Pink Floyd | The Official Site 2010s 21 January 1973 Session singer Clare Torry recorded her vocal for the song The Great Gig In The Sky at Abbey Road. The song was included on Pink Floyd's next album, The Dark Side Of The Moon. Work continued on the album at Abbey Road throughout the month. 12 February 1973 Pink Floyd played the first of eight performances with Roland Petit's Ballets de Marseille at the Palais des Sports in Paris. They performed One Of These Days, Careful With That Axe, Eugene, Obscured By Clouds, When You're In and Echoes to accompany Roland Petit's choreographed ballet. 19 February 1973 Pink Floyd staged three days of full production rehearsals at London's Rainbow Theatre in preparation for their forthcoming North American tour. 27 February 1973 EMI held a press reception for The Dark Side Of The Moon at the London Planetarium. Only Richard Wright attended the event; the other band members refused in protest at what they believed to be an inferior sound system brought in by EMI.

4 March 1973 Pink Floyd began a 16-date US tour at Dane County Memorial Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin. The band were joined by saxophonist Dick Parry and backing vocalists Nawasa Crowder, and Phyllis and Mary Ann Lindsey. Their set list featured the whole of The Dark Side Of The Moon plus Obscured By Clouds, When You're In and Careful With That Axe, Eugene, with an encore of One Of These Days. The tour closed at Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium, when the US promoter cancelled a scheduled show in Florida believing that a Santana show in town would drastically reduce Pink Floyd's audience. 10 March 1973 The Dark Side Of The Moon was released in the US. Tracklisting: Speak To Me; Breathe (In The Air); On The Run; Time; The Great Gig In The Sky; Money; Us And Them; Any Colour You Like; Brain Damage; Eclipse. The album gave Pink Floyd their first No. 1 chart placing. 23 March 1973 The Dark Side Of The Moon was released in the UK. It reached No. 2 in the charts.

7 May 1973 Money (B-side: Any Colour You Like) was released in the US as a single and reached No. 13 in the charts. 18 & 19 May 1973 Pink Floyd played two nights at Earls Court Exhibition Hall, with additional personnel Dick Parry on saxophones and backing vocalists Liza Strike and Vicki Brown (mum of solo artist and future Floyd backing singer Sam Brown). The set list included the whole of The Dark Side Of The Moon. 16 June 1973 Pink Floyd returned to the US for their second American tour of the year. They played 13 shows, starting at New York's Saratoga Performing Arts Center and ending at Florida's Tampa Stadium. The band set a new record gross at New Jersey's Roosevelt Stadium by making $110,565 for a single performance. 1 October 1973 Pink Floyd began an intermittent 20 days of recording at Abbey Road studios, working on what became known as the 'Household Objects Project'. The group, assisted by engineer Alan Parsons, used elastic bands, wine glasses, matchsticks and sticky tape in place of conventional instruments to make music.

4 November 1973 Pink Floyd played two shows at London's Rainbow Theatre, as a benefit for ex-Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt. 5 December 1973 The Australian cult surf movie Crystal Voyager premiered in Melbourne. The film featured Pink Floyd's Echoes as part of its soundtrack. Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon - Music on Google Play The Dark Side of the Moon Explicit Description The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. The album built on ideas explored in earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions following the departure of founding member and principal contributor, Syd Barrett, in 1968 that characterised their earlier work. It thematically explores conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's deteriorating mental state. Developed during live performances, an early version was premiered several months before recording began; new material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road in London. The group used some advanced recording techniques at the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops.

Analogue synthesizers were prominent in several tracks, and snippets from recorded interviews with Pink Floyd's road crew and others provided philosophical quotations throughout. Engineer Alan Parsons was responsible for many distinctively notable sonic aspects and the recruitment of non-lexical singer Clare Torry. The Great Gig in the Sky 4:43 1 12 Austen Ruzicka Must be experienced This album is a profound statement on the human condition, beginning with a heart beat and ending with a heart beat fading out, taking you everywhere in between. It's basically a 45 minute song, each piece is meant to be listened to in order and they flow together well. "Time", and "Money" are the only two songs that stand well on their own. An essential album, and a cautionary tale not to waste the limited time we are given. Devin Atha Absolute garbage Can not believe this has as many five stars as it does, this album and all of pink Floyd is utter trash. Why don't these old guys listen to REAL music, like my chemical romance omg like honestly kys Lisa Wms Great music from another epoch! Younger people with no point of reference label this garbage.

