The Dark Side of the Moon

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
One of the most famous albums of all time, IDark Side Of The Moon/I sold 25 million copies in its first 25 years of release. It continues to be a favourite, with 20 per cent of those sales occurring in the period since it first came out on CD, a medium to which it is ideally suited, especially in its current carefully remastered form. IDark Side Of The Moon/I was the first album that Pink Floyd decided to break in live before attempting to record, with the debut performance of what they then called IEclipse/I just over a year before the final release date. When they finally retired to Abbey Road with top sound engineer Alan Parsons, state-of-the-art 16-track recording equipment and the new Dolby technology to hand, it was to produce one of the great pieces of studio art. Covering a range of styles, this was the last album (prior to Roger Waters' departure in the early 1980s) to whose writing the other members of Pink Floyd contributed significantly. Nevertheless, it remains a stunningly coherent package, bound together by surreal fragments of speech (mostly gleaned from asking questions of the doorman at the studio) and Waters' bold and bleak lyrics. Often reputed to be about former member Syd Barrett's decline into schizophrenia, in fact Waters has said the lyrics "were a lot about ordinariness" and dealt with people's responses to the increasing insanity of the pressures of everyday life. Some of the extraordinary sound effects used came from the most unlikely sources--the coins at the start of "Money" from Waters tossing handfuls of change into an industrial food-mixer that his wife, a potter, used to mix clay. Whatever the medium, a new standard for attention to detail and production values had been set and the world of studio recording would never be the same again.I--James Swift/I

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-06-30 rating:
Boring
I didn't have the patience to sit through this drivel. Couldn't they have sped it up a bit? br /The other day I sat down with a rubber band on a pencil and an empty margarine box and knocked out a better album. br / br /P.S Ying Yang would have been a better title. br / br /P.P.S My favourite artist is Val Kilmer from Top Secret, he was famous for being easy to work with apparently.

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review by: date: 2009-05-19 rating:
Bought as as Gift
I bought it as a gift for my brothers 20th birthday, it came on time and was well presented and as im sure you all know its a fantastic album!

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review by: date: 2009-05-12 rating:
The Most Depressing Rock Album Ever !
I think overall this album is over rated pretentious trash and doesnt compare to their brilliant debut album 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' I think were it all went wrong for Pink Floyd was when they replaced Sid Barret with Roger Waters, who although is an excellent guitar player, is a terrible lyricist and vocalist unlike Barrets who had a better voice, lyrics and looks before the acid took its tole and was replaced. Of course you wouldnt have had Radioheads 'The Bends' and 'OK Computer' without Floyd but with lines like 'all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be', 'shorter of breath and one day closer to death' and 'the old man died' its not an album I would want to listen to my whole life and I wont be checking out their other so called landmark classics. Theres no uplifting songs on this album and it just leaves you feeling depressed.

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review by: Cowbananas date: 2009-04-25 rating:
The best album of all time
Thirty six years now and still this album takes me different places. I thought it was over-rated when it was released but the reason for that was 'Money', everyone would play that and for me, it doesn't belong. br / Each time I've made a tape of this album, I always leave 'Money' off but that's just my taste because this really is such a special album. Yes, it is a great song but what DSOTM does for me, 'Money' is like a commercial break in a film, it disrupts the flow. br / br /The Dark Side of the Moon, in my opinion, is the greatest album ever made and I would also put Meddle in the top ten greatest but....I still can't stand The Wall. br / br /I wouldn't politely recommend this album to anyone, I'd lock them in a room, turn off the light and only open the door when 'Eclipse' finished. Job done! 40 million plus one.


review by: date: 2009-04-12 rating:
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Nothing more needs to be said. Just wanted to add my 5 stars. Wish 6 was an option.

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