Pink Floyd - Studio Album Ranking

hello this is the Pink Floyd raking the studio albums video before we start just a few points I want to make this is the ranking of the 15 Pink Floyd albums the proper Studio albums I'm not going to include any of the live albums here uh I might make a passing reference but generally we're not including those in this list I didn't include any of the box sets or the immersion sets these are my favorites and my rankings and I've been a Pink Floyd fan since high school a dark side of the moon on tape and was driving around listening to that in my first car um and I did a deep dive in 94 and 95 and really the years following that of all the bands that I've um that I like this is the most frustrating band for me to be a fan of just because of the um the lack of new content and the infighting between the main members of the band and then of course ultimately Rick Wright died and uh I think like right around 2008 so it was a terrible loss for the band I did see Roger Waters live in 99 in Charlotte and I saw Nick Mason saucer full of secrets in 2022 in Minnesota and Minneapolis and that's been a heavy influence on me in recent years I've always wanted to see David Gilmore I wasn't able to do that and on an island tour rattle that lock if he ever comes around again I might go but the great shame is that I've never seen Pink Floyd live and I would I would love an opportunity to do that all right let's not waste any time I'm gonna get right into the rankings I've got uh number five uh number sorry number 15 soundtrack for the film more 1969 uh this is a you know it's not bad I I have honestly this is probably the album I've listened to the least out of all of them um and it's not one that really pulls you back in and grabs your attention like oh I really am in the mood to listen to more I mean it's not it's not that kind of music it's a movie soundtrack and you could really divide the album up into two things it's the songs that are like real Pink Floyd songs and then it says songs that are filler songs and the filler songs are like they're meant to fill in time in a movie um this movie called more so like up the up the kyber party sequence uh more blue Spanish piece dramatic theme these are all quick tracks that really they don't belong on a proper studio album but they're they're in here because of it's It's a movie soundtrack The real songs on the album are cirrus Miner the Nile song The Crying song Green is the color symbolize main theme is a bar Blues which is really the it's the riff from the Nile song part two it's really it really is the Nile song part two and then Quicksilver is a good track uh but I've got this last I think it's it fits there it's not bad to listen to uh but maybe if you could just make a playlist and take out all the filler tracks and you'd probably enjoy it quite a bit um Cirrus Miner is the opening track and right away you hear the birds chirping and the doo doo doo theme you know and that's quite um that Bird's chirping thing is a it's a it's a really a Pink Floyd thing they really love the mix and the sound effects on their records and you get it right here way back in 1969 so we'll we'll Reserve this for the last Spot Not a Bad album but not great I would say uh a a good effort I wish it didn't have the um the filler tracks uh number 14 is the Endless River from 2014 I bought this nice little box that came with it uh this what is this so they recorded this back in 93 with The Division Bell and these are the leftover tracks that they had named the big spliff and there are all these rumors that Pink Floyd had recorded a double album and didn't release it well we finally got it in 2014. they did a proper mix and re-recorded some stuff uh it's okay it's better than the more but this is yoga music only it's mainly instrumental there's one track that has singing which is louder than words which is an okay song but you know it's for me it's yoga music um it's not even in my top five for yoga music it's I don't have a lot to say about it it's completely self-referential most of the songs are trying to take you back to the 70s or the 80s to previous Pink Floyd like they're just borrowing and stealing from other songs um so track four does that it's track four is called sum and it just reminds me of one of these days with the drumming and the slide guitar and there are other tracks right here other just Pink Floyd stuff in there ebb and flow is probably the best song on the album It's you hear a lot of Rick Wright synth on it and it reminds me of Shine On You Crazy Diamond with some of the some of the sounds that they make and there's some great guitar squawking by David Gilmore and ultimately you know why did they make this and release it it's a tribute to Rick Wright and he sort of dominates this album um and I like it's okay to listen to but other than yoga music or maybe you're trying to fall asleep at night that's really what it's reserved for uh this one track called Alan Z one is quite good and then L and then two you know two tracks later Alan Z2 is pretty good too but um that's it this is the the proper release of the big spliff and I've got it at number 14. number 13 is the amagama studio album uh there's not too much to say about this album uh each member wrote a song and did a solo spot by the way cool album cover by storm thorgason took this picture and made this effect um it's cool