They're my fourth fave band.

they are a great band but somewhat over rated.......

I prefer their pre-dark Side Of the Moon stuff.

Pink Floyd is one of the greatest rock bands of all time, The Wall is creatively, musically & artisticaly their masterpiece.

>>>Pink Floyd is one of the greatest rock bands of all time, The Wall is creatively, musically & artisticaly their masterpiece. <<<

Sorry, that would be Dark Side of the Moon.  Everything after that was chasing that massive success.

They rule.  Not entirely but they're up there.

I think Wish You Were Here is their best album.

Meddle and Obscured by Clouds are two of my all-time favorite albums.

Both The Wall and Dark Side of the moon are great albums

And Wish You Were Here, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, Meddle, and Animals.

I was talking with a young person (age 19) last week, and he is really into the Sixties. We discussed Floyd for a while, and found we agreed on a couple of things. Here is one oldie-youngster combo view, that might be interesting---

We both agreed that their Seventies stuff was very "trying-hard-to-be-a-significant-band". We both thought Moon and Wall were OK, but nothing classic or brilliant.

We also thought that overall Floyd were a little bit pretentious. Given that, we were amazed that each of us thought their best work was Piper At The Gates!

Thinking of you right now, Syd!

I think they're a pritty cool band. There in my top 5. The thing is that there diff. They used many things other bands diddn't. And that made them better in my opinoin.

They're my #1 band, I'm more than a little obssed by them. The Piper album (67 - recorded in the neighboor Abbey Road studio of Sgt. Pepper) and their stuff from the 70's is absolutely classic, some of them are masterpices. However, they suffer from the huge sucess of Dark Side and that's become the beginning of the end or them.

Quoted from Maria, posted May 3, 2004, 9:09am at here

I was talking with a young person (age 19) last week, and he is really into the Sixties. We discussed Floyd for a while, and found we agreed on a couple of things. Here is one oldie-youngster combo view, that might be interesting---

We both agreed that their Seventies stuff was very "trying-hard-to-be-a-significant-band". We both thought Moon and Wall were OK, but nothing classic or brilliant.

We also thought that overall Floyd were a little bit pretentious. Given that, we were amazed that each of us thought their best work was Piper At The Gates!

Thinking of you right now, Syd!

Ria brings up a valid point.i think the pre roger waters stuff was better.it is most certainly different.roger waters had a strong influence on david gilmore.he influence was so strong when he suggested they stopped dropping lsd before playing a concert,gilmore complied.
i think waters had a more orchestra type influence on flyod.their pre waters stuff was more cosmic and no as orchestrated.

Quoted from pc31, posted May 12, 2004, 1:49am at here

i think waters had a more orchestra type influence on flyod.their pre waters stuff was more cosmic and no as orchestrated.

Waters was who introduced the conceptual size in Floyd's albums. In Syd Barrett days (1966-67) the music was more whimsical, thanks to Syd's heavy LSD use (the others weren't so much in drugs, apart from keyboard player Rick Wright, who develops a cocaine habit in the late 70's). And the music become less free-form, but still experimental and jamming.

And the orchestral influence... well, Waters is to release a full opera this year (not a opera-rock). This means a lot.