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what are the top 5 pink floyd albums :) it's obvious almost everything they recorded was amazing ...
the rolling stones have the big four (let it bleed,beggars banquet,exile,sticy fingers) well what are the big five for floyd?

Dark
Wall
Piper
Wish
Animals

Wish You Were Here
Animals
Obscured By Clouds
Dark Side
Piper

perfecto :) it took me a long time but i have the same list ..maybe not in the same order though.

obscured by clouds is so under-rated! ..burning bridges is one of floyds best songs :)

It's the best played and sung Floyd album, IMHO

Piper
Secrets
Obscured
Meddle
More

Ah, yes! MORE!

Such a beauty!

Piper
Dark Side
Wall
Meddle
Wish You Were Here

ok my favorite album by floyd is definitely the piper at the gates of dawn :)

Piper
Dark Side
Animals
Wish You Were Here
The Wall

Wish You Were Here
Dark Side Of the Moon
Meddle
Atom Heart Mother
The Wall

Piper
Piper
Piper
Piper
Outtakes from Outer Space

01.DSoTM
02.Animals
03.Final Cut
04.The Wall
05.Piper at The Gates of Dawn

wow your the first person that mentioned the final cut..i'm suprised that anyone likes that album..

The Final Cut is an amazing album. That is where Waters finally achieved the wracked intensity of Barrett, which he had been chasing since Syd left the band. Listen to Barrett's Dark Globe, then Floyd's The Fletcher Memorial Home, compare the voices, and you'll know what I mean.

I love Final Cut. It's just not in my top 5 and it's barely even a Floyd album.

Final Cut is hard to rate way up there as a Floyd album, BUT Dave and Nick are there, and in fine form, so what the hell else are you supposed to call it?

Rick's presence is missed, of course, but they were smart enough to jack up the orchestra and not simply replace him with Rick-sounding keyboards.

Across the board, the songwriting is frighteningly strong and intense. I agree with I.Spaceman that Waters peaked in a sense with that album.

In no particular order..

Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Mono Mix
Meddle
Dark Side Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
The Wall

i was never was fond of the music on The Wall but always loved the story and idea of it :p

It has some of their most melodic and soothing music. A gem.

'The Final Cut' has always been a top favourite of mine. It took a while to grow, but it was worth it. The final 3 songs together form probably one of my favourite moments in the history of Pink Floyd.


That's a very good point and I couldn't agree more.

It's good to see that the album gets the recognition it deserves.

those are the 3 songs from that album i enjoy :) so i can understand why you like them lol..the heroes return and the gunners dream are also great songs.

what do you guys think of the division bell?

'The Gunner's Dream' fading into 'Paranoid Eyes' with that cat moaning, those footsteps and then the piano line coming in is another breathtaking moment on the album.

Not to mention Roger's voice fading into the sax in 'The Gunner's Dream'. Just beautiful moments everywhere.

Never been a fan. But it's better than 'Momentary Lapse of Reason', that's for sure.

those are both better than the final cut lol

Agreed. DB is a terribly disjointed and overproduced album but it is quite an improvement over MLoR.

Per the assertion that both of those awful albums are better than The Final Cut, we are all entitled to our opinions... even the wrong, stupid, and ignorant ones.  :angel:

Uhhhhh...........................................no. "lol"

To my mind, THE FINAL CUT can be criticized for being more of a Roger Waters solo project than a Pink Floyd album...but it's still one of the best albums any member of Pink Floyd was involved in creating!

Of course, if you prefer the psychedelic pop of the Syd Barrett era or the more democratic soundscape era ('68 - '75) to ANIMALS or THE WALL, I can see where THE FINAL CUT continues in a direction you may not care for. A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON suffers from trying to sound too much like a "Pink Floyd album", but THE DIVISION BELL settles into being a pleasant enough David Gilmour solo effort with assistance from Richard Wright (and presumably Nick Mason).

What is fairly extraordinary about Pink Floyd is that their catalog demonstrates a truly remarkable growth and progression...that ultimately leads to the individual members losing interest in maintaining the band itself. Most bands will simply repeat themselves until they breakup, but Floyd documented the disintegration on record with more-or-less fantastic results.

I thought Momentary Lapse was the Gilmour solo album, whereas Division Bell had much more group effort on it.

I'm very fond of Division Bell. Rick's presence is felt for sure and the stuff kinda rocked live on that tour. I dig the album

I believe the first version of MLOR that Gilmour submitted (or the rough mixes) resembled his solo albums of the time. The story was that Columbia wanted an outside producer brought in to make the album sound more like what the label thought a Pink Floyd album should sound like. Whether true or not, the result sounds forced (pointless sound effects, keyboards that mimic the organ sound from THE WALL, etc.). It appears that the success of the album gave Gilmour a little more leeway with the next (last) Floyd album, THE DIVISION BELL, which, for the most part, stayed away from expected Floyd cliches. The result was it sounded more relaxed and natural...like a solo Gilmour album, but with increased contribution from Wright. I agree that THE DIVISION BELL actually has  more contributions from Wright and Mason, but it's more about Gilmour being himself instead of him and his producers trying to sound like they're making a late period Roger Waters-driven album.

1. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
2. A CD-R containing "Jugband Blues" and any other song written by Syd during his time with the band
3. ...

Yeah, I can agree with that. Nice post.

1. Meddle
2. Animals
3. Atom Heart Mother
4. Saucerful of Secrets
5. More or Umma Gumma

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Wall
Dark Side Of The Moon
A Saucerful Of Secrets
The Final Cut

1) Piper
2) Dark Side
3) Meddle
4) Atom Heart Mother
5) Saucerful of Secrets

DSOTM
Piper
Saucerful
WYWH
Wall

   1) Piper at the Gates of Dawn
   2) Meddle
   3) Dark Side of the Moon
   4) Wish You Were Here
   5) The Wall


    The Final Cut is easily better than Momentary Lapse or Division IMO

    Relics & Echoes are nice comps

    Animals is a good one too, just not enough room

I don't consider it a true Pink Floyd album.   Nothing post Final Cut is the real deal to me. 

The best 5 albums are

The Wall
Dark Side
Final Cut
Animals
Piper at the Gates of Dawn 


I also consider Roger Waters' Pros and Cons and Amused to Death to be every bit as good as the PF albums I listed but of course they are not eligible for the list either :) 

Alphabetically (sort of):

Clouds
More
Piper
Secrets
Wish