I already did this.
Dark Side of the Moon - front to back - is probably the greatest album (that isn't a Greatest Hits or Live album) of all time.
Not a wasted second on it. Soulful, contemplative, deep. From the first time I heard it, to the last time (about two hours ago) it speaks to me. It has resonated in different ways and via different tracks at almost every stage of my life.
In this stage... Time.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
My God, how much all of that speaks directly to my daily existence. How they could have felt aching yearning to know what legacy you'd leave, what your life meant, at their age? What were they, 20s? 30s? when that was written?
Beyond that, the guitar work is hauntingly amazing on that song.
I'm a huge fan of their work. I've watched The Wall probably 40 or 50 times in varying stages of coherence. It's EPIC - but some people don't get it.
Can I suggest the next topics for this "what does this band/artist mean to you?" And not KISS because I think I've done that already.
Earth Wind & Fire
ELO
Styx
Rolling Stones
Elton John
Olivia Newton John
Metallica
NWA
Should be a podcast. I got something more to say...