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It's alright. Kind of slow and meandering. I didn't like nearly as much as Wish You Were Here.
I like some of the songs and some of it has a chill vibe but I wouldn't go back and listen to a lot of the songs.
I started with prog in the 2010s, and I can see how this album influenced what I hear today. However, working backwards in time puts the album at a disadvantage. There are a few tracks I enjoyed, but for the most part I just hear a shadow of the prog music I enjoy today.
Too many sound effects but enjoyable. Favorite song: The Great Gig in the Sky.
From the very beginning a marvellous trip into the depths of what is possible between melancholic songwriting and experimental playfulness. But the longer this short album is proceeding the simpler it kinda gets. Bluesrock „Money“ is the peak of normalism. Strange how small the shoulders of giants look on which bands like GY!BE supposedly stand on.
je pige pas pourquoi tout le monde se branle sur cet album mais OK
либо я его слушала больше чем помню, либо все музыканты незаметно его семплируют. кажется очень знакомой музыка) норм
I enjoy how each song flows into another but rather redundant
A bit overrated imo. Nothing special.
I really remembered having heard this album before but I didn’t remember it at all so I guess I hadn’t. Was very excited to see it come up considering it’s so hyped up but I was somewhat disappointed. Not bad by any means but probably my least favourite Pink Floyd album I’ve heard so far. Favourite song Money.
Fine. Find pink Floyd kinda boring. All these songs have been radio played to death
Vähän ehkä alitti odotuksia. Ihan jees fiilis, kappaleet vaihtu hyvin smoothisti toiseen. Yksittäisinä kappaleina ei kuitenkaan jäänyt mieleen kuin money ja time kun tiesin ne etukäteen
Some songs clicked. Time is a good one. A bit too much experimentation for my taste. Bass guitar sounds great
Honestly: meh. It's not terrible, but it's not anything to write home about anymore. Sorry.
I liked this about as much as I thought I would: it’s obviously a classic and has some really great tracks, but I feel like I have to be in the right mood for it. It’s not something I would normally listen to. 3 or 4/5
It is orchestral, soaring and epic. There are some good pop tunes on it l, as well as the more experimental sounds. It stands up and is interesting to listen to.
Probably the only Pink Floyd album I actually like and enjoy to listen to, and would happily play this album. I've never been a Pink Floyd fan, and to the purists of the group, they often claim this album as not proper Pink Floyd origins, as its drifted away from the sound formally driven by the now absent founding member and lead guitarist Syd Barret, who was lost to LSD by this stage. But for me, this is a solid album that stands the tests of time.
Better than I remember
I seen why people do drugs and listen to this album. I found myself wanting it to be over
not my style. i feel like i might need to get high first then I might enjoy it.
It's a good album. I don't get a raging hard on for Pink Floyd like so many do but I don't complain when they come on.
Ik had meer variatie verwacht.
I'll be copping more Floyd after this listen. While certain aspects were exactly as anticipated (flowery guitar solos, harmonic oohs and aahs, money), the album composition, experimental passages and relatively tight focus kept me involved. It's not an all out sell for me - I still can't see myself ever throwing this on - but there's a lot to appreciate and respect. I'll happily dip my toe into more Floyd with Al's guidance - I think I'll find something to make the rotation in there. Three and a half. Fave tracks: Breathe (In the Air)/On the Run
I waited for the right mood. It didn't blow me away, it's just alright. Time.
I know it's classic! Just not my jam.
Neutral then, neutral now
I don't understand this band.
I remembered this as a very boring record. It's not as boring as I remember, but I don't enjoy it very much. I don't like the vibe. Favorite song: On The Run.
Clasico
É bom, sim! Mas eu particularmente tenho um problema com Pink Floyd, pois acho todas as músicas muito parecidas e extremamente longas. Recomendo o album, pois acho que todos devem conhecer, mas se você me perguntar se eu colocaria ele inteiro pra tocar novamente a resposta é não.
I enjoy listening to Pink Floyd in the sense that I like the songs well enough when I hear them in the wild but have never deliberately sought out a Pink Floyd song, let alone sat down and listened to a whole album. Based on that limited exposure, this is a good album, but I don't know if it's their best. It's been memefied by 2000s culture. At least "Money" is a banger, but it's a problem when an album's best songs are over six minutes long. Standout tracks: Money, Us and Them
A classic, but not my favourite
I like the wicked laughter in the intro. The Great Gig in the Sky is just beautiful.
of ich kann keine Sterne hergeben!!!!!! eh geil, aber anstrengend, money hund is aber schon echt iconic, ws. highlights: great gig hund singt erm eine jjjjjaaaavüüü, sax solo in us and them. lowlights: on the run Hund is nur sounds
it's fine.
3/9, 33%
Overrated if I'm honest, I prefer The Wall or Wish You Were Here
Listened to this album 100 times probably. Still like it, but doesn’t hit like it used to do.
Yeah. Can see why they are so big
“I can’t think of anything else to say except…” Sometimes I revisit a “classic” album dismissed by my younger self and manage to overcome any prejudice I might have held towards its genuine merits. However, few albums provoked stronger feelings of antipathy during my teenage years than this one - nothing about Pink Floyd’s grandiose posturing appealed to me at a point when I was hearing punk for the first time. Listening to it for the first time, my opinion has only slightly changed. The meandering pace of this album is only somewhat offset by the pioneering sonic innovations put forward by DSOTM. At it’s best, the band’s revolutionary tendencies are captivating. At it’s worst, the production sounds downright cheesy, and the lyrical sentiments border on ham fisted (see the on-the-nose till drawer samples on the intro to Money). I can definitely understand the album’s status among the pantheon of ‘classics’. In many ways this is the classic album par excellence. But the more I hear these canonised works the more I understand that an album’s status as a classic threatens to undermine its uniqueness. There’s nothing here as game-changing as what was being offered by Kraut-rock innovators like Can or Faust. DSOTM is seemingly a classic album precisely because of that fact. It’s self-fulfilling.
