Rock : Post Syd Pink Floyd are the most overrated band in history.

Post Syd Pink Floyd are the most overrated band in history.

As a teen I had a punk fuelled disdain for prog that has faded as I've grown older but i still think Floyd are insanely over-valued. I don't even dislike them. I just see they're responsible for two of the five best albums of all time on rateyourmusic and it baffles me. To me they're pleasant middlebrow rock with a few good songs.. I think it's only the fact Roger Water's brooding conceptualism is so relatable to a lot of people (and slightly socially relevant) that puts them ahead of being a Coldplay for the 70s. Pretty drifty music that won't frighten the horses. But at the same times the drawn out songs and conceptual underpinning give a illusion of challenge and innovation.

Also Dave Gilmour is a boring edge-less guitarist AND the only notable musician in the band.

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I love Floyd; I love Waters; yet, I cannot stand how unbearably ignorant the latter is in his politics. I couldn't even enjoy his latest concert film because of it. He's become the classic egotistical, raving old rock god. Gilmour, on the other hand, has been empty behind the eyes for years now.

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Re: Post Syd Pink Floyd are the most overrated band in history.

I believe The Beatles are overrated. Pink Floyd? Not at all!

Re: Post Syd Pink Floyd are the most overrated band in history.

The Beatles are such a common contrarian answer for the over-rated question they're almost under-rated these days (I know Rateyourmusic isn't the definitive be-all/end-all of music but ten years ago their albums dominated the best album ever top 10 there. Now i don't think they have single one on there while Floyd and Radiohead own the top 5*)

Personally I feel like the Beatles dwarf Floyd when it comes to songwriting gifts and innovation/pushing pop and rock music forward but opinions ARE like butts and everything 🙃… better musicians too with the possible exception of Gilmour, if that's how you measure things.

*Also I feel like as the 60s disappear further into the rearview of history and even people's boomer parents are too young to remember that stuff the pre-punk 70s is becoming the "classic rock" that gets the most attention.

Re: Post Syd Pink Floyd are the most overrated band in history.

This ain't it, chief.

Re: Post Syd Pink Floyd are the most overrated band in history.

You’re a fucking retard

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