There are just so many Pink Floyd songs with deeply intellectual bent. More than just about any Prog artist, the Floyd are always ones to make you think a bit. Here are 5 of the best examples.
"Echoes" (Meddle)
Seeing as its parent album was a dress rehearsal for the greatness ahead, its fitting that its side long crowning achievement is also. Echoes has many themes about isolation, degradation of society by time, and just going through life without really living it. A perfect piece to all of the existentialism to follow suit.
"Time" (Dark Side of the Moon)
The message is pretty strait forward, and has been done over and over again in all forms of the arts, but it's a true as ever. Make the most of your time so you don't end up looking back and regretting things.
"Brain Damage" (Dark Side of the Moon)
This song is narrated by a lunatic, going through how he's not himself and not everything adds up within his head. If we think hard enough, however, we realize there's a bit of a madman in every one of us, and they really aren't that mad after all. Great little piratical joke by Waters here.
The Animals Album
I've already outlined a lot of the philosophy going on here in my review of the album, but there's just so much depth here. It's defiantly the most cynical and abrasive Floyd album, jamming us all into negative stereotypes and picking them apart.
"The Trial" (The Wall)
The culmination of the middle of the road rock opera this album is defiantly drives home some points. More or less, they're all variations of "Be an individual, but don't shun the rest of society."
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