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    Posted: October 30 2023 at 11:50
Alright here's my thoughts on each album

Piper - A pretty good first start. Astronomy Domine, Interstellar Overdrive, and Bike are still fantastic.
Saucerful - Underrated second outing. Used to be my all time favorite but it's not anymore, but the title track is still fantastic.
More - Very just a nothing kind of album.
Ummagumma - Live album is amazing, studio...meh.
Atom Heart Mother - My all time favorite Pink Floyd album. Consistently great throughout, with an amazing epic!
Meddle - Aside from One Of These Days and Echoes, it's kinda just ok to me.
Obscured - The better OST, still kinda just ok.
Dark Side - Yeah kinda basic but this is a masterpiece
Wish You Were Here - Ngl, not as big of a fan of this as most people. Still pretty great.
Animals - Really amazing, though Roger needed an ego check during the recording of that record.

So I would say my least favorite is More. You can probably skip it and maybe miss, like, 2 alright songs.
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Worst to best:
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - pretty awful.
Saucerful of Secrets - pretty poor.
Ummagumma - mediocre
More - OK
Atom Heart Mother - good
Wish You Were Here - outstanding in parts, mediocre in others
DSOM - very good
Obscured by Clouds - very different, but excellent except for Mudmen
Meddle - excellent except for Seamus, and Echoes is their masterwork
Animals - brilliant

But The Wall and A Momentary Lapse of Reason are pretty dreadful (Comfortably Numb excepted).
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Like them all as there are no bad albums here. So the two that I play the least are More and Piper
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Pre-Wall Floyd is where it's at - as a fan, there's not a duffer in the bunch.  And I'm seeing waaaay too much hate on Obsucred - it's one of their best all-around albums.  Some far out psych, some spacy pop, some excellent group playing, especially Gilmore and Wright.  There is one album that I don't turn to very often - I dig it but think the group overreached on a few tracks and threw a bit of filler pop tunes in to round things out:  Saucerful of Secrets.  
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ACCORDING TO RATINGS ON PA (Worst to Best)

More
Obscured by Clouds
Ummagumma
A Saucerful of Secrets
The Piper at the Games of Dawn
Atom Heart Mother
Meddle
Animals
The Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here


(All their albums ranked worst to best according to PA)

A Momentary Lapse of Reason
More
The Final Cut
The Endless River
Obscured by Clouds
Ummagumma
A Saucerful of Secrets
The Division Bell
The Piper at the Games of Dawn
Atom Heart Mother
The Wall
Meddle
Animals
The Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
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Not sure. If I have to choose, it might just as well be Obscured by Clouds, though it's not really bad at all, just... perhaps forgettable compared to other stuff they have released. And even that one has little gems as, for me, Mudmen. Or if I would separate the discs, then I may agree with those that say the Studio disc of Ummagumma.
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Obscured by clouds, but a good album.
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in the vast minority here, but my vote would be for either (or both) of the first 2 albums.  Just not a fan of the Syd Barrett stuff.  I guess I never believed in all the hype surrounding Syd Barrett as a songwriter or whatever else he was.  Of course I realize his influence on Waters' lyrics in later works, but....just do not care for those first 2 albums.
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NONE honestly
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My least favorite is piper at the gates of dawn. I enjoy it but it isnt nearly as progressive as the albums to come 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

None of them are bad. 
Ummagumma studio is my least favorite. 
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None of them are bad, indeed, but More is the one that I've never really attached much value to, especially compared to all their other albums (pre- or post- The Wall).

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I appreciate the innovation and originality of Syd's albums, but by now they are the ones I play the least with difference.

Actually same as Richard, I rarely find myself playing anything pre-Meddle, but Ummagumma, More and Obscured by Clouds still get some playing once in a while. 
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Either Saucerful of Secrets or More. I guess I'll officially say More. OBC is right behind them though.
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Originally posted by Frets N Worries Frets N Worries wrote:

Surprised no one has mentioned 'More' 
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Hi,

This is really sad. The film was EXCELLENT, however, unlike a lot of Hollywood stuff, the music in it is not heard in the regular makes no sense style in films ... the whole thing is seen/heard from the girl's point of view, and the music is on a cassette player she carries with her.

Most of it, is used in her "tripping", and it was beautifully done, despite the horrible set of film stock used for the film which didn't exactly make it better, and instead made it look like a high school/college made film with no money whatsoever. 

The music in the film is very well used, unlike "Obscured by Clouds" that had an Oscar Winning Cinematographer, and the music was not quite used well at all, except in the opening credits ... on top of the fact that the film looks like it was cut up senselessly to make it strange, stoney and weird.

Given the stuff that folks watch today, and seem to like a lot, a film like MORE will not be appreciated by a lot of folks today, and the music in the album will appear not together, or in some sort of cohesive fashion. 

Maybe if those folks had a nice trip they would realize that it doesn't matter if the music comes from a cassette player or from the movie screen ... you still fly with it and then some ... but I doubt many folks today give a poop and are strong enough to learn and find out! And then be able to "LIVE" with the story, instead of "imagining it". There is a massive difference!
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No dog in this fight, I just don't listen to anything pre Meddle!
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

None of them are bad. 
Ummagumma studio is my least favorite. 

This.  Pink Floyd was both evolutionary AND revolutionary, and they were breaking ground where none had gone.  Of course there were rough spots.  

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Lesanderd Lesanderd wrote:

Hard to pick . but I would say Ummagumma

Ummagumma live is amazing IMO. I played it a lot and it's still fun to get back to it. Smile

Lets just say that the Live disc is Umma and the Studio disc is Gumma. Big smile


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Originally posted by Lesanderd Lesanderd wrote:

Hard to pick . but I would say Ummagumma

Ummagumma live is amazing IMO. I played it a lot and it's still fun to get back to it. Smile
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