Pink Floyd “A Foot in the Door” The Best of Pink Floyd

       Commercially speaking this couldn’t be called their greatest hits since Pink Floyd have always seemed to shy away from that black hole in the sky. The best of suits them, engaging in the perpetual seam of their musical endeavors, casting with care, a most complete compilation of Floydian history touching on songs that have entered the relevant realm we’ve come to know through the years.

       A dose of the unforgettable “Dark Side of the Moon” gems are a must, as well as the “Wish you were here” series. The mortar and rock that held together that uncompromising album “The Wall” has reserved its place here in stone with bricks of its own. The only cut without David Gilmour reverts back to those lessons of lunacy in the days of Syd Barret whose “See Emily Play”  sounds more like a kindergarten class gone awry. Quite a far cry to the unsuspected mega hit “Another Brick in the Wall” placing strangers in a strange land of commercial play from a band that seems to have done its best to flee profusely from that terrain of terror. Kids who had no concept whatsoever of who or what a “Pink Floyd” was were singing “all in all you’re just another brick in the wall”. The “Division Bell” sounds its alarm by chiming in with “High Hopes” as does the echoing “Learning to Fly” from “A Momentary Lapse of Reason”.  I’m a little surprised that “The Fletcher Memorial Home” had been chosen to represent “The Final Cut”, the unofficial second part of “The Wall” which initially caused the tear in the fabric of the Pink Floyd universe with Roger Waters, since it had been “Not Now John” that grasped some minor air play upon the release of the album. Which refers back to the Pink Floydian theory of releasing its best, and not getting “A Foot in the Door”.