# The Best Pink Floyd Guitar Solos > The 18 best Pink Floyd guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Comfortably Numb (1979), then Time and Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Every video starts at the solo. Canonical URL: David Gilmour's playing with Pink Floyd showed that bent notes, space and tone could hit harder than speed, and his solos are some of the most loved in rock. From the soaring end of Comfortably Numb to the long searching lines of Echoes, the band made the guitar solo into something like an emotional climax. Informed by: [Guitar.com](https://guitar.com/guides/essential-guide/pink-floyds-greatest-guitar-moments-ranked/), [Dig!](https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/best-david-gilmour-guitar-solos/), [Far Out](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-gilmour-pink-floyd-10-best-guitar-solos/), [Wikipedia - Comfortably Numb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfortably_Numb) 1. [Comfortably Numb](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-comfortably-numb/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1979 2. [Time](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-time/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1973 3. [Shine On You Crazy Diamond](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-shine-on-you-crazy-diamond/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1975 4. [Money](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-money/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1973 5. [Echoes](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-echoes/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1971 6. [Dogs](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-dogs/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1977 7. [Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-another-brick-in-the-wall-part-2/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1979 8. [Pigs (Three Different Ones)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-pigs-three-different-ones/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1977 9. [Marooned](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-marooned/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1994 10. [Mother](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-mother/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1979 11. [Sorrow](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-sorrow/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1987 12. [High Hopes](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-high-hopes/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1994 13. [Have a Cigar](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-have-a-cigar/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1975 14. [Coming Back to Life](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-coming-back-to-life/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1994 15. [Young Lust](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-young-lust/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1979 16. [Wish You Were Here](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-wish-you-were-here/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1975 17. [Fat Old Sun](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-fat-old-sun/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1970 18. [On the Turning Away](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pink-floyd-on-the-turning-away/) — Pink Floyd · solo by David Gilmour · 1987 --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)