Finally we’re getting into the ones I mostly have positive stuff to say about. A lot of Floyd fans don’t really like Ummagumma. The band themself don’t really seem to like it much, no tracks from it appear on subsequent … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks the Albums of Pink Floyd, #12

2014’s The Endless River takes its title from a line in the previous album’s “High Hopes” that effectively communicates that this one is by and large nothing more than an addendum to The Division Bell. It was assembled mostly from … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks the Albums of Pink Floyd, #13

From the second-ever Floyd album to the second-to-last one, we now turn our attention to 1994’s The Division Bell. This album and the next were written and mostly recorded together, the first to include Richard Wright as an official member … Continue reading The Night Thread ranks the albums of Pink Floyd, #14

A Saucerful of Secrets was the second Pink Floyd album, recorded amidst the drug-fueled psychic breakdown that led to original bandleader Syd Barret being rather unceremoniously dumped from the lineup. Barrett himself only features on two tracks, and as you … Continue reading The Day Thread ranks the albums of Pink Floyd, #15

More is one of Pink Floyd’s two film soundtracks, and of the two probably the weaker. I would go so far as to say it’s broadly the only Floyd album I feel like I don’t get. I won’t go as … Continue reading The Day Thread ranks the albums of Pink Floyd, #16