Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of The Moon Voted All-Time Greatest Album
By Classic Rock
October 5, 2017
The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd's 1973 album, has been voted the Greatest Album Of All Time by Classic Rock readers. Other albums making the Top 10 included the second and fourth Led Zeppelin albums, plus Guns N' Roses' debut album Appetite For Destruction. The entire Top 100 features in The 100 Greatest Rock Albums Classic Rock special, which is out now.
The complete Top 10 is:
- The Dark Side of The Moon – Pink Floyd
- IV – Led Zeppelin
- II – Led Zeppelin
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
- Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
- Appetite For Destruction – Guns N' Roses
- Back In Black – AC/DC
- Abbey Road - The Beatles
- Highway To Hell – AC/DC
- Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
In August, Classic Rock followers on Facebook and Twitter were asked to vote for their favorite albums, and were presented with a 200-strong shortlist, to which they could add. The most popular albums added to the original list were Close To The Edge by Yes and Pink Floyd’s Animals.
Other notable points included both Floyd and The Beatles getting three albums in the top 20, while Led Zeppelin got four. Of rock’s biggest bands, perhaps the Rolling Stones fared worst, with just two albums in the top 50 but none in the top 20. The only album in the top 100 to feature prominent female artists is Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, although Janis Joplin’s Pearl and Patti Smith’s Horses came close.