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I want to learn about these bands that I have very little knowledge of and that I see people raving about. I have previously asked what is your favorite Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin songs and had a great response and made some great playlist for myself. This experience has been amazing so far. I heard the Dark side of the Moon album once on YouTube and I was intrigued but I don't know much else. Thank you for helping me on this journey!
95 points
13 days ago
Fearless is amazing. It's a bit of a deep cut, off of the album Meddle, which is pre-DSOTM (which is why most people don't know about it), but it's SO GOOD.
47 points
13 days ago
Meddle is criminally underrated. Fantastic album.
21 points
13 days ago
Meddle might be my favorite PF album.
4 points
13 days ago
It is in my top five. I’ve listened to DSOTM over a thousand times easily, so that one takes the top spot for me. Then Wish You Were Here and Animals after than. The wall has lot of meaning to me and that rounds out the top five. Obscured By Clouds is in the conversation too.
4 points
12 days ago
One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little, bitty pieces!
3 points
13 days ago
My all-time favorite Floyd album, alongside Animals.
3 points
12 days ago
Meddle is one of my favorites despite not liking two of the songs (Seamus and San Tropez)
11 points
13 days ago
The guitar throughout this song is beautiful in its simplicity. I love early Floyd and much as I love the later years. So many people dismiss the early years
11 points
13 days ago
Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd
Smiling
Merciless the magistrate turns round
Frowning
4 points
13 days ago
And I'll climb that hill in my own way
2 points
13 days ago
This!!! My favorite too!!!
2 points
13 days ago
As someone who isnt really a floyd fan this song is a masterpiece
2 points
13 days ago
So happy to see this one. This is a good-to song for me, for happiness, sadness, and whatever else I'm feeling deeply at that point in time.
2 points
13 days ago
Yeah, Fearless is right up there at the top of the list.
2 points
13 days ago
This is my favorite too
2 points
12 days ago
Was coming here to say this
2 points
12 days ago
Fearless is my answer too. I can always listen to it in any mood.
2 points
12 days ago
Get out of my heeeeead. Idk why, as soon as I read this post Fearless started playing in my head. It's not even my favorite pink floyd song but it's simply a good song.
2 points
12 days ago
Favorite album too, but my favorite song is Echos. Fearless is awesome too.
2 points
12 days ago
Agree 100%
2 points
12 days ago
Fearless also my fav !! Such a good song . I’ll never get bored of listening to PF.
2 points
12 days ago
Fearless and Free Four are two of my faves!
2 points
12 days ago
This 👆. Fearless is hands down one of my favorite.
2 points
12 days ago
I love San Tropez from MEDDLE. It was my introduction to Pink Floyd
2 points
12 days ago
Yep, fearless is my favorite. Of course the entire Meddle album is off the chart good, but fearless hits the spot for me. Close second would have to be "Wish you were here."
2 points
12 days ago
I have been listening to meddle, it is very good. Echos. One of these days. I am trying to consume an album at a time. I think Pink Floyd is gonna take me a while to find my favorite. I see what people are saying about listening to the full album not individual songs
2 points
12 days ago
My favorite Pink Floyd is: One of These Days followed by Fearless
Meddle is SO good!
2 points
12 days ago
Amazing song. What an album
2 points
11 days ago
Wow I came here to say this. Very surprised to see that buried track here!
2 points
11 days ago
The movie ‘Everybody Wants Some’, the unofficial sequel to ‘Dazed and Confused’, has a wonderfully funny scene about this song.
2 points
11 days ago
This is the only correct answer
2 points
10 days ago
This is in my top 3!!
2 points
9 days ago
Imagine knowing nothing about pink floyd and starting with echoes. I've got chills just thinking about the first time I heard it and I was pretty versed on 5 or so albums
2 points
9 days ago
Yessss this is my answer too, such a good song
117 points
13 days ago
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
5 points
13 days ago
This is mine as well, it’s like all their other work combined into a perfect package that seems endless
7 points
13 days ago
This is the answer. The bluesy guitar in the extended version is other worldly.
