POLL! pink floyd would never happen in today's music industry

[Wuffsunie]

Sadly enough, I'd say no. Floyd is too experimental and diverse of sound, not like music today where whole CDs could be mistaken for the same song (*coughcoughSaintAngercoughcough*). It just dosen't seem like something the industry fosters. Though those that argue that the market wouldn't accept them also have a point. Still, the market is heavily influenced by the industry in this case.

As an indie band they'd likely would be picked up, though never main stream.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: prvteye2003

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Fausto
I think they'd make it. Look at bands like Radiohead and Sigur Ros. Not the same kind of music exactly, but a similar approach IMHO.

i think radiohead is a bit before *today's* music industry... we didn't have britney spears or backstreet boys or anything like that yet... though it was certainly trending toward the utter crap that gets pumped out today... rock seems, well, dead.

I have to agree with you about rock seeming dead. But, that's all I listen too. None of today's crap. Old school rock rules.

I have to agree with you. Classic Rock stations are really the only stations that aren't utter crap. Rap just outright sucks, and I don't understand why people like it; and pop is no talent people who are easy on the eyes.

 

[DT4K]

Sure their early stuff was too unique and psychedelic for the 90's and 00's.
But their early stuff wasn't that popular either.
It wasn't until Dark Side of the Moon that they really "made it".
And that was pretty mainstream.
If Dark Side came out right now, I think it would be extremely popular.

 

[agnitrate]

Pink Floyd has too many clothes on to be popular these days and not enough bling bling.

I said it when Backstreet Boys were popular, I said it when Ricky Martin / Enrique Iglesias / Marc Anthony was popular, I said it when Blink 182 was popular, but I can't wait to see what the next 'era' of music is.

Boy Bands (Backstreet Boys, Hanson, 98 Degrees, etc) -> Pop (Britney Spears, Cristina Aguilera, etc) / Modern-day punk crap (Blink 182, Sum 41, etc) / Rap

I give up on music ever turning back to anything decent in mainstream's eyes after all people listen to is complete and utter crap like that. They're satisfied watching MTV's crappy 'reality' shows all day and listening to the garbage Clear Channel puts out and thus we will never see any changes. We'll have to wait and see what the next 'popular' music trend will be.

Anybody with any guesses? I sure as hell wouldn't have guessed 10 years ago that Latin music would have had a 2-3 year run. Who knew?

-silver

 

[OutHouse]

Hello no they wouldnt make it. No label would even take the chance in signing them. Todays music taste in the main stream market is all about 3-4 min songs with canned music and cords hence no talent or original creativity.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Citrix
Hello no they wouldnt make it. No label would even take the chance in signing them. Todays music taste in the main stream market is all about 3-4 min songs with canned music and cords hence no talent or original creativity.

pretty much...


unfortunately

 

[AIWGuru]

The beatles wouldn't make it in today's music industry either...

 

[Babbles]

I consider myself a pretty big Pink Floyd fan, and I do not think they would make it today to the same degree that they did back in the day. Pink Floyd (along with many bands from the 60s, 70s, and early 80s) produced strong albums, and most artists and recording companies produce single tracks. A song, maybe two, that they bundle with a bunch of 'filler' music. Because of that, I do not think a recording industry would give a 'modern' Pink Floyd the allowance for their own creativity.

 

[shimsham]

i think they could make it, but it would take a while, etc. like the others above me have said.

its all the same and ive heard it all before. yesterdays PF is todays tool. madonna-britney spears. marilyn manson-liberace. your dad had this conversation with his buddy, as did his dad. im sure you could keep going back through many, many generations and find the pattern. people just take one of the basic types of music, and put their own spin/gimmick on it, and the next generation consumes it since they are young and have not heard it yet. just like movies and literature. the last innovative period of music was the cause of drugs, IMO. what will cause the next?

