>50 years old todayNow that the dust has settled, is it really their greatest album (as according to rateyourmusic.com)?
>>127718279Yup.
>>127718279Yes. Along with Piper and AHM.
>>127718279I preferr The Wall...
>>127718279I actually think this album would be lacklustre out of context; meaning their whole catalogue in the 60s leading to pinnacle breakthrough in 1973 with DSotM provided this whole foundation and known entity that allowed WYWH to stand on the shoulders of a decade of hard work, and be appreciated as the unique and mature piece it is. I think if an unknown band had released this as their freshman effort it would have been beloved but nobody would ever put it above DSotM or even Animals.But, since it is the band's 9th album (not counting soundtrack albums) and it settles into their catalogue of work in its own place, I can see it being their best-of-all-worlds album. Not my personal favourite but I wouldn't argue against it.Also do we consider their core catalogue to end at The Wall or at The Final Cut? For me it's The Final Cut which is my personal all-time most magical PF album which is weird but whatever
>>127718279nope, it will always be piper, second is Ummagumma
>>127718279I prefer Animals
>>127718279Their undisputed masterpiece is The Wall. This one is great though, although I'd take Dark Side over it myself
>>127718485>>127718625I'm so glad to see Wallƒags here for once. Somehow people always seem to be contrarian about The Wall and dismiss it as an insignificant Roger Waters fit, but it wasn't. It was the best musical combination of all of them and an insance stage show (and eventual film) that entirely just blew the rest of their already impressive productions away. It's a fucking masterpiece, and yes it's gritty and yearning and surreal, but god damn does it have potent passion and venom in it. It's an absolute one of a kind work, and somehow manages to be their most challenging and inaccessible work but also their most accessible. Brilliant shit.
>>127718485>>127718625>>127718645Nothing can top The Wall.
>>127718645people here don't like the wall because it perfectly describes the average 4channer (growing increasingly angrier and more delusional after long periods of loneliness caused by a troubled childhood). they feel called out and ashamed.
>>127718771Well then they aren't really listening. Many such cases :'[
>>127718279Yes.WYWH > TDSOTM > Animals > Meddle > The Wall
>>127719216...and then TFC, no?
>>127718279Animals is better, but I prefer Meddle. Nothing ever topped the first time I heard Echoes.
>>127719342Meddle is fucking tops. and Meddle would not exist without Saucerful of Secrets and Animals wouldn't exist without Meddle. what a wonderful timeline
>>127718279>their greatest albumeve heard of DSOTM bro ?
>>127719360I love Meddle so much, but I'm willing to admit that Seamus kind of throws it off from being a perfect album. Animals is the better album, but unlike Meddle, I'm not always in the mood for it. Saucerful of Secrets is almost as good, but it just lacks something that Meddle has.Honestly, if I was going to rank Floyd albums, DSOTM, WYWH, The Wall, AHM, Piper and even AMLOR (Learning to Fly got me into Floyd when I was 7, so I have a soft spot for it) would all be in different places depending on how I felt on the day, but the top three will always be Meddle > Animals > Saucerful
>>127718500>(not counting soundtrack albums)BASED.soundtrack albums shouldn't be counted as part of a discography
>>127718279Animals mogs it.
>>127718485based
>>127718771Based!
>>127719854Not really. Pigs is one of their weakest long songs so that brings down the album a ton already. I like Sheep, but really Dogs carries the entire thing hard.
>>127720175hahah charade you are!
>>127718279I still prefer DSOTM. WYWH is pretty sedate and meandering compared to Dark Side. Shine On tries too hard to force these big emotional moments, and Have a Cigar is just a weak retread of Money musically and pretty trite lyrically. The live versions from the 1975 tour are genuinely way better than how they came out in the studio.
>>127720175Dogs is the worst song on the album
>>127718279This is my favorite album of all time
>>127721844are you shrooming?
>>127718279Nope, this is
>>127718279It's Dark Side. Sorry it's one of the best selling albums if it wasn't y'all wouldn't discount it as much. >>127718645Ya the Wall is very very good. I didn't get it till I got older but now I really appreciate the music and lyrics. >>127720726Welcome to the Machine is the worst track on there.
>druggie boomer seethe: the bandit's all shit
