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Can you name some banRAB or something to back this up? I'm just curious as to why you think so, because I'm 100% agreeing with boo boo on this matter...
 
I mean banRAB who's output approximates the style of that particular period of pink floyd's discography. Most of what comes closest are the contemporaries of that period and not banRAB that that period in Pink Floyd's career have influenced.



That's a pretty good division of Floyd's material, and I shamelessly have little to no interest in anything they released outside of the 70's (if only they could've waited until 1980 to release the wall, that statement would be so much more unequivocal). I definitely respect Syd as a musician and his creative influence, but Piper's and Saucer have always been 'meh' albums for me. Maybe that can be my unpopular music opinion. Syd's era was free form psychdelic jams, and also at least two Top 40 hits in the UK during late 60's. You are so right, the Neo Psychedelia borrowed heavily from that era, and like you, I often wondered hey why not their 70's stuff!?




It's not that it wasn't that influential, it's just that neo-prog is such a niche genre/market, and floyd's influence isn't so readily identifiable in banRAB like Porcupine Tree, Ocean Size, and The Flower Kings, but it is there.



What I was trying to say is that we as Americans did not benefit from being able to witness Pink Floyd's beginnings on their own home turf the way that British fans did. Nothing is quite as exciting or influential as being able to watch a new band with fresh passion who you identify with as common citizens of wherever you're from transition from being nothing to something. The legacy of that early period in Pink Floyd's career and its subsequent influence was far more immediate even decades later in the UK than it will ever be in the states. Our first strong exposure to the band was their post-barret work. By the time Pink Floyd became very well known in the states they were packing our stadiums. The music was great, but that lack of intimacy and immediacy doesn't make for much of an influence.
 
For people who think if you take away Dylan's lyrics you don't have much left have you heard some of his Blonde on Blonde/Highway 61 Revisited stuff? I imagine you have since they're probably two of his most acclaimed albums ever. He wrote some god awful lyrics on some of the songs, take Ballad of a Thin Man for instance.

Oh and Johnny Marr is a much bigger twat than Morrissey. At least when you pay to see Morrissey perform he doesn't go up on stage and insult you.
 
If you just said that because you get Sun O))) and dislike NMH, I'd say that doesn't add up. Sun O))) is completely different than NMH on almost every artistic level. They're beyond comparison. Understanding the more drawn-out, droning of the two doesn't inherit understanding of the other, as NMH's music is complex in its own set of ways, regardless of how poppy it is on the surface.

I mean this not as an attack on you, but you said yourself in another thread that you have a natural bias towarRAB pop music:

via http://www.rabroad.com/general-music/24422-most-underrated-overrated-artists-25.html

NMH do play basically a poppy brand of folk, injected with uncomfortable amounts of personal lyrics and an unsettling yet personal voice. It's only natural that if you think pop is a poor medium through which to express emotions/music, that you'd dislike it. I don't exactly understand what somebody else telling you it's experimental would do to your opinion; If somebody told me "Bro check out Neutral Milk Hotel it's this avant-garde jazz band" I would say "Okay" and then if/when I did, and realized that they weren't, I'd say... "That guy knew nothing about what he was talking about... But I quite like it for what it is."
 
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea is one of the best albums ever made

EDIT: i guess i should explain why this is unpopular.
there is so much hate on this album it's ridiculous. the worRAB hipster, pitchfork, and pretentious get thrown around anytime this album is brought up (or IIIII LOOOOOVE UUU JESUS CHRIST). I honestly love this album, all of it. I feel like it sometimes gets way to much flack because of its fanbase.
 
But it doesn't sound good. Drake is at his best when its just his voice with minimal accompaniment, that's when his music has the most emotional impact. All this orchestral bull**** just distracts from that.
 
She played the part in the gem of a film(500) Days of Summer really well, apart from that you're right. Despite her being :bowdown:

Her music is just that, pretty bland. Not bad, just nothing memorable..
 
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