Top 5 Pink Floyd albums
After the recent Floyd thread i was wondering what other wossers top 5 Pink Floyd albums are, mine are:
1..Animals
2..Wish you were here
3..Dark side of the moon
4..Meddle
5..Piper at the gates of dawn
For least favourite it's a toss up between Atom heart mother and The final cut.
1..Animals
2..Wish you were here
3..Dark side of the moon
4..Meddle
5..Piper at the gates of dawn
For least favourite it's a toss up between Atom heart mother and The final cut.
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Wish you were here
Relics
Meddle
The Wall
and then Ummagumma
ive never owned the rest :P
2. Dark Side Of The Moon
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Meddle
5. A Saucerful Of Secrets
Well, at this precise moment in time anyway. Difficult list, that. The only album I don't like is The Final Cut.
1. Animals
2. The Wall
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Dark Side Of the Moon
5. Meddle
6. Atom Heart Mother
None of that SB ****e:-?
Oh and Hejira
To lighten the mood
Still, there's a sort of weirdness about the sound and in very very small portions I kinda like it. Lil sound bytes like that are rather useful.
Yeah the guitar solo from Time has been etched into my brain since I was still wearing sh*t catchers ;)
....and no doubt in my elderly years it'll still be in there when I get reacquainted with sh*t catchers :lol:
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His deteriorating mental health could've had something to do with it maybe....that and rubbing about a pint of liquid LSD into his scalp on one occasion....I'm not sure that did his mental state any favours either :lol:
Dark Side of the Moon
Obscured by Clouds
Wish You Were Here
Atom Heart Mother
The Wall at the bottom. Risible piece of #@*!
i always though dark side of the moon was led zepplin, you live and learn. :-P
i did listen to comfortably numb when the scissors sisters did their cover, and though the original was better, so there is that
Get out! Get out now!
Dark Side of the Moon
The Wall
Wish You Were Here
Ummagumma
A Saucerful of Secrets
The rest of the original albums all have their moments too, but I was never too fond of the re-union ones; they felt like they were missing something and not just Roger Waters.
2, The Wall
3, Meddle
4, Wish you were here
5, Zabriskie Point
Still got my programme from the "Dark Side of the Moon" tour, first time I watched them live. Best live band I have ever seen for the overall show.
Some fantastic quality bootlegs about as well. The bootleg of what should have been the "Wish you were here" tour was mostly the music from "Animals" and the title track but the bootleg was so common they replaced all those songs when "Wish you were here" was released and only kept the title track so "Animals" was ready for release over two years before it actually came out.
Animals tour stuff was particularly good... Raving and Drooling/You Gotta Be Crazy were both excellent early versions, didn't realise til I did a bit of googling they were performed as early as 74 :-o
/Pedro
Bit miffed i'm the only one who's mentioned Obscured by Clouds....
I do like Syd Barrett's 'Barrett' though. first time I heard that I realised where blur stole their sound from, lol
nice :)
Animals
Wish You Were Here
Dark Side Of The Moon
Meddle
The Wall.
The order of those depends on a particular day and mood, in fact that order could change 5 times a day.
To be honest the rest of the Floyd albums aren't too far behind, even The Division Bell.
Almost as nice as the result :smile:
Not just in the Prem to make up the numbers lol :wink:
I liked the Division Bell (even more after Waters grumbled about Gilmour "making the album with the f****** wife.") I know a lot of fans hated it though.
I read somewhere he stuck LSD tabs in his eyes or something, no wonder he had a breakdown.
And I'm the only one who's gone for Ummagumma, so far.
It's no surprise that Dark Side, The Wall, Animals, Meddle and WYWH are all heavily represented though. They were the ones that sold in big numbers and got the rave reviews.
Doesn't that only have three of their songs on it though?
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason is fantastic! The live album of the subsequent tour (A Delicate Sound Of Thunder) is great too. Like I say, I personally would definitely rate The Final Cut as their worst, it's all just songs that didn't make it onto The Wall. Gilmour himself once said something along the lines of, "if they weren't good enough for The Wall, then why are they good enough to release as another album?"
I didn't like the Delicate Sound of Thunder much, the mix seemed very odd, you can hardly hear the audience, it sounds almost like a studio album, a mate seen the video of the show and was disappointed as it only showed close ups of the band so you couldn't see the light show.
However it's coming up to our busy time at work and I sometimes have to come in at weekends on my own, so I'll make it my mission this year to work my way through the whole lot...
The Final Cut wasn't just Wall leftovers. They obviously re-used at least four songs, but Waters wrote a lot of new material and it's pretty obvious from the lyrics that it's referencing events from the early 80s such as the Falklands War, Thatcherism, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, etc. all of which occurred after the sessions for The Wall were concluded.
On the whole, I don't think it's a bad album. It's just that, as is frequently the case with the final recording from a disintegrating band, there's a distinct air of disharmony about it. Mind you, that does rather suit the subject material.