I only discovered Pink Floyd in the mid 80's, so I didn't hear a lot of their early stuff. I had heard the single "Another Brick in the Wall" sometime about 1978 [??], but nothing else.
The first LP (yes, it was still plastic 33s in those days) I heard was Animals, which I consider to be my favourite, in 1984. In the next year or so, I listened to everything they'd recorded, up to and including "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" and Roger Waters' "Radio Kaos" (yeah, I know he'd left by then...) and I even went to Wembley Stadium with a mate in August '85 to see that concert (still got the tickets in my scrapbook).
However, that was only about 20% of my education. Under the influences of certain substances, I started to try to work out what they were singing about, and that's when I realised that Pink Floyd songs are not just a nice melody you can click your fingers and dance to.
Animals is my favourite because I can identify with the kind of people that are being described. Dark Side Of The Moon is a bit weird, because I'm not a nutter, and Wish You Were Here... Well, I'm happy where I am now, thank you very much...
EDIT: If you ask me my favourite single song/tune, the answer would be "Time".
Originally posted by mbakunini adore the title track and but the rest of the material is somewhat lacking i think. i'd have to nominate the live disc from Ummagumma as my favourite, but if we're talking strictly studio albums, i'd have to go with either Meddle or Wish You Were Here.
atom heart mother is my favourite, a seriously underrated album
Originally posted by eamon oOh please. That whole, "every commercially successful album sucks" thing is so cliché. I wouldn't say 'The Wall' was my favorite Floyd album (Meddle & Animals for me), but I certainly wouldn't call it "a mistake".
theyre all good, except the wall which was a big mistake
Were you the one who said "The Life Pursuit" by B&S sucked too?
Ridiculous.
Originally posted by richfeetNo question. Conceptually, artistically, musically, creatively, and in terms of production, DSOTM is the best. If you think of Pink Floyd's life as a magnifying glass, DSOTM is the moment when the rays of the Floydian sun were focused into a brilliant burning point of light, scorching a permanent indentation onto the collective unconscious. It can't be beat.
NO QUESTION The Dark Side of the Moon!
That said, "Echoes," "Grantchester Meadows," and, "Fearless," are my favorite Floyd tracks.