Pink Floyd

Most PF I have sounds good enough already.

PF and audiophilia have always had a pretty decent relationship.

Hey, but just because they sell it doesn't mean I have to buy it.

Only a semi-yawn at this point

The Grateful Dead plodded on and on with a lot of mediocre performances and recordings for the faithful a lot more than Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd's output is a lot more concise and meaty than the Dead's.

PF was at leat innovative in their day, FBOFW.

The Dead were, well, the Dead, whatever that is/was. I like some of their stuff.

Both were undeniably successful. Neither were probably overrated, at least by the press.

Both still worth occasional listens, but been there, done that for the most part. There is a lot of other new music (to me at least) to discover out there and listen to.

I did see the Dead live once. Was greatly looking forward to it but was quite underwhelmed. It was a free concert at college graduation. Maybe that was part of it.

I also saw Robert Hunter and the New Riders of the Purple sage live back in college. I recall liking those a lot.

I was listening to a pretty decent Dead cover band live at a ruralfair this past weekend. They sounded pretty good and quite Dead-like doing the material they did, but kept thinking there was really nothing special or endearing about the material performed. There were a couple people listening but most were quite disinterested in the content despite the band actually doing a quite decent job.

Ironically, Pink Floyd will probably live on for a long time like the Beatles in that they have a core set of compositions that will continue to appeal to new youths over time while the aging original fans lose interest somewhat compared to other music that may hold more meaning to elders and age well in that regard. I think new releases down the road will target and appeal more to the young than codgy aging audiophiles. So kudos to PF for that in addition to all the enjoyment I have reaped from their music over time, even if that is somewhat waning these days.

I think the Grateful Dead will prove to be more dated and be more of an endangered species as time moves on. Just a hunch though....

"I've had the Pink Floyd library in hi-rez for decades. It's called vinyl."

Another reason why I suspect these releases are targeting younger, newer PF fans ( a much bigger and I suspect profitable target audience) and not aging audiophiles to whom PF vinyl recordings have represented some of the best vinyl recordings in the rock/pop genre for at least 4 decades now.

That definitely helps explain the yawn factor here at least.

No doubt Deadheads are a special breed!

Apparently the rock stars are aging much better than their fans......

Pink Floyd a modern Bach?

Mahler would be a better analogy though still a very loose one perhaps.

The Beatles are the only rock act that are a lock to retain a place long term musically up there with the classical and other masters. Pink Floyd might also, but time will tell.