Post-Piper Pink Floyd almost killed rock music. Simple as that. Listen to any rock album to come before Saucerful of Secrets and you will be sure to understand the difference between Pink Floyd and real rock. But in case you are too mentally incapacitated to understand, real rock is FUN. It’s not depressing, it’s not political, it’s not philosophical, it’s not cryptic. It’s just fun sounds and fun lyrics, with the occasional sad love song or something like that in a lower dosage. Music is supposed to make our existence easier and not harder. After Pink Floyd -specially The Dark Side of the Moon, the single most pretentious and pseudo-intelectual album in history -they created this paradigm that rock lyrics have to be thoughtful, that rock albums have to be intelligent, conceptual and have recurring motifs and stuff like that. The ideal rock album is a bunch of teenaged amateurs playing their instruments and singing about drugs or sex or both, not grown men singing about death, time, war and capitalism (which they pretend to critique, but in reality their way of thinking music is inherently elitistic and reactionary, borderline racist). Do you want to learn about different themes? Buy a book. Do you want to actually live a likeable life? Listen to rock. Thats how it should be.

Anyone who says that Pink Floyd and prog rock in general should be respected as rock bands is an enemy of rock music. If it wasn’t for punk, rock would have died. There’s no debating about that and nearly every rock historian agrees with me (and many other people who were rock fans of the time) on that subject.