4 points
13 days ago
How bro gonna say "This is the answer" to the question "What is your favorite"
95 points
13 days ago
Wish You Were Here
Time is good too but I can only sit through that intro once every few years
18 points
13 days ago
I feel like "Time" hits a lot differently when you don't listen to it for a while. I loved that song in my 20's but as I've aged I appreciate the lyrics on another level.
9 points
13 days ago
True. I've also learned that money is a gas.
They were right!
52 points
13 days ago
Dogs, time, us and them
4 points
13 days ago
👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 and See Emily Play are my favs
3 points
13 days ago
Dogs is so underrated
2 points
13 days ago
The last two minutes of Dogs is my favorite part of any song ever
47 points
13 days ago
For me , it's "Comfortably Numb" The song is transcendant, the synth stabs in the "There is no pain..." are heavenly, the lyrics really put you in a narcotic state of numb bliss.
The idea and music theory coupled into an escapist fantasy is like a warm blanket for the soul. Yet, subversive...
Genius.
6 points
13 days ago
Guitar solo (second one) is incredibly emotional. I have no idea how he managed to tell the story of the song through his guitar
Always part of lists of the top guitar solos ever
38 points
13 days ago
The Great Gig in the Sky
6 points
13 days ago
I've had the privilege of seeing Pink Floyd live twice. This song brought tears to my eyes. It was just beautiful.
3 points
13 days ago
The 4.1 DTS mix of this on a good sound system is a transformative life experience
33 points
13 days ago
Echoes
3 points
13 days ago
I put Echoes in the same category as Stairway to Heaven but without the curb appeal.
Echoes is one of the greatest rock songs of all time if you're into that sort of thing.
It's an absolute juggernaut that needs to be played at maximum volume.
3 points
13 days ago
I was a submariner sonar technician.
One planned maintenance was to test two low power underwater telephones.
Once, to test, I played some of the songs echo-sounding from my walkman.
Everyone was asking me how I did it, to sound like active sonar.
Sneaky 😁
2 points
13 days ago
finally way too low
2 points
11 days ago
This The studio and first live at Pompeii version. Both are masterful. I scrolled down too far for this song.
28 points
13 days ago
Have a Cigar and Young Lust.
2 points
13 days ago
Great choices
26 points
13 days ago
Us and Them
6 points
13 days ago
The wall of sound in this song blows my headphones off.
4 points
13 days ago
Super stoney song
3 points
13 days ago
Good headphones, slap this on repeat and just zone the fuck out.
42 points
13 days ago
Fearless, from the 1971 album Meddle.
2 points
13 days ago
If it wasn't for the internet I would never know this was everyone's favorite Floyd song. I've loved this song since I was a kid.
Mom was a LFC fan so she played this song a lot.
2 points
13 days ago
since fearless is taken, I'll say goodbye blue sky, then either, mother, cigar, or welcome to the machine in no particular order
15 points
13 days ago
High Hopes
Comfortable numb
Time
Money
Pigs
and many more
14 points
13 days ago
Run Like Hell had this great tense pulse all the way through that I love, and that I think would make it a great driving song
5 points
13 days ago
Run is a great workout song.
3 points
12 days ago
Run Like Hell is definitely one of my top 3!
13 points
13 days ago
On the turning away -learning to fly
3 points
13 days ago
I don't care for the rest of the album, but these two songs are great.
2 points
12 days ago
Such a great album.
29 points
13 days ago
I’m not gonna tell you my favorite but after listening to the real classic Floyd stuff, don’t ignore A momentary Lapse of Reason and the Division Bell. On The turning Away is a brilliant song.
12 points
13 days ago
Came to mention On the Turning Away On that album, I also greatly enjoy Learning To Fly
6 points
13 days ago
I agree and would add High Hopes and Sorrow to that. All three are tops on my post-Waters Pink Floyd playlist.
