@@Quadr44t Most of us do as we think life is long when were young . Many don't figure it out until they hit around 35-40 to then realise time has slipped by in the blink of an eye .
@@jollygrapefruit786 stop chugging out mindless bullshit like this, you know it's not true . You really think people are gonna stop loving DSOTM? Really? Just think about it for a sec.
It's about the human condition, and it's timeless for the same reason Shakespeare is timeless; it's about emotions which are integral to human existence.
I know it’s a cliche at this point, but Dark Side of the Moon really is one of the greatest albums ever made. I re-listened to it recently for the 50th and just had chills down my spine the entire time. Music does not get much better than that.
I listen to like 90% hip hop and rap but I still bump this shit 2-3 times per month. Cover to cover. Incredible and timeless. Lives up to ALL the hype.
I'm 40 years old. When I listened to it as a kid, certain songs were my favorites. In high school, a different song was my favorite. I went through two or three different favorites during college and then post college as well. Add another 15 years, and I now find myself drawn to even different ones again. The album has aged with me. It's much more sad and jaded as I get older, sadder, and more cynical. Damn.
This album has been with me during my best and worst days. Being relatively young (21 years old this year) I’ve only really had 9 years with this album. Yet through all of that it has always been with me. It’s been in my Spotify top 5 albums every years for 9 years, and will always be special to growing up. This album will always be there for my, and I will always be grateful for it. Happy 50th DSOTM, I’m so glad to have you.
We didn't have a lot of money to spend on video tapes when I was growing up, but I definitely remember my dad buying the Wizard of Oz special edition VHS specifically so he could sync it up with Dark Side for my brother and I. And I've loved Pink Floyd ever since and I'm glad my dad and I could bond over stuff like this. (This was in 1989 or 1990 btw, *long, long* before it was "discovered" by the internet.
This was almost surely 1989, which was the 50th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz. This was the year that many people, (including me) were responsible for releasing and publicizing the 50th Anniversary special edition VHS tape of Wizard of Oz. It seems fitting that here we are talking about the 50th anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon -- two timeless classics. :)
Yeah, I remember my boss in 1990 telling me about the sync up. My parents didn't have a VCR when I was younger in the late eighties, and I sure couldn't afford one. Maaybe the Dark Side of the OZ originated on eighties Usenet, but I am sure it is a pre-internet meme.
Subject matter aside I love when your videos have the occasional off-the-cuff asides like this one. Planned, captivating information interspersed with dry honesty and I love it. You're definitely up there with the best video essayists and music UA-camrs in my opinion. Keep it up, man.
Just watched the full doc on Nebula as well as the Wish You Were Here Companion piece that you did a few months back and holy moly I just wanted to express my gratitude for these absolutely gorgeous, brilliantly made and sublimely put together videos. Both are deeply moving and a valuable glimpse into the artistic process of the group as well as their interpersonal relations - which obviously may resonate with many. Thank you thank you thank you for two beautiful soulful hours of music and art.
I first heard Time in 1976, and it is still my favorite song. I haven't listened to the album all in one session for decades. I just did that an hour ago, and nearly blew up the stereo because I kept turning it up. Then, just now, I discovered this video. Jeez, I should buy a lottery ticket today!
The lamb lies down on Broadway is such an underated album, the performances by all the members on genesis are amazing with so much personality and detail in the song writing. It's an album that could be described as weird but I think it just takes risks and it pays off well surpassing the wall in the pantheon of rock operas in my opinion.
Such a special album. I loved it from the time I first heard it as a child, and it has just continued to present new meanings with age. Truly a masterpiece
in my car I carry a HUGE CD binder full of cloned CDs (not to promote piracy, I just don't want my collection stolen so I make copies of cds I own). this album takes the second spot in that binder, even though it is banned from play in my car - I even give the binder to friends who ride along and tell them they can choose any cd EXCEPT that one. it just puts me in such a mindstate that I can't even safely drive - it is that good...
I'm 30, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here were two of the first cds I bought for myself. Pink Floyd knows what's up and every time you gush about them it makes me happy.
That scenario you laid out at the beginning ... the stoner friend sharing Floyd ... totally happened to me. In the early '80s in college, late at night, my buddy had just discovered the album and put it on and we just laid back in chairs in the dorm room in the dark, smoking weed and vibing out. Sweet times.
