I can relate to what you said, that a true Floyd fan can't have a favorite Floyd album. Although I only came into contact with Pink Floyd in the neo-psychedelic summer of 1987, so I didn't get the albums in chronological order, I don't have a favorite album either. As a matter of fact, I only knew the band because my sister bought "Delicate Sound of Thunder", which, in my opinion, is not the best album to start with. Or maybe it is, since it has a "Greatest Hits"-sorta selection of songs.

In my birthday that year, a few months after my sister got Delicate, I asked my aunt for a Floyd record as a gift. She gave me Delicate, so I traded it for both The Wall and A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Then, I got completely hooked. I then watched the movie The Wall late at night in a TV channel (can you believe they actually played it on TV?).

So, I started buying Floyd albums. All of my money went into that. And, as a teenager, I didn't have enough money, so it took me a few years to get all of them. I had some trouble liking a few albums, such as Atom Heart Mother and Animals. Although I now love them, I find them a little too difficult to like to. Maybe like Radiohead's Kid A. Haven't heard it, but everybody says it's a difficult album.

And now, after years listening, I can't say I have a favorite album. Each one of them is unique, completely different from the others. There are only a very few songs (among all of the songs Pink Floyd ever played) that I can't say I really like, such as "Several Species..." and "Dogs of War". One thing that I see makes Floyd unique, at least for me, is that for most bands, I don't like all of their works. Say for instance Led Zeppelin, whom I love as well. I don't like all of their albums. There's always a relative percentage of songs I don't like. Say 20% for Led Zep. But as far as Pink Floyd is concerned, I LOVE about 99.8% of their work.

Well, I am getting a little long here, so I'll cut this off so you won't get too bored with my ramblings!

Floydian Cheers,
Paulo R. Dallagnol

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Paulo

"What is more important: Satisfying one thousand desires or conquering just one?" - Samsara