Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon

Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon Recorded in 1972 and released in 1973, this is probably one of the oldest records in my collection. Bar stuff by tangerine dream, however the best thing i can say for this album is that it has stood the test of time. At the time of this album Pink Floyd were sort of stagnating, probably the wrong word to use but they had released some good music on previous albums. But the album before this called ‘Obscured by clouds’ was a bit patchy, the songs were starting to mirror songsand getting better but were still self indulgent pieces of psych rock. In some ways some bands probably seem to produce better material when they are under pressure to deliver, the band went into semi hibernation within abbey road recording studios and spent many months going over tracks they had been performing live as part of the Eclipse tour. The basis of this tour formed the main part of this album, What I love about the album is just the soaring guitar work of David Gilmour, the songs of Roger Waters are just brilliant pieces of songwriting. I can honestly say I fell out of love with music for a number of years but this album was the one after hearing it, things were not quite the same.What makes the album is the production they were obviously using the mixing desk to its fullest. It starts with the heartbeat track 'Speak to me’ and then goes into 'Breathe’ which is just so laidback, understated but just briliant. It then goes into the track 'On the run’ which is usually reffered to as the Travel Sequence. There are clips on youtube which shows how different the live version is(i prefer that). It then goes into the classic 'Time’. This is Gilmours guitar playing at its most etheral and blues(y). The tracks that follows ’ Great gig in the sky’ is an instrumental piece with female vocals and mostly Richard Wrights piano underpinning the track. 'Money’ is probably the albums best known track. 'Us and them’ is a track that was used as part of the Zebruskia point’ soundtrack they took the ipiano and layered aa song over it. 'Any colour you like’ is psychedelic, probably a bit dated. The album then closes with 'Brain Damage’ and 'Eclipse’. There has been articles and interviews where Waters thinks of the some of the lyrics slightly six form, but I would have to say that sometimes understating something can have more effect. The album brought eh band the success they craved and albums followed, but in terms of ambition. It has to be 'Dark side of the moon’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVN_T2v490