The new Pink Floyd logo for Dark Side of the Moon's 50th anniversary upsets RW fans

[highplainsdem]

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https://twitter.com/pinkfloyd

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From Loudersound.com:

https://www.loudersound.com/news/pink-floyd-fans-are-amused-that-the-anti-woke-mob-are-cancelling-the-band-over-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-rainbow

Pink Floyd announced yesterday (January 19) that they will release a Dark Side Of The Moon 50th anniversary box set, and revealed that they will also launch a new The Dark Side Of The Moon experience at London's word-famous Planetarium, where the band first held the original press launch for the album in February 1973.

But in unveiling a new logo to mark the iconic album's 50th anniversary celebrations, the prog rock legends seem to have unwittingly found themselves immersed in the latest 'culture wars' debate.

It seems that certain less... enlightened followers of the band on Facebook have interpreted the new logo's inclusion of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet bars, the colours visible when white light passes through a triangular prism, as featured on the album's world-famous artwork designed by Hipgnosis, as a signal that the group are now "woke", and championing LGBTQ+ rights. And therefore, in their eyes, the group must be CANCELLED, immediately.

"Lose the rainbow, you’re making yourself look stupid!" writes one commenter... and it gets worse...

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Another article, at Loudwire: https://loudwire.com/people-mad-pink-floyd-new-dark-side-of-the-moon-anniversary-logo-rainbow/

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[Aristus]

1. Yeah, I saw that.

Man, that is some sub-basement-level stupidity right there. You trying to tell me these are PF fans, and they've never seen the DSotM cover art? Oh, and there's always one guy who thinks he can take the edge off his douchebaggery by saying something like "We should all be true to who we are. Peace." Yeah, that helped...

[underpants]

2. I never saw it as a rainbow (prism) but good for them

F those other aholes.

[Aristus]

3. I feel like saying to them:

"Can you show us on the doll where the rainbow hurt you?"

[underpants]

5. I made this about the gas stove ban BS

[Aristus]

6. Excellent!

[yankee87]

29. Copy?

Can I use this?

[underpants]

71. Yes of course. And take this too.

[yankee87]

30. Copy?

Can I use this?

[Jedi Guy]

65. ...

[underpants]

70. 👍

[JohnnyRingo]

60. Actually, it is literally a rainbow by definition of the word

It is however not a symbol of any sexual persuasion.
Unless one considers dropping a hit of window pane acid and getting it on a sexual movement. I mean, I do. haha

[kysrsoze]

4. I'm much more angry that the box set likely will cost $300. They've milked this album to death

There have been multiple reissues, prior box set, etc. They should try giving people a break on something they would already have when they're expected to fork over for another version of the same album, including other reissues, box sets, etc.

[dem4decades]

7. I'll listen to my 50 year old album. It means a lot to me.

[kysrsoze]

16. I'm sure it does - much more satisfying.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. +1000s

Really, who wants to piss away $300 on a reissue anyway?

[happybird]

9. I have no qualms about finding certain things for free online (YouTube Music)

The way I see it, over the years I’ve bought DSotM in record, cassette, and CD form. Some formats more than once. Therefore, I own this album in any shape of form it will ever be released in.

All the extras with this edition would be super cool to have, though.

[Moostache]

63. My philosophy on music in a nutshell...

If I have already purchased a physical copy (or more than one) of a piece of music, and I am entitled to play that whenever, wherever and however I choose....well, the natural extension of that is to stream it from online sources as if I were listening to the same piece on the radio or via subscription service (Sirrius)...collectors who want to drop $300 on another re-issue? Be my guest...not interested in that myself though.

And these RWNJs getting exercised over rainbows and "woke" (a concept they cannot explain but know they have been conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to reflexively hate)...there is no end to their depravity and no value in them worth debating...write them off as evolutionary dead-ends and be done with them.

[Ferrets are Cool]

24. I consider my SACD to be the ultimate listen.

OMG, it makes me drool just thinking about it.

[emulatorloo]

69. Love love love SACD.

I wish I had Dark Side of the Moon in that format.

[Ferrets are Cool]

74. I bought a lot of SACD's when they came out....bought an Oppo just so I could play them.

The DSotM and Brain Salad Surgery are my favs.

