The Dark Side of the Moon
| Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon
The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. It built on ideas explored in Pink Floyd's earlier recordings and performances, but without the extended instrumentals that characterised their earlier work. A concept album, its themes explore conflict, greed, time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett, who left in 1968. -Wikipedia
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All Music
Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon, but no other record defines them quite as well as this one.
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BBC Music
DSOTM is still a lovely record made brittle by overuse. One almost wishes that instead of spicing it up one more time, EMI had deleted it for a while to give us all room to breathe again.
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Rolling Stone
(1973) The Dark Side of the Moon has flash-the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Ultimately, whether it's Pink Floyd's best or not isn't the point. 'The Dark Side of the Moon' remains definitive.
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Billboard
Floyd's ambitious psychedelic masterpiece.
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Sputnik Music
The human experience in the form of music.
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Medium
While I don’t think the lyrical concepts in Dark Side are all that grand, the album succeeds at proving that rock music can be more than two minute pop songs and can explore grand concepts.
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Classic Rock Review
A true rock masterpiece.
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Hear & Now
Listening to it is like witnessing one long inhale in album form. Pink Floyd is a band that understands that sometimes going inside of yourself is the only way out.
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The Guardian
Everything about the album was perfect – the black cover, the prism image, the poster of those unearthly pyramids, the great curly sounds that came out of Rick Wright's synthesisers, Roger Waters's puckered lips, Dave Gilmour's hippy hair, the anti-capitalist onslaught (or so I thought), the ghostly despair of the music and, of course, the lyrics.
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Pop Matters
This new reissue won’t add much to your understanding of this legendary album, but that doesn’t make Dark Side of the Moon any less remarkable.
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Musoscribe
Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the greatest albums of the 1970s – right up there with Who’s Next and a very short list of others. It has aged incredibly well.
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Common Sense Media
Still a hit decades later, this album made Floyd superstars.
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Rockhaq
The beauty of Dark Side is that if we were listening to this a thousand years into the future, the concept of this album would still be relevant to humanity as it was upon the album’s release in 1973.
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Albumism
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is nothing short of a psychedelic eargasm to the nth degree.
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NZ Herald
The engineers have delivered a version that's even more impressive and cleaner in sound than the original version I have listened to year in and year out since 1973.
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Vinyl Reviews
If you can track down the 30th anniversary edition, it’s the one to have.
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SM West
The combination of solid musicianship and incredible vocal talent is both soothing and haunting.
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Kef Direct
Dark Side Of The Moon is a stone cold classic, plain and simple.
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Consequence of Sound
Dark Side of the Moon is about the mundane: breathing, wasting time, making money, and death. There are no protagonists, antagonists, or grand narratives; the album’s so universally loved because it is, in fact, so universal. It’s a blank canvas for anyone with a pulse.
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The Top Tens
"The Dark Side of the Moon" is one impressive album. It revolutionized the way we view music, and was one of the most diverse albums on the market.
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Vogue
The Dark Side of the Moon still occupies a special place in my heart and personal history. It still says something about sadness and stress, what it is to feel out of sorts—the journey through the prism and out the other side is one of reassurance and transformation, a message its members past and present have continued to hammer home.
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Mixdown Mag
One of the finest albums in musical history.
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Icon Fetch
This recording caused me to hear the album in a new way. The performance reproduces the “Dark Side …” album beyond faithfully. The band emphasizes and varies guitar riffs, harmonies and even cooler transitions from one song to another that make the songs sound new and exciting all over again.
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The Audiophile Man
There’s no dark side of Paul Rigby’s pen…because it glows.
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Only Solitaire
Close to perfection.
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
I'll never even consider it as possibly reaching the F-level, what with my issues with the lyrics and concept and the way it's not that huge an improvement over the preceding albums from a pure music standpoint, but it's still an absolute masterpiece.
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The Independent
I fall in the Dark Side of the Moon crowd, (a) because it's a genuine sonic landmark . . . (b) because it's the first consistently successful synthesis of lyrics, instrumentation, and effects in the group's career; and (c) because when the hullabaloo died down it turned out that the album was an easy-listening stunner, with aesthetic qualities . . . that make it listenable years later.
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Music Musings and Such
Whether you escape in the ambience or let your imagination surrender to the compositional brilliance: there is something for everyone within The Dark Side of the Moon.
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Ignite UNMC
One of the best English bands to have ever been birthed on British soil.
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The AU Review
Hailed as one of the most revolutionary and influential rock albums of all time, Dark Side of the Moon is a must-have for any music geek.
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Super Deluxe Edition
The attention to detail, in areas such as audio quality, remastering, surround sound and high-res audio is stunning.
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Sonic Abuse
One of the most enigmatic albums ever made.
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