Happy Birthday, 'Dark Side of the Moon'

Before my time really but I love Pink Floyd.

I like "Breathe", "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse".

This album always reminds me of that strange urban legend that it syncs with The Wizard of Oz.

R2, does it?

Dark Side of the Moon does indeed still sound good. It's not the first album to utilize synthesizers, but it's the first album that used synthesizers that got huge.

Dark Side of the Moon is good, but The Wall is better

It's not an urban legend...(just the first 43 minutes of the film; the repeat doesn't synch)

I associate it with high school in the late 1970s and lots of pot.

Always liked Animals better....

One of the best intros in rock history:

It's one of those great classic rock albums that got played to death in the 70s, 80s & 90s. I had to get away from it and most classic rock for the longest time. I don't need to relive high school and college days; those days are far behind, and too many people want to stay in those glories. I've always been into new music since those glory years, but after buying the remastered LP a few years ago as my original copy was scratched and pitted beyond being listenable, it really did sound great. Great album and doesn't sound too dated. My fave albums by Pink Floyd are Meddle, DSOTM, and Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

This weekend, I was in a convenience store, and "Dark Side of the Moon" came on the speaker.

Two blue-collar guys in their forties started singing along. I started singing along. The young counter guy and the other customer started singing along! Well, for a few bars, until we got embarassed and shut up.

The thing was... I was the only person present who was old enough to have been alive when the song came out, and Pink Floyd were still making music. None of today's pop stars are going to have that kind of presence in 40-50 years, are they.

One of my favorite albums of all time...and i listen to it all the way through. Each song is pretty unique and i love the flow of it. i was not a stoner in high school and grew up on it (my parents were the hippies). Now in my 50's i still love it. Iconic.

I wasn't a stoner, either, but when I was in high school in the 80s I used to play my thrift store copy on a cheapo stereo when I went to bed. It helped me through my alienated teenage angst years.

Just one great album by one of the greatest bands in history. Easily the greatest band of the 70s.

Fascinating for music fans, particularly the sound effects.

As noted above, 'Animals' and 'The Wall' are ambitious and among their best, but those two were the start of Roger Waters' massive ego trip that led to the dissolution of the band.

I was obsessed with both at the time, but now find 'The Wall' to be bombastic; glad I saw the shows, though. Keyboardist Richard Wright was quoted as saying he hated 'Animals,' but his contribution to "Sheep" is sublime.

I can remember my older brother buying this when it came out, and yes its a great album that still holds up today

a group of kids used to go to some decrepit movie theater in town and watch a laser light show accompanied by this album.

i assumed they were all getting high.

Great record, though I prefer Meddle if I had to pick a single favorite PF album.

I find the sync between Oz and DSotM deeply creepy, for some reason.

David Gilmore's repeatedly said it's a coincidence, and videos of films were rare then; they would have had to screen a reeled movie several times.

Besides, Roger Waters, while not homophobic, is very straight. I can't imagine him watching the film more than once.

The thing that creeps me out about the "Wizard of Oz./Dark Side of the Moon" thing is not the coincidental synchronicity... it's that people found out about it!

I mean, how fucking stoned would you have to be to play "DSotM" and "WoO" with the sound off at the same time? How many stoner friends would you have to have who are willing to do the same stupid thing for word to get out? How many thousands of stoners would have to do the same for word to get to the mainstream media?