Essays on Pink Floyd

Popular music tends to be a very generational thing. The parent’s favorite groups often sound old fashioned to the child—and the parent can’t understand what the child sees in their favorite music, which in the parent’s mind is nowhere near the quality of what he listened to as a child. It is the rare piece of popular music that has the staying power to still be relevant decades after its release, something that’s especially true now when there are so many different styles of popular music in the world. But while this may mean ...

Pink Floyd – The Wall was the movie by the then 38-year-old British director Alan Parker. Both positive and negative feedbacks can be heard about this movie. Misunderstanding of this movie is connected with understanding ​​it as a too long video clip or a filmed concert of the Pink Floyd rock band which illustrated the songs through animation. It can be assumed that peculiar style met the resistance of people who were accustomed only to the linear plot and intelligible ideas shown in movies they watched. This Parker`s film, on the contrary, virtually lacks not only dialogues of the ...

Essay on Pink Floyd’s Meddle

Pink Floyd, one of the most popular and progressive rock music groups in the history of music, achieved its popularity because of the psychedelic musical pieces they created. The characteristics of Pink Floyd music are the meaningful lyrics, experimentation with sound and the wonderful live shows they conducted. Meddle is the sixth album by the group, and released in the year 1971. It gained immense popularity, and is in fact, one of the most popular music albums ever. Etched in the minds of the listeners, Meddle has a quality of experimenting with various sounds and creating a new effect altogether. The ...

George Ritzers (in Wallace & Wolf, 2006) founded the concept of McDonalization based on Max Weber’s theory of rationalization. Therefore, at the basis of the McDonalization social phenomenon stands the economic theory of rationalization, which promulgates several principles significant for the nowadays living: efficiency, calculability, predictability and replacement of human effort (work) with technologized (mechanized) processes. The efficiency principle consists in the fact that people nowadays developed mechanisms to ease life, based on a do – it – yourself (DIY) concept, which implies staying in line for being served, and not waiting at the tables for someone to take the order; ...

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Wish you were here is the ninth song in the album by a group of pink Floyd of September 1975. The themes of absenteeism and business in the music industry and by extension the progressive rock category has been largely explored in the album pink Floyd. The song was released in early 1975 and was a big hit since then. It was the first of its type in the progressive rock history to feature in the stone magazine as among the 500 greatest albums of all time. The song wish you were here was widely renowned and acted a favorite of ...