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Where to start with Pink Floyd
Start with Speak to Me — The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 19 Pink Floyd tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 19 Pink Floyd tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 19 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 10 of the 19 tracks come from The Dark Side of the Moon alone.
The dates here run from 1969 to 2020. They are the dates attached to the releases in this room rather than recording dates, so the later ones are likely reissues — but 51 years is still more than one version of the artist.
The tracks are filed across 4 genres, most often progressive rock, punk and psych rock, so the room does not treat this as a single-shelf artist.
The energy knob swings 50 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Speak to Me — The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973. Of the 19 Pink Floyd tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
Cirrus Minor — More, 1969. The lowest energy reading of any Pink Floyd track in the room (18 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
One Of These Days — Meddle, 1971. The highest energy reading here, at 68 out of 100 — a 50-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Pink Floyd sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Pink Floyd's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 | 10 |
| Atom Heart Mother | 1970 | 1 |
| More OST | 1969 | 1 |
| More | 1969 | 1 |
| (single) | 1971 | 1 |
| Dark Side of the Moon - Immersion Box Set | 2012 | 1 |
| The Wall - Immersion Box Set | 2020 | 1 |
| Division Bell | 1971 | 1 |
| Meddle | 1971 | 1 |
| UmmaGumma | 1969 | 1 |
Every Pink Floyd track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Cirrus Minor | More | 1969 |
| Dramatic Theme | More OST | 1969 |
| Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict | UmmaGumma | 1969 |
| Summer '68 | Atom Heart Mother | 1970 |
| Arnold Layne | (single) | 1971 |
| High Hopes | Division Bell | 1971 |
| One Of These Days | Meddle | 1971 |
| Any Colour You Like | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| Brain Damage | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| Breathe (In the Air) | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| Eclipse | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| Money | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| On the Run | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| Speak to Me | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| The Great Gig in the Sky | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| Time | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| Us and Them | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 |
| Money (demo) | Dark Side of the Moon - Immersion Box Set | 2012 |
| The Doctor (demo) | The Wall - Immersion Box Set | 2020 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Pink Floyd's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Aphex Twin — electronic, 76 tracks
- Where to start with The Wake — post-punk, 23 tracks
- Where to start with Ryuichi Sakamoto — electronic, 164 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Pink Floyd as a group and formed in 1965. Its contributors tag the artist rock, progressive rock, uk, band and hard rock. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Pink Floyd tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 19, across 10 albums. 19 of them carry a date, running from 1969 to 2020. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 19 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 19 of these 19 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.