10 Most Underrated Pink Floyd Songs

Many fans consider 1971’s Meddle to be the start of the band’s greatest period. After all, it saw them evolve in every way – songwriting, arrangements, production – and it foreshadowed the rest of their groundbreaking 1970s trajectory. The warmly frisky ode Fearless (which is sequenced in-between bizarre opener One of These Days and the captivatingly Dark Side-esque closing epic, Echoes) is a great indication of that.

The central motif – hooky acoustic guitar strums and steadfast drumming – is quite purposeful and alluring, especially because it’s juxtaposed by subtler movements around Gilmour’s pensively poetic verses. Of course, Wright’s delicate piano playing is a nice touch as well.

If that’s all there were to Fearless, it’d still be an essential underdog in their discography. Luckily, the quintet go a step further by bookending it with a field recording of Liverpool Football Club spectators chanting an unintelligible version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s You’ll Never Walk Alone (from 1954’s Carousel). How it relates to the song itself is anybody’s guess, but it’s a novel instance of Pink Floyd’s increasingly emblematic technique.