It's much better than the other one. I was sat in the sun reading, so my good mood may have affected this.
Not my favourite Pink Floyd album. Breathe was the standout track for me
Don't get it
I've tried this one before a few times and it has never clicked with me. It's obviously objectively a great record but it does nothing for me at all.
For a universally acclaimed work of musical genius this sure is boring. I had to make the effort to put aside 45mins to listen on headphones to see any appeal. Once I really focused in, I started to enjoy the soundscapes - particularly the bass and saxophone and I’m sure the production was pioneering for the time. Another album that can’t quite live up to it’s iconic reputation for me though.
Jeg må høre mer på dette. Gir det 3 til nå. Har aldri kommet meg på Pink Floyd toget.
I do enjoy an album where the short intro song leads into the first full track. This one goes above and beyond with that. The beginning of Time is meh but the guitar solo is👌🏼. I feel like I enjoyed parts/elements of the songs, but rarely the entire thing.
not my favorite Floyd
What more can be said about Dark Side of the Moon that so many of others have already written? It is a good album and I don't mind it on occasion. It is a bit pompous for my like and dare I say patchy. It maybe got a bit overplayed and over worshipped by others for me to get into. I get the the love but this is another one of those albums that never really had much impact for me.
Just really not my thing.
Not bad at all really. Have heard it before but never really paid attention. However, it’s nothing more than average really imho.
Yeah… it’s a bonafide classic. I don’t really have any thoughts to contribute, this thing kinda takes care of itself at this point. It’s pretty much requisite for …everyone who listens to music? Still, I much prefer Animals. 3.5/5
"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" (Speak to me)
starts pretty boring honestly, until time hits the beat drop time kinda slaps great gig in the sky is kinda cool money is one ive heard a bunch, great song, cool to listen to it in context The highs are really high, but theres kind of a lot between. 3/5 kinda great kinda boring
Aparte muziek, beetje zweverig. Vooral met veel gitaren en weinig melodie. Klinkt allemaal prima. Beetje de "Air" van de jaren 70 of zo. Favorieten zijn "Money", "Us And Them" and "Brain Damage". ***
What the hell xD
It's an interesting album but I never understood the hype. Feels a bit too experimental for my taste, some songs are really good but others are just too psychedelic.
I needed sun after
Liked it, but didn't really click with me.
I have not listened to this for a long time, and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Dated in parts, overexposed in others, but an interesting album
I'm not a huge Pink Floyd fan, and I honestly hate Another Brick in the Wall, but I have a grudging respect for them. This album doesn't actually flow like people seem to think it does - for a concept album it sure does leave you hanging a fair bit with no continuity - but some of the songs are alright. Money being the obvious one. Us and Them has its moments, but it also spends a lot of time dilly-dallying around. Same with a few others as well. Will probably never willingly listen again, but 3/5.
Yeah, I loved this when I was 14, but either I over-listened to it then, or it doesn't stand the test of time as well30+ years later.
Its perfectly listenable to. I just dont get the emotional response that most people seem to tout.
Good spacey jams, kinda slow for casual listening but enjoyable in the right mood
weird but need to listen to cooked
it's fine.
it was ok, I don't like that type of music, but that's ok. I like so many other kind, glad there is enough to go around. Enjoying doing this. Keep them coming.
Overrated. Found it irritating and got bored before the end of the album
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Yawn 🥱. Not enough killer plenty of filler, especially in the first half of the album. Each song has a 2 minute intro which is about a minute too long. It gave birth to prog rock which is frankly unforgivable. The bands best songs (other than money) are on their other less ejaculated over albums. Some nice guitar solos, but I will always be a wish you were here guy. “Money”, “Us and them” and “Brain Damage” lift it up to a 3. And after your 1 for the strokes, Dickie, that’s more than you deserve. I always think for truly great albums you want to relisten Immediately after finishing. I don’t get that with this one. 3/5
Some good tracks, but if I'm honest I was expecting this album to be sonically amazing. Expectations may have been too high.
classic album, song to song fluidity is there but honestly not a totally huge fan of the music
Cool space sounds. Cool guitars (H) \o/
This one surprised me. I for some reason thought Pink Floyd was very rock, but it’s…mellow. I guess it’s sort of stoner, and maybe that’s why it’s got that whole cult following.
Okay
This was nice to revisit. While I'd hear single tracks, the first time I listened to the entire album was through the BBC radio play "Dark Side." The concept of ethics that was interwoven with the lyrics really interested me. Enjoyed listening to a first-edition press that my father had.
It was nice and familiar
It was good. Not as mind-blowing as I thought it would be based on all I had heard about it, but it definitely was enjoyable.
Not the biggest floyd fan, though Time and Money are always bangers.
Everyone has heard this one.
Ok I guess
Mer produktion än faktiska låtar, ja än vettig musik faktiskt, det är mest en massa gitarrlicks/solon och olika ljufeffekter, det är som att det är helt känslobefriat. Produktionen är stundtals intressant och t.o.m. vågad för sin tid det är svårt att bortse ifrån. Men jag är inte säker på att det räcker för att hålla mitt intresse uppe, det blir mest rätt påfrestande och jävlar vad dammigt det låter. Överlägset bästa spår är symfonirockgospeln "Great gig in the sky" med en tillsynes enkel och fin pianoslinga, den har nåt som liknar nåt emotionellt tilltalande. "Us and them" har sina poänger också trots sin svultstighet, en fin len sax t.ex. som inte är dum alls. Totalhaveriet "Money" går dock knappt att lyssna på och de tre sista spåren vet jag inte riktigt vad jag ska ta mig till med. Konceptuellt som album hänger den väl ihop någorlunda, det är på pluskontot men bristen på låtar är frapperande
Går in med låga förväntningar. Trots allt världens mest överskattade band vi talar om. Inte så dåligt som jag befarat. Det finns partier som till och med är rätt bra. Vissa jazzvibbar t ex. Samtidigt blir det emellanåt rejält svulstigt. Man kan också undra vem som misshandlar en kvinna med jämna mellanrum? T ex i The great gig in the sky? Sammantaget en tvåa som snarare lutar uppåt än nedåt.
snoooore
HUBO INA CANCIÓN MUY WOLSTAR pero que todo el mundo se entere que no me gustó perdón Luke howland
Скукотища, а иногда полная шизофрения
Too much noodling, not enough songs?