[emulatorloo]

91. Similar here. I had a pretty cheap DVD player that could play SACD's.

It broke pretty quickly. But I happily found a Sony 5-disc SACD player for $35.00 on ebay last year. Good to be able to play all those great albums again.

I totally forgot about Brain Salad Surgery! Thanks for the reminder!

[liberalmuse]

8. Yeah idiots, Pink Floyd was never, ever "right wing".

They've been writing lyrics against right wing bullshit for over 50 years.

[Celerity]

10. lol

[orleans]

39. omg--"i like your pride shirt" just cracked me up! nt

[johnp3907]

11. Some people are having fun on their Facebook page.

My favorite comment so far:

“Can't believe Pink Floyd have gone woke. From now on the only classic British artists I'm listening to are Queen, David Bowie, Elton John, George Michael, Judas Priest, Morissey and Richie Blackmore's Rainbow.”

[Lucky Luciano]

36. Haha this guy definitely trolling the fools! LOL

[FakeNoose]

12. RW nutters were never going to buy Pink Floyd records anyway

Who cares what those assholes say?

[ArnoldLayne]

81. Pink Floyd's Leader and Main Lyrist Roger Water's has always

fought for and supported Left-Wing causes for the past 55 years. He is a self proclaimed Socialist and it showed in his Lyrics. As was his Mother Mary Waters a self avowed Socialist. That is why he has always been my all time favorite Artist. David Gilmour Pink Floyd's Guitarist has also been involved in Left-Wing causes and events in the past. Not quite as Left Leaning as Roger but David is definitely not a supporter of Right-Wing Politics at all. Neither has Drummer Nick Mason he is a supporter of Left-Wing causes and projects from way back also.

[chowder66]

13. They must truly hate color wheels.

[48656c6c6f20]

14. Wtf? Why has someone declared war on boomers?

Take that shit down. I'm tired of all the fucking Boomer bullshit.

[highplainsdem]

18. I'm a boomer who's very much pro-boomer, as I made very clear in this thread:

https://democraticunderground.com/100217576011


I'd posted that tweet referring to angry boomers initially because (1) it was in one of the articles I linked to, (2) some of the responses that were funniest were from people who claimed to have been Pink Floyd fans since DSOTM came out, and (3) it had the original album cover as well as that page of replies.

I've replaced that tweet with a newer one that doesn't mention boomers but has that page of RW reactions, and I left the image of the original album cover, too.

[wryter2000]

77. How do you know they are boomers?

I am really sick of people blaming boomers. The people who invaded the Capitol were not boomers.

[jmowreader]

15. How to say "I don't listen to Pink Floyd"...

without admitting you don't listen to Pink Floyd. That album is woke from beginning to end, and they're complaining about the rainbow on the cover?"

[meadowlander]

19. Or at least stopped after 'We don't need no education...'

[pandr32]

17. Someone should tell them that white refracts into a rainbow.

The picture actually demonstrates, but they are pretty dense. All the colors of the rainbow are within 'white'.

Giggling to myself: I just recalled a cartoon where a vampire was told that the moonlight was actually rays of the sun bouncing off the moon's surface. His expression was priceless as he realized he had nowhere he could go to avoid sunlight outside of his coffin.

[NullTuples]

61. And that DSOTM came out in 1973; Gilbert Baker's Pride Flag in 1978

I'd tell them, but I'm having too much fun watching them throw their tantrums.

[jcgoldie]

83. These are the same folks who...

... believe whiteness is purity. Keep your WOKE color spectrum theories to yourself lib!

[pandr32]

84. Ha-ha!

[Initech]

20. Shhhhhh!!! Nobody tell them what Roger Waters really thinks of Trump!

[central scrutinizer]

53. This?

[highplainsdem]

21. Tom Taylor: Pink Floyd fans who really embraced "We don't need no education."

Link to tweet

[LymphocyteLover]

22. MAGA-- comfortably dumb!!

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?s=20&t=qB8AbEfAmlhOL2kG-Oz00A

[Ferrets are Cool]

23. They are too fucking stupid to understand what a prism is.

JFC, the stupid, it hurts.

[GGoss]

27. I'm Fairly Certain They Want All Of Us "Woke LibTards" In Prism

Just sayin

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. True, and welcome to DU.

