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Readers’ Rock List: Best Pink Floyd Songs

9/22/08, 3:11 pm EST

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Last week to honor Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, we asked the Rock Daily readers to tell us their favorite Pink Floyd songs. It was a close battle, but The Wall’s classic “Comfortably Numb” edged out a pair of Wish You Were Here tracks to take the prize of best Pink Floyd tune. Check out the top twenty along with the playlist below.

1. “Comfortably Numb”
2. “Wish You Were Here”
3. “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”
4. “Time”
5. “Echoes”
6. “Dogs”
7. “Us & Them”
8. “The Great Gig in the Sky”
9. “Money”
10. “Another Brick In the Wall, Part II”
11. “Welcome to the Machine”
12. “Astronomy Domine”
13. “Have A Cigar”
14. “Learning To Fly”
15. “Sheep”
16. “Run Like Hell”
17. “Brain Damage/Eclipse”
18. “Summer ‘68″
19. “Fearless”
20. “In The Flesh?”

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Cynic | 9/22/2008, 6:45 pm EST

“Comfortably Numb” is definitely not the best Pink Floyd song of all time, just maybe the most overplayed.

DAVID | 9/22/2008, 7:04 pm EST

omg no interstellar overdrive? WTF?

Shane | 9/22/2008, 9:18 pm EST

If you need to remind yourself why Comfortably Numb is on top, go back and listen to the guitar solo after the first chorus. Sublime.

That said, I’m disappointed Sheep isn’t in the top ten.

JB | 9/23/2008, 11:44 am EST

rolling stone readers apparently aren’t to fond of Syd Barretts’s contributions to the band….only one song from the guy??? cmon we can do better than that……by the way i really despise how pink floyd has become such a “commercial” and “popular” band to like….its amazing how often when you hear any music that is somewhat strange/pyschedelic/or free flowing some ass will chime in with WOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE PINK FLOYD..IGNORANT ASSES

funk | 9/23/2008, 4:49 pm EST

what about one of these days it has the best floyd lyric ever

funk | 9/23/2008, 4:52 pm EST

ONE OF THESE DAYS IM GOING TO CUT YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES BEST FLOYD EVER

>>>>> | 9/23/2008, 5:45 pm EST

‘Cymbaline’
‘The narrow way(pt.3)’
‘If’
‘Take it back/Coming back to life’
‘Free four’

JamesGangRules | 9/23/2008, 7:33 pm EST

Waiting for the Worms, The Nile Song, Goodbye Blue Sky, Crumbling Land, Point Me at the Sky, Julia Dream all of “Relics”

M,H | 9/26/2008, 11:40 pm EST

you can never know witch of pink floyd is the best they are all good

i love wish you were here , in the flesh , Comfortably numb,

and i might ask where is what do you want from me song on the list

they have this kind of music i dont know they are just the best band ever for me

Chris | 10/1/2008, 4:26 am EST

Fat Old Sun from the album More is wonderfully evocative. Trouble is, Pink Floyd have made 100 great tracks and no-one will ever agree on the best 10. I wouldn’t have more than 3 or 4 of those chosen – and I go back to the very beginning, having seen Floyd play small gigs in London in the 1960’s.

nick | 10/7/2008, 6:49 pm EST

I think Echoes should be number one. But how could Hey You not make the list?

Ashley | 10/14/2008, 10:56 pm EST

I really wished Atom Heart Mother would be on this list, but good songs over all

Mac | 10/19/2008, 9:33 pm EST

Shine On should be #1… it is the perfect Pink Floyd song, with huge contributions from each of the band members, and lyrically it pays homage to Syd.

Echoes should be #2. After that, you can make a good case for many songs, but it’s strange that neither Hey You or One of These Days made the list.

Mac | 10/19/2008, 9:34 pm EST

And I can’t believe Summer of ‘68 is on that list.

Sinjini | 10/31/2008, 11:00 am EST

“Comfortably Numb” is a anthum for pink floyd lovers its not only the guitar its all about “Numb” feelings which no other song can give….

Sinjini | 10/31/2008, 11:06 am EST

Breathe..
Sauserfull of scereat
Amused to death..

for Pink floyd there cant be one list…

Gilmour Fan | 11/6/2008, 10:11 pm EST

Don’t kid yourself. Comfortably Numb IS the best floyd song. The guitar and lyrics flow so well and evoke such emotion. It touches so many people in so many ways. The guitar solos have been voted the best solos ever by Guitar Magazine.

Mizo India | 11/7/2008, 6:02 am EST

Cynic u Dont KnoW….Okay!!..”Stairway to heaven”Is their best song..

