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rank the Pink Floyd albums

reversedarwinismreversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
edited September 2006 in Other Music
darkside of the moon
wish you were here
division bell
the wall
the final cut
momentary lapse of reason

thats all i have right now. i got the final cut yesterday and i'm about to be hooked up with some more, woo-hoo. the final cut is good and carries a lot of the signature sound from the roger waters era. overall, i would say that the waters era was the best, but i do have sooo much love for division bell. the final cut has a sax solo that screams 1980something, but i like it. momentary lapse of reason was one of the very first albums i got stoned to, but its definately my least fave now.
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  • jb13lettersjb13letters Posts: 220
    Of the ones you've listed, I'd probably go with this order:

    Wish You Were Here
    Division Bell
    Dark Side of the Moon
    Momentary Lapse of Reason
    The Wall
    The Final Cut

    My advice to you would be to pick up Animals next.

    reversedarwinism wrote:
    darkside of the moon
    wish you were here
    division bell
    the wall
    the final cut
    momentary lapse of reason
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  • PHAN1217PHAN1217 Posts: 15
    Dude , First Of All You Have To Get Animals Up In There Towards The Top,following Wish You Were Here. Wish You Were Here Is An Album Like No Other In My Opnion. But If I Had To Pick And Album To Jam To, Im Popping In Animals All The Way!

    Wish You Were Here
    Animals
    Darkside
    Meddle
    The Wall
    Obscured By Clouds
    Ummagumma
    Atom Heart Mother
    A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
    The Final Cut
    Division Bell
    Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
    Saucerful Of Secrets
  • PHAN1217PHAN1217 Posts: 15
    Do Yourself A Favor And Get Animals Now!!
  • reversedarwinismreversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    PHAN1217 wrote:
    Dude , First Of All You Have To Get Animals Up In There Towards The Top,following Wish You Were Here. Wish You Were Here Is An Album Like No Other In My Opnion. But If I Had To Pick And Album To Jam To, Im Popping In Animals All The Way!

    Wish You Were Here
    Animals
    Darkside
    Meddle
    The Wall
    Obscured By Clouds
    Ummagumma
    Atom Heart Mother
    A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
    The Final Cut
    Division Bell
    Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
    Saucerful Of Secrets

    cool, i actually am getting animals and meddle next. my step-grandmother is a huge fan and she's hooking me up, isn't that f-ing cool. what are yalls thought on The Final Cut? i just heard it last night for the first time.
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  • artjamartjam Posts: 227
    Oooh I like this thread

    Meddle
    Animals
    Dark Side
    Wish You Were Here
    The Wall
    Obscured by Clouds
    Final Cut
    Atom Heart Mother
    Saucerful of Secrets
    UmmaGumma
    Momentary Lapse
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn
    Division Bell


    I also recommend some solo stuff from Roger Waters or David Gilmore

    What a great band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • jb13lettersjb13letters Posts: 220
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    cool, i actually am getting animals and meddle next. my step-grandmother is a huge fan and she's hooking me up, isn't that f-ing cool. what are yalls thought on The Final Cut? i just heard it last night for the first time.

    I like the Final Cut, but I consider it a RW solo album, despite the name. To be fair, Momentary Lapse of Reason is kind of a David Gilmour solo album, IMO. I don't mean that in a bad way for either record.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn
    A Saucerful of Secrets (because it's got Jugband Blues on it)

    er...

    .. that'll do me, fine.
  • floyd1975floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    All that I could remember in my order

    The Final Cut
    Animals
    Obscured By Clouds
    Meddle
    Wish You Were Here
    Dark Side of the Moon
    The Wall
    Atom Heart Mother
    Saucerful of Secrets
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn
    More
    Ummagumma
    Momentary Lapse of Reason
    The Division Bell
  • tdlftdaporchtdlftdaporch Posts: 158
    Not to sound rude, but I've heard parts of Animals and it doesn't do anything for me. Am I missing something.

