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Discography

This page lists Pink Floyd albums and singles, both official and unofficial, as well as various awards. For individual songs, see the category listing.

Studio albums

Live albums

Major compilations

Vinyl singles (1960s)

Other

Bootlegs

Also see: List of Pink Floyd ROIOs

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 1990s 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:

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 (100,000+)
  • Live at Pompei VHS/DVD - 2x (100,000+)
  • 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) (1,000,000+)
  • The Division Bell - 3x (3,000,000+)
  • Pulse - 2x (2,000,000+)
  • Pulse VHS/DVD - 8x (400,000+)
  • 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, for selling over 10 million copies.

Total US Sales According to 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.

Singles

Year Song Chart positions Album
US Singles Chart US Mainstream Rock US Modern Rock UK Singles Chart
1967 "Arnold Layne" - - - #20 single only
1967 "Flaming" - - - - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1967 "See Emily Play" #134 - - #6 single only
1967 "Apples and Oranges" - - - - single only
1968 "It Would Be So Nice" - - - - single only
1968 "Let There Be More Light" - - - - A Saucerful of Secrets
1968 "Point Me at the Sky" - - - - single only
1969 "The Nile Song" - - - - Music from the Film More
1971 "One of These Days" - - - - Meddle
1971 "Fearless" - - - - Meddle
1972 "Free Four" #46 - - - Obscured by Clouds
1973 "Money" #13 #37 - - The Dark Side of the Moon
1973 "Us and Them"/"Time (edited version)" #101 - - - The Dark Side of the Moon
1975 "Wish You Were Here" - - - - Wish You Were Here
1975 "Have a Cigar" - - - - Wish You Were Here
1979 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" #1 #1 - #1 The Wall
1980 "Comfortably Numb" - #1 - - The Wall
1980 "Hey You" - #1 - - The Wall
1980 "Young Lust" - #6 - - The Wall
1980 "Run Like Hell" #53 - - - The Wall
1982 "When the Tigers Broke Free" - - - #39 The Wall soundtrack
1983 "Not Now John" - #7 - #30 The Final Cut
1983 "Your Possible Pasts" - #8 - - The Final Cut
1983 "The Fletcher Memorial Home" - - - - The Final Cut
1983 "The Hero's Return" - #31 - - The Final Cut
1987 "Learning To Fly" #70 #1 - - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1987 "On the Turning Away" - #1 - #55 A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1988 "The Dogs of War" - #30 - - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1988 "One Slip" - #5 - #50 A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1988 "Sorrow" - #36 - - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1988 "Time (Live)" - #34 - - Delicate Sound of Thunder
1988 "Comfortably Numb (Live)" - #24 - - Delicate Sound of Thunder
1994 "Keep Talking" - #1 - #26 The Division Bell
1994 "Take It Back" #73 #4 - #23 The Division Bell
1994 "High Hopes" - #7 - #26 The Division Bell
1994 "What Do You Want from Me" - #16 - - The Division Bell
1995 "Lost for Words" - #21 - - The Division Bell
1995 "What Do You Want from Me (Live)" - #13 - - P*U*L*S*E
1995 "Wish You Were Here (Live)" - - - - P*U*L*S*E
2000 "Young Lust (Live)" - #15 - - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81

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