Dark Side of the Moon, 50 Years Later｜Vinyl Monday
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.
Welcome to a very special episode of Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I chat about albums in my collection and the ’60s/’70s music I love. My thoughts on one of the crowning achievements of rock music, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of the Moon (released 1973) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday and vintage fashion!
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Timestamps:
intro - 0:00
art - 1:59
story of Dark Side - 5:01
track listing/release - 16:06
my thoughts - 23:12
thanks for watching! - 38:26
Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist: audionautix.com/
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what’s your favorite dark side interview clip?
"Most people think of us as a very drug oriented group. Of course we're not. You can trust us..."
@@devinpalmer617 - I think it’s Gilmore’s little smile at the end that’s the icing on the cake. 😁
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time"
oh i misunderstood the question lol. this isn't on the album but from an interview at the time
Ha! I assumed that as well, that Abigail meant the band interviews from _Live at Pompeii_ about the recording of _Dark Side of the Moon._
I wonder how well this review syncs up with the album
oh believe me i tried to get this episode to be the exact run time of dark side, dark side of the monday would’ve been SO cool. maybe the ads bump it a little closer, i’m not sure
@@abigaildevoe it's quite close, maybe only missing one song, maybe i'll try it sometime 😅
This video is about the same length as the album.
Better than Mall Cop garbage no doubt
Play it backwards and it syncs with a Telletubbies episode (doesn't matter which, anyone will do!)
The endless tidbits of information you talk about throughout your reviews are extraordinary. I have not heard anyone who researches their work as well as you do. I am 65 and to listen to someone of your age explain the soundtracks of my youth brings a renewed appreciation of so much of the music I grew up with. Abby, I have much respect for what you do.
comments like these truly mean the world to me, thank you so much
DSOTM has been reviewed more than any album I can think of. Your review was Fresh. Great job.
Your intro-from-notes was a hi-def snapshot. Your historical process removes the one frustration we elders have: our inability to convey the vibe of the day. Your ability to capture context adds substance and value to your work. You're slaying.
There is HOPE for rock music appreciation when a Zoomer gets as serious as you do about it, Abby! *Dark Side of the Moon* was released in the Spring of my senior year in high school. It got some serious late night attention in the dorms at Davidson College that fall, and on our ten-Watt college FM station catering to late night parties in said dorms. One of my classmates lived in the basement of our dorm. His roommate had a four-channel sound system and a German copy of the record in Quadrophonic. It was a treat to hear it for those of us partying in that room, but not for those in adjacent rooms. My conventional original pressing of the record was stolen from my dorm room (oddly, along with *Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road* by Elton John) the following year. The replacement was stolen a year later. I finally bought a remastered CD version of it some decades later. It remains one of my favorites of all time. As you say, once you put it on, you probably don't want to stop it. The only release from that era I liked more was 1972's *Close to the Edge,* by Yes. I wore out one of my two original pressings of it. I wish I could get my 25-year-old twins interested in music the way I was. They went to an arts school as theater majors and had friends in teenage rock bands, The Bliss Trip and Barefoot Modern. But somehow, they never wanted to play my '60s - '70s album collection, which is stored in the basement where they hung out all the time with their friends, having fun the way we did back in the day. They seem to be anti-analog. They DO LIKE *Dark Side of the Moon,* though.
Abby is so.....aware.
God, I wish I'd been as aware when I was her age.
I was too stoned on hash and deep fried on acid listening to Pink Floyd at 23 to be " aware".I was paranoid, unmotivated, obsessed with guitars and quite out there !. Thankfully I got over that( did you really ? ;-P ) and I still LOVE Pink Floyd 30 years later . IMHO Pink Floyd should have retired the Brand name in 1984 after The Final Cut. Gilmour era PF/ solo is a snooze festival and Waters solo is too wordy .The start of " Sorrow" by Gilmour is a great guitar part and Amused to Death ( the vinyl remix) is a solid concept 2 x LP set by Waters but they really needed each other but they could not stand each other !.
