[Music] Dark Side of the moon

[BRIGHT ON Q]

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

 

[Worried Man Blues]

as a matter of fact..........................

 

[ozzygull]

love it. I remember listening to it on my phone when I took a trip to London. As I walked past the Metro Paper stand with some crappy headline "Brain Damange" started playing. It just perfect somehow.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

'Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way'.

Favourite line in a song ever.

 

[chickens]

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

 

[ozzygull]

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

 

[A mex eyecan]

it’s , sorry I thought I had something more to say

 

[Icy Gull]

'Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way'.

Favourite line in a song ever.

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

 

[ozzygull]

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

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

 

[NS Herald]

Saw it played live at Wembley many many moons ago .... I was too young to properly appreciate but utterly terrific piece of work.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

I remember queuing up for what seems now like hours at the Virgin Store by the Clock Tower.
Still got it upstairs but no turntable or system to play it on!

TNBA

TTF

 

[Bold Seagull]

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

Seems a bit of a shame given he wrote Jugbland Blues and played on 2 other tracks on Saucerful of Secrets.

 

[Icy Gull]

Sorry, Syd Barrett fan here,

Me too but Atom Heart Mother, Meddle and Wish You Were Here were all fantastic albums. Piper at the Gates and Saucerful of Secrets were great but different.

Went right off them from The Wall

Still enjoy both Syd’s solo albums too

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

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

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

I notice a lot of tune changers on various platforms who now realise how bloody good some of Phil Collins early genesis albums were, didnt want to see it at the time Peter Gabriel left.

 

[Icy Gull]

I notice a lot of tune changers on various platforms who now realise how bloody good some of Phil Collins early genesis albums were, didnt want to see it at the time Peter Gabriel left.

Wind and Wuthering being one of them

 

[Binney on acid]

As far as I'm concerned, it was downhill all the way after 'Alan's psychedelic breakfast'.

 

[chickens]

Seems a bit of a shame given he wrote Jugbland Blues and played on 2 other tracks on Saucerful of Secrets.

True, but Jugband Blues was the only track that you could really link back to Piper, they were firmly into their “experimental space rock” phase with Saucerful. Each to their own, but it absolutely wasn’t for me.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Me too but Atom Heart Mother, Meddle and Wish You Were Here were all fantastic albums. Piper at the Gates and Saucerful of Secrets were great but different.

Went right off them from The Wall

Meddle is amazing.

Have to say though, that The Final Cut is an absolutely brilliant album. Recorded in pretty much a hostile atmosphere with the band on the verge of collapse, Water's completely nails the futility, political stupidity, horror and aftermath of war. Got a bad press because of the split, and perhaps it is as much a Water's album as it is Floyd, but it's up there for me. Paranoid Eyes gets me every time...

Button your lip and don't let the shield slip
Take a fresh grip on your bulletproof mask
And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
You can hide, hide, hide
Behind paranoid eyes

You put on our brave face and slip over the road for a jar
Fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar
Laughing too loud at the rest of the world
With the boys in the crowd
You can hide, hide, hide
(I'll tell you what, I'll give you three blacks, and play you for five)
Behind petrified eyes

You believed in their stories of fame, fortune and glory
Now you're lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle age
The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high
And you hide, hide, hide
(Time gentleman!)
Behind brown and mild eyes

 

[Icy Gull]

Meddle is amazing.

Have to say though, that The Final Cut is an absolutely brilliant album. Recorded in pretty much a hostile atmosphere with the band on the verge of collapse, Water's completely nails the futility, political stupidity, horror and aftermath of war. Got a bad press because of the split, and perhaps it is as much a Water's album as it is Floyd, but it's up there for me. Paranoid Eyes gets me every time...

Button your lip and don't let the shield slip
Take a fresh grip on your bulletproof mask
And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
You can hide, hide, hide
Behind paranoid eyes

You put on our brave face and slip over the road for a jar
Fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar
Laughing too loud at the rest of the world
With the boys in the crowd
You can hide, hide, hide
(I'll tell you what, I'll give you three blacks, and play you for five)
Behind petrified eyes

You believed in their stories of fame, fortune and glory
Now you're lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle age
The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high
And you hide, hide, hide
(Time gentleman!)
Behind brown and mild eyes

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.

 

[southstandandy]

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.