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Well this is the most technically thought of album in the history of Rock Music. The best in Classical Rock and also the most famous.

The lyrics and the music both are in perfect balance which is hard to find these days.

Good Work!

the most classic of all classic rock,this disk created FM radio,words cannot express how much of an acomplishment this is.fave:any colour you like

Still after all of these years this is a great fun album full of wild sounds and brilliant musical ideas. With relatively little interest in traditional song structure, save for the single "Money" and "Us and Them" the band was mainly focused on marrying headspace and music for to create 45 minutes of sensation. While their previous albums had attempted the same, it wasn't until the synthesized sounds that became available to them in the studio that they created a masterwork.

What can you say?

When you can listen to an album all these many years after it's release, and it still has a profound effect on you, then you know that what you're listening to is a masterpiece. This album always sounds fresh, always interesting. One of the best albums of all time!!

Need we say more!

A classic - love this one.

Great album by the floyd boys - one of the best recordings of all time. I agree this one is ageless. Money rocks!

It is the legend for good reason. This album started it all and eventhough its nowhere near the beginning of the Pink Floyd era it changed everything. The details and intricacies are amazing and even more so when you consider this was made back when synthesizers where all tubes and patch cords. The mixing and studio work are done with mike set-ups and live performances. This is still an awesome album to just sit in a dark room and crank up through a mega surround sound system. Gilmore, Wright, Mason, and then Waters never did anything sub-par and this album is a product of many years of fine tuning and experimentation.

Wow...a lot of people think that this is a boring album. That really surprises me. It's pretty boring on the first time around, but you really have to pick this one up again and listen to it with an open mind. There really is nothing else like this (though David Gilmore's recently released On an Island is similar in some respects) music, lyrics, vocals and all. The backup vocals really bring the music to it's fullest potential and so do the instrumentals. Very thought provoking, really gives you something to think about. In short, this album will make you see the world for the first time. Listen twice and think doubly so. You may re-emerge a different person. Arseman: Are you sure you listened to the album? I'm not sure what you mean by non musical sounds... maybe the intro and On The Run but thats about it. Do you consider the human voice non musical?

ahhh those times they were a' changin' don't tchya think? flower kids to psychedelia and the"Dehlia". But of course I digress. Still waiting for the flash backs. This one it really hard as each was excellent in their own way. Had to stop this one as I was becoming too melancholic

It ran in the top 100 albums of Billboard Magazine for 10 years and was in the top 200 for 15 years. That alone tells you that this was one of the best ever and BTW, I agree.

Dark Side is a classic just about anywhere you go in this big wide world. The fact that it stayed on the top 200 charts for over 700 weeks proves its worth as one of the all time classics not just a 70's classic.

A really boring and self indulgent collection of non musical sounds. Lowest rating!!!

I don't really listen to it anymore, though I'm a Floyd fan, I got weary of it long ago, and tend to listen to the Barrett era stuff and their earlier material more than the big albums anymore. Played it all the time as a kid, and I feel that you should probably rate records based on your peak impression: i.e., how great or how lousy was it before you got sick of it? It's trite to say so, but it is a bona fide classic.

The Ten Greatest Albums of All Time: 10. Green - R.E.M. (1988) 9. A Farewell To Kings - Rush (1977) 8. Superunknown - Soundgarden (1994) 7. Animals - Pink Floyd (1977) 6. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin (1971) 5. Ten - Pearl Jam (1991) 4. Document - R.E.M. (1987) 3. Permanent Waves - Rush (1981) 2. The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (1973) 1. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (1975) And so it was writ. And all mankind stood in silent awe of my list.

Typical boring, self indulgent Floyd.

Terrific booze/dope album. . .it's a great work from the 70's that is still worth listening to if you're in a melancholy mood. . .

Boring. Has the effect of 50 Mogadon

It is designed to be listened to "with the mind open". Not that you should do that but you have missed it if you don't.

Overrated and boring.

there best album besides the wall

This isnt the Floyds best album (that would be Wish You Were Here) but highly inovative and way ahead of its time oh and by the way it staid on the charts for 741 weeks.

Money's a great track, thanks mainly to Gilmour's guitar work. But IMO, most of the other tracks are ponderous and don't seem to go anywhere. Sure it was very innovative at the time bit on the whole I don't find it enjoyable listening.

