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The Dark Side of the Moon | 
| Artist: Pink Floyd
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Seller: Pleasuredome Limited
Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 286
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 724382975229
EAN: 0724382975229
ASIN: B000024D4P
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Speak To Me | | • | Breathe | | • | On The Run | | • | Time | | • | Great Gig In The Sky | | • | Money | | • | Us And Them | | • | Any Colour You Like | | • | Brain Damage | | • | Eclipse |
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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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 The perfect album October 6, 2006
J. R. Atkin (St Annes, UK)
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
There's not much to say that hasn't already been said about Dark Side. For what it's worth I can only try to explain my recent simultaneous discovery of Pink Floyd and their masterpiece. I've been into all sorts of music from hip hop, Prince Nirvana to dance music, but I'd never really ventured into the realms of classic rock. I bought DSOTM on a whim one day, listened to it from strart to finish and was so blown away by it I listened to it again straight away. It's simply a superb musical experience, a journey even. The lyrics are simple but meaningful, David Gilmour's guitar playing is spectacular, and the whole album falters nowhere from the opening bar to the last fade. This really is a must own album for anybody who loves good music. Makes the vast majority of "verse/chorus/verse" popular compositions seem a complete waste of time.
Be Patient May 14, 2006
G. Hill (Nottingham England)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I first came across DSOTM over 10 years ago, and I didn't get it. I thought like others, that it was just a bunch of sound effects with no SINGLES, but I was wrong, unfortunatly it took a long time to come around, but it as worth it.
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br /A few years ago I was introduced to The Wall, which at least had a song I knew and I was supprised to find I really enjoyed it, then followed Wish You Were Here, The Final Cut, Animals and Finally DSOTM. At first my impressions were the same but after several listens it dawned on me what a fantastic piece of music this is, no longer just sound effects but an immersive experience the like of which you don't get very often, and I love it.
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br /My advice to anyone who hasn't experienced DSOTM before is to shut yourself off in a room relax and let it wash over you, don't go hunting standout songs, don't skip through the tracks trying to find singles, it's not that type of album.
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br /Be patient, it'll get you in the end.
To my ears, THIS is the version you should buy ! August 3, 2006
DSR (out beyond the sticks)
29 out of 32 found this review helpful
OK, the recording of this album really pushed the technology of the time and often it shows, but the remastering job on this 1993/4 issue is first class, putting the MUSIC first... From the poundingly deep "hearbeat" at the beginning (you'll have to catch your speaker cones if you play this loudly on the currently fashionable small speakers) to the realistically strident clock chimes and strikes at the beginning of "Time".
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br /The really sad thing is, most of you won't be able to hear the scale that this recording is capable of, as you really need a huge pair of speakers (or REALLY good headphones) to reproduce it fully. When I started in the audio industry in 1973, the average smallish speaker was the size of a typical 28" widescreen TV on its side (and almost the weight) and as for the big ones... That's the secret of reproducing these vintage recordings properly, a well behaved CD or record player, a decent large pair of speakers and an amp that can drive them cleanly. THEN you find the hums and hisses in the background and the distortion on loud bits aren't anything like as bad as you might think because the SCALE is so much bigger and more lifelike.
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br /If you've an early CD, the 30th anniversary SACD issue, or a worn out old LP, I'd urge you to buy this version too, as to my ears, it's the best one...
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br /Oh, I forgot to mention the music... What can I say, ground breaking, a bit "commercial" perhaps, but it hit the spot then and still shows much imagination now!
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br /Warmly recommended - If you've never heard this album, at this price you deserve to buy it, 'cos "you'll be very glad you did"...
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See you on the Dark Side of the Moon September 17, 2004
robojam
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I first came across this album in the late 70's, when one of my Dad's friends lent it to him to listen to. My Dad loved 50's music, and so he hated it, but to me this was something that opened my eyes.pPeople will always argue about who was the first to do this or that in music, and maybe Pink Floyd weren't the first to record using some of the techniques on this album, but they were the first to make a million-seller out of it!pAs well as the songs, you also get various sound effects, tape loops, and even the voices of schizophrenics recorded for use on the album (I have NO idea how they managed to arrange that!). This is not a collection of individual songs that are great listening on their own (although that is true for some of them) - it is an album that has to be listened to in its entirety to appreciate it.pOnce we get to the first song proper, 'Breathe', it is a change from the previous offerings from this blues band turned psychedelic band. They had been slowly moving towards this style of playing, and this is where they hit the right formula. 'The Great Gig in the Sky' is an instrumental of sorts with amazing vocal improvisation by Clare Torry, 'Money' is in the unusual time signature of 7/8 (try counting the beats), and 'Us and Them' is one of Roger Waters' best anti-war songs.pI would recommend this to anyone with an open mind, especially if you like anything else by Pink Floyd.
Definition Of The Word; Album December 21, 2004
Adam Cox (Blackpool, UK)
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have to confess that this is the first ever Pink Floyd album I have had the pleasure to listen to. Before my friends recommended this album to me, the only Floyd song I knew was Another Brick In The Wall. I can safely say I was not disappointed in the slightest way. Straight from the openers Speak To Me and Breathe I was fully into the album. On The Run suprised me with it's stunning ability to really stimulate my imagination in ways I never thought a single song could do. Time is one my personal favourites with its clock sound opening and then developing into such a great song. The Great Gig In The Sky offers some excellent distinctive vocals accompained by an unforgettable piano melody. Money is argubly the standout rack of the album with some unbeatable guitar riffs in it and a brilliant solo from David Gilmour. Eclipse ends the album the way a landmark album should end. Anyone who has not heard this album should change that right away I suggest. Dark Side Of The Moon unargubly has a well deserved place among the greatest albums ever made. It is inspriational, influential and keeps younger rcok fans like me(19 years old) into bands such as Pink Floyd.
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