Pink Floyd = depressing music?
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Pink Floyd = depressing music?
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Dark Side is not depressing to me. It's relaxing, athmospheric...but depressing?
Dark Side is not depressing to me. It's relaxing, athmospheric...but depressing?
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It's either complete idiocy, ignorance, or hilarity.
I'm a HUGE Floyd fan, and I wouldn't even begin to call their music despressing. BUT it's definitely moody, evocative, ethereal, atmospheric, any dozen other adjectives. Depressing?? What would that make shit like THE SMITHS?
I'm a HUGE Floyd fan, and I wouldn't even begin to call their music despressing. BUT it's definitely moody, evocative, ethereal, atmospheric, any dozen other adjectives. Depressing?? What would that make shit like THE SMITHS?
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Well if you pay attention to some of the lyrics it's pretty damn depressing.
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
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Pink Floyd was a study in contrasts, Roger Waters rage-driven lyrics with Gilmour's sublime playing. Depressing only comes into play when you think of Syd, and the band's sadness over his decline. Listening to 'Wish You Were Here' and knowing the story behind it is sad, but that's about it.
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Agreed, while DSOTM does indeed have some "dark" themes, overall I find it to be a fairly mellow and relaxing album.
It's Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut that are the real downers, especially the Wall which is a pretty much a catalog of human misery, but still genius.
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I never think of Pink Floyd music as depressing, though while driving my wife home from the hospital after her car accident a few weeks ago, I had Meddle in the CD deck and she asked me to turn it off because it was too depressing.
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Well, "Dark Side" does features the sounds of mental patients talking and laughing in the background.... but I suspect that's a little too high-concept for whatever site that advertisement leads to! Personally, I find it more depressing that classic rock stations don't just play the full album instead of the abrupt-cut single tracks.
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Funny you mention Nirvana, was reading this yesterday..
Killjoy?
“I don’t mean it in a bad way, but I think Kurt Cobain and grunge took the fun out of rock ’n’ roll.”
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers in the U.K.’s Daily Star, blaming Nirvana and Kurt Cobain for making rock music depressing. Cobain committed suicide 15 years ago this month.
Killjoy?
“I don’t mean it in a bad way, but I think Kurt Cobain and grunge took the fun out of rock ’n’ roll.”
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers in the U.K.’s Daily Star, blaming Nirvana and Kurt Cobain for making rock music depressing. Cobain committed suicide 15 years ago this month.
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Well, "Dark Side" does features the sounds of mental patients talking and laughing in the background.... but I suspect that's a little too high-concept for whatever site that advertisement leads to! Personally, I find it more depressing that classic rock stations don't just play the full album instead of the abrupt-cut single tracks.
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You said what!!!!...Pink Floyd Depressing!!!....Get a rope....