Test your knowledge of Pink Floyd's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
From the cash-register loop of 'Money' to the alarm clocks that open 'Time', many Pink Floyd songs name themselves by sound before any singing starts. Others hide inside a long instrumental build with no obvious way in.
Half the fun sits in how they were made: a song in 7/4 built on ringing tills, a suite that never stops between tracks, an inflatable pig that broke loose over London.
A Pink Floyd quiz has clear levels: the singles most players catch by their sound, the harder game of naming a track with no chorus, and the Barrett-era and album deep cuts that separate the superfans.
Most players catch these fast: 'Money' by its cash-register loop, 'Time' by its clocks, 'Another Brick in the Wall' by its choir, 'Wish You Were Here' by its acoustic intro and 'Comfortably Numb' by its solo. These are the free points in a Pink Floyd quiz, most of them known by their sound before their title.
This is the angle that sets a Pink Floyd quiz apart. Long instrumentals and effects carry the song: the heartbeat under 'Speak to Me', the footsteps and screams scattered through Dark Side, the slow build of 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'. With no clear chorus, the miss is placing a track from its texture alone.
Past the singles, the field thins on the album pieces and on who sings: Roger Waters' bite on 'Dogs' and 'Sheep' from Animals, David Gilmour's tone on 'Echoes', and the sprawl of 'Atom Heart Mother'. Place these from a short clip and you have reached the top tier of a Pink Floyd round.
The trickiest questions reach back to Syd Barrett: 'See Emily Play', 'Arnold Layne' and the debut 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'. 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' was later written for Barrett himself. A thorough Pink Floyd quiz keeps one wildcard from these early years.
Play the free Pink Floyd quiz to find out. Guess each song from a short clip, often from a sound effect or a solo rather than a chorus, and answer questions across Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and The Wall. Score eight out of ten and you know the band well.
The signatures lead: 'Money', 'Time', 'Wish You Were Here', 'Comfortably Numb' and 'Another Brick in the Wall', with deeper cuts from Animals and the Syd Barrett era in the harder rounds.
Many tracks are long, instrumental or run straight into each other, so there is no chorus to grab. The catch is naming a song from its sound: the cash registers on 'Money', the clocks on 'Time', the heartbeat across Dark Side.
Only if you know the album pieces, not just the singles. Placing 'Echoes' or 'Dogs' from a short clip, and telling Roger Waters from David Gilmour, is what turns a good score into a perfect one.
Pink Floyd formed in London in 1965 around Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, with David Gilmour joining in 1967 as Barrett's health declined.
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