There are three big takeaways I get from this album. 1 - It’s a miracle that for an album as ubiquitous as TDSotM, it can create numerous personalised experiences. Relatedly, it’s an album you can listen to it in a number of different ways and yet still sounds fresh and new and exciting. For comparison’s sake, can you do the same to say Thriller or Nevermind or The Eagles’s Greatest Hits (whatever years they were supposed to be)? 2 - It was successful on its own terms. You have a band who, while making a through and through rock album, were able to put a lot more into it. This was never meant to be a “commercial hit”, and yet it became one. And it was well-earned as it was well-crafted all around and well-realised. 3 - To go back and build upon the first point, it’s an album with a very clear viewpoint (based mostly on the lyrics). And yet, it never sounds pedantic or condescending. This is not telling you what to think or feel. If anything, it’s just being honest and candour. But there’s the space for anyone to “roam” and take whatever is needed.
I tried doing the Dark Side of the Rainbow experiment once. It felt exactly like I was trying to watch a movie and listen to a rock album at the same time.
The dystopian madness that runs through this album has definitely become more and more poignant and as relevant as ever. It's interesting in that it's doesn't just sound like dated politics. There's a genuine timelessness to it theme wise.
I first heard Pink Floyd do this album live, before the album was released. I, like pretty much everyone else in the crowd, was tripping on LSD and the music entered my DNA and has been a part of my being ever since. It is a guiding light in life. I remember the security guards, hired police, standing at the foot of the stage who were there to protect the band. During "Us and Them" I saw them turned around watching the light show with looks of total amazement on their faces and wondered if the music had entered them as well.
Approaching middle age, I tried listening to The Wall 5 years ago. It felt very juvenile. Like I have to be an idealistic and angry young person to appreciate it. But Dark Side and Wish You Were are still phenomenal front to back. And I still know when Shine On finally kicks in.
The Wall is about stardom in at least some capacity so it’s naturally juvenile, but that isn’t the whole story. It’s about juvenile experiences leading to a pretty shitty life
I had these virtues given to me by my dad when i was 8 years old and dad was 43, I'm now 17 and i must say the dark side of the moon is something else.
After you mentioned it in this video, I went and listened to all of Dub Side of the Moon - it's genuinely amazing and I'm glad you shared it. I owe you one!
This is a perfect album and I connect to it everytime I listen too it. I loved your Dark Side of the Moon project and it really helped me visulalise everything I thought about and felt while listening to it.
In my point of view, Time is song which transmitting the creation of Universe with Gilmour's guitar, Wright's keyboard, Manson drums and Waters lyrics.
Dark Side of the Moon is completely timeless. From the lyrics, to the production, the art, and the music-that jazz influenced, prog-rock with completely comfortable and familiar phrasing, lyrical patterns, rhythm and structure. It is a master class in sound as an art. & I thank you for highlighting each piece.
I watched the Godfather for the first time back in October of 2022. And at the time, I didn’t realize it had turned 50. I listened to DSOTM for the first time in its entirety back in December. The point is, greatness is relevant regardless of time. I’m proud to say this is one of the greatest albums ever made.
On the run changed my life forever, it was one of the first synth lines I’ve ever heard, and it completely changed the trajectory of my passion. I became a synth nerd then and there. Then your Dark Side of the Moon project deepened my appreciation for it about a hundred times.
I know this will sound pretentious, but I can vividly recall and describe my first time. 15 years old. Beanbag chair in a dimly lit room, sitting in front of a westward facing window, soaking in the sunset. Dad's cushiony, high quality 70's headphones. The album transported me to a magical place, and soon I found myself soaring around within the cotton candy clouds of an awe inspiring sunset. The opening heartbeats, the gorgeous bloom that is the first chord of "Breathe(In The Air)". The frantic, swirling arpeggi of "On the Run". The powerful nostalgia and longing of "Time". The primal, crescendoing orgasm that is "The Great Gig in the Sky". The bouncing, funky fun of "Money", the soothing, buttery-smoothness of "Us and Them", the pure 70's porno movie soundtrack stylings of "Any Colour You Like" gleefully bouncing from ear to ear, the delightfully deranged lunacy conjured by "Brain Damage", and the poignant, powerful culmination of the entire experience that is "Eclipse". By then the sun had set, and it seemed so appropriate that I could behold the silvery light of a full moon shining, but it lay out of sight, climbing upward through the night sky somewhere behind me in the east. I sat there in total silence for what must've been an hour contemplating...well, everything. Life, time, love, and the mind. I knew that night, without a shadow of a doubt, that I had just experienced nothing short of a masterpiece. I will never forget that night.