Fifty years ago I was laying in an army bunk in Colorado Springs with a radio playing softly near my head. Us and Them came on followed by the rest of side two. I had never heard anything so beautiful in my young life. To this day I get chills at the beauty of this masterpiece. Every album I have purchased since then has been compared to the artistry of this Gem. I've never found one that compares. So it is wonderful to see your generation as passionate about DS as mine has been has been.
Any Colour You Like has long been my favorite track on the LP. If simply for the fact that FM radio has slept on it. I love the 'that sounds like a guitar being played underwater'. Great tone!
For me Us and Them is the peak of Pink Floyd's music and one of the greatest songs of all time. And pairing it on the album with Any Colour You Like was utter genius.
I was watching this video, having fun, before realising that this only has 20k views from a channel with 20k subs??? Thats crazy. The effort you put into these videos is clearly evident, with a fresh, enjoyable, entertaining take that combines personal opinion with fun facts about the album and its creation. As a floyd fan and fellow Gen Z, your work speaks to me (pun intended) in a way I was not expecting to find on a Saturday afternoon mindlessly watching my TH-cam recommendations. This video just makes me want to invest in a record player and a few records because clearly I can do so much better than spotify.
thank you so much! i’m glad you liked the video. if you’re feeling inspired to get into vinyl you absolutely should do it (i might be biased lol) but be warned: the gatekeeping in this community is WILD. ignore em and you’ll be fine
i posted this video at like 8 or 9k subs, it got 15k views back when i posted it. it seems DSOTM (roger’s version) has given it a kick!
i could listen to 100 people talk about this album and not get tired of it for some reason
This album feels bigger than life itself, sometimes. It's everywhere. Older than me by decades. As you said, monolithic. And yet, the feeling that sweeps my body every time I hear "time is the same in a relative way but you're older"... there's nothing like it. It's me and the music. I *am* older. Time *is* the same. It is constant. Not only in the literal relative sense, but in the musical sense. *Time* itself is the same. And seeing myself age, listening to this same song year after year... it centers something in me. It's not even just that I am older, it's the 'but i'm older'. The fact that no matter what I do, I will change. I will be older. Different. And see time in a different way, despite the fact it is not changing. Instead, I am.
This was a really excellent review. Thank you.
Absolutely masterful job, Abby. It's a strong testament to your talent and insight that you are obviously 100% unafraid to tackle heavyweight champion musical milestones such as this one, and it's just so inspiring that you do so in the entertaining and informative manner which is your trademark. A splendid take on rock music's equivalent of the Mona Lisa. I have nothing further to add, except that it's too bad Roger is such a horse's ass. Rest in peace, the wonderful Rick Wright.
wow, thank you SO much. it was beyond daunting taking this one on
I've listened to this album hundreds of times over 30 years and I still tear up during Clare's vocal solo and then again during Eclipse. I never get bored of it. It's just a monumental achievement. It's my musical soulmate, and its lyrics are as close to a holy text as I get.
ok “my musical soulmate” made me tear up a little. that’s beautiful
Same
I still remember the first time I heard those heartbeats, along with where I was and who I was with when this album first came out ... my lifetime ago. Excellent job on this fantastic review of this wonderfully 'monolithic' album!
Probably the greatest album ever. I love when brain damage and eclipse get played together on the radio, they should never be seperate
It should be law.
... 'Probably' ... ?
@@thegroovetube3247 yeah
Maybe part of the secret of this album is that we're all kind of crazy, each in our own way.
maybe the real crazy was the friends we made along the way
@@abigaildevoe Well, TTTT I suppose real insanity has to be a group effort!
This is brilliant. Best review of DSOTM I can remember, and I was there in '73.
The best album ever made, by anybody ever. Thank you so much for this wonderful deep dive into a truly special record.
And that's STILL under-rating it!
