Pink Floyd Albums Ranked (see pinned comment correction) *

hey it's mazzy and welcome to another ranking video this is pink floyd the pink floyd collection this is one of the cases where i'm showing all the records because they only had 15 studio records now i'm not including any live records or comps but um as an introduction um i really want to talk about this book this is a book by hypnosis it's called vinyl album cover art the complete hypnosis catalog hypnosis uh storm ferguson the late storm ferguson and aubry powell integral part of the design and image of pink floyd for most of the records i'll talk about that a little bit as i go through those of you who watched my channel before probably know i'm a as a photo agent i'm very interested in photography art and design and the aesthetics is a is an important part of records for me uh releases in the image of a band and and the mood of a of an album for me although having said that i'm not using the design the cover art to calculate my list going back from number 15 to number one as i've said before in every single one of these ranking videos there is a playlist so you can see all of them i've done so far these are my favorite in the moment right now going back from 15 to 1 to number one it's a subjective thing if you have different put your suggestions in there i'm not wrong you're not wrong just a different take on things i'm coming from uh just the perspective not better but just different that i'm a first generation where except for one instance here i bought all these albums pretty much right when they came out so i grew up with these records and so they affected me at different times in my life obviously going back to 1967 68 and to the last few years so without further ado we'll jump on this and i'm going to go backwards number 15. number 15 almost seems like it's conceptual because i don't have it i don't have it anymore i got rid of it at some point and i think it's the it's possibly the worst record in their catalog some will argue for several reasons but it's the final cut it's um the last album roger waters was on and it was sort of piecemealed together some leftovers as i recall from the wall and and it's it's a mess as far as i'm concerned so to me that makes it a disappointment now you might say some of the other hybrid albums are worse i don't agree and as i get into this you'll kind of see where i'm coming from and my taste so i don't have it to show the final cut maggie thatcher you know there you go so that's number number 15 right off the bat you don't see anything which is kind of in a great way conceptually uh interesting to start off this uh ranking video number 14 the endless river or what i call pink floyd's uh music middle of the road record album pink floyd's windham hill record if you know what i'm talking about with windham hill you know it it's like the remaining two members nick mason and uh david gilmour david gilbert's wife working on the lyrics here um phil manzonera is co-produced and youth and annie jackson so it's it's a collaboration and it's really interesting i think there's only one uh song with vocals it's mainly instrumental so it has that um massage-like music atmosphere um of it again beautiful packaging beautiful cover art and i i can never you know take that away light the light grade um it's just it's a mood piece and i love that they did this and to me you know there's that whole argument that people have should you call these things a pink floyd record should you call the last several who albums who album but you got pete townsend and and roger daltrey left so that's subjective you know a lot of us who are into like a band and pink floyd is amongst my favorite band so i i do love them and you know there's parts of this album i enjoy but when i pull together 15 records this is number 14. number 13 and amongst my favorite album covers this cover the division bell um this is problematic as well there's some great stuff on it again all the records sound wonderful um you know this is almost a record that i could just have the cover and i could be it i can be pleased i don't know what else to say about this record um again great packaging great imaging division bill i'm not going to say any more and i know i'm going to get criticized for that because if i'm going to dig deep into these records um hey so be it number 12. um this could be rated higher in some ways because i do like that i mean i like all these records so number 12 is the soundtrack is more one of uh two soundtracks i think i have on this list this is an interesting record this is an early record this is from a barbette schroeder film really interesting and great film director it's moody it's atmospheric a lot of waters cuts in fact most of side one is written by except for two pieces written by roger waters and side two is a collective of the whole band so it's dramatic themes it's it's um you know blues themes spatial themes uh interesting record i picked this up now a lot of these records except for those last few so i bought these when they came out this was on tower records in this country uh not to be confused with the retail chain towel records more soundtrack coming at number 12. now this record a lot of people love to hate this record it's coming in number 11 is i call it umaguma some say amagama i think it's umaguma a fantastic cover i remember buying this right when it came out because there was a time when record companies would have these double albums but