My review of Dark Side of the Moon, my reviews on a scale of 1 star to 5 stars:
Speak To Me: ***
Breathe: ***
On The Run: ****
Time: *****
The Great Gig in the Sky: ****
Money: *****
Us and Them: ****
Any Color You Like: ****
Brain Damage: *****
Eclipse: *****
Dark Side of the Moon marked the beginning of Pink Floyd being a household name, and many fans, myself included, consider this their best album. There is not one bad song on the album, and it contains 4 absolute classics, the best of which being "Time". If you don't own any Pink Floyd, or if all you know of them is the doomy FM rock of "The Wall" or "The Final Cut" you owe it to yourself to go out and buy this album. This album, in fact, stayed on the Billboard charts for an amazing, incredible, 14 years. It also marked the beginning of the end for Roger Waters as Floyd's bassist, as he would on this album begin overshadowing his fellow bandmates, and using the group as a tool for his own concepts and personal views, foreshadowing conflicts that would come to a head in the band's future works.
The four best songs on the album:
1. Time
2. Brain Damage
3. Money
4. Eclipse
The Bottom line: *****
What they think:
Rolling Stone - 5/24/73, pg.57 - "...The sound is lush and multi-layered while remaining clear and well-structured....a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement....the excellence of a superb performance..."
Q Magazine - 10/94, p.137 - 4 Stars - Excellent
New Musical Express - 3/20/93, p.33 - 8 - Excellent - "...although everything your punk rock elder brother said was undeniably true, it doesn't take a great mental leap to achieve the mind-set of the pot-smoking philosophy student and pronounce this album a super-sensory classic..." |