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fantastic subject Phil,
I too have probably all their songs.

My top three albums are
in third place.

The Wall........... superb album and great to play a few songs off it too
Piper at the gates of dawn..............this used to be my first choice for years, shold be joint first with
Wish you were here........... not only my favourite floyd album but probably my all time favourite album.

I also love to bits Meddle, it should be in the top three as well I would think and dark side, but I cannot cram them all into three spaces unless I burn 5 albums onto 3 discs with mp3s, lol, I could fit a lot in then. Atom heart mother is also good by least fvourite would hae to be.................hmm, ahrd but Momentry lapse of reason, sying that I think it is a superb album too, but my least if I had to choose only because Roger Waters' precence is missing from it.

I much much prefer floyd with Roger Waters in it. I dont care if Rick Wright fell out with Roger because he felt he was taking over too much and wanted to dictate their direction ( leading him to not record The final cut with the band), what Roger was doing or wanting to do wit hthe music was the right thing in my opinion. Just look at the marvelous job he done wit h"the pros and cons of hitchhiking", just sounds like a floyd album, and why? because Roger is and was and always will be the true precnce of the sound pink floyd should have.
RogerWaters said last year about the time of that G8 live thing that Amused to death would have been a much bigger success if they had done it as pink floyd and I think he is damn right.
But saying this, without David Gilmour their would have been a big loss to the sound Floyd had in the 70's. His guitar playing and his voice were needed as well as Rogers musical direction for the success floyd had.
Although I Idolise Syd Barrett, the pink floyd would not have become so succesful without DAvid. But I do think they shuld have allowed Syd to stay in them for his ideas.
I said before somewhere I think that Syd was trying to get back in his band when they were making wish you were here but they told him he was not needed. And these guys had not seen him for a few years and still regarded him as a very good close friend? what utter bollocks!! they should have let him at least put a few wierd whistle sounds in a track or two, have him do voice overs, backing singing, anything to get him involved, and if Syd did not want that then fair enough, let him walk, but they should have gave him a chance.

well, thats some of my views on the magnificent band.

Ken

rj, u bring up another point, guitar, like many forms of art, is stable.  I forget who said this, but i know someone once said that the arts are man's way of coping with the world.  Which is so true, I think the world would be a lot more sad/angry if it weren't for music.