Dark Side of the Moon - 40 Years Old Last Month (in 2013)

[Canard]

My son [erroneously] pointed out to me that Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was 40 years old last month [but it was 40 years old last month in 2013 as willeypicket has pointed out below]. Do I feel [even older] old or what?

Pink Floyd seems to have commissioned a series of cover art variations as a little celebration of the album's longevity.

Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon 40th Anniversary Cover Art | Zumic

March 2013 marks the 40th Anniversary of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. To celebrate, they've uploaded artistic variations of the famous prism cover art on the original album. According to Pink Floyd's Facebook page, most of the art is designed by Storm Thorgerson of Storm Studios and (c...

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[chazmo]

^ Thanks for posting that, Canard. Indeed.... 40 years? Jeez!

 

[wileypickett]

Forty? How old would you feel if you knew it was 50 years old?!

As it was 40 years old in 2013; it'll be 50 next year.

 

[Canard]

Forty? How old would you feel if you knew it was 50 years old?!

As it was 40 years old in 2013; it'll be 50 next year.

Yes. I failed to notice the date in article, as did my son. I looked at my son's email before the coffee had kicked in.



It is worse than forty.

 

[MacGuild]

Perhaps this one depicts how lot of people may have experienced the original cover, back in the day...

 

[twocorgis]

I've been dabbling in high resolution audio files since getting an amplifier capable of decoding them, and boy does the 24 bit/192khz rip of this album sound good!

 

[chazmo]

Hahahaha.... Old news. Canard, it's funny, but I thought 40 years sounded a bit young when you said it. Anyway, old is as old does...

 

[Midnight Toker]

Was gonna say....Whaaa? The Wall turned 40 three years ago!!

In recent years, I've really come to enjoy this reggae version of the Dark Side album, called Dub Side of the Moon by the Easy Star Allstars. It's REALLY good and completely retains the entire feel and vibe of the original while allowing you to dig your feet into some warm sand while sitting under a palm tree w/ a icy rum drink in your hand.

Good stuff!

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=dub+side+of+the+moon+full+album

 

[walrus]

During the numerous times I listened to that album, and given my condition at the time, I'm not sure any time actually went by...

walrus

 

[twocorgis]

Was gonna say....Whaaa? The Wall turned 40 three years ago!!

In recent years, I've really come to enjoy this reggae version of the Dark Side album, called Dub Side of the Moon by the Easy Star Allstars. It's REALLY good and completely retains the entire feel and vibe of the original while allowing you to dig your feet into some warm sand while sitting under a palm tree w/ a icy rum drink in your hand.

Good stuff!

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=dub+side+of+the+moon+full+album

I have that one!

 

[Cougar]

Pink Floyd seems to have commissioned a series of cover art variations as a little celebration of the album's longevity.

Wow, that's a lot of variations!

BTW, the Moon actually has no "dark side." The side facing away from Earth gets plenty of sunshine during and around new Moon.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Wow, that's a lot of variations!

BTW, the Moon actually has no "dark side." The side facing away from Earth gets plenty of sunshine during and around new Moon.

Correct, but I've always associated the term not with the light of the sun, but rather w/ the first manned lunar orbits that "went dark" while on the side of the moon not visible from earth, which broke all radio contact and left ground control quite anxious until they reappeared on the other side. I believe they even referred to it as "going dark" in real time during those early missions. The "dark side" of the moon was also topographically unknown to mankind until those early orbits as the moon is in tidal lock w/ the earth. From earth we have only ever seen one side of it, which further adds to the "dark side" moniker.

 

[Uke]

My son [erroneously] pointed out to me

Never trust anyone under 50.

 

[wileypickett]

I was a Pink Floyd fan until the release of Dark Side. I bought the UK import version in college, which a few shops had before the US version came out, listened to it once, proclaimed it the worst album of their career and sold it back to the same shop in the hopes of recouping some of my money.

And then watched it go on to become one of the best selling albums of all time -- which shows I really had my finger on the pulse of pop music trends back then.

 

[chazmo]

Hey, Glenn, if you haven't played that Dub Side album, give it a listen. It's really good and it's very funny!

 

[Canard]

During the numerous times I listened to that album, and given my condition at the time, I'm not sure any time actually went by...

walrus

My cousin and I shared a house at that time. Between us we had a high-end Thorens turntable with a Stanton 681 series cartridge, a massive Marantz pre-amp, a (Bob Carver) 700 Watt Phase Linear power amp, and a set of AR-LSTs. Dark Side was physically imprinted on by force our brains.

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[fronobulax]

Correct, but I've always associated the term not with the light of the sun, but rather w/ the first manned lunar orbits that "went dark" while on the side of the moon not visible from earth, which broke all radio contact and left ground control quite anxious until they reappeared on the other side. I believe they even referred to it as "going dark" in real time during those early missions. The "dark side" of the moon was also topographically unknown to mankind until those early orbits as the moon is in tidal lock w/ the earth. From earth we have only ever seen one side of it, which further adds to the "dark side" moniker.

Funny, it was always explained to me from an Earth-centric point of view. The "dark side" of the moon was the side we never saw. Dark was used in the sense of "the unknown" as in Stanley referring to unexplored Africa as "the Dark Continent". The moon's failure to rotate was always the key point in the explanation. The idiom of "going dark" in radio was known but no one in my acquaintance chose to explain it that way.

 

[lungimsam]

I thought the moon emitted its own light until I was about twenty, when my friend informed me that it did not.
I was not into science much in high school.
But I was into guitar playing!!
Still don't know if it does or not. When you look back on science history they change their minds alot through the centuries.

 

[Guildedagain]

If the sun is out in space, why is it so dark?

 

[Guildedagain]

When you look back on science history they change their minds alot through the centuries.

We now rotate around the sun?