Product Description

'Dark Side Of The Moon' propelled Pink Floyd into the mediaspotlight when released. The band used their trademark sound of rock and electronics to tell tales of one man's descentinto madness. Including such songs as 'Us And Them', 'BrainDamage', and the US hit 'Money', it has become one of the best selling Pink Floyd albums.

Track Listing

1. Speak To Me
2. Breathe
3. On The Run
4. Time
5. Great Gig In The Sky
6. Money
7. Us And Them
8. Any Colour You Like
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #195 in Music
• Released on: 1994-08-01
• Number of discs: 1

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

40 million people can't be wrong.
Whilst Pink floyd are widely regarded as one of rock music's all time legends (i'm still to meet anyone who has a bad word about them), the jury still seems to be out on 'Dark Side Of The Moon', regarded by many to be their masterstroke, and yet still denounced by some (as a few of the preceding reviews will tell you).
But, as with all great albums, DSOTM has inner steel. First time listeners may wonder what all the fuss is about. Too true, there are only 9 songs, 3 of which are musical interludes with no words whatsoever! But on repeat visits, it becomes clear that Pink Floyd were far from your average band. The true resonance of DSOTM is that it is virtually impossible to classify. It's neither rock, blues, jazz or soul, and yet it's all of them. But what lifts it to the realm of all time immortals, is just what a refreshing change from the norm it is. Who but Pink Floyd would have the sheer cheek to play musical interludes for minutes on end, without any need for vocals?

But when the lyrics do come, Roger Waters doesn't hold back. The three stone cold classics from this list, Time, Money and Us And Them, hit with a potent mix of anger and poetry:
"The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death".

Like a fine whisky, DSOTM simply gets better with age. And no matter what the opinions of others, there is no denying the importance of this album in the history of Rock music. 'Dark Side Of The Moon' took Rock and Roll conventions and gave it the maturity it needed to become Progressive Rock. It was that important.

Released in America in 1973, it stayed on the U.S billboard chart for an astonishing 13 years (a world record by a country mile), and has since sold over 40 million copies, making it one of the top 10 selling albums of all time. So now, it's time to see what all the fuss is about. Buy the CD, switch off the phone, ratchet the volume up and let Pink Floyd take you on a journey like no other. You will not regret it.

one of the better thing in my cd collection
this album has some of the most amazing craftmanship i have ever had the pleasure to listen too in my life dave gilmore and the crew are among thetop icons of british music that still sells all over thwe world today and will always be a classic album for all time

Best Album ever made
I cannot believe this album only has 4 stars! I see some people have rated this album 1 or 2 stars and say the album is overrated these people have no clue about music and do not listen to them this is without doubt the greatest album ever!