The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. Originally released on 1 March 1973, on the label Harvest, it built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but departs from instrumental thematic by founding member Syd Barrett. The album explores themes including conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's 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 1972 and 1973 at 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 Floyd's road crew and others provided philosophical quotations throughout. Engineer Alan Parsons was responsible for many distinctively notable sonic aspects and the recruitment of non-lexical singer Clare Torry. The album's iconic sleeve, designed by Storm Thorgerson, depicts a prism dispersing light into colour and represents the band's lighting, the record's thematic material, and keyboardist Richard Wright's "simple and bold" design request. Stereo remastered album on heavyweight 180g vinyl Original UK release date: March 1973 Certified 15 times platinum in the US and 14 times platinum in the UK Reached number one in the UK and the US Topped Billboard Top LPs and Tapes and charted for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988 Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best selling worldwide 2016 version Remastered from the original analogue tapes by James Guthrie, Joel Plante, and Bernie Grundman
K**N
One of the greatest
What can you say about this, one of the best albums ever recorded, it is superb, play it late at night with the lights off and just lose your self in the music, you won’t regret it.
J**O
Five Stars
Briliant - end of!
P**M
Five Stars
Class.
N**.
Five Stars
Perfect
M**W
Great album
Absolutely fantastic albumI think its been remastered really wellSounds awesome on my system
M**B
Noisy Pressing
It’s Dark Side Of The Moon, it’s a classic well known and loved album - no point reviewing the music so I’m reviewing the remaster and pressing quality.I’ll start with the good. Amazon’s packaging is excellent now for shipping records and this was very well protected and arrived in perfect condition. The album includes all of the original posters and stickers that were originally available when the album was first released so that’s a nice touch. The gatefold is excellent.The remaster is actually decent, good dynamics and clarity with good power and depth to the bass. Not at all spoiled by excessive compression or poor EQ. Apparently this particular remaster was mastered from the original analogue tapes.Now the bad, despite cleaning prior to playing with both a Pro-ject Clean It, a carbon fibre brush and a zap with a Zerostat Milty 3 my pressing has a lot of crackles, way too many for a brand new record. I can just about live with it because the music is so dynamic it overpowers the noise, but quieter sections are certainly not silent. Yes I’m used to vinyl and know how it’s supposed to sound especially when brand new.My pressing is nice and flat with no wobbles or warps and no skips, and the overall recording and mastering is really good, so to avoid the hassle I’m not returning it, I suspect after a coupe of plays a lot of the embedded debris from the manufacturing process will be dissipated.
A**R
Four Stars
All good. Thanks
A**R
Four Stars
Brilliant
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