Is Pink Floyd EMO?

It sure seems so, and I know some people here agree.

True.dat.

No.  Genres cannot be applied retroactively.
READ ABOUT IT.

>>3
Emo is not a genre, it is a fandom.

In other words >>3 is emo, and I bet he listens to Pink Floyd (I do too, when I am sad and want to cut myself ;_;).

Pink floyd is certainly not emo, with the exception of The Wall.

wtf is with this emo shit? just stop talking about it, its fucking ridiculous and no, Pink Floyd is far from emo

WTF IT NOT BE EMO BITCH.

emo kids are not in any way as hardcore as rockers in that era.
 didn't syd take enough drugs to wipe out a small village? emo kids don't like that because they are afraid to become vegetables they just wanna slit wrists.

emo does not exist, there is no such thing as emo just mass amounts of idiocy.

Pink Floyd thru the 70's post-Syd would be considered prog rock. But it's rock, prog or not - emo is not rock. Therefore Pink Floyd is not emo.

>>1

You can go get in a fight with an oncoming semi.

Ok, OP, Pink Floyd is not EMO. The Wall is not EMO. The wall is a story. Have you seen the movie? If so, do you understand every little aspect of it? Everything in that album/movie has a purpose, a meaning. Waters did not throw random stuff together and said "Let there be life". A lot of PF's albums run on a theme. After Waters left the band, Gilmour kept the albums that way. A main theme. Sure, some of it's depressing, but compared to todays shit, todays shit is "oh buggers, I got mud on my shoes and pants". If PF's music was EMO, I would have finished myself off over a decade ago.

Besides, some of the Alan Parsons Project makes Pink Floyds music seem like Christmas carols. Now theres some depressing shit. (for those of you who don't know, Alan Parsons was in charge of recording Pink Floyd's Dark Sidxe of the Moon Album) The project's music style is simular to that of Pink Floyd's style. Look for "If I Could Change Your Mind" and "Too Late"

A few of Roger Waters' solo albums are also depressing.

And No, none of them are EMO. Emo can really only be applied to the music real EMO's preach and cut themselvse to IE the generic modern rock stuff like "crawling in my skin" and other "my g/f left me, i want to die songs.

And I agree with >>11, theres a semi.

Wow, >>12, you sure are into this emo thing.  What you seem to misunderstand though, emo is not about suicide -- it's all about crying about suicide and cutting yourself.

>>13
I have yet to think about killing myself and I have no scars anywhere on me that are self inflicted. I enjoy that music. It's a hell of a lot better that the crap I hear through most driver's windows. You know, the beat you hear over a block away. Has  lot of vulger language and violence in the lyrics.

>>14
You know, the beat you hear over a block away. Has a lot of vulgar language and violence in the lyrics.
I dunno, I never go outside, and I keep my windows thoroughly shut.

Emo as the shitty Genre it is, has sort of popped-up through the mid 90s and here again since 2002... you can't go back and reclassify classic music as a new genre. It's just not justifiable. Sunny Day Real Estate and newer bands my fall under the Emo-Screamo or just the Indi-Emo genres..

I personally don't like Pink Floyd, but I definitely would not classify their music as emo. Do we classify Eminem's shit-ass songs as emo? Nope.

NO YOU.

>>16
Waitwaitwait... are you somehow saying that emo is an actual genre?  That is wrong.  Emo is a lifestyle, it doesn't have anything to do with the lyrics or the music.  Emo is all about being emo, Eminem is massively emo.

No. They are no where near Emotive-core/ Post Grunge.

WHY DON'T YOU ALL SHUT UP WITH THE EMO SHIT ALREADY!!!!

lol...emo a lifestyle? what the hell are you talking about?

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No pink floyd is not emo.
Goddamn people in 2007 were fucking plens

pink floyd is far from emo, I would call it Stoner Rock.

regarding the subject matter roger waters wrote about, notably toward the late 70s and early 80s, there were a lot of depressing themes of loneliness and isolation.

which, by today's standards, is considered "emo."

the wall was very emo ahead of its time in this way.

lel

>>26
Agree, the Nile song is the proof.

So have we now become "comfortably numb" to the suffering of society? Are we the source of the "dark sarcasm"? Can we really
blame the "teachers" when it is the child that forced their hand?
Am I incorrect for stating my hypocrisy when I point out that the
victim should not be blamed for the harm applied to it, even
if that harm was intended as a means of discipline?
What wall? The wall is gone. It's just hipsters now.

Pink Floyd is a bunch of whiny, miserable, boring shit. They're like Radiohead if Radiohead didn't know how to write interesting parts.

Pink Floyd were all grown men when they were writing that music. Emo music isn't the worst, but it's mostly geared towards teens going through the awkward stages of teenage years in high school and middle school. There is nothing wrong with original emo artists but after a while the lyrics became cliche and overly dramatic. It's a fad that's going quickly out of style, but Pink Floyd will be remembered as one of rock's greatest and most experimental bands.

Pink Floyd were all grown men when they were writing that music. Emo music isn't the worst, but it's mostly geared towards teens going through the awkward stages of teenage years in high school and middle school. There is nothing wrong with original emo artists but after a while the lyrics became cliche and overly dramatic. It's a fad that's going quickly out of style, but Pink Floyd will be remembered as one of rock's greatest and most experimental bands.

Get off Pink Floyds Dick, they won't be remembered for shit in 50 years, niggas will be all like "Pink Who?".  Same with Radiohead, those bitches blow my Asshole!  Dinosaur Holocaust is the only real music today!

I now fucking hate this board solely because of the ignorance in this thread. The only person who said something even remotely intelligent is this guy
>>16
(sunny day real estate being the closest thing to emo that appeared in this thread, even though its not)

and i though normal /mu/ was bad at talking about music, christ