Who (or what) turned you on to Pink Floyd?

I was fishing for information on his obvious ability to travel through time.

You've gone and ruined my clever plot...disguised under semi-patronising nit-picking. Get with the program.

Sounds good to me.

My father and older brother played The Wall and DSOM incessantly from when I was about 10-11 years old. I have always loved the music, but didn't start compiling my own collection until the age of 25.

I stated this in my first post (on welcome to the machine forum);

I've a cousin who's 8 years older than I, and he was 14 in 73.
He bought Dark Side of the Moon and played it one day while I was in his room. When I heard "Money" for the first time, I was
instantly in love with the sound of Pink Floyd.

My dad would put DSOTM, Animals, etc... and listen to it, and i would at the begining ignore the beautiful sounds that the floyd produced. Later on, after listening to alot of other bands 65'-85' i realized that Pink Floyd made the music I could listen to for long hours.... From that time till now, I cant replace listening to a floyd song at least once per day!

I guess I'm another one of the few, Driven! And we are few and far between. For me, it brings back some great memories of the tour.

I got my first CD player on christmas day 1991 and Dark Side of the Moon was the first CD I ever had. I asked for it because a friend of mine told me DSOTM would sound amazing in a CD player; I had heard a few songs on the radio by PF before and had liked what I heard. That album blew me away...about once a week I would head to the record store and pick up random PF cd's since they were all new and exciting to me. It's been a while since I've been excited like that about a new CD coming out by a band these days.

well my dad was a fan..and since i grew up listenin to pf..ended up stealing all his cds..

I was looking for a song I'd heard my dad playing and he didn't know which one I meant so he told me to rummage through his albums, upon doing this I stumbled across Dark side of the moon and I couldn't believe how modern On the run sounded, I looked at the recording date 1973 and I was hooked, what a great band 20 years before their time. I couldn't believe how anybody could sing so mellow....class, genius and intelligent

I discovered Floyd at the perfect time to do so. It was last year, and I was a freshman in college. Until I started college I considered myself to be well-versed musically, but living in dorms away from home I was subjected to all kinds of music I hadnt heard before. I wrote most of it off as being "weird" at first but as time went on I found myself yearning to find a new band I could really get into. Enter Pink Floyd: It was a saturday night last winter qtr, and since it gets very snowy here in Ohio most people were partying or just chillin in their dorms. I got back to my room at about 2 am and was watching tv when a guy from down the hall came and knocked on my door. He asked me if I wanted to smoke a joint. I hadnt gotten high in forever but it was saturday night and I was in college so I said "what the hell."
We went to his room and shared a joint. Not having smoked in forever, I was high as balls, and I told him to put something on. He said "You ever listen to Pink Floyd man?" I said something about hearing their songs on classic rock stations but hadnt given them that much thought. He put Shine On on and it was love at first hearing. Now, not even a year later, I have almost all their albums and while Live at Pompeii is great, its greater than great on an extremely powerful surround sound system. Im not one of those people who think you have to be stoned to listen to Pink Floyd, but Im someone who knows that marijuana can make your listening experience infinitely more enjoyable, deep, and meaningful.

i was 15 when the wall (the movie) was released and i didn't know much on pink floyd back then. i went to the theatre and BANG! i became a fan right away. now i'm a floyd crazy guy

When i was in grade 7 circa1967 some new kids came to our school, the family had just moved here from London UK, One of the boys was put into my class, we hit it off as we had a common bond of soccor which he called football and a love of the blues. His older brother was totally into what was than known as Mod and would complain about having to listen to Sam Cooke, Son House and BB King all day and how "we should expand our limited pithy horizons" (his words). He put The Piper at the Gates of Dawn on the turntable, I was amazed to say the least and went and bought it at Shermans Music the next Sat. I started turning my other friends on to PF immediately.

As an aside to all this and I still laugh about it, when DSOTM came out, kids from outside our circle started raving about this new band called PF, so I made cassettes of their previous albumns (never lent out my vinyl) and told them that the band had just released a whole bunch of new stuff, they bought it hook line and sinker ... as Bugs so aptly said "what a Maroon"

My boyfriend was in love with Pink Floyd.. that's all he talked about. He's my ex now.. and I've realized that he really didn't know what he was talking about. He only talked about them for show. One night I confronted (sp?) him about it.. he seemed mad.. Now I make sure I have on my Pink Floyd shirts every time I see him.

I guess you could say he's the one who REALLY got me into Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd has always been my dad's favorite band, but my ex-bf is the one who REALLY got me into it. You see, he's been listening to floyd all his life, since his dad has all the floyd cds and plays them... repeatedly. I had liked Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2 (I was such a loser! Now I know that there's MUCH better!), so I said I liked PF. He made me two mixed cds of pf songs. I didn't listen to them much until about a week later, when I went to the El Monstero (PF tribute band) concert. It was the best time of my life being there. It was a REAL concert, with people getting stoned and everything. Well, after that my dad bought Echoes, so now I'm the biggest floydphreak alive. Sorry this rambled on for too long. Pink Floyd is the best band of all time!

I was 13, living in a small, rural town where Mormonism is the chief religion (Idaho, USA). I found WYWH at the library & liked the cover...so I brought it home.
And, now,26 years later, I've loaned my Pink CDs to my 15 year old & his friends. Pretty cool, huh?