Definitely sits among the highest examples of timeless in its lasting appeal and its impact on newer listeners. The definition of a high-concept album that dares to give its audience time to dwell and think. Loved it on first listen in the ‘70s and love it even more now when I see it being discovered all over again. PS: getting high doesn’t hurt, either.
One of the few albums that withstands repeated listens for me. I remember when it came out and I believe it ranks amongst the greatest albums ever made.
I've had a few younger people argue OK Computer by Radiohead is on a par with DSOTM but I don't agree with that. Don't get me wrong, OK Computer is a solid album but it doesn't flow from beginning to end, with stupendous highs and lows the way DSOTM does.
To me this album is like the bible. It's its own entity...I wouldn't list the bible when rating my favourite books...but it's "gospel" same applies musically to dsotm for me lol.
Me too, but as an Aussie no basement but at a friends flat. We all sat in the dark in beanbags, chilled from some green stuff, and it was mind blowing. I am now 62 and have the original and the Pulse concert in 94 in my car and listen to it so loud still. Will never get sick of listening to this and them!
Yes time spent relaxing is all we have. Everyday pushing the rock back up the hill only for it to roll back down again. Sisyphus happy after a long day. Pop Music as Existential Angst. One reviewer called it "Quaalude Rock" - Quaalude was a POWERFUL tranquilizer popular in the 70s. Brilliant. Probably the #1 Concept album of all time. On the top 200 album charts for about 400 years.
I first bought an 8-track of DSOTM in 1975-76. But summers during college in the 80s I’d put the album on my stereo in my parents basement and listen to it in the dark, almost daily after work. Often through speakers with my head in between them!
Hats off to you for listening to the entire album in one take. That's how it was meant to be enjoyed. Hopefully you now have a better understanding of why us old folks say, "You don't listen to Pink Floyd songs - you listen to Pink Floyd albums..."
Yeah I liked Us and Them the first time I heard it but later on it probably became my favourite song on the album. It really makes me sad but I just enjoy it.
I won't sing the praises of Pink Floyd. Not necessary. They are obviously next level, but I wanted to interact. This is the first time I've come across your channel! I enjoyed your reaction! I liked your rating system a lot. I especially appreciated your second rating addition. All in all, I felt like you deserved a bit more than just a thumbs up. So, thank you.
Just hearing it now is different than when I first heard it around 1977. Funny story is that I lived in England from 1973-1976 and the manager of Pink Floyd lived a few houses down from my parents. I was like 9-12 years old. It was a private street cul-de-sac and when "then Band" came by the neighbors were wary of the weird hippies. Didn't know anything about them at the time and then like 5 years later, became a huge fan. Life is a journey to the Dark Side of the Moon.
The 981 weeks is mind blowing. Someone born on the day the album released would have graduated high school and been old enough to vote and serve in the military by the time the album left the charts. It charted for an entire generation of people.
At 60yrs old, I STILL listen to this album in it's entirety once a week. It IS the song of life. And I do believe it is the greatest album of all time.
It's the best album in Space Time... and Space Time is infinite so... Nothing to test, just be glad to have the CHANCE to be able to hear it, and enjoy it til death stops you.
You do the best reactions! Also, you have the ability to lighten anyone's mood, it's a great gift you have. 😊 My favourite tracks are 'Time' and 'Us and Them', such moving, epic brilliance. 50 years on, and this record is still making waves and influencing musicians the world over. 😎
I'm so impressed with how much information, experience, humor, and gravitas you packed into an ~8 minute video. When I saw the video length I thought "there's no way this video can do justice to this amazing album" yet perhaps it's one of the best reactions to DSotM I've ever seen! It's simply one of the best and most timeless albums ever, and while it will continue to age, it's hard to imagine it ever truly becoming "old".
Great stuff. If you get the chance to do Wish You Were Here that would be excellent. That's my favourite of theirs. It's only five songs, but the first and last are two epic halves of the same piece bookending the others and it all fits together so beautifully - masterpiece.
This was the first LP I ever bought. It was early in the summer of 1973, I think it was June. I still have the poster and stickers that came in the album. I have bought the CD later on and I still have them both. I love it!
This album is a masterpiece. One thing that I've always thought about "Dark Side Of The Moon" is that it is what I call a "malleable" album. It can be just about anything you want it to be. If you want music to study by, or music to really listen to, or just some great ambiance, put on "Dark Side Of The Moon". It does any and all those things. And you never quite hear it the same each time you listen to it. You pick up different things and re-interpret other things every time. Truly, one of the greatest albums ever recorded.
It's basically the perfect album. There's really not much else on the same level IMO. People will still be listening to it for a long, long time, it's themes are timeless.
I'm glad I listened to this before the internet was around. You had to make up your own mind about what it all meant. It's so different listening to an album on vinyl. You were more invested and I rarely skipped any tracks.
I just listened to it all the way through again two weeks ago for the first time in a few years. Yes, it is timeless. I first heard it in 1972, in concert, well before the album came out. At that point, it was named "Eclipse: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics". You can only imagine how great that concert was. I heard it again in concert after the album release, at which point they had added the sax and vocals that you hear on the album. I'm blessed to have heard both the working version and the finished product in the early Seventies. After the first show, I told everybody to wait - they were about to hear music that will be in play forever. The most classic of all Classic Rock. But make it a point to listen to "Echoes" off their album "Meddle" - it was the composition that told me they would be historic.
