Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary Edition
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Artist: Pink FloydEdition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD
CD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Speak To Me/Breathe
- On The Run
- Time
- The Great Gig In The Sky
- Money
- Us And Them
- Any Colour You Like
- Brain Damage
- Eclipse
Music reviews of Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary Edition
Music Review: The best gets better
Rating: 5 Stars
I was on to these guys early - 1967 - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - still have the rather well-played and scratchy LP. At that time no-one predicted that the group would become as huge as it did. Although the album was successful in the UK (#6) it went unnoticed in the US (#131). Ironic then that over thirty years after it was released Rolling Stone would have it as 347/500 all time! As the years passed Floyd remained a mainstay in the UK album charts while in the US none of the group's subsequent six LP's cracked Billboard's top 50. This changed in 1973 with the release of The Dark Side of the Moon. Like Hotel California, A Stairway to Heaven and Thriller, Dark Side is much-played (perhaps over-played) music that never wears out its welcome with me. The years come and go, yet I never tire of this album. On Amazon.com there are 1202 Pepper reviews and nearly 1500 for Dark Side! Sales for the cd still approach 10,000 a week. Combined Canadian sales for all formats are estimated at 2 million - in a country of 35 million. The record has just 38 minutes of music, proving once again that we don't need to fill every cd with to its maximum 80 minutes.
For me Pink Floyd rather lost their way after Piper. Subsequent LP's wandered rather aimlessly hither and hither, a decent song or piece of music followed by meandering/experimental sections or songs that to my ear were more a collection of sounds than they were music. Picking my way through More, Atom Heart Mother or Ummagumma to find the worthwhile tracks was just too much like hard work. Dark Side was therefore a revelation. The band suddenly matured and the result was a brilliantly consistent album with one great song followed by another. There isn't a remotely weak track to be found. My recollection is that Dark Side was a collection of accessible prog-space-acid-psychedelic rock songs far more commercial in nature than anything that the band had recorded theretofore. However, today, if I really listen closely and analyze the music I realize that the music on Dark Side isn't that far removed from the music that preceded it on the LP's that I don't particular care for. A cake is a combination of eggs, flour, milk and sugar, mixed and baked. An edible cake has the right combination of ingredients, mixed in the appropriate order and for the appropriate length of time so as to create a batter of the proper consistency. The cake mixture is then placed in the oven at the correct temperature for the appropriate period of time. Pink Floyd always had the ingredients. They simply didn't have the rest of the equation worked out. With Dark Side the band learned that focus and superlative production (engineer Alan Parsons) does make a huge difference. The sound affects, rather than being just unrelated noise, become integral parts of the song. The songs no longer meander, as if searching for a conclusion - five on the album are under 4 minutes in length. The lyrics are interesting. This record was and remains an exceptional, once in a lifetime achievement that still sounds as fresh as the day it was released. Dark Side has always sounded tremendous, from record through to cd. However I cannot begin to describe how spectacular the reproduction is on this hybrid SACD.
Description of Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary Edition
The Super Audio CD (SACD) features two disc layers. One layer contains a standard version of the album that works on any CD player. The other layer includes high-resolution stereo and a 5.1 surround version of the recording that works on SACD-compatible DVD players and home theater systems. Both layers employ SACD's Direct Stream Digital (DSD) encoding process that samples the music 64 times faster than CD for unprecedented fidelity.Dark Side of the Moon, originally released in 1973, is one of those albums that is discovered anew by each generation of rock listeners. This complex, often psychedelic music works very well because Pink Floyd doesn't rush anything; the songs are mainly slow to mid-tempo, with attention paid throughout to musical texture and mood. The sound effects on songs like "On the Run," "Time" and especially "Money" (with sampled sounds of clinking coins and cash registers turned into rhythmic accompaniment) are impressive, especially when we remember that 1973 was before the advent of digital recording techniques. This is probably Pink Floyd's best-known work, and it's an excellent place to start if you're new to the band. --Genevieve Williams
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