Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Review

Maybe it's a bit silly calling this one of the greatest albums of all time, here in 2009. As if this weren't already a scientifically-proven fact. After all, how many records has it broken/held? How many widely-viewed best-of-all-time lists has this album made?

Pink Floyd perfected the art of the concept album, and Dark Side is definitely the masterpiece. Other strong cuts include Wish You Were Here, the very underrated Animals, and of course, The Wall.

Roger Waters, the group's eventual driving creative force and frontman (until he left the band), was just then coming into his own during the making of Dark Side. It was the group's guitarist and friend David Gilmour who implored Waters to believe in himself, especially in terms of his songwriting and vocals.

Waters is a bit nuts, and albums from Dark Side onward are laced with reflective paranoia and momentary lapses of sanity. What's that? Why did I say he was nuts? Well for starters, he spit on a fan during a concert and he sued Pink Floyd (and lost the case) after leaving them because albums were still being written and released.

But who cares about that. Go listen to this one. Then the other aforementioned albums, and finally do like me and pine for the return of the concept album as a respected genre. Radiohead is almost there.