Coming to terms with the fact I just don’t really fuck with Pink Floyd too much
you could make whatever you want in the 70s i guess
No creo que es para mi, las intro se me hacen demasiado largas y en general no me gusta las canciones que son solo pista y no ninguna parte cantada
Unpopular opinion: I don’t get the hype.
That's not the moon dumbass. That's a triangle or something. There's also light so it's not even the dark side of it. These guys suck
Boring
Cool instruments
I love rock. Grew up on it and just the staple of my childhood. This did not hit well with me. In fact, I got uncomfortable from time to time as I listened to it. It's not a 1, but it's not a 3 either. The album itself just sounds like a hot mess, but I can respect the time and effort that went into it all.
Hasn't this been proven to be a myth the whole time?
😫I have never and will never understand the fuss around this album. Dreary, monotonous and songs that seem to drag on. This was not a listening experience it was torture. Glad their very many fans enjoy this noise but it is most definitely not for me.
not my genre
I don’t get it, I’ve never got it. Great Gig in the Sky and Money are the peak, but the lead-up and falling action… it’s just not that engaging?
Not enough lyrics for me
debe ser el peor album que escuche en mi vida, sobrevalorado
I heard the name Pink Floyd a lot and some good things about them so I was expecting heat but I was disappointed. It had a very rough start with the first 3 songs. I actually like the singing on Time, but not the long ass intro at its beginning. The Great Gig in the Sky is better than most of these other songs and its just hootin and hollerin for 4 minutes. I didnt like the long guitar run in the middle of Money. The transition between Us and Them and Any Colour You Like was smooth. I liked Eclipsw, but for the life of me I cant understand why they added 30 seconds of silence at the end. Saved: Us and Them, Eclipse HM: The Great Gig In the Sky
highly overrated- maybe i wouldn't be so harsh if i didn't have such high expectations, but it was a tad underwhelming
Personally not a big fan of the album.
Didn't quite like it, it seems kinda boring. Maybe listening to this while very stoned would be a different experience.
This is the point where Pink Floyd loses my interest. I don't like David Gilmour's guitar style, and the songs feel drawn-out, taking a long time to get anywhere While I enjoy long, gradual compositions in post-rock, Dark Side of the Moon and Pink Floyd's approach in general don't resonate with me. I don't mind the Syd Barrett era of Floyd, but the Gilmour era always just felt like a man having a wank on his guitar.
Really not my cup of tea. Felt like I was in an episode of a TV show in the 70s. Yet to make it all the way through
Not the worst Pink Floyd album … but still pretty terrible
pink floyd really isn't for me man
I know everyone raves about this album, and when I was at school everyone in my class was talking about it, but I never got into PF, so yesterday was the 1st time I’d ever listened to the whole album- and, we’ll I quite liked a couple of songs, that was it…..
Worthy of all the hype?? Ehh
Damn not a good album to start the new year. My heart sank, however I pressed on. And it’s not as bad as I thought. Clearly the band were missing Syd’s creativity by this stage, it’s also lacking in humour or self-awareness. Much of it is world weary woe is me isn’t life hard when you’re a rock star moaning. However there are some good ideas and pleasant keyboardy bits or sound collages at the beginnings of tracks until the excruciating vocals or clodhopping guitars kick in.
Everything that made this album revolutionary is dated enough now that it doesn't really make an impact
A unique mix of genres - spacey, jazzy, a little bit reggae in places... There's some fantastic instrumentals on this album, particularly the guitar and saxophone solos. I feel like I should have listened on big speakers or headphones to do it justice. It was an interesting listen but I didn't find the songs very memorable.
Widely revered, The Dark Side of the Moon left me admiring its craft more than feeling much of anything, ultimately coming across a bit blah.
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I think a little too instrumental for me. Like the vibe but not sure if I’d go back and listen to much of it again.
I really do not like Pink Floyd
To me this is very boring.
Listened to this twice through today. Still don’t fully appreciate the prog rock through lines and funky noises. Also can’t listen to this and not think of the wizard of oz connection now. 2/5 stars, Pink Floyd just isn’t for me.
Ok this is a really good example of the point I was trying to make in my review for Highway 61 Revisited. I simply cannot connect with Pink Floyd. I know I know I know this album is a masterpiece for many people, and I kind of want to be able to enjoy this like other people seem to, in the same way I'm vaguely envious of people who love smoking pot. But to me this album feels oddly soulless. I think that's the best way I can describe my reaction to this. It's immediately forgettable to me, the songs just don't sink in. What is the mystery of the soul connection with music? Do different people just vibrate on different frequencies and the genius of music is connecting with your particular existential frequency at the right time and place? Is it just that my father hates prog rock ("too many notes, too much instrumental technique, there's no accounting for taste and this tastes like throw up to me") and so I too must shun all prog rock and instead crave the mournful sounds of foghorns across a dark and dreary New England coastline? In any case, I didn't hate listening to this, but I won't ever listen to it again and I already forgot the songs.
as an incorrigible hater of almost all things psychedelic, i expected this to be a painful revisit, but it's not so bad. haven't listened to it in over 15 years. time is nice, brain damage is alright, a few other songs were tolerable but not anything i'd go out of my way to re-listen to.
I'm giving it a 2. That's right boomers, I don't like your precious prog rock bullshit. Come at me.
