PINK FLOYD

THE HISTORY :

 Pink Floyd over the 30 years of its existence has had five members in the group, with its 'founder' being Syd Barrett. The four original members of Pink Floyd all meet in London whilst studding for their degrees. Syd Barrett, the original lead guitarist, met up with three men who were studying at the London Technical College for Architecture. These three were Roger Waters, the bass player, Rick Wright a budding keyboardist and finally a drummer by the name of Nick Mason. All of the members of the band..




LEGENDARY SONGS  :

Few bands have had as many phases as Pink Floyd. It's almost as if the band tried everything it could to lose the thread and the universe wouldn't let them. Their first leader, Syd Barrett, went crazy. His replacement, David Gilmour, gave the group their progressive rock sound. And their bass player, Roger Waters, took advantage of the group's inertia and turned the group into session musicians for his own biographical visions.

Much of how you view Pink Floyd depends on where you came in or what your musical preferences might be. If you grew up with them in the 1960s, you might be a bit bewildered by the group they became. If you turned onto them in the late 1980s, you might never think of Roger Waters or Syd Barrett as being real members of the band. (Wow!) And if you're like so many who discovered them on FM radio in the 1970s and helped make them one of the best-selling rock 'n' roll outfits of all-time, you probably like to argue over whether Dark Side of the Moon is better than Wish You Were Here and Animals.

Who would think that a band could have a lasting masterwork such as The Wall and still many of the group's original fans openly dislike it? Don't forget that The Final Cut, considered in many quarters to be a Roger Waters solo album, is both hailed as a classic and a piece of garbage!

In hopes of starting arguments wherever fine crazy people go, I've assembled my list of the best. You'll see my own taste for the group is pretty well spread out. I've been enjoying the Discovery box set that features all their albums remastered and with booklets to read. And thanks to the fine folks at EMI Music, I'm also staring at the wonderment that is the Immersion box for Dark Side of the Moon, where a mix of six CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays gives me the option of listening to this classic album with all five ears! Surround Sound is spectacular, but it often makes me think someone is breaking into my house.


TOP TEN :

fearless
money
sheep
have a cigar
poles apart
learning to fly
astronomy domine
welcome to the machine 
time