Pink Floyd Albums Ranked Worst to Best (includes non album tracks and more) 

Finally a Pink Floyd album ranking where Ummagumma isn't dumped at Number 15! I've watched many RU-vid Pink Floyd album where it sadly seems to be a general consensus that Ummagumma is the worst album! Ummagumma is very underrated in my opinion and is one of my favourite Pink Floyd albums! My ranking would look like this.... #15 - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (just... didn't sound like a Pink Floyd album to me) #14 - The Endless River (I'd say this album is mostly bland and I guess boring as you've mentioned, however there are a couple of gems in this, particularly the one called "It's What We Do" (you can hear abit of Shine On You Crazy Diamond and a little of Welcome to the Machine in this song, seriously just listen to the song you will know what i mean).. Another Endless River song used some of the Run Like Hell music in it if you listen carefully and then there's Ark of Conversation or Conversation or whatever it's called, that's pretty good, Noodle Street isn't too bad. But I'd say those tracks are the highlight of the album. #13 - The Division Bell (had to place this at Number 13. I love David Gilmour, best guitarist ever however the kind of Gilmour Era of Pink Floyd isn't really my favourite which is ironic considering how much i love Gilmour. My favourite songs from this album are Cluster One (a lot of people tend to say Marooned is better but I prefer Cluster One over Marooned), What Do You Want From Me, and of course High Hopes. To me, those are the only songs that stand out for me, i guess if i had to put an honourable mention it would be A Great Day For Freedom. It gets difficult to rank the rest now because I love Pink Floyd and honestly, i generally love all the other Pink Floyd albums which is why Pink Floyd is my favourite band ever, but I will do my best.... #12 - A Saucerful Of Secrets (just because this is at Number 12, doesn't necessarily mean I love this any less than other Pink Floyd albums, again, it's hard to rank at this point but a ranking is a ranking I have to place A Saucerful of Secrets SOMEWHERE. I love the opener, Let there be Light. While I hated Corporal Clegg initially, that song grew on me and now I love it, there are a few Pink Floyd songs actually where I hated them initially but grew to love them over time, other songs being Sheep from Animals and Welcome to the Machine but I'll get to those). I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE the song A Saucerful of Secrets however, ironically the A Saucerful of Secrets album version of the song A Saucerful of Secrets is my LEAST favourite version, I say ironically because one would think the album that shares the song's name would SHOWCASE the song in the best possible light, know what I mean? However, for me, that simply wasn't the case. The Ummagumma and Pompeii versions of A Saucerful of Secrets song is SIGNIFICANTLY better in sound and quality. I don't think I've ever gotten into Set the Control, Set the Control seems to be the only Pink Floyd song from his album that i can't get into, the song just sounds too repeatitive, it's the same throughout, mmmmmm mmmmmmmm *drums drums* mmmmmm mmmmmm *drums*, just too boring for me. It's worth mentioning i love the instrumental side of Pink Floyd and there are song instrumentals that are AMAZING, the song A Saucerful of Secrets (Pompeii and Ummagumma versions) being on of them, I will do more into my love for instrumentals as i get further into my ranking. #11 - The Final Cut Not going to lie, this used to be at Number 15 in my Pink Floyd album ranking and now? I LOVE this album and i'm truly listening to it for what it is. I love Not Now John, such a fun song, and album title track The Final Cut, Southampton Dock, The Post-war dream, Gunner's dream, etc etc... these songs are fantastic. When The Tigers Broke Free, i hated initially because i wasn't paying attention to the lyrics and I'd skip this song often but now, it might well be my favourite track on the album, it's just so SAD but really goosebumpily blood-rushing tingling at the same time, the way that song ends, omg!!!! #10 - Obscured By Clouds Great album. I agree with what you said that, of all the Pink Floyd albums, this album seems to be the most traditional, standard album in terms of like, songs. Like the song lengths aren't too long but they feel like something you'd hear on the radio, know what I mean? in that sense. My favourite song is Wot's Uh the Deal but i love Childhood's End too and the instrumentals. #9 - The Piper At The Gates of Dawn Love this album, love Syd's child-like, kind of nostalgic vibe and child-like wonder. Love the psychedelic sounds and dreamyness. ASTRONOMY DOMAINE is soooooo good!!!! just love it! (i love instellar overdrive too, but i prefer Astronomy domain a little more over that). The band have said in interviews that it was never their intention to get into space rock but if i had to name there most space-rocky songs then it would be songs like instellar). What can i say? I just love the other songs too... Lucifer Sam, such a great song, Matilda Mother, and also, was See Emily Play in this album too? I can't remember, i know it's definitely in Relics album but I love See Emily Play too. It's been a long time since I last listened to this album, i really need to listen again. Bike is amazing too, what can I say? just a great album. And while i'm on the subject, I just want to say, as far as a debut album goes for iconic British bands, this album was VERY GOOD for a first album! #8 - More (love Gilmour's voice, love the tranquility and dreamy calmness of this album). As i mentioned earlier, I generally love all the Pink Floyd albums so The Piper album could just as easily rank over than More but a ranking is a ranking and I have to put More SOMEWHERE. My favourite songs are Crying Song, Cymbaline, Ibiza Bar, The Main Theme, Cirrus Minor, Green is the Colour. #7 - Ummagumma (Yes! Perhaps you can understand my deflation when people rank this at Number 15. The Live side of this album is just incredible!!! love all of it. I enjoy the other side too, although to a lesser degree than the Live side. The highlight of this side is easily Gilmour's section, The Narrow Way, omg !!! so f**kin good! People say Gilmour can't write a song but that's bullsh**... the guy can write! It's a shame Gilmour didn't get further into song writing and I really wish he hadn't gotten his wife to write all the songs in The Division Bell, she's not a member of Pink Floyd). I love Wright's sysyphus section. Sadly Roger's and Nick's section are where this album is lacking and disappointing for me, Nick's part is .... erm... god, what can i say about Nick's part? it's pretty awful... and Roger's part was ok. But I also understand this was an experimental album, certainly their most avant-garde album, so with that in mind, they can get away with all this instrumental wacky bizarre stuff. AND let's not forget that we are talking about a band that once had an album called 'Household Objects' for crying out loud! Led Zeppelin , The Beatles or the Rolling Stones would NEVER put out an album like that. So you have to admire Pink Floyd for really trying to push the boundaries, they were a band willing to explore! I guess the Syd Era of Pink Floyd did have some Beatles-like vibe to it and their song Number 9 or Revolution 9 or whatever it's called certainly feels like a Pink Floyd song. #6 - Meddle. The elephant in the room here is Echos of course, just so good!!!!!! SOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I love the other tracks too! what can i say? it's at Number 6 for a reason! #5 -The Wall #4 - Animals #3 - Atom Heart Mother #2 - Wish you were Here #1 - The Dark Side Of The Moon Sorry if my writing is getting abit lazy now, my wrists are beginning to ache and I guess i spent too long talking about the other albums and i just want to get this ranking done and posted now. Sometimes i forget just how long the Pink Floyd discography is, this band was around for a very long time as far as bands go. I think i read that Led Zeppelin where only together for like 5 years. I cloud talk A LOT about the other albums but it will take me the whole day. In a nutshell, i love most of their albums.

