Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon Review

Overall Rating

A seminal text of what music should be like.

Perhaps, just perhaps, Waters took himself a little too seriously, even then.

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I know plenty of people who don't dig anything older than 1995, or who can't stand rock music, but I don't know anyone who doesn't think this album is a belter. No other album can transcend time and, er, taste so effectively. That is why this is a must-buy. It's something everyone can agree on, which doesn't happen very often!

I would offer Time and Us and Them as two of the best tracks ever written, but also Brain Damage and Eclipse as probably the best crescendo for an album ever devised. Very operatic in many senses, but the mood it generates is something you simply don't get with other music... The fact that this remains so relevant today as ever indicates why this is a classic album. It also captures Pink Floyd at a point when, largely, they were still functioning as a unit and not as individuals, and they are all credited with having a hand in the creative process (very magnanimous of Roger, I'm sure).

But don't take it all too seriously, as I think whatever point they were trying to make was being made to create the mood, rather than being the central point of the album. Don't over analyse Waters' lyrics, it won't help. As the man says "There is no dark side of the moon really; as a matter of fact, it's all dark."