Actually, on my list it's # 2. I put Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon # 1. Beatles' Rubber Soul # 3. Joannie Mitchel's Blue at # 4. Beach Boys' Pet Sounds # 5. Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV # 6. Fleetwood Mac's white album # 7. Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive # 8 (and greatest live rock album ever done). Al Stewart's Year of the Cat # 9. And Boston's Boston album # 10.
Actually, on my list it's # 2. I put Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon # 1. Beatles' Rubber Soul # 3. Joannie Mitchel's Blue at # 4. Beach Boys' Pet Sounds # 5. Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV # 6. Fleetwood Mac's white album # 7. Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive # 8 (and greatest live rock album ever done). Al Stewart's Year of the Cat # 9. And Boston's Boston album # 10.
And the lyrics, on this entire album, beginning to end, are the absolute best lyrics ever written across an album in rock history. Every single song. The lyrics. OMG the lyrics. Check out the song "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" for it's lyrics. Just unbelievably beautiful and deep and engaging.
I love this song...though I think the beauty covers up a bit how dark it is. He's talking about being caught in a relationship to the point that he is contemplating suicide. Never realized the passing hours of evening showers Slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams I'm strangled by your haunted social scene Just a pawn outplayed by a dominating queen I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river Clinging to your stocks and bonds Paying your H.P. demands forever The other thing is how amazing the band was on this song. Nigel Olsson playing the drums so emotionally, and the band's backing vocals are just beautiful.