I took your advice and listened to the album - I still have the vinyl copy I bought in 1980 - straight through. Again. All the tunes have been happily running through my head ever since.
People say the album is overrated because it’s popularity. It’s not. An album that’s transcended music and influenced a new decade of progressive rock should never be considered “overrated”. The album is perfect. Dark side of the moon makes you think and appreciate musicality on a whole new spectrum. It’s a culmination of creative writers working at their absolute best. Pink Floyd will forever go down as one of the greatest bands of all time. That created one of the best albums of all time.
I love your passion. For me, my uncle hooked me into this album when I was 10. I did not understand it then. It has grown with me. I am now 53. And i still find things in it. Thank you for your video!
You are right. It is the single-most iconic music album of all time, regardless of what anyone's favorite one is. If we can't celebrate that, then what can we celebrate?
This album should be a mandatory module for school music exams. DSOTM is an urgent clarion call to all the awakened hearts out there to shed the baggage of society and redefine what it means to be human. No more loneliness and isolation, no more madness at the superficiality of it all. We are transcendent beings and DSOTM is clear evidence of that fact.
I think it would be ruined by being mandatory. Each person needs to come across it for themselves, at the time in their life where everything about it will really resonate with them. And that will be at a (slightly) different age for each person.
My niece played Dorothy in her High School's production last year...I made her sit down and watch Dark Side of the Rainbow before they started rehearsals and she apparently played nothing but DSotM for months afterward...
This is the best video I’ve ever watched about Dark Side of the Moon (which I became re-obsessed with recently). It’s also the first video I’ve ever watched about it. Going to explore s’more.
Hey man. Just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this video. It felt very.. real. Like, highly real and contageous. You obviously love music and you adore this album, and hearing your genuine, unscripted enthusiasm for it in this video was strangely touching. I feel like you're such a cool guy, I wish I could meet you in a cafe sometime and chat about music for hours on end.
This is the most candid I've heard you speak in a video. There really is something so special about an album that compels everybody to talk about it so naturally. Truly the greatest album of all time.
Fun as hell to watch! I tried every other pink floyd album for the second half of Wizard of Oz. Animals sinks up the best in my opinion. If the first track begins just as the characters feet land on the yellow brick road after the flower field, it sinks up in interesting ways. Pigs (three different ones) begins as they are arriving at the wicked witch's castle, and the dramatic breakdown guitar solo at the end peeks and fades away exactly as the witch is melting. Along with many other interesting patterns for the mind to think about.
And to me it's 29 years having this album as one of my most beloved music companions. It changed my mind and changed the true meaning of music as an art form for me.
now idk what psyche pink floyd tapped into when making this album, but I do know it hasn't been quite reached since. they defined the human experience in 40 minutes, making it so universally relatable that it will never age as long as humans continue to survive. and as polyphonic said, its freaking good
Dark Side of the Moon is one of the greatest achievements of mankind. Say what you will about it but it’s legacy is forever bound as one of the all time greats. Still the best Floyd album 50 years later.
Hahahh love the commentary. I used to listen to this and other "dark" albums too much and then drifted away from them when I turned 30 and tried to be more "positive". Now that I'm almost 60 I can appreciate the depth of the music more and even some of the positive messages. So great to finally reach a time with the internet where we can appreciate these things together and have great discussions about them. Back in the day the shared appreciation was going to the science center where they would have laser shows with the album. Now we have even better, right on our screens.
Yea, I didn’t grow up on rock (mostly hip hop and r&b).. and by the time I heard it, I was already in law school.. so I had heard a LOT of great music up to that point.. I was floored when I heard it, I’m floored any time I hear it.. it might be the most “ALBUM” of any album I’ve ever heard (cliches only develop because there’s some truth lol).. favorite memory to it was smoking in my car, putting on my headphones and walking around in the (completely empty) redwood forests of Northern California to it.. highly recommended, if you get a chance.. the music was synonymous with nature itself.. perfectly in flow with evolution.. inevitable.
Polyphonic please consider doing an Elliott smith video! Don’t think a hole track by track of either/or is possible for you but even just a summary video would be great!! Keep up the great work!
My step-dad gave me his old stereo when i was probably around 16. One of the two records that came with it was Bad Company - Rock n Roll Fantasy and Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon, man talk about being blown away.