Thanks for your thoughtful reaction. Dark Side of the Moon just gets better every time I listen to the album. Maybe age lends deeper meaning to parts of this masterpiece. Wish You Were Here is a logical follow on and happens to be my favorite Pink Floyd album.
This is the first reaction I've watched where Dark Side is listened to as it was meant to be, all the way through. It is a concept album of which they wanted to use different elements which were innovative for the time. They had Alan Parsons as a sound engineer that was a big part of achieving what they wanted. For me the best way to listen is with a set of headphones and laying back in a beanbag chair and mellowing out. This is one album that is timeless, never getting old and being discovered with each passing generation.
I haven't listened to this album for decades.Even just hearing those little snippets brings back how much I loved listening to it on headphones.... must do again before all the time is gone. Glad you are digging the songs/bands of my youth so much!
The Latin word for “Moon” is “Luna”. “Lunatics” comes from the Latin “Lunaticus”, which originally referred to people suffering from madness, once thought to be caused by the moon. The lyrics “And everything under the Sun is in tune But the Sun is Eclipsed by the Moon”, are pointing out how everything is exactly were and how it’s supposed to be, regardless of us humans…and that the concepts of Time, Death, Anxiety, War, Greed, Love, Faith etc…are all created between our ears…in our Moon. Our mind is the Dark Moon that keeps eclipsing the vastness and beauty of the Sun, which is, “Life…the Universe and Everything”, to quote Douglas Adams. Really enjoying your videos!
Album recommendations: Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin Master of Reality - Black Sabbath Innervisions - Stevie Wonder Ram - Paul & Linda McCartney Aja - Steely Dan Dreamboat Annie - Heart Electric Warrior - T.Rex All Things Must Pass - George Harrison Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
I bought this in high school when it came out in 1973. Since then I've had a copy on about every form of media. The album and 8-track back in '73, cassette a couple of years later. Compact disc in the early eighties, I owned a Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs Original Master Recording on virgin vinyl, you could see through it, remarkable clarity, and lastly a Super Audio recording Compact Disc.
Wow! I got goosebumps watching you hear this for the first time! First Pet Sounds....now this! You were talking about Syd. Their NEXT album, "Wish You Were Here" is a complete masterpiece, a heartbreaking one where Syd is very much the ghost in the room. Do not miss that album, on or off the channel, that's even MORE of a mood than "Dark Side" if you can believe such a thing! And again, it's one long suite of music, everything running into each other......(we must thank Sgt. Pepper for that!) They also did a rock opera, The Wall, which given your musical background, you would definitely want to check out on or off the channel. Syd haunts that as well! And to hear the actual Syd, the single "See Emily Play" and their first album "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" will show you what a great melodicist and songwriter HE was, a great songwriter. They got their biggest success years later with Dark Side Of The Moon, but it took them a long time to re-invent their band, Syd was "the" focal point of the band when they started. THANKS, CAROLINE!!!!
for me (not only me, but well ahah), moon = out mind ; sun = universe, everything surrounding us. It says in the end of the album: "and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon". So, everything has a purpose, the good and the bad things, but we sometimes don't see that purpose and that balance because our mind distorts that
As I student I watched them play this live at Knebworth park in 1975. It was far from perfect, but we didn't care... The album still gives me goosebumps, especially The Great Gig in the Sky, with Clare Torrey's sublime vocals.
737 weeks in the top 10 on bill board is almost 14 years, crazy for an album. MJs thriller comes in 2nd at just over 2 years. Best album of all time? Statisticly yes!
@siroswaldfortitude5346 Yeah, and since there's so many there wouldn't be a need to do every single album. I think the main ones worth making a video about would be: - Ram - Band on the Run -Tug of War - Flowers in the Dirt - Flaming Pie - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
I had this on an 8-track player when I first went into the Navy in 1975. I listened to the entire album about 3x/day for a month...it was so mesmerizing.
I think this is one of the best records ever made, I still have my original vinyl copy, I remember going out to buy it, remember the first time I played it and remember taking it to a drunken party with my friends and playing it all night long. Every time I play it I remember how I felt at that time in my life, what I was doing and all of the forgotten faces of my friends. They were good songs and well recorded and engineered which makes it a joy to listen to even to this day, a true masterpiece.
Hundreds of years from now people will be listening to this masterpiece, It was on the top 100 albums list for 18 years. Brilliant, The Time guitar solo is one of the best ever recorded! The vocals on Great gig were recorded 1 time. Insane
One of the best albums ever!!! Never, ever, get tired of listening to it!... A true MASTERPIECE, from the second greatest band ever (after the boys, the FAB FOUR, of course)!...
The name of the band is the name combination of two blues musicians named Pink Anderson and Floyd Council (Syd Barrett was a fan of the two bluesmen). In the 70s (when I was a teenager) Money was danceable in any club and was on the DJs lists for a long time.
I’ve owned DSOTM on 8-track, cassette, mastered album, & CD. One of the top albums ever, such a masterpiece. It was on the Billboard top albums list for 9 years!
I'm not old enough for 8 track. I've had it on cassette to cassette recorded Memorex, purchased cassette, CD, gold CD, replacement CD, in a box set, another replacement CD, CD converted to mp3, torrented mp3, favorites on Pandora, favorites on Spotify, saved in Spotify playlist, downloaded on Spotify. It's on 3 different old computers, not all working still, on a gaming computer, a laptop, an old phone sitting in a cabinet, on an old phone next to the bed which I've been falling asleep to Us and Them through Eclipse every night since divorce 7 years ago, on my current use phone, and finally on a thumb drive in the car. I think the album is pretty good, lol.
