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| Pink Floyd Ranked
Finally listened to their entire discog, here's my thoughts | | 1 |  | Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
In my opinion, the definitive album of progressive and space rock. It has everything;
spacey keyboards, sublime guitar work, stellar production, and just generally brilliant
songwriting. Fun fact about the album: upon its original release, the record was
wrapped in blue shrinkwrap rather than clear, and only a sticker on the front cover
signified that the record was Wish You Were Here. | | 2 |  | Pink Floyd
Animals
The new guitar-oriented focus of Waters' writing may have been a ploy to reduce
Wright's power in the band, but nevertheless it was still magnificent (ex. the opening
chord sequence of Dogs, every solo in Dogs, the epic guitar effects in Pigs). | | 3 |  | Pink Floyd
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Obviously a hugely influential record, but like Med said in his review of it, the album
doesn't really hit its stride until Time (although Breathe is an excellent song in itself). | | 4 |  | Pink Floyd
The Wall
One of the defining concept albums of all time. Sure Waters turned into a tyrant
here, but one can't deny the amazing power some of these songs possess. As an
album it falters occasionally ("One Of My Turns", "The Trial"), and the story is a bit
absurd, but it's still something everyone should hear. | | 5 |  | Pink Floyd
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The record that started it all. Floyd's original songwriter Syd Barrett dove headfirst
into the psychedelic scene of Britain with this essential release. Highlights include
"Astronomy Domine", "Interstellar Overdrive", "Flaming" and "Bike". | | 6 |  | Pink Floyd
Meddle
Piper and The Wall were ranked higher than this because despite the fact that both of
them have some clunkers, none are as bad as the horrific "Seamus". Other than
that, all songs on here are at least decent ("San Tropez" comes dangerously close to
being a filler). | | 7 |  | Pink Floyd
The Final Cut
Basically a Roger Waters solo album. David Gilmour was so upset with how this
record turned out that he refused to be credited on the sleeve. | | 8 |  | Pink Floyd
Obscured By Clouds
A great, and often overlooked soundtrack album. Many highlights to be found here,
especially the title track. | | 9 |  | Pink Floyd
A Saucerful Of Secrets
This album boasts the essential Floyd tracks "Remember A Day", "Set The Controls
For The Heart Of The Sun" and "Corporal Clegg" but as a whole feels somewhat
jaded and incomplete. | | 10 |  | Pink Floyd
The Division Bell
This album contains the brilliant "High Hopes" but the fact that no other song on here
compares to it (as well as the huge amount of nods to the grandiose songwriting
style of Floyd's golden age) drags this record down by miles. | | 11 |  | Pink Floyd
More
A fairly average soundtrack, this features some moments of genius such as "The Nile
Song" and "Cymbaline" and moments that make you want to rip your hair out, such
as "A Spanish Piece". | | 12 |  | Pink Floyd
Atom Heart Mother
This album contains two overlong tracks of experimental bullshit, and three passable
average-length songs that would make for a nice EP. | | 13 |  | Pink Floyd
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Essentially just an excuse to spit in Roger Waters' face, this cut-and-paste record is
one to avoid, although I've heard the tour they put together for it was astounding. | | 14 |  | Pink Floyd
Ummagumma
The live disc is rather intriguing, but on the studio disc everything crashes and burns.
"Grantchester Meadows" would be a great song if it weren't so dragged out, and
everything else, especially "Sysyphus" just makes you want to groan and goes
absolutely nowhere for 5-15 minutes. Worth it for the live performances, but avoid
the studio album at all costs. | |
JamieTwort
12.19.12 | Decent ranking. I'd swap 1 and 2 though and have Meddle at 4 or maybe even 3 (knocking Dark Side down to 4th). Good to see 7 quite high up. | TRMshadow
12.19.12 | '73-'79 was such an F'ing phenomenal run. | evilford
12.19.12 | yeah good to see 7 not at the bottom but I'd put it even higher!!! good list though you back yourself up well.
also, Seamus is great wtF!!!! | YoYoMancuso
12.19.12 | agreed TRM
and thanks Ford, yeah that album is pretty cool despite how much was going on during its recording | evilford
12.19.12 | also, nice to see piper that high
I would say
3
2
1=7
6
5
4
(then nothing else above a 3 so I'll skip those..) | minimesmyidol
12.19.12 | flip 1 and 2 and you got it right | evilford
12.19.12 | I agree with your gripe with the Wall, it has some fantastic moments (FTR I LOVE "One of My Turns") but it gets bloated and just plain goofy in spots. the final cut basically deals with the same underlying issues of Roger's and with his father's life and death, etc, and I just think it's a much more concise, well-written and effective version of the same story.
I mean, if people know the backstory to this, tell me that "The Fletcher Memorial Home" isn't one of the most emotional songs in their discog!!! | JamieTwort
12.19.12 | Might jam The Final Cut in a minute actually, it's been a while. | YoYoMancuso
12.19.12 | do it Jamie, lot of good tunes on there | demigod93
12.19.12 | 4 is too high and 11 is too low. solid list though, but sometimes i think Animals is better than WYWH | evilford
12.19.12 | heh I always think it's better. just me though, wywh seems to be more peoples' favorite | YoYoMancuso
12.19.12 | demigod: 11 is inconsistent as shit. | demigod93
12.19.12 | i dont think it has any bad songs really, some are a bit lackluster (alans psychadelic breakfast goes on for waay to long) and the title track is one of my favourite floyd songs for sure | YoYoMancuso
12.19.12 | wait did you mean 12? Alan's Psychedelic isn't on More | Inveigh
12.19.12 | this is pretty close to how I'd do it, with Meddle a little higher | londoncalling457
12.19.12 | seamus is a great song what the hell are you talking about also atom heart mother rules damn | londoncalling457
12.19.12 | props for giving obscured by clouds some praise though | YoYoMancuso
12.19.12 | the 3 songs in the middle of Atom Heart Mother are all great, but since the other 2 tracks make up more than 50% of the album it's got a low spot | londoncalling457
12.19.12 | the title track is sick imo | menawati
12.19.12 | swap 1 and 2
put Atom Heart much higher
Wall a lot lower
would be pretty close to my ranking
but good to see Final Cut high | YoYoMancuso
12.19.12 | To defend my placement of 1:
-1 and 2 are very close and both are 5's
-The keyboards were one of my favorite components of their sound
-The title track is easily in their top 5 best songs
-Gilmour's voice is utilized a lot more than on Animals | menawati
12.19.12 | don't need to defend anything mate, 1 2 3 are all really close anyway | evilford
12.19.12 | I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house, idk why I call him Gerald | demigod93
12.19.12 | i'll never forget the first time I heard Bike with my friends
never laughed so hard in my life | evilford
12.19.12 | haha yeah it's great. lots of stuff on that album is awesome. piper is downright delightfully whimsical!! teeheeeee :DDDDDDd | evilford
12.19.12 | might be the gayest thing I've ever said but w/e | Chortles
12.19.12 | a little yeah | evilford
12.19.12 | it's true so it's ok | evilford
12.19.12 | don't run away from your feelings | tommygun
12.19.12 | gilmour > waters > barrett > wright > mason
m/ | YoYoMancuso
12.19.12 | Yeah Piper is seriously great | InFiction
12.19.12 | You got 1 right. Well done. | NUCFLASH
12.20.12 | 6 is one. |
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