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Both enormously popular and daringly experimental, it’s hard to place them comfortably in one camp or another. The experience of their classic albums is paradoxically one of “shared solitary contemplation” their live shows are an expansion of the home listening environment, where fans first received an “education from cousins and older brothers of friends as to the seriousness (and stoner sacrament) of The Dark Side of the Moon,” as Martin Popoff writes in Pink Floyd: Album by Album. A stadium rock band renowned for massive laser light shows and a pioneering use of quadraphonic and holophonic sound, they are also best appreciated at home - alone or with a few true fans - on a pair of high fidelity stereo speakers or headphones, under the hazy purplish-greenish glow of a blacklight poster. Approached with little prior knowledge, Pink Floyd is an enigma.