Pink Floyd & Solo ! ! !
by TheSmiths82-87 
- Chart updated: 11/29/2017 19:24
- (Created: 12/30/2015 14:38).
- Chart size: 20 albums.
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I would say this is rather predictably my favourite Pink Floyd album, for many years it would have been Piper At The Gates Of Dawn as when it came to the Floyd I was at first steeped in the world of Syd Barrett only.
Regardless of how good this album sounds, it still amazes me that an album with such themes as death, greed, madness etc could become one of the greatest selling albums in history, usually the big sellers are the sugar coated ones with absolutely nothing to say.
In all fairness, whatever your persuasion, it must be quite difficult to not even slightly appreciate tracks like Time, Money, Breathe, Us And Them and then the final two classics Brain Damage and Eclipse. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
Regardless of how good this album sounds, it still amazes me that an album with such themes as death, greed, madness etc could become one of the greatest selling albums in history, usually the big sellers are the sugar coated ones with absolutely nothing to say.
In all fairness, whatever your persuasion, it must be quite difficult to not even slightly appreciate tracks like Time, Money, Breathe, Us And Them and then the final two classics Brain Damage and Eclipse. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
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1973
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58,163
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Roger Waters' magnum opus has left its mark over popular music since it's release in 1979, there were many expensive live shows of the Wall at the time, then the Berlin Wall live show in 1990 and another world tour in recent years which reunited Gilmour and Waters on a couple of tracks at a London gig.
The track listing serves the concept, but there are a few tracks that can stand alone and have featured on various compilations, Comfortably Numb is an obvious choice, it does contain a wonderful guitar solo, but also Hey You, Run Like Hell and of course Another Brick In The Wall Part II. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
The track listing serves the concept, but there are a few tracks that can stand alone and have featured on various compilations, Comfortably Numb is an obvious choice, it does contain a wonderful guitar solo, but also Hey You, Run Like Hell and of course Another Brick In The Wall Part II. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
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1979
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24,316
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A good proportion of the album is seen as a tribute to Syd Barrett, the title track and in particular the two segments of Shine On You Crazy Diamond have plenty of references to Syd.
Imagine having to produce a follow up to The Dark Side Of The Moon, it must've been quite a daunting task, but in reality Wish You Were Here is just as good, if not better than its predecessor.
Both Gilmour and Wright have stated in the past that this was their favourite Pink Floyd album. The title track would have to be my favourite track in the band's discography. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
Imagine having to produce a follow up to The Dark Side Of The Moon, it must've been quite a daunting task, but in reality Wish You Were Here is just as good, if not better than its predecessor.
Both Gilmour and Wright have stated in the past that this was their favourite Pink Floyd album. The title track would have to be my favourite track in the band's discography. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
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1975
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43,353
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Child-like psychedelia has never sounded so good, Pink Floyd's debut album is vastly different from their later and more well known work. The album is a testament to Syd Barrett's infectious song writing, he is credited with writing all but one of the tracks and the album bristles with confidence, so much so that the first two brilliant singles Arnold Layne and See Emily Play are not even included here.
We have the wonderful space rock of Astronomy Domine and Intersteller Overdrive, the I Ching influence of Lucifer Sam and Chapter 24 and my personal favourite Matilda Mother which shows Syd's tendency to view childhood as the all conquering happiness which maybe hid a more serious side now we know what happened to him and his retreat from life back to his mother's home in Cambridge. This childhood influence also seeped into tracks like Bike, The Gnome and Scarecrow. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
We have the wonderful space rock of Astronomy Domine and Intersteller Overdrive, the I Ching influence of Lucifer Sam and Chapter 24 and my personal favourite Matilda Mother which shows Syd's tendency to view childhood as the all conquering happiness which maybe hid a more serious side now we know what happened to him and his retreat from life back to his mother's home in Cambridge. This childhood influence also seeped into tracks like Bike, The Gnome and Scarecrow. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
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1967
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8,905
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1970
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1,693
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Water's Orwellian critique of society with the population represented as dogs, pigs and sheep. Of course the Pink Floyd of 1977 has nothing in common with the punk movement happening at the time as the Floyd were one of the main targets for the punks, but here Water's does sound suitably angry and possibly influenced by the rise of punk.
In a nutshell, Animals consists of three epic electric tracks bookended by an acoustic love song which has been chopped in half. Dogs is the key track here for me and features some of Gilmour's best guitar work and a fine vocal. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
In a nutshell, Animals consists of three epic electric tracks bookended by an acoustic love song which has been chopped in half. Dogs is the key track here for me and features some of Gilmour's best guitar work and a fine vocal. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
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1977
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21,888
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1970
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794
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Very much a Roger Waters solo album, with guest appearances from Gilmour and Mason. I think I read somewhere that Gilmour was not happy that a lot of these songs were ones which didn't make it onto the Wall at the time, so his reasoning was if they weren't good enough for the Wall then why are they good enough now. I think there is a little more to it than that but you can see his point. One song which didn't make either albums is When The Tigers Broke Free, which is a shame as it would've slotted in quite nicely here.
As you would imagine from a Waters album concerned with war - lyrically it is brilliant, but musically it is quite sparse, especially if you compare it to the band's classic output from 73-79. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
As you would imagine from a Waters album concerned with war - lyrically it is brilliant, but musically it is quite sparse, especially if you compare it to the band's classic output from 73-79. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
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1983
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2,210
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This is the first album since Syd Barrett left where Pink Floyd had started to carve out their own sound as opposed to either trying to sound a bit like Syd or releasing albums containing aimless sprawling instrumentals with only the odd great track.
Meddle still sounds very assured and confident, tracks like Fearless, St Tropez and Pillow Of Winds are great, but Echoes is the one, maybe a little too long for my taste but then again I think it would be sacrilege to chop it down by a few minutes. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
Meddle still sounds very assured and confident, tracks like Fearless, St Tropez and Pillow Of Winds are great, but Echoes is the one, maybe a little too long for my taste but then again I think it would be sacrilege to chop it down by a few minutes. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2016]
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1971
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1992
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839
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Pink Floyd & Solo ! ! ! composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 4 | 20% | |
| 1970s | 10 | 50% | |
| 1980s | 4 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 2 | 10% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Pink Floyd | 14 | 70% | |
| Syd Barrett | 2 | 10% | |
| Roger Waters | 2 | 10% | |
| David Gilmour | 2 | 10% |
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