10 Perfect Rock Albums Of The '70s
1. The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
After the '60s faded from view, people started to realize that rock could be more than just simple power chords playing party songs. This was music that could stir you to your core and actually affect the world around you if you had the right talent behind the instruments. Whereas some acts decided to pay just for the sake of playing, Pink Floyd asked us why exactly we were doing this on Dark Side of the Moon.
Despite being the go to poster of everyone who's just moved into college, this is one of the few records that hasn't aged a day since it was first released, with every single track holding up an equal weight in the arrangement. Compared to the usual lyrics of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, you can hear the weariness of life on Dark Side, as David Gilmour and Roger Waters ask us why we push ourselves every day just to do it all again the next day.
Through songs like Money and Time, you start to understand how much sadness comes in life, from the need to want just a little more financial compensation to knowing that one day you'll wake up and find that the world has passed you by. This is the kind of reality that's stark, bleak, and more than a little bit unsettling, but if we have music like this to soundtrack it, it might not be all that bad.