becasue is an album that talk's about life...about the problems that actual society has, you know...war, money, anf also touch something that all of us can have, crazyness so...that's why DSOTM is the Greatest Album EVer!!!
It is a brilliantly themed album complete with many concepts, such as the fear of getting old, personal alienation, anti-materialism and insanity. Musically is also a milestone in its instrumentalization and sheer mastery. Long live Waters, Gilmour, Mason and Wright!!
i simply love this album but at first i have to admit i was totally confused as to what 'prog rock' even was, why there were all these sound effects, why whole tracks were at times only fragments and above all else, WHAT THE HELL IT ALL MEANT!!
'Dark side' didnt have a selection of unrelated songs like every other album i'd ever heard, and it wasn't quite like 'The Wall' either, one unified coherent story. It was more of an experience, atmosphere over seperate songs, mood music, a treatise on the nature of man.
And what an experience.You fee like your taken on sight seeing through the entire history of the world, through the defeated futility of 'Time', the voice of Gilmour (?)often frustrated and desperate sounding here as he waxes philosphic on the ravages of that undefeatable enemy, through the dark sarcastic indictment of 'Money' with its sleazy saxophone work a perfect accompaniment,through the extended images of war and the dirty sham of class manipulation from (which is even more topical today )'Us and them' to the one of the greatest conclusions in all of music, the haunting,epic but still strangely comforting 'Brain Damage/Eclipse', which further illustrates the insight of madness as in sense, liberation, a kind of freedom from the even more deranged insanity of modern civilization, & Comforting because they seems to be singing down from the heavens (with a choir of gospel divas no less) in a sense, 'this is all there is so don't get hung up in the petty hypocrisies of the day, enjoy yourself,live and love, because this is how it is and probably, always will be....in the end we all end up on the dark side of the moon (with Syd) Afterall.