Video: Let’s talk about Pink Floyd, rainbows, and social media…


Nothing too heavy today – I needed time for other pursuits. As some of you are no doubt aware, it was recently the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, and the fact that the album art has always had a rainbow in it has some “fans” upset. I suspect it’s the same fans who get upset periodically when they find out that Rage Against the Machine “gets political”, because they apparently never know the lyrics?

I honestly don’t get how some people go through life so utterly oblivious to so much of what’s happening around them, but I guess that’s the point of all the indoctrination, propaganda, and systems of control. As Beau says, when someone’s so afraid of what’s different that they can’t stand to see a rainbow, well…

All in all, they’re just

Comments

  1. sonofrojblake says

    That is legitimately absolutely hilarious.

    I particularly like the commenter who said “I am never listening to this band again” – dude (and I’m going to stick my neck out and say you are definitely a dude), you never did listen to this band. I’ll grant you were in a room where the music was playing, and you may even have intermittently liked the noise it made, but you quite clearly never actually listened to it… but thanks for the laugh.

  2. antaresrichard says

    What was hip?
    I’m old.
    I remember ’73 and purchasing Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ along with Tower of Power’s ‘Tower of Power’.
    Nowadays, I’m closer to brain damage than gettin’ my feet back on the ground!
    😉

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