Pink Floyd Top 5

[dddd]

Come on, let's do it.

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-IV
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Echoes
4. Astronomy Domine
5. On The Run/Time (don't care if it's cheating, I've heard this as one song since I was tiny)

[hobbes]

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-V
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Comfortably Numb
4. Echoes
5. Us and Them

[Amor de Cosmos]

1. Bike
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
3. Jugband Blues
4. Astronomy Domine
5. Interstellar Overdrive

Early, and mainly Syd focused I guess.

[Toby Gymshorts]

1. Wish You Were Here
2. Us and Them
3. Learning To Fly
4. Arnold Layne
5. See Emily Play

It'll be different tomorrow, apart from #1.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

1. Great Gig in the Sky
2. Comfortably Numb
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Us and Them
5. Shine on you Crazy Diamond

[MsD]

1. SOYCD
2. Breathe
3. Comfortably Numb
4. See Emily Play
5. Sheep

[Disco Child Ballads]

Basically I think the Floyd never bettered their first 2 singles, so:
1. See Emily Play
2. Arnold Layne
3. Matilda Mother
4. Summer 68
5. Wish You Were Here

[diggedy derek]

God that'd a hard one

Echoes
See Emily Play
Lucy Leave
Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Cymbaline

Do those who like Syd era know the wonderful Relics comp?

[Amor de Cosmos]

No. I'll have to do some searching.

[diggedy derek]

Some nice tracks on there like Paintbox and Julia Dream.

God, I feel bad for leaving Lucifer Sam out, it’s so crazy exciting that starting salvo of Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. But Lucy Leave seems to capture their spirit

The only late song I still really like is Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 which I think the band initially hated but it’s such an anthem

[Plodder]

SOYCD
Have A Cigar
Not Now John
Money
Another Brick in the Wall

[Sporting]

This is impossible. But:

See Emily Play
Julia Dream
The Nile Song
Lucifer Sam
Let There Be More Light

[Duncan Gardner]

Crazy diamond parts 1 to 5

[Auntie Beryl]

Echoes
Welcome To The Machine
Shine On You Crazy Diamond 1-5
Sheep
Us And Them

[Sam]

Hmm.

1. Wish You Were Here
2. Money
3. Comfortably Numb
4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick in the Wall (part 2) (like delicatemoth's no. 5 selection, I've always heard these as one song really)
5. The whole fourth side* of The Wall, if I'm allowed it. 'Have A Cigar' if I'm not.

That's quite a 'safe' selection, I know. I actually really liked their early stuff as well, but numbers 1–4 above are the ones I've found myself occasionally singing or humming even years after I last listened to them. And while I know the purist take would be that everything after they became massive isn't as good, I think Wish You Were Here is probably their best album all things considered. I always found it almost unutterably moving, the title track in particular.

*How to tell that even though I'm a millennial, I first heard that album on my mum's vinyl copy!

[Sunderporinostesta]

Syd era stuff plus Money for me. Posting of which there’s a 7” picture sleeve copy of Money for sale for £20 in the glass case by the till of St Albans Oxfam shop. £20!

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