The Best of the Pink Floyd

Infobox Album
Name = The Best of the Pink Floyd
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Pink Floyd


Released = 1970
Recorded = 1967-68
Genre = Psychedelic rock, progressive rock
Length =
Label = Columbia/EMI
Producer = Norman Smith and Joe Boyd
Reviews =
Chronology = Pink Floyd compilations
Last album =
This album = "The Best of the Pink Floyd"
(1970)
Next album = "Relics"
(1971)

"The Best of the Pink Floyd" is a compilation album of early Pink Floyd music, concentrating on singles from 1967 to 1969. It was released in the Netherlands in 1970, and later in Hungary, and contains their five early British singles, and tracks from 2 further singles released in other countries. A later European compilation titled "Masters of Rock" says "Originally issued as "The Best of Pink Floyd" (sic) on the back cover, but both albums contain tracks that are not on the other.

This record was notable as the only LP source of "Point Me at the Sky", and the original mono mixes of "Apples and Oranges" and "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" prior to the era of CD re-issues and compilations. It does not contain any of the single stereo remixes found on "Relics" and "Masters of Rock", as this album was only issued in mono.

Track list

ide one

#"Arnold Layne" (Syd Barrett)
#"Candy and a Currant Bun" (Barrett)
#"See Emily Play" (Barrett)
#"The Scarecrow" (Barrett)
#"Apples and Oranges" (Barrett)
#"Paint Box" (Richard Wright)
#"Let There Be More Light" (Roger Waters)

ide two

#"Remember a Day" (Wright)
#"It Would Be So Nice" (Wright)
#"Julia Dream" (Waters)
#"Point Me at the Sky" (Waters / David Gilmour)
#"Careful with That Axe, Eugene" (Gilmour / Nick Mason / Waters / Wright)
# "The Nile Song" (Waters)
# "Ibiza Bar" (Gilmour / Mason / Waters / Wright)

Credits

*Syd Barrett - Guitar and vocals
*David Gilmour - Guitar and vocals
*Richard Wright - Keyboard, piano, organ and vocals
*Roger Waters - Bass and vocals
*Nick Mason - Drums and percussion