picture the best of these tracks are Sisyphus now what they did was they they divided up the tracks into part one part two and part three for all of them Sisyphus is the first four tracks it's a rick Wright song and it's got this really creepy keyboard and synth parts and a melotron part and that sort of holds the whole album together um Roger Waters did a couple of songs grantchester Meadows you know it's one of his slower acoustic songs it's probably a better better than if and several species of small fury animals together in a cave and grooving with a pict he's just like Roger Waters doing a lot of Scottish gibberish and making some animal sounds and some thumps it's not really a song it's just a bunch of sounds you hear and then the narrow way is David Gilmore's contribution the music's okay you just you can't hear him singing and it's probably embarrassed to the lyrics and um not as best effort but it's okay to listen to and then uh Nick Mason did the Grand Visa's Garden Party I mean I don't really know it's you hear some flute which is kind of nice and then it just sounds like he's tuning his drums like I don't know um probably it's a better effort than than the server but they're exploring here that's generally what it is they're getting ready for their next great effort amagama or umaguma you might call it all right number 12 and now we're starting to get into some albums that I really like uh I've got the final cut from 1983. now this is this is interesting um this is really a Roger Waters driven album Rick Wright's not on it you know the band's going through some turmoil this is really the ban being lost after the wall uninspired low low impact musical ideas but there's great singing by Roger he puts a lot of passion into it a lot of emotion and it's all of his inspiration about the Falkland Wars in Argentina that's not a great concept but still good songs there's some great solos on here um really great guitar solos by David Gilmore and the way they recorded it they the microphone is so sensitive and it's almost like you can hear Roger Waters right on top of it and it's so sensitive it's picking up like when he's about to sing you can hear him breathe or you could hear his uh his mouth open or his tongue like you can hear sounds like that and that's that's what makes it cool is they just really um they made it an emotional recording now it has a song your possible past and what's really interesting um you ever lose anything and you just can't find it and you've looked and looked and looked and has that ever happened to you well when I pulled this out the other day I was singing to myself your possible past and I wanted to look I wanted to look at the album the lyrics so I opened up the jewel case and inside was my Alice in Chains dirt CD which is crazy because I lost it around 2008. and I've been looking for it ever since and it's like driving me crazy and then on Sunday when I was um singing that song to myself for possible pass I found dirt I found my Alice in Chains dirt CD and I just I couldn't believe it but what does that mean like that means I haven't listened to this since 2008. so how great is it really I mean I really like the album but if I haven't listened to it in that long it's not that great and for me that was a tiebreaker on with some other albums uh but I do like your possible pass do you remember me how we used to be do you think we should be closer I think it's a great line I love the Fletcher Memorial Home and I love I like the Final Cut not now John is okay if you got David Gilmore kind of screaming doing his grunting thing in a great guitar spot and then um it's got a good ending with two sons in the sunset so that's the Final Cut 1983. number 11 I have The Division Bell from 93. now um this one you can tell by by the way cool album cover especially compared to the final cut I mean what a boring album cover but they brought storm Thurston back into to do this and he made the sculpture and took that photo that's a great album cover and it's an inspired album you can tell they're inspired you've got Rick Wright back in the band and um he's helping to write the songs this time and they wrote a bunch of good songs and they took their time recording it so what's not to like about it you know my favorites are what do you want from me a great day for freedom and wearing the inside out and coming back to life you can really hear the Bob ezrin influence to the as a producer by the way I do have a bone to pick with Bob Ezra and I'll get into it and um I'll record when I when I do my kiss video I'll really get into the Bob Ezra thing but I know I just kind of wonder what his role is here as a producer you can hear his influence in some of the songwriting and Arrangements but I'm not sure what he did I heard he had a bunch of bad ideas too uh by the way loss for words good song and then High Hopes is a great song at the end and two great instrumentals too in cluster one and marooned you can really hear the the Rick Wright influence and I'd um I really like those instrumentals and this is a great album you know if you want to listen to it it's versatile so driving around maybe you're on a work break you can listen to it while you're working you can listen to it during yoga or exercise or whatever it's it's great for anything all right number 11 The Division Bell number 10 1987. a momentary lapse of Reason another