A bottle of wine is more enjoyable though.

If The Wall was a bottle of wine, i'd agree.

How can you call yourself a massive Pink Floyd fan if you hate albums they've released?

High Hopes off Division Bells is one of the greatest Pink Floyd songs in my opinion, and a great sort of farewell to the fans, it being their last studio album and all.

About The Wall, I love pretty much all of it. It is a bit morose and depressing as Satch points out, but I quite like the depressing bits - f.ex the sad, desperate loneliness of Don't Leave Me Now.

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This is awesome.

Absolutely. I love that song. I love the entire album really, never understood why it gets so much hate on here.

the good songs are really good, like "Young Lust", "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell"

there are also a lot of numbers I'd rather not have - "Vera", "The Trial"

gonna have to agree with you on this.....from beginning to end it is a beautiful and horrifying journey of the decent of madness....i honestly try to listen to it in its entirety at least once a month

i also think that Saucerful Of secrets is one of their best albums (not their best) "Let There be More Light" and "Set the controls For The heart On The Sun" are by far two of my favorite tracks by them

also as i can agree with all the hate for Momentary lapse Of Reason....i still think Learning to Fly is an amazing song

edit....watched live In Pompeii last night....and its still amazing....they had such a dynamic with each other at that time

I don't mind Momentary Lapse of Reason so much. I agree it's not as good as previous albums and nowhere as cohesive, but I quite like the songs, particularly On the Turning Away, One Slip and Learning to Fly which I think are all pretty great.

Dogs of War also....love that song :)

Post-Roger Waters work is fine and dandy, but the Roger Waters-era Pink Floyd is what I really consider Pink Floyd. It just isn't the same after that.

The greatest Pink floyd album is King Crimson's in the Court of the Crimson King, with Piper closely following.

So King Crimson made the greatest Pink Floyd album. I wonder if that ever was a source of tension in the band.

it was probably in an alternate universe where Fripp hooked up with Waters, instead of Gilmour

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Sorry for the late reply but I can call myself a Pink Floyd fan because I like their music, just because I don't like two of their albums means I can't be a Floyd fan? Look at Frank Zappa, look at all the albums he realized. If you were to hate just one of them, you wouldn't be a Zappa fan? If that's the case. Very little people would be fans. Besides, The Division Bell sucked. No Roger Waters? Get out of here. Gilmour is great but honestly no Roger Waters is basically no Pink Floyd, I know that's they said about Barrett but they managed to pull it off. In this case, they didn't pull it off.

I'm not usually a massive music critique but when it comes to my favourite bands I have a certain expectation when it comes to their music. Earlier stuff is absolutely gorgeous. But continuing on from there they got a bit topsy turvy. You could say I'm more of a Syd Barrett fan because I prefer his solo albums to many Pink Floyd albums, but I do love Animals and Wish You Were Here.

Goodbye Blue Sky is also my favourite song from The Wall after listening to it again.

I dislike A Momentary Lapse Of Reason as well because Roger Waters cocky attitude got the better of him. But to have no Waters all.... Just.. No.

Greatest joke I've heard in a long time.

Somebody has just had a momentary lapse of reason.

Personally I think when Roger Waters became too dominant in the band, they suffered which is why I think their later more dominant Roger Waters albums are quite boring at times.

Rolling Stone normally spends its time running down albums, only to change their minds about those same albums ten years later and put them into one of their greatest albums list. How can anybody really take the critique of that mag seriously.

Okay, I think you've interpreted it. Lol.

I really do think Piper at the Gates of Dawn gets overlooked often. Syd Barrett is pretty underrated as a guitarist, mostly thanks to Gilmore. Their psychedelic qualities and song writing abilities here are fantastic. Something I'd listen to when in a daze. I do like their later stuff but Piper is a lot more fun.

Overlooked!!! Most people on here go on like its the best album ever from the 1960s and most review sites go on about how great it is as well. It's one of the most overrated albums in the history of rock.

Syd Barrett a great guitarist, well I suppose if you consider noodling great then he was.

Well your top 10 is really nice kind of collection indeed, I had all these songs but as my hard disk crashed I lost all. So, now collecting again and you did my task quite handy. thanks for posting all these songs.:band:

You have to be kidding me.... Piper is not an over rated album, it's probably up there with Meddle has the most popular non-commercially successful albums but still even songs like, "Flaming", "Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk", and "Pow R. Toc H", are overlooked tracks.

I wasn't really talking about here. Compared to The Wall, DSotM, Wish You Were Here, and later discographies I do think so, for many reasons. Including the success and attention to their concept work which eventually became a landmark of the band. They achieved the most commercial success at that point. Gilmour and Waters overshadowed Syd. Gilmour the most critically acclaimed guitarist compared to him.

Haha, its funny that this is a top 10 pink floyd albums thread when I'm not sure how many more than 10 pink floyd made.

favorite is definitely wish you were here!

It's on Rolling Stone's "Greatest 500 Albums Ever" list, it's on Mojo's "50 Most Out There Albums" list, it's on Q's "Greatest 100 British Albums" list. It charted at no.6 in the UK album chart and constantly gets hyped as one of the very best British psychedelic albums ever recorded. Does that sound like an overlooked album to you?

