Which you consider the best album of The Pink Floyd?

[bob_32_116]

The subject heading of this thread amuses me.

I recall hearing a recording of a very early concert or radio show in which the announcer introduces the band with "Ladies and gentlemen, the Pink Floyd!" This would have been when every band name started with the definite article.

Later on, bands like Pink Floyd, Cream and Traffic started the trend away from the use of "The", and the use of unqualified names became a feature of the era of psychedelic, and later progressive, rock of the late 60's and early 70's. Then when the punk rock era arrived, suddenly once again every band was a "The" band, probably as a reaction against what punk fans liked to call the pretentiousness of prog.

The culmination of this was of course "The The".

Lately there is a phenomemon that I don't understand: I have heard of at least three bands where the first word of the band name is "Thee", apparently used in the same way as definite article. Is this supposed to be an archaic form of "The", and is it trying to sound cool in some way? .Whatever the reason, it's starting to annoy me bigtime.

[Rooster]

I'm a little surprised at the lack of love expressed for the Syd Barrett years (Piper & Saucerful). Easily the most Psychedelic period of The Pink Floyd. Yes, I wrote "THE" Pink Floyd. I have always called them that simply because in every interview I have ever heard/read/seen, The band members themselves refer to the band name with the definite article.

I'd like to point out that the usage of "Thee" is nothing new. The 1960's saw several groups use "Thee" as part of their band name. Off the top of my head there was: "Thee Midnighters", "Thee Sixpence" (later to become The Strawberry Alarm Clock), "Thee Prophets". The 1970's saw "Thee Image". In the 1980's and 90's Billy Childish formed several bands beginning with "Thee".


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[MrMojoRisin]

Mine's ​Dark Side of the Moon ​and ​The Wall​ I have to admit. Dark Side changed my perspective of music and utterly blew my mind. I want to give a special shoutout to Pipers, that album transport me to some special psychedelic mindscape like nothing else I've ever experienced. It's close up there with the previously mentioned.

I do like all of their albums however. I used to love Saucerful, but now I only like it. I used to hate More but now I love it and think it's criminally underrated. Ummagumma really isn't great, but Grantchester Meadows and especially the absolutely fantastic Narrow Way and its third part especially saves the album. Atom Heart is great but I used to like it more. Summer '69 is up there with the best. Meddle also isn't as much as a favourite as it used to be. Think I overlistened it. Obscured rules full stop. Funny how things change over time, yet I only discovered them 2-3 years ago.

I just love Pink Floyd so much. They legitemately changed my life. Although I've listened to their stuff a TON, I have only just listened to Dovision Bell and have yet to listen to Endless River. Thought Momentary was easily the worst album before though but I've only listened to it twice and when I wasn't in the mood for it.