A transitional album on which the band moved from Syd Barrett’s relatively concise and vivid songs to spacy, ethereal material with lengthy…
Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
The title of Pink Floyd’s debut album is taken from a chapter in Syd Barrett’s favorite children’s book, The Wind in the Willows, and the lyrical…
Pink Floyd – More (1969)
Commissioned as a soundtrack to the seldom-seen French hippie movie of the same name, More was a Pink Floyd album in its own right, reaching…
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma (1969)
For many years, this double LP/CD was one of the most popular albums in Pink Floyd’s pre-Dark Side of the Moon output, containing a live disc and a…
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Appearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet…
Pink Floyd – Meddle (1971)
Atom Heart Mother, for all its glories, was an acquired taste, and Pink Floyd wisely decided to trim back its orchestral excesses for its…
Pink Floyd – Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Obscured by Clouds is the soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film La Vallée, and it plays that way. Of course, it’s possible to make the argument…
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental…
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)
Pink Floyd followed the commercial breakthrough of Dark Side of the Moon with Wish You Were Here, a loose concept album about and…
Pink Floyd – Animals (1977)
Of all of the classic-era Pink Floyd albums, Animals is the strangest and darkest, a record that’s hard to initially embrace yet winds up yielding as…
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979)
Roger Waters constructed The Wall, a narcissistic, double-album rock opera about an emotionally crippled rock star who spits on an audience…
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut (1983)
The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters’ pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins…
Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is the thirteenth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd. It was released in the UK…
Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)
In one respect, it’s hard to fault David Gilmour for retooling Pink Floyd as a neo-oldies act with Momentary Lapse of Reason, since Roger Waters…
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (1994)
The second post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd album is less forced and more of a group effort than A Momentary Lapse of Reason — keyboard player…
Pink Floyd – Pulse (1995)
Pink Floyd claim they had no intention of recording another live album when they began the Division Bell tour, but performing The…
Deep Purple – Shades of Deep Purple (1968)
The usual perception of early Deep Purple is that it was a band with a lot of potential in search of a direction. And that might be true of their debut LP…
Deep Purple – In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra (2000)
Spitfire released the CD version of this concert that Deep Purple filmed in London. While a solid live album with an interesting and rare performance, Live at the Royal Albert Hall…
Deep Purple – Bananas (2003)
Bananas has every sign of being a disappointment. Jon Lord’s grandiose keyboards were always a focus but he’s gone, it’s released in the heady age of Radiohead…
Deep Purple – Burn (1974)
Although it shook the band’s fan base to its core, the acrimonious departure of vocalist Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover served to rejuvenate Deep Purple in…
Deep Purple – Nobody’s Perfect (1988)
Nobody’s Perfect is a live album released in 1988 by Deep Purple. It was recorded on their The House of Blue Light tour during 1987/88…
Deep Purple – Abandon (1998)
Deep Purple continued cranking out new albums into the late ’90s, despite diminished audiences and little attention from the media. But as long as they continued…
Deep Purple – Who Do We Think We Are (1973)
Deep Purple had kicked off the ’70s with a new lineup and a string of brilliant albums that quickly established them (along with fellow British giants…
Deep Purple – The House of Blue Light (1987)
Though it was considered a disappointment upon its release (indeed, its production was much too sleek at times, and it lacked the creative daring of…