[TheBigB]

"Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd stayed on the album sales chart longer than any other in history.

[steppenwolffe]

Funny you should mention that. I had "Dark Side" on eight track tape. Listened to it incessantly back and forth from school on weekends. It was my only companion on the dark highway home. (Metaphors abound.)

[newgeezer]

Anybody knows DSOTM was the best album, ever. Why, I just recently played it again during the total lunar eclipse, the weekend before last.

In comparison, the Beatles wrote nothing but commercial jingles.

[My Favorite Headache]

[Lancey Howard]

Yes. If Dark Side is not in the top twenty, something's not right. Personally, I would have to find a spot in the top ten for it.

[zeugma]

"Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd stayed on the album sales chart longer than any other in history.

Thanks. Your comment about DSOTM bears repeating. I still think it's one of the best ever made. I can't say that it's the best, but if any single album crosses across more varied musical tastes, I haven't heard of it.

[zeugma]

The Floyd fans out there might be interested in something I picked up a few months ago. It's called "Us And Them - Symphonic Pink Floyd". It's performed by the London Philharmonic and is pretty excellent stuff. You haven't heard "The Great Gig In The Sky" until you've heard it with a violin as the 'vocalist'.

Judging from the other comments on this thread, we have quite a diversity of opinions about what makes great rock and roll, if not what makes great music in general. Personally, I like a bit of just about everything but disco and its variants. When I set my mp3's playing randomly, I can hear Count Basie, The Rolling Stones, Anonymous 4, Pink Floyd, Beethoven, Ella Fitzgerald, The Cars, and the The Sons of the Pioneers in succession. Having ripped every disk I have (vinyl and CD), I just love having all this stuff right here in one place where I can just have my player run for days on end without repeating a turn. Isn't technology wonderful?