Ranking Pink Floyd's Albums Worst to Best
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The final installment of Pink Floyd Album Reviews, JT Curtis ranks their studio albums +1 from worst to best. Which album will be number one?
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Pink Floyd is without a doubt one of the greatest classic rock bands of all time. They began in the 60s with Roger Waters on bass, Nick Mason on drums, Richard Wright on organ and Syd Barrett on lead guitar and vocals. Syd was the band's leader and chief songwriter in the early days, penning their first singles Arnold Layne and See Emily Play. This would lead to the release of their 1967 album Piper at the Gates of Dawn, featuring classics like Astronomy Domine, Flaming, Bike and the epic psychedelic instrumental Interstellar Overdrive. Their live shows were equally inventive incorporating unique light shows. However due to Syd's intake of LSD mixed with a breakdown involving schizophrenia, he would gradually be pushed out of the band he fronted, being replaced with David Gilmour on guitar. This would become Pink Floyd's classic lineup with Roger taking more of a songwriter role, including the song Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun which would appear on their 1968 album A Saucerful of Secrets. The album was the only to feature all five band members and Syd's final composition with Floyd, Jugband Blues. Through albums like the soundtrack to More and the experimental Ummagumma, Pink Floyd was still finding their voice, focusing more on albums rather than singles, but still producing an occasional classic like Careful with that Axe Eugene. In 1970, Atom Heart Mother proved to be a success with the 23 minute instrumental and featuring Dave's song Fat Old Sun. 1971's Meddle would turn out to be an important staple for the band with the rocking opener One of these Days I'm Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces, featuring a rare spoken vocal by Nick, Roger's echoing bass line and Dave's Slide Guitar. The flip side, another 23 minute piece, Echoes, featuring Dave and Rick on vocals, is often regarded as Progressive Rock's finest moment, from the opening ping of Rick's leslie piano. They would also perform both these songs along with earlier classics Live at Pompeii. The Obscured by Clouds soundtrack appeared in 1972 with tracks like Burning Bridges and Free Four. However 1973's Dark Side of the Moon would become one of the most successful albums of all time, staying on the charts for nearly 13 years and still a best seller today. Roger's lyrics dealt with the evils of society driving one to madness, while the music was nearly one entire inter-connected piece (making it difficult to separate for a playlist or a best of / greatest hits compilation). Still standouts like Money, Time and Great Gig in the Sky are favorites among fans. Their 1975 followup Wish You Were Here, featuring the opening and closing piece Shine On You Crazy Diamond (a tribute to Syd Barrett who even showed up at the sessions), is thought to be equally great, if not greater, as Dark Side. But tensions between the band were beginning to rear their head. 1977 saw the release of Animals, likening three animals: Dogs, Sheep and Pigs to various classes of society. Roger became the band's main frontman and sole songwriter with Dave occasionally sharing the mic and writing credits. Tensions grew during the tour when Roger ended up spitting on a fan in Montreal and coming up with the idea for The Wall to separate himself from the audience. 1979 would see the release of The Wall, the album and later the tour and film. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 became their best selling single and Comfortably Numb remains one of their most popular tunes. But it nearly broke up the band as Roger fired Rick for lack of output, creating a greater rift between him and Dave. 1983's The Final Cut was Roger's final album with Pink Floyd before he officially left, leaving Dave and Nick to reunite with Rick for 1987's Momentary Lapse of Reason, featuring the song Learning to Fly. Roger sued to break up the band, but failed to do so instead focusing on his solo career. The Gilmour led Floyd would produce 1994's The Division Bell, a return to form for many fans with Rick now sharing vocal and songwriting duties again. Songs included Take it Back, Coming Back to Life, Keep Talking and High Hopes. It wasn't until 2005's Live 8 concert when Dave, Nick and Rick reunited with Roger for a short set giving closure for many fans. Syd never performed with Pink Floyd again and died in 2006. Rick died in 2008. The album The Endless River was dedicated in his honor. Pink Floyd's legacy has continued to inspire fans and aspiring musicians, myself included. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Before you leave a comment on how "Wrong" I am about The Final Cut, considering watching my full review on it:
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You're welcome to comment on your love for the album, but respect that other people might have a different musical opinion than you do. Thank you.
What do I post to something that I DID
NOT understand??
I’ve watched it… you’re STILL wrong….
@@donrumgay5200 Then explain why you love the album.
JT, some of us would love you even if you tore up Dark Side and praised Final Cut over it. But we’d laugh like crazy and leave snide comments!
It’s ok. Final Cut was low on my overlong list!
You aren’t wrong by any means and your critiques are fair to me.
I really loved the series, and even if our opinions differ on some albums, it's always good to see someone who's passionate for the material explain how they feel about it in a thoughtful and entertaining way.
Plus, as a fellow Obscured by Clouds enjoyer, I'm glad to see it get its due.
Thank you Vinny! Glad we got to connect through our love of Pink Floyd. Feel free to reach out to me again if you want to collab on something.
Wonderful to see Vinny appreciate OBC 🙌
@@JTCurtisMusic you got Vincent E Sauce to leave a few comments. That's an accomplishment.
@@JTCurtisMusic
I too wanted to comment how great it was to see you respect what made some people resonate with just about every album.
I mentioned I love Endless River and is in my personal top 10(I used to say top 5) because it was the first time I just listened to Pink Floyd with the full attention and took in what kind of musical atmospheres they have to offer.
Before that I knew of the band and had nothing against them but never really payed enough attention to appreciate what Money, Another Brick in the Wall, or Wish You Were Here had to offer because I mostly only heard them in public places where I wasn't that focused on the background music. Especially knowing nothing about the band or their music career journey. I've grown to love all of those songs though. Time and Comfortably Numb were the first few songs that made me curious to check them out.
Since you didn't mention many people that love The Endless River or that perspective, I was wondering if you've stumbled upon many other fans online or in person who rank it as highly as I do?
To further elaborate what it means to me, it was introduced to me through a good friend who's been a huge fan his whole life and he and I listened to The Endless River CD on repeat when it released in 2014, so as of this year in November, it'll be 10 years that I've been a huge fan of the band
omg the vincent
depending on where in my life i was, the album list changed, BUT Animals is by far the Pinnacle of the Floyd. IMHO
Love Animals too. My favorite ❤ just raw and full of emotions. Simply amazing
Underrated, tbh
Animals and DSOTM rotate as the best Floyd album for me.