Us baby boomers experienced a wide range of genres: from Beethoven & Chopin; Military & marching music, Ragtime, Blues & Jazz; Rogers & Hart or Hammerstein; George & Ira Gershwin; Goodman, Nat King Cole, Crooners, et. al.; Country, Folk, Doo Wop, Rock 'n Roll, California surf, British Invasion, Rock, Pop, Motown, Bubblegum, Acid, etc. Our exposure is so broad & sophisticated that we understand it's about your lack of appreciation, not the album. Omar Vazquez Superb! This probably has to be favorite album yet! It gives you the perfect mix of calm-melancholy that we all desperately need some days. Cheers to Pink Floyd. Aidan Hartley Absolutely incredible Best album i have ever listened to by far. I cant believe that anyone could possibly say anything bad about this album. Unless you are crazy. Just spectacular, amazing, and im not even a huge pink floyd fan, and this just completely blew me away. AMAZING. Joel Pockrus A masterpiece! 1 of the best ever. If you don't get it doesn't mean it's garbage. Just means you're an idiot!

User reviews Austen Ruzicka July 1, 2016 Must be experienced This album is a profound statement on the human condition, beginning with a heart beat and ending with a heart beat fading out, taking you everywhere in between. It's basically a 45 minute song, each piece is meant to be listened to in order and they flow together well. "Time", and "Money" are the only two songs that stand well on their own. An essential album, and a cautionary tale not to waste the limited time we are given. Full Review Devin Atha January 10, 2016 Absolute garbage Can not believe this has as many five stars as it does, this album and all of pink Floyd is utter trash. Why don't these old guys listen to REAL music, like my chemical romance omg like honestly kys Full Review Lisa Wms July 26, 2016 Great music from another epoch! Younger people with no point of reference label this garbage.

Us baby boomers experienced a wide range of genres: from Beethoven & Chopin; Military & marching music, Ragtime, Blues & Jazz; Rogers & Hart or Hammerstein; George & Ira Gershwin; Goodman, Nat King Cole, Crooners, et. al.; Country, Folk, Doo Wop, Rock 'n Roll, California surf, British Invasion, Rock, Pop, Motown, Bubblegum, Acid, etc. Our exposure is so broad & sophisticated that we understand it's about your lack of appreciation, not the album. Full Review Omar Vazquez January 6, 2016 Superb! This probably has to be favorite album yet! It gives you the perfect mix of calm-melancholy that we all desperately need some days. Cheers to Pink Floyd. Full Review Aidan Hartley October 26, 2016 Absolutely incredible Best album i have ever listened to by far. I cant believe that anyone could possibly say anything bad about this album. Unless you are crazy. Just spectacular, amazing, and im not even a huge pink floyd fan, and this just completely blew me away. AMAZING.

Full Review Joel Pockrus November 24, 2016 A masterpiece! 1 of the best ever. If you don't get it doesn't mean it's garbage. Just means you're an idiot! Full Review Bailey Hartrich September 17, 2016 Genius. There's a reason this is in the top three best selling albums of all time. Not to mention it holds the record for Most Weeks Spent in the Billboard Top 100. So give it a chance and listen ALL the way through. Full Review Brian Jerry June 8, 2016 I can't download it into my other music files This album is supposed to flow continuously. Instead there's a pause between each song. Full Review Mason Crance February 22, 2016 Gr8 My dumb girlfriend thinks this is some garbage and that it's only good when you're high, but I think it's really good even when you're not! It's better when you're high though Full Review Kevin Kuo March 11, 2016 Amazing! Easily one of, if not, my favorite album. Just put on a pair of good headphones, lean back, and close your eyes.

