169: Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

About this episode

The episode discusses Pink Floyd's iconic album The Dark Side of the Moon and its impact on music history.

It feels like there shouldn't be anything left to say about The Dark Side of the Moon. It's one of the best-selling albums of all time, and it's consistently rated as one of the greatest albums of all time by critics. If you tune into a classic rock station for more than a couple of hours, chances are better than 50/50 that you'll hear a track or three from it get played. It's so common to hear tracks from here out of context that it's become easy to forget that these tracks, when heard in order from start to finish, constitute one of the most stunningly coherent artistic statements of the album era, and that makes it an album that Discord & Rhyme had to cover in depth at some point. Join Amanda, Mike, Rich, and John as they discuss the 1973 classic that transformed Pink Floyd from a niche-famous British prog-adjacent band into one of the most famous bands in the world.

People in this episode

Hosts: Amanda, Mike, Rich, John

Topics covered

• Pink Floyd
• The Dark Side of the Moon
• classic rock
• album analysis
• music commentary

Keywords

• Pink Floyd
• The Dark Side of the Moon
• classic rock
• album review
• music history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pink Floyd

Books & works: The Dark Side of the Moon

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