1973
Dark Side Of The Moon
4.57
(695 ratings)

Despite its extremely high rating and high number of ratings, I've come across quite a few proggers who consider it a wildly overrated album (especially as a "masterpiece of prog").  It even has a higher rating than Animals (course I know DSotM is a much more popular and better known album over all).  Fine album though it is, I rank it lower than a number of other Pink Floyd releases on the old prog-o-sential-metre (though a good album for many to start with Floyd).


Edited by Logan - May 23 2008 at 15:48

but everyone hates dark side...I always feel like im ON AN ISLAND half of the time!

hahaha!

NurseryCryme89 wrote: Pink Floyd- The Dark Side of the Moon

Toaster Mantis wrote: Nightfly wrote: Toaster Mantis wrote: Maybe Crest of a Knave takes some flak because it beat out Metallica for the Best Metal Performance Grammy?   I really like Crest of a Knave.......more now than when it was released actually. Unfortunately it's the last Tull album I trully enjoyed as whole though each one since has had it's moments.   Funny, now that I remember Crest... I don't think I liked it that much. IIRC it lacked the earthiness that's pretty much integral to Tull's appeal.

BroSpence wrote: Jethro Tull - APP, This Was

^^^ As a non-prog album I like Rush's debut A LOT. Got me through being in the hospital for a few weeks back
in the day when I was rrly sick. It's a great hard rock album which i simply love but wouldn't recommend to many
of our fellow proggers.

Benefit hasn't caught on with me yet (but I'd hardly say it's not appreciated) and I've *gasp* never really cared
for Trespass... *Hides before people come to get me*

Astrodomine wrote: King Crimson - Beat

I LOVE Beat..... polyrhythms, textures, minimalism, moments of madness, I love it all.

I have long considered Power Windows to be Rush's most underrated album.  Only one sub-par track ("Emotion Detector"), and the first 5 tracks are some of the finest songs they've ever done.  And Caress Of Steel is better than it sounds.....

TGM: Orb wrote: cacho wrote: .. Sorry to sound against most of you above. But has anyone heard A Passion Play?. The main reason that I found War Child indegistible and boring is cause the lack of songwriting. It has taken parts of Passion Play added with some annoying orchestral arrangements..Of course guys, this is IMHO! Please if you wanna discuss, let's do it civilised, I didn't mean to provoce fight.. War Child has some great stuff, in my opinion. Only Solitaire and Back Door Angels especially. I've never really seen that big a relation between the two (that said, I tend to listen to Tull very separately, so I wouldn't really know). That said, I do love A Passion Play, though bits of it are indigestible.

Well I didn't mean that Warchild was indegistible, but really I find some really lack of song writing. Having no new material going on until Minstrel and then in Songs from the Woods.

..I have strange tendencies of relating albums of other bands to be like the same(not talking about the relation of APP and WC) or somewhat like the same. So I found Gates of Delirium as A Passion Play, having incredible parts that their previous masterpices (TAAB, CTTE) didn't have, but overall their first masterpieces are generally more innvoating and consisten, etc.. But that's another topic..

Passion Play is well loved by fans (but not all). I love that one, and many others do I think too. The PA rating
for it right now is, like 4.02 isn't it?

(Although the guess the NON-prog majority hates it)

[Edit] - sh*t I'm still blind - totally misread your post.

YES! After APP Warchild seems like a bit of a letdown, but I don't see where the ideas are totally recycled as
some people say they are.


Edited by King By-Tor - May 21 2008 at 21:11