DSOTM is too perfect. I know that is a weak sypnosis but the album feels less organic than a lot of their othere releases. Don't get me wrong, The Great Gig In The Sky and Us And Them are amazing tracks but it feels more like a product than an album. A lot of hardcore Floyd fans are not that big on DSOTM to be honest.

While on the subject of Pink Floyd i'd like to put forward The Wall.

Personally I think it's Pink Floyd making their safest most boring trad rock album and not a patch on their earlier stuff. Listening to it just bores me to tears.
I hate Atom Heart Mother and think thats a boring album , but at least thats boring out of experimentation that misses the mark , so I can forgive them for that for at least trying.
The Wall is boring because to me it offers nothing original that Pink Floyd have not done before. It just sounds like some bloated rock dinosaurs going through the motions.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAud...440/445408.jpg ?

i mean, i guess i could see why someone would like it,
but can you really sit down and listen to this album from start to end
and not get violently frustrated?

Come on guys! The SLY album came at number 32 on our top 1970-1974 100 list, way above such legends as Joni Mitchell's Blue, T.Rex's Electric Warrior and popular albums like Meddle. There must be some lovers here. Gimme your feedback!

We might have to change that if no one explains why they like it.

It'd be cool if you could go through the tracks briefly or something. Also, when you say "influential", how do you mean? What do you see it as having influenced in particular? I always felt it was more of a one off record than one that spawned many others in the same vein.

Eh, actually I think that has helped me think of it in a new light. I'll bear that all in mind the next time I listen to it.

I love Meddle, but our reasoning behind Meddle not being that high is that DSOTM is already quite high, and that Floyd fans are quite divided when it comes to their best work. There are fans of early psychedelic Floyd, fans of prog Floyd and nowadays, fans of DSOTM and the Wall.

I've never managed to get into the wall as a whole..

I've never liked Van Morrison's Moondance. I love Astral Weeks, and Into The Music has its moments, but Moondance seems to be the "big" album among fans and critics, but it's always left me flat. Apart from Into The Mystic, I don't really get the fuss.

Any takers?