Regardless of how my taste or mood changes, Animals is a go to. It is a winding journey that checks every box, every time. In fact, some of my favorite live performances have been other bands covering the whole album or a song from it, e.g. Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade @ House of Blues in Vegas 9/22/02 (it was an aftershow following Phish @ Thomas and Mack Center)
I saw Pink Floyd play “Animals” and “Wish You Were Here” in their entirety, one after the other, (with “Money” as an encore) in 1977 as a 17 yr old, tripping out of my skull!
And all for £3.50!
So “Animals” is my go-to Floyd LP! After that it was a rapid decline with “The Wall”….that was so disappointing that album, especially after seeing them in their prime and expecting so much. There’s at least 6 classic tunes on there, but the rest is just filler. It was the pointer to the direction they’d take under Waters’ dictatorship.
the wall being that low is insanity
One of the things I always tend to think is that the studio record is not complete. I only listen to the live version, with "What shall we do now" and "last few bricks". That's one of the reasons that makes me feel like it's not a top 5.
I would put it even lower. It was Roger at his most vitriolic which made it suffer, IMO.
@@joeking433 The Wall at #8 Sorry but for me only I'd rank it at #1 !!
@@MrManfly What songs are any good on it besides Comfortably Numb and Another Brick in the Wall? The rest of the songs are just Roger's typical complaining and self centered whining.
@@joeking433 In The Flesh, Mother, Young Lust, Goodbye Blue Sky, Hey You, Run Like Hell....need more?
To me, both The Final Cut and The Division Bell are underrated and among my very favourite Pink Floyd albums.
The division bell is t underrated. Many people know how amazing that album is. Too me it’s in their top 2.
The final cut is musically sub par. Roger Waters shouldn’t have been allowed to “sing”.
Final Cut imo is better than division bell and momentary lapse, not a fan of those albums but I do like songs on them. Many Individual songs are better than the ones on Final Cut when I think about it but overall for albums I put them after Final Cut because it’s clear to me there’s something missing. If the better songs of the two were put into one I’d say that album is definitely better than Final Cut but with the overall product the albums don’t feel as enjoyable, emotional or meaningful to me.
Edit: I do like Division Bell and think sonically it’s better, and has some better aspects
@ole5452 Agree. A band can't lose a major talent like Waters and not be negatively impacted in a big way. Without him the band lost much of its depth and edge. Like if The Beatles had lost Lennon.
@@bookhouseboy280 Gilmour's best work also happened when Roger was around. It was like he lost the fire to be creative with his guitar after
Roger left. But, they were both better when collaborating with each other, as much as they hated each other.
Meddle is the best Pink Floyd record for me. It has been in my life for such a long time. I used to have a dream as a kid that would recur every once in a while and there was music set to the dream. The dream was quite beautiful and has many layers to it that I’m still unraveling to this day. It wasn’t until middle school that I started getting heavily into music of new and old and Pink Floyd was a band that I would often hear of. DSOTM was an obvious starting point and I worked my up from there chronologically and loved what I was hearing. It wasn’t until my uncle showed me fearless that I became interested in meddle. I remember listening to the first side of the meddle liking it quite a lot and then when side two came on and echos played, I realized it had been the music from my dream. I couldn’t believe it and since then it has basically become the theme of my life. I’ve loved this series and I can’t wait for whatever comes next!!
😍👍
Echoes is an awesome song. Always liked closing my eyes outside and relaxing to that masterpiece.
Right with you.. Meddle rules!! only PF album I have on vinyl teeeheee
Dude, you’re the first person that’s made any sense in this list. Personally, I hated dark side of the moon, black soul, singers, and saxophone players with Pink Floyd horrors. That’s pure heresy, but medal was a great LP - if I were you, I’d check out soundtrack to MORE and saucerful of secrets those were great albums all these clowns that like brick in the wall and all this nonsense, they have no idea what good Pink Floyd music is
Great ranking, here's mine :
1. Dark Side Of The Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Animals
4. Meddle
5. Obscured By Clouds
6. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
7. The Wall
8. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
9. The Division Bell
10. A Saucerful Of Secrets
11. The Final Cut
12. Ummagumma
13. The Endless River
14. Atom Heart Mother
15. More
Your Top 4 is the same as mine
@@Chapps1941 Awesome!🤘
Here’s my ranking (for the ones I’ve heard):
1. Wish You Were Here
2. Darkside
3. The Wall
4. Meddle
5. Animals
6. Piper
7. Division bell
8. Obscured by clouds
9. Atom Heart Mother
1. The dark side of the moon
2. The Wall
3. Animals
4. Meddle
5. Wish you were here
6. The Division Bell
7. Saucerfull of secrets
8. Atom heart Mother
1 Animals
2 dsotm
3 the wall
4 The division bell
4 meddle
5 wish you were
I like this ranking
1. The Wall
2. Animals
3. Dark Side Of The Moon
4. Meddle
5. Division Bell
6. Wish You Were Here
7. Atom Heart Mother
The final cut always get a bad rep. Its not as bad as it is. You have to be in the right mood to listen to the album. Its an experience. You just cant hold expectations, thinking its the next dark side of the moon
Honestly, I was shocked with such a harsh take on "The Final Cut". Even if you don't like the album as a whole, there are so many amaaazingly sounding songs. The prodution is amazing, I actually think that Roger's voice is very emotional and personal and MAAAN, the solos, this album contains some of the most heart-wrenching Gilmour's solos ever. "Your Possible Pasts", "The Final Cut", "The Fletcher Memorial Home", "Not Now John", these solos are piercing. Especially the title track, it's such a gargantuanly underrated song ;___; I honestly don't get it, even if one finds the album as a whole lacking, it's DEFINITELY doesn't deserve such a bad rating imo
The Final Cut was all Roger at his worst. Even Roger's solo albums were better.
@@pinkraven4402 People didn't like it because it was ALL Roger and the rest of the band didn't even really do much on it or like it.
@@joeking433 How can you listen to the title track and say that ;_;
@@pinkraven4402 The Final Cut was abysmal as well as being the worst selling PF album of all time. It's Roger at his nastiest.
Division Bell above The Wall is a very brave thing to say! However, thanks for sharing the impact it had on you, music can often be the biggest support in the hardest times.
I concur. Of course The Wall has some incredible songs and lyrics but is too bloated and self indulgent. The Division Bell is incredible. The Nile Song rocks, btw.
The Wall is the least album that gets played for me. Although, when I was younger, I did play it often.
The Wall was too much Roger to make it an exceptional album. Division Bell was all Dave and better than the Wall, IMO.
The Division Bell has High Hopes, one of the best songs Floyd ever produced as a band.
@@OrtadragoonX It's up there with the best, that's true.
