Pink Floyd: A Musical Enigma

Three Quarters of the way through typing my first essay, which was just going to be about music in general, my word-processor program decided it would be fun to crash and lose all of my unsaved information. After the volley of profanity and screaming, I started out on another essay, and while I sit here and listen to Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, I think I could write a more complete and on-topic paper about this one particular band that I like, instead of trying to outline all the different music types I have been into over the past couple of years. Pink Floyd in my opinion is one of the most influential rock groups to date, their lyrics are so profound and touch not only the heart, but the soul.
Pink Floyd is a complex machine and I don’t understand how they can come up with such good lyrics and music in general. You would think that a couple of guys sitting around tripping on LSD would be too fried to come up with anything worth listening to, but that’s not the case. ...