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Dark Side of the Moon celebrates 1500th anniversary

billboard.com — 1500 weeks on the Billboard Charts that is, making it the longest selling album of all time. Do YOU have your copy?

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  • RevnCliffie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+95Vinyl...check, Cassette...check, CD...check, in the iPod...check, synced to Wizard of Oz...check.
  • toddomatic, on 05/20/2008, -4/+39Hate to nitpick, but I will anyway:
    1) Anniversary means "Years"
    2) "Aniversary" is spelled "Anniversary"

    So, correct title should be "Dark Side of the Moon celebrates 1500th weekiversary"
  • willhoy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32...aaaaaand your buried
  • seattle98104, on 10/12/2007, -8/+32I'm guessing bubba sparks and the ying yang twins ...
  • godmode, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22it isnt, thats why its in the "music" category.
  • innergeek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Time to drag out the old quadrophonic 8-track tape player....the BEST way to listen to the Floyd!
  • tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14although uneven at times(no artistic work is perfect), Dark Side of the Moon is probably one of the greatest classic rock albums.

    +digg
  • RevnCliffie, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18And what pray tell is this higher quality of music that you enjoy?
  • kowgod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I am the exact same way. If I start to listen to this album, I must finish it. This is precisely the reason why it is NOT in my disc changer. Nor on my iPod. I do, often times, pull it out and listen to it though. With headphones. In bed. With the lights off.

    It's a ritual.
  • RevnCliffie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Nothing worse then a radio station that doesn't play Brain Damage and Eclipse together!!! Arrg
  • JustMatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10...that's a long ***** time.
  • 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Dark Side of the Moon is a great album, but I encourage people to check out the rest of Pink Floyd's music. Animals is a spectacular album as are Meddle, Wish You Were Here, and I really like The Final Cut also.
  • HeyThereTaylor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Once i start with Speak To Me/ Breathe I have to listen to the whole album. It's been in my 3 disk changer in my car since I got it.
  • DeckardRep, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10In case anyone doesn't know, Roger Waters is playing the entire album on his upcoming tour.
  • linuxrebel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Or perhaps "Dark Side of the Moon Nearing 29th year on the charts.
  • ConceptJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Who are those people? Oh, yeah, the ones our Commericial Radio Overlords are telling us we like.

    Well, I for one, do NOT welcome these overlords.

  • RevnCliffie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Much like your comments?
  • inline, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9time to listen again to clare torre on 'great gig in the sky'. magic.
  • MuffinMan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13I gotta -digg ya for using the word "Spiffy" in the same sentence as Pink Floyd. Gah, now I gotta -digg myself. :-P
  • ejm508, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13Spiffy! Pink floyd is one of my favorite bands..
  • RevnCliffie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Well somebody must be paying for it for it to still be on the chart.
  • stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I thought this fell off the charts for a while a few years ago?

    And plus, what chart are we talking about? There is such a ridiculous panoply of charts now that the point is lost. So is a lot of our musical culture. Once upon a time, most people of a given generation (or even multiple generations) had common music and hits that were so widely loved that everyone owned them and knew them. Now we have the pathetic segregation of every radio station into a 20-artist spectrum of what's allowed, at least in major markets. No WAY would you hear Tom Petty on any station playing anything new today, even if they played something new that sounded exactly like Tom Petty.

    Music peaked many years ago, and now it's being ruined by the incorrect assumption that people can't stand variety. And the recordings themselves, old and new, are being destroyed by the record companies with dynamic compression. It's no fun even to turn music up anymore, because it's just a wall of sound that maxes the levels every millisecond.

    It's depressing, really.
  • 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I left out the Wall because everyone already knows about the Wall. Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a great album too. There are so many great flavors of Pink Floyd. It depends on the day really. Some days are Ummagumma days and some are Division Bell days.
  • Stockwell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Now this is worth a DIGG.
    A classic album in the truest form.
    Also used as an influence for a lot of 90's ambient bands.
    But hey, multiple vinyl copies (flea-markets guys ;) ), CD and on the iPoddie, and still enjoy it every time I listen to it.
    Great travel music as well. Put on "DSotM" on repeat whilst on an intercontinental night-flight, and it's a trip ...
    Think it's time I introduce my 7-year old son to Pink Floyd..

    May it stay in the charts for many more weeks and years to come.
  • tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You left out The Wall
  • astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Forgot the artist:

    'Dub Side of the Moon' by Easy Star All Stars

  • ConceptJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well, I think there were a few guys breaking ground before Pink Floyd came along.

    Nonetheless, they were highly influential and put out more good music on one album than most groups make in their entire careers.
  • i4detail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The trouble is, with 90% of the albums out there, the rest of the album *is* filler. I mean, really, have you listened to the whole Shakira Album, or Rihanna's latest from tip to tail or Nickleback or Nelly Furtado? Neither have I. I just pulled those off the "Today's Top Songs" list at iTunes. But I bet the rest of the albums suck. I mean, more than the "hit singles" do.

    I love listening to groups like Floyd or King Crimson or even Radiohead from end to end, but there's a lot of people putting out full-length albums who should only be putting out singles.

    Actually, there's a lot of people who shouldn't be putting out *any* music, but that's just my own highly opinionated, um, opinion.
  • kotatsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5One of, if not *the* greatest album of all time, and from the greatest band of all time.