My top 5:
1. The Wall
2. Wish You Were Here
3. The Dark Side Of The Moon
4. Animals
5. The Division Bell
The Wall has probably always been my favorite, Wish You Were Here is a close second. Also in the past few months I've been really getting into The Division Bell.
Change number 5 to Momentary Lapse of Reason and then we agree.
Mine's completely the same, although sometimes I have The Division Bell above Animals.
And I've been feeling in the same as you a short time ago. The Division Bell has grown very beautifully on me lately (in fact, High Hopes was my introduction to Pink Floyd). The Wall is my favorite album of all time, and Wish You Were Here has always been a close second.
@@dradoslavovv7419 The Division Bell and Animals can switch for me too sometimes. Poles Apart is my favorite track from Division Bell whereas Animals, it switches between Dogs and Sheep.
I should also add my favorite PF tracks are The Trial and Nile Song.
My favourites:
1) wish you were here
2) pipers
3) animals
4) meddle
5) dark side
Great series!! Thank you so much ❤
28 videos!
Your body of work is amazing, JT.
Thank you for doing this.
It's here ❤
0:57 19:44 Look Gary, there I am!
But seriously, I loved every review. It was fun to go through and to have all the albums laid out in such a fun way for me, and it even got me to reconnect and to appreciate albums I'd given the boot before. Since this series has started, I even went out of my way to get every single album on vinyl. Yes, even Ummagumma.
I have a lot of fun stories to tell about how Pink Floyd got me through difficult (or incredible) times, but the one experience I have the fondest memories of was when my mom offered to take me to Dark Side's 50th anniversary show at our local planetarium this past November. Having been born in '98, being far too young to properly experience them live, this was about as close as I could get to going to a live show, so I went. And it was magical. Even if it was just the album with visuals made by the Floyd's theatrical team, it was still such a mesmerizing experience. By the end, as Eclipse was hitting its final peaks, I was in actual tears. I had to compose myself in the bathroom for like 5 minutes lol.
This was a fantastic series, JT. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you. ❤
😂 me too 😂
So grateful for this series 🙏🙏 made me feel like rediscovering Pink Floyd again, thank you
Just want to say I’m glad I’ve been a fan since ur first pf review and I couldn’t more with everything you’ve said so far. Well done 👍🏼 🎉
I love this ranking and I love that you included Live At Pompeii, which I’ve never thought to include in my own rankings. If I were to include that it would be easily a top 5 Floyd album. I’m currently writing a ranking of every Floyd song on my iPhone notes app, it’s really opening my eyes to some of the songs I’ve heard less and is making me rethink my opinions on some. I’d love to see you do a Floyd song ranking, although it’s such a difficult piece of work
The thing about PF's music is that the sum is better than the parts. The songs on Dark Side aren't as monumental as the whole album!
Can't tell you enough how much I loved watching your journey through Pink Floyd's discography and seeing someone else so passionate to talk about my favorite band! Dark Side has to be my favorite album of all time too. For certain albums I can pinpoint the exact time I listened to that album and could tell you what I was doing. For Dark Side, it's hard to remember the first time I listened to it. For me, the album always seemed to be there and I guess it just has always been my favorite album for as long as I can remember. And I doubt that will ever change.
Can't wait to see what you do next with the channel! Please cover David Bowie's albums next! lol. Whatever you do next I'm sure will be great(:
Also, I idolize your hairstyle and hope to look as cool some day. What would you call your hairstyle?
I did a JTC Playlist of Bowie's albums if you want to check it out.
"What would you call your hairstyle?"
Arthur.
1. The Wall
2. Animals
3. Wish You Were Here
4. The Dark Side of The Moon
5. The Division Bell
6. The Final Cut
7. Meddle
8. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
9. Atom Heart Mother
10. Obscured By Clouds
11. More
12. The Endless River
13. A Saucerful of Secrets
14. The Piper at The Gates of Dawn
15. Ummagumma
1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Animals
4. The Wall
5. Meddle
6. Obscured by Clouds
7.Atom Heart Mother
8. Division Bell
9.Ummagumma (side 1)
10. Piper at the Gates
11 Momentary lapse of Reason
12. Saucer Full of Secrets
13. More
14. Endless River
15. Final Cut
I have noticed that the younger listeners are less likely to "get" the earlier stuff, especially with Syd. Atom Heart is my fave, but I was out of my head when I first heard it. That really does give early Floyd its hidden backing track.
I was born in the 50's and the early albums sucked, IMO. Even Dave said he was glad to get out of that "psychedelic noodling", as he considered the early stuff. DSOTM was light years better and sold way better, too, for a reason!
I'm 1955 vintage, I love most Pink Floyd. I didn't really "get" Syd until after Wish you were here. Shine on made me go back and listen to the Syd era, and then I got it.
Atom heart the track did it for me when I first heard it in about '70, but like I said I was on an acid trip at the time.
@@robbiecox I listened to it and all I can say is that the best thing that ever happened to the band was finding Dave Gilmour and losing Syd Barrett!
I love your review! I find myself agreeing with you on a lot of your choices; and yes, the division bell is SOOOOO underrated
Amazing how it took almost two years to finish these reviews it must be a relief to finally be done
My Top 5:
1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. The Division Bell
3. The Wall
4. Meddle
5. Animals
I was a hip-hop fan and I never listened those "rock" songs. But, my friend told me about Pink Floyd, I gave it a shot and holy shit. Right now I'm in love with that guitar sounds. My personal favorite is The Division Bell. Honestly, I don't care about lyrics that much, I just wanna feel in peace while listening. The Divison Bell's guitar solos, Wright's excallent touches makes this album best, for me.
Please also do a top 30 songs by Pink Floyd. Lets keep on the Pink Floyd train. We aren't finished yet with this series 😊
Man, what a journey. Congratulations, JT.
Ummana gummana caught me so off guard 😂😂😂😂😂
'piper at the gates of dawn' is,was and will always be a masterpiece
A barker's dozen:
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (not forgetting the wonderful non-album Syd singles) - The black and green scarecrow is sadder than me / But now he's resigned to his fate / 'Cause life's not unkind - he doesn't mind -- There is no Dark Side of the Moon, really
2. The Wall - Hey you, dont help them to bury the light / Don't give in without a fight
3. Wish You Were Here - Remember when you were young / You shone like the sun...
4. Meddle - Strangers passing in the street / By chance two separate glances meet / And I am you and what I see is me
5. Animals - Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise / If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?
6. The Final Cut - And if I show you my dark side / Will you still hold me tonight? And if I open my heart to you / And show you my weak side / What would you do?
