The Briefing Room
General Category => General Discussion => Music Threads => Topic started by: corbe on March 02, 2023, 12:54:17 am
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50 Years Ago, One Flawless Rock Album Changed Everything
Story by Ian Spelling
The beating heart of Pink Floyd’s remarkable career remains The Dark Side of the Moon. Released on March 1, 1973, this album catapulted Richard Wright, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Nick Mason to true international superstardom after having released seven previous progressive rock albums. That’s right, Pink Floyd was so good, that their most famous album was released almost ten years after they formed. It remains one of music’s most influential albums – and also one of the top-sellers of all time (at 50 million copies and counting). Let’s put Dark Side on the turntable for a lookback spin, at 33 1/3, of course.
Released on March 1, 1973, in the United States, and a few weeks later in the U.K., Dark Side of the Moon consists of 10 songs spread across 43 minutes. Despite its reputation, it’s not quite a concept album, though its tracks explore aspects of life familiar to us all: birth, fear, money, greed, mental health, mortality, and more. Highlights include the tense, even paranoid instrumental “On the Run;” the lush “Breath (In the Air), with its gorgeous harmonies; the powerful “The Great Gig in the Sky,” which is bolstered by guest vocalist Clare Torry’s stunning contributions; the catchy anti-consumerism number, “Money;” the elegiac, “Us and Them” (“And in the end, it’s only round and round.”), and “Brain Damage,” which acknowledges former bandmate Syd Barrett’s mental issues (“There's someone in my head but it's not me.”).
Believe it or not, Dark Side only spent a single week at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, but quite legendarily, it remained on that very same chart for nearly 1000 nonconsecutive weeks – taking it into early 1990.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/50-years-ago-one-flawless-rock-album-changed-everything/ar-AA185Z4x?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=a9c7380c2d38442dbad60ea2a040b6e8&ei=36 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/50-years-ago-one-flawless-rock-album-changed-everything/ar-AA185Z4x?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=a9c7380c2d38442dbad60ea2a040b6e8&ei=36)
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P̲ink F̲lo̲yd - The D̲ark S̲ide of the Mo̲o̲n (Full Album 1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69VMx9Kd3tQ
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The only album I have on vinyl, cassette and CD.
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March '73 was also the Debut of Robin Trower's SOLO Carrer with the release of 'Twice Removed From Yesterday'.
Robin Trower › Twice Removed From Yesterday (FULL ALBUM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4irgHExOloM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4irgHExOloM)
Both of these I wore out a couple of 8-Tracks, each.
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Oh, the memories I have of this album. By my recollection, it was more popular in the early 1980s than in the 1970s. My memory could be skewed by the fact that I had a girlfriend in the early 1980s who loved to smoke pot, put this album on the cd, and then make love all night. We did that dozens and dozens of times over a two year period. Now whenever I hear a cut of the album I have both a physical and emotional response to it.
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Beautiful Memory @massadvj
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Some of the finest recordings ever made were engineered by Alan Parsons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Parsons
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Actually, if I had to pick one...Moody Blues' Every Good Boy Deserves Favor.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Every_Good_Boy_Deserves_Favour.jpg)
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London, 1994
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gryCFevszRQ)
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I am fond of saying "Pink Floyd,blues from the 25th century."
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And the vinyl version of the DSOTM even came with a poster