Once I was o nvacation to I place I had been 10 years before and I listened to ". And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" and it changed my life. I could not longer remain a recluse. That same year I met the girl I'd marry and had two daughters with. The memories I've had with my wife and the lives of two little girls exist because of that song. That album changed the world, even if by tiny little bits like this. It's impossible to measure, but easy to acknowledge. The same way each song adds up to more than the sum of their parts, this album is greater than any of the people that worked on it. It belongs to humanity.
I played it last night and I can honestly say I have never tired of , if anything it gets better and better . I was 4 when it was released and I , CLEARLY, remember my dad playing it in the car on a cassette and we talked about the heart beat ( I now know this was a kick drum) intro
This album made a lasting impression on me when I first heard it as a kid in the late 70s. My favourite album of all time and agree still relevent today.
Perfectly done and so fantastically said. I absolutely get how impossible it is to speak originally about this album. It really can't be helped. Works of art like this that engage and influence so many...well, it just doesn't happen that often, so when it does, it's effectively immeasurable. And yes, it rocks. After listening to it far more times than I could even hope to count, it still holds up. It's just superb music that always manages to take me somewhere.
Every song is iconic and timeless, but Us and Them just hits on a whole other level
well... the album does have a song called "time" so how timeless is it REALLY
Have you heard the lady yell??? I like the lady yellin... lady yell good.
But time is timeless...the struggle against time is eternal...
The pre-studio versions, with Gilmour's wordless vocals instead of Parry's saxophone, are stunning.
@@petiteflower5259 woah! That's really deep. I agree with that statement.
What I like with the song "time" is that the older we get, the more the lyrics hit us.
I feel that with every few years that pass a different verse hits harder than before
one day closer to death
“Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death” Gets me every time!
Tbf, I kinda did mis that starting gun 😭
@@Quadr44t Most of us do as we think life is long when were young . Many don't figure it out until they hit around 35-40 to then realise time has slipped by in the blink of an eye .
It will be relevant for another 50 years. Timeless album
No it won't. Zoomers are too mentally addled to ever appreciate an amount of music longer than a tik tok
It’s not timeless, that’s song 4
@@jollygrapefruit786 Those Zoomers who do, however, will listen and recognize it as a masterpiece
@@jollygrapefruit786 As a zoomer I can tell you that dark side of the moon is a timeless masterpiece
@@jollygrapefruit786 stop chugging out mindless bullshit like this, you know it's not true . You really think people are gonna stop loving DSOTM? Really? Just think about it for a sec.
50 years later, the relevance of this album has only gotten stronger.
Edit: Thank you for the likes good people.
Yep. Absolute masterpiece of an album that just gets better with Time.
Thanks for appointing me as Union General, Abe
It's about the human condition, and it's timeless for the same reason Shakespeare is timeless; it's about emotions which are integral to human existence.
thanks for letting me serve, also Us and Them is very relevant
Imagine how Lincoln would’ve responded if he’d actually been able to listen to this album.
I know it’s a cliche at this point, but Dark Side of the Moon really is one of the greatest albums ever made. I re-listened to it recently for the 50th and just had chills down my spine the entire time. Music does not get much better than that.
I've listened to it at least once a month for a long, long time. I'm not even close to being bored with it.
It's not cliche, it's fact.
I listen to like 90% hip hop and rap but I still bump this shit 2-3 times per month. Cover to cover. Incredible and timeless. Lives up to ALL the hype.
Honestly same
It's good for the soul
Dark Side of the Moon? Definitely.
Let’s Start Here.? Fuck no. It’s garbage.
@@curly_wyn because?
I'm 40 years old. When I listened to it as a kid, certain songs were my favorites. In high school, a different song was my favorite. I went through two or three different favorites during college and then post college as well.
Add another 15 years, and I now find myself drawn to even different ones again. The album has aged with me. It's much more sad and jaded as I get older, sadder, and more cynical. Damn.
This album has been with me during my best and worst days. Being relatively young (21 years old this year) I’ve only really had 9 years with this album. Yet through all of that it has always been with me. It’s been in my Spotify top 5 albums every years for 9 years, and will always be special to growing up. This album will always be there for my, and I will always be grateful for it. Happy 50th DSOTM, I’m so glad to have you.
5:32 Can confirm, someone managed to make a perfect sync of Dark Side of the Moon to Paul Blart Mall Cop 2, referred to as Blart Side of the Mall.