7. A Saucerful of Secrets - Witness the man who raves at the wall / Making the shape of his questions to Heaven... Set the controls for the heart of the sun
8. The Division Bell - I took a heavenly ride through our silence / I knew the moment had arrived / For killing the past and coming back to life
9. Obscured by Clouds - You are the angel of death / And I am the dead man's son / And he was buried like a mole in a fox hole / And everyone is still On the Run
10. Atom Heart Mother - If I were a good man, I'd talk with you more often than I do
11. More - On a trip to Cirrus Minor / Saw a crater in the Sun / A thousand miles of moonlight later
Love the inclusion of those incredible lyrics.
1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Atom Heart Mother
4. Piper At the Gates of Dawn
5. Meddle
6. Animals
7. Obscured by Clouds
8. The Wall
9. The Division Bell
10. A Saucerful of Secrets
11. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
12. The Endless River
13. The Final Cut
14. More
15. Ummagumma
1-7 Perfect
8-9 Solid
10-11 Good
12 Meh
13-15 Horrible
Controversial opinion about 3, but Atom Heart Mother is such a fantastic album! The album that started the 70s with a bang. The title track on side 1 may be almost 25 minutes long, but it's such a masterpiece! If, Summer of 68 and Fat Old Song are fantastic songs. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast is an interesting track but different for what it is.
I decided to put Piper at 4 because I have some of my favorite songs off that album. Astronomy Domine, Lucifer Sam, Pow R. Toc H., Interstellar Overdrive and Bike are the highlights for Piper. Such a fantastic album. Some debut albums are very good and are high on a lot of people's different lists, but they were get better with their sound later on. Ranking 5 & 6 was very hard for me because Animals is a fantastic album and it's awesome. However I do agree with you Meddles is a fantastic album! It definitely was perfect and Pink Floyd going the right direction. I actually didn't mind the dog song at all. I might be biased because I have dogs for pets and I love my dogs. I do agree with you on The Wall. It's got a ton of great songs, but there is some filler and it could not be higher than 8. The Division Bell is at 9 only because I love the other 8 more. I gave more credit to Piper than you because some of the highs were so good that I put it as high as 4. I gave A Saucerful of Secrets higher than you at 10 only because the lower albums are either bad or are just solo albums from Gilmour and Waters. The Final Cut is not that great really. And I had the soundtrack album More low because it's a soundtrack album. But I agree about Ummagumma being bad. It's awful and I can't blame the members for saying it's awful. My list might get me controversy too, but ranking albums is tough for so many bands. It's a tough task, but I'm glad you did Pink Floyd albums ranked.
Atom heart mother is so underrated
Mine is:
1) wish you were here
2) pipers at the gates of dawn
3) animals
4) meddle
5) dark side of the moon
I’ve always found it interesting how Final Cut is either absolutely LOVED, or absolutely HATED
I LOVE it, the music is beautiful, the lyrics are beautiful, Rog’s voice is so strong here, all of it is honestly perfect for me.. yet, others will say the music is boring and repetitive, or that his voice is grating. I *guess* I can see their point, but idk, I personally love the album so much
I was surprised at how low Saucerful was honestly, I really like that album but I agree the mixing is crap
Solid list, though. I respect it 🤘
(ANIMALS UNDERRATED TBH‼️)
I despised it. You must like Roger's solo stuff, right?
@@joeking433 Pros and Cons is good. KAOS is gooder. Amused to Death is a great concept but too long. Is This The Life blahblahblah is a DRAG and boring. DSOTM Redux aint bad
@@joeking433 Also, why did you despise it if you dont mind me asking?
@@sq1tl I can't stand Roger's crap attitude that comes out in his music.
@@joeking433 ..could you be a bit more specific? I don’t see this “crap attitude”
1. DSOTM
2. WUWH
3. SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS
4. ATOM HEART MOTHER
5. MEDDLE
6. PATGOD
7. ANIMALS
8. THE WALL
9. MORE
10. FINAL CUT
11. UMMAGUMMA
12. OBSCURED BY CLOUDS
13. DIVISION BELL
14. ENDLESS RIVER
15. AMLOR
Not including Live at Pompeii, although it would place around top 3.
For me, the top 5 would easily be:
1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Animals
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Momentarily Lapse of Reason (the re-recorded version)
5. Meddle
You are the only Floydian on YT whose ranking of PF's incredible catalogue almost perfectly summed up my exact same sentiments and thots we've basically have the same rankings! For real, bro. even with the inclusion of the Live at Pompeii (a cheat, but whatever lol, can't deny its power and absolute "must"-ness for any true PF fan. Also on the subject of "lives", I'd rather have "Delicate Sound..." listed over "MLoR" coz the live rendition is faaaaaar superior than the flat studio version of Turning Away, Learning to Fly, and Yet Another Movie)!
With the minor exceptions ofc: DB is within my top 5 (#4-5) on my list, AHM makes it on my 7th (if only for the strength of the groundbreaking suite which had grown on me after a few more listens, album-fillers be damned lol), the Syd Barret-era not much to my liking, and the overrated Wall too morbidly self-engrossed and whiny, making it only slightly above another whiny Waters opus, "Final Cut (which I consider the 3rd LP in the already-overly lengthy "The Wall); Wall can go #10, MLoR/DB #8. The rest are pretty much spot on.
Subbing.
That all seems perfectly reasonable to me. Thanks for the sub!
Got into Floyd because my girlfriend at the time, 1981, had The Wall amongst her collection of MOR pop stuff. Still don't know why she had that outlier but grateful she played it for me.
Loved your reviews. You made me hear things I hadn't heard in 40 years of listening to Floyd. That's the greatest gift any criticism should give. Thanks so much.
Here’s my ranking imo:
1. Dark Side Of the Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. The Wall
4. Animals
5. Meddle
6. The Division Bell
7. The Final Cut
8. Atom Heart Mother
9. Obscured By Clouds
10. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
11. A Saucerful of Secrets
12. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
13. More
14. Endless River
15. Ummagumma
Great series, I enjoyed following it for the past 2 years, and can’t wait to see what you do next.
Good list but I would put The Wall 6th.
This series was excellent!
I'm kinda hoping you'll take a look at the albums of Wings or John Lennon, but I suppose it'll have to wait. Definitely excited for the Queen reviews.
Followed this series from the beginning, great finale JT!
