First experience

the first album that i listened to was TDSotM 1973
i really dont have 2 explain it, do i?

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Shine On!

The Wall. Early 80s. A friend of mine recorded that tape for me, thanks, Enrico!!!

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"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." Tom Waits

i thought i ment what year did the album was released...
well, i heard TDSotM for the first time, about 7 months ago

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Shine On!

It was the Wall with me. First time I heard it, I was gobsmacked and wanted to know more and what else they had done.

Pure and simple.

Red Bull gives you wings!

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Things do not auger well, my pretties. I have seen it. Observe as the mighty oak quivers in the breeze, as the raven swoops backwards...

My time is coming. Do not mourn my passing. For it is the beginning of my life...

DSotM. Summer of '99. i was so impressed i bought two more albums the next week.

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last orders please.

Echoes really was the breaker for me. A friend bought it and I listened to it whenever I could. That was about last year, I suppose. After I got Dark Side, I was done for

I saw The Wall movie, then got to borrow the album from the guy who owned the movie. I listened to that, then listened to Animals the week after that. Then, I bought Relics and DSOTM a week later... which was summer 2000.
That is how I got snagged into the Floyd.

I was working one day in 1988 and heard Time (from the DSoT album) on the radio. I was overwhelmed. I ran immediately to the music store and bought DSoT, cause it also had Learning to Fly on it....then quickly bought DSOTM and WYWH... Then The Wall, Animals, then everything else I could find.

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Taking away from you for the greater good. (The Audacity of Socialism).

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmad (founder, C.A.I.R.)

That's cool. Thanks. I was a little kid at a garage sale with my mother and I saw UMMAGUMMA on vinyl. I had no idea who pink floyd was but I saw some of those song titles and had to hear it. It was only 1.00! As a youngster I liked to play 'several species' for people. It cracked me up to see their reactions. The Wall was next.

I fist got The Wall when i was only eleven years old (about 3 Years ago.) I got the special edition 30th anniversary.
I then got Divison Bell, DSotM, and WYWH.
Im now the proud owner of about 25 CD's and 15 vinyl.

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The stage is set and the band is about ready to begin, i think.

The first was The Dark Side Of The Moon, when I was a child, I think 1986, I was 5 years old. And then WYWH and Meddle.

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"You lock the door and throw away the key
there's someone in my head but it's not me.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
you shout and no one seems to hear
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"

PULSE, the year it first came out.

I'd never heard Pink Floyd before then, even though I was dimly aware of the existence of ABITW 2. But then a relative got PULSE, and showed it to me. I'd happened to have pulled out the second disk first, and I was just about blown away by DSotM...I'd never heard anything like it.

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"And with these words I can see
Clear through the clouds that covered me
Just give it time then speak my name
Now we can hear ourselves again..."

WrightSatellite #1

Hey... I just realized something...
I was exposed to Animals way before I saw The Wall. My older brother's friend, the same guy who showed The Wall to me, let my brother borrow his vinyl copy of Animals. Since I was into different music at the time (basically the Beatles and '60s pop in general, and I was the wee age of 11), I didn't like Animals when my brother played it for me. I thought the songs were too long, that too much time was spent on guitar solos, and that the album contained too many animal noises for my taste.
Only after I turned 15 or so, could I calm down (not be hyper like most 11-year-olds) and sit back and listen to Animals, and appreciate the longer compositions.

Here's some embarrassing things about PF that I first assumed:
1. I thought Animals was an E.P. when I was 11. I thought that a record company would not let a band release an album with only 5 songs.
2. I also have a very vague memory of throwing away a vinyl copy of Wish You Were Here when I was 9 or thereabouts. Trust me, I certainly didn't know what I was throwing away. I was kicking myself later, when I got into the Floyd.
3. When I first heard The Wall, I thought that Pink Floyd only had one singer!
Ain't that surprising?

hey, I thought they only had one singer, too...well, I suppose that's not entirely true...I had no idea who was singing or did I much care...I was too flabbergasted by the music