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-The Dark Side of the Moon (titled Dark Side of the Moon in the 1993 CD edition) is a concept album by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 17 March 1973 in the U.S. and 24 March 1973 in the UK.
The Dark Side of the Moon builds upon previous experimentation that Pink Floyd had explored in their live shows and recordings, but without the extended instrumental excursions that, according to critic David Fricke, had become characteristic of the band after founding member Syd Barrett left in 1968. Guitarist David Gilmour, Barrett's replacement, would later refer to these instrumentals as "That psychedelic noodling stuff".Gilmour and Roger Waters, the band's bassist (and principal lyricist on Dark Side), cite 1971's Meddle as a turning point toward what would be realized on The Dark Side of the Moon. The album's themes include conflict, greed, ageing and mental illness (or insanity) the latter inspired in part by the deteriorating mental state of Barrett, who had been the band's principal composer and lyricist. The album is notable for its use of musique concrète and conceptual, philosophical lyrics, as found in much of Pink Floyd's other work.
The band's most successful release, The Dark Side of the Moon is often considered to be the group's defining work, and is still frequently ranked by music critics as one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time.
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-The Dark Side of the Moon explores the nature of the human experience and according to Waters,empathy. For example: Speak to Me / Breathe, is about birth and being a child with new earthly experiences, Time deals with growing older and the overwhelmingly fast approach of death - youth being gone before one even realizes it;The Great Gig in the Sky explores thoughts of religion and death,Money mocks greed and consumerism, with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and wealth-related sound effects,Us and Them addresses ethnocentrism, conflict and the belief that a person's self is always in the right,Brain Damage looks at mental illness and whether insanity is only relative, and growing too old to be who one once was,and Eclipse ends the album with a grand statement about free will and causality.
Waters is credited as author of all the lyrics on the album, and he created the early demo tracks in a small garden shed-turned-recording studio at his home. It was also there that he recorded the effects loop for Money by recording the sounds of various money-related objects, including coins tossed into a mixing bowl from his wife's pottery studio. All four members of Pink Floyd - bassist and principal lyricist Roger Waters, guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright - participated in the writing and production of the album, which is a rarity among later Pink Floyd albums. However, it is the first of five consecutive Pink Floyd albums with lyrics credited only to Waters.
Although The Dark Side of the Moon was the planned title of the album, upon the discovery that the band Medicine Head was to release an album of the same name in 1972, the year prior to The Dark Side of the Moon's release, the band changed the album's title to Eclipse: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics. However, the Medicine Head album flopped, so Pink Floyd reverted to the original title.
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TOP 5 PINK FLOYD ALBUMS (in my opinion )
1.DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
2.MEDDLE
3.ANIMALS
4.WISH YOU WERE HERE
5.THE WALL.
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SYD BARRETT - lead guitar,lead vocals (1964-1968)
ROGER WATERS - guitar (1964), bass guitar, vocals (1964-1985)
NICK MASON - drums, percussion (1964-1994)
RICK WRIGHT - keyboards, vocals (1964-1981, 1987-1994)
DAVID GILMOUR - lead guitar, vocals (1968-1994)
BOB KLOSE - lead guitar (1964-1965)-
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Holds the record for the most time spent on U.S. billboard album charts.,1500 weeks
"I am not frightend of dying.Any time will do I don't mind.Why should I be frightend of dying,there's no reason for it you gotta' go some time".
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
