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Ok, let's try to start a meme.

Write down the worst songs of the artists in your top 10 along with some explanation. "But they don't have any!" is not a valid answer. No artist is flawless. I'm sure I'll be hard pressed to find some, but let's go for it...

1. Pink Floyd

There are surprisingly many, considering that they are my absolute favourite band in the known world and they have made some of the most celestial music ever recorded (Celestial Voices, anyone?). Most of them are vague attempts at upbeat pop songs, such as Summer '68, Fearless or Paintbox (although I love the "a drink-a drink - a drink-a-drink", mind the spacing), but the trophy here goes to One Slip off of Momentary Lapse of Reason.

Not because it's a bad song, as such. It's upbeat, sure. Fine, it's a Gilmour solo number. But it has none of the qualities which could make it a classic Floyd number. It's pretty forgettable, and that's not what a Pink Floyd song should ever be.

2. Porcupine Tree
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Relics is the first Pink Floyd compilation to be officially released, in 1971. For those who don't know, it includes some album tracks from their first 3 albums (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets and More) as well as some songs that were only released as singles prior to this and B-sides and all. It's a very interesting place to start for those "classic era" Pink Floyd fans who are interested in where it all began. The first 3 albums are quite different from each other, and this one captures a bit of each in only 11 songs. The highlights are of course those non-album tracks: Arnold Layne, See Emily Play, Paintbox, Julia Dream and Biding My Time.

You get to hear a few of those always-strange and often-haunting lyrics of Syd Barrett when he was still with the band. My personal favorites at least for now are the two Rick Wright compositions, one of which I have never even heard before getting this album. It makes you wonder why he didn't write as much music as Gilmour or Waters…