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listening to time by pink floyd at 18 and then listening to it at 28 is kind of insane to be honest… LIKE OH SHIT 10 YEARS HAVE GOTTEN BEHIND ME AND NO ONE TOLD ME WHEN TO RUN AND I DEFINITELY MISSED THE STARTING GUN!!!!! also not gonna lie i’m terrified of the passage of time it gives me actual panic attacks to really think about!!!!! help 😅

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Hottest Drummer Tournament Round 1

Nick Mason

Band(s): Pink Floyd // Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets

Albums/EPs as drummer:

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd) A Saucerful of Secrets (Pink Floyd) Soundtrack From The Film More (Pink Floyd) Unmagumma (Pink Floyd) Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd) Meddle (Pink Floyd) Obscured by Clouds (Pink Floyd) The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) Animals (Pink Floyd) The Wall (Pink Floyd) The Final Cut (Pink Floyd) A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Pink Floyd) The Division Bell (Pink Floyd) The Endless River (Pink Floyd) 1965: Their First Recordings (Pink Floyd)

Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports (solo) Profiles (solo with Rick Fenn)

Propaganda:

He doesn't act the way you'd expect drummers to act- he's the most stable and the only sane man of the band, and the only one who's been there the whole time. Plus, he's a sweetheart, and coming from someone who's not a big fan of facial hair in general, he rocks a mustache like no one else can.

Roger Taylor

Band(s): Queen // The Cross

Albums as drummer:

Queen (Queen) Queen II (Queen) Sheer Heart Attack (Queen) A Night at the Opera (Queen) A Day at the Races (Queen) New of the World (Queen) Jazz (Queen) The Game (Queen) Flash Gordon (Queen) Hot Space (Queen) The Works (Queen) A Kind of Magic (Queen) The Miracle (Queen) Innuendo (Queen) Made in Heaven (Queen)

Shove It (The Cross) Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (The Cross) Blue Rock (The Cross)

Fun In Space (solo) Strange Frontier (solo) Happiness? (solo) Electric Fire (solo) - drums on tracks 3-5, 7-10 Fun on Earth (solo) - drums on all tracks but 10 Outsider (solo)

Propaganda:

i love him so much

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david gilmour: i DO NOT want to talk about roger, it doesn’t interest me in the slightest, so please do not ask me about roger

david gilmour five minutes later completely unprovoked: you know the thing about roger -

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George Walters…

Wondering how many hotness points Rog would loss if his last name was Walters instead of Waters 🤔

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Roger Water for Disc and Music Echo (UK) - April 8, 1967

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"CALL THE– wait."

"your honour, what the FUCK is that?"

"I have no fucking idea"

"well does it like, represent something? I'm not really following the symbolism here"

"look. what is it doing. is that a piano? where did it get that?"

"HEY. what the fuck are you?"

"a scholar of arts, architectural marvels, no time to delay for a head full of marbles!"

"....."

"alright. we're just going to ignore it an move on"

"well, as I was saying–"

"OH SHIT!!"

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Pink Floyd Textposts

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what makes me lose my mind about the wall is that I could write up so many pretentious essays like "ah yes the concert is clearly a representation of antonin artaud's concept of the theatre of cruelty in its fostering of an atmosphere of unreality that forces the audience into an abject sense of collusion with violence". but the problem is I highly doubt that roger or anyone else involved in its production were thinking about it that hard. I'm obviously not denying that that they were conscious of their storytelling and staging choices but like, when they had the idea for the surrogate band they were not thinking about its deeply fucked ontological implications. they were thinking "haha remember that time you said you wished a fake band could play all the songs so you could go play golf instead let's do that" and all those ideas just organically snowballed into what is genuinely one of the most narratively complex musical performances ever conceived. how did that happen

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I read some people complain about pink floyd fans leaving the fandom, I may have the answer of why:

So, I have been a Beatles fan since I was a child. And there IS SO MUCH information about them.

Want to know what Paul was eating the third of February in 1962? DONE.

Do you want to know what the boys were doing at any given date? Done, you have it.

Photos? Thousands. Books? Thousands. Very intimate information? You can find facts everywhere.

Now Pink Floyd? It’s mostly a mystery. Their private lives, (other than what is out in a few books) photos? Idk I feel like if you’ve been long enough in the fandom you’ve seen them all.

I think people get tired (not of the music) but the lack of information that it’s out there.

What are your theories??

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happy birthday the only girlfailure ever

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Happy birthday David Gilmour’s album Luck and Strange

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i believe the 2010s "i was born in the wrong generation" classic rock girlies were onto something but were thinking of it the wrong way. pink floyd were born in the wrong generation. they would've loved the internet and fortnite

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the thing is that "they were architecture students before this" really does explain a lot actually

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Rog

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sydger is cool and all but barright is just funnier. to me