Wots...Uh The Deal?

Pink Floyd is a band who is well known for their cult like following, fans worship their music and would sell body parts just to see them one more time but even Floyd with such a hardcore following gets overlooked. From 1973 (Release of "Dark Side of the Moon") to this current day they set the bar for what a quality progressive rock album should be. The issue regarding Floyd is the amount of quality work released before "Dark Side of the Moon" seems to be put on the backburner to future albums which pale in comparison to its predecessors. Albums like "The Wall" and "Animals" receive what I feel is much "undeserved" credit...Well let me rephrase that, much more credit than any album before "Dark Side of the Moon." If I were to list what I feel are the top 10 Floyd albums, "Animals" wouldn't appear until nine and "The Wall" wouldn't even appear on the list. Now I must say I do have some bias against anything which is heavily derived from Waters and little input from the rest of the band but with good reason. All albums from 1968-1975 ("A Saucerful of Secrets"-"Wish You Were Here") display the band working together, there was fantastic synergy and they were firing on all cylinders, input from each member can clearly be heard which accounted for masterpiece after masterpiece. Following "Wish You Were Here" marked the Waters domination era, each album after WYWH sounded more and more like a Waters solo album and to me that just is not Floyd. I am one who advocates the evolution of sounds within a band but when evolving it must be a group effort not the evolution of one member leaving the rest in the dust. As most of you all know this lead to the split of Waters from the band and I honestly feel that it was for the better, I would much rather hear Pink Floyd than Roger Waters. Now back to the topic the amount of albums that Floyd created which are undeniably classic and which probably very few have heard of let alone even heard the name of is unbelievable. To name a few of the albums which I believe are simply jawdropping and yet nearly unheard of are "Atom Heart Mother", "Meddle", and "Obscured by Clouds" Each album is a perfect display of the golden age of Pink Floyd, and in honor of these three unforgettable albums each day I will write a review stating why these albums are very deserving of legendary status juxtaposed to latter Floyd.