Ten Pink Floyd Songs That You Didn't Know You Liked

In keeping with my recent jones for lists, here are ten dark horse candidates for Best Floyd Song.

• The Nile Song - this is earlier Floyd at its most nonsensical and sublime. I have no idea what this song is about but the chord structure is so simple that it almost sucks. It also features one of the best sloppy pentatonic blues solos ever. It was written for the soundtrack to a movie called More that apparently otherwise blew.
  
• The Narrow Way (Pt. 3) - a very eerie and dark tune from an extremely eerie and dark album. Ummagumma was an album that was basically an LSD symphony separated into movements composed by individual members of the band. This is a part of a movement penned by guitarist David Gilmour, whose actual songs stand out against the rest of the band's experimental sonic wankfest.
• One of These Days - another violently creepy Floyd song. Only Pink Floyd could have a song whose only lyric is "one of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces". And 2:49 into the song there is a really weird guitar effect that can only be described as psychedelic robots karate chopping your soul. Or something.
• Atom Heart Mother - the symphonic marathon from the album of the same name. It is actually a pretty formidable piece of what is oxymoronically called modern classical music. It is also the centerpiece of the first actually good Floyd album. I can't help but think that George Lucas had this song in mind when he came up with that ridiculous Ewok song at the end of Return of the Jedi.
• Summer '68 - another one from Atom Heart Mother, and one of the first Floyd songs to express some deep emotions lyrically. This gets tossed around on my short list. My only gripe with it is the little sendoff at the end...what a bunch of weirdos.
• Nobody Home - my favorite Pink Floyd song. There are few songs that are perfect for just sitting in your room and thinking about things that are actually about sitting in your room and thinking about things. This is one of them. There is something about The Wall that makes me accept its content as human mythology. Not only does it represent another classic Pink Floyd "cycle" album, but it represents the classic Icarus analogy. If Icarus owned a TV and wrote a musical about his life, he would have written Nobody Home about a week after crashing to earth.
• Mother - another song from The Wall. This one features a topic with which any Irish guy can identify and my favorite understated Floyd guitar solo.
• One of My Turns - interestingly, this song that everyone skips when they listen to The Wall was their only single to reach #1 on American charts. Well, not really. It was the b-side to Another Brick In the Wall (Pt. 2), which was. Pretty close though, right? This is the best song not by a punk band about smashing everything that one possibly can as a means of attempting to impress a girl. Fuck it, it's the best song about smashing not by the Smashing Pumpkins.
• Is There Anybody Out There? - the last song on the list from The Wall, I promise. This song goes from being a really weird and typically creepy song to being a really beautiful guitar ballad in seconds flat. Vaguely reminiscent of the James Bond theme at times, it also captures the theme of the album while remaining completely different from the rest of its songs.
• In the Flesh - so I lied about the whole "last song on the list from The Wall" thing. Who cares, it's my fuckin list. Besides, I didn't want to touch Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, or Wish You Were Here. Those just don't work unless presented as a whole. Anyway, this song rules. The End.

Wow, we sure had a lot of fun today, didn't we boys and girls? Stay tuned for my next post, in which I will discuss the various benefits and drawbacks of using different household spreads and condiments to get your dog to lick your balls.