Best Pink Floyd Album

[That Sustain]

As a fan of good Progressive Rock, I have to pick Animals.

[BassPlayer900]

I have no idea! Meddle is really awesome though.

[Solarmist]

I remember doing acid way back when, and listing to Ummagumma.

My second choice would be Meddle, third would be Relics. This is a really hard choice.

[MRuss]

When I was a teenager DSOM blew my mind. Today I think it's their magnum opus with Animals and Meddle a close second and third. DSOM is just great. I love all the subtle slide guitar work going on here and there. Time to me is has the greatest guitar solo of all time. Money and Speak to me/Breathe were the first bass lines I ever learned.


Wish you were is also great.

[bassinplace]

Tough call for me between Wish You Were Here and Animals. I've gotta give it to Wish You Were Here though, just by a hair.

[Junk420]

Every album is amazing in its own way.

[Sequimite]

Originally Posted by Solarmist

I remember doing acid way back when, and listing to Ummagumma.

Using headphones was the way we did it.

[Basshappi]

"Wish You Were Here" is my fave followed closely by "Animals" and DSOTM.

[thebeerleader]

I had to go with Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Although there were about 5 other contenders, it was the one that got the ball rolling. Barret was in a league of his own.

[D.M.N.]

1)Animals
2)Dark Side
3)Wish You Were Here

Oddly enough, one of my favorite Floyd tunes is The Gold It's In... I know it's not very Floyd-y, but it's just so damn upbeat and catchy.

But honestly, I can get ripped and put on any album up to The Wall and be perfectly content for a good long while.

[Hobobob]

For me, it's Animals followed by Wish You Were Here and Division Bell. Yes, Division Bell. Fight me. I also think Gilmour's On An Island stands next to any PF.

[basskidd]

Originally Posted by Junk420

Every album is amazing in its own way.

^ This.

But, having to choose one, I'd say Meddle. The tune 'Echoes' is a goddamn symphony and it blows my mind every time I hear it.

Very close second would be The Final Cut, third would be The Division Bell

Did anyone hear More? It was another soundtrack they did; some really cool tunes on that one as well

[dumelow]

all of them are brilliant

[Bob_Ross]

It's really difficult for me to be objective because there was so much cultural baggage surrounding Pink Floyd when I was growing up...I find it hard to listen to any of the post-DSOTM albums without associating them with the ignorant yahoos who would cruise around my high school parking lot smoking cigarettes and proudly flaunting their disdain for intellect while cranking Animals or Wish You Were Here on their Alpine car stereos...

I know, I know, that's my problem.

Likewise, it's difficult for me to be objective about how good DSOTM really is because I discovered it at a point in my life & my musical development when I was primed to be blown away by that sort of large-scale concept album. Plus clearly it's affected millions of other listeners, and it's hard to separate that cultural impact from the actual music.

So again, I'm probably not being very objective. Duh, what else is new?

But fwiw I think everything they did prior to DSOTM was interesting & got increasingly so, up until DSOTM which was the absolute zenith of their career...and then everything subsequent sounds to me like they just kept trying to write DSOTM2: The Sequel.




Though I did kinda dig the album that Tony Levin played on.

[SunnBass]

For me, after Syd Barret leaves, Pink Floyd no longer exists.

[GBassNorth]

For sound track quality and overall flow of one song into the next I'd have to put "Wish You Were Here" at the top of the LP list vs any other album I've ever heard. If you listen to this LP with top notch headphones and a top notch turn table and tube amps you dont need drugs. Of course the CD version sounds great as well. I need to find a fresh LP of Ummagumma and see how it rates.
For a great album with a lot of great singles on it DSOM is right up there as well.

[sigmafloyd]

Echoes - Live at Pompeii

then

1) Meddle
2) Obscured by Clouds
3) Animals

The Wall is my least favorite floyd album after Final Cut.

My favorite period is right up before they recorded DSOTM. I used to like the post-darkside stuff more as an angsty teenager, but they don't do much for me now that I'm old (30)

Honorable mention to Atom Heart Mother, just cause it's been my avatar for the last year.

[theretheyare]

Originally Posted by thebeerleader

I had to go with Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

+1. Love the daftness of those Barrett tunes. Followed by Ummegamma (great Barrett without Barrett) > The Wall (for sentimental reasons/aka growing up with it > Dark side of the moon

[MysticMichael]

Originally Posted by ffutterman

So we're going to settle this here and now:

No we're not, dude. No we're not...

MM

[lokikallas]

Animals. The lyrics are among the best ever written.