great album covered by storm you got the the river of beds on the on the beach that's sort of the theme is you know they recorded these two albums on the on the riverboat and they they know they took this photo to capture that that idea the best song on here is sorrow and I guess that's the tiebreaker for me is why why do I have this better than the vision Bell I really like sorrow it's really like a hard rock driving guitar song um it's got Learning to Fly I love that song and the chord sequence and learning to fly and the lyrics um it's just a good good Tunes the dogs of war is okay I know it's not popular of Floyd fans but I Like It On the Turning way is a great song um and there's two excellent instrumentals on this one too probably better than The Division Bell ones I would say they are better uh signs of life it's you can sort of hear the wish you were here influence which is what they were going for for this album to make it sound more like wish you were here and then um terminal Frost has evangelist type or Vangelis the tight feel to it but like this album and I've got it at number 10. momentary lapsearies in 1987. number nine I have the wall uh it's a double discer you know it's it gets off to a good start with in the flesh and then it has it in the flesh on the back end too on second half of disc two uh so it gets off to a really good start and that's what makes it a good album is the you know the start for me for me what makes an album good is do I like the first track and does it make sense and does it segue into better songs or good songs and in this case it does now this is a concept album written by Roger Waters and uh the concept of the story is a little bit juvenile you know it's really all about him or influenced by his own life and his own story and you know sort of pulled from Sid Barrett's story as well uh but that you know it's the tracks that why I have it ranked at number nine ahead of the ahead of The Division Bell in a momentary lapse of reason I guess that's the tiebreaker so I like the in the fleshes the thin ice Goodbye Blue Skies empty spaces is good especially the version from the movie which you know there's a shorter version of it on here um young lost is a good tune and uh one of my turns I like quite a bit it's like Roger Waters maniacal side hey you and and then Comfortably Numb is a Pink Floyd classic and this is where Bob ezrin starts to come in and you can really hear his influence even more on this one um especially with you know he does he gets uncredited songwriting here um and uh was basically the tie breaker on creativity and and sound design between Gilmore and Roger and how they mixed it so um I've got it at number nine the wall 1979. number eight is going to be 1972's obscured by clouds which this is a great listen to from end to end and there's really not a bad track uh the the bonus of this sorry I'm holding it upside down the bonus is you've got the three really good instrumentals obscured by clouds when you're in in mud men and those are like like the glue that hold the album together if you're going to listen to it from end to end I mean they really make it make sense to you and this is another one of those movie soundtracks for the French film The Valley or Lavale I've never seen that film either but it doesn't matter the songs are cool and it doesn't have all that filler that Moore has the other tracks the ones that I like Bridges burning the gold that's in the and what saw the deal childhood zand is a is one of the weaker songs now Nick Mason's band plays it it's okay but I wish they would just keep it off the set list it's not a it's not a great Pink Floyd song it's just okay three four is one they'll play on rock radio and if you're listening to wapl out of Appleton Wisconsin they'll play it sometimes or occasionally stay is okay absolute curtain so 1972 obscured by Cloud underrated album for Pink Floyd also from uh recorded in the same year but released in 73 Dark Side of the Moon now uh there's nothing not to like about this other than perhaps I've heard it too many times like I said I've been listening to it since 93. some years I don't listen to it at all in fact most years anymore I don't listen to it but uh classic storm album cover and just a bunch of great songs from end to end there's not a bad track on it the highlights for me are time Us and Them any color you like uh it gets off to a great start with speak to me was the first track and breathe in the air you know for me that's what makes an album a great album does can you just put it in and listen to it from end to end and this one you can for sure it starts off great and uh a funny story on this um I was always confused about like were the songs begin and end especially in the early days like I didn't know what was speak to me and what was breathing the air and what was on the run like in time and uh at the end of time it goes back to the the reprise of breathe in there so it's like confusing for especially if you're not sitting here like reading the lyrics or the album um the album cover but yeah just a a great and it's a classic and you know it's worthy of top 10 albums in Rock and Roll History really and that's where people have it in the top five for sure for me it's my number seven favorite Pink Floyd album all right Number Six Piper at the Gates of Dawn this is the Pink Floyd debut and the band is Sid Barrett Rick