Dark Side of the Moon

Submitted by Paul Salman on 14 February 2013 - 10:43pm

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Pink Floyd

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Speak To Me / Breathe*On the Run*Time / Breathe (reprise)*The Great Gig In the Sky*Money*Us And Them*Any Colour You Like*Brain Damage*Eclipse

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Bean

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Thursday, 26 June 2008

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90

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Set the controls for the heart of the moon

1-2-3-5-8-9

6

A popular misconception is that this album marks the transformation of Pink Floyd from a quant, charmingly eccentric, psychedelic, art-pop group into the gargantuan, overblown, disconnected, lumbering rock monster that symbolises all that is wrong with rock music when it takes itself too seriously. The real history is a bit different, I would venture, and to me this album feels like a bit like a one-off where the band managed to rein in their tendency to over-indulge their perhaps not-so-interesting soloing tendencies and make a neat, exciting and wonderful piece of pop precision. It's pop music not because anything here could really have ever really done any damage to the singles charts but because these are all straight-forward, simple, tuneful, crisp-sounding songs that are easy to understand musically and lyrically. And that's largely what makes it so wonderful - they somehow stopped themselves wandering off into the cul-de-sacs they explore on albums both before and after this one.

This is really the album by which to judge other albums, in terms of its variety, invention, conciseness and cohesiveness. Trying to pick faults in it - well I'm not too sure, I'll have to get back to you on that.
90

reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Paul Salman

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4

This is one of my favourite albums it hits all the right buttons at many levels. The lyrics are powerfully evocative the music is rich and innovative. It still seems as fresh today as when it was produced in the seventies.
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Who are this band? Why haven't I heard of them?

1-2-6

Who are this band? An album not too far from perfection in the perfectionists point of view. Great production, almost not dated at all, with varied songs that make this album a real experience to listen to. Track two is early psychedelic trance in a primitive form, very daring and innovative.