Every Pink Floyd Album Ranked From Worst to Best 

WARNING. There are a couple mistakes in this video (mistakes that I am quite embarrassed about). I mispronounce a couple words AND, most notably, I call one of Pink Floyd’s early band names “The Screaming ARABS,” when it is in fact called “The Screaming ABDABS.”

"You never want to over listen to a Pink Floyd album." Meanwhile, I listen to The Wall daily and I still find the album enjoyable. It has been months of this Edit: It's been over a year of this

Animals is my favorite Pink Floyd album but you explained why Dark Side was number 1 so well. Everyone expects your favorite album to be something obscure or not as well known if you’re a “true fan” but Dark Side is so famous and praised for a reason and it is the best Pink Floyd album.

Really glad to see Meddle getting the appreciation it deserves. Echoes has got to be the greatest creation a sentient being has ever realized in all of space and time from nothingness to eternity.

I think it’s unfortunate that Dark Side gets ragged on for being “the popular one”, but I mean there’s good reason why. The Wall, Wish You Were Here, Animals, they’ve all done great stuff and had something powerful to walk away with. But Dark Side is just so haunting, an absolute masterclass of how to do a concept album.

How dare you not put my albums first lol. Everyone knows master of puppets is the best Pink Floyd album and you didn’t even talk about the best song in it, wonderwall

If meddle isn't in the top 5 I'll arrest you

Hot takes: Obscured by clouds is so underrated and is shadowed by the following albums that are masterpieces too

Echoes is probably the best piece of art I have ever listened to!

One regret: I forgot to talk about "The Trial." God, that song is fire.

For me Pink Floyd is one of the few bands that have 2 perfect albums. Wish You Were Here and Dark Side Of The Moon. I personally prefer Wish You Were Here,cause it means more to me on a personal level and has a more intimate feeling,but Dark Side is equally a masterpiece

The Ummagumma "Careful With That Axe Eugene" made me a hit in my art class, back in 85'. We had this assignment to do a picture of a song choice, that would be played over a display of our art work. I went with "Eugene" and made this tripped out depiction of an acid head's nightmare, with a guy who looked like a worm, screaming, with bleached white hair. I tried to do it like a Peter Max thing over a shocking pink background, I told my teacher, to time it a bit before the scream. After many of the pics were displayed, the class was getting pretty much bored, until mine came up, the eerie music and sounds lulling the people into uncertainty, I could hear whispers from people wondering what's was going to happen, heh, and then that SCREAM! Floyd and me were a hit!

I actually think Alan’s psychedelic breakfast has some of the most beautiful and unique David Gilmour playing.

What a great way to celebrate my birthday.

I only disagree with the list because of The Division Bell. I love it! Great video again, nice to have you back

Division bell is my personal best. I like the sensitive, human and feminin twist we don't find in the golden age albums. As you mention, pinkfloyd usually as ''the society is bad+solos'' strucutre, while the messages of this albums cover a wider set of human experiences from wander to anger to sadness and to hope. I like the slide guitar solos of High hopes, the distorted voices in keep talking , solo-long marooned, female back vocals, the slow start Dreamy Cluster One. In all sincerity, I can't understand how you would think this is a pale copy of older pink floyd. Of course, you won't find the ''waters'' pink floyd in it, but the rest of the band is still there!

DSOTM has always been one of those "perfect albums" to me. Each song is an expertly crafted experience that all stand strong on their own, but when placed together they go completely over the top. It has the deeply intricate music theory and production to make music nerds go wild while having a mild pop edge that makes it super accessible to general audiences. It truly is one of the greatest albums of all time

A select few people will always like my videos before they come out. That's an awful lot of trust.

Atom Heart Mother is really underrated

Richard Wright's chord progressions create all of their great songs....

As a Liverpool fan, I've always loved Fearless

I always find it amusing that they kicked out syd for going crazy but that roger went pretty crazy himself (in a different sense) causing way more damage than syd ever did.

Meddle will always be my favorite Floyd Album, Echoes is the greatest Prog Rock song I’ve listened to ever

The Division Bell is my personal favourite Pink Floyd album. ‘Poles Apart’ is one of my absolute favourite songs and there are some other great songs such as ‘Coming Back To Life’ and ‘High Hopes’. I also really like the A Momentary Lapse Of Reason album.

