THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

What needs an album to be called "Timeless"? In my humble point of view I think an album is timeless when you can hear it at any period of time in your life and you still find the music as fresh as the same time you heard it for the first time. And that's what happen to me when I hear this album.

And it has other points that makes it even more remarkable. Perhaps with the expection of some Beatles albums, no other album has being talked as much as this one, even in some very unusual topics. The lyrics are stunning, marvelous, and can be discussed by anyone in any period of time and mostly, they are human. In some moment in our lives we can relate to them. They fit perfectly in the certain emotions on the human condition and you connect with them without counting which part of the world you live on.

It has the most known cover than any album ever. Wherever you are, you will find this cover somewhere and always as a symbol of something beyond our reality. Something bigger than us.

And what about the urban myth about you can synchronize the album with the "Wizard of Oz" movie? Even if the same Waters or Gilmour denied this, It still a hot topic in the fan community worldwide.

It's an album full of emotion, in the concept as in the mood of the band's members. Roger Waters has always said that this album (and the later ones after this) was mostly his brainchild. Everybody knows about the "who made who" feud between the members specially Waters and David Gilmour. But as far as they say or go, I think this album is the sum of all the parts of four very talented musicians.

It has live by itself. And you can feel it only by hearing "Speak To Me", the pounding, the feeling of something growing. And what you can say of the roto-toms beginning of "Time" by Nick Mason? It's simply stunning.

I remember in a documentary the story behind Clare Torry's vocal recording of "The Great Gig In The Sky" (Only the title is incredible!!!) about how she left the studio ashamed after she did her part because she thought she did some awful job... little she knew she was doing rock'n'roll history!

Who can't relate with "Money"? The catchy 7/4 intro is already a classic. I invite you to show "Us and Them" to any person, young or old, and dare him or her to tell you the song is not a beautiful opus.

It is said "Brain Damage" is some kind of tribute of Roger Waters to Syd Barret. I don't really know, but who in anytime of the day don't want to be the lunatic on the grass waiting to be at the Dark Side of The Moon?