Author Bill Wyman has ranked all 165 Pink Floyd tracks from worst to best.
His list, along with some thoughtful analysis for each track, was published Aug. 3 on the Vulture website.
In his introduction, he admits, “In its massive confusion, this accounting — which, whether we like it or not, hangs above our cultural world, as the band itself might have put it, motionless upon the air, like an albatross — is a testament to the good humor of the gods of rock, which now and again smile upon otherwise unemployable, gangly British nitwits.”
Wyman wrote a similar article ranking all 213 Beatles songs earlier this year.
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Any super fan of any music group will have a hard time reading anyone else’s ranked song list. I am no exception. The fact that crucial songs in Final Cut and Atom Heart Mother were dissed as part of the five worst songs slows my mind. And the fact that he claimed that The Endless River was sourced mainly from Momentary Lapse rather than Division Bell had me mad.
Let’s just get it out there: Ranking anything from The Endless River (except perhaps Louder Than Words) above any non-intro/coda track from The Final Cut is almost embarrassingly laughable.
Finally had a chance to start reading Mr. Wyman’s list today. I’m over two-thirds through and am perplexed that so far he has barely anything positive to say about the songs and their production, the band’s musical or vocal capabilities, or the songwriting itself. Is this guy even a Pink Floyd fan?