The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd

Publicación: 24 de Marzo, 1973.

Productor: Pink Floyd.
Ingeniero de sonido: Alan Parsons.
Asistente: Peter James.
Supervisor de mezcla: Chris Thomas.
Grabación: Junio de 1972 y enero de 1973.
Estudios: Abbey Road Studios, Londres.
Discográfica U.K: Harvest Records.
N° de catalogo: SHVL 804.
Diseño y fotografía de portada: Hipgnosis.
Arte de portada y stickers: George Hardie (Nicholas Thirkell Associates).


Tracks:

Lado A.

01 Speak to Me.
(Mason)  1:08
02 Breathe.
(Gilmour/Waters/Wright)  2:48
03 On the Run.
(Gilmour/Waters)  3:50
04 Time.
con Breathe (Reprise).
(Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright)  7:04
05 The Great Gig in the Sky.
(Wright)  4:48

Lado B.

01 Money.
(Waters)  6:24
02 Us and Them.
(Waters/Wright)  7:49
03 Any Colour You Like.
(Gilmour/Mason/Wright)  3:26
04 Brain Damage.
(Waters)  3:50
05 Eclipse.
(Waters) 2:04

Tiempo total: 42:59 minutos.

Todas las letras fueron escritas por Roger Waters.


Singles:

1973 Money / Any Colour You Like.
Publicación: 5 de mayo (U.S.A).

1974 Time / Us and Them.
Publicación: 4 de febrero (U.S.A).



Vinyl Long Play - 1ª Edición U.K:

Discográfica U.K: Harvest Records.
N° de catalogo: SHVL 804.

 Portada.

 Contraportada.

 Carpeta.

 Interior carpeta.

 Funda interior.

 Etiquetas lados 1 y 2.

 Poster - Pirámides.

 Poster- Pink Floyd.

 Calcomanía - Café.

 Calcomanía - Amarilla.

Sticker de portada.


Booklet promocional para la prensa:

 Booklet.

 Booklet.

 Booklet.

 Booklet.

 Booklet.

 Booklet.


Pink Floyd:


Roger Waters: Bajo, voz, sintetizador, sintetizador VCS3 y efectos de cintas.
David Gilmour: Guitarra, voz, sintetizador y sintetizador VCS3.
Richard Wright:  Teclados, sintetizador, sintetizador VCS3 y voz.
Nick Mason: Batería, percusión y efecto de cintas.


Otros músicos:

Dick Parry: Saxofón (Money; Us and Them).
Clare Torry: Voz (The Great Gig In The Sky), coros.
Voces y coros: Lesley Duncan, Doris Troy, Liza Strike y Barry St. John.



Letras:


Speak To Me.
(Mason)

"I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been 
over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..." 

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the 
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even 
if you're not mad..."


Breathe In The Air.
(Waters, Gilmour, Wright)

Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care. 
Leave but don't leave me. 
Look around and choose your own ground. 

Long you live and high you fly 
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry 
And all you touch and all you see 
Is all your life will ever be. 

Run, rabbit run. 
Dig that hole, forget the sun, 
And when at last the work is done 
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one. 

For long you live and high you fly 
But only if you ride the tide 
And balanced on the biggest wave 
You race towards an early grave.


On The Run.
(Gilmour, Waters)

"Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"


Time.
(Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour)

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day 
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. 
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town 
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. 

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. 
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. 
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. 
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. 

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking 
Racing around to come up behind you again. 
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, 
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. 

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. 
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines 
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way 
The time is gone, the song is over, 
Thought I'd something more to say.


Breathe (reprise).

Home, home again. 
I like to be here when I can. 
When I come home cold and tired 
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire. 
Far away across the field 
The tolling of the iron bell 
Calls the faithful to their knees 
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.


The Great Gig In The Sky.
(Wright)

"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I 
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? 
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime." 

"If you can hear this whispering you are dying." 

"I never said I was frightened of dying."


Money.
(Waters)

Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay.
Money, it's a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.

Money, get back.
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit.
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit.
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set 
And I think I need a Lear jet.

Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're 
giving none away.

"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a
bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"


Us And Them.
(Waters, Wright)

Us, and them 
And after all we're only ordinary men. 
Me, and you. 
God only knows it's noz what we would choose to do. 
Forward he cried from the rear 
and the front rank died. 
And the general sat and the lines on the map 
moved from side to side. 
Black and blue 
And who knows which is which and who is who. 
Up and down. 
But in the end it's only round and round. 
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words 
The poster bearer cried. 
Listen son, said the man with the gun 
There's room for you inside. 

