Okay, I know there have been threads about what songs you would pick to put on a "best of" CD, but this thread is a little different. This thread puts YOU, the Pink Floyd fan, in charge.

Let's just say, some loose ends in Pink Floyd history have been tied up, and EMI* & Capitol* have decided to release a 4-Disk set, spanning the career of Pink Floyd from 'Piper at the Gates' thru 'The Final Cut'. EMI* and Capitol* have put you in charge, and they are letting YOU decide which tracks should go onto the set. Remember, this set of CD's is aimed mainly at the people who are not familiar with Floyd's music.
*this thread not affiliated with EMI or Capitol, this is merely a "what if" situation.

The guidelines are that each disc have to be AROUND ONE HOUR of listening time. Try to fit the songs together best to present what YOU think would best show Pink Floyd's sound, attitude, and style. You may comment as to why you believe certain songs should be on the album. Do not worry about sound effects, intro's, or outro's, all unneccesary sounds can be edited out.

Futhermore, here is MY Ultimate Pink Floyd Collection:

>DISC ONE:1967-1969<
1. Astronomy Domine
2. Interstellar Overdrive
3. The Gnome
4. Chapter 24
5. Remember A Day
6. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
7. Corporal Clegg
8. Jugband Blues
9. Cirrus Minor
10. The Nile Song
11. Main Theme
12. Ibiza Bar
13. More Blues
14. The Narrow Way pt.3
-Okay, this selection of songs, to me, is a fairly accurate representation for Floyd. The tracks that were picked from 'Piper' are very good, and give the listener a bit of insight as to who Syd Barrett was; we know that some of the songs from the album 'Piper at the Gates' take some getting used to. The rest of the album documents Pink Floyd's transititional points in the late 60's. It also gives a bit of a preview into what the second disk will be. I know the Narrow Way might not quite be Pink Floyd, but it is still a great song-

>DISK TWO:1970-1972<
1. If
2. Summer '68
3. Fat Old Sun
4. One Of These Days
5. Echoes
6. Burning Bridges
7. Wot's...Uh The Deal?
8. Mudmen
9. Childhood's End

-Okay, this disk is one of my favorites. There is a real sense of where Pink Floyd was at in the early 70's, as well as where they would be headed in the future. This is DEFINITELY where we begin to see who Floyd really was. They had kind of dropped the whole "psychadelica" thing of the sixties-

>DISK THREE:1973-1977<
1. Speak To Me/Breathe
2. Time
3. Us And Them
4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond pt.1
5. Welcome To The Machine
6. Dogs
7. Sheep

-On this disk, there are fewer songs, but they are much longer. This collection here would be the definative Floyd. It also shows us the darker side of Floyd in many of these songs, definitely a prelude of whats to come-

>DISK FOUR:1979-1983<

1. The Thin Ice
2. Empty Spaces
3. Money Lust
4. One Of My Turns
5. Don't Leave Me Now
6. Goodbye Cruel World
7. Is There Anybody Out There?
8. Nobody Home
9. Comfortably Numb
10. In The Flesh
11. Waiting For The Worms
12. Your Possible Pasts
13. One Of The Few
14. The Fletcher Memorial Home
15. The Final Cut
16. Not Now John
17. Two Suns In The Sunset

-Ahhh, the Waters' years. This period shows us how agressive Pink Floyd can be, as wel as how vulnerable we can ALL be. Although most of the material was written by Roger, there is still a feeling of Pink Floyd as a well-oiled machine. There are quite a few songs on this album, but few are over five minutes. You can see Floyd straying away from their trademark epics, and the spacy rock we all loved isn't as prevalent here-

Total Time: Around 4 Hours

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