I bought it many times, but I had recorded it on one side of a cassette and on the other there were Wish You Were here... In my "highschool" (Lycee in France), I listened to this cassette in "full auto reverse mode" while waiting to fall asleep. I just woke at some point to turn it off and continue sleeping. I've listen to this album every days for YEARS, and still on, never get bored, always tears, the ultimate album, the best piece in the whole Space Time.
I never adopted 8-track; I have too many complaints about the format. For DSOTM I have LP (US mid 70s pressing), MFSL 1/2-speed mastered LP pressed on JVC "supervinyl" (1979), CD, SACD, blu-ray (includes 5.1 mix, stereo mix, original quad mix). Many people will assert this is an album to be listened to on headphones, and I probably agreed with that when I was much younger. But once you have a really good audio system set up in your own listening room, you're likely to change your mind.
Next HAS TO BE Wish You Were Here. Honestly my favorite Pink Floyd album. I just love all the creativity that went in with every song on that album and the lyrics equally the best too. I think you’d really enjoy it!
Its amazing that they started working on pieces in 1971, did a live performance which was recorded on okay equipment just north of London in summer 1972 before the UK release in November , then US release March 1973.
I remember sitting in a car at someone's house waiting for a friend when Us and Them came on the radio. I had never heard it before and I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. 35 years later I still do.
in my first acid trip i was w friends at the forest , we were playing guitar n stuff , and at some point they asked me to play em a song and what came to my mind was brain damage , as i started playing it the meaning of the song suddenly hit me hard like , i could literally see what they were talking about in the song , it felt like i was the song itself , living the song, and the guitar strings felt like they were my heartbeats , it's hard to explain the full experience however i was so amazed that i stopped midway to proccess what i have just experienced !! that's why this song is amongst my favorites of all time
I heard the song "US and Them" in 1980 at age 20 and it got me hooked on them. I only knew Money from this album when it came out in 1973. I was a late bloomer. I was still listening to the Beatles and Elton John constantly through 1975. In 1980, we had The Wall (1979) and I went back to listen to Animals and Wish You Were Here.
Any of The Moody Blues early albums, which were themed in a way that was quite new for their time. My personal favorite is "To Our Children's Children's Children". Music's meaning to our lives changes over time - what hit so hard in our teen years often looses impact as we get older, but the Moody's still hold a special place in my heart.
Everyone remembers the first time they heard Dark Side of the Moon. I also remember the first time my 14 year old son heard it. We were on a coach, travelling from an airport to our holiday destination. I said - have a listen to this - it blew him away.
I just did a search of all of your previous reactions, and was shocked that you haven't listened to any Led Zeppelin yet. I know that I recommended that you do the Led Zeppelin journey last year when you were finishing up the Beatles catalogue, but it appears you haven't done any yet. Led Zeppelin are the 5th biggest selling musical artists of all time (behind only Michael Jackson at #4, Garth Brooks at #3, Elvis Presley at #2, and of course the Beatles at #1). Like you did with the Beatles, I recommend that you do Led Zeppelin's entire catalogue. I would start with their first album "Led Zeppelin I" and go in chronological order right through to their final studio album, "CODA". I always wanted to see your unique perspective on the magic that was Led Zeppelin. I hope you consider doing it. Peace
Time is genius, and then when you combine it with Great Gig in the Sky, beyond genius. Heard it for the first time during my University years. Hit a certain way then. Then when you listen to it in your lates 20s/early 30s, hits different. Then when you listen to it in your lates 30s, hits different. And now, I'm in the second half of my 40s, and it hits different again. And, it'll keep hitting different as I get older and move through my life journey.
This was wonderful to watch. Your the first reaction I've seen where you do it properly! You listened to the whole album like it was one long song. Pink Floyd created albums, not songs, and they were created to be listened to through headphones, preferably in a darkened room with a cold beer or a good whiskey, so you don't miss any of the subtle sounds they added. Pink Floyd needs to be 'Experienced' rather than just listened to. If you want to see these guy at an epic level check out the track "Comfortably Numb' at the 1994 Pulse concert. It is considered to have THE greatest guitar solo of any Pink Floyd track
I love turning off the lights & sitting in the dark listening to this album from start to finish when I need to chill out because no matter how I feel going in I come out felling a peace. A Masterpiece that will still move minds & hearts long after we travel beyond the dark side of the moon.
I'm so pleased you took time to really think about these songs, look into them, take their order seriously, etc. Really like your thoughtfulness (and glad the rank for "Any Colour You Like," which over the years has become my favorite track in the sequence, rose)!
What a really fun reaction to the full album and takes on each song, very clever! Hope you get to explore their full discography and see the live performance videos, the band not only pioneered musically, but did many firsts in live performances with a near magician of a collaborator for the stage craft and visuals ( Marc Brickman), even inventing new gear, they used lasers like no other by 1994 using copper-vapor lasers that cost over $120,000 each. Watch their 1994 Pulse Concert and you'll wish you had been there but still feel moved by the experience.
