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Dark Side of the Moon

by Pink Floyd

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Released: 01/01/2001
Music Genre: 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
Media Format: Audio CD
Label / Studio: EMI
Media Content Format: Album
Original year of release: 1973
Year of release: 1994
Number of Discs: 1
Recording Environment: Studio
Run Time (minutes): 42
CD WOW! Sales Rank: #1078
SPARS Code: AAD
Title: Dark Side of the Moon
Catalog Number: CDEMD1064
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:

Speak to Me
Breathe
On the Run
Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse

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