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atease is very entertaining. as long as its not you there in the snake pit... better to watch from a distance

what? the band? i have no idea, ive always used the name of their greatest hits for forum names, but i lost it ages ago and now find madness really annoying... otherwise, i have no idea what you're talking about :D

god that woman was attractive... and what a voice haha some great songs as well, ive only got their greatest hits but its my childhood music :D

haha, yeah, i dont mean they're beatles wanna-be's like oasis, who are totally shameless about it, but they were influenced by the beatles. and apparently, it went the other way, too. example would be the particular way pink floyd's (pre-roger domination) vocals are doubletracked, and the tone of the drums. and i do consider much of pink floyd's music pop, in the general sense. radiohead, pink floyd, the beatles, coldplay are all pop, when it comes down to the broader sweep. they're sure as hell not classical or jazz. and i swear i read somewhere that both radiohead and pink floyd consider themselves pop. for the record, my top 5 overated bands? sigur ros arctic monkeys the killers animal collective interpol only five bands? :( i could go on all day. there's a lot of modern indie out there...

yeah, the lead guitar is totally different, but the actual songwriting, and the vocals are very beatles-esque. 'us and them' for example. besides, by the time pink floyd hit their stride the beatles were already gone... as for the string arrangments being boring, how about the crazy orchestral shit at the end of 'a day in the life'? i mean i know its random, but thats supposedly 'avant garde'. all that said, paul mcartney did refer to syd barrett era floyd as the future of music. but he was most probably high. in the end, whether you like a band or not is obviously up to your tastes, but if the beatles were simple musically, then so has pretty much all pop music since. which is i suppose is the point of pop music im making less and less sense...

er, they also changed the musical culture... they introduced the sitar to pop music (i think, may have been the byrds), used tape loops, and generally united a whole lot of disparate genres into pop music, which is basically what has made pop music interesting since, lol. and pink floyd were constantly trying to write songs like the beatles. look at their more melodic stuff on meddle and atom heart mother for example. Besides that, they also wrote many of the greatest pop songs ever. on another note, the rolling stones are only overated by rolling stone etc, who are constantly fellating the doors, springsteen and U2 and have been totally out of touch for so long. their 60s and early 70s stuff is so fucking good. just pretend they died rock star deaths in the mid 70s and we can forget about the last 30 years of shite :D didnt rolling stone give like 4.5/5 or something for 'a bigger bang'? the mind boggles... on another note... i still, after several years, cant believe rolling stone left pink floyd out of their top 100 rock artists... jesus.

no variation between, say, 'love me do' and 'revolution 9'? 'A Day in the Life'? 'Tommorow Never Knows'? the last half of abbey road? totally understand people thinking radiohead are overated, despite the fact that they're my favourite band by far... they get an uncomfortable amount of critical love... but yeah, the beatles made rubber soul, revolver, sgt peppers, the white album and abbey road, in about 5 years. that's mindblowing. and whoever said they were dancing wankers? seriously?

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