Hell yeah it does
We didn't have a lot of money to spend on video tapes when I was growing up, but I definitely remember my dad buying the Wizard of Oz special edition VHS specifically so he could sync it up with Dark Side for my brother and I. And I've loved Pink Floyd ever since and I'm glad my dad and I could bond over stuff like this. (This was in 1989 or 1990 btw, *long, long* before it was "discovered" by the internet.
This was almost surely 1989, which was the 50th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz. This was the year that many people, (including me) were responsible for releasing and publicizing the 50th Anniversary special edition VHS tape of Wizard of Oz. It seems fitting that here we are talking about the 50th anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon -- two timeless classics. :)
Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, Dark Side, WYWH (SKIP Shine On...) Start exactly 10 seconds in.
The movie? 2001
Yeah, I remember my boss in 1990 telling me about the sync up. My parents didn't have a VCR when I was younger in the late eighties, and I sure couldn't afford one. Maaybe the Dark Side of the OZ originated on eighties Usenet, but I am sure it is a pre-internet meme.
Subject matter aside I love when your videos have the occasional off-the-cuff asides like this one. Planned, captivating information interspersed with dry honesty and I love it. You're definitely up there with the best video essayists and music UA-camrs in my opinion. Keep it up, man.
Just watched the full doc on Nebula as well as the Wish You Were Here Companion piece that you did a few months back and holy moly I just wanted to express my gratitude for these absolutely gorgeous, brilliantly made and sublimely put together videos. Both are deeply moving and a valuable glimpse into the artistic process of the group as well as their interpersonal relations - which obviously may resonate with many. Thank you thank you thank you for two beautiful soulful hours of music and art.
I first heard Time in 1976, and it is still my favorite song. I haven't listened to the album all in one session for decades. I just did that an hour ago, and nearly blew up the stereo because I kept turning it up. Then, just now, I discovered this video.
Jeez, I should buy a lottery ticket today!
loved this album since the day i first heard it. perfectly encapsulates being a human
The lamb lies down on Broadway is such an underated album, the performances by all the members on genesis are amazing with so much personality and detail in the song writing. It's an album that could be described as weird but I think it just takes risks and it pays off well surpassing the wall in the pantheon of rock operas in my opinion.
100% agree!
The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging is a timeless classic if only in my mind
Lamb Lies Down is my Everest. I dream of doing a video on it some day.
@@Polyphonic Ohhh that would be awesome! I'd gladly wait patiently B)
@@Polyphonic Definitely looking forward to it! Hell, I'll welcome any video about Genesis!
Hell yeah! Dark Side of the Moon is an insanely great album, and most importantly, its timeless...
it does have a track called time, you cant exactly call it timeless
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Such a special album. I loved it from the time I first heard it as a child, and it has just continued to present new meanings with age. Truly a masterpiece
I am your father
7:13 that is so relatable, sometimes I think my friends really hate me, but they listen to the good music and reviews whether they like it or not...
I can't think of another album that would continue to be as relevant 50 years from now.
Thriller?
In The Court of The Crimson King by King Crimson is a strong contender
i think To Pimp A Butterfly will always be relevant as long as corruption and racism continues in the government as well as the music industry
I think there are quite a few that will, but this one is definitely one of them
OK Computer, maybe
I just finished a paper on this album, your project helped me alot. I love this album and thank you for your work
in my car I carry a HUGE CD binder full of cloned CDs (not to promote piracy, I just don't want my collection stolen so I make copies of cds I own). this album takes the second spot in that binder, even though it is banned from play in my car - I even give the binder to friends who ride along and tell them they can choose any cd EXCEPT that one. it just puts me in such a mindstate that I can't even safely drive - it is that good...
Dark Side of the Moon was our high school's 1977 year book theme - La Sierra in Carmichael, CA
I'm 30, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here were two of the first cds I bought for myself. Pink Floyd knows what's up and every time you gush about them it makes me happy.
I hate your mom. I am your father and she left me and married some guy. You’ve been living a lie.
That scenario you laid out at the beginning ... the stoner friend sharing Floyd ... totally happened to me. In the early '80s in college, late at night, my buddy had just discovered the album and put it on and we just laid back in chairs in the dorm room in the dark, smoking weed and vibing out. Sweet times.
Got it from friends at a 16th birthday party when the album was only 12. Timeless, life changing, and unforgettable.
You stole it. You broke a commandment. You need to for confession and beg for gods forgiveness otherwise you are damned.
There are three big takeaways I get from this album.
