Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

Pros: phenomenal messages in the lyrics
Cons: I thought I would fill this space, but none.

OK everyone take the surprised look off of your faces, as you see what CD I am reviewing today. Actually it took me, quite a bit of time to be un-surprised myself. This is being done because I was challenged into it, gloated, and all but double dared, so...

Pros: Too many to list...
Cons: Are you mad?

At the beginning of 1973, Pink Floyd were still a relatively unknown band trying to be successful as musicians. Sure, you might argue that albums like Meddle, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets had already put...

Pros: Exceptional gold disc release, some of Floyd’s best tracks …
Cons: A pricey purchase, not for the casual listener.

When people talk about "the classics" and start tossing around groups and titles, Pink ...

Pros: A couple various parts where the music actually feels like it belongs... 'Us & Them'
Cons: Don't ask

I used to have a lot of respect for this album. It goes without saying that seemingly everyone on this planet enjoys what Dark Side of the Moon has to offer in experiments or atmospherics. After all, it doesn’t regularly top countless ‘ ...

Pros: Beautiful instrumentation, brilliant arrangements and lyrics, great remastering
Cons: None whatsoever - Dark Side Of The Moon is the peak of rock perfection

Way back in the day, when I first stumbled upon Epinions.com, I was a rather naïve youth of about 14 years of age. It took several months to realize that there was no point in reviewing albums that already had fifty or so reviews listed, especially sine...

Pros: Best incarnation of Dark Side to date.
Cons: Pink Floyd fans might refer to my thoughts as blasphemy and attempt to stone me

Launched the same year that I was born, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon took th ...

Pros: Extremely interesting story, fantastic musicianship and lyricism
Cons: none spring to mind

Once, ever so rarely, does an album come along that completely changes people's views on exactly what music is. Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland, Black Sabbath's s/t and Led Zeppelin I are all albums that fit this mold. The father of psychadelia, the...

Pros: Music and lyrics
Cons: None

I was 38 and found myself suddenly single again after 18 years of marriage, three children, a house I could no longer afford, a new job I didn't like, no car and a $40,000 a year loss in income. At the time I considered it the lowest point in my...

Pros: Pert' near everything. The lyrics, the music, the vocals, the sounds. A holy rock relic.
Cons: Not ideal listening for just any old moment. Requires a certain time and place.

Roger Waters is not a very pleasant man. He’s kind of a scowling, ugly ogre who treats his colleagues badly and seems to believe that the world is all about him and his problems. He’s been known to spit in the faces of adoring fans, sue the dudes ...

Pros: PF sets the tragic futility & hopeless indifference of the human condition to music.
Cons: The inescapable reality of the tragic themes symbolically represented in DSOTM

I. DSOTM: --INTRODUCTION, HISTORY & BACKGROUND

A. Rock's Lunar Cycles:

As in life itself, Rock & Roll's ongoing popularity and survival is due to its cyclical nature; it's perpetual metamorphosis. Nowhere is this theme...

Pros: It's Dark Side Of The Moon.
Cons: Not for those who aren't into album-length statements.

Pink Floyd. Do they really need an introduction by this point? Not really, as most music fans are aware of them. At this point, any further analysis of this album is probably pointless as well, seeing that most people reading this will doubtlessly have it ...

Pros: incredible mix, superb surround, a whole new dimension to an Old Favorite
Cons: Not DTS- too bad. Alan Parsons got screwed - read review

This album has been out for exactly 1 day now...If you haven't purchased it already, shame on you! I've been waiting for this for over 3 years now! Pink Floyd's Legendary Dark Side of the Moon has been remastered from the original recording's into a...

Pros: One of the greatest rock albums ever produced. Strong writing by Roger Waters.
Cons: None.

This album is one of the greatest ever produced in the history of music. The sound is exotic, dreamy and multi-layered and orchestrally structured. This is a superb release with superb performances, rich sound, and lyrics and conceptual themes that...

Pros: The unique style of Pink Floyd's lyrics and attitudes.
Cons: I'm listening to this late night. I'm getting verrrry sleeeepy.

This is the second review of two in my first "Valentine's Special" themed review series. The first review was on Ty's Valentina Beanie Baby Bear.

Pink is a Valentine's Day color, so PINK Floyd is acceptable..right? Good..I'm glad no...

Pros: Wonderful movie and fantastic album!
Cons: None!

