Australian Girl's FIRST TIME hearing Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

well now you're just going to have to make time for their 1972 documentary "echoes: live at pompeii" ("echoes" is a two-part studio track from 1971 album "meddle"). you'll hear the birth of riffs and motifs that got refined and supercharged for "dark side". floyd started out as a novelty psychedelic band that "dark side" transformed into concept album progressive art-rock.

The lunatic in the song "Brain Damage" is a loose reference to the band's former leader, Syd Barrett. Syd suffered from Schizophrenia exacerbated by drug use. Their album "Wish You Were Here" expands on the band's relationship with Barrett.

You are not made for pink Floyd music.

Weird synchronicity or coincidence, this album has been on my mind the past few days.

The greatest thing about this band is how they let the music be the sole thing to market them to the public. If you look at pics of the band, they really had no good looking members between the four of them (The closest one that could've been put out there as a marketable face would've been their guitarist David Gilmour, but then again he did moonlight as a model in Paris about a year or two before getting into rock and roll).

Time and Money. Right up there with the best of the best.

They are thee progressive rock band.

The Great Gig in the Sky: her name is Clare Tory. She was a 25 year old session vocalist hired by the band for three hours. She came into the studio did two and half completely improvised takes and ascended into immortality.

Great reaction, I enjoyed your take on it.

great gig in the sky --Vocal depiction of t he 5 stages of dying.

now listen to it on psychedelics 😉

Yes, please, more. It would be very tough to top Dark Side of the Moon, so you shouldn't even try. Move on to something completely, totally different for your next album reaction.

This album will still be listened to in hundreds of years like we listen to Classical music today. The beginning of Us and Them where you felt like someone died is actually a revitalised piece of music from earlier in their career. The band were working with the director Michelangelo Antonioni on his film Zabriskie Point and he wanted some music to play over a scene of violence. Rick Wright came up with that music as a contrast but Antonioni rejected it as being too sad and reminding him of church. It remains a beautiful piece of music though.

Hope you do some of the better ones. This one is muddle of the pack

Welcome to Pink Floyds universe 🙂 . It's a life time experience and more than just music . I highly suggest you watch a live performance such as the Pulse concert . David Gilmour plugs his soul into his amplifier . Dark Side is basically your whole life journey , emotions and death exposed in an album . The rabbit hole is deep .
P.s...as you mentioned take a look at the lyrics , all becomes clear and very impactful .

you really opened a rabbit hole with this band, the look on your face was enough to see you will probably get hooked.... and guess what you did the right thing not focusing on lycrics, but not only will those blow your mind, wait till you see one of their live stage shows! hahahahaha

Saw Lazer Floyd at the Palladium in New York loved it was like traveling to new world, was stoned out of my mind which helped greatly.

I am so glad that you are listening to the entire album. I don't know if it's still the case but for the longest time many, especially music critics, considered this the best album in history. Pink Floyd is definitely one group you want to listen to on your headphones. The sound mixing is very important and so a live performance doesn't yield the same effect. Alone and with our headsets on is the way this music was designed to be heard. If on the other hand you want to hear a live performance that stands out, try anything from Jethro Tull which is of the same period. Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and the Moody Blues is why we oldsters are so snobbish about our music. By the way the guy in charge of sound mixing started his own band and they have many albums, that band is called The Alan Parsons Project.

Liked your reaction very much. More please.😊

Not sure how a saxophone can be mistaken for a trumpet, but I guess it's because neither of them is used much in today's music anymore. And that was really dirty sax particularly in Money.

I have been listening to this album since it was released, I thoroughly enjoyed every second seeing such a beautiful soul experience this Masterpiece for the first time. Very satisfying to see you experience all the emotions. Thank you for sharing your reaction!

Smoking weed, listening to DS of the Moon while watching The Wizard of Oz, on mute, is the best recommended way to go. You'll need to know the exact moment to start playing the album to the start of the movie. lol

In grade six this was my thang.

man i wish i could listen to this album for the first time again.

Pink Floyd,the people's choice 🙂🎼🎶🎶🎵🎵❤️

Pretty trippy that it lines up with The Wizard of Oz.

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I just felt a spirit go through my body. Bless you for such a description. Beautiful

Seductive isn't it?

This album was on the top ten albums sold from it's release for a long time. I believe it has the record of 127 months on the charts.

This is an album from when music was hard to make. Albums were often art. Nowadays most music is disposable - still good but easily made and disposable. Dark Side is like Pet Sounds and Sgt Pepper, all albums that changed the art.

The 3 verses are supposed to signify Birth/life/death in the Great Gig In the Sky.

Time will hit you much differently depending on your age.

Well, this is the one to start you off.

I've read that this album was on the top 200 charts for a total of 672 weeks.

Sorry, but I have to comment that I love that blue pullover. Wow!

This was great!! Would definitely love to see more!!

Money is a strut!

Great job!!!! Richard Wright RIP on Keys and Synths is amazing as always.

That's weird that you got strikes. I've seen full album reactions on here. some split the albums into two or three parts.

Other bands of the period you should listen to would be "The Doors," "The Animals," "The Fifth Dimension," "Electric Light Orchestra," "Redbone," "Stevie Wonder," "Creedance Clearwater Revival," "Dick Dale and the Del-Tones," "James Brown," "The Righteous Brothers," only to name a few. If you like psychedelic rock try Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, and The Alan Parsons Project.

I am so happy for you to have experienced the greatness of Pink Floyd. ❤😊

David Gilmour is a master guitar player. Playing fast is not as cool as playing slow and making every note count. You can just feel the emotion inj every note he plays. Best guitar player ever, in my opinion.

Imagine hearing Dark side of the moon for the first time once again. What a treat. There are maybe 10 full albums I wish I could listen to from beginning to end for the first time again. This is certainly one of them