I heard it when I was 7 for the first time. I loved it when I was 9. Now I'm 44 and it's stills fire me on.. I totally agree what you said about Time, backingvocals on the whole album. And of course this is was my first Pink Floyd LP. ;)
For a brief time, the band was known as "the Pink Floyd". Which was shortened from their actual original name. The Pink Floyd Sound. That was created by the legendary original front man Syd Barrett. Taken from an imported (to England) American blues album that featured two artists Syd was particularly enthralled with. Pink Anderson and Floyd Counsel. Hence the Pink Floyd Sound. So what you read was not wrong. 👍
Thanks for the Pink Floyd source.
I have one for Deep Purple.
A species of Crocus that is deep purple in colour.
It's name is Black Knight.
They released a single by that name, which i'm sure you know.
No Abigail, it wasn't just you. I can still quote sections of it from memory now.
You got a new subscriber just from that comment. Nevermind also from a lifelong Floyd fan.
haha thank you so much! welcome to this long strange trip
@@abigaildevoe So next Monday is Grateful Dead?
I like how you make the reviews personal. So it's not just a sterile sophisticated examination from a music theory perspective, it's just as much about your unique perspective as it is about the music. You really put yourself and your feelings on display, which could go horribly wrong, but somehow works every time. I think it's because you're interesting - just hearing you talk / seeing you for 10 seconds and many question arise about what is happening on the screen. Uninhibited - an entertaining mixture of disregard for what people think, mixed with a healthy dose of self-awareness. If you think about it, music is really not about just the music, but the interaction between the music and the listener. So, by putting your entire interaction on display, it seems to make a more interesting event than just talking about the music (only trying to be objective) or just talking about your feelings of the music (only trying to be subjective). A lot of separate strange elements are coming together to make this series better than I would expect if someone described it to me. Not sure if it's genius or happenstance, but I hope you recognize you've got something special going. I hope it continues to evolve and gets better, but never loses the spark of magic. Did I just review your reviews? Btw, a random idea to consider down the road would be a record store as a sponsor for people who want to buy an album. Or 1-3 affiliate links to good record players that you've tested and confirmed good build and sound quality, for people who want to get into records, but don't know where to start. You could be a conduit for new people into the record world. Rock on.
this might be the best comment i’ve ever gotten on anything, anywhere, ever. i stumbled into the vinyl/music community completely by accident but decided to stay. that might be where the disregard for what people think came from - i’m totally clueless to the conventions of this place! it’s not easy placing the objective alongside the subjective on music that’s been around a long time. i’ve seen people REALLY push back on that. in the end you seem to understand the bottom line of what i do: that it’s a sin to be boring on the internet. for that much and a lot more, thank you.
if this thing ever gets big enough, i’d love to have affiliate links for people new to the hobby! i refuse to forget how hostile this place is to new collectors. everyone starts somewhere, my ultimate goal on here is to make it less scary.
@@abigaildevoe ✌️
Since watching the first pink floyd vinyl monday, I’ve listened to their entire discography, this album and piper are my favourites! As someone who used to listen to songs and not albums, this is one of the best full albums I’ve listened to, every songs serves it’s purpose
wow even i haven't gone through the whole floyd discography! i haven't heard all of saucerful, atom heart mother, or momentary lapse...and gave up on the studio portion of ummagumma. my favorite thing about getting into music was becoming an album listener on top of being a song listener, i'm glad you're liking the journey too :)
@@abigaildevoe it definitely took a span of months for me to get through their entire discography (haven’t watched pulse yet though) and it’s been such a fun journey!
@@abigaildevoe atom heart mother is in my top 5 albums ever. Criminally underrated and always easily been my favourite by pf.
@@jaellycookie
Fat Old Sun is an instant classic.
Stuff I want to see…. Belle and Sebastian, Pumpkins, Paul’s boutique.
Another epic Vinyl Monday! This one will reverberate down through the ages!
wow thank you! if you think this'll be my opus on this channel you're sorely mistaken. there's a lot more tricks up my sleeve
@@abigaildevoe we’re all looking forward to it, 100% Team Abi here! Rock on with your socks on!
