Pink Floyd vinyl records: music history on record
They are one of the most famous and successful bands of the last decades: Pink Floyd from Cambridge, England. They wrote music history as a band with their music and especially with their unusual live performances. With over 250 million records sold worldwide, Pink Floyd are also commercially one of the most successful bands of all time. In addition, the band is considered the pioneers of so-called psychedelic rock. This puts them in the top 10 of artists with the best-selling records worldwide. Discover the vinyl albums by Pink Floyd in the EMP shop - as a fan, there's really no way around it.
Which LPs are available from Pink Floyd?
Concentrating only on the studio-only albums, and leaving aside all the special editions, country-specific versions and live albums, Pink Floyd released a total of 13 studio albums between 1967 and 2014:
- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
- A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
- Ummagumma (1969)
- Atom Heart Mother (1970)
- Meddle (1971)
- The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
- Wish You Were Here (1975)
- Animals (1977)
- The Wall (1979)
- The Final Cut (1983)
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
- The Division Bell (1994)
- The Endless River (2014)
Then there are various live albums, including the well-received 1994 double album P.U.L.S.E., which features a live recording of the full album Dark Side of the Moon. If you'd like to delve into the band's early work, you'll be well served by the 1971 compilation album Relics. Other well-known best-of albums include A Collection of Great Dance Songs from 1981 and the 2001 album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.
Notable vinyl record covers by Pink Floyd
There are some special features worth telling about selected Pink Floyd albums. The band is known not only for their decades of musical output. But also for their innovative concept shows, which were impressively conceived throughout the band's history. Likewise, some record covers were decidedly unusual.
Thus, designer friends Aubry Powell and Storm Thorgerson came up with the idea of creating a kind of "non-cover" for the album Atom Heart Mother. That is, something that has no relation to the band or their lyrics at all. They drove off and spontaneously photographed a cow in the field. Roger Waters, who was the main songwriter until he left the band in 1985, thought the picture was fantastic. And so it became - without even printing the band name or the album name on it - the cover image for the album. Understandably, the record company was not very enthusiastic about it. But from a marketing point of view, the plan worked brilliantly: weeks before the release, everyone wondered why those cow posters were everywhere.
And for Wish You Were Here, a man was actually set on fire - something that would be unthinkable nowadays. Everyone would later digitally remount the flames on the clothes. The world-famous triangular prima of Dark Side of the Moon was also discovered by the cover designers by accident: a ray of light fell through a paperweight and a rainbow of light appeared on the other side. This created the perfect cover, symbolising both the album title and Pink Floyd's penchant for mysterious, light-and-sound-dominated live performances.
Pink Floyd LPs cheap at EMP: A journey through time and space
If you're a Pink Floyd fan, you're probably familiar with all of the band's albums. Or maybe you're just discovering the band for yourself and want to listen to their greatest musical works. You can discover both on vinyl and buy both individual albums and compilations of their greatest hits at EMP. Order your Pink Floyd vinyl LP either as the original or as a remastered re-release in the EMP shop. Other fan merchandise can be found in the form of popular shirts or hoodies in the Pink Floyd clothing section.