Pink Floyd discography
This page lists Pink Floyd albums, both official and unofficial, as well as various awards. For individual songs, see the category listing.
Studio albums
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1. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) #6 UK; Not Released in US -
2. A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) #9 UK; didn't chart in the US -
3. Ummagumma (1969)
(Double Album)#5 UK; #74 US -
4. Atom Heart Mother (1970) #1 UK; #55 US -
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6. The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) #2 UK; #1 US (1 Week) -
7. Wish You Were Here (1975) #1 UK; #1 US (2 Weeks) -
9. The Wall (1979) (Double album) #3 UK; #1 US (15 Weeks) -
10. The Final Cut (1983) #1 UK; #6 US -
11. A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) #3 UK; #3 US -
12. The Division Bell (1994) #1 UK; #1 US (4 Weeks)
Soundtrack releases
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Music from the Film More (1969) #9 UK; #153 US -
Obscured by Clouds (1972) #6 UK; #46 US
Live albums
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Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988) (live) #11 UK; #11 US
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Is There Anybody Out There? (2000) (live) #15 UK; #19 US
Major compilations
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A Nice Pair (1973) #36 US -The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - A Saucerful Of Secrets (album) -
A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981) (compilation) #37 UK; #31 US -
Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd (2001) #2 UK; #2 US
Other
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967 documentary film soundtrack, featuring 2 tracks)
- "Give Birth to a Smile" (song featuring (uncredited) all four members from Roger Waters and Ron Geesin's Music from "The Body", 1969)
- The Man and the Journey (1969 aborted live concept album)
- Zabriskie Point (1970)
- Masters of Rock (1974)
- London '66-'67 (1995)
- 1967: The First Three Singles (1997)
- The Committee (1968) (Unreleased soundtrack from the film, The Committee)
Bootlegs
Also see: List of Pink Floyd ROIO's
Pink Floyd are one of the heaviest-bootlegged bands in history, with bootleg recordings of the band numbering at least in the hundreds. Collectors of these bootlegs often call them RoIOs, or Recordings of Indeterminate/Illegitimate Origin. The vast majority of these are audience recordings of their various concerts, as only a few studio outtakes and soundboard recordings have leaked to bootleggers. The most popular exceptions are the unreleased Syd Barrett songs "Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man", but there are others as well, such as "Lucy Leave" and a cover of Slim Harpo's "I'm a King Bee" both from the first incarnation of the band. Many bootlegs before the 1990's featured singles such as "Candy and a Currant Bun" that had not been released on compilation discs, but these disappeared when the The Early Singles disc in the Shine On box set was released. Collecting bootlegs is usually easy, as the internet has made bootleg sales for profit largely pointless. Organizations such as Harvested have made a hobby of cleaning up and remastering bootleg recordings and issuing them to traders for free.
The hundreds of audience recordings vary in quality from excellent (concerts in 1994 and 1988) to abysmal (the era between 1967 and 1971). Audience noise is often absent, because audiences of the band in their early days were very quiet. There are sometimes recordings of standout quality in a period of otherwise low-quality recordings; an example is the Electric Factory show in late 1970, which was nearly soundboard-quality during a period when most other recordings were extremely poor. (Audience recordings would not regularly be as good as the Electric Factory show until 1988). Other standouts include the "Fireman" source of the Hollywood Bowl concert in 1972, in which a complete rendition of the pre-release "prototype" Dark Side of the Moon suite was played; the 9 May 1977 show in Oakland from the same source, which includes the last performance of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" to date; and an excellent recording of the 24 April 1975 show in Los Angeles, taped by the legendary taper Mike Millard, containing the best-existing versions of Dick Parry performing a saxophone solo in "Echoes" and the prototype "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Gotta Be Crazy", which would eventually become "Sheep" and "Dogs" respectively.
The 6 July 1977 show in Montreal is widely traded, the occasion of Roger Waters infamously luring a fan onstage and then spitting on them; his self-disgust after the event inspired the idea of building a wall between the band and the audience. While lower quality than the previously mentioned shows, this concert is extremely popular due to the ability to hear this historic event happen at the end of "Pigs (Three Different Ones)".
One of the most widely traded bootlegs online is A Tree Full of Secrets, a massive 18-disc collection of Pink Floyd material which ignores live recordings but includes all material released on albums outside the Pink Floyd discography such as movie soundtracks, radio advertisements, television performances, studio outtakes, rehearsals and alternative mono/stereo remixes. It also features considerable rare solo material from all of Pink Floyd's members except Syd Barrett. It is the definitive collection of all Floyd rarities, and even includes materials suspected of being fake for the sake of completeness and allowing the listener to decide.
Syd Barrett's solo rarities are collected on the "sister set" Have You Got It Yet?, an equally large set which is also widely traded. In addition to studio rarities from both his Pink Floyd days (many of which are on both sets) and solo era, it also includes well over a hundred covers of Syd Barrett and Barrett-era Pink Floyd songs by major and minor artists.
Awards list
Pink Floyd have received several awards during their career.
Silver Clef
Pink Floyd was awarded a Silver Clef for their charity work for The Nordoff-Robbins Music Center in 1980
Grammys
Pink Floyd have been nominated for several Grammy Awards:
- 1973 nomination for Album of the Year
- "Dark Side of the Moon" -- lost to Stevie Wonder's "Innervisions"
- 1980 nomination for Album of the Year
- "The Wall" -- lost to Christopher Cross' Christopher Cross
- 1980 nomination for Best Rock Performance by Duo or Group
- "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" -- lost to Bob Seger's "Against the Wind"
- 1994 nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
- "Marooned" from The Division Bell -- won
American Music Awards
Pink Floyd have been nominated for an American Music Award
- 1995 nomination for Best Pop/Rock Duo or Group -- lost to Ace of Base
RIAA gold certifications
- Atom Heart Mother
- Obscured by Clouds
- A Nice Pair
RIAA platinum certifications
- Ummagumma (1,000,000+)
- Meddle - 2x (2,000,000+)
- Dark Side of the Moon - 15x (15,000,000+)
- Dark Side of the Moon DVD - 2x (200,000+)
- Live at Pompei VHS/DVD - 2x (200,000+)
- Wish You Were Here - 6x (6,000,000+)
- Animals - 4x (4,000,000+)
- The Wall - 23x (11,500,000+)
- A Collection of Great Dance Songs - 2x (2,000,000+)
- The Final Cut - 3x (3,000,000+)
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason - 4x (4,000,000+)
- Delicate Sound of Thunder - 3x (3,000,000+)
- Shine On - (9-CD boxed set)
- The Division Bell - 3x (3,000,000+)
- Pulse - 2x (2,000,000+)
- Pulse VHS/DVD - 8x (800,000+)
- Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live (1,000,000+)
- Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd 3x (3,000,000+)
Both Dark Side of The Moon, and The Wall are Diamond records, fro selling over 10 million copies.
Total US Sales According ti RIAA 73,500,000+
(see RIAA)
Rock And Roll Hall of Fame
Pink Floyd were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Barrett did not attend any of the inductions, due to his constant illness. Waters did not attend the 1996 induction, citing sickness, but did accept his 2005 induction via camera. Gilmour and Mason attended both events, but Wright could not make the 2005 induction due to eye surgery.
Miscellaneous
In 2002 Q magazine named Pink Floyd as one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die". Two years later, the same magazine would place Pink Floyd as the biggest band of all time, above the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, according to a complex system for comparing bands which included album sales, charts performance and concert attendance.
Charting Positions (Singles)
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