Pink Floyd

The Dark Side of the Moon Album cover for The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. Artist:   Pink Floyd Album:    The Dark Side Of The Moon Released: 1973 Fair use in Pink Floyd Though this image is subject to copyright, I feel its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: it is a low resolution copy of an album cover. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the album in any way. copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another album. Released in  1973 Length:  43:00 Genre:  Classic Rock Wikipedia article This album was the Album of the Week from 13 November 2006 to 19 November 2006 and from 20 July 2009 to 26 July 2009

1. Speak to Me
2. Breathe
3. On the Run
4. Time
5. The Great Gig in the Sky
6. Money
7. Us and Them
8. Any Colour You Like
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse

Alternative CoversEdit

NotesEdit

• The original track listing is shown above; in subsequent releases the first tracks were often combined to form one track: "Speak to Me / Breathe."
• Though not included in the track listing, "Breathe Reprise" is separated lyrically from "Time."

MusiciansEdit

• David Gilmour - Vocals, guitars, VCS3
• Nick Mason - Percussion, tape effects
• Rick Wright - Keyboards, vocals, VCS3
• Roger Waters - Bass guitar, vocals, VCS3, tape effects

CreditsEdit

• Produced by Pink Floyd
• Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London between June 1972 and January 1973
• Engineer: Alan Parsons
• Assistant: Peter Jones
• Mixing supervised by Chris Thomas
• Saxophone on "Us and Them" and "Money": Dick Parry
• Backing vocals: Doris Troy, Leslie Duncan, Liza Strike, Barry St. John
• Vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" by Clare Torry
• Sleeve design by Hipgnosis
• Sleeve art by George Hardie N.T.A.
• Photography by Hipgnosis
• Stickers art by George Hardie N.T.A.
• All lyrics by Roger Waters

AchievementsEdit

from the Wikipedia article

The Dark Side of the Moon is the third best selling album of all time worldwide (not including compilations and various artists soundtracks), and the 20th-best-selling album in the United States. Though it held the No. 1 spot in the USA for only one week, it spent a total of 741 consecutive weeks, over fourteen years, on Billboard's list of the top 200 best selling albums, longer than any other album in the history of music. The album was finally removed only by a rule change after 23 April 1988. To this day, it occupies a prominent spot on Billboard's Pop Catalogue Chart, reaching number one when the 2003 hybrid CD/SACD edition was released and sold 800,000 copies in the U.S. alone. On the week of 5 May 2006, The Dark Side of the Moon achieved a combined total of 1,500 weeks on the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalogue charts.

Sales of the album worldwide total over forty million as of 2004, with an average of 8,000 copies sold per week and a total of 400,000 in the year of 2002 — making it the 200th best-selling album of that year nearly three decades after its initial release. It is estimated that one in every fourteen people in the U.S. under the age of fifty owns or owned a copy of this album. According to an 2 August 2006 Wall Street Journal article, although the album was released in 1973, it has sold 7.7 million copies since 1991 in the U.S. alone and continues to log 9,600 sales per week domestically.

The LP was released before platinum awards were introduced by the RIAA on 1 January 1976, and it initially only received a gold disc. However, after the introduction of the album on CD, The Dark Side of the Moon would eventually be certified platinum in 1990. On 6 April 1998, the RIAA certified the album at 15x platinum, denoting sales of fifteen million in the United States alone - making it their biggest-selling album there.

In 2006 it was voted "My Favourite Album" by viewers and listeners to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1990, Australian radio listeners voted it the best album to make love to, and in 2003, Rolling Stone listed The Dark Side of the Moon 43rd on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is also #2 on the Definitive 200 Albums of All Time, a list of 200 albums made by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers "in celebration of the art form of the record album".

TriviaEdit

Dark Side of the RainbowEdit

The Dark Side of the Rainbow is the name for the effect created by playing the Dark Side of the Moon simultaneously with the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz (with the original film's sound muted). There are shocking similarities in how the music and the film line up, and many people have claimed this is intentional (however, Pink Floyd openly denies that they made the record to correspond to the film).

This phenomenon has had many other names such as Dark Side of the Oz and Somewhere Over the Prism's Rainbow (referring to the prism on the album cover of DSOTM).

Albums by Pink Floyd

Albums: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) • A Saucerful Of Secrets (1968) • Music From The Film More (1969) • Ummagumma (1969) • Atom Heart Mother (1970) • Meddle (1971) • Obscured By Clouds (1972) • The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) • Wish You Were Here (1975) • Animals (1977) • The Wall (1979) • The Final Cut (1983) • A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987) • The Division Bell (1994) Singles and EPs: Arnold Layne (1967) • Apples And Oranges (1967) • See Emily Play (1967) • Flaming (1967) • It Would Be So Nice (1968) • Point Me At The Sky (1968) • Let There Be More Light (1968) • The Nile Song (1969) • One Of These Days (1971) • Free Four (1972) • Money (1973) • Time/Us and Them (1973) • Have a Cigar (1975) • Another Brick in the Wall, Part II (1979) • Comfortably Numb (1980) • Run Like Hell (1980) • The Wall: Music from the Film (1982) • Not Now John (1983) • Learning to Fly (1987) • On the Turning Away (1987) • One Slip (1988) • Take It Back (1994) • High Hopes/Keep Talking (1994) • Wish You Were Here (1995) (live) Live Albums and Compilations: The Best of The Pink Floyd (1970) • Relics (1971) • A Nice Pair (1973) • Masters of Rock (1974) • A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981) • Works (1983) • Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988) • Shine On (1992) • The Early Singles (1992) • P•U•L•S•E (1995) • London '66-'67 (1995) • 1967: The First 3 Singles (1997) • Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 (2000) • Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001) • The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (2007) • Oh, by the Way (2007) Films: Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972) • The Wall (1982) • Delicate Sound of Thunder (1989) • La Carrera Panamericana (1992) • P•U•L•S•E (1995)