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* [[Broken Base]]: Over ''The Final Cut'' and the post-Waters albums. In the former case there was a famous example where the editors of a Pink Floyd fan publication voted it their best album in the same issue as the fans voted it their worst. Then there's the matter with Syd Barrett's time with the band; some circles consider this period the only worthwhile moment in Floyd's history, while fans of the classic period consider it, as well as the band's pre-''Dark Side'' work as a whole, an oddity at best.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Syd Barrett. Emphasis on the "crazy" part.
* [[Critical Backlash]]: They triggered a big one at the height of their career. NME was the biggest culprit, with a [[Accentuate the Negative|notoriously scathing]] concert review from the mid-1970s. For the most popular band performing a major [[Dead Horse Music Genre]], it seems inevitable that critics would run them through a wood chipper.
* [[Critical Dissonance]]: Despite being regularly trashed by some critics (you can find a good review for every Pink Floyd album if you look, and critics mostly ate up their early material; the pastings they would receive in [[The Seventies]] were more of the [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]] kind), their albums sold truckloads. The band was eventually [[Vindicated by History]] in terms of critical acclaim and are retroactively now one of the most critically adored bands of the seventies. ''Rolling Stone'' for instance, named ''Wish You Were Here'' the worst album of 1975, but 30-odd years later, included it in the Top 100 of their Greatest Albums of All Time list.
* [[Dork Age]]: The band members themselves see the period between Syd Barrett leaving and the release of ''Dark Side of the Moon'' as this.
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* [[First Installment Wins]]: At least according to Barrett fans.
* [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moments]]: [[Pink Floyd/Funny|Now has its own page.]]
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: ''The Final Cut'' by Pink Floyd is both disturbingly prophetic and harrowing to listen to. Granted, the album was protesting the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands by the UK, but the track "Keep Your Hands of My Desert" features someone (Roger Waters) screaming, "Hey! Keep your hands off my desert!", followed shortly by the sound of an airplane flying over and an explosion. Yikes.
** "The Great Gig In The Sky," which Richard Wright composed, after his death.
* [[Heartwarming in Hindsight]]: The song "The Final Cut" is packed with subtle references to every album that the band made during the Roger Waters era, with lines like "and beat the dogs..." (''Animals''), "and cheat the cold electronic eyes..." ("Welcome to the Machine" from ''Wish You Were Here''), "I'll tell you what's behind the wall..." (''[[The Wall]]''), and "if I show you my dark side..." (''[[Dark Side of the Moon]]''). ''The Final Cut'' turned out to be Roger's last album. As nasty as the band's breakup was, "The Final Cut" reads like Roger's swan song to the band and a fond look-back at his glory days with them.
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** When that concert was bootlegged, the bootleg was predictably named ''Who Was Trained Not To Spit On The Fan?''.
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: "Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?", as mentioned in the 1975 song, "Have a Cigar".
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
** "Shine on, you crazy diamond."
** Many of their album covers.
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