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Dark Side of the Moon is the GOAT of GOATs, it is literally perfection
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Date: January 28th, 2026 3:47 PM Author: Slate diverse milk skinny woman I have listened to Dark Side hundreds of times. It has been my all-time favorite album since my early 20s.
Everyone by now should know that the dark side, or far side, of the moon, symbolizes insanity, alienation and the pressures of modern life, each song representing something that can "make us mad."
When I Google the themes of Dark Side, I don't even think the critics fully "get it."
Each color of the spectrum on the album cover represents one of the themes. The white light represents life.
The album starts off with a heartbeat pulsing at exactly 60 beats per minute. If you play it on spotify you can see the heart beating in perfect sync with the seconds ticking away . . . .
Sixty beats per minute is the gold standard, right? That's a normal, healthy heartbeat.
Then you gradually hear all of the album's sound effects being played together gradually getting louder and louder culminating in Roger Waters screaming in insanity as it segues into "Breathe in the Air."
Actual six themes:
1. Work 2. Time 3. Death 4. Money 5. War 6. Conformity
I'm convinced this album was divinely inspired.
Look at what Pink Floyd did before. Their previous album was "Meddle," which was good, but gave no indication of the masterpiece they were due to deliver.
They brought in saxophones, and female backup singers.
The segue from Money into Us and Them (War) is brilliant with the spoken word voiceovers.
Roger Waters went around Abbey Road Studios, finding anyone who would voluntarily come into their studio and records answer to impromptu questions Waters had written down on cue cards, questions like, "When was the last time you punched someone? Were you in the right? Do you still feel you were in the right?"
As it segues from Money into Us and Them, you hear the guitarist from Wings say, "I don't know, I was really drunk at the time," and some other band members wife saying, "I was definitely in the right, that geezer was cruisin' for a bruisin'."
It may be the greatest segue of all time.
But the line that still gets me from Us and Them is this one: 'Forward' he cried from the rear and front rank died.
I can find fault in almost anything. Despite listening to this album literally hundreds and hundreds of times, there is not a single flaw. Not one. Every single note, every word, is literally perfect.
It is and will always be the GOAT. |
Date: January 28th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: Thriller Tattoo Step-uncle's House super overrrated album but i did listen to it first tim ei got high smokjiing weed out of a coke can on a cmaping trip at 15 and it was 180 esp any colour you want (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49627295) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:49 PM Author: Slate diverse milk skinny woman lol at Dark Side being overrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49628626) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:30 PM Author: cocky pocket flask telephone i agree, it's so good. i;m not the biggest floyd fan, but dark side is 10/10/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49628800) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:37 PM Author: Slate diverse milk skinny woman 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49628855) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:38 PM Author: cocky pocket flask telephone name ur top 10 rappers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49628870) |
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Date: January 29th, 2026 11:21 PM Author: Slate diverse milk skinny woman Do the Beastie Boys count as one or three? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49632184) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:29 PM Author: talented chapel Agree WYWH is incredible too and has some of the same themes |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:38 PM Author: Slate diverse milk skinny woman What is that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49628864) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:41 PM Author: talented chapel Wish You Were Here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49628885) |
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Date: January 29th, 2026 9:00 PM Author: Slate diverse milk skinny woman Idk, I do like some songs on it but Animals is much closer in theme and artistic genius (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49631855) |
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Date: January 29th, 2026 9:29 PM Author: talented chapel listen to it some more it's like Dark Side with elements of loss / grief and humanity these are their two best albums some even rate it higher I don't quite agree but it's great |
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Date: January 29th, 2026 9:37 PM Author: Slate diverse milk skinny woman Don’t get me wrong I like it but I hold Animals in incredibly high esteem and it’s sits alone with DS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49631965) |
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Date: January 29th, 2026 9:42 PM Author: talented chapel fair just really take it in a few times and you might become a Wish You Were Heremo it's that good and has a similar structure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49631976) |
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Date: January 30th, 2026 12:25 PM Author: Slate diverse milk skinny woman I have listened to it a lot more than a few times but I admit it has been a while. I just finished listening to Welcome to the Machine and I agree it does sound like quintessential Floyd. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49633047) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:38 PM Author: red overrated den (Boomer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49628860) |
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Date: January 29th, 2026 9:04 PM Author: beady-eyed domesticated brunch And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
-- tp |
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Date: January 29th, 2026 9:07 PM Author: Slate diverse milk skinny woman Great song.
My favorite line from that song: The paper holds their folded faces to the floor and every day the paperboy brings more.
And: you raise the blade, you make the change, you rearrange me til I’m sane. You lock the door and throw away the key, there’s someone in my head but it’s not me… |
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Date: January 29th, 2026 9:26 PM Author: brindle beta headpube thought the thread was about the movie and that this was a unique take on the sci-fi horror genre. was hoping to see an impassioned case made for Dark Side of the Moon being better than Event Horizon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTCHodcUutQ |