# So, Pink Floyd gets four minutes of airtime!?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 1, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764 "2005-07-01T21:34:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/21 "2005-07-02T17:43:43Z")
> [@vtynos](#):
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> While Bon Jovi and Will Smith are not much better, you do know that Pink Floyd are a dead band? Its most renowned hit was a “school sucks” whine worthy of a thirteen year old, and Rogers and co have had little to do with popular music in twenty years or more.
News to Coldplay, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Billy Corgan, and all the other contemporary artists who acknowledge being influenced by Pink Floyd.
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### Author:  [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/22 "2005-07-02T20:17:33Z")
I’ll say nothing.
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### Author:  [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/23 "2005-07-02T20:19:17Z")
…Because I’d probably go all out.
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/24 "2005-07-02T22:07:43Z")
That was more than four minutes.
Nice.
🆒
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### Author:  [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/25 "2005-07-02T22:10:47Z")
That was fantastic!
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/26 "2005-07-02T22:11:31Z")
I thought the reunion was amazing. I wish they could have done a few more songs. I was hoping for “Mother.”
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### Author:  [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/27 "2005-07-02T22:13:49Z")
it was awesome but VH1 needed to cut the end of thier set for …
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### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/28 "2005-07-02T22:16:27Z")
> [@vtynos](#):
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> Pink Floyd is lucky to get the allotted four minutes. That’s all the time it will take for them to play the relevent music they’ve recorded in the past twenty years.
Amen brother…while we’re at it, fuck the Beatles and fuck those old fogies Beethoven & Mozart, what have THEY done for us lately?
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Phish\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phish_Head)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/29 "2005-07-02T22:36:56Z")
Well I’ll be…It _was_ more than four minutes! 🙂
Sweet!
I must say, Roger looked very happy to be onstage. It looked like he was really having a good time!
**Tour, Tour, Tour**! 😉
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/30 "2005-07-03T00:13:03Z")
> [@Phish Head](#):
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> Well I’ll be…It _was_ more than four minutes! 🙂
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> Sweet!
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> I must say, Roger looked very happy to be onstage. It looked like he was really having a good time!
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> **Tour, Tour, Tour**! 😉
Nope, what we need is exactly this: brief, controlled-environment reunion events. So as not to give them a chance to remember exactly why David and Roger were pissed at each other.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/31 "2005-07-03T00:25:08Z")
Good show. Now if they had brought Syd back, then I’d _really_ be impressed.
_Arnold Laaaayne…_
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### Author:  [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/32 "2005-07-03T01:07:07Z")
_…had a straaange hobby._
I was thoroughly impressed with the performance. The ABC coverage, however, was for shit. They cut off the last few verses of “Money”.
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### Author:  [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/33 "2005-07-03T01:11:35Z")
As for The Who, I didn’t expect “family-friendly” ABC to let the “fuck” slip in “Who Are You”!
They _did_ block the “shit” part of “bullshit” in _Money_.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/34 "2005-07-03T01:14:35Z")
> [@An Arky](#):
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> Good show. Now if they had brought Syd back, then I’d _really_ be impressed.
> _Arnold Laaaayne…_
I remember reading the last few pages of Nicholas Schaffner’s _Saucerful of Secrets_, where Syd’s ultimate fate as a minimally functioning burnout was described. It was quite sad.
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/35 "2005-07-03T01:57:03Z")
> [@asterion](#):
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> I thought I saw that. That was weird.
Not really. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one of many backers of the Make Poverty History campaign.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pink-floyd-gets-four-minutes-of-airtime/310764/36 "2005-07-13T07:18:26Z")
Well, the folks at Adult Swim were pretty pissed at MTV’s coverage of Live 8, and the Pink Floyd reunion in particular. They had some rather snarky comments in their bumps about it tonight.
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