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for fuck’s sake IF YOU ARE A CLASSIC ROCK BLOG, especially queen, the beatles, led zeppelin, and/or pink floyd
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“ The Wall “ is my favorite floyd album, even though darkside is probably better it speaks to me personally. that being said, once floyd lost barret it was no longer floyd, here’s scarecrow, a song ya should know but maybe dont.
( Fun fact the name pink floyd comes from syd barrett, he used to wear an all blue leisure suit, and one day they were tripping and it looked pink, a floyd was a brittish slang for a fancy gentleman, hence he was the pink floyd. )
Shine on you Crazy Diamond
I wish his time would stay forever in 1967
“We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year ”
60s rog..... gender swap!
Thank you!
really wanted to make a project with these arts (a book about the biographies of some bands) but one girl took it for herself and i thought we were friends lmao
idk what happened i just got back here after sending that ask about your analysis last week but i hope you dont feel discouraged from posting pf stuff, ur one of the carriers of this fandom to me literally so talented in both art and analysis, and through being critical too cuz its so necessary for a healthy fandom for there to be criticism of the material/writers and for people not to be afraid of criticising things that deserve it, i hope you havent been scared out of doing that bc your posts are based every time and your anger is so justified, there will always be people who feel the same and are glad to finally see somebody else saying it. every deep analysis of rogers work comes from critically examining him, like you said its what makes us interested enough to be here and draw him and stuff in the first place, so people shouldnt welcome art and analysis but reject criticism bc it all comes from criticism, even much of rogers work itself and a lot of his interviews are self-criticism. btw no pressure if you dont feel like posting right now, but i am seated for whenever you post next!!
damn thank you so much, actually, this is the first post i recieve where someone doesn't try to judge me for my opinion haha
i'm sorry i can't find time to do a detailed analysis of his songs now, but i will do it in the near future
i think within a week i will have some strength to do it
but thank you again really i would like to do this
LMAOO SYD AND RICK
buying last cd with syd barrett's solo recordings on your last money is like being really badass
why small kittens are always either the most pathetic or the most evil creature you've ever seen
well, finally, the solemn occasion for which we have gathered here. let's discuss why i personally think that roger waters is 101% bisexual.
perhaps, let's start in order. teenage hormones associated with sexual desire begin to appear during school. i like to let you imagine situations, so imagine yourself back in the shoes of a boy in the 50s. his mother intimidated him with her strong character; adults around him believe that even mentioning sex is the height of indecency. nobody talks about this at all. there are no girls, the school you study at is strictly for boys and, accordingly, your first conversations about any sexual contact are only with boys. this closed male space becomes the motif for Empty Spaces, where waters reveals his fear of women. he was afraid of them because he was afraid of any intimacy with them, he was afraid to even imagine it, as i said earlier, women for him are like wild predators wanting to tear him apart. guys will be a more familiar experience, less scary, oh, and you all know what often happened in english boys' schools, yes (i'm not talking about anything mega sexy, it's just about exploring your sexuality). in his situation, i can’t say for sure, but i’m more inclined to believe that at school he had nothing but shameful curiosity. all the same, he was terribly pressed and everyone humiliated him. it’s unlikely that he would have even done something like that then.
let's move on. in general, let's talk about another very important psychological aspect, which left him with food for thought for many more years. Syd. imagine roger, who is ashamed of any intimate action, who is dependent on other people's opinions, is insanely tense and always attacks someone with aggression if they say something that seems offensive to him, and imagine syd, who is not afraid to expirience, he is not afraid of sex, he is not afraid to talk about sex, he does not need to listen to the people around him to know who he is and what he wants from his life. he's incredibly free. roger admires this freedom. i think he was openly surprised at this side of barrett more than once. even now, he talks insanely often about how much he and syd talked about things that he didn’t understand then.
and in fact, yes, syd greatly influenced his life. syd never needed roger to pretend to him like waters did with his other friends. syd never needed roger to be right about everything or for everything to work out for him. syd just loved being around him and knowing that roger was listening to him and that syd had something to share with him. he loved that sometimes roger is very emotional or very sensitive and he never judged him for that. i think their sheer revelation to each other is what made roger obsess over him. he could have chosen anyone to talk about all his life and write songs about, even his girlfriend or wife, but he chose syd because he treated roger equally, honestly and openly.
you might think it was some weird jump from talking about sex to talking about feelings, but it's roger's sexuality that we're talking about. and his sexuality certainly includes sex AND feelings.
i'll also clarify that i don't want to say that they had any kind of sexual contact, but i believe that at least once he really thought that maybe if it was syd of all, he wouldn't be against. roger is very sensual and emotional and he is very confused about his sexual feelings, he was one hundred percent just as confused about syd. the “i'm a homosexual” moment didn’t make the situation any better either.
and what roger described in Incarceration of a flower child is an incredibly intimate moment. he remembers it. this is what he wants to remember when he thinks about syd. when it was just the two of them, lying on pillows and discussing baby names. and the way he grabs onto this moment, afraid to let it go - this is also very significant. i mean, he deeply loved him, kinda romantically, kinda friendly. there are many examples of songs that can prove this if you think a little, but i won't do that here, it's already a long post.
when syd left, this whole long process of his “leaving” made roger angry. i can only compare this to when a wife’s husband dies and she begins to ask herself “why did he do this to me? why did he leave me?” (i have an example of real people with whom this situation happened). roger also likes to direct everything towards himself, of course it was syd who left him, not pink floyd. syd made them famous, they were being pressured to write a new album, and syd just decided that he was leaving. and roger didn’t need excuses for why this happened, he saw it as if he was simply left to deal with all the problems. and so he feels sad, because he feels sad he gets angry and you get the idea. but the anger passes. and he understands that he misses him and syd was very, very important to him. and then the realization comes that it was he who was selfish in this situation.
and when syd leaves he becomes who he was again. he is unsure of himself, he is waiting for approval, he cannot improve his sex life (in some way) because there is simply something missing in it.
he is kinda bisexual.
he will never admit it because he doesn't think it's anyone's business. he doesn't admit it because he's still closed and he still can't agree with himself. after all, even if he had thoughts and even fantasies, he was always ashamed of them because for society it was shameful then. and he was dependent on it.
you can agree or disagree, i am not claiming to be his sex psychologist, i am simply writing this as my own thoughts and conclusions.
this one kinda rushed
but i hope u guys like it :)
this trend "love when beautiful girls have a little gay boyfriend" but it's just fem rog and syd
more things
POV : you said you hate concept albums
GAY PROM ALERT ‼️ still a wip but i already liked it sm :3
how i love scream thy last scream bc we don't get a lot of syd-nick interactions but they both are so silly in a way
and actually "jade" is also a kind of stone. yeah yeah the same jade from the "incarceration of a flower child"
did anyone else have a moment like this the first time you listened to dark globe