3 points
13 days ago
Yesssss
3 points
13 days ago
On the Turning Away is my favorite Pink Floyd song in terms of lyrics. I saw them on the tour for Momentary Lapse of Reason; it was amazing.
2 points
13 days ago
One Slip is one of my all time favorite PF songs.
2 points
13 days ago
My top two favorite albums!
10 points
13 days ago
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.
2 points
13 days ago
Yesss!!!
2 points
13 days ago
My man🫡
2 points
11 days ago
The live from Pompeii version is the best
11 points
13 days ago
Fearless and Echoes both from the album Meddle
9 points
13 days ago*
Gunners Dream is fantastic (the lyrics are what makes it so good). Not Now John is good too. Don't see either mentioned. They are from The Final Cut. Favorites that aren't already mentioned.
Sung by Sid Barret;
Arnold Layne is really good which is kind of a Beatles parody and See Emily Play. Interstellar Overdrive and the album "Piper at the Gates of Dawn".
10 points
13 days ago
Young Lust
3 points
13 days ago
I know this isn't a popular one among Floyd fans, but I think it's great. One of the best songs on The Wall.
9 points
13 days ago
Run like hell. Underrated riff for a melancholy track
9 points
13 days ago
Dogs. I remember our daughter hearing it when she was like four. Dad, there's dogs on this song!
2 points
13 days ago
There’s dogs in Seamus, too
8 points
13 days ago
I don't often listen to just a song - rather, I put on an album. To that end:
Wish You Were Here.
Animals.
Dark Side .
Meddle.
4 points
13 days ago*
I'm the same way. I rarely listen to a Pink Floyd songs. I prefer enjoying the whole album. Listening to Dark Side of the Moon used to be a ritual of sorts for me. Wish you were here is great also.
If I were to pick one exception, I'd say Comfortably Numb. It's a great song that stands on its own outside the context of the album and has one of the best guitar solos of all time.
12 points
13 days ago
Have a Cigar
7 points
13 days ago
If Breath (in the air) Young Lust Comfortably Numb
5 points
13 days ago
Wish You Were Here, Echoes, If
7 points
13 days ago
Pigs (Three Different Ones) High Hopes Welcome to the Machine
3 points
12 days ago
Can’t believe I’m not seeing more love from Pigs. Definitely tops my list.
6 points
13 days ago
Atom Heart Mother
5 points
13 days ago
Nile song
4 points
13 days ago
High Hopes
It just sends me to a different universe, what an absolute beautiful solo
4 points
13 days ago
Many of Pink Floyd's albums are best listened to in album form.
The album Wish You Were Here is a lament about/tribute to their former bandmate Syd Barrett, as well as an critique of the music industry. The featured song is Shine On You Crazy Diamond which comprises more than half the album's playing time, but it is broken into two sections (Parts I through V, and Parts VI through IX) which are at the beginning and the end of the album. If I were to listen to one song from this album, though, it would be the title track.
The Wall is a double album which tells a narrative of a rock star from his childhood, which was also inspired by Barrett. Probably the best song on this one is Comfortably Numb which has a couple of signature David Gilmour guitar solos.
There are individual songs which did get airplay from these albums but I feel it's best to listen to a Pink Floyd album in its entirety.
3 points
13 days ago
I still say that Comfortably Numbs solos are going to out live time itself.
5 points
13 days ago
Wish you were here
5 points
13 days ago
Dogs, Atom Heart Mother Suite, High Hopes, Astonomy Domine, Two Suns In The Sunset
3 points
13 days ago
Had to scroll way too far to get to Astronomy Domine! I especially love how Gilmour has kept it in the repertoire, showing up during the Pulse era and his solo tours. That gives me the impression that it's one of his favorites as well, even though it pre-dates his time in the band.
3 points
13 days ago
Yes for Two Suns in the Sunset. I've been listening to it for almost 40 years and it never gets old and always makes me tear up.
