Match-Cut Band Consensus - Pink Floyd

The Rules of the Game:

How to post selections:

- Assign a rating to each album based on a scale of 1-10
- Half points may be used
- It is not necessary to rank the albums. Instead, please post all lists in chronological order, starting with the earliest album.

For an album to be eligible for the band's overall rating, it must have at least four (4) votes. Otherwise, there isn't a sufficient amount of votes to make the rating as objective or effective as an album that has received twenty (20) votes. If an album is mentioned only once or twice, I will still post that album's average (quite easy if only mentioned once) but I will separate it from the albums that factor into the band's overall rating.


Pink Floyd - Discography

Piper at the Gates of Dawn
A Saucerful of Secrets
More
Ummagumma
Atom Heart Mother
Meddle
Obscured by Clouds
Darkside of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
Final Cut
Momentary Lapse of Rason
Division Bell
Endless River


Also feel free to include albums like Relics (a compilation, but contains a few songs that were unreleased in the US) or any live albums or bootlegs.

I currently own about 50 albums from Floyd, so I'll be including some of the more famous bootlegs.

I'll rate the studio albums for now:

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 6
A Saucerful of Secrets - 7
More - 6
Ummagumma - 5
Atom Heart Mother - 6
Meddle - 10
Obscured by Clouds - 10
Darkside of the Moon - 10
Wish You Were Here - 9
Animals - 10
The Wall - 7
Final Cut - 10
Momentary Lapse of Reason - 3
Division Bell - 7
Endless River - 6

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 7.5
More - 6.0
Ummagumma - 4.0
Atom Heart Mother - 7.0
Meddle - 8.5
Dark Side of the Moon - 10.0
Wish You Were Here - 10.0
Animals - 9.0
The Wall - 8.0
Final Cut - 7.5
Division Bell - 4.5

Piper at the Gates of Dawn-8
Meddle-9.5
The Darkside of the Moon-10.0
Wish You Were Here-10.0

Can't rate The Wall because I haven't heard it in ages.

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 6.5
Meddle - 9
Darkside of the Moon - 8.5
Wish You Were Here - 9.5
Animals - 8.5
The Wall - 6

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 6
Dark Side of the Moon - 8.5
Wish You Were Here - 7
The Wall - 9

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 7
A Saucerful of Secrets - 6
More - 5
Ummagumma - 6
Atom Heart Mother - 7
Meddle - 10
Obscured by Clouds - 7
Darkside of the Moon - 10
Wish You Were Here - 9
Animals - 10
The Wall - 8
Final Cut - 7
Momentary Lapse of Reason - 4
Division Bell - 6

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 5.5
Meddle - 8.5
Darkside of the Moon - 10
Wish You Were Here - 8
The Wall - 7.5
Momentary Lapse of Reason - 4
Division Bell - 6

Here we go ..

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 5
A Saucerful of Secrets - 7
More - 6
Ummagumma - 6
Meddle - 9
Obscured by Clouds - 8
Darkside of the Moon - 8.5
Wish You Were Here - 8.5
Animals - 10
The Wall - 9
Final Cut - 8
Momentary Lapse of Reason - 6
Division Bell - 7
Endless River - 5

Weird. I thought for sure I'd have the lowest score for Piper. Most Floyd fans I know IRL tend to think that Piper was their best, and they got worse when Syd left. I've pretty much always felt the opposite. I prefer post-Syd Floyd. Guess I'm not alone with this opinion on MC.

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Originally Posted by D_Davis

Weird. I thought for sure I'd have the lowest score for Piper. Most Floyd fans I know IRL tend to think that Piper was their best, and they got worse when Syd left. I've pretty much always felt the opposite. I prefer post-Syd Floyd. Guess I'm not alone with this opinion on MC.

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Those are strange people. I don't know a single person who has heard any Pink Ployd pre-Dark Side of the Moon. Syd Barrett is a non-entity to the entirety of my friends and family.

Meddle - 7
Darkside of the Moon - 10
Wish You Were Here - 10
The Wall - 6
Division Bell - 6

Darkside of the Moon - 10
Wish You Were Here - 9
The Wall - 8

I love Sid's stuff when it comes on random play (and I prefer his solo stuff), but not as a complete Floyd album. If we were doing a top 10 songs list instead, then I would probably include one or two from Piper. Like maybe Bike, See Emily Play or maybe even Interstellar Overdrive.

Yeah, Syd's solo stuff is great, and he did some amazing stuff with Pink Floyd, but they were better at songs when he was in the band than albums. I just put on Astronomy Domine. So good.

I like his solo stuff best as well.

I think his best Floyd tune is Jugband Blues.

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 6
A Saucerful of Secrets - 8
Meddle - 9
Darkside of the Moon - 10
Wish You Were Here - 10
The Wall - 9
Momentary Lapse of Reason - 6

"Careful with That Axe, Eugene" is one of the raddest songs ever but I haven't heard any of the rest of Ummagumma.

Bootlegs:

BBC Archives 1967-1969 - 8
BBC Archives 1970-1972 - 10
Amsterdam '69 - 8
The Man & The Journey - 8
Libest Spacement Monitor - 8
The Massed Gadget of Auximenes - 7
Beset by the Creatures of the Deep -7
Brain Damage (DSOTM Live 197?) - 8
Live at KQED (An Hour With Pink Floyd) - 10
Embryo Live - 9

There are like 30 other live bootlegs from 1970-1974, but these are the ones that stand out.

The KQED performance is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hewv1JpQuSU