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

I could say that I got in Pink Floyd trough The Wall...

Well, it was a year ago, or something close to it. My uncle had all these bootlegged DVDs and we watched The Jerk and Napoleon Dynamite. When we finished watching those, he turns to me and said, "I am making you watch this," and put in The Wall. I thought it was going to be stupid and boring. But, oh, I was sooo wrong. The story was excellent, and the music to go along with it was almost too perfect.

When it was over, I asked what the music was, and he goes, "Pink Floyd - The Wall," and threw a CD case at me. It was The Wall. Then after I finished listening to that, I listened to DSOTM. I never could have dreamed of an album so perfect. So then I started listening to all the albums and songs I could download. And they're great. They are sooo great.

It still surprises me how much Piper and DSOTM and The Wall sound so different. But it's all for the better.

dsotm when me nad my mom when on a road trip when i was 6 yrs old

I was told about them by a friend cause he wrote "The Wall" lyrics in the journal thing.. and I happen to read it and I was amazed at the lyrics that I bought "The Wall"... I have been a fan ever sense....

My brother!! He is 7 years my senior..and way back in 1980 he was listening to PF and I was mesmerized! I was the only 10 year old who would listen....I've been a fain ever since. Every one of my boyfriends through the years have eventually subcomed to the PF bug. I guess....after listening to them about 1000 times with me...how could they resist? My brother also introduced me to Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Rush...and many other oldie but goodies. I love you bro!

Well basically if I'm honest it was another brick in the wall part 2 which I heard a lot when I was at school. So I got The Wall on Tape as soon as I could really enjoyed the whole album so I started slowly collecting all the albums on tape then updated my collection to cd. They are the joint best british band of all time in my opinion neck and neck with Led Zep, and M-people being No 1 :lOL: only joking

I had to write a research paper "exploring" history my junior year of high school. As a joke, I told the teacher that my paper was 'Exploring the 'Dark Side of The Moon'". To my surprise, she said that would be a good topic. So that weekend, I went to the local f.y.e. and purchased Dark Side of The Moon cd and the classic albums dvd. Went home, stuck it in the suround sound. the rest, as they say, is history.....

That still holds true today. I do know that about, oh, 5 years ago, the first Floyd album I bought was PULSE; just 'cause I thought the packaging was cool. I mean, I knew who Floyd was, but I had no clue as to what an impact they had on music history nor did I know that they would make a serious impact on me.

I didn't buy another Floyd album until a couple of years ago. Then I got another, then I eventually became obsessed -- which is when I joined the APFFN. Why on earth I finally decided to start listening to them in the first place is beyond me, I wish I could remember. Anyways, I rarely listen to them anymore these days, but they will always have a special place in my heart & soul.

Really, I cannot even remember when was the first time that I listened to the Floyd. What I do remember is that no one introduced them to me and that I was just a child back in the 80's. The first song I knew was "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" and I knew it through the video-clip because they played it heavily in Spanish TV. Gerald Scarffe's animation scared but also attracted me in a very powerful way. I started listening to radio stations where they played classic rock and soon I realised that there was a "longer version" with a helicopter in it ("Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 / The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" all played in a row). To me it became the "helicopter song" and already my favourite. By the age of 13 I knew that the song came from a classic album called "El Muro" ("The Wall" in Spanish) and asked my sister's boyfriend (13 years older than me) to make me a tape copy...

...he made me a copy of this album and also a copy of "Wish You Were Here" and I instantly became a Floyd fan listening to these albums for hours and hours. When I was 14/15 years old I started buying vynils just because they were cheap back then (and now I keep them as a treasure!). I bought "Meddle" and "Echoes" was for me the confirmation that Pink Floyd was the greatest band on Earth. I also bought "Relics" because I liked the cover and it introduced me to a strange and wonderful new world. At first I couldn't listen to it -"Interestellar Overdrive" was too weird for me at the time- but it slowly grew on me and opened my ears to a new sound and made me become interested in experimentation and non-conventional song structures. From then on it was only natural that I started listening to early Genesis, King Crimson, etc.

Of course, I was the child with the stranger musical taste in my class! (and in the school I could say!).

well i always have been interested in what my older brother (another floyder and prog-rocker) listens to. but when i was about 10 i became curious about the stuff he was listening to. he always played the music REALLY loud and i would listen, sorta enjoying it. but i was thinking "hey, i'm only a child. i should go back to that bubble gum mainstream pop". and so i did. but, a few yrs later my uncle gave my brother the DSOTM dvd. and it just so happened that i watched it with him. i was amazed. later that evening i found the album, put on my headphones, laid back and experienced the chills of a lifetime. the emotions i felt were unlike from any other music. and so i put all that previous crap i was supposedly fond of and turned to my true favourite.

i started to listen to rock music when i was 11 or 12, and when another brick in the wall pt 2 came out, i loved that song. i never heard of pink floyd, and was convinced that that was someone's name in the band. later that year, i got the wall as a present for easter i think, and was hooked right away. my dad was always yeling at me to "turn that crap off" especially when comfortably numb was playing. later that year, while going to school, i was talking to one of the highschool dudes on my bus, and started talking about floyd, and he started telling me about other albums, and he loaned me his copy of animals, and i started buying all the albums. 26 years, and several hundred (thousand?) dollars later, they are still my favorite band.

In spring of my junior year of high school my buddy and I were driving on the viaduct in Seattle and he asks me if I've ever heard of Pink Floyd. I said, yeah, never listened to them. He tells me he saw an infomercial for their greatest hits (Echoes) and went out and bought this album Dark Side of The Moon. He pops it in, by the time "Time" rolled around, I was hooked.

When I was 15 some guy at my school told me I should check out Pink Floyd‘s stuff. I though it was a guy named Pink Floyd My music collection was pretty limited at the time. I liked Zeppelin, Pearl Jam and some classical stuff as well. I went home and downloaded The Great Gig in the Sky. I was absolutely moved by it. From there I just kept falling in love with each new song I heard. Within a few months I had most of the albums as well as some ROIO's.

A kinda sketchy guy back in middle school let me listen to ABITWp2 and I loved it, so I went out and bought The Wall. I became obsessed with PF immediately, and I bought the rest of their albums within the next year or so.

How did you guys/girls get into Pink Floyd. Some people were around when the music came out and a certain song made them interested. Some had to be introduced to Pink Floyd.

I wasn't really introduced by a person. I was at a party and someone put on Dark Side of the Moon. After listening to it, I was hooked for life.