Is Pink Floyd best listened to while alone in your room, stoned off your face?

[Troll]

Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. Quality.

No need to be stoned or alone in your room to appreciate IMO.

Ahhh but does the saxophone solo on us & them capture your soul if you're not stoned ... it's definitely a different experience

[cojak]

Ommadawn

Freezing on a bike, stopping to sip your coffee from a Thermos.

[doodab]

Chew Magna

Quite scary when it's dark and the cows surround you.

[cojak]

Chew Magna

Quite scary when it's dark and the cows surround you.

Wow!

Who'd have guessed they revered gand pianos??

[VectraMan]

Wicked

My stories of the DSotM are nothing compared to that but totally understand what NF is saying. The album is about the journey. Listening to it brings back memories of me being 15 or so when I first listened to it and the following 2 or 3. Strange times. But just a snippit of the music brings all of the feelings and memories of that time coming back. Thanks for the tale Nick

I listened to it the other day in fact. The Great Gig in the Sky is good (makes me want to buy headache tablets); Money has a great riff and guitar solo, and that song at the end with "got to keep the loonies on the path" is pretty good. But if you're listening in the car don't make the mistake of turning it up when it goes all quiet as that bit with all the clocks scares the bejesus out of you.

Surely real Pink Floyd fans claim to like the early stuff with Syd Barret, and despise DSOM and everything that folowed for "being too commercial".

[dang65]

Ive always thought 'Learning to Fly', 'Comfortably Numb' would be amazing if I was completely stoned.

I've never really understood how Pink Floyd came to be associated with being ideal stoned music, especially during the hippy psychedelic era when their music wasn't even as soothing as stuff like DSOTM. When you're stoned (in my limited experience) the last thing you need is chaos and cacophony. You want repetition, calmness - like others have said, things like The Orb, I suppose. Before that, I can remember how ideal Jean-Michel Jarre's records were (MOR or what), and of course Brian Eno. And also stuff like Hawkwind. That makes good sense as stoned music, but not Pink Floyd. Not for whole albums anyway. Too much going on.

[Troll]

Before that, I can remember how ideal Jean-Michel Jarre's records were (MOR or what), and of course Brian Eno. .

Yup.. allegedly Before & After Science is good when you're stoned

[Ruprect]

you don't need to be alone

[NotAllThere]

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Surely real Pink Floyd fans claim to like the early stuff with Syd Barret, and despise DSOM and everything that folowed for "being too commercial".

Only very pretentious people on a kind of hippy nostalgia trip think that. DSOM hasn't dated. As has been noted, kids today listen to it and enjoy it. Having said that, I do enjoy the early stuff as well.

I did know one guy who'd watched the Wall while stoned on LSD and while straight. He said it didn't make much difference.

[darmstadt]

"I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like", after that era of Pink Floyd you might as well be asleep