Get ready for a magical and psychedelic ride! Full Review Gabo Lugo August 19, 2016 The best progressive rock album ever. Still fresh, still awesome. Never get tired of listening to this master piece. Pink Floyd's best. Full Review PAC-BEAR Starks September 25, 2016 Classic A great album from 1973, It was ahead of its time and there is no wonder why this album has stayed on the charts since then. Full Review Joshua Goldsmith February 5, 2016 One of the best For full, in depth sound and music, look no further. Pink Floyd is a group of musical genius. One that will be around for ages to come. Full Review Vic Murauskos August 12, 2016 RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL WE WERE THER WE TOOK THE EIGHT ROW CENTER IT WAS GENERAL ADMISSION KARL DOUG JOHN ROY PAUL GLEN myself Full Review Derp_ Games February 23, 2016 If you are on LSD listening to this album...

Wow...if you listen to this album on LSD it will have more meaning than everything...it basically tells you the meaning of life :P Full Review Lloyd Brown November 1, 2016 Dark Side of the Moon If I had the chance to travel in outer space, this would be the record I would bring for the ride. Master Muzik January 13, 2016 Muzik Luva 1of the BEST lps ever made,by the best group that ever played. PiNk FlOyD. T.Y.V.M. Full Review John Farris November 27, 2016 Man, a classics classic... top of the line stuff! Some of the best cosmically connected zone out music out there... for sure! Love it! Carlos Morales May 24, 2016 Pink Floyd -DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Genius Album will enjoy until the day that I die!!! 😉 Yandi Sigenu November 7, 2016 Not s single bad moment or misstep throughout the record. Timeless classic. hulk Oficial1 July 19, 2016 Psychedelic Wow!

Touch the sky wasn't that good before... Full Review Matthew Cormack October 19, 2016 This album was one of the first I bought with my own money yea I was more than likely stoned , not my fravourite but I won't turn it down Mason Leonard April 18, 2016 Listened to it for the first time today. It's just one of those albums. David Exum January 24, 2016 Greatest rock album ever! Just trust me.... Brad Griffin January 31, 2016 Nothing Better My favourite album for 42 years. Full Review scott cheney September 28, 2016 Timeless masterpiece. My personal favorite tracks are 'Breath' & 'Us & Them', though the whole album is a work of art. David Gilmour, you are a legend! Grant Evans April 17, 2016 Very Best! This Pink Floyd album was their very best.

Abby Richmond January 5, 2017 mind blown amazing this generation of music has so much more meaning and depth than now CM HUANTE February 5, 2016 Love this album I play it to.lul me to sleep. Eli Kramer July 29, 2016 Genius It's an amazing album from start to finish, Marijuana makes it the best thing ever though richard hall March 28, 2016 Dark Side of the Moon All time classic rock bands ever Rock Star November 5, 2016 Good damn album! Alan parsons helped with this record, need I say more? J.R. Sanford February 3, 2016 One of the best This band is the most creative group to exist!! Stephen Rodwell March 12, 2016 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon Ted Berry January 20, 2016 Point pleasant beach memories, 1981...!

Dustin Mullens June 25, 2016 Fantastic Tan outta tan Jaws2817 December 28, 2016 Greatest Album of all Time This is more than just music, it's philiosophy, human morality. It's. Masterpiece. Samantha Crafford November 8, 2016 Pink Floyd Damn goodnight Full Review December 13, 2016 Love it so much I love old music, even though it so the 20th century, I love old rock, keeping it old school Pink Floyd | thebestmusicyouhaveneverheard thebestmusicyouhaveneverheard Posted in: Forty Years Ago Today , Monday Music Matinee , Rock History . Tagged: Pink Floyd . Leave a comment Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd’s eight album, was released in March of 1973. It was an immediate hit and is still a major seller forty years later. It has sold over 50 million albums so far and was on the Billboard Album chart for 741 straight weeks! It was, is, and always will be one of the best albums of all time.

