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Originally Posted by zamler
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I don't think you understand what good music is at all. Pink Floyd stands alone in all the groups you listed. Their sound is unique, their writing is unique, all of them are/were extremely talented and intelligent musicians. Pink Floyd may very well be the greatest band of all time. And what's amazing about the band is they only ever had one #1 hit.
Their music is timeless.
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Ok, I'll bite!
Pink Floyd were a fairly predictable and mundane group of musicians that came out of the same scene (the UFO) that gave rise to the Canterbury sound of Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt even Mike Oldfield they were all heavily influenced by jazz but not nearly talanted enough to play it so came up with a much simpler version of it. It isn't particularly origanal, it's just what british white guys who grew up playing simple blues play when they realise they can't come close to Miles Davis or Sun Ra or Ornette Colman, I loathe the free jazz experiments of the sixties but that is what Floyd where trying to do. Check out Soft Machine, they were far better at it.
I say all of this as an occasional Floyd fan who has seen them live a few times.