I had a physics professor in high school who was a HUGE Pink Floyd fan, and apparently used to set up speaker systems for them when he was younger. He went on to teach us the physics of sound waves using Pink Floyd tracks and different sized speakers at different decibels, etc. I must say it was one of the most interesting classes I'd ever taken. He inspired me to first major in physics in college, but I ended up taking up computer engineering instead.

Then recently, I read a couple of reviews on a social review site of Dark Side of the Moon, and since I never really caught onto it in high school, I decided to check it out...way before my time, but I decided I like the mellow tunes and political lyrics - they were soothing!

The reviews are at the link below, if anyone is interested:

http://www.sazze.com/review?id=02983nhjkm

Some people I knew in college loved The Wall. :hammers:That helped get me interested. So, the first Pink Floyd album I got was The Wall. Upon listening to it 2 or 3 times, I discovered that I really enjoyed listening to this. Strangely, "The Trial" has always been my favorite track on The Wall right from the beginning. Why "The Trial" is not more popular I will never know.

It started with the radio, ROCK 102 FM Saskatoon, and downloaded Comfortably Numb and the PULSE version of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. A couple downloads later, I was totally hooked. A couple months later, I bought the Dark Side of the Moon and then Animals and Meddle.

I think I had all the studio albums within the year.

how did it all start.one day a friend played wish you were here record now cd.i was hooked.now i have 33 pluse floyd cd's.although i wish i had some dvds especially concert.

I was born years too late for the first & second waves of Pink Floyd fans. Fortunately my father has been a fan most of his long life, so I grew up sitting in the backseat of his car listening to Dark Side & the Wall mostly. Around 12 years old I went though all of his cds, finding some of the greatest albums of this lifetime. At the same age was the first time I saw The Wall as a movie. I can't lie, that movie was too harsh for my young mind. I continued through the phases of growing up and listening to the popular music. But at the end of the day, I knew the radio didn't know talent the way it should be recognized. After high school I finally started meeting others who could sit around, silently and get so enthralled in the genius sound coming from the speakers. And now, well... here we are. Sadly, I doubt any band of this day & age will be able to meet the standards put up by Floyd, Zeppelin, Beatles, etc...

Someone brought a 8 track of A Nice Pair to the beach one night, the cool thing about 8 tracks was you didn't have to turn them over. If you had a cassette player of any kind back then you was very well off.

when i was 13 i heard "another brick in the wall part 2" on the radio
I asked my mom who they were. I got her to drop me off at the mall and I bough my first album ever "the wall" and ive been a fan ever since

I could be remembering somethings incorrectly but in the years around 1977 and 1980, I ran around with a few guys who were a little older than I was who had much longer leashes than I and consequently listened to much more harder music than the stuff my parents did. So as a kid of 12 and 13, I was listening to Cheap Trick and Nazareth alot and some Pink Floyd in 1979.
One of the kids had boxing gloves and we would go over to his house and punch the snot out of each other but I think I remember seeing a promotional video of some sort for "Another Brick In The Wall, part II" at Joe's house once. Remember that this was just after the time the album was released; the spring of 1980 and nothing to do with the movie which was released in what, 1982?
I gravitated away from most of those early childhood friends of that time very quickly but did replace some of them with kids who had older brothers and we would sit around listening to more and more hard rock and the like.
I cannot say with certainty where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time; I'm sure it was on adult album oriented FM radio, but my memories of the video on Joe's tv are there and then by 1982, listening to Animals, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall and a few others time and time again up in the room of my friend's. In late 1982 and early 1983 we had hope from news that the band was working on a new album soon to be released. We anxiously waited to hear from radio stations and record stores when the new album would be out. Then when my friend's older brother finally got a copy of The Final Cut our wait was well worth it.

In the late 1970's around my house, the songs on AM radio were what was heard most. 8 track tapes of Jim Croce, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Elvis and "Bye, bye Miss American Pie" were the musical fare for the most part. Until I started playing with the kids on the next block.

I was in the 8th grade when Dark Side of the Moon came out. I wasn't really into music yet, I listened to whatever was playing on the radio, and Money was about the only song that got much airplay; I thought it was pretty cool, but it didn't get much deeper than that.

My older brother bought the album maybe a year later, and told me "you should listen to this with headphones, the stereo effect is really trippy". Well I listened to it over and over and over again, and that was the first time music had REALLY moved me. I would read the lyrics from the album cover as it played. As soon as side 2 finished, with that "There is no dark side of the moon, really, matter of fact it's all dark", I would turn it over and start again.
I eventually wore out his vinyl and bought a scratch-free copy of my own.

Now, at 49, I listen to "Time" and I think it's a song about mid-life crisis. Back then it had a different, but really deep meaning to me. Of course Roger and the boys were only in their 20's so what did they know about mid-life crisis?

So it began. I was the first on my block to buy "Wish You Were" Here when it came out, then "Animals", then I had to find all their old stuff, and I've bought every new release by Pink Floyd or each members solo stuff.

My son has always heard me playing my Floyd albums, but his taste was more into newer music. Then one day he really discovered Pink Floyd, and couldn't get enough of it, and of course I would encourage him and showed him my entire collection, unfortunately, most of it is still on vinyl.