I Regret not going to the Brit Floyd concert here this year.
Now you want a chill down your spine and goose bumps on your arms. Look up Laissa Liveir in FB going Comfortable numb. She does other famous cover solos too. I'd be in trouble if she were here.
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It’s hard to believe but Pink Floyd basically went broke in the seventies after The Dark Side of the Moon. This was due to their financial advisers getting them into risky bad investments in order to reduce tax liability. Then they got rich a second time with the success of The Wall.
Back in Black is very good but I don’t I think it’s quite on the same level as my choices. I do think Brian Johnson became the most successful replacement lead singer in rock history when he joined AC/DC after Bob Scott died.
I listened to Led Zeppelin IV start to finish for the first time in a long time yesterday. I love Led Zeppelin and it’s a great album but I can’t see it topping The Dark Side of the Moon. Hotel California is a strong suggestion. I hate New Kid in Town but then again I’m not fond of Maxwell’s Silver Hammer on Abbey Road either.
I don’t think I can accept Who’s Next even though I listened to that one a lot when I was younger.
Maybe I need to listen to Back in Black, Hotel California and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road again.
For now, I see Dark Side as the undisputed champion.
I like Dark side of the moon a lot. I learned to play great gig in the sky on piano. Beautiful chords.
But I agree with Jimi Hendrix who said it wasn't real Rock but called it a "different type of music" with a "space type of thing" and an "inner space" sound. He appreciated their use of electronics and saw them as pushing boundaries with their "new ideas".
I’m not interested in quibbling over categorization. That’s why this blog is about pop/rock and not just rock.
I’m not good at separating a lot of music into categories. Some examples of this are John Hiatt and Tom Waits. I love their music even though I can’t decide how to categorize it.
I try not to limit the kinds of music I enjoy. I like what I like no matter how it’s categorized or when it was released.
“ The Traveling Wilburys were a British-American supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 1988, consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. They were a roots rock band and described as "perhaps the biggest supergroup of all time".[
I like The Traveling Wilburys. I wouldn’t put either of their albums at the top of an all time greatest list though.
I’m always curious why people paste urls into their posts when it’s so easy to click on “Attach Links” and paste them into the proper space. That makes your links clickable and more people will use them.
I would say up to 1980 is when Steely Dan was great but that’s basically the same thing. I still can’t say any of their albums are the greatest of all time though.
Aja at least deserves a seat at the table of the conversation. Royal Scam is great as well but not as good as Aja. It's definitely not THE greatest but top 20 of all time for sure.
I won't ever be able to say what is the greatest pop album ever. Top hard to say but I will list a few that are up there for me. Some of these may be pop adjacent but I will include them for being popular albums:
Chicago Transit Authority
Songs In The Key Of Life
H2O
Purple Rain
Goodbye Yellow brick Road
Thriller
Toto IV (I personally like "Toto" better)
Synchronicity
Rumours
These rankings are completely subjective so many will disagree. I’m not even sure I agree, LOL.
Top tier
Pink Floyd- The Dark Side of the Moon
Second tier
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Eagles - Hotel California
Third tier
Led Zeppelin - IV or Physical Graffiti
Queen - News of the World
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
AC/DC - Back in Black
The Cars - The Cars
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic/The Royal Scam/Katy Lied (maybe Gaucho and Aja too)
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Van Halen - Van Halen
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Beatles - Revolver/Rubber Soul
The Police - They only put out five albums (over six years) and three or four of them were excellent.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours and Fleetwood Mac - Both are top albums from a band that was formed in the late sixties and changed a lot when Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined in 1975. (Or was it 1974?)
Fourth tier
The Who - Who’s Next
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour/Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Michael Jackson - Thriller (are we still allowed to listen to him?)
Prince - Purple Rain
I’m surprised nobody suggested:
The Rolling Stones - Maybe there are just too many great songs spread across too many albums. I just listened to Can’t You Hear Me Knocking again. What a great song!
Alice in Chains - maybe Jar of Flies
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence
The Cure
Muse
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Peter Gabriel/Phil Collins/Genesis
Sheryl Crow - Her first two albums are my favorites.
Does anybody like:
Phantogram
AKA lisa
John Hiatt
Puscifer
TENDER
Movement
Lucinda Williams
Andy Stott
Ludovico Einaudi
BANKS
Allan Rayman
Holly Miranda
Tessa Dixson
Joan Osborne
Portishead
The Cocteau Twins are interesting but not really my thing.
I’m just starting to play Johnny Marr + The Healers and I like it. Some of it is going into my rotation.
I had been wondering if anyone would nominate Prince, Fleetwood Mac and The Police.
I used to like Rush when I was a lot younger. Then I got more and more sick of them. These days there’s only one or two of their songs I can stand to listen to.
People used to say either you liked the Beatles or the Stones but I love both.
Almost everything in rock and pop was first done by The Beatles. Lennon and McCartney were probably the greatest songwriting partnership of all time. The Beatles released over 200 songs in about seven years. They are the best-selling and most successful musical act of all time. They were each inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame individually and as a group
Here is little trivia question that I’m sure some of you can answer: name the artist who performed lead vocals on a Pink Floyd song and appeared in the title of a Led Zeppelin song. I actually bought one of his CDs in a used record store. His solo music didn’t do much for me.
