Album by Album: Pink Floyd
11-13-10 | 08:32 PM
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Re: Album by Album: Pink Floyd
Curious if you intend to run through the Roger Waters solo albums as well? I find as time goes on I'm enjoying the solo works more then the earlier Floyd stuff.
11-13-10 | 08:43 PM
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This album has been so talked about, and is so mythical, that I don't know if there's anything left to say about it. I do think it's wonderfully constructed, but I overdosed on it years ago and almost never listen to it anymore. Not Floyd's best album, but their most representative, and I can understand why it's had such phenomenal success over the decades.
11-13-10 | 11:46 PM
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This album has been so talked about, and is so mythical, that I don't know if there's anything left to say about it. I do think it's wonderfully constructed, but I overdosed on it years ago and almost never listen to it anymore. Not Floyd's best album, but their most representative, and I can understand why it's had such phenomenal success over the decades.
Then again, I felt the same thing about The Wall. And then I saw Roger Waters tonight. And it felt invigorating, moreso due to presentation that music.
Dark Side is an album I will always love and appreciate and value, but we're totally done.
11-14-10 | 01:02 AM
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I can relate to those saying the album is great but played out, as I rarely listen to it that much any more. However, whenever I do happen to play it I realize that I take its greatness for granted. It really is an incredible piece of work. As great as Echoes and some of their older material is, it's amazing how much better the songwriting and production is on Dark Side compared to everything that came before. The band was finally firing on all cylinders and this album really does represent the culmination of everything they were working toward. Even though they made a few more great albums (some which I like better than Dark Side) I'd argue that this was their greatest achievement. Even the artwork is perfect. It is without a doubt the definitive Pink Floyd album.
Maybe later I'll post some of my thoughts on the music itself...
Maybe later I'll post some of my thoughts on the music itself...
11-14-10 | 03:22 AM
#83
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Have to fourth the "great but overplayed it" sentiment. Even when it was fresh I never could get into Time but Any Colour You Like ran for a continuous loop on my RIO 600 mp3.
11-14-10 | 08:59 AM
#84
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I bought the 20th anniversary edition in college. I gave the album a spin last night for the first time in ages -- like Led Zeppelin IV it's a great album to own but I really don't listen to it anymore.
Winamp placed a brief pause between the songs as it played the album. I wonder if the album experience will diminish in an age of downloaded music and shuffled playlists.
11-14-10 | 10:02 AM
#85
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The Dark Side of the Moon is truly the definitive Pink Floyd album. And starting with this album is when their albums became more of a single whole piece instead of a collection of songs, which would be the structure of all following albums up until Roger Waters left the group.
I was burnt out on it for a long time, but then started listening to it again for the first time in years, and now have a new appreciation of the album. Especially now that I'm older, lyrics like this stand out so much stronger:
Just a great album that stands the test of "Time" 
(P.S. if you're burnt out on the studio album, google for "11.16.74" for a great sounding live version)
I was burnt out on it for a long time, but then started listening to it again for the first time in years, and now have a new appreciation of the album. Especially now that I'm older, lyrics like this stand out so much stronger:
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
(P.S. if you're burnt out on the studio album, google for "11.16.74" for a great sounding live version)
11-14-10 | 10:25 AM
#86
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It's really weird when I have iTunes on shuffle and it plays Brain Damage without Eclipse.
The band sued EMI earlier this year to stop them from selling tracks individually.
I wonder if the album experience will diminish in an age of downloaded music and shuffled playlists.
11-14-10 | 11:27 AM
#87
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Also, no discussion of this album would be complete without mentioning playing this to The Wizard of Oz. I've done it once or twice and there's a surprising amount of synchronicity.
11-14-10 | 11:36 AM
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For one of the CD editions the band minus Waters recorded a bridge from side one of the album to side two, in an attempt to make the whole experience completely seamless. I've heard it, and it's nothing special, just a sax interlude (IIRC) that adds nothing. I prefer it with the break in the middle, as it lets you catch your breath a bit.
Also, no discussion of this album would be complete without mentioning playing this to The Wizard of Oz. I've done it once or twice and there's a surprising amount of synchronicity.
Also, no discussion of this album would be complete without mentioning playing this to The Wizard of Oz. I've done it once or twice and there's a surprising amount of synchronicity.
11-14-10 | 11:58 AM
#89
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It's been a while since I've done it, but you sync it up to one of the MGM's lion roars.
In looking up info on this (often called "Dark Side of the Rainbow"), I found this oddball video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2848832468214#
In looking up info on this (often called "Dark Side of the Rainbow"), I found this oddball video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2848832468214#
11-14-10 | 12:45 PM
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<embed id=VideoPlayback src=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=1447901706634101739&hl=en&fs=true style=width:400px;height:326px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application/x-shockwave-flash> </embed>
11-14-10 | 01:23 PM
#92
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I still think "On the run" is one of the greatest progressive rock tracks ever (and maybe even the best on the whole album).