So, I was getting ready to do my 50th Anniversary Dark Side... celebration and I was scanning along TH-cam and I found your channel. This is a great review of the album. You said everything I've ever thought or felt about this album. However, while I do enjoy Pulse very much, my favorite Floyd performance of this piece (in my opinion, this work is something that's much more than just an album/record, I think it is a piece) is their 1974 performance at Wembley Stadium, London. I remember first hearing Dark Side on a classic rock station that used to broadcast in Ann Arbor--if you caught them at the right time, they would play entire albums at a certain point in the evening. I was 15 years old and when I first heard this record, it frightened me to the point of fascination! I starred researching what this was all about; I found out about their backstory and about what happened to Syd Barrett and went down into Pink Floyd's rabbit hole. My dad further fueled it by telling me to check out The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. Love Floyd and I thoroughly enjoyed your review!
I am going to have to check out Pulse (and The Division Bell while I'm about it). After the Gilmour solo album A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and the accompanying phoned-in tour, I lost interest in following the band calling itself "Pink Floyd". However, I've recently learned that Mason and Wright actively participated in writing and recording The Division Bell, and I keep hearing about how good Pulse is.
Why are you so good at this! Really!
No, Echoes isn't PF's best song. Dogs is. And The Wall is my favorite
But Dark Side is their perfect album. Maybe Wish is a close second.
Pink Floyd made me dumm. Instead of applying myself to homework for school, I instead invested my time into learning how to play this album on my guitar. All that time wasted on playing my guitar rather than learning stuff but I turned out pink floyd.
Please don't stop. It's like you are reading my mind Man. I'm an old guy from the 70s. Its like you speak every word I think about this music, thank you.
Dark Side of the Moon is one of the few albums (IMO) that lives up to everything you hear about it.
Quite simply, the best album ever
Finally it's Vinyl Moonday 🌕 ⏱️ 💰!!!
Truly one of the most iconic albums of all time. This is the project that got me into music as a whole and quickly made Pink Floyd my favourite band.
You know your stuff, nothing before Echoes matters to most people.
Roger's plans to re-record Dark Side are absolutely insane. Who is that even for?!
In any case, great vid as always!
It is for Rogers best friend, his ego of course!
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
His ego needs a feed apparently.
@@Polecat54941A gem of a comment, buried in a TH-cam thread 😂
You have an amazing channel. You possess a great combination of humor, intelligence and you’re a born entertainer. You’d be great on SNL. I’m a big fan!
Stumbled upon your channel a few days ago when your HOTH review appeared in my TH-cam feed. Really enjoy what you’re doing, and eager to see which albums you profile next!
Very well written & executed review Abby,thank you. “If Floyd touched the Heavens with ‘Dark Side’,then these 3 ladies are the choir waiting @ the gate…”,nice
My comments?... What the 'cinnamon toast f@$#' is there to say MORE about this undeniable masterpiece could I add that you did not express yourself. You are clearly a kindred spirit to many of us who have discovered you and your channel. It gives us hope in a time where I have been seriously questioning humanity during the last 7 years. Thank you.
wow, thank YOU so much for the kind words. dark side was so hard to sum up in one video so i’m glad you found this complete enough
@@abigaildevoeBLACK METAL TEENS LISTENING TO PINK FLOYD
I love your red and green paint mixing metaphor!
That rocked. Thank you.
Beautiful. Such a heavy album that’s weaved in and out of my 45 years. Thanks!
Love the comment about Great Gig blowing up on TikTok 🤣🤣🤣 Dark Side takes on the universal themes of life in a way very few albums do. Absolutely timeless. Glad to hear the justly deserved genius shoutout to Rick Wright.
rick's gotta be my favorite member of floyd. so much of their magic was attached to him and the albums without him are missing a big chunk of what made the band special
@@abigaildevoe Agreed, Abby!
