Product Details
Artist : Pink Floyd
Format : Hybrid SACD
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724358213621
Label : EMI Music Canada
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2003-03-25
UPC : 724358213621
ASIN : B00008CLOA
Track Listings for
Disc-1
1. Speak To Me/Breathe
2. On The Run
3. Time
4. The Great Gig In The Sky
5. Money
6. Us And Them
7. Any Colour You Like
8. Brain Damage
9. Eclipse
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Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.co.uk
One of the most famous albums of all time, Dark Side of the Moon sold 25 million copies in its first 25 years of release. Dark Side of the Moon was the first album that Pink Floyd decided to break in live before attempting to record, with the debut performance of what they then called Eclipse just over a year before the final release date. When they finally retired to Abbey Road Studios with top sound engineer Alan Parsons, state-of-the-art 16-track recording equipment and the new Dolby technology to hand, it was to produce one of the great pieces of studio art. Covering a range of styles, this was the last album (prior to Roger Waters' departure in the early 1980s) to whose writing the other members of Pink Floyd contributed significantly. Nevertheless, it remains a stunningly coherent package, bound together by surreal fragments of speech (mostly gleaned from asking questions of the doorman at the studio) and Waters' bold and bleak lyrics. Often reputed to be about former member Syd Barrett's decline into schizophrenia, in fact Waters has said the lyrics "were a lot about ordinariness" and dealt with people's responses to the increasing insanity of the pressures of everyday life. Some of the extraordinary sound effects used came from the most unlikely sources--the coins at the start of "Money" from Waters tossing handfuls of change into an industrial food-mixer that his wife, a potter, used to mix clay. Whatever the medium, a new standard for attention to detail and production values had been set and the world of studio recording would never be the same again. --James Swift
from Amazon.com
Dark Side of the Moon, originally released in 1973, is one of those albums that is discovered anew by each generation of rock listeners. This complex, often psychedelic music works very well because Pink Floyd doesn't rush anything; the songs are mainly slow to mid-tempo, with attention paid throughout to musical texture and mood. The sound effects on songs like "On the Run," "Time" and especially "Money" (with sampled sounds of clinking coins and cash registers turned into rhythmic accompaniment) are impressive, especially when we remember that 1973 was before the advent of digital recording techniques. This is probably Pink Floyd's best-known work, and it's an excellent place to start if you're new to the band. --Genevieve Williams
NOTE:The Super Audio CD (SACD) features two disc layers. One layer contains a standard version of the album that works on any CD player. The other layer includes high-resolution stereo and a 5.1 surround version of the recording that works on SACD-compatible DVD players and home theater systems. Both layers employ SACD's Direct Stream Digital (DSD) encoding process that samples the music 64 times faster than CD for unprecedented fidelity.
Chronique amazon.fr
Décidément, cet album mythique restera le mètre-étalon en matière de tests de chaîne hi-fi. En effet, après son succès massif dès 1971 (l'album resta 741 semaines dans le Top 20 américain), celui-ci non seulement est entré dans la vie de millions d'auditeurs (30 millions de disques vendus depuis sa sortie jusqu'en 2003), mais encore il aura formaté une grande part du son à venir. Sans parler à nouveau de son contenu (fortement marqué par l'univers de Roger Waters centré sur la paranoïa et les accords de guitare planants de David Gilmour), d'autant qu'il n'y a là aucun inédit (mais un riche livret de 20 pages), on se bornera à constater que ce disque, sous sa nouvelle forme, c'est-à-dire le format SACD (biface [ou hybride] toutefois, afin que la chose demeure déchiffrable par toute chaîne stéréo traditionnelle), marque le début d'une nouvelle ère amorcée avec la réédition de l'intégrale des Rolling Stones par Decca. Seule différence, de taille cependant, EMI a mis le paquet, passant du format 2.1 utilisé pour les Stones au surround 5.1 digne de la quadriphonie d'antan. --Hervé Comte
Customer Reviews
The greatest rock album of all time (2008-05-01)  I'm not one prone to hyperbole, so you gotta believe me when I say that this is the greatest rock album of all time. Everything just lined up perfectly when the band went into the studio to record this masterpiece. I have played this over and over again since I first got it in 1979. Back then it was vinyl. I bought it again when it came out on CD, but the initial CD release was disappointing, so I frequently went back to the vinyl. No longer!! This SACD version is superb! There is a standard stereo track that plays on any CD player, plus there is an all new 5.1 surround mix that will blow your mind! The 5.1 mix must be played in a DVD player connected to a 5.1 or better surround sound system. Each of these new mixes brings something new to the table that enables even long time listeners of this masterpiece to find something new.
Required Listening (2007-10-18) I don't really need to tell that which you already know but I thought I'd make a short comment anyway. This is perhaps one of the most famous albumns in history, and for good reason. It is a perfect record that will appeal to just about everyone regardless of your musical taste. It should almost be considered required listening for all music fans. A spectacular albumn that will stand for all time.
Dark Side Of The Moon Will Be Lighter.... (2006-08-03) So this is the CD that includes Money....And celebrating it's 30th anniversary, the music has lived and will live on. Clishe, maybe, but this indeed is a timeless classic.Newcomers to Pink Floyd, you will like this, but this may require few listens before the magical world opens up to you.A perfect one to listen to in the dark, maybe before going to sleep. Sooths you.If you are like me, and are interested in certain records because they appear on "The Classic Albums" series, this album most certainly deserves a place in your CD-shelf.Come on, don't be coy, this experience is RECOMMENDED.
Magical Music Exsperience!!! (2006-03-08) I dont even know where to start .. umm lemme think the first time i played this cd it was magic everything jus came togeather this cd had an amzing flow to it... i jus havent beenable to stop listening to it.. this will forever go down as one of my favorite cds
As A Dancer I was Inspired at 15 (2006-02-24) I heard Dark Side of the Moon in '75 when I was 15, completely transformed myself and it into a multi media dance presentation and won the award for drama that year in school, blowing the minds of many of my fellow students, just as we were beginning to feel ourselves as young adults. As cultural icons, these musicians (Pink Floyd) have been a part of my artistic life ever since and for always! As an older, wiser dancer/historian/musicologist, whenever I listen to Dark Side of the Moon or any Floyd, it remains one of the best ever in sound and high quality in every way! They are now WOW-ing a whole new generation!
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