Darb | 11/7/2008, 10:34 pm EST

are you retarded? stairway to heaven is by ledd zepplin lol

Mizo India | 11/10/2008, 11:03 pm EST

who says the guiter “stairway to heaven” is better than “comfortablynumb”…..??? ????? …I DO……

Roku | 11/12/2008, 12:52 pm EST

Comfortably Numb is IMO the most overrated Pink Floyd song ever. Dogs is wayyyyyyy much better

Pink Floyd | 11/26/2008, 1:18 am EST

What about High Hopes or Coming Back to Life? Comfortaly Numb is the best song ever written… Like someone says, it touches so many people in so many different ways with the emotion in the song!

Sublime | 1/3/2009, 4:55 pm EST

comfterbly numb is a great song, and i agree a lot with the list. my all-time favorate pink floyd song has got to be like…in the flesh or comfterbly numb, i think they both are the same. im kinda suprised “the trail” isnt up there tho, that song was kinda disturbing…i liked it >:D

simplex | 1/8/2009, 8:31 am EST

guys stop fighting over…. ‘comfortably numb’ & ’stairway…’
The greatest floyd song is “ECHOES”!!!!
Now, thats what i call a ‘complete song’!!!!!

simplex | 1/8/2009, 8:31 am EST

guys stop fighting over…. ‘comfortably numb’ & ’stairway…’
The greatest floyd song is “ECHOES”!!!!
Now, thats what i call a ‘complete song’!!!!!

Lizzy | 2/4/2009, 12:02 pm EST

Hi! I love Pink Floyd and those songs are great but maybe echoes should of been top 3. i love all pink floyd songs, maybe not the last albums. Thanks xxx :)
Yeh, wot happened to Arnold Layne and see Emily Play? :)

Lizzy | 2/4/2009, 12:03 pm EST

Whoever said stairway to heaven was the best song! eeeerrrrr, Led Zeppelin!

Rohit | 2/12/2009, 2:24 am EST

To whoever said Echos is the best Pink Floyd song… You are so fuking right…. High fives!!!!

Dr. Gonja | 2/15/2009, 2:17 am EST

I have to say Echoes is by far the greatest Floyd song…NO, best sound/song/music/thing(?) my ears have ever listened to, to be honest, and speaking on behalf of mankind its the best song our species has ever made/listened to.

mosster | 3/8/2009, 10:04 pm EST

where the hell is pigs 3 different ones

mosster | 3/8/2009, 10:04 pm EST

where the hell is pigs 3 different ones

hazeman | 3/13/2009, 1:56 pm EST

careful with that axe eugene

davidandino83@msn.com | 3/17/2009, 10:56 pm EST

the narrow way: 1-3

lov buckett | 3/26/2009, 9:50 am EST

listen you have to listern to the words baby !man there groovy Ooh” whats the deal and free four : mile after mile stone after stone you turn to speak and your aloan million miles from home your on your own let me in from the cold turn my lead in to gold; theres a cold wind blowing in my sole and im feeling old;;;;;;;magic!!!

anonymus | 4/27/2009, 4:58 pm EST

high hopes anyone
i mean. seriously

And | 5/13/2009, 12:38 pm EST

Hmm… I still prefer to put “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” as #1… just for personal reasons lol.

But despite that, all Pink Floyd’s songs ROCK, man… each one of them. They don’t have bad songs, it’s incredible.

The Floydian | 6/13/2009, 2:06 am EST

Coming Back to Life, Any Colour You Like, High Hopes, Keep Talking..
Where are these??

umair | 7/8/2009, 4:01 am EST

common now ’sorrow’ isnt in top 20….screw this list i am makin my own:)

thomas | 7/30/2009, 11:35 am EST

no intersteller overdrive?

Abhi | 8/5/2009, 3:01 am EST

I’d say Echoes is one of their best songs, possibly THE best.
Followed by Shine on you crazy diamond and comfortably numb. I agree that there should have been more of Barrett’s songs…its a pity really!

Anonymous | 8/21/2009, 10:34 pm EST

who ever made this list is VARY retarted

Kevin | 9/18/2009, 10:27 pm EST

This is such a terrible list. Comfortably Numb as the top song? No way. That’s not even a very good song, much less their best. Whoever made this doesn’t seem to realize the Floyd has more albums than Dark Side, the wall, animals and WYWH. Here are some songs that should be added:

Let there be more light
Set the Controls for the heart of the sun
One of these days
Echoes
Cymbaline
When you’re in
Mudmen
Pretty much anything from Animals, and the first half of The Wall. The second disk is pretty awful.

Well, that’s my opinion.

dogs | 9/28/2009, 8:37 am EST

Dogs is the best song ever made. Though there is no way to make a top 10 list.

CROATIA | 10/3/2009, 1:55 pm EST

what about hey you or high hopes?
ECHOES is my favorite song and it should be on the top of the list

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