Pink Floyd: A Retrospective, 1967-1995

Pink Floyd A Retrospective: 1967-1995

Overview: English progressive-rock group. Group name taken from Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Active from 1965 to 1995. The Players: Syd Barrett (guitar, vocals: 1965-68) Roger Waters (bass, vocals: 1965-83) Nick Mason (drums: 1965-95) Richard Wright (keyboards: 1965-81, 1987-95) David Gilmour (guitar, vocals: 1968-1995) On the Web: PinkFloyd.com (official site) Facebook Wikipedia Lists: Pink Floyd: Top 50 Songs Pink Floyd: Top 10 Albums

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The Studio Albums: Hover over an album cover to see its title and year of release. Click on the album to go to its dedicated DMDB page. Compilations: R Relics (covers 1967-69, released 1971) W Works (covers 1967-73, released 1983) C A Collection of Great Dance Songs (covers 1971-79, released 1981) E Echoes: The Best of (covers 1967-94, released 2001) F Foot in the Door: The Best of (covers 1967-94, released 2011) Under each album snapshot, songs featured on the anthologies are noted. If the song charted, the date of the song’s release or first chart appearance and its chart peaks are noted in parentheses. Click for codes to singles charts.

Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967): Interstellar Overdrive (Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason) [9:43] (33 CL) R Bike (Barrett) [3:21] (44 CL) R, E Astronomy Domine (15 CL) E A Saucerful of Secrets (1968): Remember a Day (Wright) [4:29] (44 CL) R Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [5:23] (23 CL) W, E Jugband Blues (Barrett) [2:56] (39 CL) E More (soundtrack, 1969): The Nile Song (Waters) [3:25] (46 CL) R Cirrus Minor (Waters) [5:18] R

Relics Pink Floyd

Released: May 14, 1971 Covers: 1967-1969 Peak: 152 US, 32 UK, 65 CN, 29 AU Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.1 UK, 2.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: psychedelic rock/classic rock

Tracks: (1) Arnold Layne (2) Interstellar Overdrive (3) See Emily Play (4) Remember a Day (5) Paint Box (6) Julia Dream (7) Careful with That Axe, Eugene (8) Cirrus Minor (9) The Nile Song (10) Biding My Time (11) Bike Total Running Time: 49:38

Rating: 3.967 out of 5.00 (average of 20 ratings)

About Relics: With only three albums under their belt, this collection may have seemed unnecessary. However, since Pink Floyd released several singles not featured on albums, it made sense to gather them alongside a few album cuts. Unfortunately, that’s not quite what this set does. There are two singles, three B-sides of singles not on this collection, one unreleased song, and five cuts from the band’s first three albums. A better compilation would have simply gathered the singles and B-sides and maybe thrown in the unreleased “Biding My Time.” Tracks Not on Previously Noted Albums: Arnold Layne (Barrett) [2:56] (3/11/67, 6 CL, 20 UK) R, W, E See Emily Play Barrett) [2:53] (6/17/67, 3 CL, 6 UK) R, W, E, F Paint Box (Wright) [3:33] (11/18/67, B-side of “Apples and Oranges”) R Julia Dream (Waters) [2:37] (4/13/68, B-side of “It Would Be So Nice,” 44 CL) R Careful with That Axe, Eugene (Gilmour, Waters, Wright, Mason) [5:45] (12/7/68, B-side of “Point Me at the Sky,” 22 CL) R Biding My Time (Waters) [5:18] (recorded 1969) Ummagumma (1969): Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict [4:47] (47 CL) W Atom Heart Mother (1970): There are no songs from Atom Heart Mother featured on any of the collections on this page. Meddle (1971): One of These Days [5:50] (11/29/71, 10 CL) W, C, E Fearless [6:08] (11/29/71, 14 CL) W Echoes (Gilmour, Waters, Wright, Mason) [16:30] (12 CL) E Obscured by Clouds (1972): Free Four [4:07] (7/10/72, 22 CL) W Dark Side of the Moon (1973): Money (Waters) [6:32] (5/7/73, 13 US, 37 AR, 1 CL) C, E, F Us and Them (Waters, Wright) [7:40] (2/4/74, 2 CL) E Time/Breathe Reprise (Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright) [7:06] (2/4/74, 1 CL; live – 12/10/88, 34 AR) E, F Brain Damage (Waters) [3:50] (1 CL) W, F Eclipse (Waters) [2:04] (1 CL) W, F The Great Gig in the Sky (Wright/Torry) [4:44] (13 CL) E, F

Works Pink Floyd

Released: June 18, 1983 Covers: 1967-1973 Peak: 68 US, -- UK, -- CN, 64 AU Sales (in millions): -- Genre: psychedelic rock/classic rock/progressive rock

Tracks: (1) One of These Days (2) Arnold Layne (3) Fearless (4) Brain Damage (5) Eclipse (6) Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (7) See Emily Play (8) Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict (9) Free Four (10) Embryo Total Running Time: 42:10

Rating: 3.163 out of 5.00 (average of 9 ratings)

