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Tracklist
- A1Speak to Me1:11
- A2Breathe2:44
- A3On the Run3:34
- A4Time7:03
- A5The Great Gig in the Sky4:47
- B1Money6:37
- B2Us and Them7:43
- B3Any Colour You Like3:27
- B4Brain Damage3:52
- B5Eclipse2:04
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Rated 10/10
Not much to say about this one that hasn't already been said. The musicianship is great, and the concept, the continuous work of music, and the production take the experience over the top.
Rated 8/10
'Breathe, breathe in the air / Don't be afraid to care.' That's how this record opens, an album unexpectedly clad w/ wisdom and advice for the everyday + spiritual. Indeed, it often reads as a self-help book backed by packages of funk, gospel, and rock: 'The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older / Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.' This aphoristic kind of lyricism - the sort you might find in a trashy collection of poetry that's more Ryan Holiday than Wallace Stevens - yet manages to avoid a collapse into the maudlin, and in fact inspires/emboldens. Wish You Were Here is, for me, still their best release - bigger, bolder, quieter, wiser - but I greatly admire the sincerity packed into these 42 mins. +, it's too classic to decry.
Rated 8/10
Might be sacrilege but sometimes there's a little too much going on for me around the actual music- maybe doesn't need the full 2 and half minutes of lead in to the singing on Time... Objectively great album still tho
Favourite song: Money
Least: On the Run
Rated 5/10
Kinda overrated album to be honest but maybe that’s just my opinion since I don’t understand the time period in which it came out? Maybe it was revolutionary at the time? Maybe it’s just pop culture that took the album and carried away with it?
It’s not a bad album by any means, it’s just not this mind blowing record that everyone else seems to make it out to be.
Rated 6/10
This project appears to have taught me i like Pink Floyd even less than i thought so i am reaching their undisputed highlight with dread.
I could have done without the prolonged intro (speak to me) to reach the actual music, but when we get there Breathe (in the air) is quite a soothing experience.
On the run offers nothing musically but i see its ‘sonic’ contribution to the album, but so far three tracks in and only one actual song. Smacks more of pretension than greatness.
Another 2.5 minutes of time before we reach the actual song, which in itself is quite pleasant. We are already above the previous Pink Floyd decent song quota which has tended to settle on 1 or 2 (as i already know Money is yet to come) if only the more concepty bits added more to the musical listening experience. That said i didn’t mind The great big gig in the sky, if the conceptual elements were restricted to the bits in this or st the start of the songs i dont think i’d find them so annoying.
Unfortunately Money is better in my memory than in my ears as it feels a bit long.
‘Us snd them’ dull and ‘Any colour you like’ pointless.
All in all too much pretension for greatness with result middling at best.
Rated 4/10
I assumed this was going to be Money plus 37ish minutes of nonsense, but no!
It's Money and Brain Damage plus 33ish minutes of nonsense!
Would get a 2.5, but...
2/5
Rated 6/10
Listened to it a decent amount over the years...it is fine. I am not a huge PFer. 2.5/5
Rated 8/10
Another classic I have never heard in entirety. I enjoyed it. Nothing is up beat or happy its all very mellow, deep, dark and sad but there is something beautiful about about that. I didn't realize so much would be interludes and instrumentals. Those are beautiful but it does seem like the album seem shorter and not as complete.
Rated 8/10
Feel like pink floyd and this particular album is way overrated but its still a good album
Rated 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Pretty good stuff, I'd say. Still hits just as hard at 28 as it did at 13, maybe even moreso. Especially the song Time. It's always been my favourite song on the album, but when I was younger it was because of the incredible atmosphere and vocals rather than the lyrics and the way it makes me feel. I cry almost every time I listen to it now. I think I'll keep appreciating it even more as I age, as well as the other beautiful songs on this masterpiece.
Fav Song: Time
Rated 10/10
An all time classic, an utterly unbelievable record. So influential across all media, I mean without this record do we have Radiohead's OK Computer? Monty Python and the Holy Grail? A deeper stoner appreciation of The Wizard of Oz?
But I'd give it an easy 5 if it had only "Us And Them" and 35 minutes of explosive diarrhea noises, so maybe I'm not the most subjective reviewer here?
Rated 10/10
The greatest album ever made. Period. The end. Want to fight about it?
Rated 10/10
The Good: Knowing that there are two sides to the moon!
