I probably had a similar opinion of The Final Cut back in my youth but now in my fifties and relate to it more. It is much further up the list for me now. In my top five.
I think the final cut is great too, those who disluke it dont understand concept albums, or maybe the album is not the barrell of laughs that they wud like it to be
1- Animals 2- Dark Side Of The Moon 3- Wish You Were Here 4- The Wall 5- Meddle 6- Atom Heart Mother 7- The Pipers At The Gates of Dawn 8- A Saucerful Of Secrets 9- Division Bell 10- Obscured By Clouds 11- More 12- A Momentary Lapse of Reason 14- Ummagumma 13- The Final Cut
Good review and can't really argue with it I would say maybe check out their first 3 singles and b sides; Emily Plays, Candy and a Currant Bun, Apples and Oranges, Paintbox,,Arnold lane, Scarecrow.
MY FAVOURITE TO LEAST FAVOURITE: 1. Dark Side Of The Moon 2. Wish You Were Here 3. Animals 4. Atom Heart Mother 5. The Wall 6. Division Bell 7. Meddle 8. A Saucerful of Secrets 9. Piper At The Gateso Of Dawn 10. Obscured By Clouds 11. The Endless River 12. Ummagumma 13. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason 14. More 15. The Final Cut
top 10 1. Dark Side of the Moon- most integrated with seamless continuity connecting tracks and best at incorporating jazz, blues, dazzling backing singers, rich harmonies, striking contrasts and the use of everyday voices and sounds like clocks and heart beats to connect it to everday life. 2. Piper at the Gates of Dawn- most immediate, visceral, playful and improvisational, stunning alternative take on psychedelia alternating between cosmic and rural motifs. 3. Meddle- Echoes is their most impressive and well integrated long composition and a great farewell to their psychedelic sound, and One of These Days has a nightmare galloping quality like a cosmic spaghetti Western horror movie. 4. Wish You Were Here- most empathetic and personal album, the last great interplay between keyboard and guitar which had been the instrumental backbone of the band since the beginning. 5. The Wall- some of David Gilmour's best electric and acoustic guitar like on In the Flesh, Thin Ice, Mother, Hey You, Is There Anyboy Out There, Goodbye Blue Sky and Comfortably Numb, the sharing of vocals between Waters and Gilmour creates a harsh and tender side to the emotions, both show harshness, tenderness and vulnerability, still some downbeat and histrionic songs that are skippers for me 6. Saucerful of Secrets- still has some of the primal energy and dark mystery of the first album with fewer playful interludes Remember a Day best track 7. Atom Heart Mother - I wish the long piece had been based on the development of Summer 68 which to me is the best composition on the album. 8. Animals - not sure where to place this one. It has fabulous guitar licks and an intense atmosphere, but I miss the psychedelia and moments of empathy, vulnerability, melodic sensibility and lyrical wit compared to the albums surrounding it. It feels bleak and the vocals sound mostly harsh in tone. The theme also doesn't seem as original as Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here or the Wall since George Orwell had already written about this in Animal Farm. 9. Division Bell 10. Momentary Lapse of Reason
My top 5 1. Atom Heart Mother 2. Meddle 3. Wish You Were Here 4. Dark Side of the Moon Obscured by Clouds I bought my first Pink Floyd album (Atom Heart Mother) back in 1970 when I was 14 years old and then started collecting all of them since. I had their entire early catalogue before Dark Side of the. Moon was released. Therefore, my perspective on their albums is definitely different than yours. At first I thought Dark Side of the Moon was a commerized sell-out to the masses, especially when “Money” was played ad nauseum on the radio. But The Great Gig in the Sky is perhaps one of the finest recordings ever.
#1. Meddle #2. Dark Side #3. Atom Heart Mother #4. Ummagumma #5. Pipers at the Gates...OK... I'm 66 and I grew up on this band so the oldies would have course been my favorites. But man, they were so fresh and out of this world.
