Best era? Best album?
I like the Waters/Gilmour stuff. My favorite albums are A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Wall.
This probably should go on the mixed tape/disc board, but this past year I made my own Pink Floyd greatest hits compilation, in response to the incompleteness of the Echoes collection. This compilation I put on two 110-minute cassettes, although the material could also fit on three CD-roms, and (unlike Echoes) contains at least one song from each of Floyd's 14 studio albums. These are personal faves, so there's room for argument here, plus space prevented me from including such classics as "Echoes" and "Dogs". Anyway, here's my track listing for the two tapes:
TAPE ONE, SIDE A
See Emily Play
Astronomy Domine
Lucifer Sam
Matilda Mother
Chapter 24
Julia Dream
Remember A Day
Corporal Clegg
See Saw
Point Me At The Sky
Crying Song
Green Is The Colour
Cymbaline
Grantchester Meadows
TAPE TWO, SIDE B
The Narrow Way (Part Two)
If
Summer Of '68
Fat Old Sun
A Pillow Of Winds
Fearless
San Tropez
Wot's . . . Uh The Deal
Free Four
Stay
Time
TAPE TWO, SIDE A
Us And Them
Welcome To The Machine
Wish You Were Here
Pigs On The Wing (Part One)
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Pigs On The Wing (Part Two)
Another Brick In The Wall (Part Two)
Mother
Young Lust
Hey You
Nobody Home
TAPE TWO, SIDE B
Comfortably Numb
The Gunner's Dream
The Final Cut
Two Suns In The Sunset
Learning To Fly
One Slip
On The Turning Away
A Great Day For Freedom
Take It Back
Coming Back To Life
I kind of like the way it turned out.
what about "keep talking"
I like Pink Floyd Mark I and III best
I forget where I picked up these terms, but someone grouped the eras of Pink Floyd into Mark I, II, III, and IV:
"Mark I": Syd in charge (Piper At The Gates of Dawn and sometimes )
"Mark II": Everyone writing on their own (Saucerful through Obscured by Clouds)
"Mark III": Roger in charge (Dark Side through The Final Cut)
"Mark IV": Post-Roger years (Momentary Lapse and The Division Bell)
I'll always love Syd Barrett and Roger Waters, for all his megalomania, sure knows how to be memorable. Mark II was just too uneaven, with a lot of songs that could have been by anyone getting in the way of the great stuff, and Mark IV just sounds like a Floyd tribute band.
During most of side three of The Wall album, a television can be heard in the background. This is supposed to represent the TV that Pink mindlessly watches while ensconced in self-isolation in his hotel room. A couple of familiar American TV icons can be heard. During the song "Nobody Home" Jim Naybors as Gomer Pyle can clearly be heard delivering his catch phrase "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" And just before the track "Is There Anybody Out There?" James Arness can be heard clearly as Marshall Matt Dillon on an episode of Gunsmoke.
And Mr French and Uncle Bill can be heard during 'One of my Turns.'