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It's a tough call on my end... what say you?

The poll is in order of album release date and not in order of any preference.

Spent many hours on the weekends in college (after I i finished my homework of course) under the influence of mind altering substances... melting into a into a bean bag chair while listening to Floyd, Beatles, Cream, Who, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel and some good local college bands

Now days, I don't need mind altering substances to appreciate the music. Plus I'm too old for mind altering substances

I Agree with DMV!!! Try saying that 5 times real fast!!!

Mother do you think they'll drop the Bomb!

YES! Because, Another Brick In The Wall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U

Floyd is that rare band that is so good, that the favorite album is likely the one you happen to be listening to at that moment. Even the Final Cut has those moments.

Back-in-the-day, we used to listen to “DSOTM” all the time, especially when we got together at my h.s. classmate’s parents house with his Bose 901s (…probably Series I or II…). He’d blast his stereo after we were a 6-pack each in and play air guitar, air bass, air drums, air synthesizer, etc. Nice open beam ceiling and the speakers were set up correctly so the first time we tripped out to the album, we freaked out when some parts sounded like they were coming from behind us.

By the time “WYWH” came out, he hung out with his new girlfriend (…later wife…) so never got to hear it through his stereo system.

While I thought the direct / reflecting technology was interesting, I was never a real fan of Bose speakers. For me, the lack of solid bass was the major drawback. The 901s were great for classical (…which I never listened to…), jazz and soft rock but put on a 3-piece power rock group and that low end punch was seriously lacking. And, iirc, the top end wasn’t quite there but it’s been a very l-o-n-g time since I’ve listened to them.

However, after I left Sony in 1988, I worked as a Christmas seasonal for the local Bose store and after a few weeks of demonstrating them, learned to appreciate the technology behind them. Also got to meet Dr. Bose so that was pretty cool. Did consider buying 201s or 301s as satellite speakers with my temporary employee discount but bought a really nice stereo rack instead.

That little Sony receiver can kick butt! Really surprised at how much clean power it can produce (…yes, 100 wpc…). I think once you set up your system again, you won’t need / want to buy a “better” amp or receiver.

Yeah.. in college I had a motorcycle for motor transportation (this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2zXaJiJNIQ but color was midnight blue. Only a 400cc bike but it served it's purpose). With head phones on, underneath a full face motorcycle helmet, a portable CD player in the breast pocket while riding the bike from Madison to Green Bay on the country back roads... the stereo effects during the song transitions and in the songs themselves on Dark Side was like the sounds were traveling from one ear to the other through my empty cranium or circling around in the helmet.

Zepplin (Whole Lotta Love, for example) and the Beatles also did a lot of this where the music and sounds seemed to surround and swirl around your head... especially if your point of reference was inside a fully enclosed helmet.

Any wind noise was drowned out by the music while visually you were just watching miles and miles and hours of hours of corn fields go by. Pretty mesmerizing without the use of mind altering substances.

Like Darth Vader, I'm going Dark Side. Nothing listed is far behind it though. Also, an honorable mention for Ummagumma

you ate the brown acid, didn't you?
even though we were warned to not eat the brown acid.

Aside form a bunch of their music on my phone, I found a dance-mix from a famous DJ with Proper Education as its basis.
It is called Eric Prydz vs. Floyd.
Pretty cool, IMO