View Full Version : Do you remember listening to Pink Floyds Dark side of the moon in 1973?
The Black Adder
20-09-2013, 10:05
Hi all.
I've been recently trolling you tube and finding some super interviews with the Floyd members and hearing some smashing facts about the making of DSOTM.
So it's March 1973 (I was not even 1 year old) do you remember hearing it on the day of release? Or around that time... What were your thoughts?
To me it's on a par to imagining what it was like hearing Led Zep IV or Sgt. Peppers for the first time. I find it such a magical album.
The peak of my interest would have to be the most experimental track 'On the run' to which Rodger mastered that very early synthesizer with no instruction manual and then with them all on the faders and the tapes running created the track as a collective performance together in the control room.
Beats me why such team work is no longer practiced today. Were these guys the last of the pioneers? Why is it that digital so bloody boring and does being restricted to a certain technology make for a much more in depth collaboration effort?
Rare Bird
20-09-2013, 10:07
on my most hated record list 'DSOTM', Led Zer 'IV' & 'Tublar Bells are the first three.
walpurgis
20-09-2013, 10:11
on my most hated record list 'DSOTM', Led Zer 'IV' & 'Tublar Bells are the first three.
Well they got played to death back then. You could add Wings 'Band on The Run' to that list and anything by 10cc!
I went to a lot of audio fairs back then and when DSOTM came out every single exhibition stand was playing it! No imagination!
julesd68
20-09-2013, 10:23
You could add Wings 'Band on The Run' to that list and anything by 10cc!
Wings - possibly one of the most overrated groups of all time? I saw an excellent documentary recently about British rock bands 'conquering' the States - apparently Wings did one of the highest grossing tours ever back in the day, or something like that ...
julesd68
20-09-2013, 10:28
As for DSOTM I associate with the place I first heard it which was a 'hippy' resort called Dahab, in Sinai Egypt which I stayed at in something like 1988.
There were lots of cafes on the waterfront and they would all play DSOTM every night - it got a bit much to be honest!
jollyfix
20-09-2013, 10:29
I had a conversation on the weekend with a very old friend of mine about the first time we listened to DSOTM. 1975 in my sisters bedroom, she bought it for her drama class at school, the on the run track was used in a play ( she and others had to be moving trees type of thing).
My friend and myself remember laughing, we had not heard anything like 'on the run' before, it just didnt sounded like music, it just sounded wrong, more bbc sound effects / Dr who type of record.
We both bought DSOTM a short time later, and for many years it was one of the most played LPs in our collections, these days, like Zep and many more from my youth it very, very rarely gets played.
Oldpinkman
20-09-2013, 10:34
To stay on thread - yes I remember another Richard bringing it into school (I had just started grammar school). Said other Richard (12 years old) was grade 8 piano and organ, and had just picked up bass guitar. He played the money riff straight off.
It was also the first record I heard on "HiFi" in a shop the next year - in Bromley on Lowther speakers, a Shure V15 iii cartridge.
I had gone off it a bit too, until Floyd played pretty much the whole album live again, and rocked it up a bit. Still working on the guitar solo in Time...
And yes - it was proper frontiers experimental stuff (following on from dabbling on the Meddle album)
Them were 'days ! :)
MikeMusic
20-09-2013, 12:07
Heard it for the first time at Wembley Empire Pool. Staggering
Think that was a while before the LP came out
Since then I have found to be reasonable PF album. Can't stand the noise that woman makes
Sand Dancin Donkey Walker
20-09-2013, 12:19
Hi Guys
I don't remember playing DSOTM in '73, but was certainly playing it from '74 time.
Initially playing it a lot and tried to get into it, I didn't really enjoy it at the time. Though I did pretend to.
It must have been 2-3 years later that I started to enjoy it more and get in to the Whole Pink Floyd thing for a few years after that.
I then left Floyd alone for quite a few years, never really gave them much play time at all, if ever.
Then again, gave them a spin and enjoyed they music, DSOTM and WYWH and Animals etc.
I think that has been the Pink Floyd cycle for me ever since, play them and enjoy, then leave alone for a while.
Strange, but that's me.
Andy - SDDW
on my most hated record list 'DSOTM', Led Zer 'IV' & 'Tublar Bells are the first three.
Yeah I have to agree with this too although I wasn't born in 1973 :(... Inherited my music taste from the old man :)
Andrew B
20-09-2013, 19:57
I was 7 or 8. I shared a bedroom with my brother (9 years older). I was treated to hearing it on his hifi complete with lava lamp, red lights and Joss Sticks. T'was very cool to a 7 year old!
Yes, I remember hearing DSOTM, St. Pepper, Led Zep IV, Pet Sounds.... etc. first time on their release. Just as I remember watching the first episode of Doctor Who and watching the first moon landing.