Great reaction. Love the new concise editing approach and corresponding captions. And animated you is cute. Your observations are spot-on as usual. I’m glad you’re back doing album reactions semi-regularly. 😉
Oh damn. I watched all of your Beatles reactions as they were coming out and loved them. Randomly recommended this video and to see the change in production value and style is sick. Keep it up!
I love that you analyze the meaning of the lyrics.. Not all rock band's lyrics have a true meaning, sometimes they were written with multiple meanings or left up to the listeners imagination.
Such a moving album, even after the 1000th listen. Perfect, even. When you consider that the album tackles immense universal themes like life, death and time, and does it in a way that's both bitingly cynical but also beautifully uplifting, and somehow avoids being trivial or pretentious, all while being made by young men who had barely even lived yet... wow.
Grew up in the 90s listening to my mom's records of the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel. Pink Floyd was the first time I chose to listen to my own music, and man did that open some doors. You don't get poetry and instrumentation like that in music today.
Watching this reaction had me in tears. I'm not entirely sure they were tears of joy or tears of sorrow. That is what Pink Floyd does to me. Their music is beautiful and so was this reaction. If you ever get the time... check out Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here. Another album dedicated to Syd. To me it's just as timeless.
I still remember the first time I sat and listened to the entire album with the lyrics on my lap. I have listened to it countless times and it is still amazing
Maybe you didn't notice, but the "home, home again" part of Time is simply the continuation of Breathe, like it transition so well most people don't even notice it goes back to Breathe!
Rick Wright wrote "Us & Them" back in 1969 for a film called The Zabriskie Point, specifically for what was called "The Violent Sequence." Director Michelangelo Antonioni not only felt it was too askew of their other material, but he felt it was "too sad" and made him "think of church."
I love this new series you’ve started, you’ve chosen great albums. I’d like to suggest David Bowie’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’, it’s a great story about an interesting character created by Bowie.
Little known fact - the band had played many of the songs on DSOTM live for 12 months, hence, when they recorded the album, all the songs were tracked completely on just one reel of master tape. That's very rare.
Loved your video, very inventive with interesting visuals. Dark Side of the Moon is an amazing album. I also enjoyed your "Moon" ranking system. All of the songs are great but I agree with you that "Time," with its powerful and thought provoking lyrics, really stands out. Great work as always.
This is my absolutely favourite album and have three LPs and more than dozen box sets and CDs through the years and in fact going to buy the 50 year box set tomorrow, as our local HMV has only reopened after a flood many months ago.
Not only does it stand the test of time after 50 years, it still sounds like it was recorded in the future. This album will live for centuries.
THIS! it does not sound like it was recorded 50 years ago
Definitely sits among the highest examples of timeless in its lasting appeal and its impact on newer listeners. The definition of a high-concept album that dares to give its audience time to dwell and think. Loved it on first listen in the ‘70s and love it even more now when I see it being discovered all over again. PS: getting high doesn’t hurt, either.
One of the few albums that withstands repeated listens for me. I remember when it came out and I believe it ranks amongst the greatest albums ever made.
Booooring!
@@kjejon1 It's OK, you'll probably enjoy it more when you grow up.
Could be the best album ever recorded. Hard to overstate how good it is.
Certainly is one of the best albums
I've had a few younger people argue OK Computer by Radiohead is on a par with DSOTM but I don't agree with that. Don't get me wrong, OK Computer is a solid album but it doesn't flow from beginning to end, with stupendous highs and lows the way DSOTM does.
Hard to imagine an album as good being released again.
To me this album is like the bible. It's its own entity...I wouldn't list the bible when rating my favourite books...but it's "gospel" same applies musically to dsotm for me lol.
@@ivanjulian2532 no way radiohead is on the same level as pink floyd like they can be a good band and all that but no way
Me at 15 years old, in my parent’s basement, listening to this album obsessively for months like a little weirdo. It still moves me to tears.
Me too, but as an Aussie no basement but at a friends flat. We all sat in the dark in beanbags, chilled from some green stuff, and it was mind blowing. I am now 62 and have the original and the Pulse concert in 94 in my car and listen to it so loud still. Will never get sick of listening to this and them!
Yes time spent relaxing is all we have. Everyday pushing the rock back up the hill only for it to roll back down again. Sisyphus happy after a long day. Pop Music as Existential Angst. One reviewer called it "Quaalude Rock" - Quaalude was a POWERFUL tranquilizer popular in the 70s. Brilliant. Probably the #1 Concept album of all time. On the top 200 album charts for about 400 years.
You. Not. Alone.
I've been listening to this album for 45 years. I'm 57 now. It still hits hard. I've got tears in my eyes just from watching this video.
I first bought an 8-track of DSOTM in 1975-76. But summers during college in the 80s I’d put the album on my stereo in my parents basement and listen to it in the dark, almost daily after work. Often through speakers with my head in between them!
Hats off to you for listening to the entire album in one take. That's how it was meant to be enjoyed. Hopefully you now have a better understanding of why us old folks say, "You don't listen to Pink Floyd songs - you listen to Pink Floyd albums..."
That is so true. I actually don´t think I have EVER heard just one PF tune if I put it on my self. ALWAYS a full album, and no compilations 🙂
The magic of this album is listening to it at different stages of your life and finding new profound meanings. Happy listening!
Yeah I liked Us and Them the first time I heard it but later on it probably became my favourite song on the album. It really makes me sad but I just enjoy it.
Exactly!
