| Pink Floyd |
| Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) [1993, XXth Anniversary Edition] |
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Pink Floyd — Dark Side Of The Moon (March 1, 1973) [Sept. 29, 1993, Twentieth Anniversary Edition]
Location: London, England
Album release: September 29, 1993
Record Label: EMI (UK)
Duration: 42:57
Tracks:
01a. Speak To Me (Mason)
01b. Breathe In The Air (Waters, Gilmour, Wright) 4:00
02. On The Run (Gilmour, Waters) 3:32
03. Time (Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) 7:06
04. The Great Gig In The Sky (Wright) 4:44
05. Money (Waters) 6:31
06. Us And Them (Waters, Wright) 7:40
07. Any Colour You Like (Gilmour, Mason, Wright) 3:25
08. Brain Damage (Waters) 3:50
09. Eclipse (Waters) 2:04
★ Originally released in 1973
★ Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London between June 1972 and January 1973
★ Release of the album: 1973, March, 1 [LP Harvest SHVL 804, UK]
★ Release of this CD: 1993, September, 29 [CD EMI (UK), Cat.# 0777 7 81479 2 3 / UPC: 077778147923]
★ Digital Remasters ℗ 1992 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd.
★ © 1993 EMI Records Ltd.
★ Printed in the U.K.
★ Made in the UK
★ Note: Digitally remastered September 1992 at the Mastering Lab, LA
★ A limited edition release celebrating the 20th anniversary of the original release. Comes in a cardboard box with a booklet of 3D photography and lyrics and 5 limited edition postcards of the original artwork.
★ Backing Vocals — Barry St. John, Doris Troy, Leslie Duncan, Liza Strike
★ Bass Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer [Vcs3], Tape [Tape Effects], Lyrics by — Roger Waters
★ Design [Sleeve, Photogram Design] — Stylorouge
★ Design [Sleeve, Photogram Design], Photography by [Prism Photography] — Storm Thorgerson
★ Engineer — Alan Parsons
★ Engineer [Assistant] — Peter James
★ Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizer [Vcs3] — Richard Wright
★ Mixed by [Mixing Supervisor] — Chris Thomas
★ Percussion, Tape [Tape Effects] — Nick Mason
★ Photography by [Live Photographs, Pyramid] — Hipgnosis
★ Photography by [Live Photographs] — Jill Furmanovsky
★ Photography by [Photograms, Speaker Photography] — Chris Craske
★ Photography by [Prism Photography] — Tony May
★ Producer — Pink Floyd
★ Remastered By — Doug Sax
★ Remastered By [Remastering Supervisor] — James Guthrie
★ Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer [Vcs3] — David Gilmour
© David Gilmour Denmark, 1972
Description:
★ The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973. It built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure in 1968 of founder member, principal composer, and lyricist, Syd Barrett. The themes on The Dark Side of the Moon include conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's deteriorating mental state.
★ Developed during live performances, an early version of the suite was premiered several months before studio recording began; new material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London. The group used some of the most advanced recording techniques of the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops. Analogue synthesizers were given prominence in several tracks, and a series of recorded interviews with the band's road crew and others provided the philosophical quotations used throughout. Engineer Alan Parsons was responsible for some of the album's most notable sonic aspects and the recruitment of non–lexical singer Clare Torry. The album's iconic sleeve, designed by Storm Thorgerson, features a prism that represents the band's stage lighting, the record's lyrical themes, and keyboardist Richard Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design.
★ The Dark Side of the Moon was an immediate success; it topped the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart for one week and remained in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. With an estimated 50 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best–selling albums worldwide. It has twice been remastered and re–released, and has been covered in its entirety by several other acts. It produced two singles, "Money" and "Time". The Dark Side of the Moon is one of Pink Floyd's most popular albums among fans and critics, and is frequently ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time.
© Filming exterior shots .. in a studio… for Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
★ By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with Dark Side of the Moon. The primary revelation of Dark Side of the Moon is what a little focus does for the band. Roger Waters wrote a series of songs about mundane, everyday details which aren't that impressive by themselves, but when given the sonic backdrop of Floyd's slow, atmospheric soundscapes and carefully placed sound effects, they achieve an emotional resonance. But what gives the album true power is the subtly textured music, which evolves from ponderous, neo–psychedelic art rock to jazz fusion and blues–rock before turning back to psychedelia. It's dense with detail, but leisurely paced, creating its own dark, haunting world. Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon, but no other record defines them quite as well as this one.