Listen to Us and Them and then hang around and watch a great documentary on the making of Dark Side of the Moon. The Making Of Dark Side Of The Moon Documentary Posted in: Forty Years Ago Today , Rock History . Tagged: Johnny Winter , Led Zeppelin , Pink Floyd , Todd Rundgren , Tower of Power . Leave a comment Although Dark Side of the Moon is the most widely remember album released in March of 1973, there were actually quite a few additional albums of note that were released that month. My overview of a few those albums is provided below. I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane. *********************************** Johnny Winter – Still Alive and Well Still Alive and Well was a comeback album of sorts for Johnny. It served as a notice to the world that he was still a force to be reckoned with after he recovered from an addiction to heroin and the album kicked ass. I loved the single of the same name which was written for Johnny by Rick Derringer. Rick had played with Johnny earlier in the 1970s as part of And. Let’s listen….. *********************************** Tower of Power – Tower of Power Tower of Power was an Oakland, California based, horn-driven, R&B band.

They released their self titled first album in March of 1973. That album produced a number of hit singles and kicked off a successful career that continues today. Interesting enough, the Tower of Power horn section achieved a level of fame as a stand-alone unit by playing on a huge variety of albums from other artists in the 1970s. The song I have for you today is a great 1973 live Soul Train performance of their hit single So Very Hard To Go. *********************************** Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy Houses of the Holy was Led Zeppelin’s fifth album. With Led Zeppelin IV already achieving legendary status, Houses of the Holy did not disappoint. It is the source of multiple great additions to the Led Zeppelin catalog and, strangely enough, the song for which the album is named did not make it onto the album. (It finally appeared on Physical Graffiti their next album) To give you a taste of Houses of the Holy, I offer up a wonderful live performance of Song Remains The Same, the lead off track for the album.

Coming Attractions – If you liked the Song Remains The Same video above, be sure to tune in next Sunday for our Sunday Sessions #3 Post which will feature the entire concert that the above video was extracted from. *********************************** There are a other albums from March 1973 (see below) that I have already discussed in earlier posts. If you are interested, I encourage you to use the blog search feature to find and read these earlier posts. Todd Rundgren – A Wizard A True Star Beck, Bogert, and Appice – Beck, Bogert, and Appice PINK FLOYD – ” Dark Side Of The Moon ” Released 43 Years Ago today 10th March1973 | The Fat Angel Sings The Fat Angel Sings Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 570 other followers PINK FLOYD – ” Dark Side Of The Moon ” Released 43 Years Ago today 10th March1973 Posted: March 10, 2016 in ALBUMS , MUSIC 0 Pink Floyd released their historic LP “Dark Side Of The Moon” on March 10th, 1973. It would go on to become the 3rd biggest album ever with over 45 millions sold to date. In 2013, The Dark Side of the Moon was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. It set new standards for recorded music. Happy 43rd Birthday to . It was the Pink Floyd’s eighth studio album The Dark Side of The Moon It remained in the US charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in history. With an estimated 45 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd’s most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide.

No-one in March 1973 could have imagined that an album released in that month would still be thrilling listeners 43 years later, but it’s true. Pink Floyd, in conjunction with EMI, have undertaken an overhaul of their catalogue, and for the first time, allowed us to see part of their creative process, by compiling a 6-disc box set of ‘Dark Side’ including various multi-channel mixes, much memorabilia and restored screen films from their live show, but, most importantly, a newly-mixed live concert from 1974 and a disc of alternative versions and outtakes. Generally regarded as Pink Floyd’s masterwork, the qualities of The Dark Side Of The Moon have perhaps been taken for granted in recent years, but a return to it with fresh ears reminds the listener of its strengths. Part of its enduring appeal is the quality of the material, there simply isn’t a bad track on it, with a listening experience greater even than the sum of the parts.

As to its subject matter, Roger Waters said in 2003 that it was “An expression of political, philosophical, humanitarian empathy that was desperate to get out.” He said it was about “all the pressures and difficulties and questions that crop up in one’s life and create anxiety, and the potential you have to solve them or choose the path that you?re going to walk.” The band initially convened in December 1971 and January 1972 at Decca’s West Hampstead Studios in Broadhurst Gardens, London and then at a warehouse owned by The Rolling Stones at 47 Bermondsey Street, South London. One of the musical elements, to become “Us And Them”, already existed, having begun life as a rejected musical sequence by Richard Wright for Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point. Another, to become Brain Damage, was a piece of Roger Waters‘, created in the writing sessions of the Meddle album in January of that year. In the pre-Internet age, it wasn’t too commercially suicidal to preview new material before its release, so Floyd were able to knock the album into shape over several months of road work.