I won't sing the praises of Pink Floyd. Not necessary. They are obviously next level, but I wanted to interact. This is the first time I've come across your channel! I enjoyed your reaction! I liked your rating system a lot. I especially appreciated your second rating addition. All in all, I felt like you deserved a bit more than just a thumbs up. So, thank you.
Just hearing it now is different than when I first heard it around 1977. Funny story is that I lived in England from 1973-1976 and the manager of Pink Floyd lived a few houses down from my parents. I was like 9-12 years old. It was a private street cul-de-sac and when "then Band" came by the neighbors were wary of the weird hippies. Didn't know anything about them at the time and then like 5 years later, became a huge fan. Life is a journey to the Dark Side of the Moon.
This album was 14 times platinum and on the charts for 981 weeks.
OK that is wild!!
The 981 weeks is mind blowing. Someone born on the day the album released would have graduated high school and been old enough to vote and serve in the military by the time the album left the charts. It charted for an entire generation of people.
Did you also know that the sound engineer for this album , was alan parsons from the alan parsons project @@moonlitegram
@@mikekroft86 and Abbey Road by The Beatles, five albums by The Hollies, ...
I doubt this, 981 weeks would be about 81 years
Pink Floyd is for the ADVANCED music listener,,,,💥💥💥👍😎
And only for those who dare to enter the floyd hole! Some never return!
At 60yrs old, I STILL listen to this album in it's entirety once a week. It IS the song of life. And I do believe it is the greatest album of all time.
This album doesn’t stand the test of time. It’s timeless 🤘🤘
It's the best album in Space Time... and Space Time is infinite so... Nothing to test, just be glad to have the CHANCE to be able to hear it, and enjoy it til death stops you.
Whatchu talking about Time is the fourth track of the album.
Definitely one of the best albums ever produced.
You do the best reactions! Also, you have the ability to lighten anyone's mood, it's a great gift you have. 😊 My favourite tracks are 'Time' and 'Us and Them', such moving, epic brilliance. 50 years on, and this record is still making waves and influencing musicians the world over. 😎
Thank you! 😊
It's the best album cover to cover...that has ever been made. Period
I'm so impressed with how much information, experience, humor, and gravitas you packed into an ~8 minute video. When I saw the video length I thought "there's no way this video can do justice to this amazing album" yet perhaps it's one of the best reactions to DSotM I've ever seen! It's simply one of the best and most timeless albums ever, and while it will continue to age, it's hard to imagine it ever truly becoming "old".
Great stuff. If you get the chance to do Wish You Were Here that would be excellent. That's my favourite of theirs.
It's only five songs, but the first and last are two epic halves of the same piece bookending the others and it all fits together so beautifully - masterpiece.
Yes! Doubly so because she was touched by the Syd Barrett tribute in Dark Side. Wish You Were Here digs deeper on that theme.
I second that emotion. As if an album could be even MOODIER than "Dark Side Of The Moon".
Wish You Were Here is my favorite of theirs, followed closely by Animals.
Listen to WYWH next
Animals, and the Wall, and Meddle as well
Love - Forever Changes is one of my favorite albums and it definitely deserves a listen sometime in the future
Absolutely love it!
Hope she reads it
This was the first LP I ever bought. It was early in the summer of 1973, I think it was June. I still have the poster and stickers that came in the album. I have bought the CD later on and I still have them both. I love it!
any colour you like has been far my favorite song
1974 first time listening to Pink Floyd DARK SIDE OF THE MOON never stopped I'm privileged knowing pink Floyd 💗 for the LEGENDARY music .
This album is a masterpiece. One thing that I've always thought about "Dark Side Of The Moon" is that it is what I call a "malleable" album. It can be just about anything you want it to be. If you want music to study by, or music to really listen to, or just some great ambiance, put on "Dark Side Of The Moon". It does any and all those things. And you never quite hear it the same each time you listen to it. You pick up different things and re-interpret other things every time. Truly, one of the greatest albums ever recorded.
FINALLY A PINK FLOYD SAGA BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SO EAGERLY :)
Quite honestly, it's a perfect album.
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@@JarlStenssonL opinion.
It's basically the perfect album. There's really not much else on the same level IMO. People will still be listening to it for a long, long time, it's themes are timeless.
I'm so happy, you are here again.
I'm glad I listened to this before the internet was around. You had to make up your own mind about what it all meant. It's so different listening to an album on vinyl. You were more invested and I rarely skipped any tracks.
I just listened to it all the way through again two weeks ago for the first time in a few years. Yes, it is timeless.
I first heard it in 1972, in concert, well before the album came out. At that point, it was named "Eclipse: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics". You can only imagine how great that concert was.
I heard it again in concert after the album release, at which point they had added the sax and vocals that you hear on the album. I'm blessed to have heard both the working version and the finished product in the early Seventies.
After the first show, I told everybody to wait - they were about to hear music that will be in play forever. The most classic of all Classic Rock.
But make it a point to listen to "Echoes" off their album "Meddle" - it was the composition that told me they would be historic.
Thanks for your thoughtful reaction. Dark Side of the Moon just gets better every time I listen to the album. Maybe age lends deeper meaning to parts of this masterpiece. Wish You Were Here is a logical follow on and happens to be my favorite Pink Floyd album.
