Lets say it's 2007 and Syd, Roger, Richard and Nick are kicking out See Emily Play. Would Floyd have ever made it it with today's audience? And if Piper did make it and the band continues, would Darkside be as big as it was?
2007-10-21 14:34:15 · 16 answers · asked by meep meep 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
toddytoad: Wow, even I'm not that cynical. But Roger has the all black thing down! He could pass for emo.
2007-10-21 17:58:05 · update #1
Sadly , no. Their music does not allow for butt-shaking girl dancers and it does not condone violence or anti-social behaviour. They are not black and they wrote songs for intelligent people with a message of questioning your surroundings, not destroying them. Whilst the young Barrett and Gilmour were attractive men , they did not play the pin-up boys and would not have wanted to.
There is a minimal market today for quality music or musicians .(They may have had a hit with 'great gig in the sky' with Christina Aguilera singing .lol)
Maybe if they called the albums "crack pipe at the dealers gate" or " Dark side of the hood" and Roger or Nick had some bullet wounds they may have a hit.
Cynical ? who me?
sarah. maybe he is the new Johnny Cash .lol
saw him in concert in January(awesome) and he was all in black.
2007-10-21 17:51:23 · answer #1 · answered by toddytoad 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Doubtful- they don't have "instant appeal", which is how bands break- ya gotta have HOOKS... apparently... floyd takes time and a few listens to appreciate the genius, unlike, say, Kornhole or System of a Clown, who are disposable, annoying, juvenile, and asinine.
My favorite songwriter, Joseph Arthur, has this issue in his music- he's brilliant; dark, beautiful, diverse, IMHO best young songwriter in the world, but the Jack Johnsons get the airplay. same with the Tragically Hip- no chance for American airplay, so no big break.
Floyd might make it on AOR or something, but they would never reach icon status today- the marketing has changed too much. Funny, I often site them as a reference in just this way when talking about J.A. or The Hip to people.
So, would Zeppelin break? how about the doors?
2007-10-21 21:38:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-04 07:56:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may seem like a very dark outlook on the music tastes of the masses today, but I think not. Since they do not fall into either the hip-hop/rap genre or the whiny-emo genre, which, as far as I can tell seem to be the two major ones, they would not be huge. I bet that people with genuinely good taste in music would like them, but I think that a lot of people who like them now like them because it is cool to like them, and not because they have necessarily listened to any of their music, and they would not like them if they came about now. (If you know what I mean, I realise that whole paragraph doesn't make very much sense. It's been a long day. ♥)
2007-10-21 15:59:50 · answer #4 · answered by Patchouli 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man.. thats tough. Considering I love the Floyd more than words can express, I would love to say yes. But today's crowd and the nasty music scene, I don't know. I would love them, no doubt about it. And if Piper made it, Darkside would be epic. Epic.
2007-10-21 15:00:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Possibly not. The kids now a days have different tastes in music than we did in the 60's & 70's.
2007-10-21 16:15:02 · answer #6 · answered by Peepaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No band from the past would ever make it big today. Bands in the present have small levels of popularity compared to giants like Pink Floyd.
2007-10-21 14:48:36 · answer #7 · answered by Montag 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Yes,I think they would have.
Pink Floyd was very ahead of the times in regards to their sound.I truly think that they would have adapted to the current times.
2007-10-21 18:26:53 · answer #8 · answered by Candi Apples 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i really think they would.
i mean, who are they competing with, on the radio at least?
minimumally they will be an underground new-prog band that only we and a few awesome others here will appreciate.
2007-10-22 09:14:41 · answer #9 · answered by ƎIΝΟƆ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course not, people were into psychedelic rock back then, tastes have changed.
2007-10-21 21:54:02 · answer #10 · answered by Cat Stevens 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