Being a 15 year old in the UK in 1973 I was completely spoiled for choice. On one hand I was really into the Glam Rock of Bowie, Mott etc, but also getting into the more ‘serious’ side of things. This album and Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’ were pretty much constants on my turntable in 73/74.
Yet another very informative deep dive into one of Rock’s ultimate classic albums.
you're the second person i've seen mention tubular bells and dark side together, interesting!
@@abigaildevoe Both albums fall into the ‘Progressive’ genre, yet both are very different in structure and outlook, but both in some strange way manage to capture the zeitgeist of the early 70’s both here in the UK and America. I would be most interested to see you conduct a deep dive into …’Bells’.
aaaaa i’ve been waiting for this one
I got my Dark Side shirt on today (well, one of them anyway. I have three), and this pops up! This is my favorite album of all time, and Time is my favorite song! It came out the year I was born and stayed on the charts till I was a freshman in high school! Actually, it wasn't Roger's project... it was Alan Parsons Project! 🤣🤣🤣
I was 15 when this came out it totally changed my life and musical taste in a way i m not sure i can explain i have 7 copies of this album i have the dark side box set another picture disk and also a japanese master of the album which i have never played because i didnt think my sound system could do it fully justice i iwas lucky saw them a number times in the 70,s one of my favs also was at the original wall tour 10 ft from the stage in fact one of the pieces of the wall almost hit me time brain damage us and them great gig r my favs last thing i want to say is roger please dont remake the perfection this album is
That's Rick Wright singing "every year is getting shorter" part. Rick and Dave sing on time, Rick does 2 parts, Dave 2 parts. It was Ricks last lead vocal until division bell. Roger always ripped on Rick, but if you listen to his solo album "wet dream" and Daves first solo album in 1978, you can see how much they added to the music.
My all time favorite album. It always makes me cry. Especially the time solo. I cannot not cry. My favorite piece of art.
The organ riff at the beginning of Us & Them gets to me sometimes.
Me Also. After all of my life’s trials, successes and failures, this brings me back to where my life really started, 50 years ago! This album reminds me to show up at the starting line so as not ,”to miss the starting gun!”
Having just completed my own sync / edit of DSotM to the Wizard of Oz I can say, imo, the synchronicities are uncanny. I don’t believe this is because of any deliberate effort from the band. Sometimes things in the Cosmos just click together in a very satisfying way.
Paul Blart Mall Cop II may indeed contain more visual / audio synchronicities but wouldn’t align as well thematically. Nor would it be a marriage of one of humanity’s greatest musical achievements with one of its greatest cinematic ones
paul side of the blart is absolutely a marriage of humanity’s greatest musical and cinematic achievements, purely on the grounds of it being hilarious
This review should have been a short documentary. It would win an award. So well done and complete with insights not before touched on. Thanks for the effort that went into this.
I first heard this masterpiece in 2006 and it changed my life.
The lyrics to Time in particular still touch me, even after all these years. It describes my life so precisely that it frightens me.
Thank you for this wonderful video.
Re: Holy Grail, I'm 40 years older than you and quoting that movie was very common in high school way back when. You are not alone. Also, I appreciate your use of 'Circle Sky' in your transitions. Good work overall!
New to the channel. Nice work!
thanks so much, welcome to this long strange trip!
I’m a little late as I’ve just discovered your channel - if you want a very close capturing of the magic of the album version, check out the 2006 version of Time from Remember That Night live at the Royal Albert Hall. Also, since you only mentioned the Pulse Version of Great Gig (I agree with your take, btw), check out Rachel Fury’s version from Delicate Sound of Thunder. She gets really really close to Claire.
Edited to also add: Echoes from the same Remember That Night - WOW! I was in attendance as a college graduation gift to myself and have yet to experience anything more special than that nearly 20 minutes in London. The 9 hour flight was worth that alone. RIP Richard Wright 💙
Ok I have to say this: you have amazing writing skills! I love the way you make your reviews.
thank you so much!
best 39 minutes of my day so far
thank you so much! glad you enjoyed the long-haul
Great video essay and tribute to such a masterpiece of an album. And I totally agree that “Echoes” is the greatest Pink Floyd piece ever.