1 - It’s a miracle that for an album as ubiquitous as TDSotM, it can create numerous personalised experiences. Relatedly, it’s an album you can listen to it in a number of different ways and yet still sounds fresh and new and exciting. For comparison’s sake, can you do the same to say Thriller or Nevermind or The Eagles’s Greatest Hits (whatever years they were supposed to be)?
2 - It was successful on its own terms. You have a band who, while making a through and through rock album, were able to put a lot more into it. This was never meant to be a “commercial hit”, and yet it became one. And it was well-earned as it was well-crafted all around and well-realised.
3 - To go back and build upon the first point, it’s an album with a very clear viewpoint (based mostly on the lyrics). And yet, it never sounds pedantic or condescending. This is not telling you what to think or feel. If anything, it’s just being honest and candour. But there’s the space for anyone to “roam” and take whatever is needed.
i’ve been in a dark side of the moon worship phase lately, what great timing
I tried doing the Dark Side of the Rainbow experiment once.
It felt exactly like I was trying to watch a movie and listen to a rock album at the same time.
What's timeless about this album is that with each passing decade of our lives, the album takes on a different meaning.
The dystopian madness that runs through this album has definitely become more and more poignant and as relevant as ever. It's interesting in that it's doesn't just sound like dated politics. There's a genuine timelessness to it theme wise.
My favorite band, such an inspiration❤
Please never stop making videos, especially about PF
I first heard Pink Floyd do this album live, before the album was released. I, like pretty much everyone else in the crowd, was tripping on LSD and the music entered my DNA and has been a part of my being ever since. It is a guiding light in life. I remember the security guards, hired police, standing at the foot of the stage who were there to protect the band. During "Us and Them" I saw them turned around watching the light show with looks of total amazement on their faces and wondered if the music had entered them as well.
You're really close to 1 million subs. Can't wait to see you get there!
Approaching middle age, I tried listening to The Wall 5 years ago. It felt very juvenile. Like I have to be an idealistic and angry young person to appreciate it. But Dark Side and Wish You Were are still phenomenal front to back. And I still know when Shine On finally kicks in.
There are some tracks on The Wall that I truly love, but, yes, I find myself more and more drawn to DSOTM, Wish You Were Here, and Animals.
Totally agree. Waters seems to get more juvenile as he aged. Hence his childish battles with the rest of the band and love of facile conspiracies.
wall is better
being a young person might be why i love the wall so much, some parts just really connect and it sounds sick
The Wall is about stardom in at least some capacity so it’s naturally juvenile, but that isn’t the whole story. It’s about juvenile experiences leading to a pretty shitty life
I had these virtues given to me by my dad when i was 8 years old and dad was 43, I'm now 17 and i must say the dark side of the moon is something else.
Really enjoy you shooting from the hip in this video. Much more casual side of you
I'm in tears! Beautiful tribute to a work of art! Here here!
loved this format of video, different and still adding “the polyphonic” touch!
After you mentioned it in this video, I went and listened to all of Dub Side of the Moon - it's genuinely amazing and I'm glad you shared it. I owe you one!
This is a perfect album and I connect to it everytime I listen too it. I loved your Dark Side of the Moon project and it really helped me visulalise everything I thought about and felt while listening to it.
In my point of view, Time is song which transmitting the creation of Universe with Gilmour's guitar, Wright's keyboard, Manson drums and Waters lyrics.
I was waiting for this, thank you.
similar to dark side of the rainbow, echoes and 2001: a space oddessey mixes together perfectly for the ending transition
I used to use this album as a sleep aid. Love it so much, and it just gets better as I get older.
So spontaneous! I'm glad you uploaded it because this is exactly how I sound when I try to explain why this album rocks
Dark Side of the Moon is completely timeless. From the lyrics, to the production, the art, and the music-that jazz influenced, prog-rock with completely comfortable and familiar phrasing, lyrical patterns, rhythm and structure. It is a master class in sound as an art. & I thank you for highlighting each piece.
I watched the Godfather for the first time back in October of 2022. And at the time, I didn’t realize it had turned 50. I listened to DSOTM for the first time in its entirety back in December. The point is, greatness is relevant regardless of time. I’m proud to say this is one of the greatest albums ever made.
Gotta admit mentioning ok computer and yoshimi battles the pink robots in a video about dsotm makes this one of my favourites yet
On the run changed my life forever, it was one of the first synth lines I’ve ever heard, and it completely changed the trajectory of my passion. I became a synth nerd then and there. Then your Dark Side of the Moon project deepened my appreciation for it about a hundred times.