Holy crap this video is very straight to the point and has a lot of context, the visuals are amazing this was very well edited and the script is gold. Most videos like this are kind of critical and not no where near as creative. Criminally Underrated Channel!

I totally agree with your ranks but personally division bells is in my top 5 otherwise spot on! Thank you for an awesome video

I respect your opinion on “The Division Bell” album, although, before you take it to the curb with the rest of the trash, I suggest you listen to a couple songs off of the album performed live. Mainly “High Hopes” - Live in Gdańsk, by David Gilmour, and “What do you want from me” - Live at Pompeii, by David Gilmour. These adaptations, in my opinion are much better than the songs on the album. Also, on the note of “Live in Pompeii”, by David Gilmour, I think it’s the best live album EVER and definitely deserves a listen.

The Wall is my personal favorite album from the band. Because it's just a masterpiece to me. The songs are an absolute treasure to me. Another Brick In The Wall part 2 was my first introduction to the band. I love the songs. I love and I mean LOVE the 1982 movie. I love how Alan Parker did this extremely weird and gorgeous movie. Bob Geldof was perfect for the role. The 1980/81 shows are cool. And it's just a great album. And yeah it sucks to know what happened behind the scenes during the recording sessions. But I love The Wall. And A Saucerful Of Secrets Jugband Blues, God that's a great song

Top 5 for me has to be: 1.Wish you were here 2.Dark side of the Moon 3.Atom Heart Mother 4.The Wall 5.Division Bell

Actually, my personal favorite Pink Floyd song, has to be The Great Gig In The Sky. The song always gives me goosebumps, and also wants you to sing with the vocal even how bad your singing is.

My list 1. Piper at the gates of dawn( the holy grail of psychedelia) 2. Dark side of the moon 3. Meddle 4. Saucerful of secrets 5. Atom heart mother 6.Animals 7.the wall 8. Wish you were here 9.A momentary lapse of reason 10.Division bell 11.Ummagumma 12. Obscured by clouds 13. More 14. Final cut 15. Endless river

“People who have partaken in the forbidden fruit of pink floyd have been known to never return to other music” - facts

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Lol @ "San Tro-pess & See-muss" dawg, have you heard these songs? Also, I don't know who's duty it'll be, but a video solely on the Atom Heart Mother title track must be made. THAT is my personal PF masterpiece. The partnership w/ Ron Geesin is the finest in art rock history. Each section brings its own flavor and it's incredibly immersive. The choral and brass work is so inventive and it also contains my favorite DG guitar moment of that era.

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I think a momentary lapse of reason is criminally underrated its not the most pink floyd album by a long shot but it has some really good songs on it.

Ain’t even premiered yet and it already a classic 😤

If The Final Cut isn't at first place, I'll start a riot

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1. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 2. Wish You Were Here 3. The Wall 4. Dark Side Of The Moon 5. The Early Singles (non-album) 6. Obscured By Clouds 7. Animals 8. Meddle 9. Atom Heart Mother 10. Ummagumma (studio) 11. Saucerful Of Secrets 12. More 13. The Final Cut 14. Momentary Lapse Of Reason 15. The Division Bell 16. The Endless River I think The Early Singles may as well be counted as an album in its own right as it is about a full length album’s worth of songs, with all but one track never having been released on any album I believe, and has some really incredible stuff on it, mostly from their Syd and post-Syd psychedelic period.

Good job with this video. As a Pink Floyd historian, you did a good job reciting the history of the band, and mentioning the important phases.

Coming back to this, ngl this is your best video imo. Best comedy, production, delivery and really entertaining explanations and opinions presented. This man does not miss 😤

People can try and say Dark Side isn't their greatest album, and I may actually like Animals and Wish You Were Here better sometimes, but even the Billboard charts couldn't deny its greatness...it was on the Top 200 Albums chart for 736 consecutive weeks, a record which I'm pretty sure will never be broken.

Obscured by Clouds is probably my favorite Pink Floyd album. So many great songs on it. Certainly sound like it was written around the time of Dark Side of the Moon.

You should do a Led Zeppelin or rolling stones ranking

Great video! My top three: 3. The Dark Side of the Moon 2. Wish You Were Here 1. Animals

very well done video, entertaining editing with a lot of character 👍great music choices too!