Me too!! First heard Piper at the Gates at a friend’s house in 67/68 in 7th grade. Bought every album, went to every concert in San Francisco area starting in ‘71 (Meddle). Even saw the Wall live in LA. No band is better, and I’ve listened to and seen many. Next to the is Grateful Dead, then the list explodes!! Listen to PF daily!! 🙏
Dark Side Of The Moon may well be the greatest album ever made...but it may not even be Pink Floyd's best album! 😱 My personal favourite is of course Animals, for me that's Pink Floyd at the peak of their powers and is just as relevant today as it was upon release....though any number of Pink Floyd's albums could be anyone's favourite. I'd just like to add that Roger Waters' solo album Amused To Death is probably my favourite album of all time, and has grown on me quite considerably over the many years since i first heard it way back in the 90's, though it is criminally underrated and sadly overlooked by many people. If i had to choose only five albums from the band members catalogues it would be (in no particular order)... Dark Side Of The Moon Wish You Were Here Animals The Wall Amused To Death What can i say, i just love their creative and coherently structured concept albums 🙂 Cool video bro 👍
I fully agree with your examination also for me there are no bad floyd albums it's just a matter of taste . it s just a word to describe them; legendary
1. Animals 2. The Wall 3. Wish You Were Here 4. The Dark Side of The Moon 5. The Division Bell 6. The Final Cut 7. A Momentary Lapse of Reason 8. Meddle 9. Obscured By Clouds 10. Atom Heart Mother 11. The Endless River 12. More 13. A Saucerful of Secrets 14. The Piper at The Gates of Dawn 15. Ummagumma
I enjoyed watching that. I might not agree with your ranking, but each to their own 👍 I'd have 'The Final Cut' at the bottom and 'Animals' at no. 1, with both 'Obscured By Clouds' and 'More' a lot higher. I think both of them are hidden gems that shouldn't be overlooked - IMHO 😀
I’d just put them in the order of release (that’s how I did it starting in 1968). Everyone has different tastes. I love the band. They’re my favorite hands down. I liked the Final Cut. I was not enamored with the re-group albums. I love the later stuff, don’t get me wrong. I saw them do both Momentary Lapse & Division Bell (Pulse). The music is great, but lyrics are nothing like Roger Waters creative lyrics- that sustained them from early on. Waters Amused to Death is far better in a solo effort than any of the others. It was genius!
Totally agree. They should have tried to search for their own voice and write about things they care about. Instead they tried to write lyrics like Waters but without the edge. Gilmour is no critical thinker, he is kind of a relaxed guy. That is why I respect Gilmour writing songs like Smile or Fat old sun better than he trying to write about sorrow and war and dogs and walls with a bunch of producers.
Amused To Death is my favourite album of all time, easily on par with Animals which is my favourite Pink Floyd album too 👍 Kudos for mentioning Amused To Death, it's a stellar album indeed, but is criminally underrated and sadly overlooked. Both Animals and Amused To Death are just as relevant today as they were upon release, though you could add Dark Side Of The Moon to that as well i suppose. Jeezo, they made some brilliant timeless albums 🙂
I love when you say about the endless river it's not bad because it's David Gilmour playing guitar Gilmour can make anything sound amazing , without him pink floyd wouldn't have evolved that much
1967) The Piper At Gates Of Dawn = 9 1968) A Saucerful Of Secrets = 8 1969) More = 6+ 1969) Ummagumma = 6 1970) Atom Heart Mother = 8½ 1971) Meddle = 8½ 1972) Obscured By Clouds = 6+ 1973) The Dark Side Of The Moon = 10 1975) Wish You Were Here = 10 1977) Animals = 10 1979) The Wall = 9½ 1983) The Final Cut = 7 1987) A Momentary Lapse Of Reason = 7 1994) The Division Bell = 9 2014) The Endless River = 5
My Top 15 Pink Floyd Albums... There's Only One Bad Album. 15. The Final Cut The Rest Are Great! 14. More 13. The Division Bell 12. Momentary Lapse Of Reason 11. Endless River 10. The Wall 9. Wish You Were Here 8. The Dark Side Of The Moon 7. Animals 6. Meddle 5. Ummagumma 4. Atom Heart Mother 3. A Saucerful Of Secrets 2. Obscured by Clouds 1. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Interstellar Overdrive Is Probably The Best Pink Floyd Song.
15) Ummagumma 14) The Final Cut 13) The Endless River 12) A Momentary Lapse Of Reason 11) More 10) Atom Heart Mother 9) A Saurceful Of Secrets 8) Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 7) Obscured By Clouds 6) Meddle 5) The Wall 4) Animals 3) The Division Bell 2) Wish You Were Here 1) Dark Side Of The Moon
I just can't get behind anything from The Final Cut on. Later Floyd was perfectly listenable, but it didn't move me at all. As for Umma Gumma, I'll never understand how it could be so underrated by so many.
Ummagumma is simply a work of genius from beginning to end - ALL of it. People who dislike it - saying it's just them "banging on pots and pans" or "just instrumental noodling" have no appreciation for music that goes way beyond the mediocre and cliché pop styles of so-called "classic rock". Floyd were at their most experimental and exploratory with Ummagumma, while also demonstrating bold and accomplished compositional prowess.
