What would have Pink Floyd been like if this was the lineup through the 70s? Better? Worse?
Despite the possibility that Syd could've kept them on a freakish experimental track, there may not have been enough of a Waters influence to give them more mainstream appeal.
They probably wouldn't have continued.
Syd was absolutely impossible to work with.
They probably would have become a boring ass late-psych band like there were so many in the early seventies.
choose
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Animals
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Meddle
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Piper
This has nothing to do with me being a Sydfag but if he stuck around their discography would be drastically different and there would be less Rogerwank for sure, so it can only be a good thing.
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Animals
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WYWH
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Animals
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WYWH
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Animals > Piper > DSOTM > Meddle > WYWH > Wall
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WYWH
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Animals and Piper
and Meddle
actually the only album I don't like is WYWH
I don't know if Syd's style would have continued to speak to the times as the 70s rolled on.
Waters' Floyd was a much more apt voice for where things had gone, especially for people like them... coming out of '60s psychedelic utopianism but then experiencing the darkness and comedown that set in - and yet were still coming from a very psychedelic-influenced worldview.
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Piper > WYWH > DSOTM > Meddle = Animals >>> The Wall
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Why no Atom Heart Mother?
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Wish You Were Here > Animals > The Dark Side of the Moon > Meddle >> The Wall > The Piper At the Gates of Dawn
Remember that all opinions on music are subjective.
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Piper>Animals>Meddle>WYWH>DSOTM>The Wall
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WYWH>Animals>Piper>Wall>Meddle>DSOTM
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>Remember that all opinions on music are subjective.
Opinions, personal emotional responses... they're.. somewhat subjective; but I think that there is something about relevant art objects - some capacity or affordance of being they somehow achieve as by product of themselves.
It's some coalescence or convergence or resonance - that operates in a way that they have a way of continually making a resonant impression even as cultural contexts and readings change, and, despite the uniqueness of its experience for each individual viewer/listener, have something to them - some withdrawn aptness for speaking in a pre-linguistic capacity that is actually, paradoxically, universal in its ability to subjectively resonate in individuals (universal in subjective resonance)...
I mean, that so many people, or the people with a certain awareness, in the more rarified, higher vibrational examples, can come to some felt agreement on something's unconscious aptness and greatness, even as cultural 'discourses' change...
