Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

A concept album from Prog Rockers would typically send me running, but for Pink Floyd virgins this album is the place to start. Originally titled Eclipse (A Piece For Assorted Lunatics) it was released as The Dark Side Of The Moon in 1973 and it proved to be the bands commercial breakthrough. Exploring themes of money, madness and death, and sometimes referred to as a soundtrack to the end of the Watergate era it was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and employed the most advanced recording techniques of the day with all members of the band simultaneously operating different faders to achieve the desired sound and mix and including the experimental use of reverb, echoes, and voices. An orchestral version of The Beatles Ticket To Ride can be heard faintly over the heartbeats at the end of Eclipse and it has been suggested that this was actually a mastering error. The iconic Album cover folded out to reveal a prism endlessly refracting a beam of light.
The album became one of the biggest selling albums of all time and apparently, some of the profits were used to finance Monty Python And The Holy Grail, (so it wasn't all bad then;-).
Track listing
1. Speak To Me
2. Breathe
3. On The Run
4. Time
5. Great Gig In The Sky, The
6. Money
7. Us And Them
8. Any Colour You Like
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse