Eureka!

Over the past few weeks, I've been trying to structure some sort of argument around all of the information I've collected about Pink Floyd. So after much thought, I've decided that I'm going to focus my final paper on The Dark Side of the Moon, and I've finally come up with a central claim: Although the punk movement was in direct opposition to the hippie counterculture, both hippies and punks used music to comment on various social and political issues and to express anti-Establishment & DIY sentiments. This is evident in Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, especially in songs like "Breathe," "Money," "Us and Them," and "Eclipse." So, I know I have to acknowledge that Pink Floyd has been called a progressive rock group, and the punk movement is against everything progressive. The punks once saw prog rock groups as pretentious, self indulgent, mainstream, commercial, and they just wanted to strip it back down to raw rock'n'roll. While progressive bands cranked out long, winding compositions, punk rock bands preferred songs that were short and simple. My main argument is that although the music may have been different, DSOTM illustrates that progressive rock groups communicated ideas similar to the DIY punk rock ethic. For my purposes, I'll be using the critical approaches of worlding and rhetoric. Wish me luck!