# What is your favorite Pink Floyd album? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851 "2010-09-24T04:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/1 "2010-09-24T04:38:14Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/2 "2010-09-24T04:51:10Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/3 "2010-09-24T04:57:35Z")
The Wall as absolutely amazing. But I’d have to put down Animals as my favorite album. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/4 "2010-09-24T05:04:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/5 "2010-09-24T05:04:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/6 "2010-09-24T05:33:46Z")
Toss up between _Meddle_ and \*Wish You Were Here. \* Though I really like \*The Final Cut \*too. Yeah, yeah, I know, but it’s still good shit. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/7 "2010-09-24T05:49:19Z")
Wish you were here. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/8 "2010-09-24T05:55:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/9 "2010-09-24T05:57:31Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/10 "2010-09-24T06:08:36Z")
The Wall, because I terrorized my parents with it as a teen (good days :)), then Dark Side of the Moon. **"If ya don’t eatcha meat, you can’t have any pudding!? How can you have any pudding if ya don’t eatcha meat?"** Thanks **OpalCat**. Now I can’t rest until I find my The Wall album. Thanks a lot. Really. Just what I needed, another obsession. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/11 "2010-09-24T06:16:44Z")
Animals, DSOTM, or WYWH. I can listen to anyone of the three and still be amazed decades later. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/12 "2010-09-24T06:38:13Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > _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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/13 "2010-09-24T06:49:10Z")
The Final Cut. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/14 "2010-09-24T08:42:07Z")
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_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_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. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/15 "2010-09-24T10:00:45Z")
What **Biffy** said. Atom Heart Mother ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/16 "2010-09-24T11:18:06Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/17 "2010-09-24T13:24:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/18 "2010-09-24T13:32:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/19 "2010-09-24T14:00:41Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > I love Comfortably Numb and a few others but The Wall has too much filler for my tastes. 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. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/20 "2010-09-24T14:03:54Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851.md?page=2)