[GGoss]

43. Thank You

[ProfessorGAC]

45. There's A Freakin' Rainbow...

...on the original cover!
The logo is meant to evoke the album cover.
These idiots will find anything to whine about.

[GGoss]

25. Man... They Must REALLY Detest 'Any Colour You Like'

[ForgedCrank]

31. You must know,

mainly because I insist on telling anyone who will listen , that song was the most incredible thing I've ever heard live. I don't know if it was the moment and the friends with a perfect night and weather and everything just aligned perfectly, but were all flat sober and it was still an experience I'll never ever forget. I'm way too young to have seen it originally, but I caught it when Waters was doing his DSOM tour about a decade or so ago.
I only wish he would do it one more time so I could hear it again.

[GGoss]

37. My First Time Experiencing Pink Floyd Live Was...

The Animals Tour in Oakland, CA in 1977.



Blew my mind, it did.

[Prairie_Seagull]

57. I am just lost or what, I have never seen this and I am a huge fan.

It' going to take weeks to digest this. Going to wear my pause button out. Bookmarking and thank you GGoss.

[GGoss]

72. Here, We'll Try To Save Your Pause Button Together

This just dropped this week. At least the entire album of AI Art.

A Psychedelic AI Generated Music Video for the Pink Floyd Album ‘Dark Side of the Moon’

Link: https://laughingsquid.com/ai-generated-dark-side-of-the-moon/

The whole video/art/album is about 43min long. The list in this article just takes you to the beginning of each song/piece of art.

Enjoy

[CitizenZero]

32. Right Wing Snowflakes

Why are they so touchy?

[moonshinegnomie]

33. they took we dont need no education seriously and ran with it

[Ford_Prefect]

34. None of the whiners are old enough to know the look of the first release and are bitching because

they know nothing at all about the physics of light, to say nothing of the first amendment.

Angry ignorant slobs who believe their stupid is better than our enlightenment. We can only hope they do not reproduce.

[Rebl2]

35. Wonder if they

get angry at rainbows in the sky. A lovely natural phenomenon and I can just see them shaking their fist at the sky when it provides us a lovely rainbow to view.

[MarcA]

38. I found the rainbow colors appealing even as a child

long ago. Sad everything becomes politically continuous.

[maxrandb]

40. Careful With that Axe Eugene

I think Pink Floyd wrote about these asshats on the Animals album

"And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You'll get the chance to put the knife in"

"You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer"

[PatrickforB]

41. Wow. LOL

Reminds me of what Asimov always said - There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Truer words never spoken.

Kind of like the Tea Party demonstration sign in 2009 that said, "Keep your government hands off my Social Security!"

Problem is, this 'cult of ignorance' is very well funded by billionaires and corporations, because it is part of the systematic plan for corporations to amass political power as laid out by Lewis Powell in his 1971 Memo to the US Chamber of Commerce.

George Carlin told us all about it in 2005.

[onethatcares]

42. just maybe

the assholes complaining about that should listen to the "Wall" instead, or perhaps drop a tab and try "Echos".

Gaud, I never thought it could get this bad.

[Mr. Evil]

44. When CD's first became an available thing back around 1985 or '86

my first CD purchase was Dark Side Of The Moon. My first player was an NEC. If I remember correctly it was an NEC 410. I kept it for over 20 years. It finally died around 2009. Right around my divorce. Go figure.

[Deuxcents]

46. Well...I'm a woke Boomer n a big Pink Floyd "fan"

For a very long time. Been to only 3 of their concerts n wish I would have realized..when I was younger.. nothing lasts forever or I would have made the effort to go to more concerts. I’m fine with the 50 anniversary logo..pretty cool..if we still can say that these days.

[orleans]

47. i'm not crazy about the new design. i think they should have kept the

original album cover design with the line on one side and the prism on the other -- and put their 50 in the pyramid but not color in the zero.

as to all those idiots complaining about woke rainbows and shit: they should just all fuck off

[world wide wally]

48. Us and Them

[onethatcares]

51. and after all

we're only ordinary men."

[TNNurse]

49. If there is on thing you can count on, you can count on stupid.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

50. We don't need no education.

[cos dem]

52. Interestingly, I'm listening to The Division Bell as I'm reading this

PF is all about woke, have been since forever.
These idiots probably think that "Pink" in The Wall is the hero. I'm sure they watch the movie and jack off to the fascist moves, which Waters was intentionally trying to make fun of.

