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The first time I heard of Floyd I 11 years old, it was Money and I hated it...I was at the Green Lake County park in Green Lake Wisconsin, United States, when someone came up to me and said, "This band's got your last name..." so I listened and it made me think of those store clerks cashing in on everyone...those, those, those, sales men...five years later while getting smoked up in a midnight blue cadilac I got to hear DSOTM for the first time...I hated those alarms...like, time for school already? Through the years I've had the chance to get my hands on some few albums...and check out Pink Floyd a lot closer and come to realize, hey, these guys are swayed by the....the....the big love. It sure would be nice to see all of thier creations in a cronological order...mixxed media and all, what naught?KNot?not? G 'ave a great gigg.
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Re: What got you into Floyd?
My older brother actually turned me on to floyd by playing Umma Gumma when he came home from college. I thought that several species etc. was a cool song. I stole his album and then played it for my friends. Everyone thought it was cool (that being one of the 'words' back then along with groovy, right on, outasight, etc.) Since then, I Floyd has been the background music in my life. Always there. Flowing in the breeze.
I think I've gone to nirvana by finding out about lossless and all the Floyd shows I missed over the years.
Oh yeah, I think the bruises for the pounding I got from taking his album are just healing after 35 years. I'll just cut him a disc of Umma and Gumma for xmas this year.
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Re: What got you into Floyd?
I was 11, looking through my moms old vinyl and came accross Animals and Wish You Were Here and Darkside of the Moon all in a row and I think it was the Artwork for Animals that inspired me to give it a listen, at first I was like "nah, not for me" and then Sheep started playing and It "Blew Me Away" I was in awe. so then i decided to put on DSOTM because if there were any songs anything like sheep, I could only Imagine what it would sound like with a cover like that.
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Re: What got you into Floyd?
i was in the 5th grade when the school held an "art fair" and let some of the older kids "express themselves" so they darkened the small gym hung black lights and loads of strobe lights, pf, hendrix, doors and jefferson airplane posters were hung on the walls and from the ceiling, people were dressed in black with day glo paint all over them. they would escort you into the dark gym then let you go to find your own way out. all while dsotm was cranking over the hugh speakers they set up. it was so loud and cool i wanted to stay and check it all out, sucking it all into my soft impressionable mind. loved it then and still do!!! thanks for askin. your friend in floyd, bodeaga
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Re: What got you into Floyd?
It was about 1969 at school, someone was playing a track (I forget which)and I hadnt heard anything like it musically. I only really began to get into Floyd more deeply though when Meddle came out. I love that album.Stayed a big fan ever since. I saw them live a few times from the early 70's onwards until 1994.
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Re: What got you into Floyd?
I was 8 and my Aunt took me and my cousins roller skating. I remember falling all over the place and trying to keep balance and then Another Brick In The Wall II came on, and I started to skate much better.
Gave me confidence I guess.. Each time thereafter I played that song on the jukebox...
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This may sound quite lame but it's the truth.. I decided I had to own a PF album. IMO no self-respecting music-enthusiast cannot own a PF album. At the time I was really broadening my horizon, checking out what else was out there, rather than Oasis, Radiohead et al.
I already owned The Beatles' 'One' and started off buying albums by Neil Young, The Stones, LedZep and ultimately also Floyd. Of course I had already heard Another Brick in the Wall, pt II many times on the radio by then, but it was Echoes that really got me hooked, and one after another I started getting the albums represented on that CD. Not before I had bought The Wall Movie though. I owned that before any of the LPs.
I got the albums not represented on Echoes last, like More, Obscured by Clouds, AHM... which is quite a pitty, because AHM:Suite has become my favourite Floyd song.
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I was 7 or 8 years old and flicking through my parents voluminous collection of LPs when a cover cought my eye, a giant flying pig over Battersea power station. I played the album and was entranced by it, it was a formative experience in my musical life. Scroll forward a few years and we took a family holiday to Jersey in the channel islands, taking the train fom Manchester to london and then on to Portsmouth I was looking out of the right hand side of the train when the power station came into view, wow, deja-vu, the angle and height were identical, I could just immagine the pig coming into view... The thing about PF that I love so much is the fullness of the audio experience, the lyrics and imagery. There is no doubt that my life would have been less without the experiences and friends that I have that PF have provided. Have fun folks, oh and don't be sheep. ;-)
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