This album has reduced me to tears on multiple occasions
This is the first reaction I've watched where Dark Side is listened to as it was meant to be, all the way through. It is a concept album of which they wanted to use different elements which were innovative for the time. They had Alan Parsons as a sound engineer that was a big part of achieving what they wanted. For me the best way to listen is with a set of headphones and laying back in a beanbag chair and mellowing out. This is one album that is timeless, never getting old and being discovered with each passing generation.
I'm glad you enjoyed this. I hold it in extremely high regard, an unequaled accomplishment in music. There will never be anything remotely like it.
pet sounds >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
@@hello_mate8974 I adore Pet Sounds too and also consider it unequalable. The two albums are too different from each other for direct comparisons.
Unequalled 😂😂
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Now it's time to watch the live PULSE concert and enjoy all their amazing tracks. It is also one of the best visual concert of al time.
Wish You Were Here is even better, I think…Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a masterpiece.
So glad that you're venturing into the Prog genre. Next stop.....YES!!!
I haven't listened to this album for decades.Even just hearing those little snippets brings back how much I loved listening to it on headphones.... must do again before all the time is gone. Glad you are digging the songs/bands of my youth so much!
The Latin word for “Moon” is “Luna”. “Lunatics” comes from the Latin “Lunaticus”, which originally referred to people suffering from madness, once thought to be caused by the moon. The lyrics “And everything under the Sun is in tune But the Sun is Eclipsed by the Moon”, are pointing out how everything is exactly were and how it’s supposed to be, regardless of us humans…and that the concepts of Time, Death, Anxiety, War, Greed, Love, Faith etc…are all created between our ears…in our Moon. Our mind is the Dark Moon that keeps eclipsing the vastness and beauty of the Sun, which is, “Life…the Universe and Everything”, to quote Douglas Adams. Really enjoying your videos!
That was a fine review and I’m glad you enjoyed it. Do more albums please.
Album recommendations:
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Ram - Paul & Linda McCartney
Aja - Steely Dan
Dreamboat Annie - Heart
Electric Warrior - T.Rex
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
I bought this in high school when it came out in 1973. Since then I've had a copy on about every form of media.
The album and 8-track back in '73, cassette a couple of years later. Compact disc in the early eighties, I owned a Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs Original Master Recording on virgin vinyl, you could see through it, remarkable clarity, and lastly a Super Audio recording Compact Disc.
Wow! I got goosebumps watching you hear this for the first time! First Pet Sounds....now this! You were talking about Syd. Their NEXT album, "Wish You Were Here" is a complete masterpiece, a heartbreaking one where Syd is very much the ghost in the room. Do not miss that album, on or off the channel, that's even MORE of a mood than "Dark Side" if you can believe such a thing! And again, it's one long suite of music, everything running into each other......(we must thank Sgt. Pepper for that!) They also did a rock opera, The Wall, which given your musical background, you would definitely want to check out on or off the channel. Syd haunts that as well! And to hear the actual Syd, the single "See Emily Play" and their first album "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" will show you what a great melodicist and songwriter HE was, a great songwriter. They got their biggest success years later with Dark Side Of The Moon, but it took them a long time to re-invent their band, Syd was "the" focal point of the band when they started. THANKS, CAROLINE!!!!
for me (not only me, but well ahah), moon = out mind ; sun = universe, everything surrounding us. It says in the end of the album: "and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon". So, everything has a purpose, the good and the bad things, but we sometimes don't see that purpose and that balance because our mind distorts that
As I student I watched them play this live at Knebworth park in 1975. It was far from perfect, but we didn't care... The album still gives me goosebumps, especially The Great Gig in the Sky, with Clare Torrey's sublime vocals.
737 weeks in the top 10 on bill board is almost 14 years, crazy for an album. MJs thriller comes in 2nd at just over 2 years. Best album of all time? Statisticly yes!
Glad you're doing some more reactions now and again! Paul McCartney albums in the future by any chance? 🙏
agreed, would love to see her cover the 'Band on the run' album
@siroswaldfortitude5346 Yeah, and since there's so many there wouldn't be a need to do every single album. I think the main ones worth making a video about would be:
- Ram
- Band on the Run
-Tug of War
- Flowers in the Dirt
- Flaming Pie
- Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Honestly that whole run of Pink Floyd at the time was amazing. Meddle, Wish You Were Here, Animals, all banger of albums.
This episode was so satisfying and fun. Now I have to listen to it ... loud. Thanks, C!
I had this on an 8-track player when I first went into the Navy in 1975. I listened to the entire album about 3x/day for a month...it was so mesmerizing.
I think this is one of the best records ever made, I still have my original vinyl copy, I remember going out to buy it, remember the first time I played it and remember taking it to a drunken party with my friends and playing it all night long. Every time I play it I remember how I felt at that time in my life, what I was doing and all of the forgotten faces of my friends. They were good songs and well recorded and engineered which makes it a joy to listen to even to this day, a true masterpiece.
Hundreds of years from now people will be listening to this masterpiece, It was on the top 100 albums list for 18 years. Brilliant, The Time guitar solo is one of the best ever recorded! The vocals on Great gig were recorded 1 time. Insane
One of the best albums ever!!! Never, ever, get tired of listening to it!...
A true MASTERPIECE, from the second greatest band ever (after the boys, the FAB FOUR, of course)!...
The name of the band is the name combination of two blues musicians named Pink Anderson and Floyd Council (Syd Barrett was a fan of the two bluesmen).
In the 70s (when I was a teenager) Money was danceable in any club and was on the DJs lists for a long time.
