Pink floyd and the mentally ill

when I was in the mental ward patients would always chime in when I mentioned a pink floyd lyric or saying…“if you don’t eat your meat, you don’t get any pudding…how can you get any pudding if you don’t eat your meat”? stuff like that.

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Watching Syd Barrett lose it had a big impact on their work. Psychedelics, too, but insanity is a definite theme in their work. Crazy people probably like them because they skirted so close to craziness in their songs. I mean just listen to Brain Damage

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I think if Syd Barrett had stayed well Pink floyd would have gone in a very different, more creative direction. ‘Arnold Layne’ and ‘See Emily play’ are great singles.

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i like them too. used to love The Wall in my 20s. they resonate with me and brain damage is actually my favorite Floyd song.

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