What is your favourite Pink Floyd album?

[Esheaun Stroakuss]

Mine is Wish You Were Here.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

It's got to be Dark Side of the Moon for me. It is just one of those rare albums where all the tracks are good. The lyrics of Time are wonderful. It has less of the self-indulgence that puts me off some of their other albums.

[Grand Proudhonia]

Piper cause fuck anything that happened post Syd

[Anollasia]

It's got to be Dark Side of the Moon for me. It is just one of those rare albums where all the tracks are good. The lyrics of Time are wonderful. It has less of the self-indulgence that puts me off some of their other albums.

I agree with this. Dark Side of the Moon is amazing. It just feels monumental, if that makes sense. And it's pretty amazing how I can understand what the instrumental songs are about, even without them having lyrics.

Besides that, I also quite like A Saucerful of Secrets (minus the title song) and Obscured by Clouds. Despite them achieving classic status, I'm not into the later albums like Animals and The Wall.

[Nouveau Quebecois]

Mine is Physical Graffiti, that one was an absolute banger

[Cannot think of a name]

Division Bell...who's with me? Eh? EH?

Kidding. Though I don't hate that album the way some do, I've also never gone out of my way to listen to it so I only ever recognize two tracks from it, one I don't mind and the other is silly.

But then my high school Floyd album was Momentary Lapse of Reason (which was contemporary at the time) before going deep into the rest of the catalog. My first was Dark Side of the Moon, given to me by my Uncle as is the proper way to be introduced to Pink Floyd.

So, Momentary Lapse of Reason has a sentimental place for me as it reminds me of my teenage years even if it's an imperfect Pink Floyd album. I really experienced The Wall as the movie (and later Roger Waters traveling show, but much later) so without the visual aspect I'm not as into it without the visual element except for a few songs.

Dark Side of the Moon is a good album (wandering out on the thickest branch), but Wish You Were Here really is the one that sticks with me. While Dark Side is about the things that drive you mad for some reason I really identify with narratives about lost relationships and that weird bittersweet regret. Wish You Were Here's very specific ode to Syd manages to actually preface what would happen between Waters and Gilmore as well. Granted most of the album is taken up by both refrains of Shine On so the three songs in the middle, Welcome to the Machine, Have a Cigar, and Wish You Were Here have to carry a lot more weight than the songs on Dark Side making it hard to compare, but thematically it just really hits me right in the feels.

I do like Obscured By Clouds enough to have watched the movie, where the album basically plays on the Land Rover's radio. Free Four is a favorite off that. I like One of These Days, Fearless, If, and a few others are the few loose tracks I like more than then the album that surrounds them.

But there's really no Pink Floyd I'd tell you to turn off.

Mine is Physical Graffiti, that one was an absolute banger

Not liking Led Zeppelin at all this sent me into a bit of a fit trying to figure out if there was a Pink Floyd album I didn't know since the name was familiar. So you got me.

[Ubekibekibekibekistanstan]

I’m mildly surprised Animals hasn’t been chosen yet. Wish You Were Here is also pretty good.

[Bombadil]

Sometimes you hear something enough that you downgrade it, like I essentially prefer Doolittle by The Pixies but sometimes I stick on Surfer Rosa and I'm like this is totally more bangable and awesome. However I still come back to Doolittle as the better record. Similar with Hunky Dory and Spiders from Mars..

So.. in the end if I was to be stuck on a desert island I think I'd take The Wall. There's a couple of songs, like Money, that start to bug me on Dark Side of the Moon and most others have one great great song but a fair few duds as well. I just think The Wall has the clearest cohesion while retaining some great great sequences. That little instrumental between Hey You and Is There Anybody Out There is also the first thing I learned on guitar where I was like.. ok I'm getting the hang of this.

[Esheaun Stroakuss]

I’m mildly surprised Animals hasn’t been chosen yet. Wish You Were Here is also pretty good.

Animals single-handedly has David Gilmour's best guitar work.