*Insert Principal Skinner "No, it's the children who are wrong" meme* I think I largely have fairly middle of the road takes. Usually, when things are highly regarded, I like them. I don't try to force myself to enjoy things that are popular, but I also don't try to be contrarian; the only thing worse than liking stuff just because other people like it is hating stuff just because other people like it. With that preface out of the way, I submit to you that Pink Floyd is not so much a band to me as they are a t-shirt brand. To me, Pink Floyd's entire career is like a concept album where the concept is "boring as shit" and every lead vocal sounds like it's being wheezed out by one of those cartoon wizards in a blue robe covered in stars and shit. Of all the albums that show up on every single "greatest albums" list, there is none that I find more alienating than this one. You cannot find me a thing I have attempted to listen to more while enjoying it less. Flashback to less than a week ago, when I gushed over Patti Smith for, as I put it, "liberat[ing] us from the tyranny of masturbatory prog rock bullshit." This album is incapable of penetrating my consciousness. I've heard the whole thing 900 goddamn times and cannot hum you a bar of a single song that didn't get overplayed on classic rock radio. I want you to imagine my brain as the prism on the album cover and this album is the light... Except rather than going through the prism and making a rainbow, it just bounces right the fuck off. I almost just wrote 😴 and called it a day. I guess if I had to pick a favorite song it would be the one where David Gilmour tunelessly moans like a ghost in the world’s most apathetic haunted house. I almost gave it a 1/5 but then I remembered that King Crimson album exists and I do like this album dramatically more than that one, in the same way that I'd like having all my teeth pulled out by a dentist dramatically more than I would hate having all my teeth knocked out by a UFC fighter. I also remembered I'm probably going to have to review a Rush album at some point (such review will read, in its entirety, "fart sounds + jack-off motions") so I can’t let my scale bottom out just yet.
Probably not a good sign for an album when you listen to it and the song stuck in your head afterwards is a cover version of a song that wasn’t on the album.
This overhyped drivel is way too far up its own backside. Nowhere near worthy of the reputation it enjoys. The band is trying so hard to sound epic, but a lot of it results in indistinct noise which goes on far too long. It’s boring. There, I said it. I have to commend a few of the bass lines. Some really good rhythm work gives an extra star, but the vocals are never more than average. “The Great Gig In The Sky” is hard to listen to; although the backing music is solid at times (not as intricate as it seem though), the only vocals on offer are random voice clips of men saying random statements and a histrionic woman who shrieks wildly for 3 minutes, like she is being stabbed over and over. It’s not enjoyable. You will know after you listen that these guys were talented musicians, but they forgot the essence of music: to entertain. They are so caught up in sounding epic that the songs are not songs, it’s just a series of loud, pretentious sounds with no structure and no purpose. I wanted to like it, but I couldn’t. There is much better music out there; I don’t feel the desire to ever listen again and I probably won’t.
i second what jaimie said
Apple Music reliably informed me that this is “a little like puberty” - which is fair, as I can’t say I much enjoyed puberty either.
I assumed this was going to be Money plus 37ish minutes of nonsense, but no! It's Money and Brain Damage plus 33ish minutes of nonsense! Would get a 2.5, but... 2/5
Büro, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Habe kein LSD intus, daher nix.
Not for me. Probably best enjoyed while skagging at an afters at 5am.
So nice to listen to an album where they’ve had the time to make what they want.
I liked this more than I thought I would but also didn't like it all that much
Would hear some songs again but not the whole thing
I do not like Dark Side of the Moon, and think it is highly overrated.
Speak to Me : Une introduction assez vide, qui semble plus être un simple prélude pour préparer l’auditeur à la suite de l’album. Breathe (In the Air) : Ambiance chill, mais ce n’est vraiment pas mon style. Ni le chant ni l’instrumentation ne me séduisent. On the Run : Ce morceau ne m’a pas particulièrement marqué, il passe un peu inaperçu pour moi. Time : Je n’aime pas du tout l’intro, qui dure trop longtemps selon moi — deux minutes avant d’entrer vraiment dans le morceau, c’est long. Par contre, la suite est sympa, c’est pour l’instant ma préférée parmi les titres que j’ai écoutés. The Great Gig in the Sky : Je connais bien ce morceau, mais honnêtement, ce qui me plaît le plus, c’est la voix féminine, le reste ne me touche pas autant. Money : L’instrumental est sympa, et la guitare apporte vraiment un coup de boost appréciable. Us and Them : Ce morceau pourrait parfaitement figurer dans ma playlist pour m’endormir, le refrain est vraiment majestueux et apaisant. Le reste de l’album : Pas vraiment mémorable pour moi, rien qui ne m’ait particulièrement marqué.
Really the only context in which I'm familiar with this album is the thing where you play it at the same time as The Wizard of Oz and it weirdly lines up. Interesting to listen to without that accompaniment
Thought I must have been listening to a different album than everyone else. Really didn't rate it, didn't think it was anywhere near as good as people had made out and I doubt I'd go back to it.
A classic, for reasons that don’t resonate with me. Fine enough.
"The emperor is naked" This is mindnumbingly boring. And I dont need the sound effects to understand that "money" is about money and "time " is about time. Money is a pretty ok song though, and the art work on the cover is epic.
It’s not an album I love but I ended liking a couple from it; Best; Breathe & Us and Them Worst: on the run & the great gig in the sky I know I’m the odd one out; I honestly don’t understand why it’s loved
Just not a Pink Floyd fan. Favorites: the great gig in the sky Rank: 4/10
they shoulda packed it up when Syd quit, as Gilmour was a lousy replacement. they were a great space rock band but this album marks the beginning of a journey up their own ass. dull, painfully literal stuff. pick up Relics, a comp of their early singles and film work, instead.
boring
tops songs: eclipse, time, breathe feels a bit harsh to call this two star but not my genre
I have always been and always will be bored by this.
