One of the GREATEST albums... EVER

I agree that Dark Side of The Moon is one fabulous piece of music. I am 41 and I have been listening to it since I was a teenager.

Some other candidates for the title of greatest ever:

1.The Beatles-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. Frank Zappa-You Can't Do that on Stage Anymore Volume 1
3. The Rolling Stones-Let it Bleed
4. The Who-Who's Next
5. Beck-Odelay
6. David Bowie-Scary Monsters (Fripp's guitar is just incredible on this)

I agree that Exile on Main Street is awesome-I Love it-I just like Let it Bleed a bit more!

I don't know-could be a bunch of things, maybe we are getting old :) Or maybe we just have not heard the really good stuff from the current generation??

For example-have you listened to The White Stripes? Great stuff :)

The white stripes?
Heck yes! they rule.

Jack white is a god on his gee-tar :)

I have all 4 of their albums. My favourite has to be "White Blood Cells". Shame they have really broken into the mainstream yet, they'd be well accepted. Indy-Rock isnt everyone's favourite genre.

Nitro: The new Jane's Adiction is awesome. I picked it up 2 days ago, and just ripped it. Really good stuff. Though the lyrics could be a bit more tuned, but never the less it rules.

Hi,

My contenders

Radiohead - the bends
Beatles - Revolver
The verve - Urna hymns
My bloody velentine - Loveless
jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced
The smiths - the simiths
REM - Automatic for the people
Coldplay - a rush of blood to the head
Santana - Abraxas

just for the record...

You think songs such as 'Brown Sugar' and 'Sympathy for the Devil' are child friendly?

Second Coming is widely thought of as the inferior album to The Stone Roses but I think I am on the same island as Jack in preferring Second Coming. In this case I gravitate to the more rock influenced album although they are both great.

OK Computer or Kid A from Radiohead

Ah yes, the initial 1-2-3 punch of "Stone Roses" is indeed one of the best openings to an album of all time. "...I don't have to sell my soul...He's already in me..." Classic stuff. Actually, that 1-2-3 punch is pretty much why I prefer the first album to the second, whereas you view it in term of weak tracks, I see it as "Second Coming" have no tracks that match the absolute immortality of the first three of "Stone Roses" Once again, a matter of opinion really. Eitehr that or coz I've listened to "Stone Roses" waaaay more than "Second Coming" coz my cruddy friend lost it. I think I should finally buy a new copy and listen to it more closely...

Keeping with the thread, here are some more gems:

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (IMHO, more so than Blone or Highway. Just me I guess)
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Metallica - ...and Justice For All
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Jeff Buckley - Grace

How about...

Joy Division - Closer
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Strokes - Is This It?
Pixies - Doolittle

radiohead crept onto the list?

my god no.

they're genre of music is not groundbreaking what so ever.

AC/DC - Back in Black was a wise choice :)

NIN - Pretty Hate Machine, pushed Industrial to the main stream.

I'm 30, but I think I have a few nominees:

Thriller--Michael Jackson. One of the few albums that DEFINED the 80's.

Slippery When Wet--Bon Jovi. One of the few rock albums that appealed to everyone.

Purple Rain--Prince. Any album that gets a Senator's wife in a twist has to merit consideration. Also a rarity--soul/rock performed by a Minnesotan.

Straight Outta Compton--NWA. Any album that gets Senators in a twist also must merit consideration.

Granted, all four albums were from the 80's, but that's basically the music I enjoyed in my youth. I have no official capacity as a music critic.

Originally posted by dcx693
Thriller? I agree it helped define the 80's but please, we're all trying to forget Michael Jackson. :)

If you want to talk 80's, how about...
Alphaville - Forever Young
The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
The Smith - The Queen Is Dead
Erasure - Wonderland

For the 70's
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Led Zeppelin - Zepplin IV
Kiss - Destroyer

For the 60's:
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

For the 90's:
Radiohead - OK Computer
Nirvana - Nevermind
Moby - Play
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Green Day - Dookie

Your albums from the 60s, 70s, and 90s (with the possible exception of
OK Computer) were certainly major albums that helped define the era.
But the 80s? Those albums, while all very good, were not at all high profile (at least not in the US).

No, the 80s were defined by stuff like:

Springsteen - Born in the USA
MJ - Thriller
Def Leppard - Pyromania
The Police - Syncronicity
GnR - Appetite for Destruction

Originally posted by dcx693
wolfpacker, my selections were not about defining the eras, it was about what I liked. If you're talking about defining the 80's then I'd agree with your choices and I'd throw in Madonna, Debbie Gibson, and eek- Tiffany!

NO,NO,NO!!! Well, I'll give you Madonna (who probably defined the 90's and now as well) but the other two should NEVER be given a second thought.

One CD that is permanently kept in my car and now on my iPod:

Fumbling Towards Ecstacy - Sarah McLachlan

Hard to beat for great night driving tunes...

I gotta agree with NiTRO on that one. I couldn't stand this album at the
time. I actually liked Bon Jovi when they first debuted, but thought
this album was wimpy and poppy. Horribly overplayed.
I can stand it now, but that is about it.