Pink Floyd worst to first album ranking

After having a listen through all of the Pink Floyd albums i recently bought, ive decided to make a worst to first album ranking video.   I know its early days, as these albums have not had multiple listens by me yet, but ive decided to go with what i know thus far.  If i were to make this video in 5 or 10 years from now, the rankings may possibly be different, i hope my choices are not too controversial.

The exclusion of More makes me a bit sad, because it's one of my favorites. 

moshkito wrote: Hi, I have never thought of PF's work as a best or worst ... unless it was a Hipgnosis cover making fun of their ability and standing. I do think that things like "The endless River" is seriously, and severely lacking when it comes to the rest of their work, but comparing The Wall to the 1st or 2nd album in terms of preference, is probably a bad idea ... different times and different places, and different results. I couldn't suggest to you a "best" ... and I could not suggest you a worst. I might even say "WURST" instead of worst, just for fun ...

Greenmist wrote: After having a listen through all of the Pink Floyd albums i recently bought, I've decided to make a worst to first album ranking video.   I know its early days, as these albums have not had multiple listens by me yet, but ive decided to go with what i know thus far.  If i were to make this video in 5 or 10 years from now, the rankings may possibly be different, i hope my choices are not too controversial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiIEVnRxiow

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - April 19 2023 at 07:23

I don't really have a Gnosis ratings out of 15, but stole "the concept" from  Nogbad_The_Bad

Quite a mixed baggage of rankings

1. Animals 4.88

My Gnosis ratings of Pink Floyd albums:

Dark Side of the Moon - 15
Wish You Were Here - 15
Animals - 13
Meddle - 13
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 12
Ummagumma - 11
Atom Heart Mother - 11
A Saucerful of Secrets - 11
The Wall - 10
More - 10
Obscured By Clouds - 9
A Momentary Lapse of Reason - 8
The Division Bell - 8
The Endless River - 7
The Final Cut - 7

Edited by enigmatic - April 19 2023 at 16:31

I wouldn't want to do a best to worst as I'd rather focus on my favourites, which while best for me, I might not consider among the very best overall from a somewhat more objective viewpoint, at least more objective from my perception using my metrics.

Amongst my favourites are Atom Heart Mother, A Saucerful of Secrets, Meddle, Ummagumma, Piper at the Gates of Dawn and indeed More. Really I like every album up to and including The Wall very much and I would find it hard to rate them.

As for the video. I respect that you were honest about your lack of knowledge, that you haven't given these albums much time or spins and omitted albums altogether, but I would much rather see one that comes from a place of more knowing and having insight into the material. More research would have helped. Just omitting albums and assuming that's fine because of a perceived consensus shows what I would expect as some due diligence. Seems lazy and lacking good scepticism -- a deeper dive maybe based on your reviews would be better for my tastes. That said, I know Pink Floyd better and don't know that I could do a better job, and people like reaction videos where one can't expect much substance, so I don't want to come off as overly critical. It's okay for what it is as long as one doesn't take it seriously. Yoiyu seem to go for more of ranty, less nuanced/ subtle style, which is popular, with your commentary.

I watched one of your videos, well in part, Bands and artists that are popular that I do not get...



You wrote that "to me they are just nothing but a huge borefest", which is fine by me (and quite understandable for much Radiohead for a Ratt fan etc.) and you say tried and tried, but I wonder how many albums you tried and tried. It took me a long time to really get into Radiohead beyond a few songs (A Moon Shaped Pool and Ok Computer where the first album to really work for me). I didn't try hard, but over some years I exposed myself to more and more. That said, I like kinds of atmospheric soundtracky music that it seems you don't care for. I had not heard it likened to Anathema, and maybe that expectation of it sounding like Anathema put you off. I like a lot of Radiohead but what I have heard of Anathema is pretty anathema to me.

Björk has a lot of music I love, especially from Debut, Post, Homogenic and Vespertine. Not sure if you heard any full albums or it's just basing it on some songs you heard off the radio?

The Cure: You mention not getting into their songs, but I like the album Disintegration. I never got into Sisters of Mercy.



Gary Numan: I would not base my view on a compilation. I prefer to check out well rated albums and read the reviews. I was turned onto him as a child thru Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army's Replicas and I think that's a great album and the best one to start with. My second favourite of his is Telekon (that would be marmite) and then The Pleasure Principle.

But you have a lot of music you reviewed that I'm not into -- you even did Bon Jovi.

Anyway, once I get the chance I will make a video with my horrid voice on music, and it will be horrible I bet. Yours are entertaining, and not meant to be huge research projects, I understand.

Edited by Logan - April 19 2023 at 17:51