Division Bell will always be my favourite album of all time

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14:52 mine is dark side, wish you were here, and piper at the gates of dawn

Extremely well done. I was planning to skip through but you pulled me in!

i'm not used to this level of zoomer-woosh being used to talk about boomer music. i approve of it wholeheartedly.

Huge fan of this channel. One of the best.

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I think The Final Cut is Criminally underrated. In the future I think people will hold it to higher regard when it gets discovered more.

"Chaotic Breakfast Noises" will now be the name of my fictional Pink Floyd cover band.

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The division bell is a masterpiece.

This is an amazingly well-done video, your judgments and critiques were on point

Earned yourself a sub, amazingly well put together

Great list watermelon here's mine: 15 More 14 Ummagumma 13 The Endless River 12 A Momentary Lapse Of Reason 11 The Final Cut 10 The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 9 The Division Bell 8 Atom Heart Mother 7 The Dark Side Of The Moon 6 Meddle 5 The Wall 4 Wish You Were Here 3 A Saucerful Of Secrets 2 Obscured By Clouds 1 Animals

As someone who has never willingly listened to a pink floyd song, ah completely, agree.

Damn I'm glad I stumbled across your channel not only is your content great but your presentation is teaching a lot about how I could improve my own, keep up the great work dude!

This is a great vid. Nice work!

1) Division bell 2) The wall 3) Animals 4) Dark side of the moon 5) Wish you were here

The Division Bell is awesome 👏

This editing is simply mind-blowing!

For me: 5) The Wall 4) Meddle 3) Animals 2) Wish You Were Here 1) Dark Side of the Moon I agree with all you said except saying that “On The Run” is just okay. It’s an AMAZING seque track that is so unique in the use of the sequenced synth (Synthi VCS AKS and VCS3). The use of this synth and the folley effects provide an insane build and release of tension. YMMV

Ummagumma was a weird concept. It was one live album and an album of solo EPs. Each band member went off on their own to write enough music for half of an album side. Other band members had little to no input on each other’s tracks. Richard gave us the Sisyphus suite. Roger penned Grantchester Meadows and Several Species, Dave gave us The Narrow Way, and Nick gave us The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party. Yeah. They were a LOT better together than separately at this point in their careers.

Never trust edited comments. They could've said anything for all we know.

This is a really well thought out ranking. You clearly really absorbed this music.

This is such a great video! I love the animations, but the best part is how succinct you are. You fit so much info in an 18 minute video without it ever rambling, it's awesome! Also, big props for choosing Dark Side as your #1 album. I know a lot of the Pink Floyd fandom tends to treat Dark Side as babies-first-Floyd, but that's only because the album is so good they themselves listened to it 2x more than any reasonable person should. And they only listened to it that much because the album is great. Dark Side is popular for a reason, and I feel like more people should acknowledge it. That being said, my personal #1 has to be Piper at the Gates of Dawn. I love the golden period albums, particularly the first 3, but they're so influential that I've ended up finding other, similar albums that just slightly meet my tastes better. Meanwhile, I've still yet to find another album that sounds like Piper, nevermind one as good as it is front-to-back. Piper is just fun! What other album has a 10 minute space rock epic, a surf rock jam about a cat named Lucifer, and dramatic finale about a kid's fancy bike and his pet mouse Gerald. Piper is diverse, but every song feels caught between the childlike whimsy of the lyrics and creeping menace of instrumental. It's just such a good album to me.

I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the Super Mario Galaxy background music

The Beatles and Pink Floyd are cool.

The extensive use of some truly classic and wondrous Nintendo songs for background music was a pleasant surprise. As a first time viewer, I'm not sure if that's a standard thing for your videos, but I dig it! I especially love the Earthbound song paired with Piper (which is my favorite PF album btw) - it fits perfectly!

I really LOVE this video. You are Awesome!!

