PA Top 9 - Out Of Order (Part 2)

Brick 

From my review of TAAB:

"No sense in analyzing this album to death. There is almost nothing about it I would change. It still boggles my mind how these guys came up with an album full of such great music and playing, yet never did anything else that comes close. I can listen to this all the way through every day if I wanted to. Any other Tull album and there will be some tracks I will want to skip. This is like a cross between what ELP and Genesis were doing at the time, but somehow better."

From my review of Foxtrot:

"This was an early peak for Genesis. Later albums may have better production and may have sold more copies, but they never got this consistent again. The sound and production is a step up from Nursery Cryme but would get even more of an improvement with the next album. There is no filler here like "For Absent Friends" and "More Fool Me". "Time Table" is the best attempt at something commercial until later in the decade. Genesis' only studio masterpiece but The Lamb and Trick come close"

From my review of DSOTM:

"The soundtrack to The Wizard Of Oz is one of Pink Floyd's best albums. He made better albums like The Final Cut but this is pretty good too. His next album The Wall is even better. Nothing here is as good as "Another Brick In The Wall", his best song obviously. He smoked 5000 pounds of marijuana when he made this album...that's why it sounds the way it does. This is one of the best selling albums of all time[citation needed] .....

..... In the 1970s stereo salesmen used to play this album to customers, showing them how great a system was. I can only imagine what they said back then, probably something like: "I just randomly picked some record out and look...doesn't that sound great!" This album holds some kind of record for being on the charts for the most weeks; people just kept buying this thing. In the 1980s there was a plant in West Germany that did nothing but manufacture DSOTM CDs. The original CD version of this in North America sounded awful; lots of hiss and supposedly not taken from the masters. The music industry's attitude of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" meant that a proper sounding CD was not available in North America until the 30th anniversary edition in 2003. The record company was making so much money off of people still buying the old crappy versions, they weren't in a hurry to re- release the album"

I voted for Thick As A Brick

FOX

Foxtrot
Dark Side is a neutron behind while
Thick as a Brick is a full molecule behind.
Could really have put these three in any order and it would be fine. My favorite depends on current mood and which one I'm listening to at the moment.

Foxtrot by a hair ahead of TaaB. DSotM has never did anything with me (yes, it has great production/sound, but otherwise it's rather dull and empty...).

TaaB, by far!

Foxtrot is a perfect album...

Can't agree more with the last sentence. Again the stunning minimalism of Floyd stands out compared to the other albums. I love both those albums too but they never touched me the way DSOTM did.

Dark Side for me. I really like them all, but Dark Side holds itself better as a whole album.

DSOTM