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Do any you Old F's...listen or care for the best music that was ever written???

I'd like to hear your thoughts...


Mine...the best band ever...PINK FLOYD....

 
That is a question asking for a fight! While I appreciate Pink Floyd and listen to them frequently, it is not the top in my book. I am also only 32, and don't care for older music that much. I will say this though, I did have a chance to see Paul McCartney a few years ago and my wife and I went and it was a great show. I don't like the Beatles though, just appreciate what they have done for music.

I personally prefer Heavy Metal and Hard Rock. To me, best band out there right now is probably Korn. Slipknot/Stone Sour are up there, as well as Shinedown. Shinedown might actually be my number 1 over Korn. I can't pick a number 1, who am I kidding...not sure I could do a top 10. I just like music.

Headed to Salt Lake to see Incubus this weekend and then next week headed down to watch Tom DeLong front for his band Angels and Airwaves. Tom was the singer of Blink 182 before he went AWOL chasing his UFOs and starting his company, To The Stars and To the Stars Academy.
 
Next to sports, watches, porn, beer, trivia, music is right there in my zone. I see about 30 live concerts a year minimum. I love rock, metal, punk, hardcore, alternative, industrial, rockabilly. classic rock, new wave, Johnny Cash type old country, Throw some Elvis in, R and B, Funk, some crappy old disco, and most anything with a good beat. Used to like old school Grandmaster Flash type rap as well. I probably know music in most forms way better then I do watches that's for sure. I've got a wicked case of tinnitus from all the concerts without earplugs so I'm paying for all the fun with a nice constant ringing in my left ear. Oh well not going to live forever anyways, and damn have I had some fun with music.
 
I'm so old, I'm half deaf!

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"Arnold Layne" was Pink Floyd's first single, released in 1967.The video, directed by Derek Nice, was made in late February 1967 and was filmed on the beach in East Wittering, West Sussex, England.



https://americansongwriter.com/2012/08/behind-the-song-pink-floyds-wish-you-were-here/

When Pink Floyd entered Abbey Road Studios during the first week of 1975 to begin work on their ninth album, the guys were exhausted. Their previous release, The Dark Side Of The Moon, had become one of the decade’s biggest hits, transforming the cult musicians into mainstream art rockers. Pink Floyd cemented their new audience by touring heavily for three years, but the time had come to do something new. Recording a follow-up to Dark Side wasn’t going to be easy, especially with that album still clinging to the upper reaches of the Billboard charts, its success hanging over the band like a cloud.

Meanwhile, former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett was suffering a mental breakdown. His crippling addiction to LSD had forced him out of the band in 1968, and a pair of solo albums had done little to resurrect his career in the intervening years. Peter Jenner, Pink Floyd’s original manager, even convinced Barrett to book some studio time at Abbey Road in August 1974, but the sessions petered out after three fruitless days. Barrett seemed to have lost his spark for good.

Five months later, Barrett’s old bandmates could still feel his presence at Abbey Road. Or maybe it was his absence – the absence from Pink Floyd, from reality, from himself – that resonated throughout those halls, echoing off the stucco walls like the sinister guitar riff from “Lucifer Sam.” It had a profound effect on Roger Waters and David Gilmour, who wound up dedicating much of the resulting album, including the title track, to their AWOL friend.

Wish You Were Here, like the record that precedes it, is a concept album. Revolving around the central theme of absence, Waters’ lyrics illustrate the difference between the group’s early years – when Pink Floyd was a band of brothers, making music for a small but devoted audience – and the present. The guys had become multi-millionaires in the wake of Dark Side’s success, but they’d also become cash cows for a corporate label, and the camaraderie that once existed between them had grown strained. Tying the song cycle together are two compositions about Syd Barrett: the nine-part opus “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” and the short, haunting title track.

 
I've been a music lover since I was about 5 years old (1953). Grew up with rock & roll, music was always playing in my house, car, at work......you name it. My kids grew up with music, and so are the grandkids. While I like all kinds, from classical to country, rock has always been my favorite, with the 50's - 70's being what I love most. There are so many I can't name them all. But the Doors have been my #1 since they came on the scene in 1967. And L.A.Woman is still my all time favorite song. I'm still pissed at Morrison for wasting his life and dying at 27. I've always wondered what they could have gone on and accomplished. They only had about 4 years together.

 
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