Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (w/ guest Andrew James)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Massive Album November continues as Brian and Bill welcome podcaster Andrew James (rowthree.com) to talk about Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (1974, Harvest). Although their 8th studio album, the band finally 'broke through' in a big, bad way with Dark Side, spending 741 weeks (that's nearly 15 years) on the Billboard charts! Andrew talks about unlocking the magic of the Floyd thanks to the confluence of a friend's parents being out of town, some "gummy bears," and a sublime saxophone. Then Bill, Brian, and Andrew discuss how cool VH1/s Classic Albums program is, madness, the universal themes of the album, synthesizers, how annoying it is that Roger Waters is just better than everyone at everything (except singing), 7/8 time signatures, David Gilmore's gorgeous vocal tones, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	I'm going to be. Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast. My name is Bill.
0:34.7	And I'm Brian.
0:35.5	What we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:37.4	That was Money by Pink Floyd, off there. podcast. My name is Bill. And I'm Brian. What we just listening to right there, Brian.
0:48.8	That was Money by Pink Floyd off there March 1st, 1973, eighth studio album, Dark Side of the Moon.
0:53.1	If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great. We're going to try and have the kind of conversation that
0:57.7	happens around being a fan of the music by talking about how we relate to the music, talking about
1:03.7	a little bit of the band bio, just so that everybody's on the same page. And we are also going to do
1:08.4	a track-by-track review of the album. Yes, and it's massive album November.
1:13.3	It's just another massive album.
1:15.6	Massive, just grab it by the balls and just smush it up,
1:21.1	and just smush it up against your face.
1:24.7	Oh, man, so how many is this one sold?
1:27.3	45 million copies worldwide.
1:30.2	It spent 741 weeks.
1:33.4	That is 15 years on the billboard charts.
1:38.3	That is crazy.
1:40.0	Like people were buying this constantly.
1:42.8	It was just like every day someone's dad.
1:47.8	Listen to this for the first time.
1:49.7	The moon.
1:50.5	Yep.
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