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Location: Michigan | I think that the Pink Floyd albulm DARK SIDE OF THE MOON is one of the best albums ever made.
I have spent many evenings listening to that album and mesmorising to the songs in front of a fireplace and just getting into a totaly spaced out comfortable mood that I can just crash out to.
All you need to do is go to You-Tube and type in Us & Them or Breathe by Pink Floyd and you should get that feeling to.What about you? GWB |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I actually get more spaced out listening to Animals... nice glass of scotch.. a little candlelight. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I'm not positive, but I think Dark Side Of The Moon hold some kind of record for the longest run on the Billboard's Top 100 Albums. (Still on there I think)
Awesome album, awesome band. And like Mozart, Brahms, Bach, and Beethoven, Pink Floyd will still be considered classic music a hundred years from now.
And when you mention Pink Floyd, everybody thinks of THAT album! |
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Location: TO, Canada | No, No, No, - only Wish You Were Here!!!!
The other day I was driving with my 5.5 years old daughter and when this greatest album started playing she suddenly told me - "Daddy, is this music about space? There is something cosmic about it."
I was completely knocked off - I have known that for 30 years now but a little child ...
The great band and truly extraterrestrial music... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Just checked... But this has nothing to do with why I like the album.
Just means that alot of other people like it too...
Most weeks on the chart
Note that totals are for the main albums chart only, catalog chart totals are not factored in.
* (741 weeks) The Dark Side of the Moon — Pink Floyd
* (490 weeks) Johnny's Greatest Hits — Johnny Mathis
* (480 weeks) My Fair Lady — Original Cast
* (331 weeks) Highlights from the Phantom of the Opera — Original Cast
* (302 weeks) Tapestry — Carole King
* (295 weeks) Heavenly — Johnny Mathis
* (283 weeks) Oklahoma! — Soundtrack
* (282 weeks) MCMXC a.D. — Enigma
* (281 weeks) Metallica — Metallica
* (277 weeks) The King and I — Soundtrack
[And I like Carole King and Metallica too!] |
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Location: big island | listening to any pink floyd music only brings on a flood of memories. usually drug-induced euphoric moments in a "dark side of the moon" of my days looking for a meaning to my existence. i ate a whole lotta rorer 714's back then, which certainly enhanced the pink floyd experience or vice versa.
these days, i more appreciate music that uplifts my spirit and draws me closer to my Savior, in Whom i discovered that meaning to my existence.
interesting to see johnny mathis with two albums on the chart above. my mom was/is a fan of his and i gotta admit to enjoying some of his music by default. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Hey there GWB...this album always makes me feel much younger and spaced out...I think I'll have to get a fireplace :) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Never was a Pink Floyd fan. Happen to think the great majority of their >Roger Waters< influenced product is amongst the most miserable music ever inflicted on the listening public.
In the same breath, Dark Side Of The Moon is the greatest rock album ever, period. I hope they get one more world tour in before someone important (Gilmour) karks it, (aussie slang, I think) so I can catch the experience while we're all still on this side of the veil. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Coupla weeks ago I got to see Roger Waters here in Brisbane. The whole of the second set was Dark Side Of the Moon. :cool: Just like the album.
The first set was a sort of 'Best of Pink Floyd'.
It was awesome, but I felt cheated as it was the rest of the talented but unknown musicians that carried the show. Roger only sang a few. Would've been unforgettable with Gilmour et al. I wonder if...?
Can't complain though - the tickets were complimentary as I knew the son of one of the backing singers. 2 X $210 tickets for nix. :D
Oh, and to answer the original thread - its one of those albums that I can listen to over and over any time, and not tire of it. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Yeah, Waters is playing in Vancouver soon. But it would be like listening to Bernie Taupin sing the best of Elton John......maybe not that good. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Saying Dark Side Of The Moon is one of the best rock albums ever is just stating the obvious. If the music and lyrics aren't enough, the production is flawless from start to finish and basically a benchmark of what an Album should sound like.
From this list of top selling albums, http://www.retrodawg.com/albums_worldwide.htm even Thriller doesn't compare to the dynamics and presence of DSOTM |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Aw Mister O, there's gotta be something wrong with that list.
