(Real) Greatest 8th album in rock music history pole?

YellowSnow

Increasingly this becomes a Beatles vs Stones show as we get into the later innings. But wait - why the fuck did it take Pink Floyd so bloody long to get their good songs in there? And AOC gets her big shot.

YellowSnow

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

Pepper, for better or worse, is probably the most influential rock record of all time. It's cliche to say so but it's the truth. I think there are better Beatles records though. I respeck Dark Side a lot, especially on good stereo equipment. But I'm just not a space rock guy in my soul.

Now, Let it Bleed is a record I've probably listened to more than the rest of these combined. You've got the big Hot Rocks tracks like Gimme Shelter, but the deep tracks are where it's at on Let it Bleed. Monkey Man is a coked out as the Stones got- e.g., see helicopter scene in Goodfellas.

LebamDawg

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Had to go with Floyd over Sgt Pepper and Full Moon Fever is pretty damn good too

RaceBannon

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Can't wait until we get to 11 and the Wall

I love Comfortably Numb - both the song and the feeeling

YellowSnow

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

RaceBannon said:

Can't wait until we get to 11 and the Wall

I love Comfortably Numb - both the song and the feeeling

Floyd and Fleetwood Mac figure prominently in extra innings. But the Beatles and Stones have plenty of fight left in them.

YellowSnow

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

The Kinks were were always stuck in 4th place of the original British Invasion groups, but don't sleep on their late 60s and early 70s albums. Lola was a lot more than just the title track and hit single.

Gwad

Write-in Option

Too many goodies.

YellowSnow

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

Gwad said:

Too many goodies.

Truth. The field is surprisingly strong this far in. Seems like with most of the post post 60s and 70's artists, they start to run out of good material by the 4th or 5th album in.

Gladstone

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper

Shame.

YellowSnow

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

Gladstone said:

Shame.

If you expect #1 on Rolling Stone Mag's list of the top 500 albums of all time to poll well on a college football message bored you, Sir, are mistaken.

chuck

Neil Young - Zuma

Tough one yella. I threw my vote away on a third party candidate. Zuma has a special place for me. I went through some tumultuous times in my 20s, with chicks and work/finances but mainly chicks. Zuma always spoke to me in my foggy, heavy drinking, frequently depressed state in a way no other album ever has.

But Dark Side should win this.

RaceBannon

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

chuck said:

Tough one yella. I threw my vote away on a third party candidate. Zuma has a special place for me. I went through some tumultuous times in my 20s, with chicks and work/finances but mainly chicks. Zuma always spoke to me in my foggy, heavy drinking, frequently depressed state in a way no other album ever has.

But Dark Side should win this.

I'd play stupid girl loud when fighting

YellowSnow

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

chuck said:

Tough one yella. I threw my vote away on a third party candidate. Zuma has a special place for me. I went through some tumultuous times in my 20s, with chicks and work/finances but mainly chicks. Zuma always spoke to me in my foggy, heavy drinking, frequently depressed state in a way no other album ever has.

But Dark Side should win this.

You really should due more fly fishing with the kind of tastes you have. Not a gear chucker musically at all.

chuck

Neil Young - Zuma

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

Tough one yella. I threw my vote away on a third party candidate. Zuma has a special place for me. I went through some tumultuous times in my 20s, with chicks and work/finances but mainly chicks. Zuma always spoke to me in my foggy, heavy drinking, frequently depressed state in a way no other album ever has.

But Dark Side should win this.

You really should due more fly fishing with the kind of tastes you have. Not a gear chucker musically at all.

Hard to unbecome a gear chucker. When I do fly fish it's with a big, weighted, rubber legged stonefly, a dropper to a single egg, split shot pinched on the leader, and a big ass corkie as an indicator. Basically jig and bobber fishing. I'll even put shrimp oil on them where allowed.

I look down my nose at myself while doing it.

dflea

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

chuck said:

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

Tough one yella. I threw my vote away on a third party candidate. Zuma has a special place for me. I went through some tumultuous times in my 20s, with chicks and work/finances but mainly chicks. Zuma always spoke to me in my foggy, heavy drinking, frequently depressed state in a way no other album ever has.

But Dark Side should win this.

You really should due more fly fishing with the kind of tastes you have. Not a gear chucker musically at all.

Hard to unbecome a gear chucker. When I do fly fish it's with a big, weighted, rubber legged stonefly, a dropper to a single egg, split shot pinched on the leader, and a big ass corkie as an indicator. Basically jig and bobber fishing. I'll even put shrimp oil on them where allowed.

I look down my nose at myself while doing it.

Truth.

YellowSnow

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

chuck said:

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

Tough one yella. I threw my vote away on a third party candidate. Zuma has a special place for me. I went through some tumultuous times in my 20s, with chicks and work/finances but mainly chicks. Zuma always spoke to me in my foggy, heavy drinking, frequently depressed state in a way no other album ever has.

But Dark Side should win this.

You really should due more fly fishing with the kind of tastes you have. Not a gear chucker musically at all.

Hard to unbecome a gear chucker. When I do fly fish it's with a big, weighted, rubber legged stonefly, a dropper to a single egg, split shot pinched on the leader, and a big ass corkie as an indicator. Basically jig and bobber fishing. I'll even put shrimp oil on them where allowed.

I look down my nose at myself while doing it.

I all chuck gear all the time with a fly rod. Axe @dflea . I was fishing a plastic bead egg with split shot and big ass bobber strike indicator. I could have borrowed his plastic worm and got to the glory hole first, it would have been me that caught the fish.

Mad_Son

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Sucks for Sgt Pepper because it was an incredible album.

Kinks also had some bad luck with this draw.

YellowSnow

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

Mad_Son said:

Sucks for Sgt Pepper because it was an incredible album.

Kinks also had some bad luck with this draw.

I’d vote Pepper over Dark Side.

Mad_Son

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

YellowSnow said:

Mad_Son said:

Sucks for Sgt Pepper because it was an incredible album.

Kinks also had some bad luck with this draw.

I’d vote Pepper over Dark Side.

Dark Side is one of my top 10 albums all time, but to each his own.

theknowledge

Write-in Option

The Cure, Disintegration. Dark Side, Pepper and LIB are all so fucking good but the Cure is my favorite band and Disintegration is my favorite album by them. I gotta stay true to myself. A fag.

theknowledge

Write-in Option

I love REM but I feel they lost something special when they switched from IRS to WB. Fables of the Reconstruction, Life's Rich Pageant, Reckoning and Murmur are all lights out albums released by IRS. Even their B-side album Dead Letter Office is good. From the moment they released Green in '88 or '89 they went from being a southern rock, college band to a slicked up, ultra produced version of what they were. Moments of brilliance but no consistency and none of that essential southernness that initially made them special. JMO.