One of the best selling Albums of all time and was on the charts for a very long time. Arguably one of the best rock albums of all time

A dark brooding materpiece, that loosely chronicled their former lead singer Sid Barret's slow horrifying journey to the depths of insanity. Technically brilliant and hauntingly beautiful, Dark Side still gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it. Pink Floyd at their best!

By far, THE best put together, start to finish album of all time. Wish You Were Here, Jar of Flies, close. There are zero albums in todays music world that compare.

Wow- a complete masterpiece, ranks in the top 5 albums of all time.

The dark side of the moon is where this would be best played. Pink Floyd at their most mediocre.

there is no equal

This album KICKS ARSE!

Classic Rock at its best.This is a very strong album- no filler here,folks....

Overexposed a bit but I still enjoy turning the lava lamp to this one. I usually program my CD player to skip Money, but the rest of the CD is near perfection and wonderfully moody and psychedelic.

This is one of the greatest albums ever made.

Best Floyd album ever. More complete and artistic than the Wall, more focused and epic than Wish You Were Here. Loved it during the big Millenium new years here in Toronto, when the clock struck twelve, of all the songs they could have played to greet a new century, they played Time from this album, how cool is that.

More like the 'dark side of music'...a complete melancholy mess that I have no desire to ever listen to again !

Magnum opus! Serious Mood Music. Kicks off with the craziness of Speak To Me, where he talks of insanity -- which is really the theme of the album, isn't it? Then we hit the seamless transition into the frightening On the Run. I must say when I turned of the lights at 11PM and listened to this, I kept looking over my shoulder; a constant stream of chills ran down my spine. Great Gig in the Sky runs through my head everytime I watch sunset. Personally, I don't like Money -- it's not a bad song, but it just doesn't fit with the rest of the album -- I mean, it's wedged between a song about eternity (Great Gig In the Sky) and war (Us And Them) without any seamless lyrical or instrumental transition that we find everywhere else in the album. But the rest is great -- I had to choose between Led Zeppelin IV and Dark Side of the Moon, and I'm glad I chose this.

Probably the best studio album ever recorded. This album is timeless, deep, inspirational, and multi-layered. The lyrics, the key of the songs, the effects, and the performance, all serve to convey the tension between wanting to grow and be free while being limited and restrained by time, society, work, and, in the end, self-doubt.

how many years was it on billboards top 100 albums list??? just askin'

The best album ever, and it was on the charts almost as long. It trensends generation gaps, as it is continually rediscovered by younger music lovers. I've worn out 3 cassettes and 2 cd's of this baby!! Highly recommended.

Pink Floyd peaked with Dark Side Of The Moon when it was released in 1973. I imagine that other Floyd releases have been ranked higher on this list than Dark Side merely because this release has enjoyed so much popularity and has been (admittedly) overplayed. Nevertheless, for someone just starting to approach Pink Floyd, this full-length effort is undeniably the place to start which avoids the excesses of The Wall, Wish You Were Here, and Animals. For a Floyd album, Dark Side Of The Moon has an impressive number of singles as well, most notably Time, Money and Us And Them. As other comments have noted, by intent or by happenstance, one can play Dark Side along with the film The Wizard Of Oz for a interesting musical interpretation of the movie. Finally, as an interesting note, Alan Parsons was the engineer for this release.

My personal favorite Pink Floyd album. As far as the Wizard of Oz "phenomenon" is concerned, I think it's just a few completely unintended coincidences that some bored individual noticed one day through a cloud of pot smoke. But anyway, the music rocks. "Time" is a personal favorite of mine.

Who am I foolin'? It never really impressed me and my positive rating depended solely on peer pressure--everyone else seemed to crown it as a lurid, pensive masterpiece, so it must be. Unfortunately not. The year was 1972 and when you think about what had already been accomplished in the ways of popular music, it makes this all the less impressive. How could the same band that put out "Wish You Were Here" come up with this? "Time" and "Brain Damage" have perhaps the most maladroit lyric phrasing I've ever come across: "No one told you when to run/ You missed the starting gun". Pretentious piece of crap? Right again, Ruby.

Dark Side of the Moon is the best selling rock album of all time, and for good reason. It takes a few times through the album before you can really appreciate the musical genius. Anybody who does not like this album sucks.

Anyone who doesn't own this cd needs to not vote on aything on this web site deal with music it should be #1

This album represents an achievement of the highest order. Its greatness lies not in a single seminal song or a memorable riff (although it has both), but rather in a perfect realization of the seamlessness of life.....This album is 30 years old, but has been a hit with every generation from the late-boomers to Generation Z - because it resonates, rings true, and sounds ever-fresh!

