Whats your favorite Pink Floyd song(s)?

[urbantechie]

I have Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall CD. Both pretty good. What other albums should I get? And what are some cool songs?

 

[loup garou]

You should pick up Wish You Were Here. Title track is my favorite song.

 

[DefRef]

"Run Like Hell" - The Wall

 

[Isla]

Mother and Blue Skies are my favorites. Oh, Wish You Were Here and Shine On You Crazy Diamond rock, too.

 

[yakko]

The Wall and The Final Cut albums.

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

Try listening to "Careful With That Axe, Eugene", "Astronomy Domine" or "Allen's Psychedelic Breakfast". The old stuff is pretty good.

 

[PlasticJesus]

Another vote for The Final Cut.

The Division Bell is a must-have and Pulse is a pretty good collection.

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

Come on, The Division Bell is a joke

 

[Russ]

Money.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Fatdog]

Mother

 

[Pepsi90919]

Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage/Eclipse
Welcome to the Machine

 

Comfortably numb

 

[dennilfloss]

Wish You Were Here and Echoes.

Get those 3 albums: Meddle, Wish You Were Here, Animals.

Sheep (Pink Floyd)

 

[Fearlss1]

on the turning away.. and learning to fly

 

[gnognugs]

I would avoid anything that does not involve Roger Waters (Bass, lyrics, 50% of the vocals).
Syd Barrett (the founder of the band - guitar, vocals), stuff is completely different than any material created after David Gilmore took over Guitar, and the other 50% of the vocals.
You will probably find Barrett stuff childish comparatively (but good and very unique). You may hate it.

Albums to buy:

Animals
Wish You Were Here
Meddle
Saucerful of Secrets
Atom Heart Mother
The Wall (Richard Wright does not play on this album!)
The Final Cut (third record of The Wall really, they were all written at the same time, but this was released later)
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Barrett)

Do not get:

Momentary Lapse of Reason (best non-waters album but still suck)
Division Bell
Pulse (live)

There is tons of bootleg live Floyd shows out there too, and they often played songs very differently than on the albums. Same rules apply

 

[jman19]

Be sure to pick up Animals. The Wall and Dark Side are highly popular, but I think that Animals is at least on par with them, maybe even better.

 

[Farbio]

gotta go with wish you were here as the best floyd song

 

[nirgis]

ive liked every single pink floyd album ive heard

 

[CrimsonWolf]

Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb
Run Like Hell
Mother

 

[deftron]

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond"

 

[glen]

Wish You Were Here

 

[UG]

Lost my virginity to Meddle; produced and performed years of laser light shows to DSotM and tW.

DSotM is my fav. tW is #2. WYWH sounds good but is lightshow audience death.

 

[amb#cog]

Another "Wish You Were Here", here.

I love "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" too.

I also am a big fan of "Not Now John".

Umm.... actually pretty much all of em. I have their box set, and find myself listening to it more then anything else I own (200 or so CD's), and definitely more then any other box set I own (Led Zep (the studio set), Police, James Brown).

I've been a huge Floyd for about 15+ years now (I'll be 29 in April), and even used Floyd as the basis for my 8th grade term paper (got a B+ ). I saw them twice on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. Once at the Providence Civic Center (14,000 seat), and then at The Foxboro Stadium (55,000-where The Patriots play). The indoor show in Prov was the best by far, because the lights were too hard to see outdoor in the fog at Foxboro.

I also saw the Radio Kaos (sp?) tour that same year (87'?). Roger Waters puts on an amazing show too, and I'm still kicking myself for not seeing him last year in Providence.

All I can say is. Listen to "Wish You Were Here". Then try their other stuff, and I think you'll become a huge fan too. They're very addictive IMO. I really have a special place in my heart for the "Wish You Were Here" though, and although it's short. I feel it's an extremely powerful CD.

Does anyone else find it odd that they put Momentary Lapse of Reason on the box set, but not The Final Cut????

 

[slunk]

Echoes

 

[CliffC]

Gunners Dream