About Works: Works repeated the same mistakes as Relics. Some album cuts were featured alongside a couple of singles and “Embryo,” which had not been released on a Pink Floyd album, but was released in 1970 on the various artists’ compilation Picnic – A Breath of Fresh Air. Tracks Not on Previously Noted Albums: Embryo (Waters) [4:39] (recorded 11/30/68, released 1970) W Wish You Were Here (1975): Have a Cigar (with Roy Harper) (Waters) [5:08] (11/15/75, 2 CL) F Wish You Were Here (Waters, Gilmour) [5:35] (11/20/75, 1 CL) C, E, F Shine on You Crazy Diamond Gilmour, Wright, Waters) (2 CL) C, E, F Animals (1977): Sheep (Waters) [10:20] (12 CL) C, E The Wall (1979): The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Waters) [1:38] E, F Another Brick in the Wall Part II (Waters) [4:01] (7/5/79; 1 US, 1 CL, 42 AR, 1 UK, 2 AU, platinum single) C, E, F Comfortably Numb (Gilmour, Waters) [6:53] (1 CL; live: 12/3/88, 24 AR) E, F Hey You (Waters) [4:39] (6/23/80, 1 CL) E, F

A Collection of Great Dance Songs Pink Floyd

Released: November 23, 1981 Covers: 1971-1979 Peak: 31 US, 37 UK, 22 CN, 14 AU Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, 0.1 UK, 4.5 world (includes US and UK) Genre: classic rock

Tracks: (1) One of These Days (2) Money (3) Sheep (4) Shine on You Crazy Diamond (edit) (5) Wish You Were Here (6) Another Brick in the Wall Part II Total Running Time: 43:01

Rating: 3.623 out of 5.00 (average of 11 ratings)

About A Collection of Great Dance Songs: This was another incomplete Pink Floyd collection comprised of only six cuts. “Money” is actually a version that was re-recorded in 1981 and “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” and “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” are edited versions. The Final Cut (1983): The Fletcher Memorial Home (Waters) [4:11] E, F A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987): Learning to Fly (Gilmour, Ezrin, Anthony Moore, Jon Carin) [4:52] (9/5/87, 70 US, 1 AR, 34 AU) E, F Sorrow (Gilmour) [8:47] (3/5/88, 36 AR) E The Division Bell (1994): Keep Talking (Gilmour, Wright, Samson) [6:11] (4/2/94, 1 AR) E High Hopes (Gilmour, Samson) [8:31] (8/27/94, 26 UK, 7 AR) E, F Marooned (Wright, Gilmour) [5:30] E

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

Released: November 6, 2001 Covers: 1967-1994 Peak: 2 US, 2 UK, 2 CN, 4 AU Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, 0.9 UK, 7.5 world (includes US and UK) Genre: classic rock/psychedelic rock/progressive rock

Tracks, Disc 1: (1) Astronomy Domine (2) See Emily Play (3) The Happiest Days of Our Lives (4) Another Brick in the Wall Part II (5) Echoes (6) Hey You (7) Marooned (8) The Great Gig in the Sky (9) Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (10) Money (11) Keep Talking (12) Sheep (13) Sorrow Tracks, Disc 2: (1) Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7, edited version) (2) Time/Breathe (Reprise) (3) The Fletcher Memorial Home (4) Comfortably Numb (5) When the Tigers Broke Free (6) One of These Days (7) Us and Them (8) Learning to Fly (9) Arnold Layne (10) Wish You Were Here (11) Jugband Blues (12) High Hopes (13) Bike Total Running Time: 2:35:23

Rating: 4.299 out of 5.00 (average of 17 ratings) Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About Echoes: A double-disc retrospective of Pink Floyd was long overdue. This collection covers most of the necessary songs, but the non-chronological order makes for songs that have no business being next to each other. 1994’s “High Hopes” followed by 1967’s “Bike”? These are very different bands with very different sounds and it makes for a very disruptive flow. “Echoes,” “Marooned,” “Shine on You Crazy Dimaond,” and “One of These Days” are edited versions of the originals. Tracks Not on Previously Noted Albums: When the Tigers Broke Free (Waters) [3:42] (7/26/82, 39 UK) E

A Foot in the Door: The Best of Pink Floyd

Released: November 7, 2011 Covers: 1967-1994 Peak: 50 US, 14 UK, 22 CN, 15 AU Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.3 UK, 0.52 world (includes US and UK) Genre: classic rock/psychedelic rock/progressive rock

Tracks: (1) Hey You (2) See Emily Play (3) The Happiest Days of Our Lives (4) Another Brick in the Wall Part II (5) Have a Cigar (6) Wish You Were Here (7) Time (8) The Great Gig in the Sky (9) Money (10) Comfortably Numb (11) High Hopes (12) Learning to Fly (13) The Fletcher Memorial Home (14) Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5, edited version) (15) Brain Damage (16) Eclipse Total Running Time: 79:39

Rating: 4.490 out of 5.00 (average of 6 ratings)

About A Foot in the Door: A single-disc, career-spanning retrospective of Pink Floyd may sound like a good idea for the casual fans, but it ends up omitting so much that it can hardly be considered a representation of the band. Considering the flaws in the two-disc Echoes set, there was no way this could end up an improvement on that. Resources and Related Links: DMDB encyclopedia entry for Pink Floyd Wikipedia page for Relics Wikipedia page for Works Wikipedia page for A Collection of Great Dance Songs Wikipedia page for Echoes: The Best of Wikipedia page for A Foot in the Door: The Best of First posted 9/1/2021.