The Dark Side of the Moon

Highlight Song/s: Time, Us and Them, Any Colour You Like and Brain Damage

One of the things that are most interesting about this album to me, is that they put some experimental stuff within the first couple songs on one of the most sold albums ever. Just going off of other top sold albums, you'd think they would put tracks like Time and Money first on the album; songs that have that popular or commercial sound to it. But NO they don't do that.

I love how Eclipse transitions into Speak to Me, so the album only really ends when the listener decides it does.

Amazing lines on this album:
"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" (Time)
"And after all, we're only ordinary men" (Us and Them)
"And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes" (Brain Damage)
"And everything under the Sun is in tune" (Eclipse)
and probably the best line ever "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" (Brain Damage)

Money. Overhype.
I prefer Wish You Were Here.

It's been a long time since I listened to this whole album all the way through. This is a really good album, but I don't think it's their best. I feel like The Wall and Wish You Were Here are both better albums. For this one, you kind of have to be in the right mindset to really appreciate it. And I don't mean you need to be high, although that's probably how this was intended to be experienced. I mean all the parts of this album are there - guitars, bass, keys, vocals are all great. I think that it's biggest weakness is that because of the feel that they were leaning into with the whole album, it feels a little lazy and sleepy. But again, that's probably the point. Not a prefect album by any means, and it is certainly overrated, but it is still a great record. 4/5

Maybe I just want to see the bright side of the Moon

5/5 no notes

Classic, but not my jam.

I wish I could like it. I've tried but this doesn't speak to me. Did like a couple songs... But just seems dated.

Perfect album. Great songs and performances. Themes of fear and existential dread. Timeless.

Yet another universally acclaimed Pink Floyd album where I am stuck at a loss for what to even add, I liked the first half a bit more I guess? That being said any album would be blessed with either side of this.

Nothing to add that hasn't been said before. Simply one of the greatest albums ever made.

I find myself giving this a 5 mostly because I've been far too generous with 4s recently. I have listened to it in full a couple of times before and have always enjoyed it for the most part. It's definitely a single piece of art more than it is a collection of songs though. There's not a single song on the album that I would add to a playlist. That's not necessarily a bad thing but I think I prefer albums with one or two great songs carrying six or seven average ones than eight above average songs that flow well together.
The opening "song" and 'On the Run' are both forgettable which makes for a pretty bad start. 'Time' and 'Money' are probably the best songs on the album. The last four songs could have been a single song and I wouldn't have noticed.
The album cover is legendary. Possibly the most recognisable one of all time, or at least top 5. But I think that is part of the problem. It's so legendary that it's almost impossible for it to live up to the hype.
All that being said, it's certainly an experience and a good one at that. Is it perfect? No. But it comes close.

мелодия из звука кассы - это хорошо

I’ve tried several times, but I can’t bring myself to give this 5 stars. It’s a great album, of course, and there are many bangers on here. But this album also has On The Run (I hate that song).
But the production is awesome, and the overall sound is incredible.

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There's no point reviewing this. I don't even know where I would start.

Dark Side of the Moon treats its audience with respect. It trusts that people are patient and are willing to wait for good things. Structure is everything to this record, imagine if they’d tried the CD era trick of kicking the album off with this LP’s big single ‘Money’? The track listing is intelligent and rewards people for listening to it as a whole.

Pink Floyd are not experimental in the sense that bands like Throbbing Gristle or Suicide are experimental, but they manage to take some relatively awkward ideas and make them palatable for a very broad audience. It is this element that makes Dark Side of the Moon one of the most exceptional albums of all time. The ability to make something pretty surprising translate it in a way that any human being could appreciate.

The triumphant wall of sound moments pressed up against the modest, gentle moments are perfection. The general mix and tone of every element of this album is unbeatable. The tension between the relatable down to Earth vocals and the cinematic out of this world instrumentation is phenomenal. Basically, this is a great album.

A classic album. Not my favorite, but very good never the less.

So yeah this album is great n all but it is just a bit overrated. On the run is a pointless track and actually quite annoying.

Another one of the albums that got me to move from top 40 to indie/alternative stuff in middle school. And probably still the classic rock album I put on the most. Just an absolute classic from top to bottom.

As I think more about this, I remember that sixth grade was incredibly difficult for me. A new school, roughly 3x the size of my elementary school, with new cliques to navigate. A lot of my friends seemed to adjust quickly, and I didn’t. School was harder and I didn’t coast to the best grades anymore. I was in the middle of puberty. I felt like everything was changing too rapidly to keep pace and that made me terribly sad. And at the end of the school year my dad announced we were moving. Against that backdrop, this album came into my life. There has rarely been a sixth grade American child so primed to 100% *feel* “The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older / Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.”

“Time” and “Money,” especially, got their hooks into me. (I have tried to make a career of “do goody good bullshit.” “Money” may legitimately have been my introduction to class consciousness.) You can have alarm clocks on a pop record? You can use a cash register as a drum machine? You can have a “Breathe” verse at the end of “Time”? I was awed at a record with instrumental tracks. I didn’t understand having a guest vocalist (say, on “the great gig in the sky”) and that just fed into the mythos of this album: you can do that? I heard this before Abbey Road so the two-part “medley” of songs at the end also blew my mind. This album changed how I thought about albums and music in general, and it has been a steady companion since. There will not be an easier 5 in this project, because I think no album better meets the criteria.

After something like 20 years and numerous attempts to like Floyd, this suddenly just clicked for me. But does this mean I'm old?