Conftorbly Numb has always been my favorite too. I love listening to it on my walkman on a bus in the rain at night.
Too bad it doesn’t rain much where I live now.
And I don’t ride busses anymore.
God, I miss college.
I have this bootleg of a concert from '70 or thereabouts, and it has this crushingly intense 14 minute verision of Cymbaline.
I’ve always thoughout the best of the “underrated” albums was More. The songs on that are so blissfully dreamy.
But the topper of them all will always be Shine on you crazy diamond. Oh, that guitar, that sweet guitar…
More definitely is a class album.
I have a bootleg from the same period - San Diego 1971 (IIRC). It has a 15 minute version of “Fat Old Sun”, which I would kill to have a studio quality version of, and a long version of “Cymbaline” like you mention. It also goes all strange in the middle of “Cymbaline” where there are lots of opening doors and people laughing, all sans music. I think I remember reading something about this somewhere but I can’t quite remember. think it was something to do with showing off their quadrophonic sound system.
In no particular order…
-Welcome to the Machine, but mostly because it was the first Pink Floyd song I’ve ever heard (back when I was first introduced to the band).
-Wish you were Here. My best friend can play and sing this song almost as good as Dave. A beautiful piece.
-Comfortably Numb, a gratuitous - yet worthy - inclusion.
-Paranoid Eyes, truly a masterpiece off of The Final Cut.
I second Dogs and Sheep and… hell, all of Animals. And Division Bell. And… well… if I continue like this, I’ll end up naming all the albums. 
Although I should mention that I have greatly enjoyed Roger’s solo career…
Ohh I forgot about Welcome to the Machine! I can listen to that over and over and over…
The most brilliant Pink Flyd song is…all of them. Every Floyd tune is a crafted gym.
But I really love Echoes.
Make that Obscured by Clouds, and “Childhood’s End” is the superior song on that Album.
For overall most brilliant, consider me another vote for “Echoes”.
Maybe after lunch I’ll consider making a list for my most favoritest band ever!
Shine on You Crazy Diamond is first in my book. The chorus isn’t sung with anger or vehemence or sarcasm, it’s just a request for something you know isn’t going to happen, and, I don’t know…it’s just sort of heart-breaking. It has a hopeless, reminiscent quality that’s depressing and beautiful and terrible, especially when you think of what prompted its composition in the first place.
‘Course, I couldn’t post anything without saying something for a couple others. Not Now, John–lyrically, it’s great, plus it’s got that ‘clickity-clickity-click, hold on, hold on and BINGO!’ sequence that absolutely slays me, coupled with the chanting backup vocals on 'fuck all that…fuck all that.’ And I think The Final Cut is fantastic, although not too many people agree with me on that one. The guitar solo isn’t one of Gilmour’s finest by any means, but the sound of it is terribly apt for the song. Lyrically, it’s complex and (typically) depressing, and I think it’s one of Waters’ best.
When the Tigers Broke Free, though, I’ll second that one, (granted, by this point I’m fourthing or fifthing it, but still).Dogs is great, too, but Comfortably Numb will probably always be regarded as the best. And rightly so, really. That guitar solo. sighs and shakes head Beautiful is such a cheesy word, but that’s what it is.
Wish You Were Here
Dogs of War
Learning to Fly
Goodbye Blue Sky
One of My Turns
Another vote for
Echoes…Echoes…Echoes…Echoes
and yes I have been to a Pink Floyd concert but you don’t want to know how long ago. Or at least I’m not telling how long ago.
The Gunner’s Dream from The Final Cut
It’s hard to pick just one…
Echoes
Bike
One Of These Days
Hey You
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Brain Damage/Eclipse
Comfortably Numb
The Trial
Young Lust
Dogs
Not Now John
How could I have forgotten the most unusual Pink Floyd song (in my opinion), Atom Heart Mother
How could I have forgotten the most unusual Pink Floyd song, (in my opinion), Atom Heart Mother
Mudshark was that double post just another vote for Echoes ?
ALl my favourites have been mentioned in the thread already (Sheep, Echoes, Learning to Fly) except for Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun. God, that song is so creepy and so brilliant. Still sends chills down my spine.
Oh, yeah “Set the Controls”. Of course.
And another vote for Roger’s solo career being brilliant. Amused to Death was the first CD I ever bought. I think I’m probably the only person to have been a Roger Waters fan before really getting into Pink Floyd.
I don’t care much for Waters solo stuff, but I will say that my favorite Pink Floyd album is The Madcap Laughs (Check the band listing, it’s a Floyd album even though it’s credited as a Syd Barett solo album.)
No, Atom Heart Mother is so good that I had to say it twice, and yes, it was a subliminal vote for Echoes.
[SUP]Ok…so I fucked up, I double posted. So shoot me. [/SUP]
Ooh, ooh, and The Fletcher Memorial Home. Truly haunting.