The first full-length performance was at the Guildhall in Portsmouth, England, on January 21st, 1972, after which almost the entire year was spent with the band performing Dark Side live, interspersed with visits to Abbey Road studios from May onwards to work on individual songs. With Alan Parsons engineering, the first version of the Dark Side album was mixed in December 1972. On the box set, check out the first mix on CD 6 of The Dark Side Of The Moon, which is quite revealing about the gestation of the final version. Speak To Me as a track was a late addition, the album originally starting only with a backwards piano chord leading straight into Breathe (In The Air). The most obvious change is to The Great Gig In The Sky, which, before the addition of Clare Torry’s vocal performance in January 1973, was comprised mainly of Richard Wright’s organ accompanied by, in concert, taped religious incantations and in the first mix, voices of the Apollo 17 space mission. At the time, it was known as The Mortality Sequence or The Religious Sequence.

It shows that all the band’s subsequent decisions on the album were creatively correct, including even the completely redone Travel Sequence, which was replaced by On The Run. As much of a revelation as the newly-released material and the works in progress is the 1974 live album, compiled from performances at London’s Wembley Empire Pool in November 1974. As opposed to the then-live radio broadcast, mixed by the BBC in real time with an unflattering balance, this sourced the original multitrack tapes and, as mixed by Floyd engineers Andy Jackson and Damon Iddins, shows Floyd at the top of their game, rhythmic, swinging, emotive and punchy. If you can’t afford the box, it’s available as a 2-CD Experience edition alongside the remastered original album. Perhaps you don’t need a reminder that the album is one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, but it’s not too late to rediscover it. I think you’ll agree that it’s also one of the best.

Share this: Pink Floyd releases The Dark Side of the Moon | World History Project Mar 10 1973 Pink Floyd releases The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon is a concept album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd. Released in March 1973, the album built on the ideas Pink Floyd had explored in their live shows and previous recordings, but it lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure of founding member, principal composer and lyricist, Syd Barrett. The album's themes include conflict, greed, aging, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's deteriorating mental state. Source: Wikipedia Added by: Dan Harpaz The Dark Side of the Rainbow, or The Dark Side of Oz, is the title of a rumour circulated on the Internet since at least 1994—that the Dark Side of the Moon was written as a soundtrack to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Observers playing the film and the album simultaneously have reported apparent synchronicities, such as Dorothy beginning to jog as the band sings "no one told you when to run".

David Gilmour and Nick Mason have both denied a connection between the two works, and Roger Waters has described the rumours as "amusing". Alan Parsons has stated that the film was not mentioned during production of the album. The Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd | Discography | Pink Floyd | Floydian Slip™ | Syndicated Pink Floyd radio show The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Pink Floyd "There's someone in my head, but it's not me ..." If Pink Floyd had never recorded an album before "Dark Side of the Moon," and never recorded another after, this 1973 classic would have been more than enough to keep the band in the record books (and in the money) for years to come. "Dark Side," minus the final song "Eclipse," which was composed later, actually had its public debut during a series of four concerts at the Rainbow Theatre in London in February 1972, a year before the album was released, March 17, 1973, in the United States and March 24 in the U.K. (The release date seems to be in some dispute, with many claiming March 24 as the U.S.

date; March 13 has also been reported as the U.S. date. The dates above are the official dates from Capitol Records. Odd, at any rate, that both the 17th and 24th fell on Saturdays in 1973!) Actually, at the time of its first public performance, the entire piece was called "Eclipse." The name was changed to "Dark Side of the Moon," even though the group Medicine Head had released an album with the same title before Floyd. The band's first cohesive "concept album," "Dark Side" deals with the notion of how everyday pressures of modern life can lead to madness. Voices Interspersed throughout, are seemingly random bits of dialogue, sometimes mixed practically below the threshold of consciousness. The snippets come from a series of unrehearsed interviews the band conducted with people who happened to be at EMI's Abbey Road studio at the time. Musicians, roadies, even the doorman of the facility, were set down in front of a mic and shown flash cards with questions like, "When was the last time you were violent?" and "When was the last time you thumped someone?" Segments of their responses were sprinkled throughout the album.

