assault the well defended: Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon"

forward he cried
from the rear
and the Pink Floyd rules

A suggestion that on later CD pressings a faintly audible orchestral version of The Beatles's "Ticket to Ride" can be heard after "Eclipse", over the album's closing heartbeats, may be due to a remastering error.
if you play "ticket to ride" backwards you can hear ringo say "pinnnnk floyyyyyd rullllles"

In fact, come to think of it: Nick Mason's drumming. Are those drum tracks completely laced with marijuana or could he just not be bothered? :D His drumming has this real 'I caaaaan't beeeeee arrrrsed' feeling about it, which I really don't get from many other Pink Floyd albums.

huh, the part where the drums come in on us and them is like my favorite part of this record

hell yes

should I turn off "Jamaica Jerk-Off" to listen to "Us & Them"

ridiculous question, I know

The most powerful drumming on the record has to be on either 'Time' or 'Eclipse'. The part where 'Brain Damage' segues into 'Eclipse' is THE moment on this record for me.

http://meanspeedmusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pink-floyd-meanspeed-chart-speed-psychology-us-and-them-1a.jpg

I have no idea what this means but it rules

should I turn off "Jamaica Jerk-Off" to listen to "Us & Them"

ridiculous question, I know

― Euler, Friday, February 17, 2012 11:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes :)

I think if you read that graph starting right when "Us & Them" starts, it rules

lollll i love that graph.

http://meanspeedmusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pink-floyd-meanspeed-chart-speed-psychology-us-and-them-2.jpg

wtf

by which I mean, it rules

no idea what i was on about 6 years ago re Gilmour's vocals. i love those vocals!

So I guess I'm the only one whose ever turned up the volume really loud after the "Eclipse" fadeout. I was like 13 when this happened, so forgive me.

this is one of those "first five CDs i bought" albums where, having listened to it probably 500 times in 1996, i can basically play it note for note in my head. but i grabbed a fixer-upper vinyl copy this week, it cleaned up beautifully, and man, despite some very corny moments it still works for me as just this lush 70s studio-band rock experience. upthread, noiseyrock complains about the sound being too "wet," but the wetness and the studio "space" are what make it magic.

my favorite is still "any colour you like," but "on the run" really jumped up in my estimation this time. were they early Kraftwerk adopters, or what?

"breathe" also always a favorite - really like that kind of gentle overdubbed vocal vibe with Floyd. see also "fearless" and "goodbye blue sky."

"on the run" really jumped up in my estimation this time. were they early Kraftwerk adopters, or what?

Floyd's use of a sequencer predates that of Kraftwerk by three or four years!

oh wow, i had that chronology way off... it just reminded me so much of Autobahn, especially the integration of these more 60s type psychedelic "special effects" with weird slowed down sounds panning darkly through the mix...

It's more Tangerine Dream than Kraftwerk but then there's a bit in "Autobahn" which does resembles this - and that sounds more like Tangerine Dream than Kraftwerk too.

gorgeous album

“On The Run” was used as the background music on WLS-AM in Chicago in the mid ‘70s-early ‘80s when the DJ spoke to the winning caller. So they’d announce, “The 15th caller wins tickets to see the Eagles at the Chicago Amphitheater!” or whatever the fuck it was. Then, on the air, the DJ would talk to the winner, and under their conversation would be “On The Run.” It wasn’t until years later, when I finally heard DSOTM, that I found out it was a Pink Floyd song.