Pink Floyd as One of the Top Rock Bands in History
Pink Floyd as One of the Top Rock Bands in History
Pink Floyd is the top space-rock band. Ever since the mid-‘60’s, their music has sampled with electronics and all manner of special effects to push the “normal” format to their outer limits (Richie Unterberger). The band has wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical quality, in both sound and words Richie Unterberger). The history of Pink Floyd is full of unfortunate obstacles although; they were musical and cultural pioneers, in that they sounded nothing like musical groups before them.
Pink Floyd started to experiment very quickly, they were stretching out songs with the wild instrumental freak-out passages incorporating feedback, electronic screeches, and unusual, eerie sounds created by loud amplification, reverb, and such tricks as sliding ball bearings up and down guitar strings (Richie Unterberger). In the mid 1960’s they began to pick up following the London underground; onstage, they began to incorporate light shows to add a cool psychedelic effect like no band before them has ever done. One of the most amazing and important parts, of Pink Floyd is when Syd Barett started to compose pop-psychedelic masterpieces that combined unusual psychedelic arrangements with catchy melodies and incisive lyrics that viewed the world with a sense of poetic, child-like wonder (Richie Unterberger).
Few bands can match Pink Floyd’s success. Founded in 1965, the group at first relied heavily on guitarist Syd Barret, who handled vocals and wrote their early offbeat hits. Barrett was also one of the psychedelic era’s most tragic acid casualties and he was replaced in 1968 By Gilmour, with bassist Roger Water emerging as the bands primary lyricist and force behind the band’s two biggest albums (Fred Goodman).
In an article that was written in the Rolling Stone magazine about Pink Floyd, a segment of the article read: "When people say they hear Pink Floyd in a group like Radio-head, I don't really see it," he says. "It must be a burden for those poor boys being referred to as the next Pink Floyd -- they deserve to be their own Radio-head. I think we've always stood out in our own category”, said Gilmour. Another unique feature of Pink Floyd is the way the songs are set up on the c.d. from other band’s c.d., which is normally in...