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Pink Floyd
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.7742
Pink Floyd Album Rankings
1
One of Britain's most successful and long lived avant-garde rock bands, Pink Floyd emerged relatively unsullied from the mire of mid-Sixties British psychedelic music as early experimenters with outer
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Everyone knows of Pink Floyd's 1979 epicThe Wall. It is one of the ten top-selling albums of all times, and three years after its release, was turned into an Oscar-nominated feature film.
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Pink Floyd sometimes confused musical virtuosity and melodrama with emotion.
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R1967 Siamese Cats, silver shoes, unicorns, a mouse called Gerald? Impossible to imagine in today’s straight-laced rock scene, but these Edward Lear-ish messages from the mind of Syd Barrett served as
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With all the talk about whether or not Roger Waters is rejoining Pink Floyd (my opinion: I hope not - let's let the past be) and the upcoming re-release of the band's Columbia catalogue,now seems as g
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By 1973, Pink Floyd's early days as a psychedelic jam band were waning, and the band was in search of a new focus.
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Atom Heart Mother, for all its glories, was an acquired taste, and Pink Floyd wisely decided to trim back its orchestral excesses for its follow-up,Meddle.
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8
One of the nasty side effects of Pink Floyd becoming huge during the mid-to-late 70's was that the venues that they would perform in kept getting bigger and bigger.
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This isn't the first Pink Floyd album that springs to mind in the hearts of fans when discussing the groups greatest achievements.
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10
If Piper was as trippy as Pink ever got, then this album was certainly as weird as the guys ever were or would be. Half live, half studio, messed up does not begin to describe this recording.
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11
SinceRelicsis a compilation and not a regular studio album, it tends to be overlooked when thought of as one of Pink Floyd's better releases.
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12
After the child-like psychedelia ofThe Piper At The Gates Of Dawnand the subsequent acid meltdown of lead singer Syd Barrett, one wondered what would happen to Pink Floyd.
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13
Pink Floyd's second film soundtrack, for Barbet Schroeder's filmLa Vallee, is a surprising set (for these guys) of fairly straight-up rock and roll.
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14
The last thing anybody expected in 1994 was a new Pink Floyd album.
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Recorded live at Earls Court back in 1994, this lengthy, double-disc film finds Pink Floyd – aged of face but timeless in song – balancing older standards alongside cuts from the then only j
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On the heels of the phenomenon that isThe Wall, Pink Floyd released their most controversial, and for many fans the most inaccessible album of their careers.
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On this month's edition of "Albums Everyone Hates For No Reason," we look at Pink Floyd's 1987 comebackA Momentary Lapse of Reason.
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Following the completion of The Wall , Roger fired, of all people, Rick Wright.
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With a catalog stretching over 30 years and a band history that is so filled with turmoil one's surprised VH-1 hasn't done a "Behind The Music" special on them (yet), Pink Floyd is a band who are prim
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21
The title of Pink Floyd's debut album is taken from a chapter inSyd Barrett's favorite children's book, The Wind in the Willows, and the lyrical imagery ofThe Piper at the Gates of Dawnis indeed full
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Outtakes from the previous masterpiece, plus some new material. Soon after Piper was released, Syd's mental state went from bad to worse.
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Track listing: 1) Shine On You Crazy Diamond; 2) Learning To Fly; 3) Yet Another Movie; 4) Round And Around; 5) Sorrow; 6) The Dogs Of War; 7) On The Turning Away; 8) One Of These Days; 9) Time; 10) W
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24
Seven years, and tons of criticism later, Dave decided to make another album.
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25
Track listing: 1) MC: Atmos; 2) In The Flesh?; 3) The Thin Ice; 4) Another Brick In The Wall (part 1); 5) The Happiest Days Of Our Lives; 6) Another Brick In The Wall (part 2); 7) Mother; 8) Goodbye B
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Track listing: 1) Signs Of Life; 2) Learning To Fly ; 3) The Dogs Of War; 4) One Slip; 5) On The Turning Away; 6) Yet Another Movie ; 7) A New Machine (part 1) ; 8) Terminal Frost; 9) A New Machine (p
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28
Anyone who knew anything about Pink Floyd knew that a dance band they were not, so this...compilation, courtesy of Columbia Records, was intended ironically.
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30
A lavish and expensive eight-CD box set of Pink Floyd's greatest hits -- which are all albums, naturally.
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Capitol Records gets into the Pink Floyd compilation game, but why bother when all you have in mind is the same old tired tracks, plus one previously unreleased song appropriately called "Embryo"? ~
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