THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Right well I'm here striking a blow against the most overrated prog? album of all time. Right, let get this straight this IS NOT PROGRESSIVE ROCK - in fact Genesis DUKE has more progressive music on it and I still class that as quasi-pop since it has some god-awful pop tunes on it.. Right - I bought this CD (I bid 50p on ebay and won it - Hurrah) and lets face it, over the years I have heard songs from this album all over the shop. Anyway, only "Any Colour you like" is any good and since this album is VERY high up - compare it's best with tracks like "Cinema Show", "Firth of Fifth" , "Suppers Ready" or indeed "Close to the Edge" - does this album have all-time classics like that? NO. Shouldn't even get in the top 2000 never mind the top 10. Floyd have produced FAR better than this (see Shine on... and Echoes) and I would give those compositions the right to be considered as classics of prog - Floyd can never be considered as Symphonic because their music is far too simplistic. Oh and if any of you have a gripe - Listen to Steve Harley's "Death Trip" track on one of his earlier albums - this track is far more progressive than anything in DSOTM and thus could that album be defined as Prog or proto-prog?? Anyway - time to redress the balance, ONE STAR.