Over the last few weeks my older daughter Mia (who is 2 and a half) has become obsessed with "The Wizard of Oz". Everynight before bedtime she climbs into our bed and insists on watching the film. It has grown tiring to say the least, that could be ...

Pros: It's a next-generation Pink Floyd master that shows their music ages like fine wine.
Cons: SACD player required to hear 5.1; CD quality-control defect in some pressings!

Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said about Pink Floyd, or about Dark Side of the Moon? Both the band, and their epic album, are legacies in the history of rock music. I could expound for hours, wax expositional about both, but to ...

Pros: Superb Sound!
Cons: none

This has got to be the "Best Album" ever made. I bought my first copy on an 8-track tape followed by the album and now I own the CD. No wonder it stayed on the charts so long, people like me have bought 3 copies of it. I grew up with music like...

Pros: Waters's brilliant songwriting, Gilmour's vocals, great instrumentals...too many to name...
Cons: If you can find any, YOU are the one with "Brain Damage"

This is the album that needs no introduction, British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's classic 1973 album Dark Side Of The Moon. During this period in the band's history, Roger Waters had essentially assumed control of the band as far as ...

Pros: Brilliant writing, playing and engineering. A legendary classic
Cons: Are you kidding?

This should prove to be an interesting challenge. How does one even begin to write a review of an album as legendary as Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon? Just to review it after all that have come before is a challenge, let alone...

Pros: great music that explores deep thoughts
Cons: um, well, some people do not like the sound effects

Pink Floyd came to my attention when my son was a teenager. I had heard their music on the car radio many times, but I rarely paid attention. I am not a music expert, but I do know what I like. I enjoyed some of their music, but not enough to pony up ...

Pros: An almost flawless album, depressing ideas and lyrics contrasted by uplifitng music, the finale
Cons: Has suffered because of the endless positive reviews... but they're all true!

At the beginning of this year I decided to embark on a musical journey; I would seek music's most famous albums, buy them and try to appreciate. I began with the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, and then went for Pink Floyd's Dark ...

Pros: An incredibly deep, phenonomal album. You can do the Dark Side of the Rainbow thing.
Cons: None.

Dark Side of the Moon is to date the second greatest selling album of all time. The album stayed on the charts for 14 years, going straight to the No. 1 spot in the US. It has been estimated that in America, one in every 14 people under 60 owns a copy....

Pros: Excellent album from Pink Floyd
Cons: Inspired stupid things with this album

By the early 1970s, Pink Floyd had already released seven albums (if you count the group's soundtrack work) and were known as a big cult band in America. In 1973, Pink Floyd released what some people considered to be the "Sgt. Peppers" of the...

Pros: This album is masterful at making moods, the musicianship is top notch.
Cons: Nothing...

I don't think any band could make mood music better than Pink Floyd. Slow, fast, happy, sad, confusion, passion, whatever the emotion was, Pink Floyd was great at producing it musically.

This 1973 release proved to be their mainstream...

Pros: Great batch of songs that have a unique cohesion, haunting lyrics.
Cons: None.

Album info and Main Musicians
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Date of Release: March 24th, 1973
Length: 42:52

Roger Waters - Guitar (Bass), Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Vocals, VCS 3...

Pros: An absolute masterpiece, possibly the best rock album ever made
Cons: none

So much has been written about Pink Floyd's landmark album that it is nearly impossible to add anything new to the discussion other than sharing one's own experience with it.

According to the statistics, Dark Side of the Moon has...

Pros: simply among the best
Cons: would be their best if not for "The Wall"

This is an essential album for anybody who likes to tell people that they are into rock and roll. Hell, this album would be the greatest Pink Floyd album had the band not undertaken the writing of "The Wall." Just the thought of the...

Pros: Excellent themed album, great guitar playing and excellent lyrics.
Cons: Eclipses other great Floyd albums.

Despite many people's belief, Dark Side of the Moon is not a concept album. In reality, like most Pink Floyd albums, it is a themed album. "What's the difference?" you ask. Well a themed album has one theme in all of the songs, like insanity...

Pros: C'mon folks...it's Dark Side!
Cons: That everyone doesn't own at least 3 copies

Words can't express how much this album means to me. I already gave the story of my conversion to Floydianism on the main Floyd page, so I won't go into that again. All I know is that this is the greatest album of all time. It is the #4 selling album...

