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Financially Waters is by far the richest, owning the rights to The Wall, the biggest work they ever did.
What Waters wants is access to the Pink Floyd fan base so he can share his work with them.
I see Pink Floyd as 4 different bands over a period of 20 years.
The Sid stuff, has a charm but not great
The abstract stuff like Meddle, Atom, Echos etc
Then there's the DSOTM, Wish you were here, Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut ... all these are masterpieces
The Gilmour / Polly stuff afterwards ... very weak songwriting and pandered to the production of the time so sounds very dated now
At one of these shows, you could not dance because the floor was packed (and sticky with spilt beer). At the other show, you would not want to dance.
Floyd detractors will point out that much of their output is plodding chord progressions, supporting plaintive (plaintiff?) lyrics and, basically, an excuse to solo over at length.
Floyd fans will probably argue that the music and lyric content are relatable. For them, the high points hit the spot. They are entertained. Job done.
Phase 1 - Syd.
Airy færie whimsical ditties, stolen Beatles-esque recording trickery. Nice but dim art student stuff.
Phase 2 - Four Characters In Search Of An Identity. (Up to and including side one of Meddle.)
Phase 4 - The Wall, The Final Cut
Resistance is futile.
"A fair impersonation." Some good music. Less incise in the lyric department.
YMMV
There is a parallel to be drawn with The Cream. Conceived as an equal partnership, come recording time, one member arrives with a raft of song ideas and the others bring one each.
IMHO, Gilmour gives of his best when Waters is kicking his arse to get a project completed. Wright adding clever keyboard chords. Mason was everybody's chum and owned a drum kit.
Horses for courses
But there is one difference. One of those blokes mimes, one sings live.
(Perhaps I’ve trained her better than I thought .)
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Personally I love the early stuff, and DSOTM was the last album of that era for me. WYWH is okay for Shine On but anything after that could be any other band, they lost their sonic identity.
Some of their live shows in 1971 were eccellent, there are bootlegs around.
Strip away the production and Gilmour's guitar and you're still left with songs that are in many cases just as powerful strummed or fingerpicked on an acoustic.
He's a fantastic lyricist.
Obviously, my casual categorisations in this thread were made with the benefit of hindsight. I am of sufficient age to have been around as many of the albums were released. The reception that the material got then is not the same as it gets now.
That material made a positive impression on my pre-teenaged self because I had no idea how it was created. As I began learning the guitar and acquired effect pedals, it became apparent how to make passable imitations.
This is a mistake. If you have to try to get into any music, by any artiste, you are not enjoying it.
I made precisely this mistake when I purchased a pre-owned copy of the boxed set, Perception. (The Doors' first six studio albums.) I still love the obvious, popular ditties. I still do not suffer the other stuff gladly.
It occurs to me that the OP might be hoping for a playlist of accessible Floyd tracks. That could be done but that still leaves the problem of the less accessible and/or embarrassing stuff.
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"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
His Grandad was killed in WW1 when his Dad was young, so it was both of them.
There seems a genuine hatred from Waters towards Gilmour.
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