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The 40th Anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon
Posted on 3/3/13 at 9:57 pm
Posted on 3/3/13 at 9:57 pm
Happened on March 1st. Do you remember the first time you heard it? And your reaction, positive or negative. There have been several threads on Pink Floyd, so sorry haters, I apologize for starting another one. But this album was a pivotal one in my evolution as a music listener.
I was only 3 when it came out, but my father had it on reel to reel soon after and played it often. My earliest memories is actually being scared of it...yet fascinated. The panning stereo...cavernous drums and distant voices...footsteps running...running from what?!?!?!....crashing planes...did everyone die?...icy keyboards and trippy guitar...sinister laughs...mad scientist electronics and more...the whole package just blew my little kid mind. As I got older, my fear lessened, but my fascination increased. By the time I was 7 or 8, I was asking pops to play it again and again. I remember listening to every song carefully, almost with forensic detail for new sounds(How did they do that?)and learning and trying to understand these often mysterious lyrics...I remember also being struck by the unique quality and tone of Gilmour's vocals, especially when signing in unison with Richard Wright...a tone both sad and beautiful.
I played the album to death up through my early years in college, then put it aside for a while. In fact, I think I've only listened to it beginning to end a handful of times the past 20 years. But when I do, the fascination is still there.
I would love to hear other's recollections...
I was only 3 when it came out, but my father had it on reel to reel soon after and played it often. My earliest memories is actually being scared of it...yet fascinated. The panning stereo...cavernous drums and distant voices...footsteps running...running from what?!?!?!....crashing planes...did everyone die?...icy keyboards and trippy guitar...sinister laughs...mad scientist electronics and more...the whole package just blew my little kid mind. As I got older, my fear lessened, but my fascination increased. By the time I was 7 or 8, I was asking pops to play it again and again. I remember listening to every song carefully, almost with forensic detail for new sounds(How did they do that?)and learning and trying to understand these often mysterious lyrics...I remember also being struck by the unique quality and tone of Gilmour's vocals, especially when signing in unison with Richard Wright...a tone both sad and beautiful.
I played the album to death up through my early years in college, then put it aside for a while. In fact, I think I've only listened to it beginning to end a handful of times the past 20 years. But when I do, the fascination is still there.
I would love to hear other's recollections...
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Posted on 3/3/13 at 10:24 pm to NoGumps
I remember first being introduced to Pink Floyd in 7th grade. I would stay at my friend's house and he would turn on Echoes when we would decide to crash for the night. So technically, that was my first song I've ever heard from them and I was hooked ever since. I then downloaded all the albums and got to hear all those great songs for the first time. I'm a huge PF fan.
Posted on 3/3/13 at 10:41 pm to The Dudes Rug
Cool...My dad also had "Wish Your Were Here", which I also got into heavily, with almost equal fervor. Later on I got in to Meddle, especially "Echoes". Most of my Floyd listening since college has been their pre-DSTM era, especially the Syd Barrett stuff, but every now and then I get the itch for DSTM or WYWH. Though I enjoy some individual songs on "Animals" or "The Wall" like "Run Like Hell", those two albums didn't cast a spell on me like the earlier stuff. 
Posted on 3/3/13 at 10:50 pm to NoGumps
I remember some redneck kid told me in junior high "yeah man, you should smoke some weed and listen to Dark Side of the Moon. Trippy." This was before I had ever really thought about doing drugs or even drinking alcohol.
Posted on 3/3/13 at 10:50 pm to NoGumps
I never got into their early stuff, besides like one song on Atom Heart Mother. Obscured by Clouds is a big sleeper album, IMO. Not many people mention it.
Posted on 3/3/13 at 10:54 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
My redneck neighbor kid got me high for the first time and we listened to on the run. Money was always played on the radio before that. I remember it feeling like the most surreal experience laying in the bed of my pick up truck with my neighbor. Almost wrecked my car that night trying to drive stoned to a party. Wasn't used to it. It hit me so hard the first time that I stayed high for two strait days after that. It literally changed my life.
Posted on 3/3/13 at 10:59 pm to The Dudes Rug
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Obscured by Clouds
agreed
"Childhood's End"
Posted on 3/3/13 at 11:04 pm to NoGumps
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Do you remember the first time you heard it? And your reaction, positive or negative
I do, it was the end of my Jr year in HS and I was at a graduation party for a friend. Someone put it on while we were in the hot tub, I was blown away. I went the the record store the next day and bought it. I consider it my favorite album.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 12:09 am to NoGumps
In HS. We weren't allowed to listen to music or watch TV (outside of some football games) at home, so heard it the first time riding with friends. Blew me away and became one of my favorites, and probably still is.
Never could stand "Money" though.