 

[SETiCruncherXy]

ahhh.. speaking of floyd..
im listening to a live bootleg of the last "animals" tour as i type...
6-6-77..
damn good quality fer those days.. even for todays bootleg standards its damn good...
yeah.. theres always good listeners out there no matter what...
just look what the quality of most of the music out there.. alot of it isnt that great...
as a musician.. i always will give a band a listen at least once...
and i might be a little biased considering i grew up on floyd.. but still.. quality is still quality....

 

[Rob9874]

Why is it that each generation usually pigeon-holes themselves to the music that's currently popular? My grandparents liked Sinatra, and couldn't stand Metallica. I was just the opposite. Is it just coincedence that we're born in the era that coincides with our personal taste for music? Or is it that we don't think for ourselves, and conform to what the masses say is popular for the time?

 

[Siddhartha]

If Dave Matthews can make a living , Pink Floyd could too.

 

[Steveo33]

Pink Floyd was questioning and looking for answers. Today its largely instant gratification with sex, skin deep values, and a lot of hardened mind-numb rap. They really reflected the culture of the early to mid '70s. They were musicians indeed and philosophical in expression, a romanticism that's become bankrupt.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Steveo33
Pink Floyd was questioning and looking for answers. Today its largely instant gratification with sex, skin deep values, and a lot of hardened mind-numb rap. They really reflected the culture of the early to mid '70s. They were musicians indeed and philosophical in expression, a romanticism that's become bankrupt.

Very true, I think.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Rob9874
Why is it that each generation usually pigeon-holes themselves to the music that's currently popular? My grandparents liked Sinatra, and couldn't stand Metallica. I was just the opposite. Is it just coincedence that we're born in the era that coincides with our personal taste for music? Or is it that we don't think for ourselves, and conform to what the masses say is popular for the time?

I grew up in the 90s, but I still prefer Metallica over all the other mainstream garbage.

 

[LethalWolfe]

There is no reason why PF wouldn't make it. It's not like radio and the music industry just started playing pop crap recently. PF's biggest era (the mid to late 70's) was dominated by DISCO of all things. Saying PF couldn't make it in todays "climate" because they don't fit in w/pop bands is dumb. PF is timeless *because* they don't fit in w/era-specific pop bands.


Lethal

 

[Steveo33]

I think they could draw some acid heads. :sun:

 

[MikePanic]

if half the kizzy-emo bands today are making it, why wouldn't floyd?

 

[Ornery]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Fausto
I think they'd make it. Look at bands like Radiohead and Sigur Ros. Not the same kind of music exactly, but a similar approach IMHO.

i think radiohead is a bit before *today's* music industry... we didn't have britney spears or backstreet boys or anything like that yet... though it was certainly trending toward the utter crap that gets pumped out today... rock seems, well, dead.

In the late sixties, we DID have crap out there, like The Osmonds, The Monkeys, Jackson Five...

Most people listened to The Stones, Beatles and other 'Rock n Roll' type music. Pink Floyd was NOT rock! It was very much against the grain of what was commonly listened to.

 

[waylman]

They would definately make it. Maybe not with the high schoolers, but anyone that is into music knows it doesn't get much better than Pink Floyd. They would outsell Radiohead.

 

[Modeps]

Unfortunately, I dont think they'd make it, simply because they wouldnt get airtime.

 

[Schadenfroh]

pink floyd is one of my favorite bands and im 17, i hate modern music and every band formed after 1980

/listening to Roger Water's Radio Waves

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Shanti

It wasn't until Dark Side of the Moon that they really "made it".
And that was pretty mainstream.
If Dark Side came out right now, I think it would be extremely popular.

Meddle was one of the best albums ever made and it came out before DSOTM

 

[Ornery]

Meddle wasn't out till '71. There were several out before that.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
pink floyd is one of my favorite bands and im 17, i hate modern music and every band formed after 1980

/listening to Roger Water's Radio Waves

Oh, so you're that guy thats too cool for the modern scene. Don't close yourself off like that, you've just alienated yourself from Tool and Smashing Pumpkins (early stuff)