The first song is just construction noises and laughing it literally sounds like my brain when its having a mental illness episode Okay so second song, that is why pink floyd is associated with people who take drugs as a hippie way of living right? This feels like right out of the livingroom of a stoner. It is vibey though. What is with the random talking and stuff? I have no context so it feels like its supposed to be deep and meaningful but i can hear footsteps and what sounds like an annoucnement. It feels like we are in outerspace and i dont know why we are there (i checked the name and it says on the run....so i guess THAT is the context??) Okay this one is called Time please god don't let it be just 6 mins of a clock ticking or i might actually go insane good god the fucking clock noises scared me and both of the cats WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ALBUM??? Is this music???? I literally have no clue what is going on or why people would listen to this voluntarily. Idk if this is a test of paitence or what but i wanna turn it off so bad i am so bored. The guitar is....kinda vibey? Like a western style. THANK GOD SOME LYRICS. Is this Pink Floyd? Like singing. This doesnt sound like him somehow. OOOOOOh harmonies. I like the harmonies. Very funky guitar. The song is very poingnant i guess like the lyrics. Just a song about growing older. Random lady adlibbing over it is kinda cool. I like the lyric part of the songs. I don't think i am a fan of experimental music, i am finding. Okay i like the piano and the uhhhhhhh waaaooooo noise. MORE SPEAKING?? What is he saying bro. WAIT I KNOW THIS SONG!!! i heard it online lol. A lot of people used this on tiktok and shorts for a while. Its a gospel vibe?? I am so confused about it honestly. Pink Floyd what the fuck is going on. This lady sounds like she is just screaming. I looked up the lyrics because i wanted to know if i could read what the dude is saying but nope. Its got like 5 lines. Will this lady ever stop screaming? I like the major to minor changes in chords. Now its just major. Update, the lady is still screaming :) I think she will do that the whole song. Do people put this on out loud in their house? Listen to it through their headphones?? Why????? Its like, nothing but a lady doing high pitch scream singing. How is this enjoyable to people? I am weirdly mad about it lol. It feels all wrong. This isn't music. This is just noise. Art is subjective sure, but how can people call this music? I guess the instruments and vocals count, i am more talking about the tracks of clock chimes and the first one of contruction noises. TIME TO CHANGE THE VINYL SIDE. Omg wait we did this one in our music exam??? no way. I remember this from that. Oh god what genre was this we had to put down? I think we had to listen to either the time signature or was it the bass? I remember not liking this in the music exam either. I really don't like this album i am actually actively annoyed by it.
Ei mitään itselle. Oli itsellä myös näemmä ihan väärä kuva tästä pumpusta.
I’m just over it, so over it.
Too many fuckin horns
Too much self indulgent stuff in between. Not a great listen. Even the hits are kinda mid. Obviously some great stuff but as a whole… nah
this shit was boring and goofy
sooooo boring idk
Jeg har hørt det her album en 3-4 gange før. Endnu en gennemlytning har ikke rykket på min mening om det: Det er verdenshistoriens mest overvurderede album. DSotM er heldigvis ikke lige så dræbende langt som The Wall, til gengæld har det heller ikke en eneste sang jeg har lyst til at høre.
It’s just not for me.
Case in point, re: music I do not like. Annoys me, has always annoyed me, will always annoy me. Probably because I don't do drugs and never have, I guess. Two stars for its historical significance and inescapability, I guess.
Not really my type
Revolutionary for the time? Maybe, but it ain't winning me over.
You want to know the truth? I don't even completely hate this. What I do hate is that there is like 15 minutes of space-age noodling and video game noise between each song. Very few songs would be worth slogging through that mess to get to, and these songs are certainly not it. Money still totally sucks though.
Super weird noises. I understand why it’s so popular but it’s also kinda overrated, or maybe just the album cover is.
Not. My. Thing.
The first few songs remind me of Ross Gellar’s keyboard with weird synth sound effects. But the songs with actual musical traits are pretty good. I just don’t get the hype.
sure, at the time it was groundbreaking but now it just comes across as indulgent and a bit boring
ugly noises, no real music. Never wanna hear again
Felt like neverending jamming. I enjoyed some atmospheric bits and bobs, but found most of it to be drawn out nonsense. The longer the note, the more dread as Super Hans would say. I'm hoping some Floyd with Syd pops up later.
Money on riffi, josta voi olla kiitollinen: 7/8 ja kuulostaa sujuvalta. Tämän riffin lisäksi LP on täytetty kokeilulla, geneerisellä junnauksella, pikku pelottelulla. Kokonaisuus kiinnostaa suunnilleen yhden kuuntelun ajan.
I get its meant to be iconic but felt samey after a while.
Operated.
Oldie but not so goldie
Not bad. It was pleasant to listen to. I did not pay attention to the lyrics as much as I could have. Setting: WFH
Good songs hidden behind a load of sampling and solos. Would not want to listen to it again.
En kuule sitä mistä kaikki hehkutus kumpuaa. Siis ihan hyviä biisejä, mut ei vaan iske. Paikoin tylsää ja liian pitkiä kipaleita. Erikoista kilkuttelua siellä täällä.
Beyond overrated. Lacking in any kind of heart or soul 5/10
I hate PF
just dont get it
Amazing album. I don't like it.
I know this is popular, and I should like it. I can appreciate the tone, musicianship, production, but it's a very difficult listen for me.
I wish I liked this, I really do.