I’ve owned DSOTM on 8-track, cassette, mastered album, & CD. One of the top albums ever, such a masterpiece. It was on the Billboard top albums list for 9 years!
I'm not old enough for 8 track. I've had it on cassette to cassette recorded Memorex, purchased cassette, CD, gold CD, replacement CD, in a box set, another replacement CD, CD converted to mp3, torrented mp3, favorites on Pandora, favorites on Spotify, saved in Spotify playlist, downloaded on Spotify. It's on 3 different old computers, not all working still, on a gaming computer, a laptop, an old phone sitting in a cabinet, on an old phone next to the bed which I've been falling asleep to Us and Them through Eclipse every night since divorce 7 years ago, on my current use phone, and finally on a thumb drive in the car. I think the album is pretty good, lol.
I bought it many times, but I had recorded it on one side of a cassette and on the other there were Wish You Were here... In my "highschool" (Lycee in France), I listened to this cassette in "full auto reverse mode" while waiting to fall asleep. I just woke at some point to turn it off and continue sleeping.
I've listen to this album every days for YEARS, and still on, never get bored, always tears, the ultimate album, the best piece in the whole Space Time.
I never adopted 8-track; I have too many complaints about the format. For DSOTM I have LP (US mid 70s pressing), MFSL 1/2-speed mastered LP pressed on JVC "supervinyl" (1979), CD, SACD, blu-ray (includes 5.1 mix, stereo mix, original quad mix).
Many people will assert this is an album to be listened to on headphones, and I probably agreed with that when I was much younger. But once you have a really good audio system set up in your own listening room, you're likely to change your mind.
Next HAS TO BE Wish You Were Here. Honestly my favorite Pink Floyd album. I just love all the creativity that went in with every song on that album and the lyrics equally the best too. I think you’d really enjoy it!
Its amazing that they started working on pieces in 1971, did a live performance which was recorded on okay equipment just north of London in summer 1972 before the UK release in November , then US release March 1973.
I remember sitting in a car at someone's house waiting for a friend when Us and Them came on the radio. I had never heard it before and I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. 35 years later I still do.
The absolute classic of all classic albums!
I was at a very rare concert at the Silverdome in Michigan and they played the entire Dark Side of The Moon in one set.
in my first acid trip i was w friends at the forest , we were playing guitar n stuff , and at some point they asked me to play em a song and what came to my mind was brain damage , as i started playing it the meaning of the song suddenly hit me hard like , i could literally see what they were talking about in the song , it felt like i was the song itself , living the song, and the guitar strings felt like they were my heartbeats , it's hard to explain the full experience however i was so amazed that i stopped midway to proccess what i have just experienced !!
that's why this song is amongst my favorites of all time
I heard the song "US and Them" in 1980 at age 20 and it got me hooked on them. I only knew Money from this album when it came out in 1973. I was a late bloomer. I was still listening to the Beatles and Elton John constantly through 1975. In 1980, we had The Wall (1979) and I went back to listen to Animals and Wish You Were Here.
The way u analysed this made me understand it a lot better and I’ve been listening to it for like 2 years.
Any of The Moody Blues early albums, which were themed in a way that was quite new for their time. My personal favorite is "To Our Children's Children's Children". Music's meaning to our lives changes over time - what hit so hard in our teen years often looses impact as we get older, but the Moody's still hold a special place in my heart.
Yes, early Moody Blues. "On The Threshold of a Dream" is one album/CD I play often. Favorite song is "Never Comes The Day" but love the whole shebang.
Great editing bravo and good on you for checking it out.. when I was a kid this was the all time highest selling album
I was 10 years old when they recorded this. It blows my mind how good it is
Everyone remembers the first time they heard Dark Side of the Moon. I also remember the first time my 14 year old son heard it. We were on a coach, travelling from an airport to our holiday destination. I said - have a listen to this - it blew him away.
Thanks for sharing this, it was fun. I like this format for albums.
Now it's time to do The Dark Side of the Rainbow.
Listen to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon while watching The Wizard of Oz (1939) film.
I just did a search of all of your previous reactions, and was shocked that you haven't listened to any Led Zeppelin yet. I know that I recommended that you do the Led Zeppelin journey last year when you were finishing up the Beatles catalogue, but it appears you haven't done any yet. Led Zeppelin are the 5th biggest selling musical artists of all time (behind only Michael Jackson at #4, Garth Brooks at #3, Elvis Presley at #2, and of course the Beatles at #1).
Like you did with the Beatles, I recommend that you do Led Zeppelin's entire catalogue. I would start with their first album "Led Zeppelin I" and go in chronological order right through to their final studio album, "CODA". I always wanted to see your unique perspective on the magic that was Led Zeppelin. I hope you consider doing it.
Peace
Time is genius, and then when you combine it with Great Gig in the Sky, beyond genius.
Heard it for the first time during my University years. Hit a certain way then.
Then when you listen to it in your lates 20s/early 30s, hits different.
Then when you listen to it in your lates 30s, hits different.
And now, I'm in the second half of my 40s, and it hits different again.
And, it'll keep hitting different as I get older and move through my life journey.