11-14-10 | 03:55 PM
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11-14-10 | 04:23 PM
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11-14-10 | 05:15 PM
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maybe possibly someone knows this- I once heard DSOTM had a lot of its ideas similar to another band's album which was released earlier. I can't remember the band or album but they're obscure and I did some google searching and I can't find anything. Does anyone know what band it could be? I read this years ago but I wish I could remember the band and name of the album so I could further investigate now.
11-14-10 | 05:53 PM
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Medicine Head had an album called Dark Side of the Moon, released a year before the Pink Floyd album.
According to the wikipedia page, it's estimated that one out of every fourteen people under the age of 50 in the US owns or owned at one point a copy of Dark Side.
According to the wikipedia page, it's estimated that one out of every fourteen people under the age of 50 in the US owns or owned at one point a copy of Dark Side.
Last edited by Supermallet; 11-14-10 at 06:07 PM.
11-14-10 | 07:03 PM
#97
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I can relate to those saying the album is great but played out, as I rarely listen to it that much any more. However, whenever I do happen to play it I realize that I take its greatness for granted. It really is an incredible piece of work. As great as Echoes and some of their older material is, it's amazing how much better the songwriting and production is on Dark Side compared to everything that came before. The band was finally firing on all cylinders and this album really does represent the culmination of everything they were working toward. Even though they made a few more great albums (some which I like better than Dark Side) I'd argue that this was their greatest achievement. Even the artwork is perfect. It is without a doubt the definitive Pink Floyd album.
11-14-10 | 07:08 PM
#98
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The amount of success this album has had is really staggering. From Wikipedia:
Everyone knows this album so well, it's taken for granted, but man do people love to purchase it.
The Dark Side of the Moon became one of the best-selling albums of all time,[80] (not counting compilations and various artists soundtracks), and is in the top 25 of a list of best selling albums in the United States.[47][81] Although it held the number one spot in the US for only a week, it remained in the Billboard 200 for 741 weeks.[82] The album re-appeared on the Billboard charts with the introduction of the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart in May 1991, and has been a perennial feature since then.[83] In the UK it is the sixth-best-selling album of all time.[84]
In the US the LP was released before the introduction of platinum awards on 1 January 1976. It therefore held only a gold disc until 16 February 1990, when it was certified 11× platinum. On 4 June 1998 the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album 15× platinum,[47] denoting sales of fifteen million in the United States—making it their biggest-selling work there (The Wall is 23× platinum, but as a double album this signifies sales of 11.5 million).[85] "Money" has sold well as a single, and as with "Time", remains a radio favourite; in the US, for the year ending 20 April 2005, "Time" was played on 13,723 occasions, and "Money" on 13,731 occasions.[nb 10] Industry sources suggest that worldwide sales of the album total about 45 million.[86] "On a slow week" between 8,000 and 9,000 copies are sold,[80] and a total of 400,000 were sold in 2002, making it the 200th-best-selling album of that year—nearly three decades after its initial release. According to a 2 August 2006 Wall Street Journal article, although the album was released in 1973, it has sold 7.7 million copies since 1991 in the US alone.[87] To this day, it occupies a prominent spot on Billboard's Pop Catalogue Chart. It reached number one when the 2003 hybrid CD/SACD edition was released and sold 800,000 copies in the US.[47] On the week of 5 May 2006 The Dark Side of the Moon achieved a combined total of 1,500 weeks on the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalogue charts.
In the US the LP was released before the introduction of platinum awards on 1 January 1976. It therefore held only a gold disc until 16 February 1990, when it was certified 11× platinum. On 4 June 1998 the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album 15× platinum,[47] denoting sales of fifteen million in the United States—making it their biggest-selling work there (The Wall is 23× platinum, but as a double album this signifies sales of 11.5 million).[85] "Money" has sold well as a single, and as with "Time", remains a radio favourite; in the US, for the year ending 20 April 2005, "Time" was played on 13,723 occasions, and "Money" on 13,731 occasions.[nb 10] Industry sources suggest that worldwide sales of the album total about 45 million.[86] "On a slow week" between 8,000 and 9,000 copies are sold,[80] and a total of 400,000 were sold in 2002, making it the 200th-best-selling album of that year—nearly three decades after its initial release. According to a 2 August 2006 Wall Street Journal article, although the album was released in 1973, it has sold 7.7 million copies since 1991 in the US alone.[87] To this day, it occupies a prominent spot on Billboard's Pop Catalogue Chart. It reached number one when the 2003 hybrid CD/SACD edition was released and sold 800,000 copies in the US.[47] On the week of 5 May 2006 The Dark Side of the Moon achieved a combined total of 1,500 weeks on the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalogue charts.
11-14-10 | 07:19 PM
#99
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And yet Floyd was almost broke by the mid/late 70s. The creative accounting of the music industry is positively diabolical. I've got no sympathy for them in their 21st Century death rattles. 
11-14-10 | 11:08 PM
#100
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I'm going to be a bit nit-picky here, but the album is correctly called The Dark Side of the Moon, not just Dark Side of the Moon. Leaving out the beginning "The" is changing the album's name.
(Just like leaving out the beginning "The" in The Wall and just calling it Wall would likewise change the name of that album. )
(Just like leaving out the beginning "The" in The Wall and just calling it Wall would likewise change the name of that album.
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