The Dark Side of the Mood

I find the album sensitive, but dour.

I don't find any of the music I like depressing - none at all. If one enjoys the musuc, how can it depress you? It seems incongruous to me. Not even Leonard Cohen - whom I like. Now for depressing - Diana Ross! (And that doesn't pass my ears without me putting up a fight!)

Actually neither - I just find it an excellent listen (though it's not my favourite PF album). I would say "Animals" or "The Wall" are much more depressing, especially the former, though they are both masterpieces. BTW, I know albums which are far more depressing than anything PF ever did: for instance, A Perfect Circle's "Mer de Noms", which I find so depressing (not to mention somewhat boring) I can hardly listen to it from beginning to end.

Uplifting? Depressing? This album is no where near good enough to influence my emotions in any way, other than to bore me. And what's this nonsense about the album's concept? This is not a concept album in my humble opinion. AOR does not always equal concept album. Just my two cents.

For me, upifting. Anyway, after WYWH, the rest of Floyd is rather depressing, IMO.

 

 

   Maybe when it reaches "Brain Damage" it´s kind of depressing, but the other songs are defintely uplifting, in "Eclipse" for example.... "Money" , "Great gig in the sky"...

Definitely uplifting, at least for me!

chopper wrote: Soporific.

Try playing the vinyl on 45rpm. That should hold your attention..

Musically uplifting. Lyrically - dark and forboding, but perhaps not quite depressing.

DeepPhreeze wrote: Uplifting, absolutely. It gets me depressed, but only in the sense that life in itself can be tragic at times. But the end reminds me that we're all in it together, so it makes me feel hopeful again. It's like a Greek tragedy; when I'm done listening to it, I feel purged emotionally and spiritually.

 

   That's what i meant!

I've always found Floyd's stuff to be uplifiting all around mostly because of the beauty of the composition when you hear it.  They don't do gut wrenching, cathartic stuff like Marillion or Pain of Salvation.  When Floyd was new to me, those albums always got me feeling good.