The Dark Side off the Moon

The Dark Side off the Moon is the eighth album British group of progressive Rock Pink Floyd. Left in 1973, it is often regarded as their disc more succeeded. Topics such as the money ( Money ), the Old age ( Time ), the Dead ( The Great Gig in the Sky ), the Work ( Breathe ) or the Folie ( Brain Ramming ) there are in particular approached.

The album uses sound effects very innovating for at which time it was carried out (one then did not have the many numerical effects synchronized currently current in the studios). One finds also various sound effects there, like the noise of a person running around a microphone or the recording of several clocks. This recording required the use of records printer without end on which were engraved the sound of these clocks. At the time, the computers did not make it possible “copy-to stick it” used today in studio or at home, from where the easily conceivable problems of synchronization of the sound effects.

Remained in the American Signal-200 for the period record 741 week old (including 591 consecutive), the disc represents, until today, one of the best sales of albums of all times. In all, it was indeed sold more than thirty million specimens. It is about the third album more sold in the history of the music.

The title Money , which propelled Pink Floyd at the head of the sales for the first time, is, with All You Need is Love Beatles, the only title whose rhythmic signature is 7/4 to have reached the head of the classification of the best sales. The solo of David Gilmour in 4/4 brings back the group towards the typical rhythmic measurement of the rock'n'roll.

The Great Gig in the Sky is an improvisation of Clare Torry to which it group had given like only indications before recording: “Thinks of death, the horror, and sings. ” It recorded quickly and presented its excuses while leaving because it badly thought of having sung, whereas the four members of the group had found all fantastic the service.

The title Brain Damage is a tormented musical homage, this piece is punctuated bursts of laughter and refrains majestic evoking the tormented universe of Syd Barrett, ex-member of Pink Floyd gained by the madness and the Paranoïa.

This album was followed the following year of a parody of Keith Moon (the beater of the group The Who) entitled Two Sides off the Moon . This single album solo of Keith Moon was not a great success. The group Ministry also parodied the title of this album to him by entitling one of its discs: Dark Side off the Spoon . The group Easy All Star also took again the album, arranging it in Dub, and entitling it The Dub Side off the Moon.

Alan Parsons is sound engineer of this album.

List titles

( All the words are of Roger Waters )
  1. Speak to Me (Nick Mason) - 1 min 16
  2. * Instrumentale
  3. Breathe (David Gilmour/Roger Waters) - 2 min 44
  4. * Chants: David Gilmour
  5. One the Run (David Gilmour/Roger Toilets) - 3 min 32
  6. * Instrumental
  7. Time/Breathe (begun again) (David Gilmour/Nick Mason/Roger Toilets/Rick Wright) - 7 min 6
  8. * Songs: David Gilmour and Rick Wright
  9. The Great Gig in the Sky (Rick Wright) - 4 min 47
  10. * Songs: Clare Torry
  11. Money (Roger Toilets) - 6 min 32
  12. * Songs: David Gilmour
  13. Custom and Them (Roger Toilets/Rick Wright) - 7 min 49
  14. * Songs: David Gilmour and Rick Wright
  15. Any Color You Like (David Gilmour/Nick Mason/Rick Wright) - 3 min 25
  16. * Instrumental
  17. Brain Ramming (Roger Toilets) - 3 min 50
  18. * Songs: Roger Toilets and David Gilmour
  19. Eclipse (Roger Toilets) - 2 min 4
  20. * Songs: Roger Toilets and David Gilmour

Appropriations

Influences

Several artists created albums influenced by this work of Pink Floyd:

Anecdotes

  • This album is considered to offer to a certain number of disconcerting coincidences with the film the Magician of OZ when it at the same time is looked at as one listens to the album.
  • There exists much of case of Synchronicité between this album and the Chinese revolutionary opera.
  • There exists much of case of Synchronicité between this album and the films Shining (of Stanley Kubrick) and Blade Runner (of Ridley Scott).
  • “ Dark Side off the Moon was the expression of a empathy political, philosophical, humanitarian which was to appear. ” (Roger Toilets).
  • the fourth feature-length film of Erik Clausen is off called also Dark Side the Moon (price of best film to the festival of Amiens, better Danish film in 1986, selected with the Oscars and the festival of Montreal in 1986).
  • During the recording of the album, the members of Pink Floyd had the charts on a desk with the entry of the studios Abbey Road. Each person who worked in the studio (in particular Paul McCartney and the Wings) was to turn over a chart and to answer the question which was registered there (they were metaphysics questions about the direction of the life, death, etc). The caretaker of the studios saw himself proposing a question in connection with the Moon and by “There answered quite simply it is no dark face of the Moon… in fact it is completely dark. ” (There is No dark side off the moon, really… matter off fact it' S all dark) . Impressed by this answer, the members of the group record this answer, which appears at the any end of the album.

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