Guest Blogger: Dan 1

What bands do you think of when you talk about rock music? I bet many of you would think of AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Kiss, or The Beatles. Would any of you think of Pink Floyd? Pink Floyd has released some of the best rock songs ever. Some of these songs are “Wish You Were Here”, “Money”, “Comfortably Numb” and “Dark Side of The Moon”. Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon stayed on Billboards Top 200 album chart for 741 weeks. If you haven’t heard any of Pink Floyd’s music I would describe the feel of there main “feel” as chill. Which is pretty much saying it really “flows” nicely, with good lyrics and good instrument selection. Pink Floyd has some slow songs that you could just sit on the couch and listen to all night and just feel like nothing else matters. Some of the emotions from their songs would be happiness (“Money”), loneliness (“Wish you Were Here”) and relaxed (“Comfortably Numb”). When you listen to Pink Floyd you don’t really think about another band. Pink Floyd is very unique in that they didn’t have the deafening guitar and drum solos like AC/DC and Kiss. Pink Floyd’s songs were base more on great meaningful lyrics not just the heavy bashing of instruments. Pink Floyd’s songs “Wish You Were Here” is my favorite song. Its chorus is the most memorable to me.
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
The chorus is memorable because in every other rock songs from the 70’s you would just hear the same five words with the electric guitar going hard in the back. In “Wish You Were Here”, chorus has a strong meaning and is complimented nicely with and acoustic guitar and piano. The song was a tribute to their lost friend. I would agree with the critics on their album Dark Side of the Moon. Rollingstone.com writer Rob Sheffield said, “Pink Floyd finally achieved peak?like wow man? heaviosity with Dark Side of the Moon, a meditation on death and madness that stayed on the bestseller charts for nearly 15 years.” He called the songs “classics” and I definitely agree with that because Pink Floyd’s music is still popular today over 40 years later. In my opinion Pink Floyd’s music’s quality and emotion can not be touched by any other rock band ever. It is really worth your time to listen to their music, and you’ll feel good after you listen to it.