could have sworn I heard Pink Floyd, but when they came back and gave me Mariah Carey, I figured I misheard and just went out.
Fu-huh-huh-huh-huhck.
 
CrunchyB said:
No, they introduced tons of props. Inflatable pigs, brick walls and lightshows.

Very cool, but they're not the Rolling Stones or The Who.

They are a studio band at heart. Same with the Beatles.
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You have no clue what you're talking about, I suggest suicide.
 
CrunchyB said:
No, they introduced tons of props. Inflatable pigs, brick walls and lightshows.

Very cool, but they're not the Rolling Stones or The Who.

They are a studio band at heart. Same with the Beatles.
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Wrong. Pink Floyd never really liked being in the Studio, in absolute contrast to the Beatles who spent most of their time in the studio (and occasionally hanging out with Pink Floyd).

PF even spent a monstrous amount of cash building a fancy underground studio, but hated it there, saying it felt like a dungeon. They prefered to play upstairs in the attic. I can't remember what the studio was called.

But anyway, PF were ALWAYS a live band. Thats how they fleshed out alot of their music.
 
jett said:
He's right, though.
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Look guys, Pink Floyd is a fantastic band, I'm not disputing that at all. But their music is often complicated and personal, and that doesn't translate well to a huge stage. At best they (or rather, Dave Gilmour) can sorta match the sound of the albums, which I said they did adequately at Live8.

They were still the second best performance behind The Who, which is nothing to be ashamed of.

(I'll probably get lynched by U2/Coldplay/Will Smith/etc fans now.)
 
Burger said:
Wrong. Pink Floyd never really liked being in the Studio, in absolute contrast to the Beatles who spent most of their time in the studio (and occasionally hanging out with Pink Floyd).

PF even spent a monstrous amount of cash building a fancy underground studio, but hated it there, saying it felt like a dungeon. They prefered to play upstairs in the attic. I can't remember what the studio was called.

But anyway, PF were ALWAYS a live band. Thats how they fleshed out alot of their music.
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Obviously the Beatles comparison was streching the truth a bit, it's not often you get to insult a band by comparing them to the Beatles ;)

Don't take studio literally. I'm just saying they were more focused on crafting the perfect album rather than playing the perfect show. Roger Waters used to hate it. But, they did put a lot of effort in props.
 
An acquaintance of mine was at Live 8 London. Apparently a friend of hers that I haven't met joined them and was a huge Pink Floyd fan.... he cried during their set. Had never seen them live, of course, so it was too much for him.

The rest were saying Pink Floyd stole the show. They're not even big fans. But the crowd absolutely loved it.

Some preferred Robbie Williams, though, which I can understand. I'm not even a fan of his music, but this was the first time I had seen him live and he was incredible. A true spectacle.
 
Just shut up, Crunchy. Not only have you made it blaringly obvious you don't know shit, but you keep on re-emphasizing that with confident responses that only really say "I don't know shit."
 
Matlock said:
Just shut up, Crunchy. Not only have you made it blaringly obvious you don't know shit, but you keep on re-emphasizing that with confident responses that only really say "I don't know shit."
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Hey, I'm not the one using imaginary words. At least have the decency to correct my foolish words, master-of-this-thread.
 
Matlock said:
Imaginary words? Where? :lol

Just try to stray away from the obvious trolling you're pushing.
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blaringly is not a word

re-emphasizing... don't think that is, either

And trolling? I disagree with him, too, but stop being so sensitive.
 
From what I have read, it sounds like Pink Floyd spent alot more time on a stage than they did in a studio. Waters was always the one in the studio saying "No no no thats not right" which lead to alot of the frustration towards him.

I consider the Division Bell show / Pulse, to be the most amazing concert I've ever seen (not in person). I've never seen anything else come close to the spectacle that I saw then. The live shows of the Wall were super impressive, they played on a floating barge in Venice, they pioneered the use of lighting effects during a concert. I don't know what more you want.

To say that Pink Floyd didn't put on a good live act is just plain wrong.
 
Socreges said:
blaringly is not a word

re-emphasizing... don't think that is, either
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Google's your friend--although it's not in a dictionary (blaringly, that is), it's in fairly wide usage and is generally recognized. Slang? Yes. Not a word? No.

Re-emphasizing is exactly what it reads to, and should be in your tabletop dictionary.

also, read burger's post--he's got a point
 
crap. these guys are relatively spot on considering how long they've been collectively away for. amazing.
 
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