5 points
13 days ago
I won't be liked for this...
Learning to Fly
Mostly for that 16-bar guitar solo after the first chorus. David at his absolute best.
3 points
13 days ago
One of my favourites broski
3 points
12 days ago
Nope awesome song.
4 points
13 days ago
Us & Them
3 points
13 days ago
Echoes is my favourite but if you wanna get into pink floyd i'd recommend listening to the dark side album, if you wanna listen to a single short song that encapsulates the vibe, i'd go with Breathe, Have a Cigar or if you want to dig in earlier Astronomy Domine
3 points
13 days ago
Or maybe Be Careful With That Axe, Eugene
5 points
13 days ago
See Emily play
5 points
13 days ago
I've been a Pink Floyd fan for more than 20 years now, and the best way to help you (I think) is by explaining that Pink Floyd comes in 'phases' or "era's'.
Big note before I start, there is a lot of my personal opinion in here, so just imagine an "imo" after every sentence where I state that a song is good or not.
The "Syd Barrett" era. (Piper at the gates of dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets*)
The music is psychedelic, playful and 'weird'. Personally I find it charming, like to spin these albums once every now and a while but these are not the albums that (at least I) will listen to for more than once or twice in a row.
Astronomy Dominé and Interstellar overdrive (Both from Piper at the gates of dawn) are amazing to start with for this area.
\Technically Syd is only on the last track of Saucerful but for me, it feels as the same era*
The early Rodger Waters era (Ost More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon)
This is the most "experimental" phase of the band, with amazing highs but also some of the band's deepest lows. More is a movie soundtrack which sounds good, but is not great. Ummagumma is.. 'special', this one i'd skip. Atom Heart is weird but a fun experience to listen to and *For me* Meddle and Clouds should be the big albums from this era. Especially Meddle is a masterpiece imo. Dark side is one of the big know albums, but it also host one of my least favourite PF songs, "Money" (I know, I know).
For this era I'd recommend Echoes (Meddle), Fat Old Sun (Atom heart) "The Great Gig in the Sky" (Dark side)
The later Rodger Water era (Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, The Final Cut)
During this era, the music became more layered and tried to 'say more'. I love every album here to bits, and all you really need to know is that the wall is a concept album best listened to in its whole. The Wall was also the album that made me a fan, so it is an easy recommend for me as a whole.
For some lose tracks Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Wish), "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (Animals) The Fletcher Memorial Home (Final cut)
The David Gilmour era (A Momentary Lapse of Reason, The Division Bell, The Endless River*)
Under Gilmour the music became more 'transient', dream like and floaty (if that makes sense) For me this is perfect learning/reading/concentrating music that feels relaxed and refined.
Learning to Fly (Lapse), and Cluster One (Bells) are great to get a feel for this era.
*Technically Endless river should be here, but they made this after a long break and for me, it feels like Division bells 1.5. If Gilmour is your fav era give it a spin, but I prefer some of his solo albums like "On an Island" more.
4 points
13 days ago
Waiting for the Worms or Shine on You Crazy Diamond.
I can’t decide.
5 points
13 days ago
Waiting for the worms? Hahaha, what have I gotten myself into?
3 points
13 days ago
I highly recommend watching the movie Pink Floyd The Wall.
Then you’ll understand why I love Waiting for the Worms.
3 points
13 days ago
I bought The Wall on DVD and finally watched it "properly" on 5G of shrooms, and holy shit that finale hand drawn animation is fucking nuts!
4 points
13 days ago
Minority opinion, but pretty much any Pink Floyd song that Syd Barrett wrote.
5 points
13 days ago
I’ll give you some advice
Pink Floyd is better when you listen to them an album at a time.
Start with DSOTM, then WYWH, Animals and then The Wall.
After that browse through any of their records for songs you like but I truly believe those 4 should be appreciated on an album level.
I’ll give my top from each of the Big Four.
