The Guide to Pink Floyd
Submitted by lbangs on Mon, 05/23/2005 - 04:05
Tags:
- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) - **** 1/2
- A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) - ***
- More (1969) - **
- Ummagumma (1969) - ***
- Atom Heart Mother (1970) - **
- Relics (1971) - ****
- Meddle (1971) - ****
- Obscured by Clouds (1972) - **
- The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) - *****
- Wish You Were Here (1975) - *****
- Animals (1977) - ***
- The Wall (1979) - **** 1/2
- A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981) - **
- Works (1983) - ***
- The Final Cut (1983) - ** 1/2
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) - **
- Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988) - **
- The Division Bell (1994) - ** 1/2
- Pulse (1995) - **
- Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall: Live 1980-1981 (2000) - ** 1/2
- Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001) - ****
Author Comments:
This appears just like my CC series, but there is one crucial distinction. This list is the combined opinions of me and the critics in the critical consensus series. My vote counted for one point just like the vote of each critic.
Essentially, this is simply an update of the CC series with my little voice tossed in as a drop in the critical pool.
Scale:
***** - Masterpiece
**** 1/2 - Classic
**** - Great
*** 1/2 - Good
*** - Above Average
** 1/2 - Average
** - Below Average
* 1/2 - Bad
* - Terrible
1/2 - One of the worst albums ever
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn doesn't get five stars either? Hmmm...I thought that would be a slam dunk.
I'm curious about a couple of aspects here: how many critics (including yourself) are you sampling, and would it only take one less-than-perfect rating to drop an album from five stars to four and a half?
Johnny Waco
I don't think I have calculated these lists for an artist yet where the disparity between the opinions of the fans and those of the critics are so far apart. Maybe The Grateful Dead will change that. :) The critics are closer to my personal view, but I find this very interesting.
The critical pool I pull from remains around the same as usual, around 25-30 sources. One or two sources are actually averages of more critics, so several voices are represented here. With that number, there is room for an album to get a less-than-perfect rating or review from a few sources and still pull off a five-star on my scale. In fact, I have been keeping a running list of albums that seem to have absolutely no dispute concerning their greatness, and I may post it after I get more lists up. That list probably has about twenty to twenty-five percent (possibly even less) of the total albums that nab a five-star rating on the individual lists.
The rating for Piper surprised me as well, although it wasn't too terribly far from five-star glory...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs