is pink floyd considered a phsychedelic band?

Question

me and my friend r fighting over if it is or not. he says all phychedelic music is upbeat, indie/euro music from the 60's and 70's like todays indie music. i say pink floyd is considered a phsychedelic band cuz it just seems right .. and it was on the site. BUT WHATEVER. is it phychdelic?

Answer 1

Floyd was a psychedelic band. Along with other bands from that era like early UFO, Genesis, Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer among others.

Indie music in the 60s and 70s was called "folksie" or "folk" with people like Jim Croce, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Carol King...etc.

Dance music took a strange turn as Disco emerged in about 1976 or so, and then it caught fire after the release of "Saturday Night Fever"

Answer 2

YES you can be sure it is!
Pink Floyd is more known as psychedelic band than a rock and roll band!Just let your friend hear the album "Piper at the gates of dawn" or "Saucerful of secrets" and i think if he's wise enough he will see that Pink Floyd is real psychedelia..Also the father of Pink Floyd , Syd Barrett is very good known as the father of psychedelia too, he is respected by many techno and trance DJ today as the founder of their electronic music, even though in the time he made music with FLoyd there were no PC and he made the effects of his songs with diferent things example peaces of mirror glass strange hand-made flutes and stuffs....
There is one true fact too, in the time when Syd was with Floyd and after that Floyd still remains as a psychedelic band even the fact that Dark Side Of The Moon or Atom Heart Mother or The Animals are more comertial they have a different kind of psychedelia not like the first two masterpieces of Pink FLoyd
Also do you know who invented the Disco ball?
SYD BARRETT and used to use it on live acts and concerts with Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd is one of the most famous psychedelic bands including others like Jefferson Airplane, Eire Apparent, The People ,The Hobbits, Quicksillver messenger service, Grateful Dead...and those bands are all from 60's and early 70's like Pink Floyd
My oppinion : The most Psychedelic period is from 1965-1971 from the Piper till The Atom Heart Mother
but most in a period with SYD BARRETT

I LOVE SYD

Answer 3

In the United Kingdom, Donovan, going electric like Dylan, had a 1965 hit with "Sunshine Superman," one of the very first overtly psychedelic pop records. Pink Floyd had been developing psychedelic rock with light shows since 1965 in the underground culture scene, and in 1966 the Soft Machine formed.

Answer 4

I think more when they first formed back in the mid 60s. When Syd Barrett fronted the band, they had some pretty "out there" songs, with lyrics you'd have to be tripping hard on LSD to comprehend.

I think of them as a rock band, influenced by blues, jazz, classical and some soul music. They've always had female backing vocals, sax and other horns, and keys (piano and synthesizer).

Answer 5

I think the Syd Barrett era was considered psychedelic. I don't think the David Gilmour era was considered psychedelic though. If you like to use labels I would consider the Gilmour years "progressive rock".
. Now its referred to as "classic rock", at least the Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, & Animals years were.

Answer 6

They were heavy into LSD like everybody else in the 60's
Listen to Ummagumma or Piper At The Gates Of Dawn,
and tell me they weren't

Answer 7

I don't know, but here is the official Pink Floyd site:

http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk

Hope this helps!

Answer 8

not so much now but in the 60's when they started out they were considered the darlings of the psychedelic club scene in London.
Now their Music is more Jass/rock/fusion

Answer 9

they were from the "psychadelic" 60's and 70's era Being during the LSD culture and the san francisco flower children/hippie movement. bell bottoms, bands, music, hair and even art styles were called "psychadelic" in those days.

Answer 10

yes it tottaly is u put on some pink floyd when ur stoned and u r all careless and everything is alright