What's the "Dark Side of The Moon" album of your favourite music genre?

[Jazoni89]

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine is considered the Dark side of the Moon of the Shoegaze genre. A Magnum Opus, and what every other Shoegaze musician aspires to. Loveless single-handedly created, and destroyed a whole genre (and to think it was nearly never released because of the labels bankruptcy issues making it), because comparing every other Shoegaze release to Loveless just felt like it was in a entirely different league altogether with it's Raw, Beautiful, Wall of sound that made it above and beyond everything that came before and since. Loveless was, and still is the perfection of the genre, and is one of my favourite albums.

In the 21 years after it's release, there has never been a follow up to Loveless, but how could you follow up something so perfect, it's damn near impossible.

 

[Hazmattuxedo2404]

For me I've going to say for alternative rock either "wasting light" or "there's nothing left to loose" both by foo fighters. For brit pop I say "defiantly maybe" by oasis and for more class rock feel probably "sheer heart attack" by queen

 

[repeating integers]

I'd say that for Alternative Rock, the "Dark Side of the Moon" is either Radiohead's OK Computer or (a more controversial choice) Coldplay's Viva la Vida Or Death And All His Friends. Also, I prefer Wish You Were Here to Dark Side, but it's a close thing (both are beautiful masterpieces).

 

[Squilookle]

I'm sorry, I'm a little confused here- are you asking us what is widely regarded as the most popular and influential album of a particular genre, as Dark Side of The Moon was for prog rock, or is this just another 'what's your favourite album' thread with 'Dark Side of the Moon thrown in to get a bit of attention?

 

[Triangulon]

For folk (or folk-rock), Leige and Leif by Fairport Convention.

 

[AgentNein]

Enter the Wu Tang: 36 Chambers

Feel free to disagree, though.

Yeah, people can "feel free" to disagree, and then I will "feel free" to fight them with my kung fu.

Great, great album, still stands up against the best in hip hop.

 

[Total LOLige]

I'm sorry, I'm a little confused here- are you asking us what is widely regarded as the most popular and influential album of a particular genre, as Dark Side of The Moon was for prog rock, or is this just another 'what's your favourite album' thread with 'Dark Side of the Moon thrown in to get a bit of attention?

Well critics regard DSotM as the best album ever, what I'm asking is what would you say the most influential/best album is in your favourite genre.

 

[AgentNein]

Hmm, I'm struggling to name the "dark side of the moon" of punk, cuz there's the "best" punk album, and there's the "most complex, epic, whatever" punk album, and those couldn't be further apart in my eyes. Punk is at it's best simplicity personified. Not that I can't enjoy a good punk album that strives to be that, but that's not exactly playing to the strengths of the genre. This coming from probably the one Clash fan in the world who DID in fact enjoy Sandinista (...eventually. After years of hating its guts)!

 

[MikeCrick]

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. - The Sex Pistols

Honestly, it IS Punk...I can't say much more about it.

Oh and I'd still put 'The Wall' Above 'Dark Side of the Moon' both are good but 'The Wall' I think really defines a 'concept' album a bit more.

 

[AgentNein]

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. - The Sex Pistols

Honestly, it IS Punk...I can't say much more about it.

Say what you will about the Pistols being a glorified boy band, Never Mind the Bullocks IS a fantastic, fantastic punk album.

 

[AgentNein]

I'm probably gonna have to go with Rocket To Russia by the Ramones. Really captures everything I love about the genre, and these guys, well they cemented the sound of punk here.

 

[Total LOLige]

Ahh, a fellow pixies fan. I'd have to say, as much as I love Doolittle, I think Trompe le Monde tops it.

I thought if any pixies fan was going to disagree about doolittle, they'd say that surfa rosa was the best.

 

[SuperToaster]

In Silico by Pendulum.

 

[AgentNein]

I have no freakin' clue. Neither what my favourite genre is or what my favourite album is.

Who cares about albums anyway, I always judged songs by themselves.

That's a totally fair take, and people say that's the way the music world at large is moving forward, what with things like itunes de-emphasizing the album in favor of the individual song. I tend to look at both. It's just all about what perspective do you want to take? If a painter does a series of works, you can judge the series as a whole, and/or judge each work individually. Both are valid avenues of critique.

 

[sheogoraththemad]

Fellow hipsters and /mu/tants will agree

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by none other than Neutral Milk Hotel

 

[RanD00M]

The best thrash album is Master of Puppets. There are thrash albums I like better out of personal taste, but objectively, Master of Puppets is the pinnacle of thrash metal; that album is untouchable.

You're shitting me, right? Because MoP isn't even the best Metallica album, much less the best thrash album of all time.

OT: For Technical Death Metal I would go with Gorguts' Obscura.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

The "Dark Side of the Moon" for glam rock would have to be "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" for prog I'd say "Led Zeppelin IV" for modern pysch I would say "Passover."