Here’s my personal opinions:
1. Wish You Were Here
2. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3. Atom Heart Mother
4. Meddle
5. Animals
6. Dark Side of the Moon
7. Saucerful of Secrets
8. The Wall
9. Obscured by Clouds
10. The Division Bell
11. More
12. Ummagumma
13. The Endless River
14. Momentary Lapse of Reason
15. The Final Cut
If you couldn’t tell, my favourite era is Pre Dark Side lol. If I had to throw Pompeii in there, it would be between Atom Heart Mother and Meddle.
Live at Pompeii is one of the greatest Pink Floyd films of all. Yes, it’s better than pulse and delicate sounds of thunder live at Pompeii is just a masterpiece
1. Wish you were here
2. Animals
3. The Division Bell
4. The Wall
5. Dark Side of the moon
6. Meddle
7. Obscured by clouds
8. Atom heart mother
9. Piper at the gates of down
10. A momentary lapse of reason
11. Final Cut
12. A saucerful of secrets
13. The endless river
14. More
15. Ummagumma
I will preface that the top 5 are my untouchable albums they could litterally be in any order and it would be fine to be but wish you were here helped me through a really rough time in my life a helped bring me back to reality keeping me grounded. My division bell ranking is definitely controversial to some however I want by it being amazing and definitely along with wish you were here it would be the other Pink Floyd album I would take to the Desert Island because every time I listen to it I find something new would be a lyric that speaks to me or a piece of instrumental I didn’t quite catch before but it is so well made that the less slick lyric write makes up for an incredible bunch of songs with not one skip for me the top 5 has no skip songs for me
Same top 6 albums of most PF fans. I would order them differently but you picked the best top 6 albums.
My ranking:
1. Dark side
2. Wish you were here
3. The wall
4. Meddle
5. Animals
6. Atom heart mother
7. Division bell
8. Momentary lapse of reason
9. Saucerful of secrets
10. Obscured by clouds
11. Piper
12. More
13. The final cut
14. Endless river
15. Ummagumma
Thank you for the series JT! It was wonderful going through the Floyd's catalogue in tandem with your reviews. I thank you for getting me hooked on the Division Bell!
My ranking (which is is correct and mine) is:
15: Ummagumma (Nonsense album boogaloo)
14: The Final Cut (AND HOLD ON TO THE DREAAAAMMMM)
13: More (The best song is Party Sequence you cowards.)
12: A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Is it just me or does this record feel like they're replicating Dire Straits Brothers In Arms album?)
11: Saucerful of Secrets (Jugband Blues is very hard to listen to, regarding Syd's condition.)
10: The Endless River (First floyd album I remember being released! Purchased on release day!)
9. Atom Heart Mother (This album made a cameo in a Clockwork Orange in the record shop!)
8. Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Syd is incredibly talented, he deserved to be so much more.)
7. The Wall (Brilliant concept, but I prefer the Live recordings and even JT's alternative mix!)
6. Animals (Incredible album, STONE, STONE, STONE...)
5. The Division Bell (Wearing The Inside Out got me through hard times recently.)
4. Dark Side of the Moon (First Floyd record I listened to, it's genuinely perfect. Thanks Mum.)
3. Meddle (PING and whale noises make a 20 minute track brilliant!)
2. Obscured By Clouds (While not a concept album, I believe this album stands with Meddle being a keystone in the band's musical development. Very chill and easy album I love.)
1. Wish You Were Here (The fact Pink Floyd released this as the follow up to Dark Side of the Moon is just insane. My pick for greatest follow up album of all time.)
Also - check out Biding My Time from Relics. Criminal it's not on any of the albums!
Thanks for reading and hope to see your next video soon!
This is an amazing review. You can tell it is made by a true fan.
“Quiet desperation” might be the English way, but it’s actually a quote from American Henry David Thoreau.
16. Ummagumma
15. Final Cut
14. More
13. Atom Heart Mother
12. Saucerful of Secrets
11. Endless River
10. Momentary Lapse of Reason
9. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8. Obscured by Clouds
7. Animals
6. Meddle
5. The Wall
4. Live at Pompeii
3. Division Bell
2. Wish You Were Here
1. Dark Side of the Moon
Wow that was interesting . I loved your insight on one of the best bands of all time. I’m a bigger fan than i can imagine of Floyd. I only know one person who loves Floyd more than me, being my best friend/my sisters husband. And just behind me is my mom who is 70 yrs old and tells me story’s of dropping 3 way window pane and listening to DSOTM when it first came out. Truly life changing music . Thanks man
First of all, I have truly loved your series going over all of Pink Floyds work. They have been my favorite band since I first listen to Dark Side of the Moon when I was a teenager in the mid-1980s. People have asked me what my favorite Floyd album is and I just can't answer that question, because it has varied over my life. I do have a top 5 though. It is (in order of release date) Meddle, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall.
On a side note, not sure if you are a Queen fan, but ever thought of doing a series of videos on their work? :)
I was introduced to Pink Floyd while in college. My roommate had an áudio cassette of The Final Cut and would play It 24/7.
IT remains one of my favorite PF álbums to this day.
What can I say? I loved the video, JT. I loved your series. I also liked Obscured By Clouds was rated high. Somebody told me “You actually like that album?” To that person, may I say tongue firmly in cheek, excuse me. Pink Floyd didn’t count until Dark Side! Here’s my list. I rambled too much as many of you will soon find out! But it’s not right or wrong- just my opinion!
Bottom to top:
Ummagumma (I find it hard to believe I would listen to Several Species more than once. However, I would put it on to get rid of annoying guests!)To be fair, Sisyphus and The Narrow Way are tolerable.
The Fjnal Cut- The Gunner’s Dream is tear jerking and the title cut is moving. The only other song I like is 2 Suns. We get it, Roger. Nice guys don’t have your lyrical flair.
More- I love The Nile Song and there’s a magical blues song More Blues. A Spanish Piece has nice Spanish picking but I can do without the bad accent. Quicksilver is too long! Cymbeline and Green Is The Colour are also good. Most of the rest is forgettable.
If I weren’t so video camera shy, I could’ve made this a great video! Or at least interesting!
Momentary Lapse- nice to have the Floyd back. Turning Away is one of the best and Learning To Fly Is one of the most interesting.
A Suscerful- I guess I like this better than you, JT. Set The Controls and Remember A Day I like best. The title cut is moody. Syd closes with Jugsband Blues
Atom Heart Mother- I remember being disappointed with the title song when I 1st heard it. I’d probably like it more at 10 minutes. Summer 68 and Fat Old Sun are highlights. Psychedelic Breakfast is like a 3 song medley with some goofy narration.
Endless River/ The instrumental album which name I forgot! Great mood music!
Piper At The Gates- Syd was a brilliant songwriter with Astronomy Domine and The Gnome. Too bad he went off the deep end. Bike is cute and that’s it!