My list: 1 - The Wall 1979 2 - Wish you were here 1975 3 - Atom Heart Mother 1970-72 4 - Medley 1971 5 - Animals 1977 6 - The Dark Side of the moon 1973 7 - Ummagumma 1969 8 - The Division Bell 1993 9 - Final Cut 1983 10 - A momentary lapse of reason 1987 11 - Saucerful of secrets 1968 12 - The pipers at the gate at down 1967 13 - Obscured by clouds 1972 14 - More 1968

The final cut is a concept album. I believe it is supposed to be taken as one entire song which would explain why all the songs sound similar. I hold this album in the top 3. The gunners dream is probably one of the most beautifully written songs I've ever heard.

dark side is undoubtedly the most iconic but tbh with you i could never make a video like this because the top 5 albums are constantly fighting for their order in my head to the point where which one is my favorite literally changes daily. it's a nice testament to how good all of them are.

This is one of the best ranking videos I've ever seen on RU-vid. Absolutely fantastic speaking. I will admit, The Division Bell spot/discussion did trigger me pretty badly. Lol I think TDB should at least be in the top 6

I love your channel because I don't know anyone else who likes all the same bands as me. You have a great taste in music.

Wasn’t Pink Floyd’s golden age everything from _A Saucerful of Secrets_ to _Obscured by Clouds_ ? Those and the Barrett albums are what I always find myself going back to.

I come to this video almost everyday this calms me down so much

Awesome video!!! Loved your breakdown!!

I have to say in my personal opinion The Wall is Pink Floyd's magnum opus. Yes their other albums were great and I love then dearly but The Wall to me was their absolute best. Something about it being a deep descent into the abused mind of a Rockstar going into a never ending downward spiral of anger, loneliness and vulnerability hits me like no music has ever done to me before. I just relate to it more and see that the album had a philosophical meaning than just an album to get high too or something just made for experimenting with. Roger had a plan for the Wall and he knew exactly what he wanted it to be. The Final cut was a nice continuation of it that I also enjoy dearly.

Theres no worst álbum in pink floyd, all are the best

hi! I just found your channel today and i watched the 70s david bowie video and this one, and i already love your channel! I like how you speak intelligently about albums and music but that you dont seem arrogant and act like you opinons are facts, you do the opposite, which i find refreshing :) i also love the visuals of your videos and find myself immersed in them. Anyway, i tend to gush when i like something, so sorry for all the words, but i do mean them :)

I think this is the best ranking I've seen so far on RU-vid! I highly agree with your placement of The Wall outside of the top 3. I love it, it's great, but I don't understand how anyone can rank it above, say, Wish You Were Here. Good stuff, nice list 😎

Personally I feel that Hipsters going 'Oh no Dark Side is Overrated!!' has in turn caused albums like Wish you Were Here to actually become overrated.' Similar thing with Sergent Pepper's and Revolver.

My list: 1. The Dark Side of the Moon 10/10 2. The Wall 10/10 3. Wish You Were Here 10/10 4. Animals 10/10 5. Atom Heart Mother 9.8/10 6. Meddle 9.8/10 7. The Piper of the Gates of Dawn 9.3/10 8. A Saucerful of Secrets 8.6/10 9. Obscured by Clouds 8.3/10 10. More 8.3/10 11. The Final Cut 7.8/10 12. Ummagumma 7.2/10 13. The Division Bell 6.9/10 14. The Endless River 6.2/10 15. A Momentary Lapse of Reason 4.7/10

Great analysis 💯💯

Great vid! I feel weird for thinking that Division Bell is like in my top 3 PF albums though with all the flack it gets haha.

How dare you say worst to best, i think the proper term would be not as perfect to absolute perfection...

I’m not going to try to argue that it’s Pink Floyd’s greatest album, but The Final Cut is one the most emotionally moving albums I’ve ever heard. Sure, it’s practically a Waters solo album but it’s achingly nostalgic, heartbreaking, and human. Also, The Fletcher Memorial Home has my favorite Gilmour solo.

Great video great takes

This was musically a very interesting and enjoyable Video. Talking about Pink Floyd which is Probably my favourite Band and Hearing These fantastic mario soundtracks in the background Made me smile through the whole Video:)

Division Bell is work of art.

Good video. I think the early names were _the screaming abdabs_ and _the abdabs_ not "Arabs".

I like your editing style

Amazing video, disagreed on a couple of albums and agree on a lot. I really enjoyed this video, even though it almost hasn't pf music on it. Great job. And the opinion on Division Bell, pfff you read my mind!