@@MrRattlebones640 Oh, yes and you aren't the height of pretention calling yourself "Vladimir Lenin "?? You're delusional. You are not only an idiot who doesn't understand music, but when someone makes a comment extolling on the virtues of something you do not understand you resort to a remark that further demonstrates your undeniable mediocrity.
floyds best albums were 1967-1973. starting with piper and ending with dark side. like the stones classic period 1968-1972 beggars banquet to exile. after dark side they never hit those psychedelic mind expanding peaks again
1) The piper at the gates of dawn 2) The final cut 3) Animals 4) The dark side of the moon 5) Whish you were here The only reason why The final cut is not sharing the first place together with The piper at the gates of dawn is because they fucked it up 2004 by adding "When the tigers broke free" which it is a great song, but destroyed the perfect transition from song to song. That shows that not even Roger Waters respects this album as much as I do.
1. Wish You Were Here 2. The Dark Side of the Moon 3. The Division Bell 4. Meddle 5. Obscured By Clouds 6. A Momentary Lapse of Reason 7. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 8. More 9. A Saucerful of Secrets 10. The Endless River 11. Atom Heart Mother 12. Animals 13. The Wall 14. Ummagumma 15. The Final Cut
Wow! I liked your ranking! Good pics.
Thanks!
My ranking is very similar as yours, Pink Floyd is amazing!
loved the way you described the albums! great video :)
I probably had a similar opinion of The Final Cut back in my youth but now in my fifties and relate to it more. It is much further up the list for me now. In my top five.
I think the final cut is great too, those who disluke it dont understand concept albums, or maybe the album is not the barrell of laughs that they wud like it to be
1- Animals
2- Dark Side Of The Moon
3- Wish You Were Here
4- The Wall
5- Meddle
6- Atom Heart Mother
7- The Pipers At The Gates of Dawn
8- A Saucerful Of Secrets
9- Division Bell
10- Obscured By Clouds
11- More
12- A Momentary Lapse of Reason
14- Ummagumma
13- The Final Cut
An interesting ranking.
Good review and can't really argue with it I would say maybe check out their first 3 singles and b sides; Emily Plays, Candy and a Currant Bun, Apples and Oranges, Paintbox,,Arnold lane, Scarecrow.
Yes, but this was a ranking of only studio albums
MY FAVOURITE TO LEAST FAVOURITE:
1. Dark Side Of The Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Animals
4. Atom Heart Mother
5. The Wall
6. Division Bell
7. Meddle
8. A Saucerful of Secrets
9. Piper At The Gateso Of Dawn
10. Obscured By Clouds
11. The Endless River
12. Ummagumma
13. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
14. More
15. The Final Cut
top 10
1. Dark Side of the Moon- most integrated with seamless continuity connecting tracks and best at incorporating jazz, blues, dazzling backing singers, rich harmonies, striking contrasts and the use of everyday voices and sounds like clocks and heart beats to connect it to everday life.
2. Piper at the Gates of Dawn- most immediate, visceral, playful and improvisational, stunning alternative take on psychedelia alternating between cosmic and rural motifs.
3. Meddle- Echoes is their most impressive and well integrated long composition and a great farewell to their psychedelic sound, and One of These Days has a nightmare galloping quality like a cosmic spaghetti Western horror movie.
4. Wish You Were Here- most empathetic and personal album, the last great interplay between keyboard and guitar which had been the instrumental backbone of the band since the beginning.
5. The Wall- some of David Gilmour's best electric and acoustic guitar like on In the Flesh, Thin Ice, Mother, Hey You, Is There Anyboy Out There, Goodbye Blue Sky and Comfortably Numb, the sharing of vocals between Waters and Gilmour creates a harsh and tender side to the emotions, both show harshness, tenderness and vulnerability, still some downbeat and histrionic songs that are skippers for me
6. Saucerful of Secrets- still has some of the primal energy and dark mystery of the first album with fewer playful interludes Remember a Day best track
7. Atom Heart Mother - I wish the long piece had been based on the development of Summer 68 which to me is the best composition on the album.
8. Animals - not sure where to place this one. It has fabulous guitar licks and an intense atmosphere, but I miss the psychedelia and moments of empathy, vulnerability, melodic sensibility and lyrical wit compared to the albums surrounding it. It feels bleak and the vocals sound mostly harsh in tone. The theme also doesn't seem as original as Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here or the Wall since George Orwell had already written about this in Animal Farm.
