Favorite Pre-Darkside Floyd Album

[High Eight]

Originally Posted by Iorek444

I understand what you're talking about, but isn't Comfortably Numb actually from The Wall, not DsotM?

An easy mistake to make considering that every Pink Floyd album sounds like every other Pink Floyd album.

[Harpo]

Originally Posted by High Eight

An easy mistake to make considering that every Pink Floyd album sounds like every other Pink Floyd album.

*falls over laughing*
Obviously you haven't listened to Ummagumma, Wish You Were Here, The Final Cut, Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, and Atom Heart Mother.
Anyone who thinks those albums sound like each other is hilariously wrong.

(For a comparison with recent music, it'd be like thinking that Westlife, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Chemical Brothers, and Slipknot all sound the same as each other)

For bands whose albums all sounds the same, try The Ramones, Status Quo, or Kylie

Originally Posted by Iorek444

This thread is a little old, but I see so few threads about Pink Floyd albums pre-DsotM that I just had to post here!

There are Pink Floyd forums where you are spoiled for choice when it comes to pre-DSOTM topics.

[High Eight]

OK Harpo - I'll admit that early Floyd is much more original (and I like - and actually own - Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets, old hippie that I am), but the concept albums I find dull, dull, dull! Everything after 'Dark Side....' sounds the same to me - a mush of sound with the occasional decent guitar lick breaking through. I just can't get into it at all. Sorry!

[Sephiroth]

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[Stenevor]

Atom Heart Mother and Meddle for me though I also like Piper and Ummagumma's Live album. Its odd that ive listened to these along with DSOTM, WYWH and Animals countless times but just about every other Pink Floyd album ive listened to once or twice and never bothered with again. Ive got all Syds stuff too and listen to it all regularly.

[D_Davis]

I am voting Meddle, with Saucer and Obscured as a close second and third.

[Rosemary]

For me it was Atom Heart Mother, I think I wore the album out!

Pre-Darkside favourite track though, was 'Interstellar Overdrive'.

[Harpo]

Originally Posted by High Eight

OK Harpo - I'll admit that early Floyd is much more original (and I like - and actually own - Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets, old hippie that I am), but the concept albums I find dull, dull, dull! Everything after 'Dark Side....' sounds the same to me - a mush of sound with the occasional decent guitar lick breaking through. I just can't get into it at all. Sorry!

Everything after Dark Side sounds the same?

You could at best say that Animals, The Wall, and the Final Cut are similar sounding. But they are very different from the last two albums, and then of course the Wish You Were Here album is different again.

The Final Cut and A Momentary Lapse Of Reason are, for consecutive albums, extremely different (a good case can be made for them being two solo albums disguised as Pink Floyd albums)

[AE35Unit]

I only have 3 PF albums, Dark Side, Wish you were here and The Wall which is pants. Dark Side and Wish you were here could be by different bands they're so different,and The Wall is pants by comparison,too many duff tracks on what would be better a a single album.

[J-Sun]

Tough call between Meddle and Obscured by Clouds, but I went with the latter even though it seems wrong.

After that, maybe something like

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
A Saucerful of Secrets
Ummagumma

which is oddly in chronological order before the uptick at Meddle. I'm not sure about this, though, as I don't currently have Ummagumma. I can't even remember if I've heard More or Atom Heart Mother at all.

I'd take about any album before DSOTM over any of what I've heard after The Wall, though. And, AE, thou shalt write "The Wall is great" 100 times. You were sounding perilously similar to High Eight.

[AE35Unit]

I'm sorry but I still think The Wall as an album is an epic fail! Too long,too many mediocre songs on it. Never heard it when it came out even tho I loved the title track. Then we finally got a copy and was so disappointed! I think we sold it or traded it in. I want to find some of their earlier albums tho!

[Urlik]

out of those listed it is a toss up between saucer and ummagumma but I would be another to vote for relics if that had nbeen included.
every track on relics is great and I never tire of listening to it

[J-Sun]

Originally Posted by AE35Unit

I'm sorry but I still think The Wall as an album is an epic fail! Too long,too many mediocre songs on it.

Yeah, I was just kidding with you - I can't at all agree but to each their own.

Originally Posted by AE35Unit

I want to find some of their earlier albums tho!

Good luck with that. They rarely stay still but have interesting journeys.

[TheEndIsNigh]

Originally Posted by High Eight

OK Harpo - I'll admit that early Floyd is much more original (and I like - and actually own - Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets, old hippie that I am), but the concept albums I find dull, dull, dull! Everything after 'Dark Side....' sounds the same to me - a mush of sound with the occasional decent guitar lick breaking through. I just can't get into it at all. Sorry!

Yep I'd go with that.

Everything on DSOM is unskippable

Unlike the other output.

OK, so I've heard DSOM a few times more but then that's poly ticks