DSOTM 40 years old today

Posted by: Acred on 01 March 2013

Often this album has been voted the best album of all time. Dark Side of the Moon is 40 today. How many times do you think you have listened to this great work?

Posted on: 01 March 2013 by Jasonf
This is not going well.

I just have given Tina the choice of watching this new Robert DeNiro film or going down stairs to listen to DSOTM, the reply was, "Oh noooooo!" And that's with the cushion of a bottle of red and some chocolate, and its her album, lol.

I'll have to do this alone.

Jason
Posted on: 01 March 2013 by GraemeH
Originally Posted by Jasonf:
This is not going well.

I just have given Tina the choice of watching this new Robert DeNiro film or going down stairs to listen to DSOTM, the reply was, "Oh noooooo!" And that's with the cushion of a bottle of red and some chocolate, and its her album, lol.

I'll have to do this alone.

Jason

Must remind her of something ........if their ever was an album to take you back to a particular point in life it's DSOTM. G

Posted on: 01 March 2013 by Kevin-W
Originally Posted by MDS:

 

 

And, Kevin, while I agree that Money is the most well know track and not the best, I must say that I come to appreciate it more and more.  What was a regular disco 'blast' in the 70s and 80s has an under-appreciated complexity and the shifts in timing are a delight.

I think that speaks volumes for the quality of the album MDS!

Posted on: 01 March 2013 by Timbo

Played my copy today, purchased in September 1973 so not quite forty. I'm amazed how many records I have that are 35 years plus, old. They are still all playable, DSOTM was marvellous this afternoon a wonderful album.

 

Tim

Posted on: 01 March 2013 by TomK

After all this I couldn't possibly not listen tonight and it didn't disappoint. I was a second year maths student and remember bunking off a couple of lectures to go and buy it. It was my first Floyd album and very different from the head banging stuff I was listening to then but I loved it and still do.

 

It was original then and still is. A truly significant album.

Posted on: 01 March 2013 by Dan43

HD versions exist? 96/24 DVD audio is all I can find anyone rip these and listened?

Thanks

Dan43

Posted on: 02 March 2013 by Komet

I recently made the mistake of asking the local Naim dealer if the hi res blu-ray version was any good. He sat me down in the show room, cranked up the volume and proceded to play the quadraphonic mix. Amazingly detailed and quite blew me away, with a wall of guitars and synthesizers bubbling merrily away in the mix. It all seemed to make sense, playing the standard CD at home afterwards was a real let down.

Posted on: 02 March 2013 by naim_nymph
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

 

PS - Its weakest track, Money, is also its most famous. Odd how things pan out...

IMO the only weak track on the album is Speak To Me, which is a bit unfair it being the intro  


Debs

Posted on: 02 March 2013 by Timbo

By the way I have an SACD version, but nothing to play it on..... 

Posted on: 03 March 2013 by tonym
Originally Posted by Dan43:

HD versions exist? 96/24 DVD audio is all I can find anyone rip these and listened?

Thanks

Dan43

Yes, I've ripped it. Not bad but not as good as a rip of my old CD, and not a patch on my original vinyl,  wot I bought when it first came out & I was 23.

 

I remember the chap from NME reviewing DSOTM after its premier at the London Planetarium. He didn't think it was very good & felt it wouldn't sell well. Plonker...

Posted on: 03 March 2013 by Dan43
Originally Posted by tonym:
Originally Posted by Dan43:

HD versions exist? 96/24 DVD audio is all I can find anyone rip these and listened?

Thanks

Dan43

Yes, I've ripped it. Not bad but not as good as a rip of my old CD, and not a patch on my original vinyl,  wot I bought when it first came out & I was 23.

 

I remember the chap from NME reviewing DSOTM after its premier at the London Planetarium. He didn't think it was very good & felt it wouldn't sell well. Plonker...

Thats interesting, I am creating a mini obsession with buying the two immersion sets that have the DVD-A to rip them (The Wall doesn't?), and the Doors Perception boxed sets also that have DVD-A for every remastered CD. Ripped all my Pink Floyd and Doors CDs (bought in the 80's) this morning to 44.1/16 WAV, listening to Ride On by ACDC right now, all sounding great, SOYCD sounded good.

Hmmm food for thought,

Cheers

Dan43

Posted on: 03 March 2013 by Dan43
 

Thats interesting, I am creating a mini obsession with buying the two immersion sets that have the DVD-A to rip them (The Wall doesn't?), 

 

My bad, the Pink Floyds are Blu-Ray 96/24, the Doors are DVD-A, too quick. DVD AE will do the BluRay-Audio rips and the DVDs.

Apologies

Dan43

Posted on: 03 March 2013 by GraemeH

The black Harvest cd pressing is the best I've heard.  Had the MFSL gold disc for it was a bit 'soft' to me. G