The maniacal laughter came from Roger the Hat, a road manager of another band, while it was doorman Jerry Driscoll who provided the parting shot on the album, saying, "There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark," as the heartbeat at the end of side two slowly fades to black. Beatle Paul McCartney was interviewed, though his thoughts weren't included on the album. "Dark Side" was produced by the band between June 1, 1972, and January 1973, and engineered by Alan Parsons. Parsons, like one-time Floyd producer Norman Smith, had done work with the Beatles, and would go on to found The Alan Parsons Project, a studio ensemble that had a handful of hits, and, like Floyd, employed design team Hipgnosis for many of its album covers. Parsons also would produce material for Al Stewart, Ambrosia, Paul McCartney and the Hollies. Parsons, who earned a weekly salary of 35 pounds per week for his role, was largely responsible for many of the sound effects, most notably the clock montage leading into "Time," on side one.

He had recorded the montage to demonstrate the power of quadraphonic sound. (Floyd created a quad version of "Dark Side," as well as 1970's "Atom Heart Mother" and 1975's "Wish You Were Here.") Chart success The album was the group's first number one in the United States. "Money," backed with "Any Colour You Like," made it to number 13 on the Billboard singles chart in the U.S. "Us and Them," originally written as "The Violent Sequence" for the "Zabriskie Point" soundtrack but rejected by the director, was released as a 45, backed with "Time," which climbed to number 101. But it would eventually be the album's longevity more than anything else that would make it so distinctive, for Pink Floyd and the music industry as a whole. "Dark Side" ended up staying on the U.S. Billboard album chart for a record 15 years, a total of 724 weeks, before it dropped off July 23, 1988.

While the album had periodically dropped off the chart before, only to return another week, a change in the way Billboard constructed its charts assured that this time, the album couldn't return. (In fact, "Dark Side" did have a phenomenally long consecutive run: 591 weeks from Dec. 18, 1976, to April 23, 1988.) It remains the forth best selling album of all time, behind Michael Jackson's "Thriller," the soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever," and Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours." Ironically, the album was only awarded a gold record, meant to designate a half-million units sold, because it was released before Jan. 1, 1976, when the recording industry established the designation of "platinum," representing a million units sold. Iconic artwork The cover, one of many for the band by Hipgnosis, is a reference to the group's reputation for amazing light shows. It was one of several the design team worked up for the group. When presented to the band, it was chosen above the others in a matter of seconds. When the LP gatefold is opened up — yes, LPs do have certain advantages to compact discs!

— the spectrum continues on the inside of the cover, and around again to the back, eventually connecting again with the front. In this way, the design is indicative of the heartbeat that begins and ends the album, creating a cyclic pattern the Floyd would repeat on other albums, most notable "The Wall" in 1979. Furthermore, the pattern repeats when several LPs are opened up and placed end to end. Hipgnosis had previously used this concept of the mandala in its design of East of Eden's "New Leaf" (1971) and "Five Bridges" by The Nice in 1970. It would continue the theme in "Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe" (1976), The Alan Parsons Project's first album. Incidentally, take a close look at the light defracting from the prism, and you'll notice that one color, purple, is missing. Hipgnosis's Storm Thorgerson has said the team purposefully omitted the hue because it believed it wouldn't read properly. The psychological effect "Dark Side" had on the band was significant. The album was a commercial and critical success, and, unsurprisingly, a tough act to follow.

