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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Dark Side of the Moon

by Pink Floyd

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Released
14/08/1984
Music Genre
Progressive Rock, Rock

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Description

By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with Dark Side of the Moon. The primary revelation of Dark Side of the Moon is what a little focus does for the band. Roger Waters wrote a series of songs about mundane, everyday details which aren't that impressive by themselves, but when given the sonic backdrop of Floyd's slow, atmospheric soundscapes and carefully placed sound effects, they achieve an emotional resonance. But what gives the album true power is the subtly textured music, which evolves from ponderous, neo-psychedelic art rock to jazz fusion and blues-rock before turning back to psychedelia. It's dense with detail, but leisurely paced, creating its own dark, haunting world. Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon, but no other record defines them quite as well as this one.

Product Details

Artist
Pink Floyd
Recording Environment
Studio
Label / Studio
EMI
Run Time (minutes)
42
Media Content Format
Album
Original year of release
1973
Media Format
Audio CD
Year of release
1994
Number of Discs
1
SPARS Code
AAD
Cast & Crew
Pink Floyd (Music Performer)
Pink Floyd (Producer)
Alan Parsons (Sound Engineer)
Peter James (Sound Engineer)

Press Reviews

Pink Floyd's masterpiece... Classic Rock (04/06, p.73)

8 - Excellent - "...although everything your punk rock elder brother said was undeniably true, it doesn't take a great mental leap to achieve the mind-set of the pot-smoking philosophy student and pronounce this album a super-sensory classic... NME (3/20/93, p.33)

4 Stars - Excellent Q (10/94, p.137)

Ranked #11 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...The first art rock LP since SGT PEPPER to go properly overground....[this] was an unmistakably English LP... Q (6/00, p.80)

...The sound is lush and multi-layered while remaining clear and well-structured....a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement....the excellence of a superb performance... Rolling Stone (5/24/73, pg.57)

4 stars out of 5 - "...The subdued, darkly muttering, sombrely somnolent music of DARK SIDE OF THE MOON startles....An achievement of considerable merit... Uncut (5/03, p.112)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Speak to Me
  2. Breathe
  3. On the Run
  4. Time
  5. The Great Gig in the Sky
  6. Money
  7. Us and Them
  8. Any Colour You Like
  9. Brain Damage
  10. Eclipse
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