Dark Side of the Moon
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I can’t even begin to tell you how much, how much I love Pink Floyd’s sixth album without resorting to sugary clichés. It is singularly, THE richest, most expansive, most expressive seamless album ever created. Until now it still amazes me how Pink Floyd managed to create such a masterpiece without a massive bank of pre-recorded sound effects and the help of supercomputers to calculate complex, mathematical formulas for composing music. The quirky sound effects meld so perfectly with the velvety smooth bass, drums and guitars to support the vocals, pushing forth a dizzying, breathtaking song that lasts for the better part of an hour.Much as I hate to admit it, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon artful segue of tracks does outshine Queen’s 1974 Queen II segue on the Black side of the album. As the songs unfold and I lose all ability use words to describe that unyielding attraction that makes me hang onto every word (despite having heard this album through dozens of times). Every time I listen to Dark Side of the Moon, I get so hypnotised I cease to notice anything that happens around me. All I am aware of are the waves of varying beats and sound effects arranging themselves in my frontal lobe, explaining themselves without any words, yet I understand them perfectly. I run after them in hopes of finding out the secrets of the reflecting prism.
It weaves an elaborate, eccentric dream in the listener’s head without making sleep fall. In this dream, opera singers don’t sing intelligible words but we all understand them. In this dream, monetary objects become musical instruments. In this dream, every odyssey is different as each dreamer assigns his own meaning to his experience.
Dark Side of the Moon has a strange, calming effect on me. During periods of great stress, I’d put Dark Side of the Moon on and let it untangle the knots within me, created by the cold hands of panic. My heart revives as waves of pleasure wash over it. As the album fades into silence, I sigh in contentment and go back to real life.
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