    My faves are:

    The Wall
    Wish You Were Here
    Dark Side
    Meddle
    Piper
    Pulse

    Can someone help me out why The Final Cut and Animals are so great?
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  • viggs20viggs20 Posts: 1,296
    Animals.
    Dark Side of the Moon.
    Wish You Were Here.
    Meddle.
    Atom Heart Mother.
    The Wall.
    A Saucerful of Secrets.
    More.
    Obscured By Clouds.
    Ummagumma.
    The Piper At The Gates of Dawn.
    The Final Cut.
    The Division Bell.
    A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
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  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    Animals
    Wish You Were Here
    Dark Side of The Moon
    Meddle
    The Wall

    The rest don't really matter. Pre-Gilmour is kind of bland, the early Gilmour (up till Meddle) was better but still not that great, and after Waters left they made 2 relatively boring albums (not terrible, but certainly nowhere near the 5 i've ranked).

    There are still a few i haven't heard though. (Obscured by clouds, saucerful of secrets, the final cut, more, ummagumma, and most of the piper at the gates of dawn.... so you see i still have work to do)
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Animals (an easy pick, no questions in my mind #1)
    Dark Side of the Moon
    Wish You Were Here
    The Wall
    Meddle

    How about just a top five????
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • tdlftdaporchtdlftdaporch Posts: 158
    tybird wrote:
    Animals (an easy pick, no questions in my mind #1)
    Dark Side of the Moon
    Wish You Were Here
    The Wall
    Meddle

    How about just a top five????
    Why is Animals #1?

    I've heard parts and just didn't get it. It was a bit boring compared to The Wall or WYWH
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  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    animals is a puzzle to me. it was always in the car stereo when the car was full of smoke and you couldn't see outside the car windows through the smoke................i think it's about pigs.......or dogs.......or sheep.......or something.......
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    brain of c wrote:
    animals is a puzzle to me. it was always in the car stereo when the car was full of smoke and you couldn't see outside the car windows through the smoke
    That's probably why you type so small

    :)
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  • off_the_recordoff_the_record Posts: 843
    meddle and piper at the gates are their 2 best.

    then dark side, atom heart mother, and animals.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    I don't have many but of the ones i have i would rank them as such
    animals
    wish you were here
    dark side of the moon
    the wall
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    tdlftdaporch wrote:
    Why is Animals #1?

    I've heard parts and just didn't get it. It was a bit boring compared to The Wall or WYWH
    It's just my favorite..........I can listen to the whole album and not even think about skipping a song. It has my favorite Floyd song, Sheep, on it.

    You probably need to listen to the whole thing............Les Claypool (with his Frog Brigade) covered the entire album live and released it as "Live Frog II." It just has a magic about it.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    tybird wrote:
    It's just my favorite..........I can listen to the whole album and not even think about skipping a song. It has my favorite Floyd song, Sheep, on it.

    .
    that makes two of us!

    Actually i dunno if Sheep is my favorite but it's up there... the album on the whole is definetly #1 for me.





    I don't get this whole 'syd barret was amazing' stuff. The man couldn't play lead guitar, and gilmour+waters is one of the best writing duos in history. Fuck syd barret.
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  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    the wall is crap.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • HailHailVitalogyHailHailVitalogy Posts: 5,201
    I can't rank them all, it's too hard

    but

    Animals is my favorite easily!!!!!!!

    SHEEP!?!?!
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  • Spark123321Spark123321 Posts: 39
    zstillings wrote:
    All that I could remember in my order

    The Final Cut
    Animals
    Obscured By Clouds
    Meddle
    Wish You Were Here
    Dark Side of the Moon
    The Wall
    Atom Heart Mother
    Saucerful of Secrets
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn
    More
    Ummagumma
    Momentary Lapse of Reason
    The Division Bell


    Hell's yeah! You, my friend, have excellent taste!
  • donravendonraven Posts: 144
    Wish you were here
    Dark side of the moon
    The Wall
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  • alobaralobar Posts: 310
    The Wall
    .
    .
    .
    Meddle
    Darkside Of the Moon
    Wish You Were Here
    Animals
    Obscured By Clouds
    "I wanna believe in the mercy of the world again."

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