Wow! One of the big ones. In my generation (I was born in '79), talking about listening to Dark Side Of The Moon, is like teenagers talking about sex: Everyone talks about it, no one really tried it. The same can be said about Neil Gaimans comic "The Sandman" and Stanley Kubrics movie "2001: A space Odyssey". Across cultural media (movies, music, books etc) every generation has theese larger-than-life-works that most people from the same generation agrees on being some of the best art ever created. Often theese works are completely obscure to the following generations. I think it's because the consumption of cultural products is actually a creative effort. If a music album hits you in your youth and it resonates with you, it kinda becomes a part of your worldview, maybe even a part of your identity. This absorbtion of cultural products is timebound. It's a kind of zeitgeist, that can't be re-experienced by later generations. I think my generation's Dark Side of The Moon is Nirvanas "Nevermind". When I start to talk about Newermind with younger people they get the same distant stare in their eyes, as I have, when my uncle lectures me about The Dark Side of The Moon. I can appreciate what Pink Floyd did with "The Dark Side of the Moon", I can even enjoy the music. But I just don't feel it. Top track for me, no doubt: Money. Nb: The album cover is so iconic. As recognisable as the Batman logo. :)
I first came across this album after hearing that it syncs up perfectly with The Wizard of Oz (spoiler alert: it doesn't! Stop lying to yourself, it really fucking doesn't). So now, after hearing 646 supposedly essential albums, how does this one, separated from the pointless gimmicks fabricated by stoned, and obviously bored Floyd fans, stack up against the rest? Well, within it's 10 track, 42 minute run time, there are only like 4 actual songs, the rest is fillered with obnoxious noodling, pointless synth oscillations and the same crappy Kenny G style saxophone playing that made Wish You Were Here so vomit inducing. Shout out to Doris Troy, Lesley Duncan and Lisa Strike for providing the backing vocals on some of the songs, and being the only reason this album (barely) earns a second star.
I have listened to this several times and still don’t get it. I like a handful of their somgs but cannot enjoy a full album.
…maybe if I listened to it while I was high vs while I was stone cold sober getting ready for work?
I can see why some people will love this, but it's not for me
I haven't heard this album before and I could've continued that way
Top 10 most over rated albums of all time. I've never liked this album. It borders on being an ambient New Age album. Don't understand the attraction. Money and Time are good though... 2.
Mouais
Seeing all the hype for this album made me have quite high expectations for it. However, what is was was really nothing. Sweet, sweet nothings. I have never seen such love for such bland, bodyless music.
I was so excited to see this album come up as I have never heard it cover to cover. As a work of auditory art, absolutely timeless. As a musical album? Two good songs and a bunch of weird bullsh*t.
pretty artst. not something I would normally listen to
I mean. . .I've heard it all. . . It wasn't exactly interesting
Other than Money, there isn't a single song I would purposely pick out to play for myself, or anyone else, for that matter.
Cool sounds, but not my taste
Meh
Wankery pretension run amok. Why are the tracks, so needlessly long.
Maybe it’s because I’m a lyrics person or maybe I just didn’t get the concept but this was not good. I had high expectations for this since it’s one of the most well known rock albums but I was very disappointed
not really my thing
Coming back to this after hearing the rest of Pink Floyd's work is interesting. I am definitely not into Pink Floyd as much as I was when I was younger, Breathe is still one of the best psyc rock songs ever made. I think I just listened to this too much when I was younger to feel like it's higher than 3 stars.
Ok
I was quite surprised to find that I recognized nearly every song on this album! I've always wanted to give Pink Floyd a real chance, but I can't say that this album sparked much interest in me. None of the songs really stood out to me as noteworthy, and I don't enjoy when songs use sound effects/random noises in their instrumentation (there are exceptions when it is well done like with Gotye, but here it is just obnoxious. Referring to Money in particular). One thing they did do incredibly well is making the entire album blend together. I always appreciate when an album feels more like an experience than a random listing of tracks, and they pulled that off perfectly here. The low rating probably reflects more on my own taste in music than it does the actual quality of the album.
Bleh
I like myself some Psychedelic Rock however a bit boring in all. Money was a good song. 2/5
I know everyone thinks this is one of the best albums ever, but I just never liked it.
1 star for money, 1 star for the rest. Shite and I've never got them.
Clearly influential but boring
I've never understood pink floyd. I understand that a lot of other people love their work but i'm not one of them
What is this? Some kind of concept album? It sounds like Dire Straits on dope. The sounds are too much at once -- like a kitschy disco record or some Dave Matthews type shit. Tell me you like that soul vocal on The Great Gig in the Sky with a straight face. This one isn't as bad as Wish You Were Here (1 star) but its dorkier than The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (3 stars) so the rating I'm giving it nestles it rightfully between the two. And hopefully this is the last Pink Floyd record I have to listen to for a while.
Ik heb dit vroeger wel vaker geprobeerd te luisteren. En al heeft het een hoge kunstwaarde. Ik kom er niet doorheen. Hoogtepunt is de zang in Time. Je kijkt toch een beetje uit naar die stem op dit album.
Another one of those albums that feels like the emperor’s new clothes. If you admit you find it boring then you have zero taste in music and everyone will push you into the mud and make fun of you. So more people say they like it. It’s another concept album from the band but not as good as their others. There’s still good songs here and there’s a light show you can go see they’ve been milking for 80 years but make sure you’re high to listen or watch.
5/5 iconic Album cover. 2/5 vibes for me. Money is really good but the rest became a bit of a blob of sound to me at times. Some really clever use if stereo audio, and some.prog sounds I know I like better in different albums from the period. A bit surprised by how little I liked what most would consider a Seminole album.
I just can't seem to get into Pink Floyd. I honestly don't get it. A lot of people approach this album with sheer reverence, but it seems to me that there's plenty of random filler and blase songs in here, along with random weirdness. I like some of the instrumental stuff. The Great Gig in the Sky is good. Please stop giving me prog rock.
meh
classic but anxious?
Ugh. Sucks and I hate it. Props to a really cool and iconic album cover though. That saves it from a 1 star rating.
I'm so bored.
boring tbh
Not a huge fan no vibes just sounds
mehh
Pink floyd never did it for me and this hasnt changed...
What's all fuss about? Boring. Pretentious.
