“High Hopes”
I’m pretty much the same. I love listening to bootlegs from the period around 69-72 where they’d do something like stretch out Fat Old Sun to fifteen minutes.
Interstellar Overdrive
followed by Scream Thy Last Scream or Lucifer Sam, it’s a tough choice…
I like the extended Empty Spaces version that accompanies the animation in The Wall movie. It has additional lyrics and music. I am not sure it is available anywhere outside the movie.
The extended Empty Spaces is actually a different song called What Shall We Do Now? It was cut from the original album due to the time constraints of vinyl, but it was included in the lyrics on the album’s inner sleeve.
Great choice. It’s a terrific example of an under-appreciated, under-enjoyed Floyd track. Just like Paintbox and The Nile Song ;).
“Grantchester Meadows” off of Ummagumma.
I love the pastoral ambience.
Thought I’d be the only person to pick a track from The Division Bell, but my choice would be “Coming Back To Life”, although I love the whole album.
I love most of their other stuff as well, though, but that’s the album I come back to most. Maybe because it came out when I was 16 and just getting into the band, but it’s still just as meaningful now.
Wow, forty-eight posts and no one agrees with my favorite: “Learning to Fly”, with “Us and Them” a close second.
I came to Floyd rather late (in my 30’s) growing up with post-punk and electronica I’d dismissed them as irrelevant and one-dimensional prog-rock dinosaurs. Then shortly after my daughter was born she was squawking in the car and wouldn’t settle. On the radio came “wish you were here”…silence (from both me and her). A “greatest hits” purchase soon followed, then “The Wall” and I very quickly realised Pink Floyd covered rather more musical space than I previously thought.
Anyhow, “wish you were here” still remains my favourite, closely followed by “Mother” (the central guitar solo within being, in my opinion, the best 30 seconds in rock), “welcome to the machine” and “Stay”
Then about 60 others.
‘Money’ for me - not because it’s the only one I like 
Just sentimental reasons.
Seconded. Atom Heart Mother is an amazing album start to finish.
I second “Fearless”. I was at an outdoor concert in the 70’s at Tampa Stadium. The song came on as we waited for the show to begin. I had no idea who it was, but was enthralled. I actually thought the crowd chants at the end was coming from the audience. :eek:
I have to third Fearless. I was introduced to the song by a friend’s band doing a note-for-note, pitch perfect cover of it at their practice (some people accused them of being a Floyd rip-off, but I digress). Their cover at the time, and the original today still give me goosebumps all over.
Before that, my favorite song by Floyd was One of these Days. Yes, I know now that it’s off of the same album as Fearless, but I knew it from a compilation album when I was a kid.
But even today, the Pink Floyd song I’m most likely to play on an instrument is Lucifer Sam. That riff is just so cool. It even sounds great on a mandolin.
I’ve heard of Pink Floyd, I’m sure I’ve heard some of their songs, but honest to goodness, I couldn’t name one if my life depended upon it. Even looking at the ones listed in this thread, most don’t register. Maybe if I’d tried hard enough, I’d have come up with The Wall but I can’t guarantee it.
You’ve very likely heard the two big radio hits, “Money” (“Money, it’s a gas/Grab that cash in both hands and make a stash”) and “Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2” (“We don’t need no education/We don’t need no thought control”).
You’re right - I’m familiar with both of those, but I never associated them with a particular group. About a year ago, we got satellite radio in the car, and I’ve lost track of the times I’ve looked at the display to see who was singing, only to say “I never heard of him/her” or “I didn’t know that’s who did that song!”
I’m more tragically unhip than I thought. dang.
I guess it would be “Time” but it’s not nice making me choose.
I’ll second High Hopes - The Division Bell may be my favorite album too, though Momentary Lapse of Reason and Wish You Were Here are heavy competitors.
Probably Big Gig in the Sky