I can't believe that Meatloaf outsold DSOTM and Sgt. Pepper's.
Everyone has the Beatles and Pink Floyd.
How many people do you know that still have Bat Outta Hell? (The was only one sorta good song on it. And it sure weren't the title track!) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "Dark Side" is a classic...
but, I still haven't recovered from trippin' watching "The Wall"
... pass the Tuinal, please. |
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Location: Parrish, FL | My Pink Floyd haze daze must have been worst that I first thought. I know I have DSOTM on vinyl and would swear that I picked up the CD along the way, but damn if I can find it.
I don't know for sure
....Ahhh...Ahhhh...Ahhhhhh....AHHHHHHHH |
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Location: south east Michigan | I never owned DSOTM.
With all the copies around and all the airplay, I never needed to. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Really good album. I credit it more to Alan Parsons engineering than to the Pinks. Personally I like Animals better. But Dark is a classic none the less.
Unfortunately I think the advent of the CD ruined a lot of the listening experience for concept albums. You used to listen to the whole LP side just 'cuz you didn't want to damage the vinyl by jumping around. Now it's all random shuffle, favorite lists, my music, bullshit ...
The MFSL version sounds amazing compared to the original. Import actualy sounds better than the US version as well. US companies used a lot of regrind back in those days.
Hey Cliff, I used to buy a lot of imports from JEM IMPORTS in Plainfield. Do you rememeber them? Albon Fernandez used to run the place.
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | I'm with Brad on this one. I thought I was the only person my age who never bought DSOTM, but every time I turned on a radio in the 70's or went to a party you heard that album. Not that that's a bad thing...
"Money" is one of my favorite song ever, and it still gets occasional airplay on our local radio station |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I don't remember the drugs more than I do the music. |
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Location: Phoenix | Even though we all hear the songs on the radio constantly, still IMHO there's nothing like listening to the album straight through. There's a whole lot of stuff going on between songs, and the order the songs are in really "sets the mood".
So if you DON'T have the album (or CD), get it and listen to it with a great set of speakers or good headphones (preferably in a dimly-lighted room, other mood-enhancing items are your choice). |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | mmmm, a little milk thistle and lavender bath oil, lots of bubbles, aromatherapy candles.... |
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Location: Michigan | Lanaki , How did you stay awake with a 714 in you listening to DSOTM.
I always remember listening to that album at a freinds house with about 6 of us passing a joint around and then when the evil grass had worked its magic my freind would pull out the vinyl DSOTM turn his BAD-ASS stereo on crank it up to an unbeleivable volume and we would just stare at each other with a big smile on our faces and proceed to smoke a couple of more joints before it was time to take a break and flip the album over.
I swear that someone stole video tapes of us and sold them to CBS for the scene in That Seventies Show of when they are in the basement smokin one and the camera just keeps going around and around.
Whoaa I flashbacking again.GWB |
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Location: N.J. | Ummagumma and Live at Pompeii are the two that really had the biggest influence. DSOTM,WYWH and Animals kicked butt too. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Meddle |
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Location: big island | GWB, the thrill of the 714s was to purposely stay awake to experience the numbies. pink floyd eventually came out with "comfortably numb". that title describes the sensation. pakalolo was the "hors d'herb" enjoyed before the ludes. |
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Location: Sweden | pink floyd is one of my all-time favourite bands. and eventhou meddle is my favourite album, due to "echoes" DSOTM is one of the best albums as a whole. fantastic songs, fantastic production and playing, fantastic artwork... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
I'm not positive, but I think Dark Side Of The Moon hold some kind of record for the longest run on the Billboard's Top 100 Albums. it was on the Billboard 200 for 741 weeks
That's like 15 years... |
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Location: Taiwan | The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older.
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.
Noone told you when to run - you missed the starting gun.
Undeniably good stuff . . . |
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Location: Taiwan | So if you DON'T have the album (or CD), get it and listen to it with a great set of speakers or good headphones (preferably in a dimly-lighted room, other mood-enhancing items are your choice). ...and don't pick it up through iTunes - the tracks download individually so you have a break between them - no good for Pink Floyd albums...
