For the music “Shine On. . .”
For the message “On the Turning Away.”
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).
Another vote for “Dogs” and not just because it gave me so many bathroom breaks when I was a d.j.
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)
Not to be too different, but I really DO love Paintbox (from Relics).
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).
“Free Four.” Whenever I think of Pink Floyd, that’s the one that always comes to mind.
What he said.
(or When the Tigers Broke Free)
The Great Gig In The Sky
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.
While I love the song, I consider Momentary Lapse of Reason a David Gilmour project.
Comfortably Numb
The only one I like is “Money,” so it wasn’t hard at all for me to pick just one.
Welcome to the machine.
Fits real good where I work…
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.
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…”
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.
Anyone else been listening to Pink Floyd since opening this thread? How often can we re-vote?
Comfortably Numb, though Meddle is right up there.
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.
Summer '68