I feel the way I feel about the album for 50 plus years...but it's you that makes the re feeling something remarkably profound. Abby, so glad you are...a stolen treat to good to be deserved.
This album has been apart of my life since the very beginning. My mother had a tape of this play on repeat while she was delivering me into the world.
Those studio clips have got to be some of the inspiration for Spinal Tap.
the clip with nick mason wholly adamant he wants PIE with NO CRUST...the spinal tap guys saw that one for sure
Love it! Love it! Love it! Thank you.
~31:00 BTW as recording was finishing up for Dark Side, the last Apollo astronauts were coming home, not to be followed up for, probably, about 55 years. For a whole lot of people, the Moon profoundly went dark.
31:40 lmfao I used to do the exact same thing with essays back in college before I decided to just go study music 😹😹😹
I’ll never forget my first time listening to Dark Side, must’ve been 14 and me and my friend smoked some weed and went to hang in my basement and put it on, and I remember the opening heart beat made the whole room around me feel like it was coming alive and pulsating. 🥰 good times. Fk prolly coming up to 20 years ago now. God *TIME* flies
I’ve been looking forward to this video all week, and it did not disappoint! And NOW I’m looking forward to giving my heart to somebody soooooooon. Right away!
Pinned up the posters on my wall. There goes the value 😂
My first exposure to Dark Side was via the “Money” 45. It was in constant rotation. Until one day I decided to listen to the B side (no one ever did that back then) and discovered “Any Color You Like”. I was blown away! It is definitely the most under rated song on the album. 🌒🌒🌒🌒🌒!
yes any colour is the new most underrated dark side track! up until VERY recently it was great gig
@@abigaildevoe
Speaking of 'Great gig', if you want a real treat, look up Sina Drums' cover of it!
She does the cover with the help of a PF tribute group, and the woman who covers the vocals absolutely *nails* it! And, you can see her doing it!
Edit: Her name is Rachel Willment.
If seeing her do that doesn't make the hairs on yer arms stand straight up, I don't know what will.
Gee, Abigail, the erudition in your scripting is beyond exemplary and outstanding. I have not the faintest idea if you do this all yourself or if there's a secret empire. But, whatever, I've been watching your critiques one after another in no time; and I'm smitten. Nothing shameful; it's just a virtual thingie. Luv and peace. ♡
Long time Pink Floyd fan. Saw them live on their Animals tour. Own all of their albums. Saw Roger Waters The Wall tour a few years back. The kid playing David’s solos had them down note for note and bend for bend. Love your history on this great album
As there ever been a single, evocative, single note in all music as Rick Wrights unearthly 'Ping' in Echoes? I believe this was the catalyst for Dark Side itself - as well as ushering in electronica and any other form of futuristic music. Alan Parsons played his part in this as well of course as witnessed in his own music.
Classic among classics, absolutely timeless album.
Hi there Abigail, just saw your Dark side review, I grew up with this masterpiece. Saw lots of folks doing reviews, I Am 68 y o. Your analysis is perfect, I thought I knew all the little details, but you took it to another level, everyone in the world should listen to the vinyl, Spot on young lady❤
You're not so much a "music critic" as a very keen listener with a gift for communicating your experiences.
You're not wrong about Echoes 💯
Dark Side has popped up a number of times in my life. I first heard it as a child, it was one of the records in my dad's collection and I was immediately taken with the cover and then the music even though the lyrics were over my head at 8 years old. As a teen dropping acid and taking mushrooms it was another constant. The clocks in Time..wow..In my later teen years after going down a bad path, Brain Damage played on the radio while I was in a jail cell and really made me think and re-assess where my life was going. As an adult when I got into vinyl it was the first album I purchased and I was that 8 year old kid again discovering it for the first time.