Can't say the "earth moved for me"!
Rare Bird
20-09-2013, 20:42
Moon landing eh..I think you can forget about anything historically memorable happening these days..That goes for music too, total stalemate imho..
Wakefield Turntables
20-09-2013, 20:47
I was but a mere twinkle in Dad's scrotum at the time so I have no recollection whatsoever of listening to DSOTM.
The Grand Wazoo
20-09-2013, 21:14
That goes for music too, total stalemate imho..
Not being funny Andre, but as you refuse to listen to modern music, how will you ever know whether that's true?
Rare Bird
20-09-2013, 21:24
Ok give me one example of a modern band that even comes near to bands like Led Zep, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd etc etc?
The Grand Wazoo
20-09-2013, 21:32
Well, that's for me to know, and for you to never find out, isn't it!?
It's all a matter of taste Andre, but if you just shut something out on principle, you can't really comment on whether it has any value.
Rare Bird
20-09-2013, 21:37
Chris:
I'm also not being funny but do you honestly think im totally blind as the music out these days, for one the wife listerns to it & secondly i don't diss music i havent heard. For example i tried the new Black Sabbath album for exactly 45 seconds the other day.
The thing is it is all a matter of taste. I see quality in music & song writing from back in the 60's that i see no evidence of thee days.
The Grand Wazoo
20-09-2013, 21:49
For example i tried the new Black Sabbath album for exactly 45 seconds the other day.
That's it though isn't it? There are another fifty two and a half minutes that you've now shut yourself off from because you didn't like the beginning of a new album the first time you heard it.
Anyway, I apologise for bringing this up - we've been here before and you seem happy with what you listen to. Best to stick with it, eh?
Rare Bird
20-09-2013, 21:54
Aye since early Prog/Psych movement is such a massive massive scope {That people are not aware of} i could not possibly listern to anything outside that :eyebrows:
The Grand Wazoo
20-09-2013, 21:58
Yes well, as I've said before, some people's taste is spread wide and thin, but yours is deep and narrow.
Rare Bird
20-09-2013, 22:03
But Chris it's not narrow my friends as ive explained many times the music i listern to has such a broad spectrum that people are unaware of.
Anyhoots as you mentioned we have been here before it is not worth re opening any old arguments..
But i will say every quality i hear within the music i listern cannot be possible in todays music for a lot of obvious reasons so why on earth should i even get the bright idea of giving anything much of a chance?
The Grand Wazoo
20-09-2013, 22:08
You misunderstand me - it's narrow because you give yourself a particular style and time frame to work within, it's deep because of the diversity to be found within those parameters.
Can't quite understand why (young?) people get so het up about it. Music for the time as far as I am concerned.
I got pissed off with DSOM in the seventies because, it seemed to me, you couldn't go to a party without bumping in to some groover or other walking in to the room with a copy of the album under their arm. Mind you some tracks bring back some quite delightful memories of sounds/experiences and exotic scents!
I hadn't listened to the album for about thirty years and gave it a spin recently (due, in part to the BBC plugging the 40th anniversary), quite surprising how evocative some of the tracks are for me, perhaps you had to be there at the time? They really have to be placed in the context of the time of release.
Most interesting though is how much my early pressing (excellent condition) could raise on ebay ! although not sure if I would sell to be honest - too many memories. Pretty similar (memories and feelings) about some of my Led Zep albums.
Guy.
Strangely enough, though I was a teenager in 1973, I've never heard DSOTM all the way through.
Music is a broad church and I'm willing to try out every pew ;)
As for DSotM: I heard it for the first time at home in the 70's when my Dad bought it one Saturday afternoon shortly after it was released. It blew me away and it has helped cement my relationship with the bands material ever since. I never tire of listening to it ;)
Strangely enough, though I was a teenager in 1973, I've never heard DSOTM all the way through.
crashed out? :D
walpurgis
21-09-2013, 23:05
It's certainly not my favourite Floyd album and I never play it. I much prefer 'Wish You Were Here' and 'The Wall' (the track Comfortably Numb is brilliant)!
Yes, I had that album a few days after release.
I think that many younger members here have no possible appreciation of just how important and exciting a new release was. There weren't that many ways of getting to listen to new music, etc (limited radio exposure, no internet, etc ~ anyone remember Radio Nordsee International?). I well remember going to my local specialist record shop (there weren't many shops selling non mainstream music), which was an experience in itself. You then had to order a copy which involved paying a £1 deposit (a huge amount back then), which got your name and the name of the album on a brown paper bag, which was then filed. You returned to the shop to find out if the album had come in and there it'd be, in the paper bag. So, pay the balance, take it home and immerse yourself. I don't mean just listen. Study the cover. See who's playing. Read the lyrics and then experience the music.
