I really really don't like Pink Floyd.
Turgid bloated self indulgent wank. Insufferable spoilt hide-bound self-regarding men making up-the-arse blinkered studio bound self-referential circle-jerk music.
Once Syd was gone, so was the jagged edge that opens up new veins for the life-blood to flow out. They got into an awful eddy where they didn't seem to be aware of anything outside of their own tiny tight little vortex.
It's like they exist in a world where they were the only band permitted to make music. Nothing pushing them from outside, nothing but the expectation and injunction to produce yet another LP for people who reckon they're the pinnacle of creative achievement. The money men sucking their dicks and saying "More of that! Make more of this so we can keep selling it to people who want the security of remembering how far out they felt when they first heard it!" It's like a sleight of hand trick and seeing how it's done reveals the boring bolted-together scaffolding of it.
They never seemed to develop or extend what they were doing beyond what the studio could provide.
I don't like the band. I've never liked their music. One or two tracks have piqued my interest when I first heard it, but the slightest familiarity made me crumble up inside. It just doesn't go anywhere except back to itself.
That's my opinion. It's a fact inside my head and governs certain choices I make. You can't tell me I'm wrong, any more than I can't tell a PF fan they're wrong for hearing and recieving a completely different experience.
I know loads of people love the band.
Disliking PF doesn't make me a miserable bastard. I love music, it gives me enormous joy. PF can make feel miserable sometimes though. Genuinely, to me their music feels like Sunday Sickness.
Being famous successful and talented doesn't necessarily correlate with artistic merit. That's just capitalist metrics.
Personality assassinations? Really? The discussion and debate about the public displays of character aren't assassination FFS.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't dig a lot of the bands I'm into. That's cool. I love chatting about music and discussing why I like something you don't and visa versa. Sitting up all night and taking turns to play stuff to each other and being amazed at where we agree or diverge.
Not liking your music isn't a personal attack. Although, I've seen how PF fans almost more than anyone else outside of teenage girls do feel like they're being personally insulted when the band is criticised. It's another aspect of why I dislike PF... what's with this super-association dude?
And what's this odd analogy you constructed about kids of today being slagged off for their choice of ice-cream. So... criticising PF is like unfairly having a go at the kids? Brilliant
It's alright
Kris Silver . You can love PF and I can dislike them all day long and neither of us is harmed or even affected by each other's opinion.
