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Poll Question: Dark Sode of the Moon or Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
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I love The Beatles as much as the next excruciatingly-influential-masterpiece-proto-prog-fan, but Dark Side is a much more complete whole.  There are several tracks on SP that make me cringe (primarily the McCartney contributions - whoda thunkit??); When I'm 64 drags the album down a notch all by its lonesome.  Now, a poll comparing Dark Side and Abbey Road...that would be a harder call...
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Sgt. Pepper has an excellent production, and for its time it was groundbreaking, but Dark Side is better: the production is also very good, there's a more unifying concept that on Pepper, which is amazing in itself, and the standard of compositions is higher.
 
So it is Dark Side Of The Moon for me.


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Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

Wow, Pink Floyd is just crushing, I guess that's what you expect when you put this poll on a prog website Tongue


I so thought that Sgt. Pepper would take it, if only for the Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees movie soundtrack. ;)  Some might rake me over the coals for this, but I don't think of Dark Side of the Moon as that Prog.  I consider earlier albums to be more in the progressive rock vein such as Atom Heart Mother (which happens to be my favourite Floyd studio album, particularly for the suite).
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Dark Side.  While not as influential as Sgt. Pepper's overall, it has aged better.
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Wow, Pink Floyd is just crushing, I guess that's what you expect when you put this poll on a prog website Tongue
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Originally posted by ten years after ten years after wrote:

 
The last four Pepper tracks listed could have been held over for the White Album and replaced on Pepper with Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields and It's All Too Much. It would then have provided a serious challenge to DSOTM.
Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever were the first 2 tracks recorded for Sgt Pepper but were taken off when the record label asked for a single!
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Sgt. Pepper for me. Both are great albums, but for me I'll always feel that the Beatles laid the ground work for much of the music that followed and Sgt. Pepper was one of their, if not, their most influential album.

I like DSOTM quite a bit, but IMHO, it's not even their best album or that progressive.
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My preference in order for the tracks on the two albums is as follows:
 
Day in the Life
Us and Them
Speak to Me/Breathe/On the Run/Time
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Brain Damage
Eclipse
Within You Without You
Great Gig in the Sky
Sgt Pepper
Money
Getting Better
For the Benefit of Mr Kite
Fixing a Hole
With a Little Help from My Friends
Any Colour You Like
She's Leaving Home
Good Morning Good Morning
Lovely Rita
When Im 64
 
The first 4 tracks on DSOTM have to be considered as a single track IMO.
 
She's Leaving was a nice song but totally out of place on Sgt Pepper.
Good Morning was just a filler
Lovely Rita and When I'm Sixty Four are not at all good.
 
The last four Pepper tracks listed could have been held over for the White Album and replaced on Pepper with Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields and It's All Too Much. It would then have provided a serious challenge to DSOTM.
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DSOTM. 
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Wow, that was easy.  DSOTM by several parsecs.
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Dark Side, but good idea for a poll.
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Two excellent albums, but I have to vote for Dark Side of the Moon.
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Originally posted by Ruby900 Ruby900 wrote:

Dark side for me, I find Pepper a little twee......I much prefer Abbey Road.
Same here. If it was Abbey Road I could have had a doubt.
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Dark side for me, I find Pepper a little twee......I much prefer Abbey Road.
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Dark Side for sure. A better concept album and better production.
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Dark Side....that album has had a much bigger impact on my life than Sgt. Peppers. There aren't many songs that can beat Time, in my opinion.

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Pepper all the way.
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