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Dr Mindbender
15th September 2007, 20:26
http://www.poster.net/pink-floyd/pink-floyd-photo-pink-floyd-6234404.jpg
Some lyrical examples-
Corporal Clegg
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/corp...rful-lyric.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/corporal-clegg-saucerful-lyric.html)

Us and Them
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/us-a...ark-lyrics.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/us-and-them-dark-lyrics.html)

Welcome to the machine
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/welc...ish-lyrics.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/welcome-machine-wish-lyrics.html)

Have a cigar
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/have...ish-lyrics.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/have-a-cigar-wish-lyrics.html)

Another Brick in the wall 1
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/anot...ick-1-wall.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/another-brick-1-wall.html)

The happiest days of our lives
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/the-...all-lyrics.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/the-happiest-days-wall-lyrics.html)

Another Brick in the wall 2
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/anot...ick-2-wall.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/another-brick-2-wall.html)

Goodbye blue sky
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/good...all-lyrics.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/goodbye-blue-sky-wall-lyrics.html)

Another Brick in the wall 3
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/anot...ick-3-wall.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/another-brick-3-wall.html)

Bring the boys back home
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/brin...-home-wall.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/bring-the-boys-back-home-wall.html)

Run like hell
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/run-...all-lyrics.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/run-like-hell-wall-lyrics.html)

The post war dream
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/post...nal-lyrics.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/post-war-dream-final-lyrics.html)

Southampton docks
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/sout...nal-lyrics.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/southampton-dock-final-lyrics.html)

two suns in the sunset
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/two-...nal-lyrics.html (http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/two-suns-final-lyrics.html)

Dr. Rosenpenis
16th September 2007, 13:59
At best it just tries to reproduce the mainstream "leftist" discourse of its time and not actual revolutionary theory.

Cencus
16th September 2007, 17:48
Madness actually wrote Baggy Trousers as a reply to what they saw as the public school boy whining of Floyd allegedly

Dr Mindbender
16th September 2007, 21:09
I thought a lot of their latter work had loads of anti-war resonance, and commentary on social alienation particularly in 'the wall'. Oh well. They were posh gets in some ways, but i suppose you cant have everything.