Dark side of the moon

How nice to be able to hear it fresh for the first time like that. That experience was 44 years ago for me!

jamesg1213
How nice to be able to hear it fresh for the first time like that. That experience was 44 years ago for me!

Like Jimi, you're experienced...
 
Dark side of the moon never gets old and you can appreciate a lot of the subtleties every time you listen.

I'm just getting back into them after a couple of decades.  It's a phenomenal piece of work!
 
And now for something (not quite) completely different...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJEZWsnIECo
 

BobF
 
Blasphemy!! 

I bet it's just as interesting "after a smoke."
I really like this version of Us & Them...  

I like the period of Floyd production that includes Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals. I listen to those regularly and It's amazing that to me that they hold up musically and lyrically after all these years. There's a lot of other music from the same period that I'm almost embarrassed to listen to, self-indulgent tosh that it was.

Dark Side still sounds amazing on an expensive turntable though.  I am fortunate to have one plus the vinyl copy of Dark Side I have is in mint condition. Not one click or plop anywhere.  It sounds ridiculous.
 
I don't care what anyone says either and that is Endless River is also amazing and truly a beautiful production too.  Every time I play it I hear something new.  (CD by the way, not any streaming rubbish either) As Dave Gilmour points out in a very interesting video it is a celebration of the music this time, not the lyrics.  Gilmour's playing on Endless River is some of the best work I have ever heard him do.  Very well thought out as per usual.  Keyboard work on this is also quite special as well. 

Between my junior and senior years in high school, I got a job with the Army so I could afford a vacation. It was a 1 week job, helping clear out a warehouse.
I bought a ticket to Raleigh to spend a week with my brother the programmer. The first day there, he had to go to work and told me to listen to DSOTM with headphones. Up to that time, all I had heard was 'Money'.
I was blown away.
He also had Umma Gumma and Meddle, so I spent that whole day doing Pink Floyd in the cans.

I am so jealous, Chuck. How I wish I could erase the decades of listening to DSoTM and hear it a-fresh today. What a treat that would be!
 
I love discovering bands that I'd never bothered listening to before...a few years ago I watched a documentary about Rush that prompted me to buy some of their albums. Now I am a fan. Especially the older stuff, before they discovered that the threshold knob on a limiter can be set to -60 dB. 
 
I am also enjoying the new remix of Sgt. Pepper. It's almost like hearing it for the first time. Almost. Now, if they'd just apply the same fairy dust to Magical Mystery Tour.

craigb
I'm constantly buying "new" music that was made in the 60's and 70's.  Lovin' it! 

Same here, and blues, r'n'r and other stuff from the 40s and 50s.

One of the advantages of downloads as a format is that stuff it wouldn't make economic sense to release on a physical format that requires duplication, distribution, printing costs etc. can be put out on itunes etc. at very low cost. Lots of good long-deleted music, and artists that never got a UK release at all is now available.

Not having to buy an entire compilation just to get the one or two tracks on it I actually want or don't already have is a bonus.

As for Floyd, sorry, but I'm a Barrett period only sort of person, I've heard Dark Side played in too many elevators (or "lifts" as we know them).

Unless the option doesn't exists (like the latest Mostly Autumn special double album), I'm all digital now.  However, I always buy the full album and, frequently, different versions if there's a reissue with double the songs for example.
 
I find that sometimes I like one of the "songs no one has heard of" better than the so-called "hits."

I had a Dark Side CD that was disappointing--not like the vinyl record I remember. What download are you listening to? I will download.

Hi,
 
By the time that PF brought out DSOTM, I was already into the European side of things, and while that album was magnificent for me, it was not the seminal album and musical experience that many other things around Europe were already affording me. I prefer the "Saucerful of Secrets" all the way to "Echoes" period, ten times over!
 
If you like the "sonic" qualities of the album, the European scene had many things that stood out just as well, and deserved the listen, but they will NEVER get them, because so many of us are STUCK on this piece of music as the "standard" for this and that, when in fact, there should not be a standard ... it's like saying that someone in England can make music, and anybody in Italy and France and Germany are a bunch of wannabe idiots and copies, and not able to put together music, and play it.
 
All in all, there are many things, specially in 1971/1972 out of those 3 countries, that were far superior to DSOTM (not in production unfortunately!!!!!) and should be a part of many folks listening, if not just for the appreciation of the musicianship and their ability to create something so different and enjoyable, that us Anglo-Americans have lost that ability to appreciate because of the commercial side of things in rock music.
 
PF deserve a lot of attention, detail and beauty and I will never doubt that ... but that's like saying they were the only ones, and they weren't.
 
If you really LOVE music, DSOTM, is not the only thing you will have ... or you are just another hit ninny!

I have the LP of Dark side and a nice turntable. Groovy!