Release date The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd — Listen and discover music at Last.fm The Dark Side of the Moon 70s The Dark Side of the Moon (titled Dark Side of the Moon in the 1993 CD edition) is a concept album by the British art rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on March 17, 1973 in the U.S. and March 24, 1973 in the UK. The Dark Side of the Moon builds upon previous experimentation Pink Floyd had done, especially on their album Meddle. Its themes include old age, conflict and insanity; the latter possibly inspired by the… read more Don't want to see ads? Subscribe now Tracklist Top 10 Albums From 1973 Top 10 Albums From 1973 By Michael Gallucci March 11, 2013 12:53 PM REDDIT Even though 1973 seemed like a year in transition for so many artists, none of them really made a bad album.

The best records of the year weren’t necessarily career-defining or even the artists’ best work in some cases, but most of classic rock’s biggest names — including Led Zeppelin , Pink Floyd and the Who — released great albums in 1973. In fact, we’d go as far as to say that every LP on our list of the Top 10 Albums from 1973 belongs in every collection. 10 Mott the Hoople had already made four albums with very little success when David Bowie produced their fifth LP and gave them their breakthrough hit, ‘All the Young Dudes,’ in 1972. They returned a year later with restructured focus and their best album, a glam-rock milestone that buzzes with intensity. Whether or not it was designed that way, Browne’s second album was a reaction to his first. Faced with making a followup to his successful 1972 debut, Browne beefed up some of his older songs and crafted an album that was even better than his other one, a personal, and melancholic, look at Vietnam-era anxiety blanketed in mostly sunny melodies.

Bowie’s followup to the groundbreaking ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars’ scales back a bit, giving its 10 songs some breathing room within the busy mix. It’s artier than its predecessor, and more clear-cut, but it’s also more song-driven and tougher at times, leaving the glam stuff for his pals in Mott the Hoople (see No. 10 on our list of the Top 10 Albums From 1973). Lynyrd Skynyrd’s debut is a lot more wistful than its southern-rock label implies. The three big ballads — ‘Tuesday’s Gone,’ ‘Simple Man’ and ‘Free Bird’ — go way deeper than most of the genre’s typical muscular bluster. And there’s genuine heart to these songs. The band would fill out its sound with horns and more over the years, but they’re at their best on the quietly soulful ‘Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd.’ McCartney’s best solo album strips away the mushy ballads and vaudeville posturing that plagued much of his work since the Beatles ‘ final days.

He’s in fine form throughout, checking in with his greatest set of songs since the Beatles and his toughest-sounding collection since who knows when. One of the handful of solo Beatles records that belongs in everyone’s collection. John was close to becoming the biggest star on the planet when this double-album opus was released in 1973. And he didn’t hold back, writing (with longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin) some of his best ballads and rockers for the record. It’s one of the cleanest-sounding records on our list of the Top 10 Albums From 1973, a marvel in pop production and performance. John tried to top it for the next decade, with occasionally terrible results. Springsteen’s second album sounds unlike anything else in his vast catalog. The classic E Street Band lineup was still taking shape, and Springsteen was still more of a club rat than a studio hound at this point. So the record is alternately raw, unhinged and occasionally sloppy, in a hard-working bar-band kinda way. But shades of future greatness ooze through each and every song. In a way, Pete Townshend ‘s second rock opera is more ambitious than his first.

The songs are certainly better, even if the narrative doesn’t quite come together as tightly as ‘Tommy”s. But the band sounds bigger and fuller on ‘Quadrophenia,’ delivering the story of a British working-class teen’s coming of age with rock-god force. Unlike every other Led Zeppelin album, their fifth is the hardest to pin down. There’s no identifying style or theme running through the record. So we’re basically left with a wide range of songs that need to stand on their own. And they do — from the lean ‘The Song Remains the Same’ to the reggae-influenced goof ‘D’yer Mak-er’ to the epic ‘No Quarter.’ Plus, there’s lots of cool production and guitar tricks. ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ is the album where Pink Floyd went from spaced-out psych-rockers to spaced-out psych-rockers with lots of money. The quartet had been heading in this direction for a few years, but nobody expected ‘Dark Side’ to be so monumental. It’s epic in every way: musically, lyrically, thematically. Forty years later, bands are still trying to make an album just like it.

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Question: Which Pink Floyd album was released in March 1973?
Answer: Dark Side of the Moon