If you don’t like Pink Floyd, just ignore this thread rather than threadshitting–thanks 
If you do like Pink Floyd, what is your favorite album and why?
The Wall, but I also want to put a word in (though it may be heretical) for A Momentary Lapse of Reason, which I thought was a mesmerizing record even without Roger Waters. Very underrated in my opinion. David Gilmore is just as Pink as Roger or Syd ever were.
The Wall as absolutely amazing. But I’d have to put down Animals as my favorite album.
The Wall is fantastic, and Dark Side of the Moon is a masterpiece, but my favorite is Meddle. There are some seriously underrated songs on that album.
Difficult to choose, but Dark Side of the Moon probably edges ahead, due to certain things that were going on at the time with me that I’d rather not get into. Let’s just say I have some awfully fond memories.
But one of my fondest Pink Floyd memories that I can tell publicly involves Wish You Were Here. I was wandering through the small city of Brno, Czechoslovakia one afternoon back in Cold War days, feeling a glow from having just imbibed a quantity of good Czech beer with my lunch, when all of a sudden I detected the tiny strains of the song. Was I hearing things? No, it’s Wish You Were Here. I must have spent half an hour tracking down where it was coming from, finally discovering it being played by some construction workers. That may not sound like much, and maybe it’s just the buzz I had on, but finding someone playing Pink Floyd in a communist society struck me as totally cool at the time.
Toss up between Meddle and *Wish You Were Here.
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Though I really like *The Final Cut *too. Yeah, yeah, I know, but it’s still good shit.
Wish you were here.
If you put a gun to my head and made me pick one, I’d choose The Wall, but it’s so close with Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here & Animals that they’re all pretty much equal to me.
Atom Heart Mother. Or maybe Ummagumma.
Some people like Syd’s Floyd best; certainly many favor Roger’s Floyd, and there’s still much to be said for David’s Floyd. But I always preferred the period when they were Floyd’s Floyd, a band of equals. In between the fractured psychedelic pop and the meticulously crafted studio epics, when they were exploring slow, pastoral-spacey, quietly strange territory.
The Wall, because I terrorized my parents with it as a teen (good days :)), then Dark Side of the Moon.
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Thanks OpalCat. Now I can’t rest until I find my The Wall album. Thanks a lot. Really. Just what I needed, another obsession. 
Animals, DSOTM, or WYWH. I can listen to anyone of the three and still be amazed decades later.
Agreed. Gilmour’s three solo albums are great as well, and beat Waters’ solo stuff for quality, hands down, IMHO.
My favourite is still The Wall, even though I don’t think it’s their best. I love everything from Meddle onwards, however.
The Final Cut.
I agree with** Biffy the Elephant Shrew**. The post-Syd era was magical. They were experimenting, they were pastoral, they were spacey. Their best album from that period - and therefore their best - was A Man and The Journey, which they performed several times, but unfortunately never released (although there are bootlegs of the performances).
If it has to be an official album, without hesitation I’d go for A Saucerful Of Secrets. It includes Syd’s last desparate but brillliant contribution, some of Rick Wright’s best psychedelic songs, Roger Waters’ first attempt to come to terms with his father’s death in the war (Corporal Clegg), the marvellous musique concrete title track, and my favourite track of all time - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
Of the more recent stuff, I agree that A Momentary Lapse Of Reason is a very fine effort.
What Biffy said.
Atom Heart Mother
Animals. Highlights, the intro and outros of Sheep and Pigs and the guitar solos in Dogs. And it has the best cover
Second place would be a toss up between Meddle, WYWH and DSotM (can you have a three way toss up?)
The Wall mostly doesn’t sound “Floyd-ey” to me. Not enough Rick? I’d rather listen to Obscured by Clouds which has some good stuff on it (though it does have a crap cover).
I find it really hard to pick one. I love Echoes but Meddle is let down by a couple of throwaway tracks, I love Comfortably Numb and a few others but The Wall has too much filler for my tastes. I like all of Animals but it doesn’t have any standout track for me, Dogs would be the closest though. I like all of WYWH but like Animals it doesn’t have any tracks that I like as much as Echoes or Comfy Numb. DSotM is great as well. Perhaps my problem is that my favourite songs are on albums that have significant weaknesses while the strongest albums seem to lack a standout song (for me.)
Put a gun to my head and I’ll say Animals. Excellent guitar solos and atmosphere, aggressive lyrics and music, a cohesive album where all of the songs go well together.
Dark Side of the Moon was my introduction to Floyd, and earlier stuff was just a little too trippy/wierd for me, so DSOTM is still me fave, but it’s damn close with WYWH and TFC.
Agreed with MLOR, as well.
Making it my LEAST favorite Floyd album. Cut out everything but maybe 4 songs and then it would be brilliant.
Dark Side is, of course, the best thing that any band has ever done, ever.
But I’m going to have to go with The Division Bell.
I would have to go with The Wall. By rights, it should be the most played out album of all time, and sometimes I even have a flash of that feeling when I first hear a cut from it, but almost instantly I am caught up in it again.
So while The Wall is my favorite for the music, Wish You Were Here is the album that I have the most nostalgic associations with.