Who is your favourite Pink Floyd solo artist?

[Keith Jordan]

Poppy Gilmour? Angry Roger? The legend of Syd Barrett? Richard Wright? Who is your favourite Pink Floyd solo artist?

[Massed Gadgets]

I could never get into Roger's solo work. Syd's solo stuff is okay, but not something that has had a profound impact on me. I enjoy David's solo stuff (with his first probably being my favourite), but again, it's not something I listen to a lot. Nick's album (which was, let's face it, really a Carla Bley album) was not really my thing and Profiles never had much of an impact on me. (Nick did, however, produce one of my all time favourite albums, Steve Hillage's Green.) Rick, on the other hand, has always presented a problem for me. I absolutely love Wet Dream, but Broken China was a huge disappointment for me. Despite that, I guess I'm going to have to go with Rick, as Wet Dream is an album that really moves me and I have a lot of emotional connections to. Some people think it's schmaltz, but for me, it really gets deep into my soul.

[RonBaker2003]

David. His music is more like the Pink Floyd music I loved. Although, I have to admit when I got a new Pink Floyd album back in the day, it was Rick's songs I played first.

[Latin Floydian]

mmmmmmmmmmmm so difficult question but if i have to choose David is my favorite!

[Aqualung]

I listened to Zee quite a bit... Well it was the 80s

But my fav has to be "Gilmour"

[fatbobmoonbeam]

Definitely Roger. Amused to Death is a fantastic album and I love The Pros & Cons of Hitchiking as well. That said, I do love Syd's stuff - some incredibly moving songs - even on Opel, which I love. And Dave's done a load of great tracks too - stuff like Out of the Blue, Near the End and On An Island. Actually, I love some of Rick's things. I'm going for Nick.

[Doctor Robert]

Easy one . Syd.

[pinkfloyd]

Syd Barrett

[Parish]

Roger's solo work is GENIUS
Dave's is very good
Rick's Wet Dream is a masterpiece...
Syd's was inspired as well as being inspiring
Nick's was all for sport...

[Parish]

I listened to Zee quite a bit... Well it was the 80s

But my fav has to be "Gilmour"

Short and Sweet...his best

[ladymindful]

David Gilmour without a doubt. But why call him Poppy? Roger was brilliant tho but too controlling and conceited.

[Parish]

David Gilmour without a doubt. But why call him Poppy? Roger was brilliant tho but too controlling and conceited.

Too Polly?

[Keith Jordan]

David Gilmour without a doubt. But why call him Poppy? Roger was brilliant tho but too controlling and conceited.

Because his solo albums were 1980s pop albums??

[Parish]

David Gilmour without a doubt. But why call him Poppy? Roger was brilliant tho but too controlling and conceited.

Because his solo albums were 1980s pop albums??

I read somewhere that "Blue Light" was voted worse song by a Floyd member and I LOVE that song...

[Bigmanpigman]

"The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of it's Parts" - I reckon Aristotle foresaw the Floyd situation. I would venture that none of them have exactly shone as individual artists (including Syd). You have to ask the question 'Would any of them have been successful, in a commercial and artistic sense, if Pink Floyd had never existed?" I remember a quote from Roger when he said he was playing in front of a few hundred people in The USA - "And They (the now Roger-less Pink Floyd) had sold out a stadium down the road.....playing MY songs!!" He has now returned to his Floyd stuff and is able to sell out stadiums himself all over the world. What launched them in the first place was the combination of different skills possessed by Roger, Dave and Rick, with the odd contribution from Nick . If I was pushed I would go for Dave, purely because of his fairly unique guitar style.