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How many people are going to decide whether or not to buy this universally acclaimed classic rock album based on my comments. Now, I'm a fan of nearly the whole of Pink Floyd's career, and this album would be fine music regardless of the producer, but Alan Parsons's role is what takes DARK SIDE to a completely new level: the sense of space (the SACD quadrophonic mix is worth it), the warmth of the sound, the plain authenticity of the sampled speech and the flawless mixing of one track into the next.
It's almost like the band could be playing anything, but the way the sound comes at you is enough to make it a masterpiece.The second remarkable property that I admire about DARK SIDE OF THE MOON is how behind the times it is in many respects -- that's right, I like how it sounds more in tune with the late 1960s than its 1973 release date. Pink Floyd's music had been more overtly psychadelic in the past, but the exploitation of spatialization makes the trippy moments here more out of this world than ever before.
I've known Pink Floyd's album DARK SIDE OF THE MOON for many, many years, but although I've been writing Amazon reviews for nearly a decade, I've always been reluctant to post comments about DARK SIDE. The first is the way it succeeds not so much based on its musical content (its melodies, harmonies and rhythms -- its tunes abstractly considered) as its atmospheric production.
In expressing the vibe of that remarkable period of history that had already sadly passed forever, Pink Floyd created a monument, whereas something more clearly Seventies might have lessened its greatness. What more can I say after thousands of others.
Well, I might as well dedicate this space to two properties of the album that I've always found peculiar indeed.
The lyrics never overshadow or outweigh the music, which even by itself could have made a substantial landmark of a record. The use of sound effects and spoken word snippets throughout the record were effective and hugely influential for many acts and albums to follow, but it's the brilliantly constructed, equal-band effort that makes it such a flawless work.
Arguably "the 'Sgt. Its mystique allowed for "Dark Side of the Moon"'s appearances on Billboard's album chart for a record-breaking fourteen years.
A themed album about the potential of society's pressures to drive a fellow to paranoid insanity, "Dark Side of the Moon" was a quantum leap for Pink Floyd, launching them out of BBC Top Gear reverie and into arenas and stadiums. In fact, these were probably the best lyrics ever given to a psychedelic-oriented rock album, even if by 1973, Pink Floyd's "psychedelic" reputation was ready to fall away to more deliberate pieces of work; 'Money' was the biggest US single of Floyd's career at the time ('Another Brick in the Wall Part 2' was still six years away), and 'Time' is an album-rock radio staple to this day.
Pepper' of the 70s," this monumental 9-track disc made Pink Floyd a name as commonly spouted as that of the Beatles, though Floyd kept their music somehow greater than the individuals who made it. At this time, Roger Waters' lyrics weren't yet so weighty or preachy as to mention their subjects by name, so his brilliant words fit extremely well with the beautifully constructed, psychedelic music, mostly the creations of Pink Floyd's music department (Dave Gilmour, Richard Wright, and to a slightly lesser extent, Nick Mason).
Two of Wright's musical responsibilities, 'The Great Gig and the Sky' and 'Us and Them' are evocative masterpieces, and Waters' lyrics on the latter are nothing short of eerily poignant.
Era lo que esperaba. Tengo el dark side of the moon en cinta magnetica y en CD y el formato sacd el bastante superior. Se juega con la espacialidad de alguno sinido, la nitides es mayor al igual que la calidad de los bajos.
And the SACD stereo mix is also top notch. I am so happy I have it. I wanted this to come out on DVD-A. I bought my SACD player just for this multichannel mix.
I feel the investment in an SACD player was well worth it.It is interesting that Pink Floyd's original recording engineer was chosen to compile this re-issue, in lieu of the recording engineer used on the DSOTM album.I feel the album merits consideration to purchase, and it surely gives my 5.1 system a workout. To listen to Pink Floyd is always a pleasure. To hear Pink Floyd in multi-channel SACD is a true joy.
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