# Why don't women like Pink Floyd? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464 "2010-03-23T13:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464/121 "2010-03-25T13:33:09Z")
I’m a 24-year-old woman, and I like them. Don’t know why women in general, wouldn’t. In their case - men and women obviously like different types of music generally, and different groups/performers will often attract more of one gender than the other. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464/122 "2010-03-25T14:24:57Z")
I like Rush! I like what I’ve always heard of Pink Floyd on the radio, have no interest in getting deeper into them, though. As stated previously in the thread, PF is ideal relaxation via headphones for the baked, at least it used to be. I remember going to visit my girlfriend who lived with a boyfriend, and every time I went over there he was listening to Prog Rock, yes, Pink Floyd, too, on headphones, high as a kite, stretched out on the floor. She abruptly moved out after a few months, and for all I know he’s still lying there on the floor. Groovy, man! So - for the woman who would rather go biking on a beautiful sunny afternoon, and her man is home listening to PF while on a nice pot high, can’t blame her for not liking the soundtrack of his life… ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464/123 "2010-03-25T14:45:37Z")
I would just like to say that my mum, rather liked the _Floyd_ back in the day, more than most of the other music I would play, at any rate, when I was a teen and she was in her early 50s (although she insisted on calling them _The Blue Floyd_). ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464/124 "2010-03-25T14:59:08Z")
I remember playing “Us and Them” for my grandma when I was a teenager, in a vain attempt to get her to like some _real_ music. She complained, “That music just makes me dizzy. Feels like my mind’s going round and round.” I shouted, “That’s IT! Go with it, Grandma, go with it!” She did not think I was funny. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464/125 "2010-03-25T15:00:34Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Reminds me of the one and only King Crimson concert I went to. I didn’t see a single female in the crowd. I felt extremely loser-y just being there, in what felt like the world’s biggest swordfight. On the ride home I remember wondering if women felt a similar loser-y feeling at all-women concerts. I suspect they feel empowered when in large groups of all women, which strikes me as kinda sad. (Literally, not ironically or sarcastically.) Which was your one and only KC concert? I pretty much saw any NYC and LI show in during the 80’s run. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464/126 "2010-03-25T16:47:14Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Which was your one and only KC concert? I pretty much saw any NYC and LI show in during the 80’s run. I may have brushed past you. I saw them twice- both times at Pier 84 (I guess that would have been for the _ **Beat** _ and \*\*\*Three of a Perfect Pair \*\*\*tours). It DID seem to be 80% guys, 15 % girlfriends who were dragged along, and 5% females who actually liked what KC was doing. Not long afterward, I remember seeing Bill Bruford telling interviewers, “Personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing an occasional female in the audience.” Certainly, the band itself was well aware of the fans’ demographics. It makes me wonder if “Ladies of the Road” wasn’t just wishful thinking on Pete Sinfied’s part. Or if, maybe in 1972, there were only 4 women in Crimso’s audience each night… one for Boz, one for Mel, one for Ian and one for Fripp. ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464/127 "2010-03-26T05:55:17Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I may have brushed past you. I saw them twice- both times at Pier 84 (I guess that would have been for the _ **Beat** _ and \*\*\*Three of a Perfect Pair \*\*\*tours). It DID seem to be 80% guys, 15 % girlfriends who were dragged along, and 5% females who actually liked what KC was doing. > > Not long afterward, I remember seeing Bill Bruford telling interviewers, “Personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing an occasional female in the audience.” Certainly, the band itself was well aware of the fans’ demographics. It makes me wonder if “Ladies of the Road” wasn’t just wishful thinking on Pete Sinfied’s part. Or if, maybe in 1972, there were only 4 women in Crimso’s audience each night… one for Boz, one for Mel, one for Ian and one for Fripp. I saw them on the Beat tour in the early 80’s at Toads Place under Yale. I was mesmerized by them. It is one of the best concerts I have ever seen. I didn’t even do drugs, they were that good! ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464/128 "2010-03-27T13:55:42Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Which was your one and only KC concert? I pretty much saw any NYC and LI show in during the 80’s run. It was in Boston. I am perfectly situated in so many ways, with reasonable travel time to Boston (and the casinos) being a nontrivial part of that. > [@Revixit](#): > > Most of us women can multitask and most men need to focus on one thing at a time. That’s interestingly prejudicial, as if multitasking is obviously the better option. Most people would write that as “women can multitask and men **can** focus on one thing.” As a concrete example, men get in fewer accidents per mile driven because they can focus better on a single task. (Women have lower insurance rates because they drive much less, meaning they get in fewer accidents per year even though it’s more per mile.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-women-like-pink-floyd/533464.md?page=6)