What's your favorite Pink Floyd album?

[Danger Mouse]

Poll question: What's your favorite Pink Floyd album?

This poll is only for Pink Floyd fans! If you don't like their music, don't vote. :P
It's really tough for me to pick a favorite.
Personally, I REALLY love the song Echoes (from Meddle), I think the Wall is amazing, Dark Side of the Moon is fantastic, and Wish You Were Here is incredible.
I think I'd narrowly give it to 'The Wall' because of 'Comfortably Numb.' That song still gets me every time. What do the rest of you think?

I left off 'Atom Heart Mother' and 'Ummagumma' (did I spell this right? Nah, I don't care if I did or not) because nobody would pick either of those two, and both Waters and Gilmour hate them (about the only thing they can agree on these days).

[taterguy]

1. Piper because Let's Active used to do a great cover of "Lucifer Sam"

Haven't listened to many others in their entirety but they just seem so down.

How needs that?

Life is depressing enough.

[gmoney]

10. Haven't heard anyone refer to Let's Active for a few years now...

"Route 67" popped up on my shuffle the other day... tremendous slide song!

I hope Mitch Easter banked his R.E.M. moneys...

[mike_c]

2. other-- the Pulse tour is one of my all time favorite Floyd recordings....

Gilmour = god.

[Tripper11]

3. Despite loving the vast majority of Floyd works...

I have to go with Dark Side. I cannot count the amount of times I have listened to that album/cassete/file.
I've gone through more copies than I can count.
Whenever I listen to it, it brings me to a safe place, a happy place, and place of calm.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. 3 of 'em in a hierarchical state.

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1. Dark Side of the Moon (EVERYTHING else is a distant second)
2. Animals
3. Meddle
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Not a very big fan of their early work at all. However...
.
Ummagumma. It was 2 AM. Everyone very high in some fashion and we
were trying to play Monopoly. "Several Species of Small Furry
Animals Gathered in a Cave and Grooving with w Pict" came on and
we all got lost in it and discovered that everyone thought the
animals were real and that the sun had risen outside the pulled
shades. We finally realized that it had been the album and...
.
...that it was 2:10 AM.
.
CORRECTION to the first line above: "Delicate Sound of Thunder" tour
video MAY trump "Dark Side".
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And Gilmour IS god.
.

[guitar man]

30. That tour video is awesome

I saw them on that tour, it was beyond awesome and every time I see that video it brings back just how awesome it was. :)

[NightWatcher]

5. Animals then Dark Side then Wall

[Kali]

6. Meddle then Dark Side

but sometimes it flips

[bamacrat]

23. I agree. n/t

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. Momentary Lapse of Reason, primarily for "Sorrow"

"Sorrow" is one of my favorite Gilmour tracks...

"A silence that speaks so much louder than words, of promises broken," and then that whammy bar HOWL of a note and the closing solo.

:toast:

[Iggo]

8. Wish You Were Here

Listened to it over and over and over thru big giant headphones during my "formative" years, know'm say'n?

Later in life, echoes of the guitar work in Shine On You Crazy Diamond I-VI shows up all over my lead playing. And I do a mean Wish You Were Here featuring just me and my Harmony dread.

[Iggo]

11. ...ask me next week and it might very well be Animals. (n/t)

[SteppingRazor]

9. Toss up between The Wall and Animals.

People who say Dark Side are wrong! :P

Also, I also love the song "Echoes," but my favorite song on Meddle is "Fearless." fantastic tune.

[bluesbassman]

12. Dark Side, Animals, Meddle.

Top 3. The rest are about equal in my appreciation of them.

[Ohio Joe]

13. Animals

One of the best albums of all time and definitely Floyds best.

[cyberswede]

21. I concur!

Fantastic album! I loved it when Dr. Johnny Fever was playing it in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. :)

[gbate]

14. Animals then Wish You Were Here.

[MissHoneychurch]

15. The Wall

it is a masterpiece

favorite song "The Trial", at the end of "The Wall"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCMHmDnfD6I

[Urban Prairie]

16. DSOTM

Still remember buying that album in the summer after it was released in '73. tearing off the shrink-wrap and...

Opening it up...WOW!!

Hypgnosis had almost as much influence on me graphically as Pink Floyd did musically, both more than I care to admit.

Teens and young adults today can never get the full experience of owning a recording unless they buy vinyl LPs, IMO.

I had DSOTM in 8 track, cassette, and CD as well, but owning it in those formats paled in comparison to that LP.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. DSOTM

I'll see you there.

[unpossibles]

18. all of them up to and including "The Final Cut"

not crazy about the post-Waters albums. They're ok, but not the same caliber at all, imo.

[redqueen]

19. Too hard to choose.

The last time I saw them they opened with Astronomy Domine.

Fucking. Awesome.

[Broken_Hero]

20. The Wall, nt

[KG]

22. The Making of DSotM -

with subtitles just in case you only speak Italian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zbq47vQHfo&feature=PlayList&p=863B3151DAAFB57D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=52

[jobycom]

24. A few years ago I'd have said The Wall, but I just surprised myself by voting for Moon.

Not sure when that changed, or if it's just the result of overexposure to The Wall, or a recent fascination I've had with Brain Damage. Not even sure it won't change back. Right now I'm just thinking that Dark Side of the Moon is a little more real, a little less contrived, and a little more musically listen-able. Not much, just a little.

Wish You Were Here is great, too. Musically it may be more pure than the two giants. Put me in the right mood, and I might pick it.

Not a bad resume for a band, eh?

[DevonRex]

25. Wish You Were Here. But it's really hard to choose. nt

[LynneSin]

26. Meddle fans check in!!

I love that album - it's probably my favorite and I love the song "Fearless"

[LisaM]

27. I love Meddle, too

it's a great album. I like that it's not so polished. It reminds me of the first two (or even three) Queen albums, which I went back and bought after I found out about them - IMO, all of those were better than the later, more commercial ones. Though there isn't a Pink Floyd album I don't like, and the SONG "Wish You Were Here" still sends chills down my spine.

[LynneSin]

32. You want chills - see "Wish You Were Here" Live - Roger Waters did it a few years back

and he'd always dedicate it to Syd

[mitchum]

31. Right here!

[catbyte]

28. It's Dark Side of the Moon, but my favorite song, ever, is

Wish You Were Here.

DSM will always take me back to 1974, college, headphones, weed, and wine. ;)

Diane

Anishnabe in MI

[Richardo]

29. Such a thing does not exist

x(

[Mudoria]

33. Dark Side with Animals running a very, very close second

[achtung_circus]

34. It has to be Dark Side

for the memories alone.

I was so high I thought the helicopters were coming in to land on my face, and I was losing my virginity. How do you trump that?

[Generic Brad]

35. I chose "The Division Bell"

Yes, I am fully aware that it falls far short of the genius the band displayed on previous albums. But it is a personal favorite of mine because the songs spoke to me and meshed with what was going on in my life when I first heard it in a way that no other Pink Floyd album has.

Besides - the question was "What's your favorite Pink Floyd album. It was not "What do you think is the best Pink Floyd album?"

[nomorenomore08]

36. 'Animals' - It's so bitter and angry, yet the songs are long and complex enough to zone out to.

"Pigs (Three Different Ones)" alone makes the whole album worthwhile.

[Number9Dream]

37. Dark Side, Meddle, Piper, Animals, Obscured By Clouds

When I saw them at Roosevelt Stadium (NJ) in '73, they opened with Echoes, did all of Dark Side, and finished with One of These Days (among others).
Don't think anybody else mentioned Obscured By Clouds, but I still sometimes listen to my vinyl record of it all these years later.