He de reconocer que es un buen disco, de un buen grupo, de buenos músicos, con creatividad, genialidad compositiva y con gran importancia histórica. Pero... Vahhh
Production: 9/20 Songwriting: 7/20 Innovation: 14/20 Bangers: 0/20 Emotional response: 3/20 =33 Piss off Dorothy
not great with hearing aid. should listen again over speakers
It's difficult to properly listen to something we've all heard a billion times before. We've all been told this is one of the greatest albums so many times, yet I don't think I like it that much to be honest. My brother loves this album. I can take it or leave it. I mean, it's okay, inoffensive enough, but I never understood why it gets so much praise heaped upon it. Maybe familiarity has bred comtempt here.
the most overrated band ever and they are taking you all for fools
Världens mest överskattade album från världens mest överskattade band. Ett konstprojekt som helt enkelt inte är särskilt spännande. Väldigt daterad ljudbild. Svag sånginsats. Låtar som bara pågår utan riktning eller sväng. Samplar vardagsljud för att någon upptäckt samplingstekniken och tycker det är roligt snarare än att det tillför något. Obegripligt att detta hyllas. Vad är det som någonsin varit progressivt med detta. Mossigt och trist! Även om omslaget är lätt igenkännligt så är det faktiskt rätt fult.
Boring
Absolutely terrible production and little to no effort in the songs Do not recommend if you don't like slow songs that lack effort and production Though this album is seen as a "timeless classic" for me this will only be memorable because of how bad it is Though people may adore this album and pink Floyd's music this album isn't for me which leads me to giving it a 1/10 as it had potential but didn't reach it at all It's like shit to my ears
I’m forever hearing about what a classic this album is, the best album of all time.It came out when I was in high school and barely registered except for a stoner guy who wore colorful knitted vests. For me there’s nothing you can do with this album. You can’t dance to it or sing along to it but is perfect for a weed induced laser show.
I’ve basically been conditioned not to like this album. let me explain: One day, my friends and I smoked a lot of weed. Maybe a bit too much. Maybe it was some bad stuff… or maybe it wasn’t even pure weed? I honestly don’t know. At some point, someone decided it would be a great idea to put this album on. I remember sinking deeper and deeper into a spinning chair, getting dizzier by the minute, until I eventually threw up - all to the soundtrack of On the Run. To this day, I can’t listen to this album without feeling a strong urge to puke all over the place. My brain clearly filed it under “trauma-inducing cues” On the plus side, it actually gets a lot better on the B-side (which we apparently never made it to on that day because we were too busy scrubbing vomit off the floor before my friend’s mum came home) So I’ll leave you with this question: What rating do you give an album that literally makes you throw up?
Long and boring.
someone described it as a cacophony of nonsense and i couldn’t agree more let’s stop pretending to like things that are bad
Incidental music and nothing more. I dont understand the hype.more emperors clothes I guess
This album is a crime against humanity. The worst thing ever done by humans
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To be honest Roger Walters has completely destroyed my opinion of the Floyd because the first thing I think of them is. Eurgh. Having tried to be unbiased listening to this I’d say it’s an interesting piece of prog rock, I think they were innovative for their time but I think they have since been clearly surpassed certainly in terms of pushing the boat out and I’d hazard a guess that there were other equally experimental prog bands of the time who didn’t quite receive the same mainstream glory. I like their early use of sampling speech and Time and Great Gig in The Sky are highlights for me. Overall I’d say this is a fairly boring record end to end and the Floyd are highly overrated. I’d rate this as a 2.5/3 if I could really be unbiased but just because I want my own tiny tiny tiny tiny bit of own back it’s a zero for me Roger. Eat that.
Not for me
Pink Floyd is the audio equivalent of a black light poster. 1 star.
Christ, it was so easy to be considered influential in the 70s.
overrated
Il existe des albums que l'histoire de la musique a décidé d'ériger en totems intouchables, en monuments sacrés devant lesquels chaque nouvelle génération est sommée de venir se prosterner. "The Dark Side of the Moon" de Pink Floyd est sans doute l'exemple le plus flagrant de cette dictature du bon goût institutionnalisé. Encensé, vénéré, disséqué à l'infini par une armée de critiques et de fans convertis, cet album représente pourtant tout ce que je déteste : une décennie engluée dans sa propre suffisance, un genre musical boursouflé de prétention et un groupe qui, à deux exceptions près, ne m'a jamais inspiré que le plus profond des ennuis. Pour résumer, "The Dark Side of the Moon" est un interminable tunnel de quarante-trois minutes éclairé par les néons blafards de la complaisance artistique. Mais commençons par le coeur du problème : l'album lui-même. "The Dark Side of the Moon" est un concept-album, nous dit-on. Un disque qui explore les thèmes universels de la vie, du temps, de l'argent, de la folie. Vaste programme. Malheureusement, l'ambition ne fait pas le génie. En lieu et place d'une réflexion poignante, on a droit à une succession de cartes postales sonores sans âme, de vignettes pseudo-philosophiques qui énoncent des platitudes avec une gravité risible. Le tic-tac des horloges sur "Time" ? Une allégorie sur la fuite du temps d'une finesse digne d'un élève de terminale. Le son des caisses enregistreuses sur "Money" ? Une critique anticapitaliste si évidente qu'elle en devient inoffensive. Tout est surligné, appuyé, comme si le groupe craignait que son auditoire ne soit pas assez intelligent pour saisir la "profondeur" du propos. La musique, loin de sauver ce naufrage conceptuel, ne fait que l'aggraver. Chaque morceau s'étire en longueurs insupportables, chaque solo de guitare de Gilmour, bien que techniquement irréprochable, suinte une propreté