The music of Pink Floyd - then or now?

Do you think music in general was better back when Pink Floyd was “new”? If not, what bands of today do you think make music of the same quality? If so, what other bands did you listen to when you first got into Floyd? For me, I guess music is kinda like a wine – it improves with age. Seems like it usually takes me until about five years after everyone else has stopped listening to a song that I finally “get” it. I think I just have a hard time dealing with anything new or popular because I have a sentimental attachment to the way it was before and I assume the new stuff is tainted by too much commercialism. Does that make any sense? I feel like bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, The Stones, CCR, etc., have yet to be improved upon.

I have to admit,besides Radiohead,all the albums I've bought in the last year were made in the late sixties,early seventies.King Crimson,Doors,The Stones.What are the chances of an album with the longativity of Darkside ever being made today.There seems to be nothing new out there,nothing progressing.I feel that in the Floyds heyday,music was constantly pushing boundries,today it seems stuck in a rut(and I think it's called RnB).

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I think the first record of a band is always one of the best. For example, my favourite Dire Straits albums are the first and the second. With a success, it sometimes turns into commerce. The artists discover the studio and the primal energy disappears.

I'm specializing on late 60s/early 70s. Yesterday I bought "The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper". It's just fantastic.

I've always thought Dire Strairs self-titled debut is their best album too. Although 'Brothers in arms' is also a fine record.

Yes. It's their best selling album I think. But it is also overproduced a bit. Some songs don't hit the point. "Dire Straits" and "Communique" have the raw sound. I love songs like "Down To The Waterline", "Lions", "Six Blade Knife", "Where D'ya Think You're Going" and "Follow Me Home". My favourite car music.

I haven't been too impressed with anything new I've heard lately. The only music I've recently purchased that I was blown away by was the Led Zeppelin 3-disc CD set ("How the West Was Won") and the Led Zeppelin 2-disc DVD set -->http://www.ledzeppelin.com. I never got to see them live in all these years, so it was a terrific idea for them to issue these live show recordings. They just don't make 'em like they used to, man. I'm starting to think maybe Jimmy Page really DID sell his soul to the devil! Has anybody else gotten either of these?

I do agree, btw, that a band's first CD is almost always the best. You gotta figure that they spend YEARS trying to get to the point of putting out a first commercial CD and probably use all their best songs for it. Then there is so much pressure to deliver quick follow-ups that they have to scrape together whatever material is left to put out the 2nd and 3rd albums, if they even get that far.

Oh, and thanks for the welcome!

Did you ever hear the Dire Straits "Live At The BBC" album? Knopfler always seems at his best live, at least to me.

I listened to alot of, the way people put it now, nu metal bands when I first heard/got into Floyd six years ago. But since music has basically gone to crap, I have to say I'm able to really appreciate their quaility and consistency in the music. They actually really got me hooked on classic rock, which, another thing I'll say again, you can never go wrong with.

I agree that the Dire Straits debut & 'BinA' are some of the best the band has done. Although, I would have to put 'Love Over Gold' up there too.

The 60s/70s golden age might be over, still there is good music being made - you have to seek it out.

That's never the case, actually. Not for Pink Floyd, Beatles, Queen, Rolling Stones, U2, nor for individual artists like Tom Waits or any other important name I can recall now. Maturity usually brings the best material in the career of an important artist.

If your career is 2 or 3 albums long is of course another story...

It's great. Packed with energy and emotion. Great song "What's The Matter Baby". But it's too short, although the BBC certainly has more recordings in the vaults.

That's a great point, although it's still subject to individual preference. My mother prefers the earlier Beatles, whereas I tend to prefer the material they put out in the middle and end. I do see what you mean, though. I guess I'm talking more about today's "one hit wonders" or bands that put out an incredible debut album, but somehow can't seem to follow it up with anything good.

yes i'm pretty positive you are not the only one.