Divison Bell- More of a Floyd album than Momentary Lapse. High Hopes sums up Floyd’s career. Gilmour seems to vent his frustration with Waterson What Do You Want From Me.
Starting to get difficult.
I like The Wall better than you did. And it came out before I had issues with authority and isolation.
Meddle- One Of These Days, Fearless and of course Echoes are all amazing. St. Tropez has some nice bossa nova jazz.
Obscured By Clouds- Childhood’s End, Wots Uh The Deal and Waters’ Beatleesque Free Four
Animals- Pigs and Sheep sealed the deal for me
Wish You Were Here- not a dull moment. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a masterpiece. Wish You Were Here is a perfect song for anyone you miss. Welcome To The Machine and Have A Cigar are wry accounts on how fab it is to be a rock star!
Dark Side- perfection that not even Waters can appreciate. The Dark Spite he put out last year proves it. Money, Time, Brain Damage, Great Gig, yes even On The Run and a finale like Eclipse.
Ok, that was a little too long. And normally, I’d be called away as to why I rated these as I did. But I could change my mind about some. And since I have the perfect voice for written word, there it is!
I really loved this series, you showed some perspectives about the albums that I never thought about, The Wall is still my personal favourite but I really like hearing some of your more unpopular opinions
Here's my Pink Floyd's favorite albums list:
15. Ummagumma
14. The Final Cut
13. The Endless River
12. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
11. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
10. A Saucerful of Secrets
9. More
8. Atom Heart Mother
7. Obscured by Clouds
6. The Division Bell
5. Meddle
4. Animals
3. The Wall
2. The Dark Side of the Moon
1. Wish You Were Here
My Ranking Would Be
1 Meddle
2 Wish You Were Here
3 Live At Pompeii
4 Dark Side Of The Moon
5 Animals
6 Obscured By Clouds
7 Atom Heart Mother
8 A Saucerful Of Secrets
9 More
10 The Division Bell
11 The Wall
12 The Final Cut
13 Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
14 UmmaGumma
15 A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
16 The Endless River
My Top 10 Pink Floyd Albums
1. The Wall
2. Animals
3. Dark Side Of The Moon
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Meddle
6. The Final Cut
7. The Division Bell
8. Momentary Lapse Of Reason
9. Obscured By Clouds
10. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
15. Endless river
14. Piper
13. Ummagooma
12. Saucer
11. Momentary lapse
10. More
9. Division Bell
8. Atom Heart Mother
7. The Wall
6. Final Cut
5. Obscured
4. Meddle
3. Animals
2. Darkside
1. Wish you were here
Just got really back into floyd in the past year I had initially listened to all the classics except for the wall and WYWH and i absolutely fell in love with them in the past year WYWH rising to my fav floyd record
1. Wish You Were Here
2. The Dark Side of the Moon
3. Animals
4. The Wall
5. Meddle
6. A Momentary Lapse of Reason (this is ranked above Division Bell SOLELY because of Sorrow)
7. The Division Bell
8. The Piper At the Gates of Dawn
9. The Final Cut
10. Obscured By Clouds
11. Atom Heart Mother
12. A Saucerful of Secrets
13. More
14. The Endless River
15. Oominuh-goominuh tiddily tum
Pink Floyd were pretty much my introduction to music, sure, I've listened to other music in the past when I was a kid, but when I chose by myself to get into music, the first song I listened to was Echoes, back then a 20~ minute long song was insane to me and I immediately loved it, I've never heard anything like it before. Pink Floyd are still my second favorite band (Radiohead managed to dethrone them, but to me they're pretty much equal) and heavily impacted my music taste, they're very important to me. So I decided to also show my own list, like a lot of other people here, along with a few thoughts of mine about each album.
15. More: By far their weakest album imo. It certainly has its moments and there are a lot of interesting styles that the band never really experimented with again. But the production and sequencing is flawed, it's a mixed bag and overall it sounds like the silly little brother of Saucerful.
14. A Momentary Lapse of Reason: Despite it being so low, it's a really great album, I just prefer others over it nowadays. When I first listened to it I really loved it, it was probably one of my favorites, but after that, the next listens were nothing, it had nothing more to offer to me really. Though there are some great tracks here.
13. The Endless River: People really don't understand this album at all and call an *ambient tribute* album a cash grab because they were somehow expecting something more from it. People should accept it for what it is and not whine about how there are better albums than this and just enjoy it for what it's meant to be. Not to mention that the tracks feel somewhat familiar to their older works and really gives the feeling that these are the end credits, it's a great finale for an even greater band.
12. Ummagumma: This album is sooo muuch better than people make it seem to be. When I first listened to it, I despised every single second of it, nowadays I really really like it. Even if people who think music are funky noises coming from a radio that tickle your ears and nothing grander personally hate its sound, they should at least recognize its importance; without Ummagumma, PF would probably break up and be remembered by 4 people as a short lived yet interesting little psychedelic space rock group. The band lost their leader and had to find their new identity and while More came first, the band were self-aware about this being just a soundtrack album and nothing more so it didn't really help. And thus they did the obvious and most logical thing to do: experiment. And each member had to experiment on their own to show what they can deliver. The result is very hit or miss, but this was their first step to creating their new identity which would be completed by AHM and Meddle. I blame this album for turning me into a "pretentious" nerd who likes abstract music. Jokes aside, it unironically opened my third eye and made me realize what music truly is: art in the form of sound, ANY sound, pleasant or dissonant, from an instrument or not, everything has a meaning. The listener should listen carefully to everything (even silence), figure out their meanings and imagine what the music is trying to show. Richard's Sysyphus is genius, Roger knows how to create a wild natural atmosphere, okay, Dave's work here is the best and Nick... He tried.
11. Piper at the Gates of Dawn: A wonky psychedelic fever dreamy fairy tale album. I dig it a lot!
10. The Wall: My relationship with this album was rough but over the years I've grown to accept its more commercial sound instead of true PF sound, the lack of Rick, the few filler tracks that don't contribute to the story, how they did not use What Shall We Do Now, the crazy ending... I think I started to love the album more after I watched the film. It is an incredible album, one of the best concept albums, it does feel like their magnum opus but it's not really that Floyd-y to me.
9. A Saucerful of Secrets: Technically WYWH before WYWH. I love the balance between the goofier side and the dark chaotic spacey sound of it.
8. Obscured by Clouds: Their most underrated album that sadly had the fate to come out in between of Meddle and DSOTM. They really didn't have to go this hard for an OST to a film that no one cared about.
