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Dark
Side of the Moon
~ a tribute to Pink Floyd ~
"The Dark Side of the Moon is often considered to be Pink Floyds defining work, and is still frequently ranked by music critics as one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time."
CONCEPT
The Dark Side of the Moon explores the nature of the human experience
and according to Waters, "empathy". For example: "Speak to Me / Breathe"
is about birth and being a child with new earthly experiences; "Time"
deals with growing older and the overwhelmingly fast approach of death
- youth being gone before one even realizes it; "The Great Gig in the
Sky" explores thoughts of religion and death; "Money" mocks greed and
consumerism, with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and wealth-related sound effects;
"Us and Them" addresses ethnocentrism, conflict and the belief that a
person's self is "always in the right"; "Brain Damage" looks at mental
illness and whether "insanity" is only relative, and growing too old to
be who one once was; and "Eclipse" ends the album with a grand statement
about free will and causality.
RECEPTION:
The Dark Side of the Moon is the third best selling album of all time
worldwide (not counting compilations and various artists soundtracks),
and the 20th-best-selling album in the United States. Though it held the
No. 1 spot in the USA for only one week, it spent a total of 741 consecutive
weeks, approximately fourteen years, on the list until 23 April 1988,
the longest duration of any album in history, only to be removed by a
rule change. To this day, it occupies a prominent spot on Billboard's
Pop Catalogue Chart, reaching number one when the 2003 hybrid CD/SACD
edition was released and sold 800,000 copies in the U.S. alone. On the
week of 5 May 2006, The Dark Side of the Moon achieved a combined total
of 1,500 weeks on the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalogue charts.
Sales of the album worldwide total over forty million as of 2004, with an average of 8,000 copies sold per week and a total of 400,000 in the year of 2002 — making it the 200th best-selling album of that year nearly three decades after its initial release. It is estimated that one in every fourteen people in the U.S. under the age of fifty owns or owned a copy of this album.[18] According to an 2 August 2006 Wall Street Journal article, although the album was released in 1973, it has sold 7.7 million copies since 1991 in the U.S. alone and continues to log 9,600 sales per week domestically.
The LP was released before platinum awards were introduced by the RIAA
on 1 January 1976, and it initially only received a gold disc. However,
after the introduction of the album on CD, The Dark Side of the Moon would
eventually be certified platinum in 1990. On 6 April 1998, the RIAA certified
the album at 15x platinum, denoting sales of fifteen million in the United
States alone - making it their second biggest-selling album there. "Time",
"Money" and "Us and Them" remain radio call-in request favourites, with
"Money" having sold well as a single in its own right.
(Our thanks to Wikipedia for this in depth info! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon)
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