Speaking of Homer...I think if Homer Simpson and Vanilla Ice had a child, it would be Eminem. My name is d'oh! My name is d'oh!

Quoted from Maccalvr

Speaking of Homer...I think if Homer Simpson and Vanilla Ice had a child, it would be Eminem.

Now you just shut it right there!

Sorry, but I despise Ice. Have the desire to take him to the ghetto just so he can get the mess beat outta him.

Speaking of Eminem, I'm downloading a mash-up he did with Echoes, which gets us back on topic to Floyd.

Well at least he has good taste in music if he's choosing Floyd. But i really wish people would leave Pink Floyd's music alone already. I've yet to hear one cover or whatever do justice to the original. What's the point.

Quoted from Maccalvr

Well at least he has good taste in music if he's choosing Floyd. But i really wish people would leave Pink Floyd's music alone already. I've yet to hear one cover or whatever do justice to the original. What's the point.

Marshall knows his Floyd. Even went so far as to dedicate Mosh to Roger at Live8 and reference The Wall in the D12 song Revalation:


I don't wanna go to school
I don't need no education
I don't wanna be like you
I don't wanna save the nation
Daddy, I just wanna live my life
Everyday a celebration
Someday, I'ma leave this world
I wait for the revelation

Whatever You Say I Am and Whats Goin' On both strike me as very Watersian tracks.

Saw a documentary on Floyd in the 90's, which revealed that they were trained as architects. A musicologist went on to say that this influenced their music because they 'knew what to do with a line in a space', which explains how in the first few minutes of Wish You Were Here, hardly anything happens musically, but it still keeps the attention. Interesting stuff.

They needed a lot of 'space' for their music so that description suits quite well.  

I suppose Pink Floyd became the architects of music. I like to think that they 'took over' from The Beatles, when the Fab Four dropped the musical complexity of 1967. Also, though some might deny this, I really think Floyd were ultimately founded on The Beatles anyway.

I wouldn't go so far... they were contemporaries

Yes, I'm still not entirely sure myself. I suppose it would have to be 'from the horses mouth', i.e. Waters and co. saying that they were definitely inspired by Beatles. But, I reckon no other band sounded as similar to The Beatles, at points, as Pink Floyd.

Quoted from GreenApple

I suppose Pink Floyd became the architects of music. I like to think that they 'took over' from The Beatles, when the Fab Four dropped the musical complexity of 1967. Also, though some might deny this, I really think Floyd were ultimately founded on The Beatles anyway.

I don't think anyone can deny that. Most trained Floydians know of Barrett's obsession with Lennon and being like Lennon.

Also, I have come up with an interpretation of the cover of Sgt. Pepper's that it is a possible metaphor for floyd by The Beatles themselves. Crazy, I know, but look at The Beatles, dark, sollen, much more serious and somber than The Beatles, standing next to Sgt. Pepper's band, a chippy group all in phychedelic colors. They are here, at the grave, where the old Beatles of the early-mid 60s funeral is taking place. The New Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's) stand in the center with a small army of followers (the fans they have garnered, also attending the funeral), and to the side, with know fans behind them, the "Beatles" (Pink Floyd). I know its crazy, but its a cool interpretation, isn't it?

Quoted from Maccalvr

Well at least he has good taste in music if he's choosing Floyd. But i really wish people would leave Pink Floyd's music alone already. I've yet to hear one cover or whatever do justice to the original. What's the point.

Check out the following:

Green Day--Wish You Were Here (bootleg)
Nirvana--Welcome To The Machine (bootleg)
Fuel--Comfortably Numb (bootleg)
Kitty--Run Like Hell (bootleg)
Radiohead--Wish You Were Here
David Bowie--See Emily Play

Quoted from GreenApple

I suppose Pink Floyd became the architects of music. I like to think that they 'took over' from The Beatles, when the Fab Four dropped the musical complexity of 1967. Also, though some might deny this, I really think Floyd were ultimately founded on The Beatles anyway.

Quoted from GreenApple

But, I reckon no other band sounded as similar to The Beatles, at points, as Pink Floyd.

From 1970-1975 alone:
Wings
Badfinger
ELO
David Bowie
Trex

Pink Floyd carrying the Beatles torch? No. The guys from above did.

Quoted from MagicAlex

From 1970-1975 alone:
Wings
Badfinger
ELO
David Bowie
Trex

Pink Floyd carrying the Beatles torch? No. The guys from above did.

I agree. As well as ELP, The Moody Blues, Yes, Genesis, and many others.

But in 1969 when they released Music From The Film More Floyd took The Beatles and added a Dylanesque texture to it that remains truly classic.

Quoted from MagicAlex

From 1970-1975 alone:
Wings
Badfinger
ELO
David Bowie
Trex

Pink Floyd carrying the Beatles torch? No. The guys from above did.

These are good points, and I accept them. Especially ELO. But, how much were these bands sounding like the Beatles in the '60s? That's really what I meant - in the sixties.