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Roger Waters<\/a> didn\u2019t get into the music business trying to become one of the biggest pop stars in the world. <\/p>\n There was no chance that Pink Floyd was ever going to be known as pop darlings at any point during their career, and even when they started having major success off the back of Dark Side of the Moon, they weren\u2019t about to start changing their sound to fit in with the times. It was all about following what was in their heart first and foremost, but Waters at least knew the kind of genre lines that he didn\u2019t want to cross.<\/p>\n Then again, it was hard to really consider Floyd to be truly \u201cprogressive\u201d when looking at the other prog bands they grew up with. They tend to get thrown into the same conversation as bands like Yes, King Crimson, and Genesis, but when you look at their epics, they\u2019re a lot different. Sure, there are some strange chords and uncommon time signatures, but it\u2019s easy to get your fingers around some of their classics relatively easily.<\/p>\n You weren\u2019t going to need to spend half a decade trying to decipher \u2018Comfortably Numb\u2019 the same way you would for \u2018Thick as a Brick\u2019, and that was by design. Waters didn\u2019t want to make his music seem too sophisticated for his audience every time he made a record, and even when he was reaching the greatest heights of The Wall, a lot of the melodies needed to be simple if he wanted to take the audience with him on this musical journey.<\/p>\n But that wasn\u2019t exactly the same as what they had started with. In a perfect world, there\u2019s a good chance the band would have carried on with Syd Barrett at the helm. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn<\/a> was a progressive pop record for the time, and with his strange sense of harmony and fantastical lyrics, Barrett could have been one of the biggest names in music had he not lost his battle with his own mind.<\/p>\n And when you look at Floyd\u2019s later work, it doesn\u2019t even sound like the same band half the time. Their first few records without Barrett didn\u2019t feel like they had any sense of direction, but when they started working on songs like \u2018Echoes\u2019, they found their calling, making more empathetic material. It wouldn\u2019t have worked had they continued making songs no one could understand, so it was better for them to find their own sense of humanity throughout their songs whenever they played.<\/p>\n