Re: Album: Dark Side of the Moon
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:31 pm
I don't have anything new to say about this album. It is deservedly celebrated. The band was good through Animals. The Wall became too theatrical and on the nose.
Jesus Christ : )Nate Dort wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:42 am My first exposure to this album was via a worn out cassette copy that I found in my dad's collection. Late 80s, I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. Tons of hiss and dropouts. I told my dad that it sounded like crap, and he said, "there's a reason I played that cassette so many times." The tape eventually snapped. After that, I probably only ever heard the singles on classic rock radio. Never bought my own copy.
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I interned at Blackbird studio in Nashville for a few months in 2006. One night I was cleaning Studio C. You know, George Massenburg's room, the one with the crazy diffusion panels everywhere:
Anyway, there was a SACD 5.1 surround copy of Dark Side sitting there on the console, so I fired it up and absorbed side A. It was kind of transcendent, listening to it in that room, on those speakers. Wish I could have finished it, but I had to leave.
I still think about that every time I hear something from this album.
Indeed.seby wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:44 pmJesus Christ : )Nate Dort wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:42 am My first exposure to this album was via a worn out cassette copy that I found in my dad's collection. Late 80s, I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. Tons of hiss and dropouts. I told my dad that it sounded like crap, and he said, "there's a reason I played that cassette so many times." The tape eventually snapped. After that, I probably only ever heard the singles on classic rock radio. Never bought my own copy.
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I interned at Blackbird studio in Nashville for a few months in 2006. One night I was cleaning Studio C. You know, George Massenburg's room, the one with the crazy diffusion panels everywhere:
Anyway, there was a SACD 5.1 surround copy of Dark Side sitting there on the console, so I fired it up and absorbed side A. It was kind of transcendent, listening to it in that room, on those speakers. Wish I could have finished it, but I had to leave.
I still think about that every time I hear something from this album.
Kniferide wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 12:52 pm I like it despite all the horrible over the top soul vocals on Great Gig in the Sky. I hate that shit so much.
WYWH is pretty fucking good. I occasionally find myself singing the title track after a few beers. Something about that vocal track that really moves me. I'm not much of a PF fan either.boilermaker wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 6:15 pm So boring. Is this even r'n'r music?
Wish You Were Here is million times better. And I don't even like PF