Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition
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Free Music Notes for The Dark Side of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition
Free Music Review: After 30 years it's brand spanking new!
Hit: 5 Stars
WOW... This is all I can say....EVERY member of Floyd had input and heard this album. Not only are David Gilmour and Roger Waters [wetting] their pants on how great it sounds, but Nick Mason and Rick Wright have both said this is DSOM. This is what DSOM was supposed to be.
First off, David wanted to use 1st generation tapes because A) 3rd generation tapes hid a lot of the music, and B) it sounds EXACTLY how every band member wanted it in the first place!. The stereo mix is supposed to match the quality of the original vinyl recording, and it surpasses it heavily....in their 25 min EMI DSOM 30th anniversary promo video they cut the whole album apart, with interviews from this year! All 4 guys agreeing on how outstanding this album is....
...Roger, Rock, Nick and David...all agree DSOM is better than ever!
Not only that but Roger Waters gave a listen to the 5.1 mix and loved it. He says that not only does it sound great but it's something that has never been tried (Other than the Quadraphonic record which was a failure)
Most people don't sit around to pick away at music, because not only is it not their own, but how can you say what's right and what's wrong?...Not only that but some members had said they never listened to DSOM, but this makes them actually like hearing it all the way through.
I think anyone who is new or old to The Floyd should definitely buy this right away. Not only does it show you what DSOM could have been in the beginning, it takes you through the best musical journey of a lifetime.
If you don't already own Dark Side, or you have an old Vinyl or CD version, the 30th Anniversary is worth it.
Free Music Review: Great even without an SACD player!
Hit: 5 Stars
Preface: I am writing as one who has owned multiple masters of DSotM, and write for a similar audience. Therefore if you are just beginning with Pink Floyd, you may want to skim this review.----
Even if you don't own an SACD player (I don't), you should definitely enjoy the benefits of this remaster. I was quite surprised, frankly; I bought the remaster almost wholly for the artwork (which I find beautiful), not expecting much audio improvement, and I got quite a pleasant shock.
The improvement in clarity is extremely noticeable right from the first few seconds of the album: the effects of "Speak To Me" come in sooner and with greater clarity. All of the other songs are greatly improved, especially the drums on "Time" (it almost starts to measure up to the majesty of the PULSE drums), and the entire song "Money" has had a HUGE increase in audio quality (this last I usually only listened to on PULSE because I did not care so much for the studio version). So have the other tracks, but these are some of the ones that got my attention immediately.
The greatest addition is this one on "Eclipse", previously only noticed by audiophiles: if you turn this album WAY up, after the words "There is no dark side in the moon, really; as a matter of fact, it's all dark", you will hear music in the right channel, and extremely faint whispering in the left channel. I was able to hear this on a cheaper portable CD player, with simple earphones, where I could NEVER hear it before, even on nice headphones.
All in all, even if you have not got an SACD player, this is well worth your money...the cover is not the only thing that has changed!
Free Music Review: DARK SIDE SACD EDITION
Hit: 5 Stars
Pointless probably to talk too much about the actual music - surely everyone has heard it about 12,000 times each already. In the charts for zillions of weeks blah blah. But really this sacd edition is something special. Ive played the album on my mudane little sony dvd/sacd player (multichannel) and my really-quite-good SONY 777ES 2 channel player. No question it's the best remaster by far. On the both sacd versions (2+5 channel) you'll notice more - discern more of the little bits of dialogue, really feel the low bass fuzz notes at the beginning of TIME - and be able to distinguish each and every one of the tuned tom toms Nick Mason plays - the separation is that good. The vocals soar impressively the sax is warm and rasping - its all a audiophile's dream. So thats the measured and subtle bit over and done with... Switching to multichannel specifically then - The SACD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON will become defacto the multichannel demo record filling demo rooms in hifi and home cinema exhibitions up and down the land. It was always intended to be cinematic in design and impact and now that vision can be realised - footsteps chase around the speakers, airport noises appear from over here...and over there...and over there. Voices emerge from unexpected places, though, wisely probably, the band themselves are mostly solidly located in the front sound stage. On many other albums this sort of thing might all be a bit excessive, tasteless even, but THIS ALBUM WAS MEANT TO BE HEARD THIS WAY. In short it's fabulous, and dramatic and utterly wonderful. Dvd players that also manage sacd are around for relatively little cash now - this is the reason to buy one.
Free Music Review: Amazing album
Hit: 5 Stars
Let me start by saying this is an album that I have grown up with. I had a hippy cousin who bought it for me when I was 5 years old. Since then I have owned at least 7 or 8 different formats of it. I don't care about the whole Wizard of Oz thing all that matters to me is the sound. This album is best listened to with your eyes closed in a quiet room. There is not a bad song on it. There is an underlying story that invloves time, money and brain damage and the lack of time, love of money, leads to brain damage. Just like any Pink Floyd album it is meant to be listened to front to end and sideways. David Gilmour shows that he is the greatest guitarist, most innovative if nothing else on this album. Us and Them will stop most people in their tracks just from the jazzy intro alone. Time is one of the better known songs on here and everything you hear about it is true. Money is a somewhat sarcastic look at greed. Eclipse is the perfect ending. It's just hard to describe how great this album is but it is also hard to shut-up about it. You get a couple of instrumentals on here as well that are so good that you will swear there was lyrics in them. To me this is the greatest album ever made. The White Album by the Beatles is a great album as well but it doesn't have the flow this one does from song to song. I just wish someone could capture the magic these guys had when they made this but until then I will just hit repeat when this cd ends. As for the SACD, I was lucky and got a SACD on sale and you will hear some slight differences but nothing major but if you have a SACD player then get this version. It's the best money you will ever spend.Free Music Review: You Don't Need Me To Tell You This Is Incredible!
Hit: 5 Stars
My history with this album goes back to 1973. I heard a snippet of "Money" on the radio-barely 20 seconds. It stuck in my mind immediately as something special. I had no idea who it was. I assumed the name of the song was "Money," but I had no way of knowing who it was. Don't forget, this was way before the Internet (it was still being developed by Al Gore-ha ha!) The Dark Side Of The Moon album, as some of you will recall, didn't have the song titles on the back cover, so my trips to record departments of stores were unsuccessful.
Finally, in 1974, I was at a Lechmere (remember Lechmere east coasters?) and asked a few employees if they knew who made the song "Money" that probably came out last year. Someone finally mentioned Pink Floyd and Dark Side Of The Moon. I had heard of Pink Floyd, but that was about it. I just knew they had a reputation of being, well "out there."
Based on that 20 second snippet, I bought Dark Side Of The Moon on the spot, and not for the last time! Since then I've bought it on cassette, CD, and now this 30th anniversary CD. I literally wore the record out throughout 1974 and 1975 while waiting for Wish You Were Here to come out (which Columbia Records wanted the band to title Darker Side Of The Moon. Thank God Roger Waters pretended they were joking.) While waiting, I also bought all of their other albums, even the vastly underrated Obscured By Clouds.
Needless to say, I'm a Floyd fan forever. This 30th Anniversary Edition is a worthy remaster of this classic. More than likely you already own it if you've read this far, but if not, it's worth every penny.