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
| Pink Floyd |
| Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) [1993, XXth Anniversary Edition] |
Location: London, England
Album release: September 29, 1993
Record Label: EMI (UK)
Duration: 42:57
Tracks:
01a. Speak To Me (Mason)
01b. Breathe In The Air (Waters, Gilmour, Wright) 4:00
02. On The Run (Gilmour, Waters) 3:32
03. Time (Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) 7:06
04. The Great Gig In The Sky (Wright) 4:44
05. Money (Waters) 6:31
06. Us And Them (Waters, Wright) 7:40
07. Any Colour You Like (Gilmour, Mason, Wright) 3:25
08. Brain Damage (Waters) 3:50
09. Eclipse (Waters) 2:04
★ Originally released in 1973
★ Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London between June 1972 and January 1973
★ Release of the album: 1973, March, 1 [LP Harvest SHVL 804, UK]
★ Release of this CD: 1993, September, 29 [CD EMI (UK), Cat.# 0777 7 81479 2 3 / UPC: 077778147923]
★ Digital Remasters ℗ 1992 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd.
★ © 1993 EMI Records Ltd.
★ Printed in the U.K.
★ Made in the UK
★ Note: Digitally remastered September 1992 at the Mastering Lab, LA
★ A limited edition release celebrating the 20th anniversary of the original release. Comes in a cardboard box with a booklet of 3D photography and lyrics and 5 limited edition postcards of the original artwork.
★ Backing Vocals — Barry St. John, Doris Troy, Leslie Duncan, Liza Strike
★ Bass Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer [Vcs3], Tape [Tape Effects], Lyrics by — Roger Waters
★ Design [Sleeve, Photogram Design] — Stylorouge
★ Design [Sleeve, Photogram Design], Photography by [Prism Photography] — Storm Thorgerson
★ Engineer — Alan Parsons
★ Engineer [Assistant] — Peter James
★ Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizer [Vcs3] — Richard Wright
★ Mixed by [Mixing Supervisor] — Chris Thomas
★ Percussion, Tape [Tape Effects] — Nick Mason
★ Photography by [Live Photographs, Pyramid] — Hipgnosis
★ Photography by [Live Photographs] — Jill Furmanovsky
★ Photography by [Photograms, Speaker Photography] — Chris Craske
★ Photography by [Prism Photography] — Tony May
★ Producer — Pink Floyd
★ Remastered By — Doug Sax
★ Remastered By [Remastering Supervisor] — James Guthrie
★ Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer [Vcs3] — David Gilmour
Description:
★ The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973. It built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure in 1968 of founder member, principal composer, and lyricist, Syd Barrett. The themes on The Dark Side of the Moon include conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's deteriorating mental state.
★ Developed during live performances, an early version of the suite was premiered several months before studio recording began; new material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London. The group used some of the most advanced recording techniques of the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops. Analogue synthesizers were given prominence in several tracks, and a series of recorded interviews with the band's road crew and others provided the philosophical quotations used throughout. Engineer Alan Parsons was responsible for some of the album's most notable sonic aspects and the recruitment of non–lexical singer Clare Torry. The album's iconic sleeve, designed by Storm Thorgerson, features a prism that represents the band's stage lighting, the record's lyrical themes, and keyboardist Richard Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design.
★ The Dark Side of the Moon was an immediate success; it topped the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart for one week and remained in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. With an estimated 50 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best–selling albums worldwide. It has twice been remastered and re–released, and has been covered in its entirety by several other acts. It produced two singles, "Money" and "Time". The Dark Side of the Moon is one of Pink Floyd's most popular albums among fans and critics, and is frequently ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
★ By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with Dark Side of the Moon. The primary revelation of Dark Side of the Moon is what a little focus does for the band. Roger Waters wrote a series of songs about mundane, everyday details which aren't that impressive by themselves, but when given the sonic backdrop of Floyd's slow, atmospheric soundscapes and carefully placed sound effects, they achieve an emotional resonance. But what gives the album true power is the subtly textured music, which evolves from ponderous, neo–psychedelic art rock to jazz fusion and blues–rock before turning back to psychedelia. It's dense with detail, but leisurely paced, creating its own dark, haunting world. Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon, but no other record defines them quite as well as this one.
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★