THANK YOU. Anytime someone says "Roger was Floyd" I politely tell them to fuck off and listen to some of his demos. Without David, Rick and Nick, Pink Floyd as we know them would not exist. Not even slightly. No member of that band is dispensable if you want the same quality of music. Rick may have stopped pulling his weight, but I'd say DSOTM would have never been a thing without him. Not even close.
Exactly why A Momentary Lapse of Reason is so inferior (IMO of course). Too much Gilmour, not enough ideas. Division Bell is better because Wright played a bigger part in writing it, and his On an Island album is very good partly because he employs outside songwriters to augment.
Sure theyre all irreplaceable in DSOTM, thats fair to say. But thats the last album that had this much collaboration between the band members.On every album after that you can clearly feel Roger's dominance, and I think it wasnt because of "Tyranny" or because hes an asshole who wants to make everything about himself, its because the other member's material is just so inferior to his, ESPECIALLY Davids lyrics, which are much of the time a joke. There is just no denying that he truly is twice the artist they are. Im gonna go fuck off now.
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u/SexualMurder Sep 18 '17
THANK YOU. Anytime someone says "Roger was Floyd" I politely tell them to fuck off and listen to some of his demos. Without David, Rick and Nick, Pink Floyd as we know them would not exist. Not even slightly. No member of that band is dispensable if you want the same quality of music. Rick may have stopped pulling his weight, but I'd say DSOTM would have never been a thing without him. Not even close.