Dark Side of the Moon 46th Anniversary today. Love it? Hate it? Tell me why it's the best album of 1973

>I feel like it breaks up the pacing of the album
Blame vinyl. It's the opener for the B side so it's more like the first song after an intermission.

Imagine listening to this for the first time back then? Like when it just came out. You haven't heard it and you hear what ever song was the single on the radio for the first time and get the album. Go home and listen to it and it's just absolute wank. Total pretentious holier then tough preachy onions boy bullshit . You just keep thinking Jesus Christ Pink Floyd only has one good record! The first one!

I’m the opposite, right before the Sax and guitar solos come in with the descending melody and the drums ramp up, I slap that steering wheel like I’m Nick Mason. In worse hands it could’ve come off as a bad bar band blues song but the relative musical neutralness of Floyd they made it sound excellent.

My opinion on it can be summed up in two words. It's alright.

What does Fantano think about it?

Who cares

>Blame vinyl. It's the opener for the B side so it's more like the first song after an intermission.
I feel like this would make it better cause it just happening right after gig in the sky always leaves me disappointing. completely ruins the feel great gig in the sky left me feeling

I like it, really good, just not in love with it. Certainly not peak Pink Floyd.

Nothing wrong with it I just like Animals and WYWH a bit more

fantano has said its an 8 i think. i think its a 5/6

Overrated but still great

He's a Wall fag

The best part of the album is the wild ride it takes you on. The highs, the lows, the weird groovy space. It really has everything that is appealing to music. After listening to anything over and over and over again, it is bound to get old, and to me, it has. There are indefinitely some songs on the album that will NEVER get old to me, but only because of emotional connections/memories (Specifically: Time). I would agree with
I hate money. But not really hate, it is really good, but at the same time it is sort of annoying and it's loud and poppy but it is a necessary addition to the album, it is a bit poppy, none of the other songs on the album are.

overall a really good album. is it perfect? nah, of course not! nothing is perfect.

animals>wywh>wall>dsot
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most bootlegs of their dsotm tour are great

The quadraphonic stereo mixing/panning of sounds on this record has aged very well. It makes the album feel cinematic, larger than life, yet sensitive to even smaller changes.

I do like how thematically consistent the record and so many of the sounds play into that. Very cool example of programmatic music in rock.

My favorite track is Any Colour You Like as it has very creative usage of tape loops effects on the synthesizers and harmonized guitar parts along with the scat singing to create the richest textures the band has possibly ever made.

Although the sounds do help in making things thematic, I am not a fan of them at all on repeat listen. They are not musical at all, and just waste the listener's time on repeat listens. A track like On The Run just sounds like a gimmick with very little musically interesting ideas happening.

A lot of the album is very musically repetitive. It's always two reverb laden guitars with one doing chords the other playing a simple lead melody of a sort next to it. This is further exacerbated with how little Pink Floyd likes to explore harmonically and stick to the most basic rock chords so it sounds like the listener's listening to the same song.

David Gilmour's lead part writing is perhaps some of the most overrated in all of rock music. His limited technical vocabulary makes for a lack of ability to express in various different ways akin to a Hendrix, and as a result don't add anything to most songs he solos on (except Any Colour You Like.) The guy's the Kenny G of rock guitar soloing, but praised for it instead of being shit on for it.

Except for Clare's beautiful yet fitting vocal part in Great Gig In The Sky where she just keeps going higher, the bands' vocals are not anything to write home about. They feel very stale, generic, unable to add emotions or pizzazz to them.

where is the archive?

i like time. thats this album correct?

I'd have to respectfully disagree with you on Gilmour's leads on the album. While he's not a technical powerhouse when it comes to his playing, his solos really shine on tracks like Time, Any Color You Like, and Money. They feel like they add a lot to the song, the delay on the solo in Time feels like it expands the head space of the entire song, it feels ethereal. Also, Hendrix is one of the most emotive guitarists of all time. His playing was ridiculously adaptable, from songs like Little Wing to Voodoo Child to 1983 his sound was able to change so much.

I too like time

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AOTY ‘73 coming through

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I don't know why, but I just don't understand why this is considered their best album. I agree it's overrated, and that's not because I'm being contrarian or anything, I just simply don't get it. Sure, I like Time and Breath, but those are the only 2 tracks I can remember off the top of my head. WYWH is much better imho.

I don't think most people truly consider it their best album honestly, I feel as though more people acknowledge that it's kinda overrated now. My personal favorite floyd albums are meddle and saucerful of secrets.

1. Animals
2. WYWH
3. Atom Heart Mother
4. Wall
5. Meddle
6. DSOTM
7. Division Bell

Thanks for the insight

I'd switch atom heart mother and meddle and that'd be a fine list.

no one really thinks it’s their best it’s just a good intro for teens and normies

Everything pre-Meddle feels disorganized compared to everything that came afterwards.

Meddle, WYWH, and Animals have longer tracks as their centerpieces that don't transition as smoothly nor do they have the thematic cohesion DSOTM has. The Wall's extremely bloated compared to DSOTM.

Post-Wall stuff just isn't loved as much as Pre-Wall stuff.

Is Larks' Tongues in Aspic the prog rock equivalent of Dark Side of the Moon?
>released in march 1973
>considered a sophisticated artistic masterpiece
>front cover art is a simple yet iconic illustration without the band or album name
>a lot of the tracks fade in to each other
>side 1 ends with a wistful and melancholy song about regrets or something
>side 2 opens with weird rhythmic sound effects that introduce an cynical, hard, blues/jazz rock song about money and the jerks who try to earn it
>many other tracks also feature interesting effects
>has a track somewhere in the album that basically consists of a repetitive instrumental buildup that is cut off by a large noise, and is considered by some to be one of the weaker tracks on the album
>best when listened to as a whole instead of skipping around track by track

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Dark Side is a 10/10 record and anyone that says it is overrated is being contrarian

Great album but I prefer Selling England by the Pound for 1973

7.5/10, decent, not the best record of 1973, and definitely way, way the fuck overrated in terms of both critical acclaim and sales numbers. Contrarians are correct about this one.

1. The Wall
2. DSOTM
3. Meddle
4. WWYH
5. Animals
6. the rest

I really am not a fan of the pre-Waters era stuff. Sue me.

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Saucerful
Piper
Wish You Were Here
DSOTM
Wall
Animals
Meddle
Division Bell
Ummagumma
Final Cut
Atom Heart Mother
Momentary Lapse
Endless River

anything these queers made that wasnt about intergalactic warfare is crap

Everyone in here acting like normie teens and boomers liking this album makes it bad. Its just proof of how universally liked it is, and its so liked because its so good.

Still have the poster. Sorry for sideways pic.

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just listened to it the first time. I'm amazed everyone was right about jerking off to this album

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The Wall > DSOTM > WYWH
All are 10/10 though

>>has a track somewhere in the album that basically consists of a repetitive instrumental buildup that is cut off by a large noise, and is considered by some to be one of the weaker tracks on the album

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>10>10>10

>user has been copyright striked for the usage of a Robert Fripp ™ pic

They're different shades of 10.