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CL's Favourite Albums. QF3: Revolver vs The Dark Side of the Moon

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  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    Two classic albums of different genres. I have grown to appreciate The Beatles more in recent years than I ever did in my formative years, however DSOTM was one of those albums that evoke teenage memories and still sounds great to me today.

    So it Dark Side for me by half a length.
  • SX_Addick
    SX_Addick Posts: 667
    DSOTM for me
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    DSOTM
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,782
    DSOTM
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    edited October 2017
    Eleanor Rigby is one of my favourite Beatles songs but Floyd wins for me.

    Dark Side.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    Tough choice. But Revolver it is
  • Nadou
    Nadou Posts: 1,725
    Revolver.
  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,844
    Dark side.
  • Addick in SW16
    Addick in SW16 Posts: 1,421
    Revolver in the lead 31-26
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Dark Side.
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  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Whilst downloading Spotify in readiness for my loooong drive this weekend, i thought i'd listen to Floyds Animals. Another timeless piece - its only Floyd who could make Dog and Pig noises along with drunk Irish security guards sound musically brilliant.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    The_President said:

    Whilst downloading Spotify in readiness for my loooong drive this weekend, i thought i'd listen to Floyds Animals. Another timeless piece - its only Floyd who could make Dog and Pig noises along with drunk Irish security guards sound musically brilliant.

    @Addick in SW16 - do you have the list of quarter finalists?, and i'll listen to them on my drive.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,697
    Dark side has Brain Damage / Eclipse which is a great track but for me the rest of the album doesn't appeal. though I do think its a more of a complete/coherent album than Revolver. most like that Revolver moves from pop to psychedelia which became influential and ground breaking but for me I find that it harms the albums flow. still, its got several good tracks...

    so I vote for Revolver
  • Addick in SW16
    Addick in SW16 Posts: 1,421
    edited November 2017
    The_President said:

    The_President said:

    Whilst downloading Spotify in readiness for my loooong drive this weekend, i thought i'd listen to Floyds Animals. Another timeless piece - its only Floyd who could make Dog and Pig noises along with drunk Irish security guards sound musically brilliant.

    @Addick in SW16 - do you have the list of quarter finalists?, and i'll listen to them on my drive.
    I do indeed:

    Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
    Blue - Joni Mitchell
    Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
    Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
    Definitely Maybe - Oasis
    Nevermind - Nirvana
    Revolver - The Beatles
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    cheers mate
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    First two on that list are the real finalists.

    Ignore the rest
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Personally i wouldnt even go close to the first 3
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    The_President said:

    Personally i wouldnt even go close to the first 3

    Then you'll never know how good the first two are.
  • Sensei
    Sensei Posts: 233
    Dark Side of the Moon for me.
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Revolver
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  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    Although Dark Side of the moon is probably my favourite Pink Floyd album, which is not necessarily a big recommendation for me Revolver aces it all day long as it remains one of the very best Beatles albums and that is high praise.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Dark Side Of The Moon
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    Henry Irving said:

    The_President said:

    Personally i wouldnt even go close to the first 3

    Then you'll never know how good the first two are.
    And you'll never know how good the last six are, based on your comment immediately preceding...
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    PaddyP17 said:

    Henry Irving said:

    The_President said:

    Personally i wouldnt even go close to the first 3

    Then you'll never know how good the first two are.
    And you'll never know how good the last six are, based on your comment immediately preceding...
    I know exactly how good, or bad, the others are. Most of them I'd listened to before you were born.
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    Henry Irving said:

    PaddyP17 said:

    Henry Irving said:

    The_President said:

    Personally i wouldnt even go close to the first 3

    Then you'll never know how good the first two are.
    And you'll never know how good the last six are, based on your comment immediately preceding...
    I know exactly how good, or bad, the others are. Most of them I'd listened to before you were born.
    The_President's comment equally implies that he's come to his judgement based on listening to all eight, too. So he does know how "good" (or bad or mediocre or amazing or terrible) the first two are, I would think.

