# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/81 "2010-09-28T07:22:42Z")
Wish you were here. Shine on you crazy diamond (all parts) is about 25 minutes of the best music in rock. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/82 "2010-09-28T07:27:07Z")
_ANIMALS!_ Of course, I love every album, but this one is pretty damn accurate. I’ve hardly met anyone who doesn’t fall into the category of dog, pig, or sheep. Musically I think their performances were some of the best. It’s really, really hard to NOT listen to the whole album all the way through. The tracks are seamless. I will also say that the song _Careful With That Axe, Eugene_ is perfect for driving home from work or after a relationship ends. 😃 ---
**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 28, 2010, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/83 "2010-09-28T11:17:02Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > _Amused To Death_ is the Roger Waters album I’d been waiting for him to make. It is a superb album - and I am being serious. I like AtD as well. More than the Final Cut I think. > [@Lobot](#): > > I know this is all subjective, but I find this take totally baffling. Sure, Waters injects emotion into his vocals, and this makes up for his lack of technical ability, but what’s his emotional range on _The Final Cut_? Despair, anger, contempt, resignation? It’s all pretty monochromatic, AFAICT. > > Gilmour, IMHO, has both a better vocal and emotional range, and to his credit, can sing Waters’ lyrics and inject real soul into them. Gilmour can do sweet and sonorous ala Comfy Numb and Fat Old Sun, and he can do rough and raucous ala Young Lust, what he’s not so good at is scathing sacasm, that is Waters’ strength. Everything about Waters and Gilmour is complimentary, there’s a lot to like about both of them and they don’t have a lot of overlap, but put them together and you get some great songs that are far better than either of them can produce on their own. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/84 "2010-09-28T12:23:18Z")
Relics ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/85 "2010-09-28T21:36:32Z")
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn for sure! Followed closely by A Saucerful Of Secrets. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/86 "2010-09-28T21:56:25Z")
WYWH ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/87 "2010-09-28T22:11:45Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > Gilmour can do sweet and sonorous ala Comfy Numb and Fat Old Sun, and he can do rough and raucous ala Young Lust, what he’s not so good at is scathing sacasm, that is Waters’ strength. Everything about Waters and Gilmour is complimentary, there’s a lot to like about both of them and they don’t have a lot of overlap, but put them together and you get some great songs that are far better than either of them can produce on their own. That I can definitely agree with. “Comfortably Numb”, “Hey You” and “Dogs” are all great songs because both Waters and Gilmour bring their strengths to the table. ---
**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 29, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/88 "2010-09-29T03:57:05Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > > [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > > > Gilmour can do sweet and sonorous ala Comfy Numb and Fat Old Sun, and he can do rough and raucous ala Young Lust, what he’s not so good at is scathing sacasm, that is Waters’ strength. Everything about Waters and Gilmour is complimentary, there’s a lot to like about both of them and they don’t have a lot of overlap, but put them together and you get some great songs that are far better than either of them can produce on their own. > > That I can definitely agree with. “Comfortably Numb”, “Hey You” and “Dogs” are all great songs because both Waters and Gilmour bring their strengths to the table. Back in the 1980s, I saw a pirated copy of _The Wall_ for sale on the streets of Bangkok, and as usual they mangled the titles of a bunch of the songs on the cover. “Comfortably Numb” was listed as “Come for Tabby Numb”! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/89 "2010-09-29T23:28:12Z")
About four or five years ago I was listening to an interview with Roger Waters on the radio. He was asked whether he would ever consider getting back with Pink Floyd. He thought about it for a moment and then said: “Well, if I thought I had another Dark Side of the Moon in me I’d consider it. But if you asked me to make another Atom Heart Mother I’d tell you to fuck off” which I thought was quite funny ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/90 "2010-09-30T07:03:48Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > About four or five years ago I was listening to an interview with Roger Waters on the radio. He was asked whether he would ever consider getting back with Pink Floyd. He thought about it for a moment and then said: > > “Well, if I thought I had another Dark Side of the Moon in me I’d consider it. But if you asked me to make another Atom Heart Mother I’d tell you to fuck off” > > which I thought was quite funny But, as David - and I am sure, Roger - has said since, AHM was a good idea, badly executed. ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/91 "2010-09-30T12:29:30Z")
Easy: Animals. Up until about 1995 I was convinced I didn’t like Pink Floyd at all. I knew _Another Brick in the Wall, pt2_ ofcourse, and someone once played me _Be Careful With That Axe, Eugene_ which was kind of OK, but the band had a reputation of making music that I wasn’t supposed to like. So I didn’t. Until a friend of mine made me sit down in a seat and force-played me Animals on head phones. I was blown away by the seamless transition of voice and instrument. I relistened again and again and started to understand the lyrics. And then I was hooked. I bought every Floyd record since then, and while I don’t like all of them (especially the earlier stuff) I still have the strongest emotional response to Animals. Funny factiod: I now am similarly hooked to Scissor Sisters and listening to it more and more I keep hearing Floyd influences in their music. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/92 "2010-09-30T16:09:05Z")
I’m stuck between DSoTM and WYWH. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/93 "2010-10-01T00:43:29Z")
> [@Aghris](#): > > Funny factiod: I now am similarly hooked to Scissor Sisters and listening to it more and more I keep hearing Floyd influences in their music. Yeah they’ve even done a cover of Comfortably Numb. ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/94 "2010-10-01T06:42:16Z")
Animals, then WYWH. I heard _The Wall_ played so often in college that I have trouble with it. Ditto the Beatles’ White Album. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851/95 "2010-10-01T16:32:07Z")
For me, I think my favorite Pink Floyd album is whatever album I’m listening to at the time. I really don’t think I can single one out as the best. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album/554851.md?page=4)