The Bad: Still unable to see what’s on the dark side of the moon…
The Ugly: Nothing…
Is it the easiest 5* around? No!
I can even understand that there are people unable to recognize that this is that great albums are all about…
For me, there are better albums, including Pink Floyd albums, than this one.
Which means that, for the moment, Pink Floyd is going to score 5* on all their albums.
To those, who don’t understand why this album is 5*… place all your 5* albums on a row, listen to them start to finish, and then play this...
Rated 2/10
Il existe des albums que l'histoire de la musique a décidé d'ériger en totems intouchables, en monuments sacrés devant lesquels chaque nouvelle génération est sommée de venir se prosterner. "The Dark Side of the Moon" de Pink Floyd est sans doute l'exemple le plus flagrant de cette dictature du bon goût institutionnalisé. Encensé, vénéré, disséqué à l'infini par une armée de critiques et de fans convertis, cet album représente pourtant tout ce que je déteste : une décennie engluée dans sa propre suffisance, un genre musical boursouflé de prétention et un groupe qui, à deux exceptions près, ne m'a jamais inspiré que le plus profond des ennuis. Pour résumer, "The Dark Side of the Moon" est un interminable tunnel de quarante-trois minutes éclairé par les néons blafards de la complaisance artistique.
Mais commençons par le coeur du problème : l'album lui-même. "The Dark Side of the Moon" est un concept-album, nous dit-on. Un disque qui explore les thèmes universels de la vie, du temps, de l'argent, de la folie. Vaste programme. Malheureusement, l'ambition ne fait pas le génie. En lieu et place d'une réflexion poignante, on a droit à une succession de cartes postales sonores sans âme, de vignettes pseudo-philosophiques qui énoncent des platitudes avec une gravité risible. Le tic-tac des horloges sur "Time" ? Une allégorie sur la fuite du temps d'une finesse digne d'un élève de terminale. Le son des caisses enregistreuses sur "Money" ? Une critique anticapitaliste si évidente qu'elle en devient inoffensive. Tout est surligné, appuyé, comme si le groupe craignait que son auditoire ne soit pas assez intelligent pour saisir la "profondeur" du propos.
La musique, loin de sauver ce naufrage conceptuel, ne fait que l'aggraver. Chaque morceau s'étire en longueurs insupportables, chaque solo de guitare de Gilmour, bien que techniquement irréprochable, suinte une propreté clinique qui me laisse de marbre. C'est lisse, c'est poli, c'est désespérément propre. Où est la fureur ? Où est la faille ? "The Great Gig in the Sky", avec ses vocalises stratosphériques, est le paroxysme de ce maniérisme : une performance vocale impressionnante, certes, mais totalement vide de substance émotionnelle à mes oreilles. On dirait une démonstration technique, pas un cri du cœur. L'utilisation systématique de bruitages – battements de cœur, rires, dialogues enregistrés – loin de créer une immersion, ne fait que renforcer l'artificialité de l'ensemble. C'est un décor de théâtre, une reconstitution sonore méticuleuse mais sans vie.
Vient ensuite le groupe. Pink Floyd, pour moi, est un vaisseau fantôme. Une entité froide, distante, presque désincarnée. Leurs mélodies planantes ne m'évoquent aucune image, leurs textes sentencieux ne provoquent aucune introspection. Ils sont les architectes d'une musique cérébrale, mathématique, qui s'adresse à l'intellect mais oublie totalement les tripes. Les deux seules et unique fois où le groupe a réussi à m'interpeller, c'est avec l'étincelle chaotique de l'ère Barrett et avec l'album "The Wall" car pour la première fois et depuis bien longtemps, la façade s'était fissurée et derrière la technique, on sentait une névrose bien réelle, une colère sourde, une douleur palpable.
Cette distance, cette froideur, est l'apanage même du genre que Pink Floyd a contribué à définir : le rock progressif. Et quel genre insupportable ! Le "prog" est le triomphe de la forme sur le fond, de la technique sur l'émotion. C'est une musique de bons élèves, obsédés par les mesures asymétriques, les structures complexes et les suites à tiroirs. C'est pompeux, car cela se drape dans les oripeaux de la musique classique pour se donner une légitimité artistique. C'est prétentieux, car cela prétend "élever" le rock au-delà de sa condition primaire. Mais le rock'n'roll, dans son essence, n'a pas besoin d'être "élevé". Il est une énergie brute, un cri primal. Le rock progressif, en voulant le complexifier, l'a stérilisé. "The Dark Side of the Moon" est l'archétype de cette dérive : un disque qui a honte de ses racines rock et qui se cache derrière des arrangements orchestraux de pacotille et des ambitions philosophiques de comptoir.