9. Division Bell
10. Momentary Lapse of Reason
For me, “Obscured by Clouds” is my favourite, followed by “More”.
The Wall is just the perfect music for me. Made for a great film too
For me....
1 - Animals
2 - The Dark Side Of The Moon
3 - Wish You Were Here
4 - Meddle
5 - Obscured By Clouds.
Wish you were here is such an overrated album
@@svalbardstudios7198 you really think so? All the songs on it are great
My top 5
1. Atom Heart Mother
2. Meddle
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Dark Side of the Moon
Obscured by Clouds
I bought my first Pink Floyd album (Atom Heart Mother) back in 1970 when I was 14 years old and then started collecting all of them since. I had their entire early catalogue before Dark Side of the. Moon was released. Therefore, my perspective on their albums is definitely different than yours. At first I thought Dark Side of the Moon was a commerized sell-out to the masses, especially when “Money” was played ad nauseum on the radio. But The Great Gig in the Sky is perhaps one of the finest recordings ever.
#1. Meddle #2. Dark Side #3. Atom Heart Mother #4. Ummagumma #5. Pipers at the Gates...OK... I'm 66 and I grew up on this band so the oldies would have course been my favorites. But man, they were so fresh and out of this world.
Me too!! First heard Piper at the Gates at a friend’s house in 67/68 in 7th grade. Bought every album, went to every concert in San Francisco area starting in ‘71 (Meddle). Even saw the Wall live in LA. No band is better, and I’ve listened to and seen many. Next to the is Grateful Dead, then the list explodes!! Listen to PF daily!! 🙏
@@dhtm3577 You are so lucky to have seen them during the Meddle tour. I didn't see them until the Dark Side tour (73).
Dark Side Of The Moon may well be the greatest album ever made...but it may not even be Pink Floyd's best album! 😱
My personal favourite is of course Animals, for me that's Pink Floyd at the peak of their powers and is just as relevant today as it was upon release....though any number of Pink Floyd's albums could be anyone's favourite.
I'd just like to add that Roger Waters' solo album Amused To Death is probably my favourite album of all time, and has grown on me quite considerably over the many years since i first heard it way back in the 90's, though it is criminally underrated and sadly overlooked by many people.
If i had to choose only five albums from the band members catalogues it would be (in no particular order)...
Dark Side Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
Amused To Death
What can i say, i just love their creative and coherently structured concept albums 🙂
Cool video bro 👍
I fully agree with your examination also for me there are no bad floyd albums it's just a matter of taste . it s just a word to describe them; legendary
1. Animals
2. The Wall
3. Wish You Were Here
4. The Dark Side of The Moon
5. The Division Bell
6. The Final Cut
7. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
8. Meddle
9. Obscured By Clouds
10. Atom Heart Mother
11. The Endless River
12. More
13. A Saucerful of Secrets
14. The Piper at The Gates of Dawn
15. Ummagumma
You’re missing out. Psychedelic Floyd is one of my personal favorite Floyd eras. I’d highly recommend checking em out brother
I enjoyed watching that. I might not agree with your ranking, but each to their own 👍
I'd have 'The Final Cut' at the bottom and 'Animals' at no. 1, with both 'Obscured By Clouds' and 'More' a lot higher. I think both of them are hidden gems that shouldn't be overlooked - IMHO 😀
I’d just put them in the order of release (that’s how I did it starting in 1968). Everyone has different tastes. I love the band. They’re my favorite hands down. I liked the Final Cut. I was not enamored with the re-group albums. I love the later stuff, don’t get me wrong. I saw them do both Momentary Lapse & Division Bell (Pulse). The music is great, but lyrics are nothing like Roger Waters creative lyrics- that sustained them from early on. Waters Amused to Death is far better in a solo effort than any of the others. It was genius!
Totally agree. They should have tried to search for their own voice and write about things they care about. Instead they tried to write lyrics like Waters but without the edge. Gilmour is no critical thinker, he is kind of a relaxed guy. That is why I respect Gilmour writing songs like Smile or Fat old sun better than he trying to write about sorrow and war and dogs and walls with a bunch of producers.
Amused To Death is my favourite album of all time, easily on par with Animals which is my favourite Pink Floyd album too 👍
Kudos for mentioning Amused To Death, it's a stellar album indeed, but is criminally underrated and sadly overlooked.
Both Animals and Amused To Death are just as relevant today as they were upon release, though you could add Dark Side Of The Moon to that as well i suppose.
