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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49627280)

WYWH is incredible too and has some of the same themes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827909&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#49628784)