THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

The album starts after an experimentel song "Speak to me" with laughs and cries. In "Breathe", David Gilmour's slide guitars and vocals, Rick Wright intervention and Waters' poetry are really bright. Then comes "On the run" beetween massive use of synthetisor and concrete music. It shows Floyd's visionnary side which influenced electronic and space rockbands as Tangerine Dream, Gong and Ozric Tentacles. After this, comes one of the best songs i've ever heard: Time. Alarm clocks,Mason's powerfull solo, vocals harmony by Wright and Gilmour who play a bright guitar solo, dynamic basslines of Waters who write his best lyrics: everything is great! Then, Wright plays his best composition: "The great gig in the sky" with his organ solo and sensible vocals by Clare Torry, which closes the side A.

The face B opens with the succesful "Money" with a famous bassline, saxophone and guitar solos and ironic lyrics. After, comes the most sensible song of the album: "Us and them". Wright's sensible organs and piano, Gilmour's pure voice, powerful chorus and Parry's sax solo: this is just heaven! Then a pleasent piece, "Any colour" with Wright Moog solo. After, "Brain damage" a tribute to Syd Barrett ( which announces "Shine on" on the next album) with Waters' lunatic vocals and bass: brilliant. And to conclude 40 minutes of epic songs "Eclipse" a reflexion about power.

With Waters best songwriting, Gilmour best work on vocals and guitars, Wright sensibility and Mason with his best drum beats, this album is one of the most sold album in history and Pink Floyd became a reference for anyone trying to make somethinng new in Prog. Musicians as different as Camel, Supertramp, Alan Parsons Project, Marillion, Pendragon, Twelfth Night, Dream Theater, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, Mostly Autumn, RPWL, Riverside, Airbag, Queen, Pulsar, The Mars Volta and many others, would have probably never existed without "Dark Side of the Moon". Only for this, they could deserve even more recognition!

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