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Posted: October 11 2014 at 21:25

Animals

Wish You Were Here

Dark Side of the Moon

Obscured by Clouds

Atom Heart Mother

Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.

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Posted: October 12 2014 at 07:16

I have all Pink Floyd studio albums, but I really like only 4 of them, in this order:

(1) DSOTM

(2) AMLOR

(3) Animals

(4) Meddle

The rest of PF's discography doesn't do much for me.

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Posted: October 14 2014 at 00:57

Animals

Meddle

Ummagumma

Atom Heart Mother

Wish You Were Here

A Sacucerful Of Secrets

Dark Side Of The Moon

The Wall

The Division Bell

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Posted: October 16 2014 at 07:25

Animals! If Rock is to be remembered 1000 years from now, Waters' rantings on the nature of us beasts will still ring true....or string true ("harmlessly passing your time in the grasslands away"...."who was only a stranger at home/who was ground down in the end/who was found dead on the phone"....phone? WTF is a phone?...."Wave upon wave of demented avengers/march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream). Who else hit so close to the bone?

Eight copies of Animals....Meddle....Obscured by Clouds....my top 10.

I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....

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Posted: October 16 2014 at 07:34

My 4 faves in no particular order:

Atom Heart Mother

Animals

Ummagumma

and I love almost everything else they did with the exception of Final Cut. Delicate Sound Of Thunder was my gateway drug into Floyd together with The Wall. I remember listening to it incessantly for a year or so back when I was 12 and doing my weekly 4 hour mailman route. I managed to listen to my cassette tape twice in the process, and as a result of this every note and small musical quiver is now forever tattooed onto my cerebral cortex.

Edited by Guldbamsen - October 16 2014 at 07:35

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Posted: October 16 2014 at 09:05

Meddle
Ummagumma
Dark Side of The Moon
Animals
The Wall
More
Wish You Wer Here
Delicate Sound of Thunder

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Posted: October 20 2014 at 12:01

Animals

Wish You Were Here

Yeah, only two. Masterpieces both! Their only two, as far as I'm concerned. Not to say I dislike their other albums, in fact, I like all of their studio albums, to some degree, just can't be bothered ranking them, as PF just doesn't do much for me.

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Posted: October 20 2014 at 12:34

1. Dark Side Of The Moon

2. Wish You Were Here

3. Obscured By Clouds

4. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

5. The Wall

6, Atom Heart Mother

7. Umma Gumma

8. A Saucerful of Secrets

9. Meddle

10. Animals

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Posted: October 21 2014 at 03:53

1. Atom Heart Mother - the first prog album I ever heard, over forty years ago.
2. Ummagumma - heard it immediately after AHM, I was ten years old and my life was changed.

Those two are always up there, the next few vary positions now and again

3. A Saucerful Of Secrets
4. Relics
5. Animals
6. Wish You Were Here
7. Meddle
8. Dark Side Of The Moon
9. Live At Pompeii (I know it's not an album, but hey)

And I like the idea of The Endless River so much, I'll put it in at Number 10.
Although I haven't heard it, the descriptions of it thrill me like no Floyd album I haven't already listed, therefore it's better than them.

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Posted: October 21 2014 at 07:27

01. Wish You Were Here

02. The Wall

03. Dark Side Of The Moon

04. Animals

05. Atom Heart Mother

06. Meddle

07. Obscured By Cloud (Cruelly underrated)

08. The Final Cut

09. A Saucerful Of Secrets

10. More

11. Ummagumma

12. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

13. The Division Bell

14. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

And I don't know where the Endless River will be in the top.

I didn't include live and archival albums.

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Posted: October 21 2014 at 09:09

Uh..they only have 14 studio albums.....you might as well ask to list all of them.

I suppose the first 10.....since I never really cared that much for The Wall; a truly overrated one imho.

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Posted: October 21 2014 at 09:46

It's one of the albums who made me discover prog rock so, it's great memories.

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Posted: October 21 2014 at 09:47

All except Momentary Lapse and The Final cut with WYWH as my favorite. (that's 12 albums but what the heck)

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Posted: October 26 2014 at 07:26

1. Atom Heart Mother

2. Dark Side of the Moon

3. Obscured by Clouds

4. Animals

5. WYWH

6. Meddle

7. The Wall

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Posted: October 26 2014 at 07:41

strangelybrown wrote:

1. Atom Heart Mother

2. Dark Side of the Moon

3. Obscured by Clouds

4. Animals

5. WYWH

6. Meddle

7. The Wall

Great first post, welcome to the forum!

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Posted: October 27 2014 at 19:07

I already posted here as Unitron, but my favorites have changed a bit

1. Animals (Always will be my favorite)

2. Obscured by Clouds

3. Meddle

4. Dark Side of the Moon

5. A Momentary Lapse of Reason

6. A Saucerful of Secrets

7. Wish You Were Here

8. The Wall

9. The Division Bell

10. Atom Heart Mother

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Posted: October 27 2014 at 20:54

always have been.. always will be a fan of the groups earlier albums. And still think their later albums suck... a castrated group without Roger... I should buy Momentary Lapse again.. just so I can throw out the window of a moving vehicle.. again.

1. Saucerful
2. More (adore this album)
3. Obscured by Clouds
4. Ummagumma
5. Atom Heart Mother
6. DSOTM
7. Piper
8. WYWH
9. Animals
10. The Wall

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Posted: October 29 2014 at 02:15

01. Dark Side Of The Moon
02. Wish You Were Here
03. Animals
04. Obscured By Cloud (Cruelly underrated)
05. The Wall
06. Atom Heart Mother
07. The Final Cut
08. Meddle
09. A Saucerful Of Secrets
10. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
11. The Division Bell
12. Ummagumma
13. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
14. More

Always subject to change, ask me again in a month. As Floyd is probably my fav group, I listen to all of the albums still except for the last two , which extremely rarely.

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