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what are our thoughts on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" (March 1973)?

mglobe said:
I’m a huge fan of Meddle. Love Dark Side, and I think it’s a masterpiece. But it was for me the beginning of the end.
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For me masterpieces are Live At Pompey and Ummagumma, without Sid that whosent that for me.
 
Truly a great album, perhaps one of the best examples of a concept album, but it was also important for the advancement of electronic music.

Plus, how many people listened to this album one of the first times they got high and had the album blow their mind?

Speak to Me transitioning into Breathe... is there any album that starts better?

The vocals on Great Gig in the Sky? Haunting and incredible.
 
The middle part of 'Echoes' from Meddle was the template for me having my head blown off by Tangerine Dream's 'Phaedra' and EVERY time I hear this latter, I'm taken back to Whitsun 1974...

As for DSOTM, our quite large dem room had ample bass from the large IMF transmission line speakers we had on dem. The full length/depth windows along two sides of our Watford showroom used to rattle and pressure waves started up in our ears on the 'heatbeat' sounds, something I've only noticed once since - when Linn did a 'Bingo' equaliser board for their active Isobariks..

Of course, being a striking/chiming clock inspired Aspergic type, the beginning of 'Time' at full volume was always thrilling :D These days, On The Run probably has more resonance looking back at my life.



"I've been f*****g mad for f*****g years, absolutely mad - even if I'm not mad" - or summat - Heck, I need a stiff drink now :D
 
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mglobe said:
Echos, which is my all time favorite PF cut
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Me too. 20+ minute songs like Echoes, Supper's Ready, Thick As A Brick... these moved me in a way no other rock music ever did, and set the stage for albums such as The Whirlwind, an album with just one (77+ minute) song.
 
Emlin said:
Pompey is Portsmouth, you're thinking of Pompeii.
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I mean original concert from 1971 of course.
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Still high on my playlist (if you could not guess)! :)

p.s. given my prior avatar...6C191A76-502E-40CC-851B-AC673A53CCE9.jpeg
 
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mglobe said:
I was there too. But about 50 years too late.
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Well you know even if you were there in October 1971 they would walk you out. Only guests (the dog) actually participated. Still I like the place and atrium's in generally. I was a big fan of experimental music and always had a soft spot for crossovers of gernes.
To me that's the best Pink Floyd peace that actually pictures it all.
Best regards and have a nice time.
 
TonyJZX said:
with the 50th coming and the current 'woke accusations' (!!!) I just listened to this today at work... one thing I do like is that because its a short sharp shock then you can listen to it quite often and it never outstays its welcome... unlike Hotel California where you can never leave...

i think dark side never seems to get stale

of course there's a million versions up to 24/192 and surround and wu tang collabs
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I think Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is a watershed.

If you listen to the bootlegs of Floyd playing some of that material before they went to the studio, it's much better. It's got that pre-Dark Side feel: genuinely transcendental collective-ecstatic psychedelic music. But then they went into a studio and spent a hundred years overproducing this plastic soul-less hyper-romantic studio fantasia we've all more-or-less had to endure since. Moreover, Dark Side set us up for the ever expanding scale of rock music. A lot of good musicians got out around that time or before (Fripp, Gong) because they saw where it was going: "concerts" in which several million gather to "listen" to a "band" "playing" some miles away. Dark Side was the foretelling of the ghastly aesthetic monstrosity that culminated in The Wall. That led to Pink Floyd being rightly and properly lampooned in HHGTTG...

Take the grotesque scale of Wagner's conception for opera at Bayreuth, keep the theatrical romanticism, give it vast budgets and modern electronic technology, subtract most of the musical innovation and you've got mid 70s Floyd. That's the watershed Dark Side ushered us into.

 
Multicore said:
I think Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is a watershed.

If you listen to the bootlegs of Floyd playing some of that material before they went to the studio, it's much better. It's got that pre-Dark Side feel: genuinely transcendental collective-ecstatic psychedelic music. But then they went into a studio and spent a hundred years overproducing this plastic soul-less hyper-romantic studio fantasia we've all more-or-less had to endure since. Moreover, Dark Side set us up for the ever expanding scale of rock music. A lot of good musicians got out around that time or before (Fripp, Gong) because they saw where it was going: "concerts" in which several million gather to "listen" to a "band" "playing" some miles away. Dark Side was the foretelling of the ghastly aesthetic monstrosity that culminated in The Wall. That led to Pink Floyd being rightly and properly lampooned in HHGTTG...

Take the grotesque scale of Wagner's conception for opera at Bayreuth, keep the theatrical romanticism, give it vast budgets and modern electronic technology, subtract most of the musical innovation and you've got mid 70s Floyd. That's the watershed Dark Side ushered us into.

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Well, it didn't turn out too badly in the end, did it?
 
Emlin said:
Well, it didn't turn out too badly in the end, did it?
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Depends how you imagined the end on other side of prism and impact it had on the rest of the band which generated a good part what came.
 
Absolutely magnificent, have no bad word to say about it. Many people have said that it is the best concept album ever made and I won't disagree (although Bowie's HEROES is pretty good too). I believe that the producer, Alan Parsons, had a lot to do with that. How many albums sounded great then, and sound great now?
 
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