Dark Side Of The Moon Review, Take #2

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Great review. I actually think Money is a really good song - doesn't exactly slot into the tracklisting nicely, but I still like it. Anyway, great album, great review
 
sorry for bumping this, but after reading this review, i see the album in an entirely new perspective. when i first got it, i didn't exactly "get" it. I knew about the ideas behind this cd, but didn't "feel" the ideas. reading about your journey listening to the album has opened my eyes to not only the music, but the album as a whole. I also see Pink Floyd in a new light, and they're more than a bunch of great musicians. they really touched upon more outer ideas and beliefs than so many of their other contemporaries, and with a grace and beauty we may never see again.

thank you sir, you've done more for me with this than you may ever know
 
I heard good things about this album for years and eventually checked it out on download about a year or so ago & I just dont get what all the fuss is about. The only real song I like is 'Money' & to me the music just sounRAB very bland & uninspiring.
Now Im not a total Pink Floyd hater as I heard a song on the radio the other day (cant remember what one) and thought it was quite good.
Also I've heard David Gilmour's stuff and I also like quite a lot of it TBH.
I just put it down to my own personal taste (although I have a very open mind when it comes to music) that I cant appreciate this album.
 
Through the Dark Side of the Moon​


- T.S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock

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Author's Note: The first Dark Side of the Moon review I did was sort of out there. I tried to take you through a narrative journey, and in the end it failed since it provided little context. That doesn't mean I've all of a sudden done a run of the mill review. This album has been written about so much, that a standard review would frankly be boring and tedious. But what I first did, was way too experimental and out there. I sort of tried to expand the notion of what a review could be but I ended up shattering the test tubes. Let's see if this one works.

Speak To Me​



It all begins with the beating of a heart, the purest and simplest sign of life. From the time we are a curled up little fetus inside our mother
 
I still love Money and I think it fits in there just fine.

Run Like Hell is the weakest track on it's own, but it's still quite awesome and I don't skip it. The way every song on this album seques together is just perfect. To push "skip" on this album is downright blasphemy.
 
you're right, Run Like Hell was the weakest track, too bad it was released six years later as a package promoted as 'the Wall'.
 
Part II​

Money​

Ahhh, Money. In my opinion, the weakest song of the album. And really, it is the time when the theme becomes obvious. I would agree that money is certainly the root of a lot of evil out there today. But really, I don't think money in itself is to blame. Money is just a convenient excuse for humans to act like the monsters that they really are. A friend of mine in school is really into conspiracy theories. He thinks that certain families control the world and such. I don't believe that. I have a much more pessimistic view of the world.

The Russian Mafia is probably the hardest crime organization to stop. Why is that? Well, American agents point to the fact that they differ from the Italian Cosa Nostras in many key aspects. The Italians worked in a hierarchy. The Russians are organized in a cell structure. There is no head. If you kill the head, someone will come to take their place. It is like the hydra, you slice off a head and ten more appear. That's what I think about humanity. It is our base greed within us that drives us forward like a virus. The heaRAB of these banks and corporations aren't all scheming together to rule the planet, they are all acting independently of one another, but all driven to the same goal: more. Like a virus. Money is an extension of that virus. I wish there was no money in the world. But that is a stupid wish. I guess the best any of us can do it try not to let it corrupt us into a sort of machine, like what we've seen happen to so many people and artists.

Us and Them​

Though this song may be about something else, I got a sort of different interpretation from it. One of the most intersting things in society I've noticed, is the split between older generations and new generations. The older generations always seem so offended at the extent the new generation will go to rebel against them. When they were younger, they thought what they were doing was really rebellious. But everytime, and without failure, they get proven wrong.

And the newer generation always disregarRAB the wisdom that the older generation tries to pass down on it. Each time, they arrogantly assume that they are different, that they are a new breed. But they never, ever are. They're people, just like their parents. We really aren't all that different from each other. We just love to perceive each other as different.

I can
 
This review quite frankly pisses all over mine and I applaud you. Very good review and nice to see that I'm not the only who thinks that 'Money' is a weak link on the album.
 
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

I meant On The Run. F*ck.

But since I brought it up, Run Like Hell is awesome and one of my favorites off The Wall.
 
it all goes downhill after that though. :(

really though RABOTM all comes down to Any Colour You Like. such a gorgeous song and wonderful production on it too.
 
To me at least, Money seems out of place in the whole concept of the album. It just seems to break the flow and mould, probably one fo the reasons I hate it... Not to mention it was whored to death by those around me in my youth :p

Top review though, love it.
Music is different for everyone, and the best reviews IMO are the ones where the reviewer conveys their own views on what the songs mean as well as their own feelings and emotions that are conveyed...
 
Fortunately I have not had Money force fed down my throat by Classic Rock radio so it still feels right in terms of flow and mould. I feel for you. Classic Rock radio has killed a few good and great songs.
 
i have noticed that it doesn't really fit in... i wouldn't call it weak by any means but i do agree with you and it is definitely overplayed and overhyped (by my father especially)
 
but...they aren't songs! it's just a narrative about some character Waters invented. i really can't get anything out of that except a man who was fresh out of ideas for an ending.

i really don't like 'rock opera' structured albums, they focus too strongly on a storyline and not nearly enough on good songwriting to throw in.
 
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