This was wonderful to watch. Your the first reaction I've seen where you do it properly! You listened to the whole album like it was one long song. Pink Floyd created albums, not songs, and they were created to be listened to through headphones, preferably in a darkened room with a cold beer or a good whiskey, so you don't miss any of the subtle sounds they added. Pink Floyd needs to be 'Experienced' rather than just listened to. If you want to see these guy at an epic level check out the track "Comfortably Numb' at the 1994 Pulse concert. It is considered to have THE greatest guitar solo of any Pink Floyd track
I love turning off the lights & sitting in the dark listening to this album from start to finish when I need to chill out because no matter how I feel going in I come out felling a peace. A Masterpiece that will still move minds & hearts long after we travel beyond the dark side of the moon.
I'm so pleased you took time to really think about these songs, look into them, take their order seriously, etc. Really like your thoughtfulness (and glad the rank for "Any Colour You Like," which over the years has become my favorite track in the sequence, rose)!
Very nice job taking on this album. I'm someone who literally grew up with this album and it still feels refreshing every time.
What a really fun reaction to the full album and takes on each song, very clever!
Hope you get to explore their full discography and see the live performance videos, the band not only pioneered musically, but did many firsts in live performances with a near magician of a collaborator for the stage craft and visuals ( Marc Brickman), even inventing new gear, they used lasers like no other by 1994 using copper-vapor lasers that cost over $120,000 each. Watch their 1994 Pulse Concert and you'll wish you had been there but still feel moved by the experience.
Highly recommend the youtuber Polyphonic's whole 10 part series on this album. It’s a wonderful dive into the history and meaning of the music
Thanks for the recommendation - enjoying this new (to me) channel right now
Great reaction. Love the new concise editing approach and corresponding captions. And animated you is cute. Your observations are spot-on as usual. I’m glad you’re back doing album reactions semi-regularly. 😉
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL - IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA ✈️ 🌊
Oh damn. I watched all of your Beatles reactions as they were coming out and loved them. Randomly recommended this video and to see the change in production value and style is sick. Keep it up!
Hola Caroline, este Album es una obra maestra ,una de las mas grandes bandas de la historia.
I love that you analyze the meaning of the lyrics.. Not all rock band's lyrics have a true meaning, sometimes they were written with multiple meanings or left up to the listeners imagination.
Such a moving album, even after the 1000th listen. Perfect, even. When you consider that the album tackles immense universal themes like life, death and time, and does it in a way that's both bitingly cynical but also beautifully uplifting, and somehow avoids being trivial or pretentious, all while being made by young men who had barely even lived yet... wow.
Great video, Caroline👍 i love it.
핑크 플로이드 그들의 음악은 너무 훌륭해서 무엇이라 표현하기조차 힘들다 좋은앨범 테마가 있는그룹 멋진연주 역사상 손꼽히는 위대하고 위대한 밴드.👍👍🙏
Grew up in the 90s listening to my mom's records of the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel. Pink Floyd was the first time I chose to listen to my own music, and man did that open some doors. You don't get poetry and instrumentation like that in music today.
Bob Dylan & The Band's "Basement Tapes" would blow your head off.
Hiya Cazza , hope you're doing great. Love the reaction 👍🎸
I really love these videos breaking down albums you have never heard. Perfect length of time and you get your point across well in a creative way!
Everyone's peaks and troughs, Echoes is beyond beautiful.
"Wish you were here" my personal peak.
Those three albums are mine.
60, 70 & 80 music artist competition trying to one up each other lead to so many great LPs. “Dark Side Of The Moon” was a highlight.
Watching this reaction had me in tears. I'm not entirely sure they were tears of joy or tears of sorrow. That is what Pink Floyd does to me. Their music is beautiful and so was this reaction. If you ever get the time... check out Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here. Another album dedicated to Syd. To me it's just as timeless.
The best reaction/review of this album ever. Great job.
The song “Time” is an Existential examination of the Concept Time with particular attention to Heidegger’s book ‘Being and Time’.
I still remember the first time I sat and listened to the entire album with the lyrics on my lap. I have listened to it countless times and it is still amazing
I've been listening to this for 50 years... half a century... So YES, it stands the test of TIME.
Maybe you didn't notice, but the "home, home again" part of Time is simply the continuation of Breathe, like it transition so well most people don't even notice it goes back to Breathe!
Rick Wright wrote "Us & Them" back in 1969 for a film called The Zabriskie Point, specifically for what was called "The Violent Sequence." Director Michelangelo Antonioni not only felt it was too askew of their other material, but he felt it was "too sad" and made him "think of church."
I love this new series you’ve started, you’ve chosen great albums. I’d like to suggest David Bowie’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’, it’s a great story about an interesting character created by Bowie.
I second this choice.
We were very busy listening to all of this in the 70's, it took all the way to the 80's to reflect.
Little known fact - the band had played many of the songs on DSOTM live for 12 months, hence, when they recorded the album, all the songs were tracked completely on just one reel of master tape. That's very rare.
Good to see you doing this again! “The Wall” next. My favourite but not the best is “A momentary lapse of reason”.
Loved your video, very inventive with interesting visuals. Dark Side of the Moon is an amazing album. I also enjoyed your "Moon" ranking system. All of the songs are great but I agree with you that "Time," with its powerful and thought provoking lyrics, really stands out. Great work as always.
This is my absolutely favourite album and have three LPs and more than dozen box sets and CDs through the years and in fact going to buy the 50 year box set tomorrow, as our local HMV has only reopened after a flood many months ago.
Caroline I would recommend "Rumours" by Fleetwood mac its one of the best records ever made I think you will love it.