Oh, that's right! Forgot about that, I don't listen to The Wall much. Good album, but it's not one of my favorite Floyds.
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Best Pink Floyd Album
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Oh, that's right! Forgot about that, I don't listen to The Wall much. Good album, but it's not one of my favorite Floyds.
MORE, recorded in only 1 week, killing movie also, OP forgot that... And this is a nice but underrated album
Yeah, my bad. I've never actually heard that one but, after reading through the thread, I've got to check it out.
It goes like this:
1. Animals
2. The Wall
3. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Meddle
6. Dark Side of the Moon
7. Obscured By Clouds
8. Ummagumma
9. The Final Cut
10. Everything else
1. Animals
2. The Wall
3. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Meddle
6. Dark Side of the Moon
7. Obscured By Clouds
8. Ummagumma
9. The Final Cut
10. Everything else
This is a very useful thread! My Pink Floyd Tribute performs the albums in their entirety~as sets.
We started with Animals as it's my Favorite. And did Darkside next because it's everyone else's. Just finishing Wish You Were Here (my number 2), and moving onto Meddle after that.
Everything else we're going to take selections from, because they're too hard to recreate purely as we stand now, and some maybe too much for the general audience we're performing too
Is it wrong to plug? http://youtu.be/vuG0F42vCEc
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We started with Animals as it's my Favorite. And did Darkside next because it's everyone else's. Just finishing Wish You Were Here (my number 2), and moving onto Meddle after that.
Everything else we're going to take selections from, because they're too hard to recreate purely as we stand now, and some maybe too much for the general audience we're performing too
Is it wrong to plug? http://youtu.be/vuG0F42vCEc
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unquestionably, Meddle...after listening to Echoes, back when i was in college, i was hooked on Floyd
Wish you were here is their masterpiece in my opinion. I liked Dark side of the moon a lot and Animals was pretty good. That's about it for me. I own them all, but the rest of them were "meh" at best for me. Oh, and I hated The wall with every fiber of my being.
While I love The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, i gotta say my favorite will always be Animals!
Dark Side of the Moon is simply timeless. Despite it being over-played it is their masterpiece, hands down. After that? It's a toss up for me between Animals and Wish You Were Here.
I really can't stand The Wall and I find The Final Cut pretty much unlistenable. Roger Waters needed the rest of the band, and the rest of the band needed him. Neither camp's output post-split holds a candle to what they did together.
I really can't stand The Wall and I find The Final Cut pretty much unlistenable. Roger Waters needed the rest of the band, and the rest of the band needed him. Neither camp's output post-split holds a candle to what they did together.
Yeah their sweet spot really was with Meddle, Wish You Were Here, Animals, Dark Side...when the collaboration stopped it wasn't the same Floyd.
We were never going to settle this here or now!
But for my own ha'porth: I wouldn't list The Wall as one of their best albums. I keep thinking I don't like it, but every time I put it on I realise I don't hate it as much as I thought I did. If that makes sense.
No, I'd say their best is Piper at the Gates of Dawn. I know a lot of people don't "get" it these days, but I'd say it's the album every psychedelic band of the '60s wishes they could have made. Barrett's daftness is innocent and unpretentious (unlike, say, David Bowie's "The Laughing Gnome" which just comes across as affected and sounds like a man frantically chasing a bandwagon), and the album as a whole is wonderfully whimsical but still tuneful. And Interstellar Overdrive must be one of the few examples of an early kind of space-rock pre-Hawkwind.
DSOTM is wonderful. No two ways about it. Ditto Wish You Were Here, but arguably with a different emphasis - more about the musicianship than the songwriting, perhaps. But I think there's a lot to be said for those early years, just for the sheer amount of invention that went on. Saucerful of Secrets was never going to be anyone's favourite as it stands in the shadow of Piper, but it's a fantastic album in its own right, especially for a band that has had to drum up a set of new material after their principal creative mind has had a nervous breakdown. And I can see why a lot of people voted for Meddle.
But for my own ha'porth: I wouldn't list The Wall as one of their best albums. I keep thinking I don't like it, but every time I put it on I realise I don't hate it as much as I thought I did. If that makes sense.
No, I'd say their best is Piper at the Gates of Dawn. I know a lot of people don't "get" it these days, but I'd say it's the album every psychedelic band of the '60s wishes they could have made. Barrett's daftness is innocent and unpretentious (unlike, say, David Bowie's "The Laughing Gnome" which just comes across as affected and sounds like a man frantically chasing a bandwagon), and the album as a whole is wonderfully whimsical but still tuneful. And Interstellar Overdrive must be one of the few examples of an early kind of space-rock pre-Hawkwind.
DSOTM is wonderful. No two ways about it. Ditto Wish You Were Here, but arguably with a different emphasis - more about the musicianship than the songwriting, perhaps. But I think there's a lot to be said for those early years, just for the sheer amount of invention that went on. Saucerful of Secrets was never going to be anyone's favourite as it stands in the shadow of Piper, but it's a fantastic album in its own right, especially for a band that has had to drum up a set of new material after their principal creative mind has had a nervous breakdown. And I can see why a lot of people voted for Meddle.
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Definitely NOT the Wall. Great album but I like David Gilmour's opinion of it, that it is nothing more than Roger blaming all of his problems on everybody else.
I want to say DSOTM, but I love Division Bell and Wish You Were Here just as much so I cannot really pick one, especially since they are such different albums. It is not like were are talking about AC/DC here.
Oh and Final Cut shouldn't be in the running. Seriously, take a look at the notes on the back of that record, it is a Roger Waters album feature Pink Floyd.
I want to say DSOTM, but I love Division Bell and Wish You Were Here just as much so I cannot really pick one, especially since they are such different albums. It is not like were are talking about AC/DC here.
Oh and Final Cut shouldn't be in the running. Seriously, take a look at the notes on the back of that record, it is a Roger Waters album feature Pink Floyd.
I've always been a big fan of Animals... however, lately I've been listening to the Final Cut a lot. That's that one album that I never listened to much over the years, I guess mostly because by that point the Floyd wasn't the Floyd, it was Roger Waters playing with Nick and Dave (Rick wasn't even part of the group anymore). If I remember correctly, the credits read as Roger Waters playing with Pink Floyd. The Final Cut could almost be a continuation of The Wall, but the one thing that stands out for me is the bass tone on some of the songs, especially "Not Now John". Love it.
Interesting bit of Floyd trivia...Rick Wright was actually fired from the band but re-hired back to tour The Wall as basically a session keyboardist. Because the wall was so insanely expensive the band ended up losing money on the tour, but since Rick was just on the payroll as a session guy he got paid. 
My favorite tracks on that album are Possible Pasts and A Gunner's Dream. Brilliant lyrics mated to melancholy melodies. On rare occasions, because the crowd and the mood has to be just so, I'll break them out on acoustic guitar gigs.
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand. Shown how to feel good but told to feel bad.
