{"id":4292,"date":"2014-06-17T02:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2016-12-12T12:34:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:34:47","slug":"pink-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/pink-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"The cream of Pink Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cream of Pink Floyd<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Courtesy of Carsten Petersen – An Orwellian character obsessed with depressing sounds<\/h5>\n

Pink Floyd<\/strong> haven’t played a particularly important part in my mind before the beautiful summer of 2008. As a matter of fact, I was always a bit, well, not\u00a0anti-Floyd<\/em>, but I was pretty skeptical about them. A friend gave me a burned CD of Pink Floyd<\/strong> way back, when I was like 16 and took me until 2007 (!) until I listened to the first stuff of it. It sure took a long time. It is just that the pure hype surrounding these guys was a big put off for me. Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>,\u00a0Wish You were Here<\/em> and The Wall<\/em> are just so damn often mentioned as the best albums ever done by mankind, that it is hard, pretty hard not to roll your eyes after hearing the names of those albums. There I was being a big Genesis<\/strong> fan, asking myself “Come on, these snippets I heard from The Wall<\/em>, how the hell is THAT any better than the good Genesis<\/strong> stuff?” As a matter of fact, I always thought of it as way worse. My impression was that of music being mostly sound effects with the actual music being as thin as that stupid Egyptian paper. I was impressed by ‘Welcome to the Machine’, but not so that I desperately wanted to listen to it again. I heard ‘Echoes’, now one of my all-time favourite tracks, in 2007. I thought it was really good but I guess I was way to preoccupied with Genesis<\/strong> and with Jethro Tull<\/strong> to really get into it.<\/p>\n

Then came the summer of 2008. The Euro Cup was in full action. The victory streak of Spain started back then. I got the message, that I was accepted for an internship in Shanghai. Man, let me tell you, I could not have been in a better mood these days. Plus that beautiful, beautiful weather with that deep blue sky every day. And then, my love for Pink Floyd<\/strong> started.\u00a0It was then, in that gorgeous weather, that I listened to ‘Money’\u00a0from The<\/em>\u00a0Dark Side<\/em> and I could not stop listening to it. Then, there was this song called ‘Sheep’ from Animals<\/em>. I was blown away. Such a good feeling, such a brilliant atmosphere. Not overblown, just frigging genius! From that moment on, I discovered more Floyd<\/strong> and although still not liking The Wall,<\/em> I love the Floyd<\/strong> now. Ever since that experience of listening to the first songs in the late afternoon, walking on the beach, taking it all in, happily awaiting the months ahead of me, Pink Floyd<\/strong>, for me, has always had that special vibe around them. For me, Pink Floyd<\/strong> is blue sky. The deep blue sky from the summer of 2008. Sounds fruity, I know, but that is the connection their music has for me.<\/p>\n