Dark Side of the Moon 50th anniversary

[struth]

Hi Grant, as you may have seen I have just listened to DSOTM on the 2016 re-master on vinyl and also on the 40th Anniversary SACD to try and get a clear and recent view. Both are very listenable, the 2016 vinyl sounds better than I remember it, but maybe that is due to my recent system changes. They actually sound very similar IMO, but I would say the SACD 40th release has the edge, it has slightly more air and detail in the mix, the difference is quite subtle. I suppose you could argue this was down to the limitations of my systems vinyl replay capabilities, I do not think this is the case though as I have some other albums that exhibit the same sense of air and detail as the DSOTM SACD. Anyway I can happily listen to either versions.

think i tested 4.. original vinyl, the reissue on 180, the sacd and the cd. might have been 2 cds. the original vinyl was my preference, but the rest were all pretty good. the old vinyl just ticked more boxes and gave me a few extra shivers lol

[AJSki2fly]

think i tested 4.. original vinyl, the reissue on 180, the sacd and the cd. might have been 2 cds. the original vinyl was my preference, but the rest were all pretty good. the old vinyl just ticked more boxes and gave me a few extra shivers lol

I'll have a test listen of the original Vinyl I have over the next few days and see if my view changes.

[Jimbo]

That would be useful. Do you know which pressing you original DSOTM vinyl is? If you have a code I can check it up on Discogs.

[AJSki2fly]

That would be useful. Do you know which pressing you original DSOTM vinyl is? If you have a code I can check it up on Discogs.

it is this one https://www.discogs.com/release/2666...de-Of-The-Moon I can check the exact Matrix runout if you want.

[Macca]

Yes Martin, you do have a point in that how it was originally produced was how the band hopefully wanted it to sound at the time, so maybe that is how we should appreciate it. However I believe that PF released the 2018 re-master with the intention of it sounding as they would have like it to originally, or perhaps if you are cynical it was just to get some more money for the record company and the band.

I actually don't care how the band wanted it to sound. However it turned out and for whatever reasons - that is it.

For example I have the Steve Wilson remix of 'Aqualung' - it sounds good and I know Ian Anderson was never happy with the original, but it's not the real 'Aqualung' to me.

[Jimbo]

it is this one https://www.discogs.com/release/2666...de-Of-The-Moon I can check the exact Matrix runout if you want.

Think that is a 5th pressing. Should be very good.

[Barry]

I actually don't care how the band wanted it to sound. However it turned out and for whatever reasons - that is it.

For example I have the Steve Wilson remix of 'Aqualung' - it sounds good and I know Ian Anderson was never happy with the original, but it's not the real 'Aqualung' to me.

In an interview with Dave Gilmour, he said that personally he would have loved to have shared the experience of someone who had just bought the LP, and was listening to it for the first time.

It thus a moot point about how PF wanted DSOTM to sound; they had been involved with the recording for so long it's probable that they themselves didn't really know exactly how it should sound.

[sessylU]

This was the first album I owned on vinyl. I got it for my 16th birthday, so seeing the 50th anniversary makes me feel old.

BUT, that 16th birthday was in 2003, and the version I got was the 30th anniversary, which I understand will have made a different generation of music lovers feel old then.

[Barry]

Well I was around when DSOTM was first released. I was also around to watch the first episode of Doctor Who on TV. So yes, it makes me feel very old.

[Swann36]

Sadly not perhaps he’ll see this post and do the right thing