I Don't Get It...What's the Big Deal?

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danie

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This thread is for posting about anything that most other people seem to think is a BIG DEAL, but you don't get it. Then someone can try to convince you why it IS such a BIG DEAL.

For example, you guys talk a lot about Pink Floyd in the music threads, but I don't get it. What's the big deal about them? I have tried to listen to them but am not impressed. I grew up in the 70s/80s, so I heard them on the radio. I just don't get it.

What's the big deal?????
 

Doc Creed

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This thread is for posting about anything that most other people seem to think is a BIG DEAL, but you don't get it. Then someone can try to convince you why it IS such a BIG DEAL.

For example, you guys talk a lot about Pink Floyd in the music threads, but I don't get it. What's the big deal about them? I have tried to listen to them but am not impressed. I grew up in the 70s/80s, so I heard them on the radio. I just don't get it.

What's the big deal?????
That's funny because I feel the same.
 

Sundrop

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This thread is for posting about anything that most other people seem to think is a BIG DEAL, but you don't get it. Then someone can try to convince you why it IS such a BIG DEAL.

For example, you guys talk a lot about Pink Floyd in the music threads, but I don't get it. What's the big deal about them? I have tried to listen to them but am not impressed. I grew up in the 70s/80s, so I heard them on the radio. I just don't get it.

What's the big deal?????
I'll see your Pink Floyd and raise you Led Zeppelin.....I don't get it for either of them......or the Beatles.
 

Lepplady

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I appreciate Pink Floyd (and maybe eve Zep) because there really hadn't been anything quite like them up until they did their thing. They're sounds that we're used to now because we grew up hearing them, but they were bust-outs. If nothing else, I give PF credit for sounding completely stoned when they claim that they were not. LOL!
 

swiftdog2.0

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I'll see your Pink Floyd and raise you Led Zeppelin.....I don't get it for either of them......or the Beatles.

SwiftDogs are all about Led Zep, Pink Floyd, and the Beatles. Three of the most important bands of the rock era.

Jimmy Page is a remarkable guitarist and producer. Amazing riffs just pour out of him. To see his far reaching influence watch the looks on the faces of Jack White and the Edge in In It Might Get Loud when Page plays the riff to Whole Lotta Love. They're like kids on Christmas morning. John Bonham was, and is, the best rock drummer EVAH (he's so good it makes my Boston accent come out :) ). John Paul Jones was one of the best bass players ever. Also a solid producer and composer. Robert Plant is the blueprint for the rock frontman. That's what the deal with Led Zep is.

Pink Floyd made progressive rock popular. Complex songs, melodies and arrangements. Grandiose concept albums and epic storytelling (i.e. The Wall). That's the deal with Pink Floyd (although I agree they were awfully pretensious at times).

Beatles? There aren't enough words to describe their importance. Keys were melodies, harmonies, and song writing. That's the big deal with Beatles.

What I want to know is what is the big deal with American Idol? It makes me want to vomit.
 
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The film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. One of the biggest letdowns of all time. Luckily I attended with three people as unimpressed as I was.

The game of football. The most I can bring myself to do is wear a local team logo and cheer them on when winning. Can scarcely stand to watch.
 

kingricefan

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Taylor Swift. Or as I refer to her: Two-Note Taylor. What's the big deal? She comes onto the music scene and within two years she's winning every major award, beating out the likes of well-established artists like Reba McIntire and Dolly Parton? Really? Really? To me she represents Corporate Country to the max.
 

kingricefan

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SwiftDogs are all about Led Zep, Pink Floyd, and the Beatles. Three of the most important bands of the rock era.

Jimmy Page is a remarkable guitarist and producer. Amazing riffs just pour out of him. To see his far reaching influence watch the looks on the faces of Jack White and the Edge in In It Might Get Loud when Page plays the riff to Whole Lotta Love. They're like kids on Christmas morning. John Bonham was, and is, the best rock drummer EVAH (he's so good it makes my Boston accent come out :) ). John Paul Jones was one of the best bass players ever. Also a solid producer and composer. Robert Plant is the blueprint for the rock frontman. That's what the deal with Led Zep is.

Pink Floyd made progressive rock popular. Complex songs, melodies and arrangements. Grandiose concept albums and epic storytelling (i.e. The Wall). That's the deal with Pink Floyd (although I agree they were awfully pretensious at times).

Beatles? There aren't enough words to describe their importance. Keys were melodies, harmonies, and song writing. That's the big deal with Beatles.

