Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon [50th Anniversary]

Here is the 50th anniversary edition of the original studio, ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’, remastered by James Guthrie and pressed on 180g black vinyl. It comes in a gatefold jacket with 2 posters and 2 stickers.

The 1973 mega-smash album by Pink Floyd spent 741 weeks on the charts and proved to be the all-time rock classic Floyd had promised since the beginning! Intoxicating songs, production, sound effects and instrumental excursions made this one of the best albums of it’s decade: ‘Time’, ‘Money’, ‘Speak To Me/Breathe’, ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’, ‘Us And Them’, ‘On The Run’ and more.

‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ is the eighth album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. Originally released 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 various 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.

‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ was an immediate success. It topped the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart for a week and remained in the chart for 741 weeks (14.25 years!) from 1973 to 1988. With an estimated 45 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd’s most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling worldwide.

‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ has been remastered and re-released twice, and covered in it’s entirety by several other acts including Dream Theater. It produced two singles, ‘Money’ and ‘Us And Them’, and is the band’s most popular album among fans and critics, and has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time! 196587202712

* The Spotify track list may not exactly represent the tracks and audio of this LP edition.

Track List:

Side A:

1. Speak To Me
2. Breathe (In The Air)
3. On The Run
4. Time
5. The Great Gig In The Sky

Side B:

1. Money
2. Us And Them
3. Any Colour You Like
4. Brain Damage
5. Eclipse