448. Pink Floyd - The Wall

Release Date: 1979
Label: Harvest

This is the last Pink Floyd album on the list (I imagine) and it's the last of theirs I already own. It is also one that I can never decide how I feel about it. It has some of their best material, but it is also bloated in various places. Mind you, I like the idea that the final notes of the last song match perfectly to the opening notes of the first track.

Rating: 8/10

345. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Release Date: 1975
Label: Harvest

'Wish You Were' was an ITV travel/holiday programme presented by Judith Chalmers throughout its twenty-nine year run. Following the success of 'Dark Side of the Moon', Pink Floyd were invited to record the soundtrack to the popular programme. The results were rejected by the ITV producers, but the band decided to release the album anyway as an unofficial tribute. The album is bookended by the sprawling, magnificent 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond' - Roger Waters' ode to Judith Chalmers, whilst Dave Gilmour was inspired to write the title track after watching a feature on the south coast of Spain.

Rating: 10/10

292. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

Release Date: 1973
Label: Harvest

For once I can remember the first time I heard this album. I would've been sixteen or seventeen at the time, and it was at Harriet Vickers house. I loved it immediately, and it rekindled my interest in Pink Floyd. Before then I'd bought a recent 'Best Of', but hadn't been able to get it into it. This is one of my favourite albums and evidence that the band were better after Syd.

Rating: 10/10

89. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Release Date: 1967
Label: EMI

While The Beatles were recording their forgotten masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper another quartet were in one of the adjacent studios laying down takes for what was to become their debut album. Their producer, Norman Smith, had been an engineer on The Beatles earliest songs but had since been promoted. The result of these sessions was 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' - named after a chapter in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'. That's a book I've never read. I have listened to this album many times though, and whilst it's not my favourite Pink Floyd album, it's not my least favourite either. It's Syd Barrett at his peak and simply because of that, it's worth buying. The only reason I haven't given it 9 or 10 stars is because I'm not too keen on Roger Waters' contribution to the tracklist

Rating: 8/10
Favourite Track: Interstellar Overdrive.