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Poll Question: Is "Dark Side" that perfect album?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2007 at 16:01
It's a great album, one of my top three Floyd albums.
But it's not perfect. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2007 at 16:52
No.

While Breathe and The Great Gig In The Sky are amongst my most beloved Floyd songs (Breathe is perhaps the most mellow and lovely song in the universe) I have to say that both Us And Them and Any Colour You Like drags it down. Not to mention On The Run. Completely pointless.

Other than that, the album is extremely good.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2007 at 17:00
That depends on how you want perfect to be described: musically or commercially or ... ?
Anyway, when DSOTM was released it had a perfect lay-out, a perfect PR support, a perfect sound ("a hifi snob's wet dream"), a perfect melodic and accessible touch, a perfect instrumentation (including the VCS3 synthesizers), a perfect atmosphere between the four musicians and, in my opinion, a perfect tracklist Clap


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2007 at 17:05
Personally I don't think any albums perfect. Dark Side is certainly a very good album, though. It flows beautifully. That said I certainly couldn't say that it has no weak tracks, On the Run lets the album down a bit, IMO.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2007 at 17:05
I don't know about perfect (it has a case though), but in my mind, it was the band's best since Piper. Don't get me wrong, although I LOVE almost all the albums they did in that interim, they were patchy, imho. I think this was definitely the most cohesive thus far, and remains one of two masterpieces they made alongside Wish You Were Here, imho. I like most of their catalogue, though.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2007 at 17:36
Originally posted by dAJaro dAJaro wrote:

is there music that is perfect?
 
Yes, there is.
 
As none has the authority to declare a piece of art perfect, for the judgement would be purely subjective, the only way a record could be perfect is if the creator thinks it's perfect. If it's exactly what he wanted to write/compose/record, whatever, then the album is perfect for him, for it perfectly represents what he wanted it to. But that's it. None else can say if some work of art is perfect or not.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2007 at 14:27
Originally posted by NotAProghead NotAProghead wrote:

I think it's perfect in all aspects: music, lyrics, the concept, performance, sound effects, production.  
 
Even now it sounds fresh.
One of the key rock albums.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2007 at 14:50
Nothing's perfect  Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2007 at 15:59

no. Just because something is popular doesn't mean that is perfect.

I prefer "Wish You Were Here" by far.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2007 at 16:30
Originally posted by NotAProghead NotAProghead wrote:

I think it's perfect in all aspects: music, lyrics, the concept, performance, sound effects, production.  
 
Even now it sounds fresh.
One of the key rock albums.
 
I agree with thatClap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2007 at 17:40
It gets a little boring after Money or Time, can't remember which comes first.
 
Floyd had far better albums than Dark Side.
 
Piper at the Gates, Animals, WYWH, Atom Heart Mother...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2007 at 17:45
Yes...but no, and yes again...too hard. Yes, I think it´s like 99% perfect...Wish you were here has the other 1%Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2007 at 19:51
Dark Side is a great, great album, but it is also hugely overrated. Personally, I like Wish You Were Here and Animals better.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2007 at 21:14
Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

Originally posted by andu andu wrote:

No, but Animals is Big%20smile

Exactly Clap


agreed. Dark Side is good but Animals is the best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2007 at 00:29
I dont think DSOTM is that perfect album, besides I think is really dificult to make a perfect album, and, of course, i think that they are some Ponk Floyd albums that are better than this one, such us The pipper and the gates.., Atom heart mother, or Wish you were here

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2007 at 02:52
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2007 at 16:38
Voted "yes" because it is almost perfectly bad.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2007 at 16:42
Originally posted by andu andu wrote:

No, but Animals is Big%20smile


No, and neither, but Wish You Were Here is. Big%20smile

and all three are just fantastic. Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2007 at 16:49
You've gotta be crazy...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2007 at 16:52
Originally posted by andu andu wrote:

You've gotta be crazy...


You think you can tell? Wink
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