DISCUSS i believe it's the best album ever made.......i'm sure there some classic rock fans here....

Mmmh... Maybe not the best one to me, though there are some gems in it (I discovered the weird 7/4 time signature with "Money", I love "Breathe" and Us vs. Them"...)

Personally, just comparing to the whole Pink Floyd Catalog I think "Wish You Were Here" and "Meddle" are better. Just my opinion...

Actually.. It is my favourite album to get stoned to... Real trippy music ("breeeaaathe!!") ... But that's worth a whole thread

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Yeah..."the best" might be overstating it, but it's a great spin. Such a carefully made album, too. I always thought that really showed (sheer "craftsmanship" of every song).

While it might be an excellent album and listening to it, might be a religious experience, I don't think it is the BEST album, ever made...

It is not the best ever made, but certainly a landmark album and an all-time classic.

I would love to know how many tons of weed have been consumed during the playing of this album.

NoVideo said:

It is not the best ever made, but certainly a landmark album and an all-time classic.

I would love to know how many tons of weed have been consumed during the playing of this album.

Uh? no, not really

but it's certainly the best album of its genre, the whole 70-75 mildly progressive/adult contemporary/"serious" rock genre...

and much better than any boooooooooring and overrated Genesis album...

blackbob said:

Not the best ever for me....sott is the all time best for me....dark side would be in top 20 for me ....great great album

and why do u think that?

JamFanHot said:

Yeah..."the best" might be overstating it, but it's a great spin. Such a carefully made album, too. I always thought that really showed (sheer "craftsmanship" of every song).

Co-sign

Nice project. Best ever? NOT even close.

Anybody watched The Wizard of Oz with this album as the soundtrack ? I did and it's a trip, the music seems to match with what's going on during the movie. You're supposed to start the album after the MGM Lion's second roar.

I don't think I could give any single album a "best ever" tag. And while I love DSOTM, it's not even my favorite Floyd album. I listen to The Wall FAR more often than DSOTM. Probably listened to Ummagumma more, too. I also love Wish You Were Here, Meddle and Animals. So, yeah, great album, but I think we're getting to the point where it's legend is overtaking it's reality.

no, but I watched a so-so band play Time the other night, and realized that it was a really great song

"Meddle" is a better pink floyd album. My friends dad was a heavy stoner, and i have hazey memories of this vinyl being spun in a room of constant green smoke, wonderful album.

It's a great example of an album that has a great flow and feels like it was made to fit together but you can still take individual songs and they work as well out of the context of the album. Thats no small achievement.

FrenchGuy said:

just comparing to the whole Pink Floyd Catalog I think "Wish You Were Here" and "Meddle" are better.

Agree with this. Pink Floyd definitely made great use of space, tone and timbre, I just find them a bit boring, all the pawing over DSOTM is lost on me.

elmer said:

FrenchGuy said:

just comparing to the whole Pink Floyd Catalog I think "Wish You Were Here" and "Meddle" are better.

Agree with this. Pink Floyd definitely made great use of space, tone and timbre, I just find them a bit boring, all the pawing over DSOTM is lost on me.

I think for me its a matter of appreciating longer tracks that may not seem to have the same direct approach to 'getting somewhere' in the song. Or I suppose not wasting any time. Whereas with this type of music the texture and feel, or not being afraid to spend time in a particular part of a song can be as important as moving the song forward. But then I listen to a fair amount of classical music where you don't really expect things to be so direct. If that makes any sense?? That's about the only thing I can think to compare it too anyway but I get why people don't like that sort of thing.

I can't quite forgive this album for the track On the Run

alexothetimes said:

I have to agree with Cpest1, there's more to Dark Side than simple songcraft. It is a coherent suite of music that hangs together as a whole much like a classical symphony would.

I happen to think that the best Prince ablum ever is Lovesexy specifically for the same reason.

One thing that Dark Side has that is almost entirely unmatched, even to this day, is the sheer sonic lustre of the production.

The word "soundscape" fully applies to all Pink Floyd music but Dark Side certainly was the pinnacle of that medium when it came out (soon after Sgt. Pepper which it seemed to form a kind of light and dark bookends relationship with) and for many years afterward as it stayed on the the charts.

The only album I've ever found that equals it in sonic lustre is Seen One Earth by Pete Bardens (keyboardist from the band, Camel). Here are two cuts from that great album:

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Wish You Were Here kills Dark Side of the Moon

Wish You Were Here is great, but is feel s slight on songs. And with Welcome to the Machine, it has a filler track where there should be no filler.

Otherwise I do love it

The great gig in the sky is da shit!

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Not for me. ...best album ever made???

Street Songs.

Its a great record, not the best, but to some its one of the best, BUT what people fail to even talk about is that its a great record because of the sound engineering, and mixing not so much the material., and a major part of that engineering was done by ALAN PARSONS, yes the "eye in the sky" alan parsons, he was one of the engineers on this record, and one of the best engineers of all time

It is ONE of the best and it was amazing to see Roger Waters perform it in its entirety twice in 2006. I saw him do it outdoors once and indoors the second time, the sound was incredible.

lastdecember said:

Its a great record, not the best, but to some its one of the best, BUT what people fail to even talk about is that its a great record because of the sound engineering, and mixing not so much the material., and a major part of that engineering was done by ALAN PARSONS, yes the "eye in the sky" alan parsons, he was one of the engineers on this record, and one of the best engineers of all time

Plus the electronics Roger Waters was using at the time and the strange recording techniques they'd been trying and perfecting for the last few albums. Totally agree. DSOTM was really the culmination of all that, too. The Wall and Final Cut are much more straight forward in those areas (other than Waters use of different voices and vocal overdubs). There's a ton of documentary footage out there covering Pink Floyd recording various albums and ALL of it is entertaining and enlightening if you're a Floyd fan or a tech nerd.

I think it would be impossible to name the best ever album.....but I think you can make arguments for certain albums and Dark Side would be one of ten or so you could argue for.

I'm a huge Floyd fan and to me Dark Side is their most consistently brilliant album, from front to back. That's what a greatest album has to be for me, an album with no poor tracks.

For me the albums that are perfect throughout are "Born to Run", Dark Side of the Moon", "Thriller", "Purple Rain" and "Appetite for Destruction". I'd love to add a Madonna album to that list (Like A Prayer, True Blue and Confessions come closest) but bless her she always just misses out with one or two dodgy numbers on her best albums.

The cover art is pretty dope