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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Says He’s ‘Far, Far, Far More Important’ than Drake, The Weeknd
New York Post ^ | July 17, 2022 | Emily Selleck VIEW AUTHOR ARCHIVE EMAIL THE AUTHOR FOLLOW ON TWITTER GET AUTHOR RSS FEED July 17, 20

Posted on 07/17/2022 3:51:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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The 78-year-old music legend offered his commentary after The Weeknd’s Toronto concert received more media coverage than his.

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“And, by the way, with all due respect to The Weeknd or Drake or any of them. I am far, far, far more important than any of them will ever be, however many billions of streams they’ve got. There is stuff going on here that is fundamentally important to all of our lives,” he said.

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“I love Roger Waters, and Pink Floyd is one of my all time favorite bands, but this seems like an ‘old man yells at cloud’ moment,” one Twitter user wrote, while another said, “i love roger waters and i think he’s done some amazing things , but that was like 50 years ago. take a step down.”

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To: gundog

I am amused to death.


61 posted on 07/17/2022 6:29:50 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

Not a great Pink Floyd fan, but certainly appreciate and have enjoyed their music “Wish You Were Here.”

Drake is a male goose, never heard a male goose do anything but honk.


62 posted on 07/17/2022 6:36:52 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: avenir

Beethoven……DITTOES


63 posted on 07/17/2022 6:38:20 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: gundog

I’m glad that my DARK SIDE OF THE MOON “moment” happened eons ago, with zero knowledge of the band itself. I bought a Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs LP from an audiophile shop in Ft. Worth and just played the thing. I was enamored with Alan Parsons engineering as much as anything else. One can’t get magical sound like that without a great engineer.


64 posted on 07/17/2022 6:52:09 PM PDT by avenir (Information overload = Pattern recognition)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t know who Drake is but Pink Floyd has always sucked.


65 posted on 07/17/2022 6:58:19 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: D_Idaho

Roger Waters is not Pink Floyd. Under David Gilmour, Pink Floyd lacks the biting, Leftist, nihilist edge that dominated albums like Animals and The Final Cut and made The Wall just plain wierd. But frankly, unlike the left-wing, commie-faggot critcis, that’s not what I like about Pink Floyd. And I don’t actually think it’s the fans. There’s a reason why A Momentary Lapse of Reason outsold Animals and sold several times more than The Final Cut.

But while nothing lives up to Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here, frankly, the newer stuff got dismissed too easily. (The Endless River is old-guy music, but hey, Pink Floyd is old.)

Surprisingly, the biggest failure of Gilmour’s Floyd, I think, is what you might think was the easiest: the melodies. For all the brilliant soundcrafting and guitar solos, the songs are too often phrased as one line of lyric at a time, repeating with slight variation the same musical lines.


66 posted on 07/17/2022 7:03:35 PM PDT by dangus
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To: nickcarraway

Since when are musicians “important”?

SHEESH!


67 posted on 07/17/2022 7:45:56 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: drSteve78

Drake is a male duck, gander is a male goose but your point is still valid.


68 posted on 07/17/2022 7:57:01 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: nickcarraway

thx


69 posted on 07/17/2022 8:27:19 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: gnarledmaw

Shows how much Sometimer’s Disease i have. You are, in fact, correct. And obviously so, not even close.


70 posted on 07/17/2022 8:40:57 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: drSteve78

Crappers and crap hoppers are gigantic scourge on our society. damn them all for destroying our culture.

The world was a hell of a lot better place before degenerate crap became popular.


71 posted on 07/17/2022 8:47:32 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: nickcarraway

He’s 100% right. He has his issues, but he’s right in this.


72 posted on 07/17/2022 9:37:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Bullish
I often compare Roger and David to John and Paul, respectively. If you examine The Wall, the best tunes had David's involvement. Similarly, as the Beatles aged, Paul's songs got stronger. Rogers solo material sucks, as does John's (except for the stuff from his lost weekend when Yoko was MIA).

In short, take away Paul and David, the Beatles and Pink Floyd respectively aren't as great.

73 posted on 07/17/2022 10:03:38 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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