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After years of releasing uneven and sometimes self indulgent albums Pink Floyd finally get their act together to produce their acclaimed masterpiece Dark Side Of The Moon. (US:1 UK:2)
“This is a popular and revered album because millions of people feel, that it contains some of the most precisely and overtly atmospheric music ever recorded; music you can wander around and get lost in. These millions are not wrong.”
“Pink Floyd were masters of producing blissful passages that anyone could enjoy, without sacrificing their artistic integrity or stifling their creativity, and Dark Side Of The Moon proves this point better than any of their other albums. This album is a sublime, lucid experience with fluid, awe-inspiring guitar solos, jazzy saxophone parts, smooth, funky bass lines, and hazy, psychedelic auras.”
“The genius of Dark Side Of The Moon lies in one important fact: that whilst the rest of the progressive rock world was pushing as hard as it could for more complexity, more time signatures, longer songs and more obscure lyrics, the Floyd decided to take precisely the opposite approach. They didn't abandon complexity or experimentalism or prog completely, but they were careful to incorporate no more complexity than what a song strictly needed, and likewise the lyrics were more direct and less abstract.”
“No other album fits together so perfectly getting all the high and lows right. It yells at you, screams at you, laughs at you all the while saving you from the sinking ship you call your life. It takes you out of your home to the end of the universe, to hell then to heaven, all the way back to your beating heart.”
“A musically conceptual album, rather than a story based one, every track on this prog-rock masterpiece is perfect, each fitting perfectly with the next. The production, musicianship and every song are perfect.”
“How could you not savour every minute of this music? In short, I could listen to this album every day for weeks and never get bored. I notice something new every time I play it and that's what keeps me coming back. This is one of the greatest albums of all time. If you want an LP which you can play it all the way through, this one is it.”
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