I wasn't that impressed by DSOTM and to this day believe it is one of their weakest albums (Wish you were here is top, IMO).
That really special moment was taking 'Selling England by the Pound' home. Ah.. the memories.
It was one of the first albums I heard on a 'real' stereo and convinced me that I had to get a proper stereo myself.
It was a friends system - Garrard SP25, Amstrad amp, Wharfedale (Linton I think) speakers. Crap by todays standards but an eye opener to a stereo virgin like myself.
Not my favourite album by any means.
:)
I wasn't that impressed by DSOTM and to this day believe it is one of their weakest albums (Wish you were here is top, IMO).
That really special moment was taking 'Selling England by the Pound' home. Ah.. the memories.
I like DSotM a lot but will admit that Wish You Were Here gets more air play on my system. I completely agree with you regarding Selling England By The Pound :)
The Black Adder
25-09-2013, 11:36
Ok give me one example of a modern band that even comes near to bands like Led Zep, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd etc etc?
No problem...
Err... Sh.. errr.. no...
Hmm... Well, how about, N... er no.
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Oooooh! Got one... Wo... then again... no
LADY GAGA!!!!! :lol:
I like DSotM a lot but will admit that Wish You Were Here gets more air play on my system. I completely agree with you regarding Selling England By The Pound :)
What is it with WYWH? I can't see it myself - I have a copy, but apart from "Shine on you Crazy Diamond", the rest of the album is pretty routine. My favourite Floyd LP is 'Atom Heart Mother', but I'm probably in a minority here.
Genesis? Well as far as I'm concerned the less said (and heard) the better! Now I am in a minority of one! :sofa:
Magna Audio
17-10-2013, 01:09
I was 10 or 11 at the time. Sisters boyfriend played it on my dads hifi, Garrard deck, Goodmans amp, Dynatron speakers... Was pretty cool, totally different, but I could hear / tell I would like it. Like Hello I love you, by The Doors... Then it was find/listen to other stuff and grow into myself and the later stuff and of course The Wall, that I was fully ready for. After that it was downhill for me..,
Magna Audio
17-10-2013, 01:11
Hehe, WYWH... very much mood music. Perhaps you are never in the right 'mood'.
WYWH as a track is great to play on a guitar with a mate.
It's the earlier stuff I have no interest in - each to their own.
Now this takes me back! 14y.o. and buying anything with a cool cover on my Dads Makro card. My mate said "get me something"; saw that cover & got one for me too. Think I paid £1.89 as it was pre-release stock! Never heard of Floyd before that. I was gobsmacked when I got it home - Played the A side for a week before I turned it over I reckon;). Still have the LP too.
It was Christmas 1979 a very bleak time in my life. Was about to leave school and had lots of personal problems with my dad and other things. I loved it then though and still like to give it a spin to this day.
hell i remember the beatles coming out and I bought DSOTM and led zep 1 he week they came out...have to admit I had never heard the Zep, but liked the cover so bought it on a whim and was a fan ever since.
mr sneff
06-11-2013, 19:34
I saw Pink Floyd live circa 1972 when they performed some of the DSOTM material, I definitely remember hearing a version of Money, complete with the cash registers all in Quadrophonic sound!
Back in '73 an album purchase was a big outlay for me so it had to be good. Rushworth's music store had listening booths so you could try before you buy, although to stop kids wasting time they interrogated you first saying you had to buy if you listen, sort of defeats the idea really. Anyway me and my mate who had never heard of PF asked for the album to be played in an empty booth, a few seconds into "Speak to me"and he declared "you're not buying this f"%$&^%* Sh** are you ? Put on the spot I said "no lets leg it" and out of the door we sprinted.
I borrowed DSOTM later and bought it soon after.
mr sneff
23-11-2013, 08:28
What is it with WYWH? I can't see it myself - I have a copy, but apart from "Shine on you Crazy Diamond", the rest of the album is pretty routine. My favourite Floyd LP is 'Atom Heart Mother', but I'm probably in a minority here.
I like WYWH more than DSOTM, Have a Cigar is a great track. But Atom Heart Mother is my favourite Floyd album too.
Led Zeppelin my favourite band,i remember doing acid whilst listening to DSOTM many years ago yeah quite an album just the way it was intended to be listened to,just doesnt sound the same nowadays now im straight and boring :mental:
mr sneff
29-11-2013, 17:51
Led Zeppelin my favourite band,i remember doing acid whilst listening to DSOTM many years ago yeah quite an album just the way it was intended to be listened to,just doesnt sound the same nowadays now im straight and boring :mental:
Habe you ever done The Dark Side of the Rainbow? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow
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