THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

"Dark Side Of The Moon" is probably the best Pink Floyd album considering songwriting. It's the last album featuring songwriting from all members of the band too. The music is well balanced between space rock and pop rock, the production is awesome, Roger Waters is at his best vocally. Each song continues to the next one so there is no time to breathe between songs. A truly great album.

"Speak To Me/Breathe" opens the album very slowly with a relaxing feeling. "On The Run" continues with a spooky atmosphere. "Time" brings back the smoothness again - one of the best Pink Floyd songs. "The Great Gig In The Sky" is again an outstanding song - great vocals, great piano. "Money" is probably the best known song from Pink Floyd (with "Another brick in the wall Pt 2") - very pop oriented, nice to hear live in an extended format. "Us And Them" is maybe the reason why I wouldn't give five stars to this album - this song sounds much too cheezy compared to the rest of the songs on the album. "Any Colour You Like" is a nice instrumental which leads to the final part with "Brain Damage" (a classic again) and "Eclipse", two pure Waters tracks giving a good preview of next Pink Floyd albums. Rating: 86/100