Groove to these righteous beats, dig it?

Like yourselves, O readers, I firmly believe that my own thoughts and opinions are the right ones. It is good that we can agree on this important point. As such, I thought that it would be a sagacious idea to specify precisely which musical albums can beat their musical album brethren in a footrace, as my present knowledge and viewpoint dictates. By exposing yourselves to such euphonies as these, you will become healthier and happier people. Without further ado, except for this: Bliggypsdingyyd trqidivvinellstwrngshth!, here is my list and commentary. It is not ordered by level of excellence. That is absurd. It is grouped by band.

Pink Floyd
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd's first album was completed under the leadership of Syd Barrett, and it is considered to be the best example of Barrett's work (except for the song Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk, by Roger Waters, which is not Barrett's work and makes no claim to be such). I believe these considerations, though I have never bothered to listen to anything else of Barrett's, by which I mean his solo work after Waters, Wright, and Mason replaced him with David Gilmour as a result of his LSD-induced, erratic behavior. The album itself covers a nice range between surreal darkness and outright silliness, two of my favorite things.

Meddle
This one makes it to my list by mostly grace of its second half, the twenty-three minute epic of Echoes. Echoes is one of my favorite examples of music, so it would be unacceptable to exclude the album that it dominates. The rest is altogether enjoyable, but it must live in a very large shadow.

The Dark Side of the Moon
I hereby join the convention of including Pink Floyd's most notable work on my list of excellent albums. I do this because it is an excellent album. Furthermore, it is great fun to watch The Wizard of Oz and using the album as the soundtrack. I have done so numerous times. Before you ask, I do not believe it is intentional, but the match is fascinating.

Wish You Were Here
I have said before that Wish You Were Here is likely my favorite album, and it likely is. For trivial purposes, I should like to point out that the whole thing is a tribute to Pink Floyd's former bandmate, Syd Barrett. Marked by clarity and variety (this was just before Roger Waters began to do all the writing), I would argue that Wish You Were Here crowns the peak of Pink Floyd's most glorious achievements.

The Wall
While The Wall as a fair amount of nonsense on it, it also has ample moments of brilliance. By grace of songs like Comfortably Numb, Hey You, Goodbye Blue Sky, and Another Brick in the Wall (Parts 1-3), to name a few, the album becomes difficult to ignore. For this reason it deserves a listen, at least to most of it. All that Bring the Boys Back Home and Vera Lynn rubbish would not be missed.

Jethro Tull
Songs from the Wood
This album rests dear to my heart, for it conjures within me all manner of happy thoughts and feelings. As I listened to it the first few times, I could not help but comment that I was hearing nothing but excellence, and that I was overcome with elation. I think I will play it right now, actually.
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How nice. I feel much better than I could know now.
From the first time I was so privileged as to listen to Songs From the Wood, it has not often ceased to play in my head. Thus as it haunts my thoughts (and I welcome it to do so), I am constantly compelled to play it, and when I am so able, it is with great joy that I do.

Heavy Horses
Only very recently did this one cross my path, but it has proved to rival Songs from the Wood. The premises of some of the songs here, especially Moths, Heavy Horses, One Brown Mouse, and Weathercock are not short of genius. The opening track also has a delightful name: The Mouse Police Never Sleeps. It seems I have praised most of the album now, so I can move on. Also, I must turn Songs From the Wood over.

The Beatles
I am not terribly familiar with The Beatles in terms of albums. I have simply heard them consistently over the course of my life on the radio and what not. I will therefore mention Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and say that The Beatles are excellent. Failure to do so would be almost blasphemous.

Led Zeppelin
Mostly the same thing applies here as with The Beatles, but less so.

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At this point it has come to my attention that the task I have appointed for myself is stupid. For this reason, I am not going to continue, and I declare my list incomplete, and it will never be completed. In conclusion, I must listen to more albums. That will show me. Now as I make my escape, I need to distract my beloved readers so that they forget my shortcoming.

Look! A strawman eating a red herring!