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Best Pink Floyd Album

Best Pink Floyd Album (studio)

  • Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

    Votes: 8 3.8%

  • Saucerful Of Secrets

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ummagumma

    Votes: 7 3.3%

  • Atom Heart Mother

    Votes: 3 1.4%

  • Meddle

    Votes: 22 10.5%

  • Obscured By Clouds

    Votes: 3 1.4%

  • Dark Side Of The Moon

    Votes: 51 24.4%

  • Wish You Were Here

    Votes: 40 19.1%

  • Animals

    Votes: 45 21.5%

  • The Wall

    Votes: 17 8.1%

  • The Final Cut

    Votes: 3 1.4%

  • A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • The Division Bell

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Hey, I just met you and this is crazy, but here's my carrots so call me Crazy Carrot Lady.

    Votes: 8 3.8%
  • Total voters
    209
#24
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.
 
#30
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.
 
#34
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.
 
#36
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.
 
#37
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.
 

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