Post #14. Learning to fly.

Hello everybody,

Today I would like to tell you about the thing that inspires me a lot during any life situation. That is the music of my favorite bands, Pink Floyd. In my opinion, they are one of the greatest rock bands which existed ever. Of course, you might disagree with me; however, it is hard to disagree that their music is very unusual, specific and unique. Moreover, their music is quite diversified from one album to another, from one song to other. Sometimes the style varies even in one single song.  It really captures my attention a lot! The music of Pink Floyd helps me to achieve two main goals:

·         Firstly, it really helps me to feel relaxed. That is really important, as I could either just sleep with Pink Floyd on the background or just do my home assignments in a relaxing atmosphere. Of course, I do not claim that all of their music creates such an atmosphere, but the vast part does.

·         Secondly, it sometimes helps to reflect, to think about yourself and your relations with other people and with the whole society. I know that it sounds very philosophical, but it is really important for me to experience some thoughts like that.

Pink Floyd caused the great impact on psychedelic rock from the all sides. Actually, they were the first group ever to adopt such a genre. Also, I do very like how they combined classical rock with psychedelic in some compositions. That combination allowed them to touch a lot of issues in their music, starting from social problems and ending with deep psychology. Many groups afterwards adopted such unwritten standard of music creation.

Pink Floyd was also innovative by their use of electronic and semi-acoustic synthesizers and other semi-electronic musical instruments. That allowed them to create the famous effect of ‘space wind’ which still fascinates thousands of fans around the world.  I completely agree with them, I did not another group with such an amazing sound. You can feel it especially if you are listening Pink Floyd on the old vinyl tapes – I still have some. 

Actually, I do not want to write a lot about the group today, here, as I am going to do my final presentation project about them. Thus, if I write a lot now, I will have nothing to say at the presentation. J However, I at least decided to compensate the length of my post with some pictures and music, related to the topic, so I hope you enjoy it!

                                                            

The picture in the beginning of post is from the 'Dark Side of The Moon' album.

Moreover, while I was writing that post, I was listening to the following tracks:
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
Pink Floyd - On the Run
Pink Floyd - Mudmen
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in The Wall (Part I)
Pink Floyd - Julia Dream