Are Pink Floyd innovative sonic artists or cynical Architects?

Answer 1

just good, creative musicians. both.

Answer 2

Definitely innovative sonic architects, as they experimented a lot with music and sounds and used all the technology at their disposal at the time to find out what worked and what could be used to create great songs or perhaps we should call them soundscapes!
It depends what you mean by "Cynical Architects". If you're referring to the music, then I say no because it was original and new and is still amazing today and the use of electronica gave it an identity and took it away from the mainstream approach to music which was being developed.
If you're referring to the ideas in their music then you have to bear in mind that in their first incarnation they had Syd Barret leading them and he was going down the road of madness so that will have coloured what he was creating. When Syd eventually did go crazy it had a profound impact on the band - and that's natural. Consequently they were always haunted by what happened to him and by the loss of an extraordinary band member who started it all and who was the driving force. Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Wish You Were Here are hauntingly beautiful and both dedicated to Syd so it shows how much they cared about him and how much they were affected by what happened to him.
I think we can also say that Floyd were an honest band. With songs like Us and Them, Money and pretty much the whole of The Wall album they didn't sugarcoat life and reflected the way many of us feel at times but don't talk about - I know sometimes I'd like to be behind a wall and away from everyone and everything!

Answer 3

For one thing is this pink floyd with Syd Barrett or Dave Glimour?

With Syd Barrett: Innovative, psychedelic, and whimsical.
(Piper at the Gates of Dawn and "See Emily Play" and "Arnold Layne")

Syd Barrett wrote all of the songs until he was kicked out of the band due to mental problems.

With Dave Glimour- Pathetic progressive music with lyrics that all rhyme all written by Waters

Syd Barrett the artist and Rogers Waters the cynical Architect

Answer 4

Both. The cut off point being Dark Side of the Moon, the last truly great Floyd album.

Answer 5

You have came to the right person to answer this question since I consider myself somewhat of a pink Floyd expert. In my opinion they are a bit of both, if you have ever listened to any of their works every single one of them especially in albums like Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, as well as Pulse, which it an almalgamation of vitually everything they have ever done in their careers, the songs carry themselves by their own weight and momentum. The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon (DSOTM) is based in large part of the life of their founder and visionary Roger "Syd" Barrett, that sucummed to a mental breakdown due in large part of LSD and his own borderline scysophrinia. In the movie The Wall the characture played by Bob Geldolf he played "Pink". Pink was base in large part of Syd and the depths of madness he went to. To understand him in his earlier years he was extremely creative and many decades ahead of his time. It was him that developed some of the technology that most bands no matter the gendre use today. It was him also that developed some of the guitar playing methods used by most of the modern day music artist. In fact David Gilmour still uses them even to this day, and his role in the band was to continue what Syd started back in the 60s. They were critical of many things, war education, politics, and what they saw was an attempt for the very few to take over the world and some of their works reflected that. They were innovators in many ways, not only in their music but in presentation. They were among the first to employ the use of laser technology, video backdrops, and special lighting effects in their concerts. In some of their concerts they employed full sized aircraft, crashing it into the stage in a ball of sparks, to full size models of pigs on both sides of the stage during some of their songs. During the Earls Courts concerts in London England while they were performing the Pulse Live tour they employed a large crystal ball in the middle of the concert hall with high entensity spot lights shining directly on this ball during the playing of Comfortably Numb. While David Gilmour palyed his guitar solo in this piece these spotlights were directed at this ball and toward the end of his solo this ball begins to open up and both bottom and top of this ball begins to spred out into a lotus leaf. When this was complete there were four high entensity spotlights inside with a small explosive charge that went off at the end of his solo. This has never been duplicated with any artist since then so the answer is both.

Answer 6

Pure Genuise.

Answer 7

In this day and age, there's no way you can call them innovative. They're songs are mostly classics, and in their day they would've been innovators. Not now though. Some of their songs just sound dated.

Answer 8

Very Talented.

Answer 9

Innovative for the most part - or should I say - WERE.

Answer 10

I think you are trying to make us feel dumb. For those of us who are PF fans, our brains...errr...memory can't quite put into words their brilliance. Now excuse me while I go take my Ginko Bil...what's the name of that pill that helps your memory??

Answer 11

they are dull students in the coldplay mould

i dont want to watch academics with guitars on stage, i want to watch rock stars