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56 Years Ago Today: The No. 4 Greatest Rock Band of All Time' Released Their First No. 1 Album

It spent five weeks in the top 10 on the UK Albums Chart.
Oct 2, 2026 7:00 AM EDT

On this day, 56 years ago, one of the greatest music acts of all time released their first No. 1 album.

As far as album releases went, 1970 was a golden year for rock and roll music. That year saw two iconic groups release their final albums: The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel released Let It Be and Bridge Over Troubled Water, respectively.

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"Led Zeppelin released Led Zeppelin III, which went on to top the Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart, on Oct. 5. Just three days before that album came out, another legendary rock band released what would become their first chart topper.

On Oct. 2, 1970, Pink Floyd released Atom Heart Mother, per LouderSound.com."

"But Atom Heart Mother is probably better known for the cow than the music.

Revisiting the album now is like entering a parallel universe inhabited by epic orchestral suites and songs created from the sounds of boiling kettles and frying bacon.

Floyd would make better albums, but it remains the apotheosis of their experimental era " or as guitarist David Gilmour later described it, "Our weird shit."

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-02 12:59 PM | Reply


Money, get away
Go get a good job with more pay, and you're okay
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

[Refrain]
A new car, caviar, four-star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team

It is any wonder Boomers are the most greedy generation in the history of man.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-10-02 01:31 PM | Reply

I like when YouTube Premium tells me, "John Coltrane released a new album today." One could only hope.

Great admiration for Pink Floyd, though not well versed.

I am unfortunately too well versed in Led Zeppelin, a victim of my adolescence, which is AOK until the singing starts. Like opera.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-02 01:34 PM | Reply

1Nut's Gen, one supposes, should be held responsible for the coming AI Apocalypse, or whatever negative economic events occur on 'their watch'.

Of course, gen-bashing in general is ludicrous on it's face; one supposes that the moon landing, IC chips, and great music should also be condemned.

"Generational bashing completely ignores individual nuance and relies on sweeping generalizations that rarely hold up under scrutiny.

Every generation is shaped by the unique economic, technological, and cultural landscape they grow up in, but that doesn't make them a monolith.

Much of the tension we see online boils down to age-old tribalism " older generations historically critiquing the youth, and younger generations pushing back against the status quo.

When you get past the "Boomer vs. Millennial vs. Gen Z" memes, most people are just trying to navigate the world with the tools they have."

even AI isn't fooled by INut's nonsense

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-02 01:41 PM | Reply

It is any wonder Boomers are the most greedy generation in the history of man.

POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Is it any wonder why you are so ignant?

I see you totally missed the point of the song entirely.

They were not bragging about greed. They were not promoting it.

It was a sharp commentary on human greed, crass materialism, consumerism, and the corrupting nature of greed that has gone on since the advent of money and continues to this day and which obviously went right over your head as it applies to you too.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-10-02 01:43 PM | Reply

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-10-02 01:47 PM | Reply

- but we tried to fight it

The next time one of these more recent Gens drives a Crook Pres out of office and stops a War by protesting in the streets and voting their concience, along with their parents and grandparents, despite being tear gassed and shot dead on campus and having their political and ethical leaders assassinated... it will be the first time.

They should really just stfu and stop embarrassing themselves.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-02 01:58 PM | Reply

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