Enfin, il est impossible de juger cet album sans le replacer dans sa décennie, les années 70. Une décennie qui, pour moi, symbolise une impasse musicale. Entre les dinosaures du rock progressif comme Pink Floyd, Yes ou Genesis, et le soft-rock californien, la musique populaire s'était embourgeoisée. Elle était devenue une industrie de l'ennui, produisant des disques surproduits, interminables et parfaitement inoffensifs. Heureusement, dans l'ombre de ces mastodontes, la colère grondait. L'explosion punk de 1976-1977 n'est pas un hasard. C'est une réaction épidermique, violente et nécessaire, contre tout ce que "The Dark Side of the Moon" représente. Les punks ont jeté les longs solos de guitare à la poubelle, ils ont dynamité les concepts-albums fumeux, ils ont remplacé la gravité par l'urgence. Un morceau des Sex Pistols ou des Ramones contient plus de vie, de rage et de pertinence sociale dans ses trois minutes abrasives que dans la totalité de la discographie de Pink Floyd.
En conclusion, "The Dark Side of the Moon" n'est pas pour moi une expérience musicale, c'est une épreuve d'endurance. C'est le son d'une époque qui se regarde le nombril, d'un genre qui se perd en conjectures et d'un groupe qui a troqué l'âme contre la perfection technique. Cet album est une prison sonore, un chef-d'oeuvre de l'ennui dont le succès planétaire reste, à mes yeux, l'un des plus grands mystères de l'histoire de la musique. Quand je l'écoute, je ne vois pas la face cachée de la lune ; je vois simplement le vide intersidéral d'une musique qui a oublié l'essentiel : faire vibrer. Et pour cela, ma note ne peut être autre qu'un cinglant et définitif 1 sur 5.
Rated 8/10
It’s a good album. I love the guitar playing. I have always been, and remain to be, lukewarm on the vocals.
I like a few of their albums better, but this is great and always fun to listen to.
Rated 10/10
Incredible.
Rated 2/10
A band and album that manages to be pretty much the precise opposite of everything I love about music. Still, quite a skill to make music this complex and experimental sound so boring and joyless.
Rated 10/10
I would like to spend just a little more time writing this review, than I spent on others. Why? Well, it's probably my favorite album of alltime. At least one of few ones. This album is pure perfection. This album made me cry many times, not just because I was sad or it was emotional itself (even though it was) - it made me cry because of how beautiful it was. It gave me chills like no other album managed to. I really love The Dark Side Of The Moon, even if it's a popular opinion. This album deserves all the fame and love it gets, absolutely. From the first seconds and minutes the atmosphere is just immaculate. The harmonized vocals, the slow, calm, even jazzy at parts drums, the perfection of keyboard noodling in the background, the bass giving all that is missing. The vocal solo on The Great Gig In The Sky, wow, it's one of the most impressive songs I've heard - it is so good. Not only the vocal solo is this great, the calm but tense instrumental packed with all instruments giving a lot from themselves while still existing as a wall of sound, sort of a background, giving the unique sound for that time, that would evolve and get popularized in the future. Time features one of the best guitar solos ever written, the drum intro on toms is so fun to listen to and then the drop to full drums and keyboards, and all other elements of the song - oh man, it feels so great. Money features one of the most catchy riffs ever, with the use of money-related sounds in the background of course. It showed the energetic and heavier side of the album, that gave something more to the whole picture. Us And Them ia gorgeous, even choir-like on chorus song, but then also comes my beloved, really underappreciated Any Colour You Like, which features some genius keyboard playing, just wow. This song made me cry, oh it did even without any lyrics. Its sheer beauty is outstanding. The 2-song closer is also just perfect. It's unbeatable. Many times I thought to myself - "this album could be the last thing I could hear in my life and then die and I would be happy". And you know what? I still think that.
Rated 6/10
Énorme classique, je me suis régalé ça passe super vite ! Mais pas mon album préféré de pink Floyd
Rated 10/10
The Greatest album of all time and it’s not even the best Pink Floyd album.
Much better than Coldplay