Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

Advantages: The best version yet
Disadvantages: None

This album was the first release by Pink Floyd where they had both written and toured the material before going into the studio; the original title for the album was "Eclipse". The album sleeve states that the recording process started in June 72 and finished in January 73 at the Abbey Road Studios, it didn't take six months to record. The reality was 38 days of recording was squeezed in around tours of Britain, Japan, and North America as well ...
...(Obscured by Clouds) and work on a French ballet with input from the film director Roman Polanski and the late Rudolph Nureyev. This album began life in a West Hampstead rehearsal studio in the November of 1971, the band had come back from America and where sick of playing touring. The keyboard player Rick Wright was ever more worried about the possibility of a plane or train crash. The album "Meddle" had just come out and the epic "head-music" ... Read review

Advantages: A musical watershed; Your CD player will biodegrade before these tracks become yesterday's noise...
Disadvantages: Hazardous to listen to if you're prone to contemplating suicide...

...B. The Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon Lunar Phase: On a microcosmic level, Pink Floyd itself had been forced to face its own dark, "New Moon" phase and potential mortality after booting Syd Barrett and taking on David Gilmour in 1968. Syd, who had been the heart and soul of the early ethereal, psychedelic PF, had become their dysfunctional waning moon due to latent insanity triggered by the pressures of success. Though many believe Barrett's rapid ...
...agree that Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" is the quintessential progressive rock "concept album" of the 1970's. A concept or "theme album" is simply an album whose musical tracks are linked together by a concept or theme. In some cases, as here, the concept is represented by a symbol that incorporates the salient characteristics and recurrent themes common to the album's component songs, and unify them into a cohesive whole. For this reason, ... Read review

Advantages: A timeless classic in Rock
Disadvantages: Acid rock may not appeal to all

...The Wizard Of Oz, start Dark Side Of The Moon, after the Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer lion roars for the last time(I believe it roars 3 times, but I could be wrong.). Turn off the volume and you be the judge! The members at the time were David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Rick Wright. I think people will have to read for themselves about the missing member behind Floyd. See http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/who/b.htm. Syd Barrett(Roger Keith Barrett) ...
...This album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1973. Actually beween June 1972 and January 1973. It was produced by Pink Floyd, which may not mean much to some today, but is significant as far as Roger Waters is concerned. This ensures that Roger gets a cut whenever songs are used in concerts, or by other artists. Currently Guns and Roses and VanHalen are seeing it's effect! Storm Thorgerson who designed the original prism in a black background, ... Read review

Advantages: A classic, for all the reasons listed below
Disadvantages: Is more popualarist than earlier material

Dark Side of the Moon was released nearly 30 years ago, in 1973, but as the state of music has rapidly evolved, this masterpiece still sounds fresh, relevant and groundbreaking to this day. This is one of the most talked about classics, which makes it something of a challenge to review, as so much has been written about dark side! By 1973, Pink Floyd already had a lot of superb material under their belt. The playful Syd Barret Psychedelic material ...
...more progressive than anything on Dark Side. So, what gives Dark Side of the Moon its classic status? The songs on it were shorter, more digestible chunks of music with more standard song structures. However, what they do with the concept of the ‘pop song’ is what is truly breathtaking. Pink Floyd on this album have managed to fuse their psychedelic sensibilities with sophisticated song writing and taken in more musical influences. The songs on ... Read review

Advantages: Dark, deep, immersive, beautiful and haunting
Disadvantages: The Lengthy-And-Yet-Dull 'Us and Them'

...You need to think about dark spaces and about doormats, about the heart and the mind and the soul, the brain, and how it can deceive you. The decimation of your hopes and dreams, the corruption of your family and the essence of Hampton Court’s hedgemaze. Pink Floyd are a band who can seriously mess you up, dude! At the time of Dark Side, the band members were David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. They’d had some reasonable success, ...
...boy, did they find it! Dark Side of the Moon deals with insanity, mainly, in all its forms: greed, phobias, warfare and obsession. It’s a stunning record, and so immersive I won’t be able to write a review of it, only a record of what happens. Bit of a cop-out, but I’m sure you won’t hold it against me. Er… will you? My dad, he likes Pink Floyd. This used to be a sign that they weren’t worth listening to, just like the solo career of John Fogerty ... Read review