Best Floyd Album?

final cut is pretty good except no richard wright.

 

Dark Side of the Moon and The BBC Archives recorded at the Paris Cinema in July 1970 and September 1971.

 

Dark Side without a doubt in my mind. All you Syd fans need to jump off that high horse and apreciate Gilmores tallent for what it is. Meddle was also extremely good but I really feel that it was a let down after "One of these days." I mean its still good, but you take an etheral spacey track like that and follow it up with some easy listening tracks.... Just didn't flow as well. No, Dark Side had the complete package because it SEGWAYED into those easy listening bits. Any time I'm getting high and feel like some Floyd I don't hesitate.

 

Actually, Pink Floyd did put out a compilation album "A Collection of Great Dance Songs" in late 1981, which is probably the closest to a "greatest hits" 'Floyd album as you're gonna get. It included: One Of These Days, Sheep, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Wish You Were Here, Another Brick In The Wall and a re-recorded version of Money. IIRC, that version of 'Money' was also available on a pink-vinyl single. I believe the B-side was 'Another Brick in the Wall', but I'm not certain. Another compilation album that the 'Floyd came out with was called "Works" which featured some odd tracks from Meddle, Dark Side and other (origional) Capitol/Harvest releases.

Regardless, my favorite 'Floyd albums are probably "Meddle" and "Dark Side Of The Moon"

 

sometimes i can't listen to pink floyd when i'm getting high. it scares meeee.

 

hmmm meddle, animals, ummagumma and wish you where here

 

I really have gotten into Obscured by Clouds latley

 

It all depends on my mood, but as an over-all work I'll have to say Dark Side of the Moon still takes the cake. the musicianship, lyrics, flow, all of it works beautifully. Ummagumma is another one of my favorites. One time after me and my friend smoked a spliff i turned off the lights (at night) and played Several Furry Species, my friend started crying.

 

The Dark Side Of The Moon is the best.

 

Pink Floyd evolved so much between Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and The Division Bell.. every album was considerably different from the preceding one,so it's hard to say... but I guess we can all agree that all their albums were masterpieces...

 

They realeased Echoes: the best of pink floyd......sometime in the 00's

 

I'm stuck between Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon, and Wish You Were Here. Because my belief is:
*Shine On You Crazy Diamond is the greatest song ever made, but
*Dark Side Of The Moon is their best album, but
*Echoes is probably their best song.

 

i love dark side, nothing compares to it, but one of my favourite songs is high hopes, theres something so wonderful about it ^^

 

High Hopes is one of my favourites too... it's the song that made me a Floyd fanatic. A friend of mine showed me a video of High Hopes from one of the Pulse shows and I was just blown away. "This is the kind of music I've been looking for my whole life", I thought. It's a beautiful song.. Gilmour is God.

 

well said, well said ;P

 

The Dark Side of the Moon, without a doubt in my mind. Obscured by Clouds comes next, and then More, then Piper. I really don't care for late Pink Floyd very much

 

wish you were here, the wall, division bell

 

the wall.

 

The Wall is truly a work of geinuses. There is a psichologist who wrote an analysys of all the songs, and that was when I realised how good they had to know the pichology of a man in general, and then write it in words and music in such an artistic way. It reminds me of Dostoevsky, actually. In my opinion, the album's significance is no less then the one of The Crime and the Punishment, and other masterpieces which deal with psichology and philosophy. brilliant.

 

My opinion of the best Floyd album changes almost weekly.

This week it's Meddle.