clinique qui me laisse de marbre. C'est lisse, c'est poli, c'est désespérément propre. Où est la fureur ? Où est la faille ? "The Great Gig in the Sky", avec ses vocalises stratosphériques, est le paroxysme de ce maniérisme : une performance vocale impressionnante, certes, mais totalement vide de substance émotionnelle à mes oreilles. On dirait une démonstration technique, pas un cri du cœur. L'utilisation systématique de bruitages – battements de cœur, rires, dialogues enregistrés – loin de créer une immersion, ne fait que renforcer l'artificialité de l'ensemble. C'est un décor de théâtre, une reconstitution sonore méticuleuse mais sans vie. Vient ensuite le groupe. Pink Floyd, pour moi, est un vaisseau fantôme. Une entité froide, distante, presque désincarnée. Leurs mélodies planantes ne m'évoquent aucune image, leurs textes sentencieux ne provoquent aucune introspection. Ils sont les architectes d'une musique cérébrale, mathématique, qui s'adresse à l'intellect mais oublie totalement les tripes. Les deux seules et unique fois où le groupe a réussi à m'interpeller, c'est avec l'étincelle chaotique de l'ère Barrett et avec l'album "The Wall" car pour la première fois et depuis bien longtemps, la façade s'était fissurée et derrière la technique, on sentait une névrose bien réelle, une colère sourde, une douleur palpable. Cette distance, cette froideur, est l'apanage même du genre que Pink Floyd a contribué à définir : le rock progressif. Et quel genre insupportable ! Le "prog" est le triomphe de la forme sur le fond, de la technique sur l'émotion. C'est une musique de bons élèves, obsédés par les mesures asymétriques, les structures complexes et les suites à tiroirs. C'est pompeux, car cela se drape dans les oripeaux de la musique classique pour se donner une légitimité artistique. C'est prétentieux, car cela prétend "élever" le rock au-delà de sa condition primaire. Mais le rock'n'roll, dans son essence, n'a pas besoin d'être "élevé". Il est une énergie brute, un cri primal. Le rock progressif, en voulant le complexifier, l'a stérilisé. "The Dark Side of the Moon" est l'archétype de cette dérive : un disque qui a honte de ses racines rock et qui se cache derrière des arrangements orchestraux de pacotille et des ambitions philosophiques de comptoir. Enfin, il est impossible de juger cet album sans le replacer dans sa décennie, les années 70. Une décennie qui, pour moi, symbolise une impasse musicale. Entre les dinosaures du rock progressif comme Pink Floyd, Yes ou Genesis, et le soft-rock californien, la musique populaire s'était embourgeoisée. Elle était devenue une industrie de l'ennui, produisant des disques surproduits, interminables et parfaitement inoffensifs. Heureusement, dans l'ombre de ces mastodontes, la colère grondait. L'explosion punk de 1976-1977 n'est pas un hasard. C'est une réaction épidermique, violente et nécessaire, contre tout ce que "The Dark Side of the Moon" représente. Les punks ont jeté les longs solos de guitare à la poubelle, ils ont dynamité les concepts-albums fumeux, ils ont remplacé la gravité par l'urgence. Un morceau des Sex Pistols ou des Ramones contient plus de vie, de rage et de pertinence sociale dans ses trois minutes abrasives que dans la totalité de la discographie de Pink Floyd. En conclusion, "The Dark Side of the Moon" n'est pas pour moi une expérience musicale, c'est une épreuve d'endurance. C'est le son d'une époque qui se regarde le nombril, d'un genre qui se perd en conjectures et d'un groupe qui a troqué l'âme contre la perfection technique. Cet album est une prison sonore, un chef-d'oeuvre de l'ennui dont le succès planétaire reste, à mes yeux, l'un des plus grands mystères de l'histoire de la musique. Quand je l'écoute, je ne vois pas la face cachée de la lune ; je vois simplement le vide intersidéral d'une musique qui a oublié l'essentiel : faire vibrer. Et pour cela, ma note ne peut être autre qu'un cinglant et définitif 1 sur 5.
Beautifully recorded pompous tosh
A band and album that manages to be pretty much the precise opposite of everything I love about music. Still, quite a skill to make music this complex and experimental sound so boring and joyless.
This is the 2001 space odessy for me.
Ett konstprojekt som helt enkelt inte är särskilt spännande. Väldigt daterad ljudbild. Svag sånginsats. Låtar som bara pågår utan riktning eller sväng. Samplar vardagsljud för att någon upptäckt teknik och tycker det är roligt snarare än att det tillför något. Obegripligt att detta hyllas. Vad är det som någonsin varit progressivt med detta. Mossigt och trist! Även om omslaget är lätt igenkännligt så är det faktiskt rätt fult.
Pink Floyd is shit.
Was für ein schlechtes Album… die ersten vier Lieder sind bloß irgendein Gedudel… mir rätselhaft, wie dieses Album sooooo toll sein soll
I expected more from it
Dark indeed. Listening to this just made me feel a bit miserable. Overblown indulgent rock stuff. Not for me.
I was told it was supposed to be one of the best albums ever. Sounded like a load of noise, nothing special about it in the slightest
Terrible
There was nothing I liked about this album. But maybe that’s because I wasn’t stoned when I listened to it…
Meh. Watered down prog for the mainstream
Initial thoughts: psychedelic and performative. Songs 1-3 are pretty much just sounds? I recall like 3 songs that have lyrics, but they’re separated by tracks/intros/putrid that seem to blend into each other. The lyrical songs don’t really standout for me. Ultimately, this isn’t an album I’d listen to again.
Annoying
Blocked
Using this space to talk about Janis Joplin instead. Music that really moves you, stirs feeling. Lot of good tracks, what an album (Pearl)
Sounded like the 70's would have felt. Glad I wasn't there. It had a very drugged vibe. Not feeling it.
pretentious crap
I guess it had its time, right now I think i am not able to take enough substances to make me enjoy it
Shit
Rrrrruuubbbish!!!!
Fucking boring. Not for me
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Amazing!!!
Though not as deep as Wish You Were Here, nor as vibrant as Animals, The Dark Side of the Moon was an infinitely entertaining and ever enjoyable exploration into the sound that would make Pink Floyd a household name. I love this album.
Great record
Amazing album!