Best Floyd Album?

I'm probably going to be unpopular with Floyd fans, but I really like "A Momentary Lapse of Reason".

 

The Wall, Animals, The Final Cut, Dark Side, and Relics
Solo albums: David Gilmours About The Face and Roger Waters Amused To Death

 

The Wall, duh.

 

Animals, obvs

 

Sorry guys but as a life long fan I think Wish You Were Here is their finest work with Dark Side of the Moon a close very close second.
As with any creative artists they reached a creative peak or plateau where they functioned as one creative force. Their subsequent releases were also great but never quite reached the driving force heard in Wish You Were Here. I can also say the final releases were rather weak by comparison. This is a situation when an artist becomes a parody of himself/themselves,lately the most flagrant example of this is the Rolling Stones .

 

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Hawkwind > Pink Floyd

 

Never was a huge Floyd fan, but 'Relics' is probably my fave.

 

Not trying to be critical of your choice but Relics was a record company submission and compilation which did not of course represent a single studio effort or concept . The company was concerned that too much time would elapse between Atom Heart Mother and an upcoming release so this was really just filler material.

 

As I say I was never a big fan. Didn't like their later stuff at all.

 

For me it's The Wall

 

Hawkwind were always a band with more of a community feel for english hippy types, especially if you were into the free festival scene back in the day. Floyd were from some remote ivory tower by comparison. Much more a mainstream commercial band.

Hawkwind I always felt were more originally creative if a lot less polished.

 

Meddle is pretty good.

 

That's what you get with Lemmy as a band member

 

That's where Lemmy got his big break - singing Silver Machine - only days after he joined the band.

 

I think the Wall was really great and was the last album of the 70's released in 1979 it placed them at the peak of commercial success as well. It seemed to me after that the creative forces on vivid display from Obscured by Clouds up to The Wall seemed to ebb. Perhaps it was a combination of things , record companies, aging, complacent attitudes as residual income mounts etc. I do know they weren't the same as the '80's unfolded and beyond. In the end though Pink Floyd was an incredible band that forged a unique sound and approach to songwriting daring to delve into subject material few would have ever considered. Personally I was a huge fan and could listen countless hours to their material. They created masterpieces of production and musical integrity that stands the test of time.
Five albums starting with Obscured by Clouds '72, Dark Side of the Moon '73, Wish You Were Here '75 , Animals '77 and The Wall '79 are the bands " full Monty " a time when they truly were functioning with the utmost cohesion or musical oneness , music that gripped the listener start to finish without a weak tune in the bunch, this was their artistic " heyday ". Pink Floyd had reached the pinnacle of their artistic destiny and sustained it for those seven years between 1972-79 so beautifully.
As I said above Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are my favs but I also love the others in this listing.

 

Why wasn't a poll included with this thread...so the majority could prove that the best Pink Floyd album is The Dark Side of the Moon. Fact

 

Animals