What I want to know is what is the big deal with American Idol? It makes me want to vomit.
Wanna see a true look of joy and amazement? Go to youtube and watch the clip from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when Tom Petty, George Harrison's son, Prince and a bunch of others are on stage playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Watch Harrison's son's face when Prince does his guitar solo.....
 

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Kardashians. What's-her-name Hilton. Reality TV. I will never understand the Big Deal about them.

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I'm not a great fan of the Beatles, either, but the Big Deal for them is that they changed the world. That is indeed a Big Deal.

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Pink Floyd. Gather round, kids.

Music is subjective. We all have our "OMG they are SO GOOD" musical artists (and authors and poets, etc.). But Pink Floyd gets to millions of us and gets special attention because....

Well, they were inventive, but not just for the sake of shallow avante-garde "we're cool because we are" presentation. They were truly musically inclined and had the basics down of the philosophy and theory of their craft and they applied it in lyrical and musical ways that others had not done before. Not only that, but they did it with variety in their approach.

Their music can be acoustic and grounded, or flights of synthesized science fiction fantasy, or symphonic, or just like nothing else. Their lyrics can seem mundane or be achingly resonant.

When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look, but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now; the child has grown; the dream is gone.
I have become
comfortably numb


Well, I don't expect the above lyrics to call to anyone else, but they call to me with a sharp-edged pang. Every time. And then that mournful, suppressed-rage guitar solo. Oh, man.

They put terribly poignant and soaring lyrics together with an unsuppressed musicality. A parallel: In the geologic scale of mineral hardness, it goes from 1 (talc) to 9 (corundum). 10 is diamond, and by far and away surpasses 1 through 9. In my own music appreciation scale of expression, Pink Floyd is the diamond. No one else comes close.

I don't know if this has made sense to anyone. I hope it did. I don't know if it's agreeable with anyone. I kinda don't care. Music is subjective, and I'm describing the effect that the incomparable Pink Floyd, in the Waters/Gilmour/Wright/Mason days, has had on me.
 

danie

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Kardashians. What's-her-name Hilton. Reality TV. I will never understand the Big Deal about them.

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I'm not a great fan of the Beatles, either, but the Big Deal for them is that they changed the world. That is indeed a Big Deal.

-----

Pink Floyd. Gather round, kids.

Music is subjective. We all have our "OMG they are SO GOOD" musical artists (and authors and poets, etc.). But Pink Floyd gets to millions of us and gets special attention because....

Well, they were inventive, but not just for the sake of shallow avante-garde "we're cool because we are" presentation. They were truly musically inclined and had the basics down of the philosophy and theory of their craft and they applied it in lyrical and musical ways that others had not done before. Not only that, but they did it with variety in their approach.

Their music can be acoustic and grounded, or flights of synthesized science fiction fantasy, or symphonic, or just like nothing else. Their lyrics can seem mundane or be achingly resonant.

When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look, but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now; the child has grown; the dream is gone.
I have become
comfortably numb


Well, I don't expect the above lyrics to call to anyone else, but they call to me with a sharp-edged pang. Every time. And then that mournful, suppressed-rage guitar solo. Oh, man.

They put terribly poignant and soaring lyrics together with an unsuppressed musicality. In the geologic scale of hardness, it goes from 1 (talc) to 9 (corundum). 10 is diamond, and by far and away surpasses 1 through 9. In my own music appreciation scale of expression, Pink Floyd is the diamond. No one else comes close.

I don't know if this has made sense to anyone. I hope it did. I don't know if it's agreeable with anyone. I kinda don't care. Music is subjective, and I'm describing the effect that they have had on me.
Beautifully written.
I'm happy that they speak to you in all the ways you mentioned.
I just don't feel anything when I listen to them.
But I expect people don't get Eminem the way I do either. I think the music has to speak to you as a person who has experienced and knows the pain, beauty, poignancy of the words sung and the subtleties of the notes played. Very subjective, for certain.
 

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I love Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Maybe you didn't get stoned enough danie - it was good get high music. Just kidding sort of.

I don't get Star Wars. At all. Not my thing. Saw the first one when I was a kid and was totally bored. The only redeeming factor for me was a new hair style to try out. I was forever trying to make buns on the sides of my head.

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Dana Jean

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Wanna see a true look of joy and amazement? Go to youtube and watch the clip from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when Tom Petty, George Harrison's son, Prince and a bunch of others are on stage playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Watch Harrison's son's face when Prince does his guitar solo.....



I honestly didn't realize Prince was that good of a guitar player. I thought he just sort of dabbled. That was brilliant. And he was very engaged with everyone. George's son looks so much like him doesn't he?