The best Pink Floyd album

[Sidhe]

I didn't know so many people like Pink Floyd. I been told that if you listen to Pink Floyd you have the worst taste in music.

I've been told that if you listen to almost anything at some point you have bad taste in music, but usually by people who listen to nothing but one genre, and condemn other music out of hand or "musical zombies". There's no such thing as good musical taste, just musical taste, anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.

OP: Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon, can't decide both excellent.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Tough choice between Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, so I'll have to choose both of them.

 

[Henrik]

I voted for Wish You Were Here. Although I would have voted for Relics if it had been included. Yes, technically a complilation album but it was the first album release of "Arnold Layne", "Julia Dream" and "See Emily Play" previously only singles.

Julia Dream is their best song ever...

I didn't know so many people like Pink Floyd. I been told that if you listen to Pink Floyd you have the worst taste in music.

Pink Floyd is the best music I know of and I listen to a lot of music
Besides a statement along the lines of "if you listen to this then..." is in itself quite moronic

 

[Kyriakos]

They still are not really close to classical music. The problem with electric guitar-based groups is that literaly anyone can form them; and almost everyone of those musicians is completely without any knowledge of music theory.

Still i doubt that popular music will ever change significantly, and there is a massive audience for it, particularly in teens.

 

[Mark1031]

Dark Side got my vote.

Now who is old enough to have been to a Pink Floyd Concert?

Milwaukee County Stadium 1977. The Haze of smoke emanating from the stadium must have gotten the whole city high.

 

[sysyphus]

Dark Side got my vote.

Now who is old enough to have been to a Pink Floyd Concert?

Milwaukee County Stadium 1977. The Haze of smoke emanating from the stadium must have gotten the whole city high.

I've seen them live... 1987... but I've also seen Waters live too, so... combined, that counts...

 

[Xanikk999]

I have to say thats a gay name for a singer/band/whatever.

 

[bathsheba666]

Birmingham 1970

 

[sysyphus]

I have to say thats a gay name for a singer/band/whatever.

Right, and Xanikk is just soooo manly.

 

[BCLG100]

I have to say thats a gay name for a singer/band/whatever.

maybe they think the same about xanikk999

 

[JollyRoger]

The Dark Side of the Moon while watching The Wizard of Oz.

 

[JollyRoger]

I have to say thats a gay name for a singer/band/whatever.

Not any gayer than Final Fantasy used as a name.

 

[Loki cdn]

Dark Side got my vote.

Now who is old enough to have been to a Pink Floyd Concert?

Milwaukee County Stadium 1977. The Haze of smoke emanating from the stadium must have gotten the whole city high.

Saw them in Toronto in '87 and again in '94. Those inflatable pigs with the free pivoting spot lights during "One of these Days" simply awesome.

 

[Jono]

I've only been to Roger Waters' Dark Side of the Moon. In my defence, I was only born in 1991.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Pink Floyd has got to be one of the crapiest bands eva.

 

[Matrix]

I voted both Wish You Were Here and A Saucerful Of Secrets (to which I'm listening, by chance!), because I really can't choose between them.

3. A Dark Side Of The Moon
4. The Wall
5. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
6. Atom Heart Mother
7. Animals
8. Final Cut
9. Ummagumma

The rest is not in my possession, so I can't judge them.

 

[drkodos]

Animals.

Pink Floyd has got to be one of the crapiest bands eva.

Sure. If you are young and musically ignorant, I could see that.


Saw The Wall at Nausau County Colosseum . Saw Animals tour in Phila, Saw Dark Side tour in Phila, saw the reincarnated version of the band in DC in late 80's.

 

[Matrix]

The Dark Side of the Moon is probably my favorite, not just because I like it, but because just about every person I have ever spoken to about it liked it, regardless of ethnicity, culture, upbringing, age, etc. I truly believe that it will be remembered centuries from now just as we remember the works of Mozart and J.S. Bach in contemporary times.

That I agree with.

I recently heard that The Dark Side Of The Moon was in the album top 100 of the USA for 14 years! Is that true?

 

[drkodos]

That I agree with.

I recently heard that The Dark Side Of The Moon was in the album top 100 of the USA for 14 years! Is that true?

Yes. Longer than any other album at that time.

 

[Matrix]

Nice. Of course I could've looked it up at Wikipedia and find the answer myself:

The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the best-selling albums of all time worldwide, and the 20th-best-selling album in the United States. It peaked at #1 on The Billboard 200 dethroning Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies from the top spot. Though it held the #1 spot for only one week (it was displaced by Elvis Presley's Aloha from Hawaii), it spent a record total of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on that list. It was on the chart from its release until leaving the chart on April 23, 1988.

So it's the top 200, not the top 100. Still a nice achievement.