What is your favorite Pink Floyd album?

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I heard Dark Side of the Moon for the first time a few months after it was originally released in 1973. I was a 19-year old college junior, and it utterly stunned me. It changed my life. Seriously. It was holy music to me.

I'd have to say that Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a work of genius. Meddle isn't too bad, either.

Dark Side of the Moon: One of the best albums ever made in terms of being a totally cohesive document from front to back. Probably my favorite, if I have to choose.

Wish You Were Here: Shine On You Crazy Diamond is probably their most emotionally resonant song - this is a desperate plea from one artist to another to come back to us and give us more of their brilliance. Sadly, that would not happen. Still, if I'm focused and deeply communed with the music, this is the Floyd album I go to when I want to feel joy and pain in equal measure. So while I don't consider it a masterpiece like DSOTM, it's probably the album I put on most often.

The Wall is uneven, but still brilliant, but also is a record you listen to at specific times of your life. Speaking strictly for myself, it has often felt like an autobiographical work for me, and I once had a friend who said that when she calls her friend and hears The Wall playing in the background, she knows they're in a bad place. I tend to agree, though watching the movie is less alienating.

But there's really no bad Floyd. Not even The Final Cut.

I like most of their albums, but its a toss up between dark side of the moon and wish you were here for my favourite Album.

My favourite track however comes from Meddle - Echoes is just pure sonic poetry!

i liked keith floyd until he died. after he died, i did not like him any more (primarily because he was dead).

I've never picked up on the anti-capitolist message. It's depressing to hear people compared to sheep and dogs.
The Final Cut is a very sad album, dealing with Roger's feelings regarding the loss of his father in WWII.

I love Meddle I don't know why but that's my favorite, I think their best is probably Dark Side of the Moon though.

The Dark Side of the Moon, listening now, thanks, been a while.

Definitely Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Also Syd Barretts solo albums. Pure poetry, pure genius!

(starts singing)

I've got a bike,
you can ride if you like,
it's got a bell and a basket and things to make it look good

The Division Bell- Lost for Words has the best lyrics ever, especially the last four lines:

"Lost For Words"

I was spending my time in the doldrums
I was caught in the cauldron of hate
I felt persecuted and paralyzed
I thought that everything else would just wait
While you are wasting your time on your enemies
Engulfed in a fever of spite
Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night

To martyr yourself to caution
Is not going to help at all
Because there'll be no safety in numbers
When the Right One walks out of the door

Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
Stuck in a world of isolation
While the ivy grows over the door

So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go f**k myself
You know you just can't win

LOVE IT. And obviously Dark Side of the Moon <3