The Dark Side of the Moon

Psychedelic Paul wrote: SteveG wrote: Dark Side Of The Moon? Never heard of it. Is it any good? Yes, but some would say Wish You Were Here is better, and personally speaking, I prefer The Division Bell.

Indeed Dark Side is great, but I myself am among those who prefer Wish. I guess most on Prog Archives do, because it is rated higher. As for The Division Bell, indeed I like it over Dark Side too, but not over Wish you Were Here. Second for me would actually be Animals, though.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I think he was being sarcastic.  I don't listen to the album very often due to the fact that much of it  has been played to death by fm radio. I like it but don't have the need to play it more than once every few years or so. If it serves as the number one gateway album for younger people to discover and get into prog then I think that's a good thing but to be  honest I think Close To The Edge should serve that purpose (after all CTTE is number one on PA). ;) Anyway, my favorite PF albums are wish you were here, atom heart mother and meddle. Animals is good too and I also have a soft spot for the Wall.

Edited by Hugh Manatee - July 24 2022 at 19:50

Hugh Manatee wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: SteveG wrote: Dark Side Of The Moon? Never heard of it. Is it any good? Yes, but some would say Wish You Were Here is better, and personally speaking, I prefer The Division Bell.  And here I was thinking it was "Momentary Lapse of Reason". You really do manage to find a  special place in your heart for the runts of any particular bands litter.

nick_h_nz wrote: I prefer Momentary Lapse of Reason over Dark Side of the Moon. 🤷🏻‍♂️

nick_h_nz wrote: Hugh Manatee wrote: nick_h_nz wrote: I prefer Momentary Lapse of Reason over Dark Side of the Moon. 🤷🏻‍♂️ How very munificent and postmodern of you. Not really, and I commented thus only because Paul made it seem like such a strange thing. Dark Side has never done much for me. I don’t know why. The only song I knew from it before buying it was Money, which I’ve never liked - but I don’t think I’m letting my opinion of one song colour my enjoyment of the whole album. The first Floyd album I bought was The Wall. Next was Wish You Were Here. Then Animals. These remain my top three Floyd albums, possibly in part because they were the first three I heard and got to know well and love, and surely in part simply because they are great albums. The next album I bought was Dark Side, which I knew the cover of, and knew Money from, but genuinely didn’t know was generally regarded as not just Floyd’s best album, but one of the greatest albums ever. I was just a kid. I wasn’t really aware of what the world thought was great, so much as what I liked. I was recommended Dark Side by an uncle who when he found out I was enjoying the three Floyd albums I had bought, said if I liked them, I’d love Dark Side. So perhaps I went in with greater expectations than I should have (I very much respected my uncle’s opinions, when it came to music), but I was incredibly underwhelmed by Dark Side.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ I gave away Animals and The Final Cut to a charity shop and I've regretted it ever since. Luckily (or unluckily for some), I managed to buy another copy of The Final Cut recently, but Pigs might fly before I ever find the Animals album on sale at a charity shop again.

Jared wrote: Hugh Manatee wrote: And here I was thinking it was "Momentary Lapse of Reason". You really do manage to find a  special place in your heart for the runts of any particular bands litter. It's one of his endearing qualities. I genuinely lost track of the number of times my favourite album by a band proved to be one of their lower rated albums on PA; it actually gave me a bit of a complex at one time, back in the day when I was 'fandango' on this site....

Dellinger wrote: Even though Momentary Lapse is not among their very best, I think it's rather good, and it's got some songs that I do love. Perhaps some of you who don't like it would do well to listen to the new remixed version of it, or of Delicate Sound of Thunder, which now has every song of Momentary Lapse included.

chopper wrote: Sadly, as has been the case with other threads where Mosh has been proved wrong, he probably won't return to this one now.

chopper wrote: Told you.

But, we should turn to our revolutionary illuminator all the time.

The history of Syd Barrett contains some personal opinions that do not necessarily hold water. It is obvious that Syd Barrett was outgoing and charming in the beginning and it is obvious that he took too much LSD and acted permanently mentally ill afterwards...not unlike Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, or anyone else that took too much and had bad trips.

It is often stated that Mr. Barrett was already "out there" before taking lots of acid and that statement is based on an opinion regarding his songwriting on Piper. This I find moronic because all artists have the natural ability to write about things that many people may think are insane. It's because they don't understand art.

I don't feel that members of Pink Floyd understood what large doses of LSD or STP can do to a person's mind. If they did they wouldn't be blaming Syd Barrett's condition as on going since a teenager. Some of the members wouldn't be saying that he was schizophrenic before taking the drugs.

It's a fact that many people who ended up in the mental ward after taking LSD a few times were not mentally ill prior to consuming it. The LSD made them mentally ill. They were once balanced perfectly in society and LSD shattered that.