6. While I love Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall imo was a much better, superior album than the Wall. I love it more because there were many parts in The Wall I can relate too (not the nazi parts lol though the songs were still great), and it also had a continuous story to it. The Wall is my #1 favorite album of all time.
I mentioned it already, but I'll say it again. Pink Floyd's The Wall is a better album than Dark Side of the Moon.
I think DSOTM is rated so highly because it feels like all of one piece, despite it being composed of very different ways of making music.
I remember on a UK tv show(ch 4) that compiled the votes of fans for the greatest albums of all time, and legendary DJ John Peel said that the piece of Dark side that had just played('On the run'), sounded more modern than any of the modern albums on the list, while stuff like the Stone Roses and Nirvana harked back to an earlier form of music and did nothing to progress it.
with the Wall, there is a more of a concious effort to make it all of one piece, instead of it fiting togther more organically like Dark side, almost by accident, it just being composed of the things the various musicians in the band were interested in. The Wall is almost a solo album by Waters, made more of a viable musical proposition by the input of Gilmore and Bob Ezrin(both of whom did not recieve proper credit by Waters, as Waters said to them during the making "Contribute whatever you want , but don't expect songwriting credits").
I think a lot of it is superb, really amazing bombastic, dark stuff, but other tims it gets a bit too pompus for it's own good, something like 'The Trial', which i used to like, but can't listen to these days.
'The Final Cut' though *is* a Waters solo album in all but name, he took his control one step further, which led to the prime line-up of Pink Floyd breaking up.
anyway, don't get me wrong, I can see why someone would prefer The Wall, but I can also see why Dark side gets voted in those kind of polls all the time, it is a tight album with no flab, my fav PF album is the first one though, Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
CW: Re: Elvis. I'm only really interested in those early Sun recording by him 'Mystery Train', 'Blue Moon', 'Blue Moon of Kentuky', etc. They have a natural live vital sound that the later big hits lost. 'Heartbreak Hotel', 'Jailhouse Rock' etc, they sound great, but are not as good as those first recordings which captured a certain spirit of invention and interpretation that got swallowed up and processed by the music machine into something a little less original and vital. Although they do retain some of the original performing spirit of the innocent, early, inventive Elvis there is an improvised, reckless spirit that is no longer there, as the recordings are of a more processed commercial sound, and structure.
If you hear the world famous song and hit, 'Blue Moon', you are probably going to hear the processed version, which sounds more commercial, but far less interesting, than the original Sun recording it originates from.
I had both versions, one on a 'greatest hits', one on 'The Sun recordings', they really do not compare, one sounds like it was as it was performed live, very warm natural sound, the other sounds like it was as it was mixed through machines for mass public consumption, fake echoey sfx etc.