Great ranking and discussion. Here is how I rank them. 1. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn- I am a huge Syd fan and consider this album to be a masterpiece. 2. Dark Side of the Moon 3. Animals- This one got better as I got older. 4. A Saucerful of Secrets- This album is very underrated. 5. Wish You Were Here 6. The Wall- This was number one for me in high school. I really connected with it at a hard point in my life. It doesn't hit me quite the same at this age, but I still enjoy it. 7. Meddle 8. Obscured by Clouds 9. The Final Cut 10. More 11. Division Bell 12. Atom Heart Mother 13. Endless River 14. A Momentary Lapse of Reason 15. Ummagumma

The top ones for me are Dark Side of the Moon, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Animals, Meddle, Wish You Were Here and the Wall.

I think that's a Song Thrush at the start of Cirrrus Minor. Nice to see Piper so high up the list too.

The Final Cut just great record I give it 10 points. Thank you for the review.

I do believe the brick in the wall was written about my old school teacher Brian hardbottle who I believe was one of the group teacher as well. As it was band in the school.if you got caught singing a bit of it you got the sleeper.and I got it a few time

We are in almost complete, vehement disagreement on every ranking below the top 4........................and I love that! It's always great to absorb and reflect on a completely different take on something so subjective as musical taste. All I ever really have to say to explain where I stand in relation to PF album ranking is: Division Bell came out in the States on my 18th birthday, the very same day I left a very repressive adopted home environment and struck out on my own. I adore every Floyd release - official or otherwise; am actually writing a book about the band - but that gives some idea of the foundation upon which I built my mega-fandom and why our rankings are so vastly different.

I think the big problem with the "Atom Heart Mother" suite is that it depends on the chorus and orchestra to work, so when they tried to do it live later with just the 4 of them, it's kind of boring. The later epics, especially "Echoes" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" work much better live with the core group (with the augmentation of a sax player in "Shine On", of course.

Hey - I've been meaning to comment - I've really enjoyed your rankings - mostly because it makes me rethink how I feel about them and also because you are prompting me to review some stuff I've not listened to. Being an AVID collector since - uh - I guess 1972 - highschool - and having lived in places like Fayetteville Arkansas, Austin Texas and Atlanta Georgia I was able to hit some great used record stores and also lots of garage and estate sales. So I have owned everything rock from about 1965 to 1980, but have culled over the years. I generally didn't cull groups like Neil Young/CSNY, Floyd, Beatles, Stones, Rundgren/Utopia, Hendrix, Zep, CCR, Little Feat (!), Talking Heads, and I'm sure there are others, but for the rest I would just keep the cream. Mainly because I was getting buried. I also got into blues starting in the late 70's in Austin and Jazz in the middle 80's in Atlanta. And I've inherited two giant collections of early jazz (as early as the 30's) from my dad and an uncle as well a collection of classical from my grandfather who was a symphony musician. But keep up the good work - I enjoy your indepth reviews and have watched multiple ones. I'll probably comment on the line ups later. Enjoy!

We are music-mates: I share your thoughts on momentary lapse (awful record), I do find the division bell mediocre. The final cut is a Waters' album but is far from being as bad as people rate it (well crafted songs even if not really inspired)and Atom Heart is a brilliant record. Only discrepancy : The wall, I liked it a lot but the fourth side is a "skip side" and there are too many fillers

While I can understand your possibly disliking Pros and Cons and Radio KAOS, Amused to Death by Roger Waters is better than the 2 1/2 Gilmour Floyd albums, better than almost all of the other solo albums in general, and even better than the Final Cut, which I did enjoy. More should be above Umma for sure.

the wall and finel cut are crao