Well now you put it that way it's not, but my statement still stands.

Piper always gets mentioned in the same breath as The Wall, DSOTM and Wish You Were Here on anything that I've read about the band and on here it' s held in the same esteem as those albums, so I can hardly see it as being an "overlooked gem" Even the OP thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread.

Of course Gilmour is going to be held in higher esteem, he's played on nearly all of the band's albums, whilst Syd only managed to play on one and a bit albums, before he was trollied off to the funny farm.

he never went to the funny farm

he was mostly at home lost in his own universe, occasionally going out to collect royalties to feed myself and baffle people by his behaviour until the day he died

Sounds like he was playing too much Skyrim.

Here apparently it's not, but if I am going to go by what I've seen... Other forums I used to visit with music sections mostly held their concept albums as the pinnacle of their career. There were mentions of Piper here and there but not often. I admit I haven't come by any reviews of the album, so I can't comment there. Only a few articles I've read about Pink Floyd, that's about it.

Presently here in big parts of social society being involved with, including the bar/pub scene which is pretty big, they off course have albums or tracks from DSotM, The Wall, or WYWH, not their earlier work. From what I gather Pink Floyd are mostly known for their conceptuality rather than their psychedelic artistry which is the most prominent in Piper. I'm pretty sure a lot of people today get to Piper after being introduced to these dominating albums... or anything earlier for that matter.

I guess obviously the albums I'm comparing it to are the most commercially successful albums. People tend to stick to them. That was my angle.

In the documentary "Inside Pink Floyd" they said themselves that their early albums are very stupid and boring and they even wondered how they had managed to sell them.

Gotta watch that.

Overlooked? Maybe not. You got me there. Over rated? Definitely not.

Just because an album is popular, doesn't mean it's over rated, I'm glad it got what it got. It's really Space Rock and influenced many, many bands to come. Besides, I wouldn't call Mojo's "50 Most Out There Albums" necessarily complimenting the album. It got really popular as well as Pink Floyd singles in 1967, but it slowly died out as Pink Floyd got more popular.

3 million album sales in it's debut isn't really bad, but it isn't top notch the best that they could of gotten.

I think Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a brilliant album; I just happen to prefer the 70's Gilmour albums. In the context of Pink Floyd albums it is underrated. When you stack it against their 70's material, Pipers seems comparatively obscure. Especially against Dark Side of the Moon, and The Wall, two albums which have received tremendous accolades. You can't spend even spend 5 minutes listening to a classic rock station without hearing a song from either album.

I'm not a big fan of The Syd Barret years, but I acknowledge the albums brilliance.

But I think two truly underrated Pink Floyd album are Atom Heart Mother and The Final Cut. Both of those albums receive a lot of criticism and I've spent plenty of hours enjoying both immensely.

I totally agree about both albums. Everything on Atom Heart Mother except "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" is fantastic and The Final Cut is like disc three of The Wall (which, to me, is a good thing).

Good collection indeed to listen as well to shake the body for the endless joy and entertainment, thanks for posting these marvelous songs for us.

I've always had mixed emotions about The Wall which I've tried to convey many times. On one hand it's an absolute work of genius. On the other hand, it's beyond catharsis. There's no veil between artistic license and personal history. Listening to the album from start to finish can sometimes be like being paid by the hour to listen to Roger Waters tell you about how he got to be the ****ed up individual he currently is (I'm not implying anything about Roger Waters current mental health. For all I know he could be the most perfectly well adjusted human being on the face of planet Earth)

The Final Cut really conveys a lot of the same emotion that The Wall does without being quite so starkly candid. I definitely agree that it does seem like the third disc of The Wall and it may receive the criticism that it does because from a certain perspective it's just an epilogue to The Wall and a prelude to Roger Waters leaving the band and the ensuing legal nonsense. I think if their was another album between it and The Wall it would be seen as just a great Waters-centric Pink Floyd album, which it really is.

1. Meddle
2. The Wall
3. Wish You Were Here
4. The Piper At the Gates of Dawn
5. Obscured By Clouds
6. Atom Heart Mother
7. Dark Side of the Moon
8. Animals
9. A Saucerful of Secrets
10.Ummagumma

It pains me to leave the More soundtrack off the list because Green is the Colour and Cymbaline are two of my favourite Pink Floyd songs.

this is me, knowin' that feel.

as a huge fan of A Momentary Lapse of Reason i can relate to being a fan of a Pink Floyd album that isn't one of their best. solidarity, my boyardee.

That's a strange thing to say! They'd been pretty much Prog from the Start. I'd even say Interstalla Overdrive, esp how they played it live, was the very start of Prog. If it wasn't then the title track from Saucerfiul of secrets was and then there's the title track of Atom Heart Mother and Echoes!

1. Wish You Were Here
2. Dark Side Of The Moon
3. The Wall
4. Animalls
5. cant decide lol... Xd


Also, I dont consider pink floyd progressive rock at all.