I know this will sound pretentious, but I can vividly recall and describe my first time. 15 years old. Beanbag chair in a dimly lit room, sitting in front of a westward facing window, soaking in the sunset. Dad's cushiony, high quality 70's headphones. The album transported me to a magical place, and soon I found myself soaring around within the cotton candy clouds of an awe inspiring sunset.
The opening heartbeats, the gorgeous bloom that is the first chord of "Breathe(In The Air)". The frantic, swirling arpeggi of "On the Run". The powerful nostalgia and longing of "Time". The primal, crescendoing orgasm that is "The Great Gig in the Sky". The bouncing, funky fun of "Money", the soothing, buttery-smoothness of "Us and Them", the pure 70's porno movie soundtrack stylings of "Any Colour You Like" gleefully bouncing from ear to ear, the delightfully deranged lunacy conjured by "Brain Damage", and the poignant, powerful culmination of the entire experience that is "Eclipse".
By then the sun had set, and it seemed so appropriate that I could behold the silvery light of a full moon shining, but it lay out of sight, climbing upward through the night sky somewhere behind me in the east. I sat there in total silence for what must've been an hour contemplating...well, everything. Life, time, love, and the mind. I knew that night, without a shadow of a doubt, that I had just experienced nothing short of a masterpiece.
I will never forget that night.
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I took your advice and listened to the album - I still have the vinyl copy I bought in 1980 - straight through. Again. All the tunes have been happily running through my head ever since.
This was THE album to demonstrate SACD in 5.1 surround. Absolutely astonishing.
People say the album is overrated because it’s popularity. It’s not. An album that’s transcended music and influenced a new decade of progressive rock should never be considered “overrated”. The album is perfect. Dark side of the moon makes you think and appreciate musicality on a whole new spectrum. It’s a culmination of creative writers working at their absolute best. Pink Floyd will forever go down as one of the greatest bands of all time. That created one of the best albums of all time.
I love your passion. For me, my uncle hooked me into this album when I was 10. I did not understand it then. It has grown with me. I am now 53. And i still find things in it. Thank you for your video!
i literally just listened to it for the first time now and yes its very good
You are right. It is the single-most iconic music album of all time, regardless of what anyone's favorite one is. If we can't celebrate that, then what can we celebrate?
There's also an a capella cover version by Voices On The Dark Side. It's on youtube in full I think.
This album should be a mandatory module for school music exams. DSOTM is an urgent clarion call to all the awakened hearts out there to shed the baggage of society and redefine what it means to be human. No more loneliness and isolation, no more madness at the superficiality of it all. We are transcendent beings and DSOTM is clear evidence of that fact.
I think it would be ruined by being mandatory. Each person needs to come across it for themselves, at the time in their life where everything about it will really resonate with them. And that will be at a (slightly) different age for each person.
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Perfect! Thanks also for pointing out the Dub album as well.
Sometimes the masses make a little sense. Shorter of breath, but no closer to death-- happy 50th, DSM.
My niece played Dorothy in her High School's production last year...I made her sit down and watch Dark Side of the Rainbow before they started rehearsals and she apparently played nothing but DSotM for months afterward...
This was one of your best videos so far. Not even near a video essay but waaaay entertaining :p
Purely the best album ever made. I hope I live to be 98 so I can celebrate its 100th birthday too.
Album so good it even leaves polyphonic speechless
This is the best video I’ve ever watched about Dark Side of the Moon (which I became re-obsessed with recently). It’s also the first video I’ve ever watched about it. Going to explore s’more.
Hey man. Just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this video. It felt very.. real. Like, highly real and contageous. You obviously love music and you adore this album, and hearing your genuine, unscripted enthusiasm for it in this video was strangely touching. I feel like you're such a cool guy, I wish I could meet you in a cafe sometime and chat about music for hours on end.
I enjoy all your stuff. This was as real as it gets. Thsnk you
Just found my original vinyl copy that my babysitter gave me back in 1977. Cranked it up on my new turntable and it was bliss.
This is the most candid I've heard you speak in a video. There really is something so special about an album that compels everybody to talk about it so naturally. Truly the greatest album of all time.
Beautiful! Very much heart on this one... Love it!
The album also syncs up with Paul Blart mall cop
It's hard to believe this came out 3 years after I was born and is still so popular, it's a testament to it's greatness.
