pink floyd top 3 albums

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

well I think exactly the same thing.
It is a topic to discuss for hours, you can see very clearly the BARRETT period, followed by the WATERS GILMOUR struggle, and if you listen to their first albums, there are 2 (maybe 3) albums, where you really can see the "bridge" between the more psychadelic Floyd and the big machine they are now.
My opinion is they started to change, I MEAN FOR A MUCH BIGGER AUDIENCE, after the still more "spacesound" albums: MORE and UMMAGUMMA, but MORE there we can discuss, released before UMMAGUMMA, and yet folk and blues tracks.
More is underestimated.
I did exactly what you did, probably in the napster period, and put them together. I just had 1 funny problem: HERE IS THE ANSWER FOR RECORD COMPANIES, I downloaded DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, when I was home after my crash in 2000-2001, and every track from the album Dark Side, I noticed, months later, that from every song, the last 10" were not there, sh*****, but because of a lot of time, I finally tried to fill my blanc CD-roms, in a chronological way. So I should have everything. And BOOTLEGS: probably as much as official releases.
By the way, from 1 end to another, I adore also THE BEE GEES, before they went disco, I have more or less 20 official CD's and the same amount in mp3.
If you have luck and time, I had, I have the COMPLETE CCR set, starting with Tom Fogerty and the Blue Velvets up to the last CCR track, all the Tom Fogerty albums, this took a lot of time, days, weeks. But look at their story, very similar to Pink Floyd: Tom started the band, with his younger brother John, and left: from founder to zero, same with Dire Straits and Kinks. I don't think it is easy to start a band, and to be a few years later in the shadow of your brother. This one would be a very nice topic: maybe you start that one. I will: bands and brothers (see Oasis), well I will post this topic.
greetings and of cpurse a nice day.

1. the wall
2. meddle
3. wish you were here

the wall was a great album but I listened to it so much when I was younger that the thought of ever listening to it again makes me wince

still listen to meddle and wish you were here though

if you ever get a chance to watch the last 20 minutes of crystal vogager do - its a film about surfing and the last 20 min is an extened photo shoot of reefs and surfing with echoes playing -it s a great piece of film.

Syd was too far gone
Syd could only deliver chaos, alienation and scattered thoughts of maddness.
That was only part of a larger formula. He was mentally ill and could barely function after all that experimentation. Sad.

I was never much of a fan of Pink Floyd up untill about 5 years ago. Sure, I liked one or two of their songs but could never really get into them in a big way.
Now, I've got almost all of their albums!

My favourites do tend to change from time to time, I love the psychedelic sound on some of the 'Piper' tracks but at the moment it wouldn't make my top three. They would be;

1.The Wall.
2.Wish You Were Here
3. Dark Side Of The Moon.

Craig.

On the mentioning of the final cut,
would you consider that to be a pink floyd album or a Roger Waters album with 2 memers of pink floyd doing session work, since it was all roger's word really.

I still see it as Floyd since I see roger waters as the key to floyd, but a mate of min thinks differently,
what do you think./?

Ken

upyerkilt, my master and king, I want to serve you.
In the beginning, when the animals were still talking, there was that "special" album, called the piper at..., I was still very young (°1955) and I didn't like it at all, also the second album. When I heard sometimes a song at that time, I changed the radio UNTIL, I started to listen in the early seventies to the album, I remember me that I was so impressed by that cow, Atom Hearts Mother, I listened once, not yet a big deal, but "IF" was nice, by coincidence at the almost the same day, I went to see my sister, 11 years old then, following class to become a ballerina (she succeeded and lived her dream) dancing on the first song of the album MEDDLE. I felt immediately in move with that song. I found out that the performers were Pink Floyd, so I started to listen again to the cowalbum (that was how I called it), the more I listened, the more I loved it, and suddenly there was DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, and I was completely addicted, I have every PF album, even bootlegs.
Concerning Waters, I just know that WRIGHT, left on purpose or had to, the band, but like you wrote was hired, by Waters. It is always the same old story, super musicians = super ego's, and they ended almost just like Cream, and like Clapton worked again later with Ginger Baker, the same story happened to PF, or maybe the Roger Waters band. It must have been a very sad, violent period, but this is what you get with that kind of musicians.
NOW: I have AND a dvd by Waters playing the Wall, and Gilmour, or PF, playing the same music.
I prefer the version of WATERS, surrounded by the "creme de la creme" of musicians.
He is definitely the best, but maybe I prefer the underdog. I can only make ONE CONCLUSION, together there was MAGIC, just like the fab four. Only sir Paul can speak of a successful life after the beatles, but together MAGIC, see also the stones.

3. Animals
2. Wish you Were Here
1. Dark Side of the Moon

I am more and more amazed here.
Ask anybody on the street GIVE ME 3 NAMES OF PINK FLOYD ALBUMS, you will have probably the answer Dark side of the moon, and maybe the WALL.
It is so difficult to answer that question, but I am surprised.
I was convinced that the number one should be DSof the M, while I preffered far more THE WALL, and WISH YOU WERE HERE. I noticed that talking their albums before Dark side, Meddle is appreciated by a lot, more than MORE, and when listening to MEDDLE, it is a typical PF album, but more open for their public.
If you start listening to their albums, you can notice the evolution to a lot nicer melodies, and the evolution to the PF we all know. I really forgot about ANIMALS, it is together with the WALL, maybe their best album.

Who remembers FLEETWOOD MAC, from a 100% blues orientated group, I have every FM song, you can see on a certain moment, the path they start taking leading us to RUMOURS.
I don't know if there are groups who make an album, and their next album is entirely different.
Bee Gees: same story, you can consider their album mr natural as the beginning of their new style, confirmed on "main course"