[Music] Dark Side of the moon

[Icy Gull]

I've still got a first pressing from the day it was released. Remember waiting outside the shop to buy the vinyl. Luckier still to get it signed 3 years later by the whole band.

You can retire then I imagine, must be worth a fortune? ( well maybe not retire but have a great long haul holiday on the proceeds)

 

[studio150]

Incredible that this album will be 50 years old on March 1st.
Still holds up today, Amazing album.

It was 50 years old in 2022, yep an amazing album by Medicine Head

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[southstandandy]

You can retire then I imagine, must be worth a fortune?

Never thought about selling it but yeah would probably be worth a few quid. It's in pretty good condition too.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Waters is an awesome lyric writer but I found them too dark from The Wall, I can only take so much and he became, imo, so very bitter with his lyrics. On the other hand Gilmour’s wife’s lyrics are twee and a bit shit on his albums so I gave his albums a miss too after a couple of listens.

I'd urge you to give TFC another listen. Still resonates with me today, the betrayal of politicians, the legacy of conflict. So full of emotion, feeling and anger. I really love it.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Sorry, Syd Barrett fan here, it was all overblown shite after Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Got a bicycle with a bell on it?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Each to their own. Reminds me of the Peter Gabriel/ Phil Collins Genesis comparison that will rage on past the end of mankind

I'm more Van Halen Dave Lee Roth/Sammy Hagar.

 

[Nobby]

Time has brilliant lyrics, this verse is probably my all time favourite, and so true.

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

This I think that could well be mine too.

So very true.....

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Fond memories of putting “See Emily play” on the juke box in the Cottage coffee bar in the early 70’s.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Time has brilliant lyrics, this verse is probably my all time favourite, and so true.

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

It is an incredible song, it certainly gets you thinking...

 

[bhafc99]

I've still got a first pressing from the day it was released. Remember waiting outside the shop to buy the vinyl. Luckier still to get it signed 3 years later by the whole band.

 

[GT49er]

You can retire then I imagine, must be worth a fortune? ( well maybe not retire but have a great long haul holiday on the proceeds)

Grrr! Don't talk to me about records worth a fortune! At Uni, when I wanted a better guitar than the crummy plywood one (well, not actually plywood perhaps, but you get the picture) Mum and Dad gave me when I was about 14, I sold most of my LP collection to finance the purchase (students didn't get credit in those days!). Unfortunately, one of the records was The Beatles White Album, numbered edition, bought on the day before release from Brian Epstein's shop in Liverpool. Number 78, IRCC

 

[birthofanorange]

Time has brilliant lyrics, this verse is probably my all time favourite, and so true.

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

Indeed, though those 'ten years' soon became twenty and thirty....

 

[Nobby]

Grrr! Don't talk to me about records worth a fortune! At Uni, when I wanted a better guitar than the crummy plywood one (well, not actually plywood perhaps, but you get the picture)Mum and Dad gave me when I was about 14, I sold most of my LP collection to finance the purchase (students didn't get credit in those days!). Unfortunately, one of the records was The Beatles White Album, numbered edition, bought on the day before release from Brian Epstein's shop in Liverpool. Number 78, IRCC

Yikes

 

[Nobby]

For anyone into the Floyd, early Genesis etc, there is a band I discovered during the Pandemic, Pendragon
Helped me through at times.
Nick Barrett's writing and guitar is reminiscent of Gilmour at his best
They have written some amazing stuff over the last few years.
Seems that the Floyd, Yes, Genesis prog type stuff isnt quite dead yet....

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Wind and Wuthering being one of them

At this point, the thread is dead to me.

I was 15 in 73. I'd seen Genesis twice. I bought Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and SEBTP. After that it got a bit silly, and then the sort of people who were middle aged by the time they were 18 were going to Empire Pool Wembley to watch tiny stick men, 200 yards away, sing soppy pop shite with added grade 8 musicianlyship, and then drooling on about it. Christ.

As for Floyd, I have 4 early albums. The latter (Obscured by clouds) is my favourite. Very gloomy and menacing. Then I found that the wanker element in my class at school were getting all excited about DSOTM, and planning a trip to the Coliseum to stand 2.5 kilometers away from a stage where tiny matchstick figures were silhouetted by a laser light show. f*** me.

The irony is that a year earlier these people were calling these bands rubbish.

I make no apology for this opprobrium. If I had a quid for each time one of the dimmer of my acquaintances accused me of not listening to 'proper music', I'd have almost enough money to buy a return ticket from Faversham to London.

 

[Pavilionaire]

DSOTM is a wonderful piece of work. It is timeless and profound too. I really got into Pink Floyd at a young age but when you are 12 or 13 the messages are quite dark and I eventually got into more uplifting stuff. However, the substance of the DSOTM, WYWH and The Wall have always stayed with me more than 40 years later. I have since come back and listen to Floyd regularly, have taken in all of their studio albums. Animals is superb, and their track Echoes is awesome.

 

[raymondo]

Thank's for the reminder Just put it on, haven't listen to it for a while.


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Nice to see a deck and some vinyl

 

[Icy Gull]

At this point, the thread is dead to me.

I was 15 in 73. I'd seen Genesis twice. I bought Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and SEBTP. After that it got a bit silly, and then the sort of people who were middle aged by the time they were 18 were going to Empire Pool Wembley to watch tiny stick men, 200 yards away, sing soppy pop shite with added grade 8 musicianlyship, and then drooling on about it. Christ.

As for Floyd, I have 4 early albums. The latter (Obscured by clouds) is my favourite. Very gloomy and menacing. Then I found that the wanker element in my class at school were getting all excited about DSOTM, and planning a trip to the Coliseum to stand 2.5 kilometers away from a stage where tiny matchstick figures were silhouetted by a laser light show. f*** me.

The irony is that a year earlier these people were calling these bands rubbish.

I make no apology for this opprobrium. If I had a quid for each time one of the dimmer of my acquaintances accused me of not listening to 'proper music', I'd have almost enough money to buy a return ticket from Faversham to London.

I genuinely have no idea what you are wittering on about!

Are you dissing Wind and Wuthering?

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

For anyone into the Floyd, early Genesis etc, there is a band I discovered during the Pandemic, Pendragon
Helped me through at times.
Nick Barrett's writing and guitar is reminiscent of Gilmour at his best
They have written some amazing stuff over the last few years.
Seems that the Floyd, Yes, Genesis prog type stuff isnt quite dead yet....

Seen them 10+ times, absolutely love them, Nick Barrett and his wife Rachel are lovely, stayed at their B& B in Bude.
Not of this world is one of my favourite albums.Nicks guitar work is up there with the best.watch him from 6:40

 

[ozzygull]

Nice to see a deck and some vinyl

Thanks apart from the radio, it is the only way I listen to music at home now. Not because I think it sounds better than other formats, I love the feeling of putting on an album.