THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

In my humble opinion, Dark Side of the Moon is the greatest composition in the history of music. My father grew up on Floyd and has an extensive collection of vinyls, tapes, posters, CDs, DVDs... everything. That tradition has been handed down as I have bought pretty much every piece of Floyd that I could find on the market. My prized possession is the framed, original Dark Side of the Moon vinyl that is in the center of my room's back wall. This is the album that made me enjoy progressive rock in the first place. It it is the album that taught me everything I needed to know about instrumental cohesion. Dark Side of the Moon has touched me on a level that no album ever has and most likely never will. I was lucky enough to see Roger Waters perform the entire thing straight through at Madison Square Garden a few years back. That was an eye and an earful. The highlights of the album, to me, are "The Great Gig In The Sky" (can you believe that Clare Torry sang that without prior band rehearsal?), "Time" and "Us and Them". The rest of the album is also ace, obviously... since I'm giving it a 5/5 and ranting on. The only song that ever bothers me (just a bit) is "Money". I think that it's overplayed and I think it's dumb that it's the most popular song on the album. I guess as a proghead, I have to be willing to understand that the songs that get the most attention on records are very rarely the ones that deserve it. Anyway, if it were possible to give 6 stars to an album on this site, I don't think that there would be a better candidate than this one right here. If you haven't already heard this and let it sink in, you don't know anything about music.