Is Pink Floyd overrated?

I think Pink Floyd was great, but I do think they are over-rated. I know that's not the majority opinion here, but so be it. I just don't find a lot of their music all that interesting compositionally.

cohen34 wrote: No way! Dark Side and Piper alone far outweigh any flews in their catalogue (AHM in particular). These guys introduced me, and many others Im sure, to the genre we love today.

I'm curious, what exactly is the issue many people seem to have with AHM? is it the "anti-Tarkus", so to speak, in that everyone hates the first side "Suite"? I don't really understand, because side two has 3 quality tracks followed by the fairly interesting (and experimental) Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast.
Maybe the issue is that people don't give the album enough time.. and simply overlook it. Or maybe the suite is compared all too often to "Echoes" from Meddle, and considered to be inferior?

Anyways, to answer the question, NO, Pink Floyd itself is not overrated. If anything, several of their albums seem to have too much praise while others are criminally overlooked. Basically, it's not a band issue but an album issue.

I Have seen some dumb Threads on the internet , but this takes the Biscuit  ,
Treasure  go buy your self  Pink Floyd at Pompeii  then tell me there Overrated , geeshhh

stonebeard wrote: The Wall as an album is always name-dropped, but it's not that good. Everything else deserves the recognition or needs more recognition.

I think that if it was a single disc it would have been far better.

Overrated? No. They are RnR Hall of Fame worthy of all that they have given to music.

febus wrote: One day. we are going to ask the PA admin. to BAN the word ''overrated''. It is used and overused and worst, carries no meaning. Every thread mentioning this word.....deleted!!!! disapeared!!! and PA planet will be a better world after that!.   You like PINK FLOYD or not.......... doesn't matter!! they are the vitrin of prog. Millions of progheads learnt about this kind of music because of SOSecrets, Meddle, AHM, DSOFTM and so on.   Of course, the prog ''elite'' will tell you PF is not that complicated , no time changes and other stupidities and worst, a few ''elitists'' history revisionists are even denying the word prog to the music of PF. .. As if ATOM HEART MOTHER was reggae/ska maybe!!!!!!   NO, NO, NO!!! they're not overrated and everyone should say THANK YOU to Roger, David, Rick and Nick and Syd for everything they did, the pleasures they gave us and all the doors they open for other prog bands.   So tired of this overrated PINK FLOYD bashing!

There are a couple points I'd like to address on this post of yours febus. First of all, you can't honestly think that we should ban the use of the word overrated. I, for one, have called several bands on this website 'overrated', including, to be honest and since it relates to the thread, Pink Floyd. Part of this forum and website is so people can express themselves openly. Why do you think PA lets its members write their own reviews?

Secondly, as much as I dislike Pink Floyd these days, I won't deny that they are an important contributor for progressive rock (and even mainstream rock) as well as many other bands that followed. Part of the reason I dislike PF may be that I listened to them so much as a young teenager for a period of about two years that I burned myself out on them, as well as the fact that I've discovered many other bands who I feel are better. One of my favorite bands of all time, Dream Theater, might not be the same band it is without its PF influence.

Thirdly, the fact that PF is considered one of the 4 biggest/original prog bands, along with KC, Yes, and Genesis, and yet they make, IMO, more simplistic music than the other 3 says something. After all, aren't complex rhythms, rapid time signature changes, and so forth elements that distinguish progressive rock from other genres of rock?

While I may disagree with you febus, I still respect your opinion. I would prefer to listen to PF over the garbage on the radio these days, but I think that in all honesty you might be the one who isn't being open enough to other people's opinions. If you wish to have a debate on this topic, I'm more than willing to engage you, but hopefully you can at least understand why I dislike PF.

 I  don't find most of their music particularly interesting to me, but clearly, their influence on popular music for the last third of the 20th century can not be called overrated. Any accolades they recieve are deserved, they're just not going to get any of my money.
 And I too hate the word "overrated". You like them, or you don't.

This topic = some close minded  metal guy that dont like classic prog / PF. How very orginal.

DSOTM  was the album that opened my eyes to this type of music called prog and i will be for ever greatfull. PF is one of the best bands on this site nuff said.

^AMEN!

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Treasure wrote: I think most of their early psychedlic stuff was pure garbage and they've really made nothing of interest since The Wall. Are they overrated? Yes How many classic prog bands have done something of interest since 1979? They had a 4 album run of 5-star or near 5 star albums. I think thats plenty to merit the praise they receive. Not overrated.

exactly. Yes made their final prog "epic" with Drama, in 1980 but after that they went with pop.
Genesis the same, Duke was their last thing that had at least something from their gold era, but after that they went to pop prog.
ELP? They already started decaying with Works in the mid 70's.
Camel? they went on pop prog.

From the 70's bands you couldn't expect great 80's stuff. With few exceptions like Zappa and King Crimson.

Whaaat?? Pink Floyd is probably the greatest thing that happened to music since the time of Beethoven.