No problem to go from a CD into iTunes, however, as you can have the tracks linked at that time. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | There's a local tribute band called "All In All It's Just" that do such a very good Pink show that I believe a lower mainland promoter has picked them up.
It's the 'full on' deal; dark, swirling lights, overhead projectors, movies in the background, female chorus. Check them out if the show comes through your town. |
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Location: Michigan | HELLO,HELLO,HELLO.....
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE ???? |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
Saying Dark Side Of The Moon is one of the best rock albums ever is just stating the obvious. If the music and lyrics aren't enough, the production is flawless from start to finish and basically a benchmark of what an Album should sound like. 'Nuff said. |
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Location: NJ | sophomore year of high school
cut school to drink and party down in Rich's basement. He didn't have a mom and his dad was an alcoholic and didn't care if we cut school there.
he had 3 new lps for us to listen to
mott the hoople all the young dudes
david bowie the rise and fall of ziggy stardust
pink floyd dark side of the moon.
my life was chnaged forever
btw I LOVE the pre dsotm stuff more than that lp |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Al - I pictured you more as the nose-to-the-grindstone studious type :D |
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Location: Poplar Bluff Mo | My students tell me you can start the album on the third lion roar of the "Wizard of Oz" and the music is in sync with the movie!
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Location: Parrish, FL | Just finished listening to a digital remastered CD of Wish You Were Here and letting it go one more time. Man, straight back to 1975.
(Whoa dudes, talk about Pavlov! Anyone got somthin to eat? I've got the munches!. I should be able to swallow once I get enough spit built up. May take awhile though.) |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
Al - I pictured you more as the nose-to-the-grindstone studious type :D I've had my moments |
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| I saw the original Floyd with Syd Barrett. Light show was great. I've never owned a PF album. Gilmour makes a really nice noise. The magic passes me by. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by wtw84:
...you can start the album on the third lion roar of the "Wizard of Oz" ... Everything makes sense after just a puff or two... |
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Location: Michigan | With my memory serving me right it was around 1970-1972 era when Pink Floyd played at Cobo Hall in Detroit. We were on the main floor when Floyd started with the song Meddle. Everyone was in La-la land when they broke into the loud guitar part at the 3/4 way of the song.They blew up an overcharged flash pod that burned and blew up part of the stage that ended up causing some massive damage to the stage and injuring some roadies and some audience members that were on psycodelics that evening.The rumor was that Pink Floyd would not be allowed to play at Cobo Hall again.That might of just been Urban Legend but it was one hell of a flash pod explosion that I will never forget.GWB |
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Location: Poplar Bluff Mo | Check it out http://www.everwonder.com/david/wizardofoz/ |
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Location: Michigan | Holy S#*t this might get bigger than
Paul Is Dead . GWB |
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Location: Upper Left USA | My Rock epiphany came when my older brother came home with his Navy buddies and in my room they borrowed the transformer from my race track and hooked up a car cassette player and some very expensive tech speakers.
It was not only the first time I heard DSOTM but the volume was merciless!
I was hooked! |
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Location: Taiwan | My students tell me you can start the album on the third lion roar of the "Wizard of Oz" and the music is in sync with the movie! If you start it a half hour after eating some mushrooms it wil sync with any movie of your choice. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Here's a piece of it- Lunatic Scarecrow & Tin Man |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | But this one is better. Someone really took their time and synced this one-
Dark Side of Star Wars |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Dark Side of Star Wars is great, but the Brain Damaged Scare Crow is hilarious!!! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Yeah, I woulda synced-up that song from the moment that Dorothy got to the crossroads. With the scarecrow explaining "If I Only Had A Brain", if I knew how to do that stuff.
[Short-term memory loss-- I can't remember what I did last Friday, but I remember that whole movie. And I haven't seen it in forty years!] |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Have any of you seen the old black and white Fritz Lang movie 'Metropolis'? It's an old, old movie (I think it was made in the 1930's) and it was re-released last century with a Pink Floyd soundtrack.
It's a really worthwhile experience for Pink fans and/or B&W silent movie buffs. I'm not big on silent movies, but I really rated this one.
I'm certain Fritz Lang had Pink Floyd in mind when he made the movie 70 odd years ago. :) |
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OT: YOUR VIEW ON PINK FLOYD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON?