The Dark Side of the Moon. The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1. Harvest Records. The album built on ideas explored in earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions following the departure of founding member and principal contributor, Syd Barrett, in 1. It thematically explores conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barretts deteriorating mental state. Developed during live performances, an early version was premiered several months before recording began new material was recorded in two sessions in 1. Abbey Road in London. The group used some advanced recording techniques at the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops. Analogue synthesizers were prominent in several tracks, and snippets from recorded interviews with Pink Floyds road crew and others provided philosophical quotations throughout. Engineer. Alan Parsons was responsible for many distinctively notable sonic aspects and the recruitment of singer Clare Torry. Acom.Pc Viewer Download more. The albums iconic sleeve, designed by Storm Thorgerson, depicts a prismspectrum and represents the bands lighting, the records thematic material, and keyboardist. Wires/w2/AP_Top_News_Entertainment_Stories/2017/10/12/Images/322cb500c13a464c83cf55277241d9ba.jpg' alt='Side B Complete Collection Sid Rare 650' title='Side B Complete Collection Sid Rare 650' />Richard Wrights simple and bold design request. The album was an immediate commercial and critical success it topped the Billboard Top LPs Tapes chart for a week and remained in the chart for 7. With an estimated 4. Pink Floyds most commercially successful album and one of the best selling worldwide. The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963 2014 The Bootleg Series Vol. The Basement Tapes Complete 2014 The 50th Anniversary Collection 1964 2014. Bermude La Fossa Maledetta Cave Of The Sharks Complete Chris Soundtrack Corner proudly presents for the first time the complete soundtrack to Tonino Riccis. Side B Complete Collection Sid Rare FidgetIt has been remastered and re released twice, and covered in its entirety by several other acts. It produced two singles, Money and Us and Them, and is the bands most popular album among fans and critics, being ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time. BackgroundeditFollowing Meddle in 1. Pink Floyd assembled for an upcoming tour of Britain, Japan and the United States in December of that year. Rehearsing in Broadhurst Gardens in London, there was the looming prospect of a new album, although their priority at that time was the creation of new material. In a band meeting at drummer Nick Masons home in Camden, bassist Roger Waters proposed that a new album could form part of the tour. Waters idea was for an album that dealt with things that make people mad, focusing on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle, and dealing with the apparent mental problems suffered by former band member Syd Barrett. The band had explored a similar idea with 1. The Man and The Journey. In an interview for Rolling Stone, guitarist David Gilmour said I think we all thought and Roger definitely thought that a lot of the lyrics that we had been using were a little too indirect. There was definitely a feeling that the words were going to be very clear and specific. Waters early demo recording of Money, made in his garden shed. Problems playing this fileSee media help. Generally, all four members agreed that Waters album concept unified by a single theme was a good idea. Waters, Gilmour, Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright participated in the writing and production of the new material, and Waters created the early demo tracks at his Islington home in a small studio built in his garden shed. Parts of the new album were taken from previously unused material the opening line of Breathe came from an earlier work by Waters and Ron Geesin, written for the soundtrack of The Body,7 and the basic structure of Us and Them borrowed from an original composition by Wright for Zabriskie Point. The band rehearsed at a warehouse in London owned by The Rolling Stones, and then at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, London. They also purchased extra equipment, which included new speakers, a PA system, a 2. Nine tonnes of kit was transported in three lorries this would be the first time the band had taken an entire album on tour, but allowed improvement and refinery nonetheless,91. Dark Side of the Moon an allusion to lunacy, rather than astronomy. However, after discovering that that title had already been used by another band, Medicine Head, it was temporarily changed to Eclipse. The new material premired at The Dome in Brighton, on 2. January 1. 97. 2,1. Medicine Heads album the title was changed back to the bands original preference. The Rainbow Theatre in London, where The Dark Side of the Moon was played for the press in 1. Dark Side of the Moon A Piece for Assorted Lunatics, as it was then known,4 was performed in the presence of an assembled press on 1. February 1. 97. 2 more than a year before its release at the Rainbow Theatre, and was critically acclaimed. Michael Wale of The Times described the piece as. It was so completely understanding and musically questioning. Derek Jewell of The Sunday Times wrote The ambition of the Floyds artistic intention is now vast. Melody Maker was, however, less enthusiastic Musically, there were some great ideas, but the sound effects often left me wondering if I was in a bird cage at London zoo. However, the following tour was praised by the public. The new material was performed live, in the same order in which it would eventually be recorded, but obvious differences between the live version, and the recorded version released a year later, included the lack of synthesizers in tracks such as On the Run, and Bible readings that were later replaced by Clare Torrys non lexical vocables on The Great Gig in the Sky. The bands lengthy tour through Europe and North America gave them the opportunity to make continual improvements to the scale and quality of their performances. Work on the album was interrupted in late February when the band travelled to France and recorded music for French director Barbet Schroeders film, La Valle. They then performed in Japan and returned to France in March to complete work on the film. After a series of dates in North America, the band flew to London to begin recording the album, from 2. May to 2. 5 June. More concerts in Europe and North America followed before the band returned on 9 January 1. ConcepteditThe Dark Side of the Moon built upon experiments Pink Floyd had attempted in their previous live shows and recordings, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions which, according to critic David Fricke, had become characteristic of the band after founder member Syd Barrett left in 1. Gilmour, Barretts replacement, later referred to those instrumentals as that psychedelic noodling stuff, and with Waters cited 1. Meddle as a turning point towards what would be realised on the album. The Dark Side of the Moons lyrical themes include conflict, greed, the passage of time, death, and insanity, the latter inspired in part by Barretts deteriorating mental state he had been the bands principal composer and lyricist. The album is notable for its use of musique concrte4 and conceptual, philosophical lyrics, as found in much of the bands other work. Each side of the album is a continuous piece of music. The five tracks on each side reflect various stages of human life, beginning and ending with a heartbeat, exploring the nature of the human experience, and according to Waters empathy. Speak to Me and Breathe together stress the mundane and futile elements of life that accompany the ever present threat of madness, and the importance of living ones own life Dont be afraid to care. By shifting the scene to an airport, the synthesizer driven instrumental On the Run evokes the stress and anxiety of modern travel, in particular Wrights fear of flying. Time examines the manner in which its passage can control ones life and offers a stark warning to those who remain focused on mundane aspects it is followed by a retreat into solitude and withdrawal in Breathe Reprise.