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Once Upon A Time | Music

Think Pink

YR Anand looks and listens back over the years of Pink Floyd’s rise as a band that has
captured listeners’ minds, and won’t let go

We don’t need no education music can be classified into any of the subgenres
We don’t need no thought control of rock or freeform music.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone
Hey, teachers, leave those kids alone
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall

When the Wall was released by Pink Floyd,
who were then an already famous band, it
became a rock classic and also a cult album.
The lyrics and the melody created an image of
dystopia and thought control in the mind. And it
was backed up with superb instrumental music.
Pink Floyd is a band, which is highly difficult
to slot into a category, though it is solidly in the
rock genre. They have been variously described
as psychedelic, arty, acid, progressive forms of
rock. On many tracks, they sound like a jazz
band too. I guess their complex and spaced out Roger Waters

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