[hadEnuf]

54. Who really cares what the right wingers think of the album cover?

They are too stupid to understand anything Pink Floyd has written and recorded anyway.

[OldBaldy1701E]

62. Bingo!

[vercetti2021]

55. You can't fix stupid

Anti Wokers are so indoctrinated to hate anything that is a rainbow or basic anything that isn't something white, straight, christian, male. So it doesn't surprise me the ones getting pissed likely never listened to DSOTM or any Pink Floyd albums.

[CaptainTruth]

56. What in the heck is wrong with "the right???"

These folks do not have brains that function normally. Is this the result of decades of mercury & lead in our water? Decades of chemicals in our environment? Is it brain damage due to all those toxic chemicals?

I swear, y'all know how much I stress the importance & influence of messaging, but for messaging to have the effect it's had on "the right" it seems like those folks must be especially gullible. Like they're just not intellectually able to differentiate between reality & bullshit. And I just keep wondering... WHY???

[niyad]

58. It just occurs to me to wonder if the magats realize that rainbows actually exist

in nature. And then I remember that they hate nature.

I may have heard Pink Floyd, but have never listened to Pink Floyd. But if they piss off the magats, bully for them!

[highplainsdem]

67. You've never listened to Pink Floyd?

[Ferrets are Cool]

75. I know...it surprises the hell out of me when I find someone who hasn't heard PF.

[uncle ray]

92. there's hearing PF, and then actually listening to PF.

IMO actually listening to Pink Floyd requires a proper HiFi or good headphones to properly experience. it's easy to overlook 50 years later how revolutionary DSOTM and other albums were. lots of novel recording and mixing techniques, use of 'found" sounds, analog synthesizers etc.

[Ferrets are Cool]

93. That is true. I have a dedicated listening room.

SACD's and pure PCM recordings sound wonderful in there. DSotM on SACD is a religious experience.

[wryter2000]

78. I listened to the beginning of the album

I had no problem with it. I was just bored. Give me soul music.

[vlyons]

59. To all the homophobes -- go eat a bug

Mind your own damn business. Don't like the image? So don't buy the music. Stop telling other people what to do and not do.

[Bristlecone]

64. My first thought: have they never seen the original cover?

Clowns

[Johonny]

73. No, and they think every thing is secret woke message

I imagine the mistake only delights Gilmour and Mason. Neither is a big fan of the RW.

[wryter2000]

79. According to a poster above

The idiots are boomers. Any boomer knows about the album. I don’t even like rock, but I know the album. Proud boomer here.

[WestMichRad]

66. How dare they split good ol' white light

… into the color spectrum? Damn libruls!

[11 Bravo]

68. Good. Fuck 'em.

[electric_blue68]

76. It wouldn't have bothered me them having a rainbow using it in the modern symbol of LGBTQI support..

because at first I'd forgotten about the Prism cover!
😄

Yeah, I had a copy of that back in the day.
My favorite 2 albums of theirs were Wish You Were Here, and Ummaguma.

I saw them at the Filmore East playing Atom Heart Mother of which I don't think I was that fond of bc I never bought it.
But they played both A Saucer Full of Secrets, and
Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun. Both of those were what I wanted to hear. So, yay!

[JI7]

80. I think if someone had just posted a pic of the original cover

you would see the same type of replies .

[Clash City Rocker]

82. At first, I thought RW stood for Roger Waters

The notion of a right-wing Pink Floyd fan is weird. I guess they never listened to the lyrics?

[Iggo]

85. 🌈

Hate it, motherfuckers.

[Iggo]

86. You've got to be crazy.

[ratchiweenie]

87. These MAGAs are so stupid it makes my teeth hurt.

[ArnoldLayne]

88. It's hard to believe that MAGA's think Pink Floyd's

Dark Side of the Moon album cover represents Gay people. All because it's a Prism with rainbow colors coming out of it. The album has been out for almost 50 years now it was released on March 1st 1973.

[Oneironaut]

89. Good lord these people are mentally gone.

The one brain cell they have left is dedicated to MAGA 24/7.

[area51]

90. Once again nazi party members are beclowning themselves.

I guess they also hate the book of Genesis.