# Your favorite Pink Floyd Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493 "2013-07-25T16:09:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/21 "2013-07-25T17:27:57Z")
For the music “Shine On. . .” For the message “On the Turning Away.” ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/22 "2013-07-25T17:31:03Z")
This is really difficult because although by no means all _Floyd_ songs are good - indeed, there are some real clunkers - a lot of them _are_ very good, but few are truly excellent. The genius of the Floyd was not so much in songwriting but in the mood, ambience and sound they created, and their albums are almost all much greater than the sum of the songs on them (and even the ones that are weak as individual songs usually make a positive contribution). With a gun to my head, though, I am going to nominate _Brain Damage/Eclipse_, which I regard as a single, integral song, despite two titles and the change of tempo and melody. Even more so than most their albums (and despite the fact that _Dark Side of the Moon_ is more song based than most of their albums) these two songs taken as a whole are vastly better than either would be taken separately. If I can’t have that, then maybe _Careful With That Axe Eugene_ (_Ummagumma_ live version). ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/23 "2013-07-25T17:31:05Z")
Another vote for “Dogs” and not just because it gave me so many bathroom breaks when I was a d.j. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/24 "2013-07-25T17:39:00Z")
**See Emily Play** (just want Syd Barrett to have some representation, I can’t choose a favorite.) Choosing one single favorite any type of anything seems impossible to me. My favorite Pink Floyd song when I’m happy is different from my favorite Pink Floyd song when I’m sad, or wistful about my first love, or need to get psyched up. **Us and Them** is on the short list, and so is **Shine On You Crazy Diamond** (I played side 1 of wish You Were Here a whole lot more than side 2, but I don’t know if it was out of preference or laziness) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/25 "2013-07-25T17:41:39Z")
Not to be too different, but I really DO love [Paintbox](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkMUjhF8snU) (from [Relics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_(album))). Can I add just one more? An underappreciated one? Thanks. The Nile Song (no link found, at least not that I can access in Canada, sorry). ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/26 "2013-07-25T17:44:29Z")
“Free Four.” Whenever I think of Pink Floyd, that’s the one that always comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/27 "2013-07-25T17:54:05Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > One Of These Days > > (or Time) > > (or Dogs) > > (or Sheep) > > (or Wish You Were Here) > > (or The Gunner’s Dream) > > (or Astronomy Domine) > > Uh, I’ll get back to you. What he said. (or When the Tigers Broke Free) ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/28 "2013-07-25T18:01:32Z")
The Great Gig In The Sky ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/29 "2013-07-25T18:02:06Z")
> [@AnthonyElite](#): > > To me **Dogs** is everything that Pink Floyd is. > > I think **Us and Them** would be a close second. It doesn’t make first for me because I don’t see it as being as definitively Floyd as Dogs is. Yep. Those were my two first thoughts. I love _The Wall_ but I consider it more of a Roger Waters project. Nobody Home hits a nerve with me. I had a similar experience. > [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > For the message “On the Turning Away.” While I love the song, I consider _Momentary Lapse of Reason_ a David Gilmour project. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/30 "2013-07-25T18:12:04Z")
Comfortably Numb ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/31 "2013-07-25T18:14:27Z")
The only one I like is “Money,” so it wasn’t hard at all for me to pick just one. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/32 "2013-07-25T18:36:54Z")
**Welcome to the machine**. Fits real good where I work… ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/33 "2013-07-25T18:38:59Z")
Green is the Colour. To be honest I have a soft spot for the whole of the More soundtrack. It is a very underrated album. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/34 "2013-07-25T18:54:51Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > **Welcome to the machine**. > > Fits real good where I work… When I worked at Mickey D’s, I had a co-worker who would suddenly warble, “I wanna go home! Take off this uniform and leave the show…” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/35 "2013-07-25T19:30:36Z")
[Fearless](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM1a7vojSCQ) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/36 "2013-07-25T19:34:17Z")
_Comfortably Numb_ True story: About 20 years ago a bunch of us were playing the original table-top _Civilization_ and smoking weed with the stereo going in the background. When Comfortably Numb came on, we all started unconsciously singing along. Until we noticed, laughed, and started openly singing along. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/37 "2013-07-25T20:16:40Z")
Anyone else been listening to Pink Floyd since opening this thread? How often can we re-vote? ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/38 "2013-07-25T20:21:22Z")
Comfortably Numb, though Meddle is right up there. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/39 "2013-07-25T20:25:18Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > To be honest I have a soft spot for the whole of the More soundtrack. It is a very underrated album. Strangely enough, it’s the first album that comes to mind whan I think of Pink Floyd these days. A very uneven album, but I love it anyway. I’ve always said that they started out as Syd’s Floyd, and in the '70s they became Roger’s Floyd, and they ended up as David’s Floyd. But my favorite era by far is the late '60s/early '70s period when they were _Floyd’s_ Floyd, a true band with no single dominant personality holding the reins. That’s when they were at their spaciest, their most pastoral, their most progressive, and their most English. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-pink-floyd-song/664493/40 "2013-07-25T20:37:35Z")
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