Pros: Musical Masterpiece
Cons: None

This CD is most certainly one of Pink Floyd's greatest. The pure musical genius is clearly displayed all throughout all the tracks of this album. And yet while this album is a concept album in that all the tracks are centered around death and the like,...

Pros: Guitar work, drum work, organ and piano playing, sound effects, vocals, sound quality, concept(s), expansiveness, lyrics, album cover and liner notes.
Cons: There're no quad systems made anymore, so you can't hear it the way it was meant to be heard. Poo.

It is said that we all go back to the classics. In the realm of progressive rock, there is little argument that one of the greatest classics is Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."

Produced in 1973, the album was not...

Pros: Lyrics, Classic Songs
Cons: Nothing

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an epinion on the top ten albums to take with you if you were stranded on a desert island. I choose Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon as one of the CDs I would have to take with me.

There are so many reasons...

Pros: Great tunes, Sound FX, Great concept
Cons: Sound FX too loud when sleeping...haha...oh yeah...and it ends sometime

Pink Floyd is probably one of the greatest bands of all time. The music and the lyrics are absolutely amazing. I can see why this album was on Billboard's top 20 for 20 years (so I heard).

This CD is great, it takes elements from life and...

Pros: great music, great Message, great lyrics, everythings great
Cons: None

With such poetry, and supreme psychedelic genre music technique, Pink Floyd deserves a lifetime of awe from all future generations. The only reason I put this product of media society on my love list was because I have never been touched so deeply and...

Pros: To many to list
Cons: none

So, there I was, in HMV, on a wet day in Leicester, not exactly what you may call inspiring. I was looking for a new musical corridor, being 20, I was mostly inclined to stick with "safe" music, the type I was most familiar with, and then I...

Pros: Lush and full flair that stands up well to the test of time. Certainly not "dated", which is why it sells so well after all these years.
Cons: It ends. (You will wish it never did!)

Only occasionally in a life time does something come along that truly causes you to broaden your horizons... for me, musically speaking, it was Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."

I was barely a teenager when this incredible album...

Pros: Greatest of the Floyd Hits?
Cons: They don't make 'em like they used to...

My fondest memories of this album go back to my 20's, when I had a black-light motif in my living room and my buddies congregated there regularly for continuing episodes of substance abuse..."Dark Side" was in constant demand for its ability to...

Pros: very unique, mellow, and psychedellic tracks and Pink Floyd's highest selling album ever
Cons: none that I can think of

Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" album is what made them famous. It is what got them a lot of recognition and a lot of people buying their material and going to their concerts. It even jacked up the sales of their older albums that they had...

Pros: everything about it
Cons: waters left the group

If i was told i could only have one record to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be this record; of course i hope that never happens. Roger Waters, who wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff, is a genius. The album is an expression of modern life in...

Pros: By Pink Floyd And Roger Waters. Heard of them?
Cons: Simple, in comparism to other pink floyd albums. A bit cliche.

One of the many things that make the Pink Floyd of the Roger Waters era so special is the fact that each of their albums has a concept, around which all the songs are built. "The Wall" is around a person slowly losing all his humanity as a result of a...

Pros: An experience like no other that you just hear for yourself
Cons: David Gilmour has remarked that the drums were the weakest part of the album, but the intro to "Time" says otherwise.

200 years from now, they're going to remember a few select pieces from this thing called "Rock and Roll." The garbage and forgettable nonsense will fade away into the background, with only a handful of true classics still retaining their value....

Pros: no weak parts on the entire album
Cons: none as far as i can see

although this album is short, about 45 minutes, it packs an unbelievable punch. the album was first released in 1973 and since then it has continued to be my personal favorite. the lyrics are original and are fit to songs that are very memorable....

Pros: Just about everything
Cons: Absolutely positively indefinitely nothing!

For weeks and weeks, my friend kept ranting and ranting about how good Pink Floyd is, especially this album. And just two days ago, I finally bought it. And you know what? He was right. This takes you on a sort of musical odyssey, and I don't think it...

Pros: Production, lyrics, music, artwork (beautiful blending)
Cons: If there any, it's probably so trivial and so buried in the mix that it'll burn out your ears from using the headphones to analyze it.

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Pros: Everything about it!
Cons: none

What can I say?? Pink Floyd-Dark side of the moon is the Greatest and time can't change it. I first heard it back in the 70's and loved it. I was the mother of 4 sons at the time, one just entering his teens and he was the one that introduced it to...