Wright Roger Waters and Nick Mason and um it's got this really Beetle zask album cover so great uh great album it's great for men to end you know and it starts off with astronomy domini or Domine and uh Lucifer Sam Siam cat you know what's not to like about this album it's not really a Prague Rock album like Pink Floyd is but it's more like a folksy rock and roll at some points it's like hard rock um and then you know you got that zany Sid Barrett stuff going on which I I quite like a lot you know with bike and The Gnome and Matilda mother it's like there's there's these funny songs on this album and uh I mean you got to be in the right mood to listen to it but um but certainly an excellent excellent beginning for Pink Floyd and I kind of wonder what the band would have been like had Sid not gone cuckoo crazy and it would you know they could have been great right uh but I've gotten Piper at the Gates of Dawn at number six number five oh we're starting to get into the top five here um Adam hartmother he got this great cow on the cover and you got cows on the back it's all about you know trying to be really earthy and down to earth and that's sort of how the music is now it's it to me you got these Blues tracks like bluesy elements especially in the Adam heart mother Suite which is the 23 minute opener and you got this big orchestras playing so you got all these strings and Brass in the orchestra on Adam heart mother's suite and then um you've got all this funk and blues and jazz pulled into it all at the same time and it moves um sort of seamlessly from one part to the next and Adam her mother and it's just great and now what I'll say about this it's good to listen to this but if you've ever heard the version that doesn't have the orchestra it's even better where you can just hear the band but then also my favorite version of the atom heart mother Suite is the Nick Mason saucer full of secrets version they've got it condensed down to about nine minutes man is it good it is really good and uh I would say that some of my favorite versions of the Pink Floyd songs are come from live albums not necessarily the studio albums um and so when I think of Adam heart mother sweet I think of this but I also think of those other two versions I just mentioned and that's why I've got it rated really high there's a lot of awesome jamming on this record uh that's like you can hear it in especially in the atom heart mother Suite but also in Alan psychedelic breakfast they're just kind of the band just kind of put pulling together a track and it um it's got some Prague in it it's heavy on Keys Allen psychedelic breakfast you can hear all the sound effects that they like to use like uh the guy saying marmalade and marmalade marmalade and you can hear the bacon frying and they're cooking eggs this is a good song and it's surprisingly good for me um Adam heart mother 1970. all right number four from 1971 Pink Floyd metal all right this is great now um to me this is like a better version of Adam Hart mother which is you know an atom heart mother they've you've got this really long 23 minute song and it's really organic and you got the orchestra and the blues and the Jazz and it sort of sounds like it's a um like a western like I think Roger Waters and David Gilmore called it the Magnificent Seven theme song like it's like that's like a western almost um so you got this Western mix and then Jazz and Blues and it's real organic in the orchestra and everything all woven into one song with metal you've got echoes which is like um it's their epic that started as like a one of those space songs and they changed the Space theme to Marine and they did that because Roger Waters hates the hates the the label that they're a space Rock and that space Rock comes from astronomy domini and and Interstellar overdrive he doesn't like that that's not his vision of the band and um so they're trying to sort of get away from that hence you've got the blue and the greens you know the real nautical Marine themes here and um the songs are fitting uh one of these days a pillow of winds Fearless San Tropez Sheamus and echoes uh great album to listen to from end to end and I think it's just a upgrade over Adam heart mother it's this it's the follow-up to Adam her mother and it's just a little bit better in every way and uh a pillow of winds is this nice fluffy song and then Fearless is this acoustic guitar Jam that I like um and then santro p is the Roger Waters song singing about the island I've got it at number four metal 1971. all right let's go to number three and now we're in the top three sauce are full of secrets 1968. uh end to end it's an enjoyable listen and it's got two of the best songs on here set the controls for the heart of the song and a sauce are full of secrets now uh the rest of the album isn't as strong as those two songs but those are two are particularly strong but the better versions of those songs are on either live at Pompeii or the Nick Mason sauce are full of secrets but I mean this is great to listen to and and you've got remember a day uh by Rick Wright which they recorded during the Piper at the Gates of Dawn sounds like maybe it'd probably be a better fit there uh Jug Band Blues is a sid Barrett song that they stuck on at the end and that sounds like it could have fit on the piper the Gates of Dawn uh but they fit here they work it works and then you got seesaw