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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.
- "Comfortably Numb" From: 'The Wall' (1979) Waters penned most of The Wall by himself, tracing childhood issues to Floyd-era conflicts. "Comfortably Numb" is one of the few songs written with Gilmour, who supplies the music and terrific guitar solo, one of the most celebrated in rock history.
- "Wish You Were Here" From: 'Wish You Were Here' (1975) The members of Pink Floyd were still friendly with Syd Barrett after he left the group in 1968. He even showed up in the studio, somewhat unrecognizable, while they were recording of their ninth album.
- "Time" From: 'The Dark Side of the Moon' (1973) Like many tracks on our list of the Top 10 Pink Floyd Songs, "Time" works better as part of a bigger album concept than as a standalone cut.
- "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" From: 'Wish You Were Here' (1975) "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" was originally released as a two-song, eight-part, 26-minute suite on the band's follow-up to the mega-popular The Dark Side of the Moon.
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- Us And Them. From the album Dark Side Of The Moon – Released 1973. Top 100 Pink Floyd Songs article published on Classic RockHistory.com© 2023. Classicrockhistory.com claims ownership of all its original content and Intellectual property under United States Copyright laws and those of all other foreign countries.
- Comfortably Numb. From the album The Wall – Released 1979.
- Money. From the album Dark Side Of The Moon – Released 1973.
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1,2 & 3) From the album Wish You Were Here – Released 1975.
- Free Four
- On The Run
- The Thin Ice
- Nobody Home
- The Nile Song
- In The Flesh?
- Fat Old Sun
- A Saucerful of Secrets
- Childhood's End
- Paintbox
Pink Floyd’s 1975 song Welcome To The Machine has always been the moment listeners first realised how disenfranchised Roger Waters had become. But it didn’t happen overnight. The lyrics to Free Four were thoroughly bleak, but disguised in a brisk, almost country rock song, released as a single in the US, and included on Obscured By Clouds, Floyd’s ...
In complete contrast to preceding track, Breathe, this is Pink Floyd getting sonically way out there. An instrumental that builds on a sequenced synth pattern, it’s allegedly a musical interpretation of keyboardist Richard Wright’s acknowledged fear of flying. It certainly has to ability to give you the sweats, and is probably best left alone if yo...
The second track from The Wall is almost a segue of the opener, telling the story of the central Pink character growing up (opening with the closing crying child from In The Flesh). All runs relatively smoothly, lyrically and musically, until Roger Waters takes over from David Gilmour on vocals, warning of “the thin ice of modern life…”, and soon a...
Late in the Wallsessions, a fuming Waters penned this bruised piano ballad in a single evening, having risen to Gilmour’s challenge to write “something fantastic”. If the music was ripe with sorrow and solitude, the lyric was even more so, seemingly nodding to every rock star burn-out cliché in the book – and surely referencing the departed Barrett...
From the soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder’s psychedelic drug-fest More, which was the first full-length Pink Floyd album not to have any involvement from founder member Syd Barrett. Written by Waters and sung by David Gilmour, The Nile Song is one of the heaviest songs Pink Floyd ever recorded, almost a proto-version of Not Now John. It was released ...
The opening track from the epic double concept album The Wall, and named after the 1977 Animalstour on which, at the final show in Montreal Waters legendarily spat at a member of the audience, an event that sparked the alienated rock star concept. It’s certainly an explosive start to the album, all crashing keyboard power chords and blazing guitars...
Gilmour was convinced this Atom Heart Motherhighlight had already been written, but he was wrong – it just felt like you’d known it all your life. “It’s one of those songs where the whole thing fell together very easily,” he told Uncut. “I remember thinking at the time, ‘What have I ripped this off? I’m sure it’s by the Kinks or someone’. But since...
Roger Waters remembers A Saucerful Of Secretsas “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”. Gilmour remembers that “it started with Roger and Nick drawing weird shapes on a bit of paper. We then composed music based on the structure of the drawing. My role I suppose was...
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. The flashpoint at 1:30 when the song breaks from synthy swoosh into tough interste...
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. It was a fair reflection of a ba...
- Wish You Were Here. When Syd Barrett was ousted, it wasn’t done out of animosity. By that point, his mental health was in serious decline; his removal was done as much for his benefit as for the rest of the bands.
- Echoes. Very few songs manage to capture the essence of Pink Floyd quite so succinctly as Echoes. Taken from the 1971 album Meddle, it’s epic in length (the studio version runs 23 and a half minutes long), grand in ambition, and utterly compelling.
- Time. Pink Floyd has always been an albums band, rather than a singles band. To fully understand the majesty of Dark Side of the Moon, you have to listen to it in full.
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Wish You Were Here is the thinking person’s Pink Floyd album. A meditation on friendship, madness, and the music industry, it’s one of the most literate and intelligent albums to come out of the 1970s.
Mar 1, 2023 · All 165 Pink Floyd Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best. So, you think you can tell Meddle from The Division Bell? By Bill Wyman. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Pink Floyd may be the...
There were too many great tracks from Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall that we could not leave off this list. The origins of Pink Floyd began as a rhythm and blues cover band. Syd Barrett chose the band’s name by combining the names of two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.