moom wrote:
1. Let's count percents. Even if David and Rick lose, then not by far.
While you are more than welcome to count percentage points and post those results on here, I think a brief glance at their catalog more than suffices. Even if you were to randomly pick 10 songs, I suspect that at least 5 of them were written solely by Waters with probably 4 of the remaining 5 involving Waters at some level (either written solely by him, or co-written with him and one or more of the other members).
2. Same.
Do you really think that David Gilmour and Richard Wright wrote nearly as many lyrics for Pink Floyd as Roger Waters?
Roger Waters wrote all of their lyrics from DSoTM through
The Wall, and a plurality of their lyrics from SOS through DSoTM.
3. Again, same, except Rick did not sing as much as even David.
Funnily enough, we have counted percentage points in the vocals category. It has been shown that Roger Waters overwhelmingly sung most of Pink Floyd's songs (Approximately 50% of the band's vocals were by Waters, 33% for Gilmour, remainder for Barrett/Wright/Harper). Go here for further details:
http://forum.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/vie ... lead+voice
5. Here I could use my agreement with Keith. Syd is missed on most of their albums.
See my response above.
6. Roger was already the chief songwriter, except David's ideas got in the way sometimes. Let alone Rick and Nick. So is it not mostly Roger's baby, not whole band's!? It is, but the album still has Floydian feel to it thanks to David's guitar and Rick's keys, not Roger's bass, which belongs to rhythm section, not melody section. And before Dark Side, it had been mostly the sound that made them Floyd. All those albums from A Saucerful up to Obscured were mostly about sound. So, with the loss of Roger, they lost probably the best lyricist ever, BUT they did not lost their sound, and that had not been a big problem before Dark Side, had it!?
Perhaps it SOUNDS LIKE Pink Floyd, but that does not mean it IS Pink Floyd. I refuse to consider something Pink Floyd if it does include Waters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason (All four, not just two or three of them). And obviously there is an extremely large hole when you're missing the guy who wrote all of the band's conceptual lyrics, and was also their chief songwriter and vocalist. Personally, I think
The Division Bell is nothing more than a Bob Ezrin pop album that SOUNDS LIKE Pink Floyd. It was created by middle-aged musicians who had their day in the sun a long time ago. Their goal was to put out this record so that they could put on a grand tour that grosses millions and then some. They succeeded, but that does not mean this album is a real Pink Floyd album.