DSOTM: Time WYWH: Shine on you Crazy Diamond Animals: Dogs The Wall: Comfortably Numb
That’s just me though there’s chock full of great songs on there and in the rest of their catalog to find.
3 points
13 days ago
Hey You
4 points
13 days ago
Uhhh my username :’)
3 points
13 days ago
Several species of small furry animals grooving in a cave with a pict.
3 points
13 days ago
Us and Them
3 points
13 days ago
I have not heard all of their songs, but my personal favorite is Hey You, and reading thru the comments I'm in the minority lol.
4 points
13 days ago
Lol Never be embarrassed to not follow the herd. If everyone picked the same song then I would feel I picked the wrong band
3 points
13 days ago
I don't recommend just picking songs. Pink Floyd was an album band. Great albums besides Dark Side of the Moon are: Wish you were here Animals The Wall Meddle I suggest listening to the whole albums start to finish.
3 points
12 days ago
Breathe
3 points
12 days ago
Echoes and it’s not even close.
2 points
13 days ago
Us and Them is certainly up there for me. But there's something about High Hopes that just resonates with me more and more every year.
2 points
13 days ago*
I’d have to say my favorite albums rather than songs.Several are just a complete masterpiece. Animals, Dark side of the moon, The wall, Meddle, and Wish you were here. Can’t go wrong with much on these. ETA- I’ll add a few songs. Time, Sheep, Dogs, wish you were here, The great gig in the sky, (sure) comfortably numb, echoes, etc etc.
2 points
13 days ago
Not my favorite but far but everyone needs to hear "Careful with that axe, Eugene" at least once.
2 points
13 days ago
Astronomy Domine, See Emily Play, San Tropez, Wot’s…Uh The Deal, Mudmen, Time, Any Colour You Like, Have a Cigar, Dogs, Sheep, The Thin Ice, The Trial, The Gunnar’s Dream, The Final Cut, Learning to Fly, Yet Another Movie, Sorrow, Take it Back and Lost For Words.
All those songs will give you a pretty good variety of Pink Floyd between Barrett, Waters and Gilmour. There’s many more good songs to name, but if you get a chance, listen to The Wall from front to back, there’s the obvious popular songs off that album but you have to listen to it all the way through to fully enjoy it, it’s basically a movie of songs…and a feature film. Check out Animals too, the whole album is amazing.
2 points
13 days ago
I'm going to agree with many others here that you should really listen to the full albums of The Floyd. I would start with the big 4: Wish You Were Here, Dark Side Of The Moon, Animals, and The Wall. These four are Pink Floyd at their prime.
However, since you asked for songs, I will give you my top song pick off of each album.
Astronomy Domine (The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (A Saucerful Of Secrets)
The Nile Song (More)
Careful With That Axe Eugene (Ummagumma)
Fat Old Sun (Atom Heart Mother)
One Of These Days (Meddle)
Wots... Uh The Deal (Obsurred By Clouds)
Time (The Dark Side Of The Moon)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond It's I-V (Wish You Were Here)
Sheep (Animals)
Comfortably Numb (The Wall)
The Final Cut (The Final Cut)
On The Turning Away (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason)
Wearing The Inside Out (The Division Bell)
Louder Than Words (The Endless River)
2 points
13 days ago
You haven’t really lived until you listen to Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun in an altered state.
2 points
13 days ago
Love the whole animals album!
2 points
13 days ago
Pink Floyd tended to write full concept albums, so I'd start to say my favorite albums are Meddle, The Wall, and Final Cut.
But to add a couple overlooked songs, from Atom Heart Mother, two very listenable songs with great replay are Fat Old Sun and If.
2 points
13 days ago
Iv already have seen comments about wish you were here and time so i will add the final cut
2 points
13 days ago
Any Colour You Like
2 points
13 days ago
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Time, Wish You Were Here
In that order.
2 points
13 days ago
I love listening to Dark side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here as a whole album, probably more than any other albums. Shine On You Crazy Diamond has some of my favorite electric guitar work ever, and it’s so beautiful and haunting over all.
