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Dark Side of the Moon
by: Pink Floyd

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724382975229
Label: EMI
Manufacturer: EMI
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI
Release Date: August 01, 1994
Studio: EMI
Sales Rank: 100

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
One of the most famous albums of all time, Dark Side Of The Moon 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. Dark Side Of The Moon 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 Eclipse 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.--James Swift

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- This is brilliant musical craftmanship not just a 'collection' of songs
Just flicking through PF reviews and while most rate this as a deservedly 5 stars, those who have rated less than 4 I would intepret that the depth, quality and craftsmanship of this album may have been missed. Yes, I would rate this a lot lower if I was just looking for a collection of rock/pop songs, but this is not in that genre. This also could be said to be a collection of negative lyrics which if taken out of context of the era in which they were created, you could be forgiven for thinking them somewhat depressing. By comparison, talk about depressing & much overated album/artist - I bought ColdPlay a while ago, played it once and never again - THAT was a collection of lyrically and musically depressing, droning songs, without the ... Read More:

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- Is anyone else bored of this, or is it just me????
Personally I'm sick and tired of people harping on about how great this album is, yeah O.K. it's not bad but there are millions of far better albums out there in all kinds of genres, check out some Drum and Bass on the Hospital Records label like "high contrast" and you will see what I mean, and no I'm not a young hoodie I'm in my forties. Sorry Pink it's too outdated now.

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- this is a absolutely a rock classic!!
i loved this when i was young a few years bak my uncle had it and i loved it!! its oneof those i dont get tired off some of it is a right little trip!! luv it a classic aswell as wish you were here and the wall i also liked the echoes the best of cd which im surprised works so well but is does with all the classics from the 60s right through fab!! this and a night at the opera to beat when it comes to rock or wish you were here and led zeppelind 4 symbols album!! dont bother with all the indie albums there all the same boreing and sound the same!! this is the deal hppy listening!!

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- epic masterpiece
Dark side of the Moon is a true masterpiece of music. It was a album i had great difficulty with at first i even proclaimed it be one of the worst albums i have ever listened to. This album makes a lot more sense on the second and even the third listen.
Dark side of the Moon somehow manages to infect your soul with great experimental tracks such as time and speak to me which are effortlessly mixed with more radio friendly tracks suck as money and the great gig in the sky.
Dark side of the moon is like a fine wine that seems to only get better with age i have lost count of how many times i have listening to this album and yet every-time i listen i find a new way to love it and some new way to appreciate it.
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- Top Dog Prog Rock
This has to be the most iconic album of all time.The ambience of the whole album is just shear genius.A must have in any collection of music.The most wonderful songs as Us and them and Eclipse is fabtastic.You wont be disappointed.

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