Owww Taff. 
I appreciate you trying to educate me, and I know why you're drawing parallels with VU, but it's just not the same to my brain!!
John Cale & Lou Reed are bonkers & sinsiter, with a slight whiff of pretension. Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Syd Barret, David Gilmour et al will remain forever in my head as a bunch of posh t*ssers making prog rock. I can't stand prog rock. 
Mr Juju has a soft spot for Rush, Asia & the like. If we were married it would be grounds for divorce.
Thanks for trying anyway!
Well we can't all like the same things I guess, but I just don't see them as posh t*ssers myself, not when you consider the vast range of music they created over the years. I believe it was Syd Barrett who inspired David Bowie to become a rock star? Well Bowie covered a number of early Floyd hits, so do you also hate David Bowie too?
Anyway it was the mid-1970's Punk Rockers who hated bands like 'Pink Floyd', but they would because they were talented and made lots of money. Punk Rock was crap and being a Punk was utter nonsense because you still had to follow a code and like certain bands, so it disappeared up it's own backside like the rubbish fad it was.
But unfortunately Roger Waters spat in the face of a fan who clambered up on the stage and demanded they played their early stuff instead during their 1977 'Animals' tour. So perhaps Waters was a punk after all? LOL
Anyway the 1978 Beatles history spoof film called 'The Rutles' seemed to acknowledge that event in it's own twisted and hysterical way: -
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Plus with the massive Pink Floyd number one hit 'Another Brick In The Wall part 2' (as featured above) that got released at the end of 1979, they really had all the kids in the UK and no doubt around the globe on their side.
Then I heard this 1967 hit song of theirs on the radio and discovered that Pink Floyd had existed as a band as long as I had been alive and I loved it to bits: -
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So I bought the Pink Floyd 'Relics' album which featured it and I loved it so much that I'd play it over and over again until my parents couldn't stand it any more and started to scream!
And they screamed even more when I bought their early albums that contained classics like this: -
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So I think my parents were quite happy when I got married and moved out.
Either way I think the Floyd rock, regardless of their class or prog rock status.
Oh and I forgot all about their first single from 1967 called 'Arnold Layne'. The story goes that drummer Nick Masons mum used to take in college girls as lodgers, but their bras and knickers mysteriously kept disappearing from his mums washing line.
So they imagined they were being taken by some dirty old transvestite and so the lyrics to 'Arnold Layne' go: -
Arnold Layne had a strange hobby
Collecting clothes
Moonshine washing line
They suit him fine
On the wall hung a tall mirror
Distorted view, see through baby blue
He dug it
Oh, Arnold Layne
It's not the same, takes two to know
Two to know, two to know, two to know
Why can't you see?
Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
Now he's caught - a nasty sort of person.
They gave him time
Doors bang - chain gang - he hates it
Oh, Arnold Layne
It's not the same, takes two to know
two to know, two to know, two to know,
Why can't you see?
Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
Don't do it again.
Very amusing, although I believe many radio stations back then banned it as a result? Very bizarre music video though: -
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Although some singles weren't quite so successful and that's why they gave up on the hit parade and did space rock albums and then 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' etc instead and there were no more singles until 'Another Brick In The Wall part 2' in 1979: -
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Edited by taffy1967, 03 March 2009 - 08:15 PM.
