This is clearly nonsense
They created several of the greatest albums of all time, including one which is regularly voted the greatest of all. So by any sensible objective measure, you are wrong.
You're entitled not to personally like them, of course. That's not the same thing.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 19:05, 4 replies)

A perfect illustration of why Floyd fanboys are such insufferable bent cunts.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 19:17, closed)

I'm with flatfrog on this
Sure, there may be bits of albums that aren't good, but compared to a huge amount of music, their output is creative and original.

/Semi-fancunt
( john3ners has relocated to the Highlands, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 23:34, closed)

They can be influential and still be shit.
See also: The Beatles.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 7:18, closed)

What people also forget to mention is that most of the bands they influenced were also utter shit.
It's like claiming Stalin was great because he inspired Mao and Castro.

Floyd must be great ... they gave us Rush and My Bloody Valentine. Yeah. Ta.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 9:21, closed)

Don't start on Rush, they're alright.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 9:32, closed)

GASH, more like!!!!!!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 9:33, closed)

I was going to write Rush and Muse for double troll points.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 9:52, closed)

Muse are proper objectively shit though.
It's impossible to like them if you're older than 19, and at that age your opinion is worthless anyway.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:20, closed)

And that's fucking stupid too.
The Beatles are objectively great by the same measure. So are U2 despite the fact that I can't stand them.

I'm not saying that things have to be popular to be great. Obscure and/or complex and difficult things can also be great, although even there I'd say there has to be some kind of consensus, even if it's only a consensus of critics and other experts. But 'The Beatles are shit' is just twattish.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 12:22, closed)

I agree
Although I suspect most opinions written on here are just to get a rise out of people.

Family Guy did a good bit on people that slate off popular culture, where Brian said he hated Slumdog Millionaire and Titanic but defended the movie Cocktail. He's a "contrarian" rather than someone with a valid opinion. He thinks (incorrectly) that criticising these things makes him look like the most intelligent person in the room.

I thoroughly expect "Family Guy's shit too" to be the next witticism.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 15:58, closed)

The more angry paragraphs you write on this the more you illustrate the problem.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 17:14, closed)

Other than Relics and Piper at the Gates or Dawn their entire output is utter gash.
The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon are both overblown, pompous heaps of shit, for wanker students
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 9:04, closed)

Relics is a compilation album so that's a strange statement
That's like Alan Partridge saying his favourite Beatles album is 'Best of The Beatles'

Anyway, my point still stands. When you don't like something but millions of people do, it's ridiculous to say 'it's shit'. People who say JK Rowling or Dan Brown are 'bad writers' annoy me in the same way.

Since there's absolutely no objective measurement of what constitutes 'good' art, consensus is pretty much the only thing we have to go on. By a wide margin, the consensus is that Dark Side of the Moon is one of the greatest albums of all time. And therefore it is. Even if you hate it.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 12:18, closed)

So the majority are infallible?
You're a cockend.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 13:37, closed)

a compilation album of singles
Singles which weren't on their albums

Singles better than their album tracks.

Still confused?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 15:52, closed)

Not that it matters, but...
Relics is almost entirely made of tracks from Piper and Saucerful. I think the only previously unreleased track is 'Biding my Time'
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 18:58, closed)

Not that it matters, but...Arnold Layne?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Aug 2013, 13:52, closed)