Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon 1973

One in every 20 people under the age of 50 in the United States owns a copy of this album. "Dark Side Of The Moon" remained on Billboard's 200 album chart for an amazing 15 years straight and then for another two when it was remastered back in 1994. It is currently the most successful album ever with upwards of 40 million copies sold world-wide. The question is… WHY?

The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. Originally released on 1 March 1973, on the label Harvest, it built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but departs from instrumental thematic by founding member Syd Barrett. The album explores themes including conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's deteriorating mental state. The Dark Side of the Moon was an immediate success; it topped the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart for a week and remained in the chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. With an estimated 45 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling worldwide. It produced two singles, "Money" and "Us and Them", and is the band's most popular album among fans and critics, and has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time.

Pink Floyd – Dark side of the moon (1973)
Vinyl rip in 24 bit/96 kHz |920 Mb, 4% RAR Recovery | FLAC | Labels
SHVL 804 (April 1973) (UK, 2nd Isue) | Prog Rock

Matrix/Runout SHVL 804 A-3 RRM 2 / SHVL 804 B-3 O
Pressings that use A-2 / B-2 lacquers have minor sound quality issues, particularly during the song, Money. Some copies also have a skip pressed into the grooves during the song Money. Such issues were corrected with the A-3 / B-3 cuttings…

Pink Floyd – Dark side of the moon (1973)
Vinyl rip in 24 bit/96 kHz | 900 Mb + 900 Mb | FLAC | Complete Artwork
Harvest – SMAS-11163 (1973 ) (Original US Pressing) | Prog Rock
Harvest – 1C 062-05 249 Q (1974) (1st German quadraphonic issue )

DSOTM was first published in USA, a few weeks later was published in England. This German edition is prepared with the same tapes QUAD English edition.

By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with Dark Side of the Moon. The primary revelation of Dark Side of the Moon is what a little focus does for the band. Roger Waters wrote a series of songs about mundane, everyday details which aren't that impressive by themselves, but when given the sonic backdrop of Floyd's slow, atmospheric soundscapes and carefully placed sound effects, they achieve an emotional resonance. But what gives the album true power is the subtly textured music, which evolves from ponderous, neo-psychedelic art rock to jazz fusion and blues-rock before turning back to psychedelia. It's dense with detail, but leisurely paced, creating its own dark, haunting world.

By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with Dark Side of the Moon…