    Floyd deserve their longevity and fame, and I would pay any price for a new Floyd album with all 4 members in place. Heck I'd pay just about anything just to see the four of them playing together live again.
  • TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4
    There is also the DVD, Pink Floyd: "The Dark Side of the Moon", documentary
    Its at least worth a rent!
  • JustMatt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@aristotle1990
    Either you get it or you don't man. There's not much of an in between.
    I can see a lot of geeks (social geeks, not necessarily tech geeks or anything) being into the Floyd, especially The Wall and similar stuff. They really were musical geniuses though. Roger Waters' messages are just incredible.
  • 71M80, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I love pink floyd I used to live down the road from roger waters.

    @mike campo. You still have the cd from the 70's?? are you sure about that?
  • geekee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Too bad iTunes is killing the album format. People only want hit songs now, and don't bother with anything else. Then they claim the rest of the album is "filler", when in fact they just don't like anything that they haven't been programmed to like by hearing it 50 times on the radio.
  • RubyPAL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6DSoTM is a great album. But I think there best work was in Meddle, especially with the opening fast and smooth One of these days and the ending with the epic Echoes. And in between you have great classics like Seamus.

    Another great album is Animals, alot of sarcasm and mockery in it, along with some trippy instrumentals.

    DSoTM is great though, Time is classic and then Money. Any colour you like is a nice trippy song.
  • kriminalintent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Two copys in Vinyl, one in cd, and dvd of the making of. It is clearly the best album ever made.

    Urusai You don't understand how well those "noises" were done for its time.
  • YellowBook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Awesome band. Favourite album is Wish You Were Here. The Wall is seriously good too and is probably the best double album I've ever heard.

    Just a little bit of trivia - Bob Gedolf stars in Floyd's film 'The Wall'
  • pyrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's always, ALWAYS spelled Ozzy. Ozzie just doesn't fit on the knuckles.
  • denisio50, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6My 11 and 14 yr-old sons never fail to ask "Who is that?" whenever PF or LZ or Jimi or The Doors come on the radio.
    They've started mixing the above into their AFI, Slipknot and other new punky stuff. Also Ozzie. It's weird to hear their mp3 mixes.
    They are so cool.
  • aliguana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"making it the longest selling album of all time"

    when did it come out? in the 70s? I have (my fathers) Elvis records that are even older, and are still on sale should you wish to buy them. Surely you mean "the longest run in the billboard chart", rather than "the longest selling"??
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The guy probably listens to Eminem, Celine Dion, n'sync and gangsta rap.
  • lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Syd Barrett was a wonderful part of Pink Floyd. He essentially MADE Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. It may be a PF album, but it was in a whole other class. You can tell that Roger Waters exerted his creativity over the band after Syd left due to LSD issues: all the other albums became dark and ironic, missing the cheer and psychedelia of Piper.

    As such, I think Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and Wish You Were Here are the best Pink Floyd albums. Dark Side Of The Moon is just a gateway drug.
  • trutwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Couldn't've put it better. Back when I was in college a buddy had tickets to see it at the Dome in Minneapolis shortly after Pulse came out. He had 6 tickets - 5 were together in the nose bleed section and one was down front and center in the 5th f'in row and none of his other friends wanted to take it and be alone. I gobbled that up - best concert experience I've ever had by a long shot. David Gilmore (best living guitar player IMHO) often played guitar solos right in front of me, when he started the low riff from Sorrow I nearly pissed my pants. Strangely there was this weird haze in the dome as we left though... :)

    Sigh, enough reminiscing - back to jamming python code.
  • Nonsuch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Not to mention the gold-disk MFSL version.
  • brandonjg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Headline is misleading
    1500 weeks is not the same as a 1500 "anniversary" 1500 weeks works out to be just short of 29 years... give it another 60 weeks and you could call it a 30th anniversary

    For those of you that have a difficult time with the English language, here's a refresher definition of the word "Anniversary" (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniversary)

    An anniversary (from the Latin anniversarium, meaning the turning of the year) is a day that commemorates and/or celebrates an event that occurred on the same day of the year some time in the past.

    Stop with the sensationalist headlines already.
  • largeboot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3synch up meddle with fantasia...my life has never been the same
  • Roguecop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Quote:

    "Q: Hearing this record in SACD was like hearing it again for the first time. What is it about new technology that brings new layers to this record?"

    What better way would technology and music apply together? What better way would one use the 'music' category in relation to technology?


    Some of you tech obessed morons are unbelievable, mildly autistic even. Read the article before spouting off!

  • RevnCliffie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Ok, I replied to your comment and you have yet to reply to mine. What is this amazing music that we should all be listening to so that we might be at your level.
  • kotatsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I saw them at Live 8, but just on TV sadly. It was amazing, absolutely incredible. They really are still in top shape and absolutely capable of making a new album, but Dave (Gilmour) doesn't want to.

    I heard he and the rest of Floyd were offered crazy sums to do a tour after Live 8, but Gilmour turned it down.
  • Stockwell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6where have you been???
    Anyone in his 30's with at least a bit of musical interest should at least have heard the album in his life..
    Man, enjoy the listen.... you will !!
  • stormbringer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My 8 track finally broke!!!! But... yes for vinyl, cassette, CD (remastered version). I saw PF in the Astrodome in the mid 80's during their "Momentary Lapse of Reason" tour. Waters wasn't with them but Gilmour made up for it. DG is a genius on the guitar!
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