close your eyes
 
[music, albums]

XL: 1973 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon


Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

The famous untitled cover picturing a light beam hitting a prism and being dispersed into a spectrum, many beams in the different colours of the rainbow. One of the more astonishing experiments in physics showing that white light is a mixture of different frequencies which can be visualised as the spectral colours.

I listened to this album for the first time in 1975, I guess, probably in November. Chez my best friend. In his room under the roof with the oversized drawing of Che Guevara's face on the wall. He was the handsome good-looking guy the girls liked. I was the outsider who was into chess and other stuff girls were not interested at all in. It was dark in his room when he put the record on. I didn't know about concept albums or anything but the music really hit me. It wasn't like anything I had heard and liked before like Abba, the Bee Gees, the Sweet etc. There was something universal about it. Until a couple of years ago I had never thought about DSotM as having different songs. It was just one song with different parts segueing seamlessly into another. I didn't understand what this album was about but I felt that it was something special, something bigger than life.

The cry which starts Speak to Me Breathe. A song which can make you forget everything bad about this world. The tenderness, the love, Dave Gilmour's guitar. When they started their Live8 performance this year with this song I could hardly hold back my tears. This was the better part of my youth, fuck.

The dooming atmosphere of the beginning of Time preshadowing goth. Turning into something quite funky, with those background girls vocals, I usually hate but which make sense to me here. As they are only used as an element, they are just an extra flavour which give the song some extra life.

The Great Gig in the Sky has more of this kind of women's singing. It's soulish stuff, it's great.

The sound of cash registers bring us back to profanity. Money. Considering that this is supposed to be the second best selling album of all-time (see Wikipedia) there is a lot of ex-post irony hanging around here. Played to death, but still an amazing song. The saxophone is reaching for some incredible heights. That tremolo! And the guitar as well. Like Santana but better. I can't imagine a cover of this which could convince me.

Us Against Them. Apparently the longest track. The saxophone again. Fitting perfectly. Isn't this song about a fight? So calm and sovereign.

A prog-rock piece follows. Okay in the course of things.

And then we have Brain Damage. That must refer to Syd Barrett. He didn't make it to the stardom of Pink Floyd. But he is looming there, in the background. How to cope with losing the main band member. Pink Floyd and Joy Division. Two of the most important bands in rock music.

Further Reading

This was the concluding post of the the series 40 years, 40 albums.


 





 
last updated: 12/8/21, 5:41 PM
subscribers: 390
contact: alex63 at bigfoot dot com
40 years, 40 albums
why this is called close your eyes
some photos
status
Youre not logged in ... Login
menu
... home
... tags

... antville home
recent
...
Hier geht es weiter. Schon mehr oder weniger seit über 10 Jahren...
by alex63 @ 12/8/21, 5:41 PM
...
Der Schachchamp hieß entweder Miguel oder evtl. Manuel. Es gab noch eine ...
by alex63 @ 2/23/21, 8:55 AM

mp3 blogs/rotation etc.


Update: The most useful site in this category is the mp3 blog ...
by alex63 @ 1/26/20, 12:23 PM
...
du hast recht, die angeblichen lifetime forward mailadressen von bigfoot wurden irgendwann ...
by alex63 @ 12/20/19, 11:23 PM
...
Weil es auch mit John Lennon zu tun hat, würde ich dir ...
by klagefall @ 12/20/19, 4:12 PM
...
Ich bin doch nicht der Einzige, der die Sun Bear Concerts für ...
by alex63 @ 11/25/19, 8:54 PM

After the ecstacy, the laundry


Moments of transendence remind us of what is possible. We are here ...
by jacksawyer @ 11/4/19, 11:08 PM
...
Another phantastic release from 1991 I only discovered a couple of days ...
by alex63 @ 6/8/18, 11:05 PM
March 2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
December

03/02 GIANT SAND, F, Brotfabrik............. .


they rock
music (EN)
---------------
aloof from inspiration
an aquarium drunkard
the art of noise NEW
aurgasm
the blue in the air
bradley's almanac
destination out
disquiet
dissensus
dj martian
egg city radio
eyes that can see in the dark
fingertips
i love music
an idiot's guide to dreaming
k-punk
largehearted boy
leonard's lair
misha4music
moistworks
motel de moka
musicophilia
one faint deluded smile
organissimo jazz forums
the perfumed garden
said the gramophone
silence is a rhythm too
stereogum
swens blog
utopian turtletop
vain, selfish & lazy
vinyl mine
warped reality
wordsandmusic

music (DE, FR)
--------------------
la blogothèque
euroranch
hinternet
machtdose
le musterkoffer musikstrom
satt.org: musik
schallplattenmann
die zeit - musik

other (EN)
---------------
josh blog
open chess diary
orbis quintus
the ringdahl family NEW
time4time
wood s lot

other (DE)
---------------
ahoi polloi
bahnchaos NEU
bloggold NEU
cargo NEU
chill
daily ivy
dichtheit und wahrung
einschicht
etc.pp.
filmtagebuch
goncourt's blog
herdentrieb
hotel mama
(i think) he was a journalist
jacks blog NEU
ligne claire
malorama
meine kleine stadt
mek wito
passantin
passe.par.tout
pêle-mêle dans ma tête
private collection
reisenotizen aus der realität
schachblätter
schachblog
der schachneurotiker
with or without words...
x.antville

blog bardo
---------------
the absintheur's journal
brain farts
buked & scorned
dd denkt laut
ja zu aa
the mystical beast
ohrzucker
sofa. rites de passage
sound of the suburbs
spoilt victorian child
three hundred bars
yo, ivanhoe


blogs arranged by birth date of their authors

RSS Feed

Made with Antville
powered by
Helma Object Publisher