    ... And congratulations on being older than me? Being young doesn't preclude me from this discussion!
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Henry Irving said:

    PaddyP17 said:

    Henry Irving said:

    The_President said:

    Personally i wouldnt even go close to the first 3

    Then you'll never know how good the first two are.
    And you'll never know how good the last six are, based on your comment immediately preceding...
    I know exactly how good, or bad, the others are. Most of them I'd listened to before you were born.
    So, the same doesnt apply to me then for the first 3 ??
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    The_President said:

    Henry Irving said:

    PaddyP17 said:

    Henry Irving said:

    The_President said:

    Personally i wouldnt even go close to the first 3

    Then you'll never know how good the first two are.
    And you'll never know how good the last six are, based on your comment immediately preceding...
    I know exactly how good, or bad, the others are. Most of them I'd listened to before you were born.
    So, the same doesnt apply to me then for the first 3 ??
    Not if, as you've said, you won't go close to them.

    And why ask what the eight are and then not listen or re-listen to them?
    PaddyP17 said:

    Henry Irving said:

    PaddyP17 said:

    Henry Irving said:

    The_President said:

    Personally i wouldnt even go close to the first 3

    Then you'll never know how good the first two are.
    And you'll never know how good the last six are, based on your comment immediately preceding...
    I know exactly how good, or bad, the others are. Most of them I'd listened to before you were born.
    The_President's comment equally implies that he's come to his judgement based on listening to all eight, too. So he does know how "good" (or bad or mediocre or amazing or terrible) the first two are, I would think.

    ... And congratulations on being older than me? Being young doesn't preclude me from this discussion!
    No, I infer the opposite from what the president said.

    And no your age doesn't preclude you but lack of memory does. I've commented on all of them in the previous rounds.

  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    One of the things this excellent series has stirred-up in me, apart from re-appraising long held views, is an ongoing inner contest between albums one might consider above all else "A Work of Art" against albums that just get you on an indeterminate visceral level.
    Thus, I might put in the first bracket say Blood on the Tracks; Sgt Pepper; Pet Sounds; John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.
    And then I feel guilty putting a less revered album above them simply because, to quote Ray Davies, it gets me between the legs.
    All good fun
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    Addick in SW16 said:

    The_President said:

    The_President said:

    Whilst downloading Spotify in readiness for my loooong drive this weekend, i thought i'd listen to Floyds Animals. Another timeless piece - its only Floyd who could make Dog and Pig noises along with drunk Irish security guards sound musically brilliant.

    @Addick in SW16 - do you have the list of quarter finalists?, and i'll listen to them on my drive.
    I do indeed:

    Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
    Blue - Joni Mitchell
    Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
    Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
    Definitely Maybe - Oasis
    Nevermind - Nirvana
    Revolver - The Beatles
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
    A bit pink innit..?
    No Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On'
    No Stevie Wonder's 'innervisions' or 'songs in the key of life, Prince 'Sign o' the times'
    Ninna Simone (any of them)
    Or even little Michael..?
    Innervisions for me...
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    LennyLowrent said:

    Addick in SW16 said:

    The_President said:

    The_President said:

    Whilst downloading Spotify in readiness for my loooong drive this weekend, i thought i'd listen to Floyds Animals. Another timeless piece - its only Floyd who could make Dog and Pig noises along with drunk Irish security guards sound musically brilliant.

    @Addick in SW16 - do you have the list of quarter finalists?, and i'll listen to them on my drive.
    I do indeed:

    Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
    Blue - Joni Mitchell
    Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
    Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
    Definitely Maybe - Oasis
    Nevermind - Nirvana
    Revolver - The Beatles
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
    A bit pink innit..?
    No Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On'
    No Stevie Wonder's 'innervisions' or 'songs in the key of life, Prince 'Sign o' the times'
    Ninna Simone (any of them)
    Or even little Michael..?
    Innervisions for me...
    Tbf given the Anglocentric, (presumably) predominantly white makeup of this website I'm not surprised.

    But yeah, What's Going On is up there with the absolute best of the best. Same (for us two only probably!) goes for Kind of Blue/Love Supreme etc

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