which is a nice light Rick right composition Nick Mason's team played it uh they've been playing it last few years and it makes the listener feel like you're on a seesaw like just it's this nice light Happy song and then you've got to let there be more light and Corporal Clegg which are the Roger Waters tracks the great album um cool CD you know they kind of made it like mosaic and uh the front cover is like a mosaic and it's got uh almost like a mosaic and then they added a doctor strange album cover to it so it's cool it's cool you can see if you look real closely in here you can see doctor strange in there uh but that's 1968's a sauce are full of secrets number three number two wish you were here from 1975. that's the five tracks are amazing and each one of them is strong and uh it's just strong in their in each in their own way and it's a powerful story it's a concept album it's mainly about Sid Barrett and how he got lost and you can hear that theme in in the two Shine On You Crazy diamonds um it's got to have a cigar and welcome to the machine which are sort of like anti-music industry songs and anti-music Industry Executives and lashing out at the industry itself and then wish you were here as a song that ties it together which is you know probably their most popular song I would say wish you were here is um and it's got great lyrics Roger Waters was super inspired back then and wrote all the lyrics and drove this thing and um you've got excellent keyboard playing by Rick Wright he was super inspired I guess hit Sid and Rick were great friends and um you know just it's just a good album I mean honestly it's hard to decipher in the top three which are the which is the best ones and I've got this set number two um it's hard for it to not be number one but also it's hard for it to not be number three it's I got it at number two wish you were here and then number one lastly is animals from 1977. uh this album's amazing you got five tracks the three uh dogs pigs three different ones and sheep they make up the the bulk of the album you got bookends of Pigs on the Wing part one and two are the rappers you know Roger Waters is singing a boat it's a love song to his wife cool album cover and you know it's a it's a story it's a concept album and it's inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm and essentially this I'm sure you know the story it's about the pigs are the capitalists ruling class and how they dominate everyone and the dogs are the are the business people of the world they're the businessmen that run things for the pigs and you know they're all out there to accomplish all their goals and um they're sort of bossing around the Sheep the Sheep are just the people that do what the dogs tell them to do and it's a great it's a controversial concept but uh um great songs great songwriting and then each of those three songs has this middle interlude of keyboards and synths and other noises to scare you but it's what makes the album really and it's even though the album's driven by Waters and then you know you got Gilbert's amazing contribution on dogs this is really some of Rick Wright's best playing and he's not credited as a songwriter but I'm sure a lot of that was his ideas in the in the middle just doing those middle interludes it's him showing off um and love it love it so this is my favorite it's been my favorite you know uh those three tracks they'll become uh ear worms they'll just get in your head and you'll be singing them all day long and you're you'll have the Riff in your head for dogs or sheep or pigs three different ones they'll be there and you can't stop listening to it once you start so that's why it's my favorite and I I think that's the tiebreaker just for how long that album had a grip on me and so there we go we got um we got a good stack of Records here and let's just go through the rundown uh before we do that you know I a lot of my knowledge comes from this book sauce are full of secrets the Pink Floyd Odyssey um this is one of the original prints uh Nicholas Schaffner is the author it's like it's almost like an encyclopedia but some years later Nick Mason came out with his own Pink Floyd book and I would imagine that's more up to date and probably I haven't read that but that would probably be a good resource for you too if you're interested in Pink Floyd content let's go through the rundown I've got more number 15. I've got the Endless River number 14. amigama studio album or umaguma number 12 the Final Cut number 11 The Division Bell number 10 momentary lapse of reason number nine the wall number eight obscured by clouds number seven Dark Side of the Moon number six Piper at the Gates of Dawn number seven Adam heart mother number four metal I think I just misspoke that's okay number three a saucer full of secrets number two wish you were here and number one animals all right thanks everyone you can go ahead if you like the list leave your comments if you disagree leave comments I'm going to make a few more of these I've got I've got some other plans on more videos to make and I'll keep them coming I'll try to do one every week or two uh but I really enjoy doing this and if you like Pink Floyd as much as I do you'll like listening to this and uh Pink Floyd's very uh deep and personal to me all right so thanks everybody

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Published: Wed Feb 15 2023