Your stuff is always great and well researched but I think you took it a notch higher on this one. Big Floyd fan and learned even more from your research.
The Wall was released when I was a child so "We Don't Need No Education" was the chant in the playground. And Bat out of Hell is also part of my childhood.
You are the coolest!!
😊 l think you have managed to articulate perfectly what makes DSOM such an amazing listening experience.
7:42 I didn’t expect that phantom roast lol
nothing is certain but death, taxes, and me taking any opportunity i can to dunk on andrew lloyd-webber
Dark Side of the Moon is amazing album by Pink Floyd great choice 👍. My favorite songs off the album are Money, Time, Use and Them, Brain Damage and Eclipse.
Thanks Abigail for such a great review of this fabulous album. Fresh out of high school in 1975 it was the Album I bought with my first pay packet and have played it many times. Your review is very insightful and has given me a new perspective on some of the music. So i am going to go and listen to it right now.
Very nice and insightful review. And your video production keeps getting better and better too! There were some pieces of information you mentioned about Dark Side of the Moon that I did not even know about. So thanks for the video. Great video!
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Wow Abie your description is so intense I love it you really are for me “the best musicologist I know “ you are so explicit and I can fell your passion for music. I already wrote this. I will follow for a long time I promise. Continue you marvellous work Amie darling.❤️
We used to have great parties and as they wound down, we'd turn the lights lower (not out) all lay back and put Echoes on and everybody would experience it as if in a concert hall. This was in 1973, by the way. Not one person would even cough or sigh. The perfection of it remains for me today the finest thing Floyd ever did, TDSOTM included (Great Gig comes closest).
no way i used to lay on my floor and do that after parties too!! i guess the teens of the 2010s weren't so different from the teens of the 70s after all
@@abigaildevoe Everybody's so different, I haven't changed. :)
I'd listen to this on repeat every night from age 14-16 in the early 80's . We had it on 8 track + totally F'd up my dads vinyl copy (origional from 73). As a suprise when we moved into a new house my step mom painted the inner gatefold rainbow/heartbeat theme across my wall in my room ~ 18 inches wide + 3 foot heartbeat (cirmnavigated the whole room) In the 90s I gave my dad the Dark Side CD + a cd player just for that album probably to return the favor cuz that record was demolished... Here's something though. New to the pod so not sure - You may have explored quadrophonic sound. It's probably difficult to do on a practical level as there were competing proprietary formats and equipment that came and went in the 70's and was all but a memory once we got through the 80s.. My dad had a Sony SQ quadrophonic system - a few albums etc (dark side was not one of them :( ) It was gimmicky in my experience, not a lot of bang for the buck. However -the Point: There is a digital version of the German vinyl release of Darkside "quadrophonic" - I only found this a couple years back out on the interwebs... This is definitely worth a listen as the mix is different. (its a stereo file (wav or mp3)). I downloaded a copy and give it a listen its really cool esp on the side A - various elements pop to the front that you didn't here in the stereo mix. Worth a 5 minute google search - All the best - your doing great work here. thankyou
My right my left your right your left...too funny. Your research is impressive. Echos...yes. I appreciate the information that you provide that I didn't know.
no doubt the funnest DSOTM review out there😉
so glad you had fun watching! vinyl monday is nothing if not good fun
I'm so hyped for the RAM Review, might be the his best solo album... with linda ofc
For me Ram is not the best of McCartney's solo work but I do love "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey". It's one of McCartney's most creative songs.
paul's best imo, and 2nd best overall beatles solo album
Monkberry Moon Delight!
@@abigaildevoe I like "Band On The Run", "Venus and Mars" more than "Ram". One reason I don't hold "Ram" in higher esteem is the song "Monkberry Moon Delight", a decidedly cacophony of screaming and yelling and just an ear burner.
@@goplad1 huh??? monkberry is my favorite on the album for that reason!?
more pink floyd content please 😍🤟
Spot on! That was brilliant, you have such an artists eye and ear. I can’t thank you enough 🙏🏻
this means a lot, thank you so much!
