Dark Side Of The Moon | 
 enlarge | Artist: Pink Floyd
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Rating:  1387 reviews
Sales Rank: 59
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 077774600125
UPC: 077774600125
EAN: 0077774600125
ASIN: B000002U82
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Speak To Me/Breathe | | • | On The Run | | • | Time | | • | The Great Gig In The Sky | | • | Money | | • | Us And Them | | • | Any Colour You Like | | • | Brain Damage | | • | Eclipse |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: PINK FLOYD
Title: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Street Release Date: 07/07/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Amazon.com essential recording
Dark Side of the Moon, originally released in 1973, is one of those albums that is discovered anew by each generation of rock listeners. This complex, often psychedelic music works very well because Pink Floyd doesn't rush anything; the songs are mainly slow to mid-tempo, with attention paid throughout to musical texture and mood. The sound effects on songs like "On the Run," "Time" and especially "Money" (with sampled sounds of clinking coins and cash registers turned into rhythmic accompaniment) are impressive, especially when we remember that 1973 was before the advent of digital recording techniques. This is probably Pink Floyd's best-known work, and it's an excellent place to start if you're new to the band. --Genevieve Williams
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 mucus September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Aaaaaarghgh!! Yikez!!!!!!!! Oh my Goodness hearing ('enduring' is a better word)this heap of cow dung is worse than being covered in poisonous snake slime venom, it's worse than being sent off to the farthest planet in the Galaxy with only a pack of Dunkin' Donuts to digest.
Listening to Spek to me is like having your nails clipped with a mowing machine. Hearing The great Keck in the sky is like a scene from Hostel 2, Time and Money are cheap no-good filthgangbusters, Us and them is like having a gasmask on you just when you wake up. The other tracks are like being washed in Chlorine Acids.
It's that bad
DO NOT BUY THIS HEAP OF DREGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 awful and just plain stupid August 29, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Oh my goodness, I was forced to listen to this (expletive) bummer of a CD recently and my brother, who is a doctor, almost went into shock at the sight of me: palpitations, eczema, hot and cold rushes I got.
This CD is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. There is not one good note on this filthy disc. It hurts my eyes and ears to see so many dumb dogs run around believing this p.o.s. actually is worth a lousy nickel.
Tracks among others are ALL simply atrocious: Time is a drag, just a slimy piece of I don't know what, Money would be OK if it wasn't a complete King Crimson ripoff, Any color you like is a laughable joke, The great gig in the sky tries to compete with great bands like Tavares and Village People but fails miserably, Brain Haemorrhoids is horrible and respectless Us and them is just plain boring.
Rufus Bingham
 An incredible masterpiece August 29, 2008
Ariella Vaccarino (Los Angeles)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is such an incredible work. It is almost like an opera. Just well thought through, the musicianship is of the highest level and the creativity is amazing. Note, that while many people do, you do not have to get stoned to listen and fully enjoy this album!:)
It is an album that you turn on and just sit back and listen to. A main event for the first time listener.
Still a classic after all these years. August 27, 2008
Parkansky (Morehead, KY USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Honestly, what could I say about this album that hasn't already been said in thousands of rock and roll essays, books, word of mouth, etc, etc, etc? This is one of the few albums I can listen to that has absolutly NO FILLER, I've memorized the songs, and I can hear something new everytime I hear it. Powerful isn't the right word to describe this album. Revolutionary is the word. First off, the music is absolutly fantastic. Even listening to earlier Floyd albums, I would've never predicted that they would come up with something so thought-provoking, so soulful, and so powerful as this. Whether it's the floating feel of Breathe, the dark funk of Time and Money, the acid-soaked jazz of Us and Them, or the powerful anthems of Brain Damage and Eclipse, the music is excellent. Gone are the free-form noisy jams of the past, replaced by a deeper understanding of melody and resonance. Also, some great additions are a backing soul group, and a saxaphone player to give the music some extra depth and diversity. Could the band honestly make a song like Money, with a 7/8 time signature and sax solos a few years back without Syd? Most likely not. Second, the lyrics are spellbinding. There's some powerful one-liners that really hit home with the listener, especially in tracks such as Time (How on earth David Gilmour could still sing the lines "The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older/Shorter of breath and one day closer to death" while he's 65 and not feel suicidal is beyond me.) and Us and Them. They lyrics are three-dimensional, almost fourth-dimensional in their abstract way. Finally, no previous album boasted such an immaculate production or such a huge load of special effects. Beating hearts, wild laughter, maniac phrases, airplanes exploading, money ringing, clocks ticking, all of this to emphasize madness. And it works! It really, really works. It sounds like a man slowly going insane. From this point on, Pink Floyd became the giant Space Rock band that they would be infamous for. It would only be a few more years until it backfired on them.
 I just don't get it August 27, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Honestly, I just don't get it. My father has many worthwhile classic rock CDs and LPs and I have actually been fed on this kinda music and I must say I can appreciate quite a few albums, Ledzep 2 and 3, Pearls before swine, Jim Pepper, Silver apples (hey, this is cool music) and so many more.
When my dad said that this album was one I would most certainly like I really had to laugh. I've been coming back to this since I was 5 and I just couldn't believe that this was once considered a worthwhile album.
To me, it's more of an involuntary hodgepodge of atrocious ideas and non-sequitures.
Take a song like Us and them, it's *so* boring, DUH!, Any colour you like is basically OK but one song alone can't carry an album, can it?
Money is nothing but a lame rip-off of the great King Crimson song 'Catfood'.
Well, I am sorry, but this is notsomuch classic rock as the equivalent of horse manure soup.
Therefore no more than 2 stars.
Chance Watson
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