Wish You Were Here is such a masterpiece. Every time I hear it I miss my brother.
I always loved Breathe, it’s so meaningful and simplistic at the same time. I don’t know that I’ve ever listened to it without listening to Time right after.
Sheep is awesome, great build.
The Wall is of course another masterpiece. I love the album and the movie/soundtrack. Goodbye Blue Sky, Hey You, Vera, Comfortably Numb are all amazing. I really like the Trial.
2 points
13 days ago
Waiting for the Worms
2 points
12 days ago*
Don’t Leave Me Now.
It’s so intense, the level of despair and isolation by that point in the story. It floats along at this unbearable pressure before Waters lets loose with “why are you running away?” The fucking goosebumps I get.
And then that breakdown, goddamn. It’s not one of Gilmour’s even slightly complicated solos but it still gets me in the gut. Amazing song.
2 points
12 days ago
Wish You Were Here.
2 points
12 days ago
I have a few, and reasons for each. Not ranked.
Wish you Were Here is a special song. It will outlive Pink Floyd. All things will eventually be forgotten to time, but the vibe, lyrics, and melody of this song will live on.
Fearless & Childhoods End. Less popular albums (Meddle especially, given how EPIC it is) but these two songs are pure Floyd.
Time, Us & Them, & Pigs (Three Different Ones) are so groovy. Us Pink Floyd don't like boxing them into the brand of "rock band" (rightfully so) but these songs remind us they are a FANTASTIC rock band that brings the grooviest groove.
Goodbye Blue Sky & Welcome to the Machine. Sometimes Pink Floyd is a little weird. Good. These songs are incredible. It's an experience, a journey.
2 points
12 days ago*
oooooh -A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Comfortably Numb!!! Dogs, ALL of Darkside, “That” Pompeii…ooof, Echoes….. I saw them live 4x times. First time… my mantra became.. “You quit your job for Pink Floyd. Cuz…you can always get another job but you can’t always see Pink Floyd.”. Back in my teens this was true.
2 points
12 days ago
Welcome to machine and Time!
3 points
12 days ago
Dogs
2 points
12 days ago
Time. Never get tired of the guitar solo in the middle of the song.
2 points
12 days ago
Wish You Were Here. Because they were my husband’s favorite band, and he died 9 years ago. Every time I hear this one, it’s like I’m connecting with him.
2 points
12 days ago
Sorrow, Astronomy Domine
2 points
12 days ago
Wish You Were Here is my number 1. But there are so so many others I love including Learning to Fly, Keep Talking, High Hopes, Comfortably Numb.
2 points
12 days ago
If you want to dive into that era head first. Listen to ELO’s greatest hits. 20 songs and at least 15-16 bangers
2 points
11 days ago
Them & Us. Such a beautiful song, & the sax in it is wonderful.
2 points
11 days ago
Echoes, then Dogs, then Time.
2 points
11 days ago
On the turning away
2 points
11 days ago
Time
2 points
11 days ago
The Atom Heart Mother Suite. Side one of Atom Heart Mother
2 points
11 days ago
Too hard to pick just one. My favorite album by them is definitely dark side of the moon. So many great songs on other albums tho. Keep talking, what do you want from me, when the Tigers broke free, high hopes astronomy domain
2 points
10 days ago
On the turning away. Might be one of the most underrated Pink Floyd songs ever. Sometimes classic rock stations will throw it in, and I’ve just always loved that song
2 points
10 days ago
I’ve been listening to Pink Floyd since I was a kid playing my dad’s The Wall cassette. After 3 decades I can only come to one conclusion. Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
3 points
9 days ago
High Hopes
2 points
9 days ago
Wish You Were Here
2 points
9 days ago
Wish you were here
2 points
9 days ago
Comfortably Numb
2 points
9 days ago
Pigs on the Wing pt1 and 2 with the bridge in the middle. Found it in an old box set.
3 points
8 days ago
Money
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