March 6, 1973, I attended the Pink Floyd concert at Kiel Opera House in St Louis, MO. Of course they had two sets and an encore, which is a LOT of Pink Floyd, but there was no opening band. (BTW, that was typical of Led Zeppelin as well.) The second set was the complete DSOTM. It was mesmerizing. First concert I attended that used a smoke machine, IIRC.
I’m 59 years old (born August 1963). I remember when Dark Side first came out because of the hoopla amongst the kids who were a little older than I. Whilst I generally enjoyed the record at that time it didnt really start meaning anything to me until the summer of 1976 when I turned 13 and had started smoking grass, taking psychedelics, etc. Then Pink Floyd became almost a religious experience to me… Everything seemed to open up and become moe colorful and meaningful. I started exploring new avenues of thinking by starting to read books like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Prophet, etc.. as well as people like Camus, Sartre, etc. I’ll always credit three bands/ musicians (from the 60’s/ early 70s era) who opened everything up for me and that was Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix & The Beatles. Everything became so much more colorful & deeper. Dark Side is a record that I have to listen to from one end to the other. I need the full journey to feel complete. It’s so much part of my soul and existence. It’s an album that feels like a familial connection. You did such a great review of Dark Side, Abigail. I love your insights and knowledge. Keep up the fantastic work. I’m looking forward to seeing your review for Meddle. Lastly… While I love Dark Side my actual favorite Pink Floyd album is Atom Heart Mother. I dont care what the band members say about it now it’s such a wonderful record. And my favorite Pink Floyd “piece of music” (next to most every live version of the “Celestial Voices” part of the song Saucerful of Secrets) is the third musical part of Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast called “Morning Glory”. ✌🏽❤️🎸🍄
floyd, hendrix, and the beatles were game-changers for me too. along with zeppelin, joni mitchell, jefferson airplane, and what i've taken to calling the eric clapton extended universe. the world went from black and white to screaming color that day.
thank you so much, i'm glad this video did dark side justice
Hi Abigail, I just had to let you know how much I enjoyed this. This album has been a cherished companion of mine for well over 40 years but despite that, much of your detailed research was new to me and so very interesting. Your punchy delivery and personality quite enchanting too. God bless you and keep going 😬x
I really tried to find something not-true and weak about this review, but I found it sweet and engaging once again. I own a Harvest logo tee shirt. I've already bought too many Pink Floyd shirts. That's where I'm at. Cheers Abbey. Good job again. My favorite clip is the easter egg 39 min Interview with Roger "The Hat" Manifold on the Immersion box set. Worth more than the marbles included in that box. Big agree with Torry.
thank you so much!
39 unbroken minutes of the hat? is it a new interview or from the dark side sessions?
Finally, an album I've listened to...a lot. Well done Abby. Lots of insight here.
When I saw Pink Floyd in 1977 at the Olympiahalle in Munich they played two complete albums. Wish You Were Here and Animals. The encore was a few songs from Dark Side of the Moon. Of all the concerts I've seen over the past 50 years, that one defined what it takes to turn recorded music into a visual experience. Thanks for your personal take.
Thanks. My older cousin turned me on to this album when I was pretty young. I'd heard 'Money', but the whole listening experience is one of a kind. I've also got the Making Of CD. My favorite track is Us & Them. Melancholic resignation never sounded so beautiful. One of my friends in high school hated Floyd, & thought they were just some pot-head band. I put this record on one day, & handed him the album to read the the lyrics. Instant convert. tavi.
Great review, Abby! Spent a lot of time learning to play this album on guitar (and bass) when it came out.. You know how to do your stuff, lady! Big fan! You are awesome!😘💕💕💕
The first time I heard this album (I had heard Money before on the radio) was the first time I heard music on a high quality sound system. A friend of my older brother's (in college almost 6 years older) who was selling new stereo components as a side hustle, put this record on to show me what true hifi of that time was capable of. Kinda blew my young mind.