Jeezo, they made some brilliant timeless albums 🙂
I love when you say about the endless river it's not bad because it's David Gilmour playing guitar
Gilmour can make anything sound amazing , without him pink floyd wouldn't have evolved that much
1967) The Piper At Gates Of Dawn = 9
1968) A Saucerful Of Secrets = 8
1969) More = 6+
1969) Ummagumma = 6
1970) Atom Heart Mother = 8½
1971) Meddle = 8½
1972) Obscured By Clouds = 6+
1973) The Dark Side Of The Moon = 10
1975) Wish You Were Here = 10
1977) Animals = 10
1979) The Wall = 9½
1983) The Final Cut = 7
1987) A Momentary Lapse Of Reason = 7
1994) The Division Bell = 9
2014) The Endless River = 5
Very original list. Love it.
I agree with this list mostly but Meddle and Obscured by Clouds should be way higher in my opinion.
Is the front cover cow the mother of the 3 back cows? Is that the reason the album is called that?
Haha you know what? I’ve never thought of that or heard that before. That’s pretty interesting. Now I have to find out
I thought he was holding vinyls and not CDs and I was terrified
My Top 15 Pink Floyd Albums...
There's Only One Bad Album.
15. The Final Cut
The Rest Are Great!
14. More
13. The Division Bell
12. Momentary Lapse Of Reason
11. Endless River
10. The Wall
9. Wish You Were Here
8. The Dark Side Of The Moon
7. Animals
6. Meddle
5. Ummagumma
4. Atom Heart Mother
3. A Saucerful Of Secrets
2. Obscured by Clouds
1. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Interstellar Overdrive Is Probably The Best Pink Floyd Song.
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.
I just submitted great channel did you rank Led Zeppelin
15) Ummagumma
14) The Final Cut
13) The Endless River
12) A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
11) More
10) Atom Heart Mother
9) A Saurceful Of Secrets
8) Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
7) Obscured By Clouds
6) Meddle
5) The Wall
4) Animals
3) The Division Bell
2) Wish You Were Here
1) Dark Side Of The Moon
Nice list! Thanks for watching
I just can't get behind anything from The Final Cut on. Later Floyd was perfectly listenable, but it didn't move me at all. As for Umma Gumma, I'll never understand how it could be so underrated by so many.
Its just instrumental noodling. Grantchester Meadows is great though.
@@MrRattlebones640 "instrumental noodling"??? That's just so wrong. It's a lot more than that. A great and obviously very underrated album.
Ummagumma is simply a work of genius from beginning to end - ALL of it.
People who dislike it - saying it's just them "banging on pots and pans" or "just instrumental noodling" have no appreciation for music that goes way beyond the mediocre and cliché pop styles of so-called "classic rock". Floyd were at their most experimental and exploratory with Ummagumma, while also demonstrating bold and accomplished compositional prowess.
@@StavroginR never before have i seen someone be so pretentious.
@@MrRattlebones640 Oh, yes and you aren't the height of pretention calling yourself "Vladimir Lenin
"?? You're delusional. You are not only an idiot who doesn't understand music, but when someone makes a comment extolling on the virtues of something you do not understand you resort to a remark that further demonstrates your undeniable mediocrity.
Umagumma is my favorite (the studio side)
Yeah ! I mean... how can you have any album ranked higher than Dark Side Of The Moon ...
It’s the greatest album of all time !
floyds best albums were 1967-1973. starting with piper and ending with dark side. like the stones classic period 1968-1972 beggars banquet to exile. after dark side they never hit those psychedelic mind expanding peaks again
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I like Floyd. Don't care for but a few songs on Animals and WYWH. Lots of overlong blah songs. They often sound bored and out of ideas.
5) The Wall
4) Meddle
3) Dark Side Of The Moon
2) Wish You Were Here
1) Animals
Dat division bell is an awful effort to b rated above the magnificent the final cut, if you dont believe me just play them back to back
1) The piper at the gates of dawn
2) The final cut
3) Animals
4) The dark side of the moon
5) Whish you were here
The only reason why The final cut is not sharing the first place together with The piper at the gates of dawn is because they fucked it up 2004 by adding "When the tigers broke free" which it is a great song, but destroyed the perfect transition from song to song. That shows that not even Roger Waters respects this album as much as I do.
1. Wish You Were Here
2. The Dark Side of the Moon
3. The Division Bell
4. Meddle
5. Obscured By Clouds
6. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
7. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8. More
9. A Saucerful of Secrets
10. The Endless River
11. Atom Heart Mother
12. Animals
13. The Wall
14. Ummagumma
15. The Final Cut