they'd be not much more i think maybe a dollar more than a single record of course this record is one record of live uh music and one record where it's split in the quarters and each band taking on a quarter so somewhat pretentious but i have like some stories about this why this record is interesting and still means a lot to me i remember buying this record i was 15 years old when this came out i was at a friend's house who had an older brother and there was a couple people over there maybe five or six people and we had a sleepover and i was 15. so i was a teenager several of the people there took peyote and played this record over and over again literally one record all night long i think one of the first times i remember staying up all night i did not take any drugs they were on peyote and i kind of really really got into this record and especially the roger waters sections granchester meadows which to me is a beautiful atmospheric folk song with birds and nature insect pieces and several species of a small furry animals gather together in a cave and grooving with a picked which is this bizarre audio sort of montage which was a big part of pink floyd's sound forever and especially it was getting into this sort of psychedelic um sound effect meandering and i mean meandering in the best of ways i remember hearing that and i just fell in love with that i was making audio recordings for myself and using these two uh roger water songs um the nickname mason drumming stuff and even the richard uh why uh right stuff and even david gilmour stuff is not very interesting in my opinion on this the live stuff's great um astronomy domine the sid barrett song from their early album careful with that axe eugene i really and obviously set the controls of the heart of the sun and this this is an interesting album again at this point it just makes number 11 for me but um because it is problematic and it's a hard record for people to get into a pink floyd obviously if you're into the live stuff that one lp here is is tremendous great i'd say ultimately it fails but it's still a good record and so this is my introduction to being around a drug-infused evening not being on psychedelics pink floyd omaguma and of course i mean come on when you're a gear head and you're you sit and look through all this stuff the way the entire thing is composed of the music of them and there you go okay we're getting in our our top ten now number ten it's the one record in this particular uh ranking that i don't have on vinyl but i have on compact disc and this is a momentary lapse of reason this is from one of the box sets that came out on compact disc this record has some issues but it you know it has that great was it learning to fly which was all over mtv and i think it's a beautiful atmospheric song it's one of the more commercial but it's really majestic and i do like this record a lot i should pick up a vinyl copy of it at some point um but uh i do like this this is number 10 for me it is um i believe this is the first album roger waters was not on uh there was some legal issues happening with the rights to the name of pink floyd it's problematic but i actually really like it a lot and you know as i had to put this in front of uma goomba because it's more listenable than uma umaguma might be an important album transitional problematic to some people and going back to that here but this is a really interesting album momentary lapse of reason by pink floyd number nine saucer full of secrets um this is the second pink floyd album this is the album where sid barrett started having issues mental issues drug issues uh so much so that um david gilmore was brought on and was the basically the new member replacing basically just one day when they were going to a show when they were going to performance they brought on david gilmour and they just decided not to go and pick up sid barrett this is a really cool record obviously there's the camp of the sid baird versus the rest of pink floyd which i don't think is a fair but they were a different band but you know there's elements here of saucer full of secrets obviously uh set the controls for the heart of the sun which is a roger walt water song which is a beautiful explosion of psychedelia which is really interesting again this is from 1968 produced by norman smith who had produced their first album but not their first single that was produced by joe boyd prior to their signing with emi but this is a great record this is the first record uh hypnosis worked on the cover and somewhere in here there's sort of a here we go there's a captain marvel as i recall psychedelia of the comic book really great album again on tower records i got this when it came out on tower records i didn't know what quite to make of it it wasn't my favorite record at the time but it's grown in stature for me but it's um it's number nine number nine in this uh catalog now number eight number eight i'm gonna get flack for this record not because people don't love it but because people love it too much in my opinion i mean i'm in the minority here on this record and number eight is the wall to this this is i think to many people probably watching here this is your number one two or three album by pink floyd the double album a majestic album over ambitious album roger waters is on here i'm usually not one of those kind of people that says ah it should have been a single album but this is the transition for me with roger waters and his voice when he