Excluding 'The Wall' - what are your three favorite Pink Floyd albums?
 

Mine would have to go

1) Wish You Were Here(yes, its an album name)
2) Dark Side of the Moon
3) Obscured by the Clouds

Dark Side
Division Bell
Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here
Dark Side of the Moon
Meddle

The Wall is nowhere near my favorite Floyd album anyway.

I have only listened to the really "big" 4 albums. I rank them like this:

WYWH
Dark Side
The Wall
Animals

With Animals quite far down from the rest of them.

Check out Meddle. It's worth it just for Echoes.

Yeah was definitely going to make that one my next purchase. Only got into Floyd after seeing them at Live 8 :love: so started off with the big albums and I think Meddle will definitely be my next purchase. Any suggestions after that? Was thinking maybe Division Bell or the Final Cut?

The post-Wall albums aren't as good. Gilmour and Waters are both good songwriters, but anything they've released under the Pink Floyd name without the other hasn't been that great (not that they're bad albums, but not up to par with other Floyd albums).

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a classic, one of the best psychedellic albums of all time. It's the only album they did with Syd Barrett, so it's somewhat different than the rest of their work.

Obscured By Clouds is a great album. It's not a conventional album, however, it's a film soundtrack. It's more atmospheric I guess.

Ummagumma is a pretty good release of older Floyd stuff. It's before they really hit their stride, however. I feel that they became a truly "great" band with Meddle.

Pulse is one of the best live albums ever. It has my favorite version of Comfortably Numb.

Roger Waters' album "The Pros and Cons of Hitchiking" is also a great listen. It sounds like a Wall-era Floyd album (which makes sense, since Waters wrote The Wall). It's similar to The Final Cut I guess, which was basically a Waters album.

I'd say the essentials after the "big 4" are Meddle and The Piper At The Gates of Dawn. That's what I'd recomend you buy next. Obscured By Clouds is one of my favorites too.

My list exactly. Meddle doesn't get nearly enough love.

One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces

animals who cares though?

Meddle would've been my 4th.

Echoes and Fearless are awesome.

I only have "Wish you were here," and I only bought it for the title track. And even that gets owned by the Rasputina version. Not a bad album though.

Meddle is probably the one I listen to the most. Dark Side Of The Moon would be second. Then Wish You Were Here or Atom Heart Mother.

Obscured By Clouds is pretty great too.

Dark Side Of The Moon
The Division Bell

Saucerful of Secrets is better than people give it credit for. I mean yeah it was the transition away from Syd Barrett but it was still a good listen.

:(

WYWH
Dark Side
Animals

Meddle
Animals
Dark Side

Very honorable mention to Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Dark Side of the Moon
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Wish You Were Here

Honorable mention to A Momentary Lapse of Reason which doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Wish You Were Here
Dark Side of the Moon

Btw Bike is probably the best Pink Floyd song ever TO ME.

:love: Listening to it right now actually.


I know a mouse
And he hasn't got a house
I don't know why
I call him Gerald
He's getting rather old
But he's a good mouse

Biding My Time is probably the best Floyd song TO ME.