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- “Wish You Were Here” (Wish You Were Here, 1975) Feels kinda wrong, doesn’t it? To have a relatively straightforward ballad as the crowning achievement of one of history’s greatest progressive rock bands — it’s sorta like putting “Patience” at the top of a Guns N’ Roses list, no?
- “Run Like Hell” (The Wall, 1979) Not like it’s surprising that nobody ever thought to combine the strengths of Chic and Rush before Pink Floyd, but the fact that Floyd did, and came up with The Wall‘s side-four highlight in the process, is forever one for the top of the band’s resume.
- “Us and Them” (The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973) Dark Side’s crown jewel, a slow-burning sway built around a softly flaring Gilmour riff and radiant Hammond organ from Wright.
- “Comfortably Numb” (The Wall, 1979) The ultimate in Pink Floyd as classic rock titans, an absolutely towering power ballad where both elements of that phrase feel individually and collectively insufficient to appropriately summarize the song’s might.
Mar 1, 2023 · The list ranks all of Pink Floyd’s officially released studio work, 165 songs in all, from the worst to the best.
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- Set The Controls of The Heart of The Sun
- Have A Cigar
- One of These Days
- Run Like Hell
- Astronomy Domine
- The Great Gig in The Sky
- Interstellar OverDrive
- The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick in The Wall
- Us and Them
- Money
According to Wikipedia, Set The Controls Of The Heart Of The Sun was the first (and only) time both David Gilmour and Syd Barrett appeared together on the same Pink Floyd recording. Barrett was on his way out, Gilmour was on the way in. The tensions could have been enough to sink it. They didn’t. Despite never being released as a single, it still r...
If there was one type of person Pink Floyd never trusted, it was a suit. Especially if that suit happened to work in the record industry. Written about all the shady music execs who see music as a money-spinner rather than an art, Have a Cigar is Pink Floyd at their cynical, most tongue-in-cheek best.
Taken from the 1971 album Meddle, One of These Days is an oddity. Built entirely around a single-note bass riff, it’s almost entirely instrumental save for the bellowed line “One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces.” It shouldn’t really work. In the hands of a lesser band, it probably wouldn’t. In the hand of Pink Floyd, it’s tran...
It might have a disco beat, but Gilmour’s galloping six strings are what sets the tone for this most unsettling of anthems. Its dramatic key changes, guttural vocals, and disquieting, nihilistic lyrics are mind-bending. No one else could do something like this and carry it off… all the more reason, then, to be thankful for Pink Floyd.
Syd Barrett may have founded Pink Floyd, but he didn’t last long with them. After just one album and a handful of singles, his erratic behavior and escalating mental health problems forced the band to cut him loose. They didn’t want to, and it took them months to build up the courage to actually tell him. In the meantime, he hung around the recordi...
Named by loudersound.comas one of the best Pink Floyd songs ever, The Great Gig in the Sky was one of the last songs for The Dark Side of The Moon to be completed, and, appropriately enough, the last to be included. After the sensory rollercoaster its predecessors take us on, it serves as something of a restrained come down at first. Then back up s...
Despite their reputation, Pink Floyd have never sung about space half as much as everyone seems to think they have. But here they do, and that’s A-OK. Syd Barrett’s downright dirty riffing serves as the basis for the entire song, which stretches on for almost ten minutes in total. Experimental, instrumental, and reeking in creativity, it’s one of t...
The Happiest Days of Our Lives is, technically, a separate song to Another Brick in the Wall (Part II), but given that it segways into the latter on the album, and is rarely if ever played in isolation, it seems reasonable to treat them as one. What’s not reasonable, on the other hand, is to assume that it’s some kind of anti-education, slacker ant...
Pink Floyd have always been masters of space. They know when to let a song breathe – something not every band does, but which seems to come to them effortlessly. Us and Them is one of the best examples of just how much attention they pay to aural space in their songs. Serving as the relaxed centerpiece of Dark Side of The Moon, the track is quiet a...
Named as one of Pink Floyd’s greatest songs by Paste, Money gave the band their first trans-Atlantic hit. On paper, it didn’t have the makings of one – it’s over 6 minutes long, it’s got a sour message, and, instead of a standard 4/4 or 6/8 time signature, it rides along in 7/8 time. But people bought it… in their millions. Ironically enough for a ...
- Paintbox. As the flip to 1967’s Apples And Oranges, the Wright-sung/written Paintbox fell between the cracks, but deserved better. Like the befuddled narrator – who “must admit I had too much to drink” – the song never quite seems to find its centre of gravity, lurching between ominously clattered acoustics and rattled drums.
- Childhood's End. The young Gilmour never had much confidence with lyrics, but the sci-fi novels of Arthur C. Clarke got his quill scratching, powering the high-water mark of 1972’s Obscured By Clouds and the last song written solely by the guitarist until A Momentary Lapse Of Reason.
- A Saucerful of Secrets. Roger Waters remembers A Saucerful Of Secrets as “a turning point. It gave us our second breath. It was the first thing we’d done without Syd that we thought was any good”.
- Fat Old Sun. Gilmour was convinced this Atom Heart Mother highlight had already been written, but he was wrong – it just felt like you’d known it all your life.
- Comfortably Numb. It’s hard to put Comfortably Numb anywhere else on this list. It’s got one of the greatest guitar solos of all time, an incredible origin story, and might be Pink Floyd’s most recognizable song to come from their illustrious career.
- Wish You Were Here. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (PULSE Restored & Re-Edited) Coming out as the title track for the Wish You Were Here album, this one dropped in 1975 and segues perfectly from a song we’ll see later on the list: Have A Cigar.
- Time. Pink Floyd – Time (Official Audio) The fourth track from The Dark Side of the Moon album deals with the passage of time and how quickly it can go by when you aren’t looking into the future anymore.
- Echoes. Echoes was the song that helped Pink Floyd find their identity after the departure of Syd Barrett and came right after signing their deal with EMI that saw the band move away from Abbey Road.
Sep 20, 2022 · Classic Rock. The 20 best Pink Floyd songs, as chosen by 40 different musicians. By Fraser Lewry. ( Classic Rock ) last updated 20 September 2022. From a recorded catalogue that stretches over more than a dozen albums, 47 years and hundreds of songs, everybody has their favourite Pink Floyd song.
Jan 27, 2013 · Columbia. 5. 'David Gilmour' (David Gilmour, 1978) Gilmour's self-titled debut is probably destined to be forever compared with Animals and then The Wall, the two Waters-heavy Pink Floyd releases ...