Fun as hell to watch! I tried every other pink floyd album for the second half of Wizard of Oz. Animals sinks up the best in my opinion. If the first track begins just as the characters feet land on the yellow brick road after the flower field, it sinks up in interesting ways. Pigs (three different ones) begins as they are arriving at the wicked witch's castle, and the dramatic breakdown guitar solo at the end peeks and fades away exactly as the witch is melting. Along with many other interesting patterns for the mind to think about.
Listening to it right now while watching this
Couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you bro. You're a real one 🙏
And to me it's 29 years having this album as one of my most beloved music companions.
It changed my mind and changed the true meaning of music as an art form for me.
Love the album and probably listen to the whole thing at least twice a week alongside other pink floyd albums.
'The Great Gig In The Sky' can still send chills down my spine and bring tears to my eyes.
This was an eyeopener when I was in college in '73...still own it and enjoy it to this day...although Wish You Were Here is my fav
now idk what psyche pink floyd tapped into when making this album, but I do know it hasn't been quite reached since. they defined the human experience in 40 minutes, making it so universally relatable that it will never age as long as humans continue to survive. and as polyphonic said, its freaking good
Cheers for the heads-up on Dub Side of the Moon - loving it!
Dark Side of the Moon is one of the greatest achievements of mankind. Say what you will about it but it’s legacy is forever bound as one of the all time greats.
Still the best Floyd album 50 years later.
Hahahh love the commentary. I used to listen to this and other "dark" albums too much and then drifted away from them when I turned 30 and tried to be more "positive". Now that I'm almost 60 I can appreciate the depth of the music more and even some of the positive messages. So great to finally reach a time with the internet where we can appreciate these things together and have great discussions about them. Back in the day the shared appreciation was going to the science center where they would have laser shows with the album. Now we have even better, right on our screens.
Yea, I didn’t grow up on rock (mostly hip hop and r&b).. and by the time I heard it, I was already in law school.. so I had heard a LOT of great music up to that point.. I was floored when I heard it, I’m floored any time I hear it.. it might be the most “ALBUM” of any album I’ve ever heard (cliches only develop because there’s some truth lol).. favorite memory to it was smoking in my car, putting on my headphones and walking around in the (completely empty) redwood forests of Northern California to it.. highly recommended, if you get a chance.. the music was synonymous with nature itself.. perfectly in flow with evolution.. inevitable.
I like the "Paul Blart Dark Side of the Moon" fusion
Polyphonic please consider doing an Elliott smith video! Don’t think a hole track by track of either/or is possible for you but even just a summary video would be great!! Keep up the great work!
My step-dad gave me his old stereo when i was probably around 16. One of the two records that came with it was Bad Company - Rock n Roll Fantasy and Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon, man talk about being blown away.
Once I was o nvacation to I place I had been 10 years before and I listened to ". And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" and it changed my life. I could not longer remain a recluse. That same year I met the girl I'd marry and had two daughters with. The memories I've had with my wife and the lives of two little girls exist because of that song. That album changed the world, even if by tiny little bits like this. It's impossible to measure, but easy to acknowledge. The same way each song adds up to more than the sum of their parts, this album is greater than any of the people that worked on it. It belongs to humanity.
"It holds up. Just put it on!". -- Bob Geldof
To infinity and beyond. Life-changing album.
I played it last night and I can honestly say I have never tired of , if anything it gets better and better . I was 4 when it was released and I , CLEARLY, remember my dad playing it in the car on a cassette and we talked about the heart beat ( I now know this was a kick drum) intro
your editing is phenomenal
I just watched the full video on Nebula last night and God Damn, this album is epic and your exploration gave me chills over and over.
This album made a lasting impression on me when I first heard it as a kid in the late 70s. My favourite album of all time and agree still relevent today.
I can only imagine when you analyze the wall, I’m so excited
It's an album I liked.
Eclipse is a song where I see my past and future along with humanity's past and future.
“It fucking rules” finally said what we were all thinking. Most satisfying line of dialogue I’ve heard all day.
Perfectly done and so fantastically said. I absolutely get how impossible it is to speak originally about this album. It really can't be helped. Works of art like this that engage and influence so many...well, it just doesn't happen that often, so when it does, it's effectively immeasurable.
And yes, it rocks. After listening to it far more times than I could even hope to count, it still holds up. It's just superb music that always manages to take me somewhere.