"I mean, they're not gunna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short, 
sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off 
lightly, 'cos I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once! 
It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners 
don't cost nothing do they, eh?" 

Down and out 
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about. 
With, without. 
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about? 
Out of the way, it's a busy day 
I've got things on my mind. 
For the want of the price of tea and a slice 
The old man died.


Any Colour You Like.
(Gilmour, Mason, Wright)

Instrumental.


Brain Damage.
(Waters)

The lunatic is on the grass. 
The lunatic is on the grass. 
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs. 
Got to keep the loonies on the path. 

The lunatic is in the hall. 
The lunatics are in my hall. 
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor 
And every day the paper boy brings more. 

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon 
And if there is no room upon the hill 
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too 
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. 

The lunatic is in my head. 
The lunatic is in my head 
You raise the blade, you make the change 
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane. 
You lock the door 
And throw away the key 
There's someone in my head but it's not me. 

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear 
You shout and no one seems to hear. 
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes 
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. 

"I can't think of anything to say except... 
I think it's marvelous! HaHaHa!"


Eclipse.
(Waters)

All that you touch 
All that you see 
All that you taste 
All you feel. 
All that you love 
All that you hate 
All you distrust 
All you save. 
All that you give 
All that you deal 
All that you buy, 
beg, borrow or steal. 
All you create 
All you destroy 
All that you do 
All that you say. 
All that you eat 
And everyone you meet 
All that you slight 
And everyone you fight. 
All that is now 
All that is gone 
All that's to come 
and everything under the sun is in tune 
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. 

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."


Promo:

Harvest Records 1973-03 · Billboard Magazine.

Ten years ago Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon made it's first appearence on the Billboard Chart.
It's Never Left.
Congratulations on your New World's Record.
Billboard Magazine 1983-12.



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1979 The First XI (Box Set).

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2 comentarios:

  1. The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. Primarily developed during live performances, the band premiered an early version of the record several months before recording began. New material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London.

    The record builds on ideas explored in Pink Floyd's earlier recordings and performances, while omitting the extended instrumentals that characterised their earlier work. A concept album, its themes explore conflict, greed, time, death, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett, who departed the group in 1968. The group used recording techniques such as multitrack recording, tape loops, and analogue synthesisers. Snippets from interviews with the band's road crew, as well as philosophical quotations, were also used. Engineer Alan Parsons was responsible for many sonic aspects and the recruitment of singer Clare Torry, who appears on "The Great Gig in the Sky". The sleeve, which depicts a prism spectrum, was designed by Storm Thorgerson, following keyboardist Richard Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design, representing the band's lighting and the record's themes. The album was promoted with two singles: "Money" and "Us and Them".

    The Dark Side of the Moon received critical acclaim upon release, and has since been hailed by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. The record reached number one on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart (now known as the Billboard 200), and has charted for over 900 weeks in total. With estimated sales of over 45 million copies, it is Pink Floyd's best seller, and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. The record helped to propel Pink Floyd to international fame, bringing wealth and recognition to all four of its members. It has been remastered and re-released on several occasions, most recently for digital distribution.

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  2. Radio K.A.O.S. is the second solo studio album by English rock musician Roger Waters. Released on 15 June 1987 in the United Kingdom and June 16 in the United States, it was Waters' first solo studio album after his formal departure from the band Pink Floyd in 1985.

    Like his previous and future studio albums and many works of his during his time with Pink Floyd, the album is a concept album based on a number of key topical subjects of the late 1980s, including monetarism and its effect on citizens, popular culture of the time, and the events and consequences of the Cold War.

    It also makes criticisms of Margaret Thatcher's government, much like Pink Floyd's The Final Cut (1983), another album conceived by Waters.

    The album follows Billy, a mentally and physically disabled man from Wales, forced to live with his uncle David in Los Angeles after his brother Benny is sent to prison following an act intended to support striking coal miners which results in the death of a taxi driver, and his dismissal from his mining job due to "market forces".

    The album explores Billy's view of the world through an on-air conversation between him and Jim, a disc jockey (DJ) at a fictitious local radio station named Radio KAOS.

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