'Ludes or Acid?

Pick a damn Pink Floyd album over a Beatles album...why I never!

Gets our vote

Piper was recorded at roughly the same time as sgt peppers- but Piper succeeds as a great testament to british psychedelia and whimsy. Syd made it all sound so simple- but, to me, there isnt another psych album that even comes close to the magic of that 1st full length experiment in studio-constructed musical backdrops for Syd's menacingly child-like vision of a world populated by gnomes, ancient fairy kings and childhood afternoons spent playing in the wood. Syd was always the real, real thing when it came to psychedelic music- he followed no trends, but forged his own.
I know the choice was between dark side and sgt peppers, but there is a world of difference between the two that underlines the effect of the advances in recording technology that happened in the 5 years that seperate sgt peppers from dark side. That, in addition to the fact that I'm at the over-saturation point with the dark side album...

No question.

Why choose between them?

but I love Sgt Pepper so much that it makes me feel like a traitor

I always found the title track of Sgt. Pepper to be really corny though the album does have two of my favorite Beatle songs on it. The only part of Dark Side that gets tedious is The Great Gig in the Sky. I hate all that incessant wailing.

Even though it's not an album for children I've always kind of thought of it that way, since I owned a tape of it in Kindergarten.

Just to change it up a bit.

Easier to enjoy in a wider variety of states of consciousness.