The "Breathe" reprise they threw in here is also quite welcome and grabs you by the throat and makes you remember what they said in "Breathe." It helps you connect all the previous tracks together as a story.
Once again, an instrumental. However, it is much better than DT's instrumentals. Conveying more raw emotion than some songs with vocals, this song has soundclips of an old man accepting his fate and a gospel singer singing with guitar and keyboard. Almost, if not, definitely haunting.
"Money" is legendary. The lyrics are simply perfection and the accompanying gritty guitar mixed with a great bass line and cash registers is truly technically brilliant. This song is one of the most famous PF songs ever... and for once, it's justified.
"Us And Them" is one of the most heartwarming songs I've ever heard and its spot on the CD would be missed if it were taken off. Simply grips you from the beginning and the near 8 minutes you will spend listening to this will go by too fast. My personal favorite on the CD.
"Any Colour You Like" is the 2nd best instrumental on the CD if only because it leaves you with a strange taste in your mouth. I for one, don't know what to think of this track.
"Brain Damage" is without a doubt my 2nd favorite track on the CD for its uplifting melody and breath-taking chorus. While I think it should be the title track of the CD, it's not too big of a deal.
"Eclipse," with its simplistic melodies and ever growing instrumentation is a grand finale to an album that seems all too short.
Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon deserves every rave review it gets. Not overrated, far from it in fact. Every A+ it recieves is deserved. And I give it just that. An A+. One of my, if not the favorite, albums in my collection.
Wow.
Song to DL: Us And Them.
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
thanks and welcome Michael! It's always fun and exciting to experience a classic through the eyes (or ears) or someone discovering it for the first time.
Who is After Scenes From a Memory by? It isn't in Amazon.
2 - Echoes
I think its worthwhile mentioning that DSOTM was released in 1973, 2 decades before DT had their success with IaW and SFAM. The Capitol release date of 1990 is misleading.
3 - Aaman
Eric, "Scenes From A Memory" is a Dream Theater album - very much on Amazon. It's listed as "Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory"
4 - Eric Olsen
ah, I have given away my total lack of knowledge of Dream Theater
5 - gurveen
The greatest album of 21 century Dark side of the moon.
6 - Aaman
Hate to break it to you -but it's an album of the 20th century
7 - Sue
Dream Theatre has done some of the PF songs - Hey You, I remember...but its nothing compred to the original..
The only Dream Theatre number I really like is Take Away My Pain...what say others?
8 - Neil
Actually, Dream theater did a cover of the whole DSOTM live, along with some extra stuff (some song from the wall, etc.)
That's also a very good album along with my favorite of all time Scenes from a memory
Definitely two albums you should get your hands on.