Never could stand "Money" though.
This post was edited on 3/4/13 at 12:10 am
Posted on 3/4/13 at 12:18 am to H-Town Tiger
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I consider it my favorite album.
same here, I think pink floyd pretty much started good stoner music as we know it today, but piper at the gates didn't nearly have the same effect because of the lack of synthesizer technology at the time.
This post was edited on 3/4/13 at 12:19 am
Posted on 3/4/13 at 12:22 am to NoGumps
First time I heard it all the way through I was with a couple buddies. We were cruising along some country roads at night with some herb. I feel like that car ride changed my life. Kind of lost myself in the music, staring out the window at the dark countryside speeding by.
A few weeks ago I ate shrooms and listened to The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. During DSOTM I felt like I was traveling through space.
A few weeks ago I ate shrooms and listened to The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. During DSOTM I felt like I was traveling through space.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 12:24 am to RogerTheShrubber
I hear ya..."Money" is my least favorite Dark Side track...
Posted on 3/4/13 at 12:25 am to NoGumps
you won't believe me but I listened to the whole album for the first time all the way through while watching the Wizard of Oz. I had also eaten a few mushroom caps so there was that.. but it really was amazing.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 12:30 am to LooseCannon22282
I've been hearing about the Oz thing for years, but haven't tried it...I'll have to it a whirl sometime.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 11:35 am to NoGumps
I was infatuated with the record after my first full listen. This was right when my tastes in music started changing (in college). I listened to it a lot in college, along with other PF albums. After college I grew tired of most of PF's catalog, but I still have a great appreciation of DSOTM and will listen to it occasionally. The album is perfect IMO.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 11:57 am to The Dudes Rug
I was a big PF fan up through Echoes. The band's apparent disinterest in popular acceptance struck a chord; I recall a concert I attended in Seattle (1971 I believe) in which Rogers Waters, in response to a fan shouting, "Boogie!", said: "We don't boogie. We never have boogied. We never will boogie." That was sort of the Floyd approach and I really liked them for it.
Then came DSOTM. I remember buying the album and noticing immediately the band's change in direction. I'm quite sure the day I bought the album I thought, this will be a blockbuster album that will make Floyd a megaband. As far as I was concerned they had a right to do whatever they pleased musically—I wasn't one of the "they sold out" crowd of pop fans. Nevertheless the album ... well, for me, it marked the beginning of my disinterest in the band. The music didn't do much for me. Pleasant stuff, but hardly the strange music that made me a fan.
I'm still a fan of their work up through Echoes though. And I'm probably one of only a handful of people from my generation who doesn't have DSOTM in their record collection.
Then came DSOTM. I remember buying the album and noticing immediately the band's change in direction. I'm quite sure the day I bought the album I thought, this will be a blockbuster album that will make Floyd a megaband. As far as I was concerned they had a right to do whatever they pleased musically—I wasn't one of the "they sold out" crowd of pop fans. Nevertheless the album ... well, for me, it marked the beginning of my disinterest in the band. The music didn't do much for me. Pleasant stuff, but hardly the strange music that made me a fan.
I'm still a fan of their work up through Echoes though. And I'm probably one of only a handful of people from my generation who doesn't have DSOTM in their record collection.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 12:47 pm to TigerPanzer
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I was a big PF fan up through Echoes.
Don't see too many of your type on this board! I get what you are saying and I can see why there is a group that only loves pre DSOTM floyd. I like both eras, but I do find the pre-DSOTM era more interesting. My two favorites from that era are probably Piper and Echoes.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 12:53 pm to SUB
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but I do find the pre-DSOTM era more interesting
it was a much better era. i appreciate syd barrett much for what he did because he basically formed the band. He is probably my favorite muscian ever because of the psychedelic movement he started. Guy is beyond mysterious. Still sad about his death a few years ago.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 1:22 pm to SUB
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I get what you are saying
I just admired the band's insistence on pursuing its own weird way in the world of commercial music. They made strange (Pow R Toc H), eccentric (Atom Heart Mother) and even disturbing (Careful with that Axe Eugene) music that seemed to say to its fans, "There's something seriously wrong with you—welcome aboard!" A contrarian band, an un-pop band if you will.
That all went by the wayside with DSOTM, and I believe the band has said the album was a conscious move in a more mainstream direction. It succeeded beyond all imagination.
I'm happy for the band and its subsequent success, but I don't find the music especially interesting or novel, certainly not in the way the pre-Dark Side albums were.
One reporter's opinion.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 2:17 pm to SUB
It's pretty crazy how certain Pink Floyd songs can set complete different moods, which obviously varies person to person. Dogs, off of the album Animals, always brings me back to the cold winter mornings of feeling at ease since LSU was on Winter break.
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