7. The Division Bell: I know I didn't really elaborate that much about my feelings on The Wall, but this is basically the reverse; The Wall's stronger point are the lyrics, TDB's is the music which sounds like Golden Era Floyd, but the concept and lyrics would have been much better if Roger worked on it too. Still love it a lot.
6. The Final Cut: It could be higher. Like Ummagumma, I used to hate it, I didn't get it musically at all even if it was doing exactly what it was supposed to do and I was gaslit by ignorant people who thought this was Roger whining about his daddy for the 325th time. It's much more than that, it's a better concept album than the Wall imo, Roger's voice was never for singing but for emotional delivery and he really is giving it his all here, I just miss Rick, that's my biggest problem, because to me Rick is Pink. But yeah, it actually made me cry a bit.
5. Animals: It's Animals, what can I say. Excellent concept and lyricism, fantastic music, and memed to oblivion on r/pinkfloydcirclejerk.
4. Meddle: The very first album I've ever listened to and the one to finally truly define the identity and sound of the band.
3. Atom Heart Mother: The unsung hero. While Ummagumma was the first step and Meddle the one to finally settle their sound, AHM did all the heavy lifting. Even outside the context of the band, AHM is still quite significant. It's a really bold move, especially back then, to not put any band or album info on the front cover and also make the entire A Side an entire suite. The suite is phenomenal, the middle tracks are beautiful and Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast makes me feel like I'm having a good time eating breakfast with him as if we're friends and the music is lovely there too. When I first listened to this album I had no expectations whatsoever but I immediately fell in love with it and I can even go as far as to say this can easily be my number one favorite PF album. It's just something that I can put on and it will instantly make me feel good with its wholesome atmosphere like Beach Boy's Pet Sounds, Cornilius' Fantasma, KLF's Chill Out, Boards of Canada's Campfire Headphase. I adore Atom Heart Mother, but even without my bias I think this album is very important to the history of the band and one of their best achievements.
2. Dark Side of the Moon: It really took me a long time to get this album, because I just preferred other ones over it. But when I did I finally loved it as much as everyone else.
1. Wish You Were Here: The best album I've ever listened to (but it's a tie between Radiohead's Kid A and In Rainbows, Björk's Vespertine and Caretaker's Everywhere at the End of Time, they're all equal to me). All the tracks are phenomenal and Welcome to the Machine is very underrated actually, but of course Shine On stands out. When I first listened to this track my soul ascended, it sounded so familiar (probably because it reminded me of Vangelis' Blade Runner OST which I've "watched" as a kid with my dad, for like 5 minutes before I fell asleep. I've actually watched the film in full later though, but it still didn't ruin SOYCD's magic when I realized it) yet so alien at the same time. It's not the best of all time because it's my favorite, it's my favorite because it's objectively the greatest musical composition ever.
Anyway, I don't really like rankings, especially when it comes to such a great discography as PF. I also wanted to add the solo projects but it'd be way too long probably, I just think both of Rick's albums are top tier and comparable to PF's best.
Great video mate!! i think our pink floyd ranking would be pretty much the same, take care mate!! :)
Piper at the Gates of Dawn is my favorite Pink Floyd album. It’s such an amazing album and so visual
Great job!
Solid list, nothing to argue even though I disagree with some. Also great review series. I enjoyed every last one of them! Thank you!
High hopes is my second favorite Pink Floyd song.
My ranking (hot take city!!)
1. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
2. Wish You Were Here
3. The Wall
4. Obscured by Clouds
5. Dark Side of the Moon
6. Meddle
7. More
8. Animals
9. Atom Heart Mother
10. Saucerful of Secrets
11. The Division Bell
12. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
13. The Final Cut
14. Ummagumma
15. The Endless River
Piper is the best pure psychedelic album ever made. Could be anywhere in the top 3 Floyd albums, the others DSOM and WYWH.
1. Wish you are here
2. More
3. Obscured by clouds
4. Meddle
5. Dark side of Moon
6. Atom heart Mother
7. Live at Pompei
8. The piper at gates of dawn
9. A saucerful of secrets
I've loved following this series. I'd definitely be interested in some other prog band reviews, especially Rush and Genesis. Side note but while I would rank the studio version of the Wall similarly to you, I would put the live version from 1981 in the top 5, it's just so much better I never have any reason to relisten to the studio version.
My top 7:
1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Meddle
4. Animals
5. Obscured By Clouds
6. The Division Bell
7. The Wall
The Dark Side Of The Moon is my all time favorite Pink Floyd album too. True masterpiece. My go-to album for Pink Floyd. I love the cover art.
I was just first starting to get into music when you released the Piper at the Gates of Dawn video. The series has been highly influential for me to continue to listen to albums and crotiquing them. So just for that, thanks JT 🫡
Great list! I have agree with you about the Division Bell. It's slept on way too much.
The Division Bell has recently become my favorite Pink Floyd album!
I liked The Final Cut. The Wall is one of the best albums ever made. I enjoyed your breakdowns and rankings, though. Thanks.
Gold fish tier
1. The Wall
2. Wish You Were Here
3. The Dark Side Of The Moon
4. Animals
5. Meddle
6. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
7. A Saucerful Of Secrets
8. Obscured By Clouds
Spotted fish tier
9. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
10. More
11. The Final Cut
12. The Division Bell
13. Atom Heart Mother
Bad fish tier
14. Ummagumma
15. The Endless River
Appreciate all the effort and the journey you've allowed us to share with you JT. I do think you have a bit of Gilmour bias, which is fine of course, and being a musician yourself it's easy to understand the appreciation you have towards Gilmour's guitar and Rick's keys. I've always been a Waters guy feeling that the lyrics and concepts is what transformed Floyd from just "a unbelievable musical group" (which, of course, they are) to transcending genres and music and cementing themselves in a way no other band has ever done. While I think we can all jam out to Zepplin or The Who or any of a number of other transformative music groups, I believe it was the Waters-inspired lyrics that has had such an impact to so many of us and been so impactful to our lives. Maybe that's why to me The Final Cut is a top 10 album, The Wall a top 2 (if not 1), and why Wish you Were Here drops significantly. But as you said so eloquently, Floyd was many things to many people, and to have everyone create the same list is impossible, but we can all agree that all 16 albums are impactful at some level.
I'm a Waters guy also and I agree with everything you said. For me The Division Bell also drops significantly. All the fans seem to love it but I don't even own it anymore. I've never seen a harsh word written about it which makes it seem overrated and not underrated as some claim. The Wall and Dark Side are tied at #1 for me.
This is a brilliant ranking and I agree with just about all of them.