started doing that screaming thing and i just got it just irritated me so much now magnificent record this was the third time i saw pink floyd on this tour of the wall tour an amazing tour wonderful tour again another uh cover by the great hypnosis important record tells a story it's pretty much roger walters baby um i think there's some amazing songs on it this amazing work on this i could edit it down and but i know and again it's kind of like quadrophenia for me the wall and quadrafini are the two most overrated double albums and again kick kick me down for that baby uh i have no problem with that but um coming in number eight the wall by pink floyd coming at number seven and this is the second time i saw them live and this is animals this is a really interesting record because coming after wish you were here this almost seemed like their indie sounding album as if it's their their white album where it's almost lo-fi i know it's not lo-fi but the way it's it's split up the way it's recorded it's not as large as the wall would be or even going back to echoes or dark side of the moon i think this is a brilliant album i this is probably tied for my favorite pink floyd cover of course there's the batter cc power station the beetle connection there since if you watch my videos i try to put a beetle connection in when i can in the movie help they they shut down the power at the battersea circuits battersea power station off the thames in london uh the whole story you should read and research about the pig that's actually not retouched in they flew this pig over london and it got loose and escaped this is a great record this is an intimate record more lo-fi as i said some folky stuff on it but i think it's it's such a you know a brilliant album coming at number six adam heart mother this is probably as i said tied with animals from my number one album i think this is a brilliant album cover originally didn't have the name i have issues i have copies with pink floyd on across the top what a great album cover so graphic so minimal so beautiful i love their version i mean this is the version of adam hart mother with this whole horn orchestration with this which is so dramatic and so orchestrated and so stunningly beautiful if is a gorgeous um sort of introspective song by waters uh it ends up with uh alan's psychedelic breakfast who was their rhodey i believe and it's kind of a fun little oral aural sensation piece so pink floyd adam heart mother okay we're now at the top five uh pink floyd albums from my personal ranking number five is obscured by clouds 1972 from uh it's a soundtrack to another barbed schroeder film called la valet i did see the film about 20 years after the fact interesting film a bit surreal but of mud men and and uh discovery and interesting film but of course for me the music is the hero i bought this album in 1972 when it came out and i literally fell in love with this record i think this is possibly their most underrated record in the catalog is one of the mer they're brilliant records i think it's concise it's not bloated i like it better than the wall um it's got some surreal atmospheric music it's got some catchy songs like free four a great song that roger waters wrote but it's just really really a cool cool film childhoods and david gilmour song beautiful record coming in number five pink floyd's obscured by clouds soundtrack to the motion picture la valet coming in number four the great debut album one of the great debut albums now what i said earlier um i did not get this album when it came out i didn't get this record until probably 1970 for some reason uh this is the uk version slightly different track list of course it has ends up with a great fun song by um barrett and that's uh sid barrett's song bike it's a different band in a way musically it's worlds apart from their later surreal stuff it's more psychedelic more pop psychedelic an incredible credible record obviously david gilmour would not join till the album after this but the original astronomy domain lucifer sam interstellar overdrive scarecrow great psychedelic pop masterpiece and of course it's only grown in stature over the years but the gates of dawn pink floyd 1967 and coming in number four on my list now number three i have two copies here just to show you um when this came out wish you were here it came in this dark cellophane wrapper and of course we all know this great cover now a lot of people think this is their best cover art i don't but i do like it quite a bit [Applause] this is a reissue copy in flames again another great hypnosis cover i remember driving on a camping trip with when this album came out with my girlfriend at the time and with a cassette of this and the acoustic guitar on this is this is a beaut i mean all their albums are beautifully recorded but there's a certain uh specific sound of intense guitar sound they get on this record which i just really love acoustic guitar sound i really like and there's a there's a interesting little tidbit that i didn't know right away for several years uh after this record came out the opening track on side two is welcome to the machine and i didn't realize that roy harper was the lead vocalist on that not any member of pink floyd i think they tried versions with roger waters and with david gilmore and roy harper the great roy harper does an incredible version uh incredible vocal on that but shut on you crazy diamond obviously it's sort of uh biographical about sid barrett and uh sid