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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 40883 Gender:	1st time listening to Pink Floyd Jun 11^th, 2025 at 7:06pm I am envious people have not heard Dark Side of the Moon. Some people really 'go on the trip' as they listen. Most are wrong footed on how it progresses. Really really expert musically people are wrong footed and in the end just go with it.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 143103 Gender:	Re: 1st time listening to Pink Floyd Reply #1 - Jun 11^th, 2025 at 7:09pm I follow that second guy on YouTube. DSOTM is an absolute classic. I must have listened to it at least 200 times. The first time was back in about 1975 - I listened to it through headphones and was blown away.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 40883 Gender:	Re: 1st time listening to Pink Floyd Reply #2 - Jun 11^th, 2025 at 7:43pm 1st time I heard it I was about 14 years old and at my sisters place. Could not understand it, cycled home thinking it was a stupid album the whole way. Got home (15 kms away), got my money from my piggy bank, cycled to the local shops and bought it.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 51891 Gender:	Re: 1st time listening to Pink Floyd Reply #3 - Jun 11^th, 2025 at 8:19pm TRUMP
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Reply #4 - Jun 12^th, 2025 at 6:27am

It doesn't surprise me at all. Gen Z is a generation of self-centred,
know-it-all, smug, self-entitled cretins. That they're unfamiliar with
some of the greatest music and musicians of the twentieth century
doesn't come as any great revelation. They've grown up with the likes
of Justin Bieber, Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran, or Miley Cyrus. This explains a lot LOL.

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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21031 Gordon Gender:	Re: 1st time listening to Pink Floyd Reply #5 - Jun 12^th, 2025 at 6:50am Not long ago first born asked me, dad since when has Money for Nothing been such a good song? I said, hmm, about since I was on a year 9 excursion to Canberra pashing 'Simone' on the back seat blasting that album on the ghetto blaster. Thanks, dad..
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Reply #6 - Jun 12^th, 2025 at 6:56am

AusGeoff wrote on Jun 12^th, 2025 at 6:27am:

Gen Z is a generation of self-centred, know-it-all, smug, self-entitled cretins. .

What??!! Summoning the ghosts of your parents' generation, then!

People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

Why don't y'all fade away...

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Reply #7 - Jun 12^th, 2025 at 7:08am

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jun 12^th, 2025 at 6:56am:

AusGeoff wrote on Jun 12^th, 2025 at 6:27am:

Gen Z is a generation of self-centred, know-it-all, smug, self-entitled cretins. .

What??!! Summoning the ghosts of your parents' generation, then!

People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

Why don't y'all fade away...

man of the song writers of those days were prophetic in their understanding of life... sometimes people still do not understand them... look at Dylan's 'Pawn In Their Game' ............ easy to misconstrue as supporting the Black Rights movement by calling others names as some kind of group ...... wrong... it looks into the deeper aspects of social control ........ Medgar Evers was a hero to me ... but that's not what the song is about ...

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Reply #8 - Jun 12^th, 2025 at 9:35am

Pink Floyd Rocks Back To No. 1

Pink Floyd is back in charge of an albums ranking in the United Kingdom, the country where the pioneering group got its start. The band recently scored a new No. 1 album with At Pompeii - MCMLXXII, and now, a month after the set debuted, it has returned to the summit. With another moment in the spotlight, the collection becomes one of a very small number of projects from the rock outfit to rack up multiple frames atop the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart.

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Reply #9 - Jun 12^th, 2025 at 11:14am

Sir Grappler Truth Teller wrote on Jun 12^th, 2025 at 7:08am:

man of the song writers of those days were prophetic in their understanding of life... sometimes people still do not understand them... look at Dylan's 'Pawn In Their Game' ............ easy to misconstrue as supporting the Black Rights movement by calling others names as some kind of group ...... wrong... it looks into the deeper aspects of social control ........ Medgar Evers was a hero to me ... but that's not what the song is about ...

While Dylan claimed Woody Guthrie as his primary role model, Guthrie's lyrics were always plain-speaking and direct... 'This land is Your land, this land is My land... this land was made for you and me'... Dylan's, on the other hand, masqueraded as plain-speaking, but often he seems to have gotten ahead of himself trying to be clever and plain... ending up instead with flash wordplay and eloquent bullshit - the antithesis of Guthrie's style.

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Reply #10 - Jun 12^th, 2025 at 1:02pm

Bought DSOTM in 1974 as an 18 yr old.

Was one of the best in car travelling albums ever.

Still a great album.

Can't count how many times I have listened to it fully or certain songs over the years.

It's ageless.

Money is one of my favourites.

I have favourites of most classic rock bands.

Uriah Heep - Gypsy

Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love & Black Dog

Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Children of the Grave, Supernaut.

Deep Purple - Strange Kind of Woman

Santana - Black Magic Woman/Oye Como Va

Just a few. Grin

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Reply #11 - Jun 12^th, 2025 at 2:57pm

Gnads wrote on Jun 12^th, 2025 at 1:02pm:

Bought DSOTM in 1974 as an 18 yr old.

Was one of the best in car travelling albums ever.

Still a great album.

Can't count how many times I have listened to it fully or certain songs over the years.

It's ageless.

Money is one of my favourites.

I have favourites of most classic rock bands.

Uriah Heep - .........

Oh, yes, a Super Hippy album

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 51891 Gender:	Re: 1st time listening to Pink Floyd Reply #12 - Jun 12^th, 2025 at 5:41pm All that I remember when first hearing the Dark Side of the Moon, was that it was very dark indeed that night.
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Re: 1st time listening to Pink Floyd
Reply #13 - Jun 13^th, 2025 at 12:39am

Gnads wrote on Jun 12^th, 2025 at 1:02pm:

Bought DSOTM in 1974 as an 18 yr old.

Was one of the best in car travelling albums ever.

Still a great album.

Can't count how many times I have listened to it fully or certain songs over the years.

It's ageless.

Money is one of my favourites.

I have favourites of most classic rock bands.

Uriah Heep - Gypsy

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love & Black Dog

Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Children of the Grave, Supernaut.

Deep Purple - Strange Kind of Woman

Just a few. Grin

There's dirt. Then there's being older than dirt. And then there is you

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Marla Gold Member Offline Run for me, MAGA bunny. Posts: 14159 Colorado Gender:	Re: 1st time listening to Pink Floyd Reply #14 - Jun 13^th, 2025 at 12:40am Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 11^th, 2025 at 7:06pm: I am envious people have not heard Dark Side of the Moon. Terrible album. Limey prog rock for the brain dead masses. A lot of good weed was wasted by imbeciles listening to that garbage.
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