THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

I've been listening to this album since I first bought it for 50p, in 1974, from a class mate in school, when I was 14 years old. Sadly, that original 1973 pressing is long gone. I think that I sold it on to another mate around1978/79 for £1. Nowadays, I've got a very nice 1977 vinyl pressing which still sounds fantastic, as well as a 1994 digital remaster on CD and both the 2016 remaster and the 2023 50th Anniversary remaster on vinyl. I've also got another digital version downloaded from Apple Music onto my phone. My 1977 reissue is probably the best sounding version of all the versions that I've got. I've consistently maintained that this is probably the most cohesive and coherent album that any rock/pop artiste has ever created. From start to finish, it's musicality, electronic invention, melody and social relevance remains unmatched. The manner in which it flows, from soft to loud, from slow to fast, from vocal to instrumental, and all else in between, was never achieved before and hasn't been since, by any other artiste. (Several have approached this level of perfection but none have ever actually reached this zenith - e.g. the utterly magnificent The Lamb Lies... by Genesis, CTTE by YES, Aqualung by Jethro Tull and perhaps a few others, despite their brilliance, still remain in the shadow of DSOTM). As well as all that, the time period (early 1970's) just happened to be the perfect time for this album to be unleashed upon the world. If it had been released in the 1990's or in the 2000's etc, it possibly wouldn't have had the same impact on the world. But ironically, because of it's quality and because it was so successful in the 1970's, that has meant that it has endured up to now in 2025. This is an album which, I suspect, will never go out of fashion or sound tired. It will endure and will still be listened to for a long, long time to come.

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