Incredible! I appreciate Roger Waters sarcastic and witty lyrics! Two thumbs up!

One of the best rock albums ever. Pink Floyd was at their best in this album, they were certainly a great group. This masterpiece (it is no LESS than a masterpiece) deserves all the credit in the world, while it may be difficult for some people to understand or care for, this album makes a person think. It makes you appreciate it, and I personnally do appreciate this album. It has changed rock and roll, it has sold so many copies, and STILL appears on the Billboard chart every once in a while. Time, Brain Damage, Us and Them, and the Great Gig in the Sky are incredible songs. This is a must own CD.

I guess this is Pink Floyd's most famous album. It is a good ALBUM, but the songs themselves are not very good by themselves. The best song, in my opinion, is The Great Gig in the Sky, and all it has is some God-awful caterwalling. It's pretty boring. However, it has some awesome samples, brilliant stereo sound, and an awesome presentation. It's something that you need to listen to all the way through in one sitting with nice stereo. Also, you can play it as the soundtrack to the Wizard of Oz, which is brilliant, even if I'll never do it. The album is good, but The Wall was better.

This is a terrific album. It's tied with "Wish You Were Here" as my all-time favorite. One question, though. Who had more time on their hands: Dave, Roger and the crew for writing the album in sync with "Wizard Of Oz", or the person who actually discovered that the two were in sync?

Pure Sonic Alchemy.

This is my absolute favorite album of all time. The lyrics, though cryptic, are meaningful, poetic, and beautiful. The music is powerful, deep, jubilent, and sad at different points, and the almost seamless transition from song to song makes this almost a concert piece, yet one that can be broken down into individiual songs and still retain that sense of meaning. As a whole, this album translates to me, a representation of life. I'm not sure if that was the intended meaning, but to me, it'll always be a part of my soul.

Super album! They were way ahead of their time on this one. If I heard this album today not knowing Pink Floyd, I would've thought it was a new album. And that Wizard of Oz thing? How genius was that?!? Here's what you do, after the 3rd roar from the MGM lion. Press play from the beginning of Dark Side and be prepared to be mesmerized!

One of the best albums of all time. You've got to listen to it as a whole album.

Another perfect album. When Pink Floyd makes and album, they treat it as one huge experience that can only be expressed in one world, AMAZING. Also, what a concept: an album about the struggles the eeryday man goes through. Hearing songs like 'Breathe,' 'Time,' and 'The Great Gig in the Sky.' wll make you think "Yeah! I've been there.", and "I go through that everyday." There is something for everyone here.

Dark Side of the Moon is a great album. Time, Money, Brain Damage/Eclipse, they're all great songs. You get a great feeling while listening to the songs on this album. It mesmorizes you. By far Floyd's greatest work in their career. No wonder it stayed on the top 200 for over 14 years.

The greatest album of all time, without question!

no this isnt my favorite pink floyd album but it sure ranks high among them. if you have ever seen pink floyd live at pampeii the movie you would have heard the band talk about the making of dark side and have a better understanding of it. besides this is one of the best selling albums of all time almost two decades on the charts for this band. amazing.

Severely overplayed in high school....I still have nightmares. I used to love it then I had to kill it.

A genuine classic! One of my favorite albums of all time!! I'll be listening to this one forever!

This album is a must have, at least it was back in the day. It flows well and always seemed to me to be a concept\theme album. Probably only matched by The Wall as their best work and of course it stayed on the charts for an unbelievable amount of time. A Stoner album!

Another great album by the best band on earth!!!

This is an album that you could lose yourself in for days or even weeks, and should! Amazing lyrics! "for long you'll live, and high you'll fly, and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry, but all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be" "everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon" Just lay back, spark up a joint, and enjoy!!!

This is one of the greatest albums of all time. Pink Floyd dazzle their listeners with an eclectic mix of sounds. Don't forget to listen to it while watching, "The Wizard of OZ."

Best selling album of all time. This album blew me away when I first heard it and still today I think of it as an ingenius musical experience.

Pink Floyd fans favorite. It can be played along with Wizard of Oz. Under the heavy influence of drugs (and even without, but first is perferred). It goes right along with Dorothy into the magical land of OZ. A great album no matter what state of mind one is in.

I grew up on this album, it was my big sister's favorite. One of the first rock albums that I actually listened to the lyrics to understand why they held such a strong influence. I think their sound is classic and incomparable.