Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

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24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful

pmcds

Member since 07/11/2005

Reviews written: 1088

Darkness falls, the lights get dim, turn it over, start again 11/06/2010

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Advantages Genius at times, relaxing and thought-provoking
Disadvantages Maybe a couple of tracks I wasn't too keen on

I suppose the key word to use for this 1973 album is 'progressive' rather than any other description. Prior to the album's release, the entire length had been performed as a mammoth stage performance, provoking largely positive reviews. It then took a year or so before the resultant effect turned itself into one of the most commercially successful albums of all time. With varying degrees of speed and lyrical involvement, and a heavy level of innovative synthesiser sounds, the album is beautifully constructed and follows a theme of 'things that make people go mad'. The first thing I noticed ... more
66 of 66 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Miles13

Member since 04/02/2004

Reviews written: 76

The changing face of the Moon... 07/03/2005

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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 as a soundtrack for the Barbet Schroeder film "La Vallée (Obscured by Clouds) and work on a French ballet with input from the film director Roman ... more
62 of 62 Ciao users found the following review helpful

29th_Candidate

Member since 30/01/2001

Reviews written: 55

Madness and Death In The Light of the Moon 20/03/2002

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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...

I. DSOTM -- INTRODUCTION & HISTORY & BACKGROUND: A. Rock's Lunar Cycles: As in life itself, Rock & Roll's ongoing popularity and survival is due to its cyclical nature; it's perpetual metamorphosis. Nowhere is this theme more evident and poignantly conveyed than in Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon." DSOTM arrived at; was a product of, the gloomy period in rock history that followed the death of that musical era's "big three;" Jim, Janice and Jimi, at the end of the1960's. Just as the deaths of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper & Richie Valens at the end of the 1950's were for many, "the day the ... more
22 of 22 Ciao users found the following review helpful

xrfn1

Member since 15/08/2004

Reviews written: 16

We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto! 11/09/2004

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

A few years back, it was rumored that this album was inspired by The Wizard of Oz. I agree that this album does seem to kill the boredom of the film, but I have to wonder if the theorist was not on LSD, or having a flashback! The album seems to end as the movie continues for over an hour longer. I once played a Rolling Stones album with an evening of muted TV viewing. The songs made the viewoing more pleasant, emotional and at times funny. I don't think Rodney Dangerfield inspired The Stones! I first encountered the 'play the album to what you're watching' many years ago. As children, we ... more
18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful

joey_rza

Dark side of the moon, but not their darkest 27/03/2002

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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 (singles like See Emily Play & Arnold Layne, and their debut album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn) was definitely ahead of its time, and in 1971 ... more
5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful

butcam

Member since 10/03/2010

Reviews written: 138

Dark Side of the Moon - The Dark Side 11/03/2010

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Advantages None
Disadvantages None

Innocently I happened to mention to a friend that I had never listened to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon or any other Floyd album for that matter. Once he had stopped hyperventilating, I promised to stick on the CD player and ‘give it a go’. It was also a perfect opportunity to review the album for iKritic as a first-time listener, fresh ears, a fresh perspective and all that. Pink Floyd albums have never interested me, although I have heard many of the popular tracks, such as Another Brick in the Wall and Comfortably Numb, played on the radio. I always loved their covers when flipping ... more
51 of 52 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Seresecros

Member since 13/02/2006

Reviews written: 142

Ghost Is Born 28/04/2007

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

He walks left, he ducks to the right and dodges the straight arm jab, before sneaking round left-handed and breaking in his opponent’s face with a cross-armed punching combo. Yes, that sentence is totally irrelevant, but I’m about to review Pink Floyd and you need to be in a certain kind of mood for this band. 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 ... more
23 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Mauri

Member since 24/07/2000

Reviews written: 364

The lunatics are on the grass 02/08/2000

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Advantages Original, timeless
Disadvantages none

If there is one album you had to chose to represent what 70's rock was all about (up to Punk at least) 'Dark Side of the Moon' (DSOTM) would be that album. It propelled Pink Floyd from popular art-house kings of English psychedelia to be one the best known and most successful rock bands in the world. BACKGROUND (or Psychedelia, drugs and a bloke called Syd) Pink Floyd had been one of the major influences of the drug inspired Psychedelic rock of the late 60's under the guidance of slightly unhinged but enormously talented Syd Barrett. With the album 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' and their ... more
67 of 67 Ciao users found the following review helpful

mumsymary

Member since 23/09/2002

Reviews written: 1892

The dark side 21/12/2002

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Advantages GOOD TO LISTEN TO
Disadvantages NONE

I wrote this review yonks ago thought I would find it out as last night we watched a tv prog about Pionk floyd Dark side of moon and it brought nback all those magic adolescent moments for me , This record is certanly magic to listen too we have it on cd now. Saturday Morning I was dusting and came across these large round black discs that have a groove running around the it and a hole in the middle. It was encased in a matt black cardboard sleeve , with a white line of light entering it from one edge entering a triangle in the centre front changing to a rainbow of colours going from the other ... more
7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful

shaneaw

Member since 19/09/2004

Reviews written: 12

A Truly Groundbreaking Masterpiece 29/01/2008

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Advantages Put Prog Rock On The Map, Introduced The World To Sound Effects As Music
Disadvantages A Decent Set Of Headphones Is Needed For The Full Sensory Effect

Well the chances are that even if you havent heard this album you have heard of it or at least seen the cover somewhere, iconic in every sense of the word Dark side of the Moon is one of them albums that is as big as god in fact it could be argued that this album has made more of a cultural impact than religion since its release back in 1973, beyond what is the most recognizable album cover of all-time is an album that was and still is one of the most interesting and respected pieces of music ever put on record, the facts pretty much speak for themselves here, nearly 15 years it spent in the ... more