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100
It's dense with detail, but leisurely paced, creating its own dark, haunting world. Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon, but no other record defines them quite as well as this one
10y
100
The music that comprises The Dark Side Of The Moon are compositions that simply describing by mere words do them no justice. It's an album that must be heard by any admirer of not just Progressive rock, but music in general.
10y
100
"The Dark Side of the Moon" ... transformed Pink Floyd from ambitious art-house hipsters to international superstars, while influencing virtually every rock band of the past forty years.
100
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement.
Sex Education
Instructions for use: Dear AOTY newcomer, this album MUST be your first contact with "old music", your very first "rock classic". Or one of your first, anyway. If you're under 16, it's better. Are you ready for your first auditory orgasm, are you ready to take an interstellar slap straight from the 70's galaxy?
So, you're discovering "The Dark Side of the Moon", and you're going to love it. But like, you're gonna be fucking into it, though. (This ... read more
This is an album that in my opinion lives up to the hype. Every song adds to the goal of the record. Speak to Me opens in the album in a strange tense way before continuing with well written songs like Time, Money and Us and them. I'm normally bored by instrumentals but the ones on here like On the Run and Any Color You Like are able to hold my attention. The album ends with Brain Damage and Eclipse which both combine to end the album in a brilliant and almost inspiring way. The fact that this ... read more
i like how the cover appeared in my physics class about spectrum. truly one of the best covers ever.
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Track List
| 1 | Speak to Me 1:05 | 81 |
| 2 | Breathe (In the Air) 2:49 | 93 |
| 3 | On the Run 3:45 | 82 |
| 4 | Time 6:53 | 96 |
| 5 | The Great Gig in the Sky 4:43 | 94 |
| 6 | Money 6:22 | 94 |
| 7 | Us and Them 7:49 | 96 |
| 8 | Any Colour You Like 3:26 | 89 |
| 9 | Brain Damage 3:46 | 94 |
| 10 | Eclipse 2:10 | 94 |
Total Length: 42 minutes
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2w
stop voting for the field recordings genre on every album that has a sample of someone talking you people
3w
kinda love how there was a backlash to the backlash to this album, and now everyone loves it again after hating it lmao
Added on: September 23, 2012