Pink Floyd

The Best Of Pink Floyd

Because it's Pink Floyd

Review Score:

(4/10)
There should never be a Pink Floyd greatest hits. The songs are all good, true. But Pink Floyd is bigger than that. Their songs should be considered integral parts of each album as well as individual masterpieces. How could one listen to hits like "Another brick in the wall pt. 2" without preceding it with "In the Flesh?", "The Thin Ice" and "Happiest Days of our lives"? And mixing around the music in different time frames is another mistake. On the first disc they have "See Emily Play", a great song from an early album (Relics) to "Happiest Days of our lives" That's strange. Maybe it's just me, but I don't like hearing songs from the different albums being sequenced all together. For me I love Pink Floyd's albums as albums, not each song. I like to listen to an entire album at one time, especially the post-Syd albums. (maybe because they can be considered "concept albums" or maybe because it's just great music) If they had to do this (money-making scheme, most likely) they should've had two or three discs, divided into Syd Barrett and post-Syd songs. But still, I don't personally see Pink Floyd as a band to have their albums sliced open and select a few songs.

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