“More” is freakin’ AWESOME! Just like “Obscured By Clouds” it’s one of Floyd’s sleeper albums. Anything with “The Nile Song” on it has my vote!
Agreed. I love "More". I think it had a massive influence on the birth of "Kraut Rock"
It can keep on sleeping as far as I"m concerned! I always thought people that said they liked it were just trying to appear "deep". Did you like Trout Mask Replica, too?
The Wall is just an amazing album! I like the movie to for it. After that…
2. DSotM
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Animals
5. Atom Heart Mother
Atom Heart Mother doesn’t get enough love! It’s probably the band’s most down-to-earth album.
1. Wish You Were Here
2. The Dark Side of The Moon
3. Animals
4. The Wall
5. Meddle
6. Obscured By Clouds
7. The Division Bell
8. A Saucerful of Secrets
9. Atom Heart Mother
10. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
11. The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
12. The Endless River
13. The Final Cut
14. More
15. Ummagumma
My personal rank worst to best
Endless River
Ummagumma
More
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Momentary Lapse of Reason
A Saucerful of Secrets
Atom Heart Mother
Division Bell
Obscured by Clouds
The Wall
The Final Cut
Meddle
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
1. The Wall
2. Animals
3. Dark Side Of the Moon
5. The Final Cut
6. Meddle
7. Obscured By Clouds
8. Saucerful Of Secrets
My ranking:
15: Momentary Lapse of Reason
14: More
13: Endless River
12: Ummagumma
11: The Piper at the gates of Dawn
10: Obscured by Clouds
9: Atom heart mother
8: A Saucerful of Secrets
7: Final Cut
6: Meddle
5: Division Bell
4: The Wall
3: Wish you were here
2: Animals
1: Dark sidd of the moon
Great list! Here's mine:
[S TIER]
1. Wish You Were Here 10/10
2. The Dark Side of the Moon 10/10
3. Animals 9.5/10
4. The Wall 9/10
[A TIER]
5. Meddle 8.5/10
6. The Division Bell 8/10
[B TIER]
7. Obscured by Clouds 7/10
8. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 7/10
9. Atom Heart Mother 6.5/10
10. A Momentary Lapse of Reason 6/10
[C TIER]
11. Saucerful of Secrets 5/10
[D TIER]
12. More 4.5/10
13. The Endless River 4/10
14. The Final Cut 4/10
[E TIER]
15. Ummagumma 2/10
My list (3rd - 6th can change daily so hard to rank those albums.)
1. DSOTM
2. Animals
3. The Wall
4. Obscured by Clouds
5. WYWH
6. Meddle
7. Division Bell
8. Final Cut
9. Atom Heart Mother
10. Momentary Laps Of Reason
11. The Endless River
12. More
13. Saucer full of secrets
14. Piper
15.Ummagumma
This tierlist making just made me realize how much this band means to me, the fact that i love so many of their albums ( top 7)
My Top 5:
1. Dark Side Of The Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. The Wall
4. The Final Cut
5. Animals
Pretty basic, but here the biggest albums are the best imo
My personal Top 5
1) Animals
2) The Dark Side of the Moon
3) Wish you were here
4) The Division Bell
5) Meddle
My ranking:
1. Wish You Were Here
2. The Dark Side Of The Moon
3. The Division Bell
4. Meddle
5. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
6. Obscured By Clouds
7. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
8. Atom Heart Mother
9. The Endless River
10. A Saucerful Of Secrets
11. More
12. Animals
13. The Wall
14. Ummagumma
15. Finaal Kut
😅😅😅😅
I am a true Floyd fan all are my ear babys .. But with that said I can not and will not argue with you on you choices I agree with you ... I need not say any more ... Best review of Floyds albums ..Well Done indeed 😁😁😁😁😁 five smileys for you
As an avid The Division Bell defender, THANK YOU
Good ranking. I believe they are the greatest progressive rock band of all time. No other band on the planet, will ever be able to make as big of an impact on music as Pink Floyd did.
15. Ummagumma
14. The Endless River
13. More
12.Obscured By Clouds
11. The Final Cut
10. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
9. The Momentary Lapse of Reason
8. A Saucerful of Secrets
7. Atom Heart Mother
6. The Division Bell
5. Animals
4. Meddle
3. The Wall
2. Wish You Were Here
1. Dark Side of the Moon
for me
1 - dark side of the moon
2 - wish you were here
3 - atom heart mother
4 - animals
5 - the wall
6 - meddle
7 - obscured by clouds
8 - more
9 - division bell
10 - the piper at the gates of the dawn
11 - sarcefull of secrets
12 - the momentary lapse of reason
13 - endless river
14 - final cut
15 - ummagumma
Someone who loves " Live at Pompeii " as much as I do.. I can't believe it!
funny thing is is that i usually listen to their live albums now, a recent favourite of mine is their live "any colour you like"
The transition from Us and Them to Any Colour you like it one of my favorite moments in all of music. And yes that live version of Any Colour from the 74 show is amazing.
Meddle, Wish You Were Here, Saucerful Of Secrets, Piper At The Gates, The Wall & their masterpiece, Dark Side is all the Floyd I need.
1. Animals
2. Wish you were here
3. The wall
4. Dark side
5. Animals
6. Meddle
7. Obscured by clouds
8. Piper at the gates of dawn
9. Division bell
10. The final cut
11. Saucerful of secrets
12. More
13. Momentary lapse of reason
14. The endless river
15. Ummagumma
15. Endless River
14. The Final Cut
13. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
12. More
11. Obscured by Clouds
10. A Saucerful of Secrets
09. The Division Bell
08. Animals
07. The Wall
06. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
05. Ummagumma
04. Wish you were here
03. Dark Side of the Moon
02. Atom Heart Mother
01. Meddle
1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. The Wall
4. Atom Heart Mother
5. Meddle
6. Obscured by Clouds
7. The Final Cut
8. The Division Bell
9. Animals
10. Saucerful of Secrets
11. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
12. More
13. Ummagumma
14. The Endless River
15. Momentary Lapse of Reason
Mine would probably be:
1. Dark Side Of the Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. The Wall
4. Meddle
5. The Division Bell
6. Animals
7. Obscured by Clouds
8. A Saucerfull of Secrets
9. The Final Cut
10. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
11. Atom Heart Mother
12. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
13. More
14. Ummagumma
15. The Endless River
I think Atom Heart Mother is really a good record.
Many people are influenced by the fact that Pink Floyd themselves speak badly of it. But artists often speak badly of their album just because it didn't turn out the way they wanted, not because it's actually bad.