I read an article about 15 albums to listen to after you’ve listened to Dark Side of the Moon. It was about albums that you’ll probably like if you liked Dark Side.
There were some obvious one’s like Wish You Were Here and Moonmadness. One album I listen to off of that list that I didn’t expect to like but really liked after listening to was Lonerism by Tame Impala.
What albums have you heard that you didn’t think you’d like but ended up really getting into?
Between Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”,… Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells”,…. and the exorbitant amount of weed I was smoking when I came back stateside in early 1973, it’s a wonder I’m still “functional”!!….
You might want to check out the Alan Parsons Project. Parsons at the age of 23 or so was the recording engineer for Dark Side of the Moon. He also worked on Abbey Road by the Beatles.
He was also an artist and producer. Turn of a Friendly Card is a good album to start with.
It depends why you liked Dark Side of the Moon. What direction you want to go in. Do you want prog rock? Soundscape collages? Great concept albums? What?
This list is… fine.
Additional thoughts:
Swap out 'Selling England By the Pound’ and replace it with ‘Trick of the Tale’
‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ by King Crimson
‘Maggot Brain’ by Funkadelic
‘Hot Buttered Soul’ by Isaac Hayes
‘Aja’ by Steely Dan
‘Random Access Memories’ by Daft Punk
‘DAMN.’ by Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick may seem like an odd choice, but DAMN. is the most daring and masterful concept album ever. Arguably as daring and challenging from a pure production standpoint as Dark Side was, even using modern equipment and techniques.
Spoiler for DAMN.
It is structured to actually be two albums in one. Mixed in such a way that after you listen to it once, it can be played in REVERSE TRACK ORDER. All the track transitions line up and work the same way. But now… it tells the story of what could have happened to Kendrick and his life if one incident had gone down differently. How his life could have unraveled and left him dead in the street instead of the greatest rapper ever.