baird actually shows up in the studio unrecognizable while they're recording this record so really great record i wish you were here my number three my in my top rate rankings of pink floyd records you know there you go so we're down to two records once i show you the next one you know what number one is and number one well let's just go with it here echoes metal number two this record is personally an important record for a lot of reasons echo is an important song in my life a beautiful beautiful record one of these days and a great intense powerful opening piece um fearless santro pay a beautiful kind of again pleasant folk song written by roger waters i mean he was doing some really cool introspective stuff at this period that i really really like um great record metal important record i think a transitional record for pink floyd as well but echoes is one of the great elongated you know i'm not even going to call them a prog band they're more of a space light prog and i don't mean light taking away from the lightness of the band because they're not that by any means but they don't have again i've i've been accused of dumping on prague i actually like some prague music but i think prague is one of the few genres that's so easily uh mocked and so easily to make fun of and some of the frog bands just get so over the top and and almost mocking themselves i think what was brilliant about pink floyd they never really did that they didn't quite go in that syncopated direction so they were more spiritual spacey in a psychedelic way they got more psychedelia than they do on the prague side but they're in that kind of you know they cross over in that genre and i've certainly put that in in that genre of prague occasionally although you know i don't really think that they're that they're a prague band per se but this album to me means the world and i play this record frequently number two now number one is the obvious choice and i almost didn't include this as number one because it's the obvious choice dark side of the moon 1973. i was trying to take this again i grew up with this record now the first time i saw pink floyd was about five or six months before this record came out at winterland in san francisco and i love pink floyd because of those early albums that i showed you aside from the first album i knew all their music really well so i was so excited to see pink floyd in the spring i believe in 1973 at winterland they performed echoes again a song that would become very important to me they performed the entire dark side of the moon and this was again five to six months before the album came out so none of us had ever heard it and it was one of the most amazing live performances i'd ever seen with the sound effects and the gongs and just and it wasn't one of their big giant shows again just a just to express scale winter land holds about 5 000 people it's probably sold out maybe 4 500 people give or take and it was an incredible show loud but not so loud that you're that you couldn't hear the subtleties of the musicians just the four of them on stage no supplemental uh singers or musicians like they would have in later tours like the wall and of course beyond i never saw them after the 70s so um you know concerts like this became this whole big even massive production of course the wall was massive as was the animals tour but this is a perfect record of course it's one of the biggest selling records on of all time it was on the billboard charts longer than pretty much any other album for like 10 20 years or something i'm not a big fan of this cover although it suits this it's simplistic again by hypnosis i think it's i think it's their least interesting cover but graphically it works for the material and if you can if we can all step back from how many times thousands of times i've probably heard this record and how big it's become and how culturally significant it's become if we can try to separate that and i know it's really hard for a lot of us of our generation and even the new generations because everyone gets a turntable or gets a cd player and the first album they want the first two albums they want are abbey road and maybe dark side of the moon so it is a very important record and it is but it holds up i won't play this for 10 years there's times i didn't play this for 10 or 15 years and i put it on and i'm still in awe of how how good it is you know i mean the two posters inside the green pyramids the poster the bands performing live i had that up in my room when i was you know when this came out in 1973 uh when i was um you know 19 years old 18 years old it's to me a perfect record no filler a great headphone record i had my headphones and i would listen to this quite a bit in my bedroom when i was a kid growing up an important record it had to be number one in this you know and anybody who doesn't put this at number one i think is doing it just for the sake of saying oh dark side of the moon too popular too big this is the one all those records before and after lead up and come back to this record this was the turning point after this i mean how do you follow up this record it was so huge you put out wish you were here great record wonderful record it's not this record so curious your thoughts on my take on it again my take what's up sir your take for good or for evil thanks for watching and um mazzy loves 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Length: 27min 57sec (1677 seconds)

Published: Sat May 01 2021