Album · 1973
The Dark Side of the Moon
by Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon is an album by Pink Floyd, released in 1973 on Pink Floyd Records, with 9 tracks.
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Album · 1973
by Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon is an album by Pink Floyd, released in 1973 on Pink Floyd Records, with 9 tracks.
1 rating · avg 5.0
9 tracks · 43 min
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The album as sealed environment: Dark Side fuses studio experimentation, Clare Torry's wordless aria and lyrics about madness, money and mortality into forty-three minutes with no visible joints. It stayed on the Billboard chart for most of two decades because every generation rediscovers the same truth — nobody has made an album flow like this since.
The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in March 1973. It built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure in 1968 of founder member, principal composer and lyricist, Syd Barrett. The Dark Side of the Moon's themes include conflict, greed, the passage of time and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's deteriorating mental state. The suite was developed during live performances and was premiered several months before studio recording began. The new material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London. The group used some of the most advanced recording techniques of the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops. Analogue synthesisers were given prominence in several tracks, and a series of recorded interviews with the band's road crew and others provided the philosophical quotations used throughout. Engineer Alan Parsons was directly responsible for some of the most notable sonic aspects of the album, and the recruitment of non-lexica…