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Post by thinyoungmoon on Sept 17, 2017 21:39:23 GMT
But if you think about it another way (which I did), the white light is all that they were, all that they would be, all their potential untapped -- and then the album itself is the prism, the lens through which their sound was filtered, refined, into the Pink Floyd that most people think of when they think of Pink Floyd. Everything they did afterward, they already had in them -- and you hear glimpses of it on earlier albums, Meddle and OBC most notably -- but it was only with this album that the potential** was realised.
**I'm talking about their potential to make concept albums with brilliant, thought-provoking, prescient commentary on human experience, all wreathed in increasingly deliberate and masterful soundscapes, rather than their potential to make good music -- which of course they had all along. I love that interpretation, this is much more beautiful than the interpretation I always had. What I have always thought is the following: A main theme in the album is subjectivity and our non-ability to recognise the truth, in my opinion, and therefore I've always thought that this was the perfect example of it. Everyone thinks that light is white, just like everyone thinks, the moon has a dark side. We think that because that's what our senses, or in that case our vision, tell us. But we're wrong, how the colourful light that comes out of the prism shows. But the thing is, that what proves us wrong in our assumption that light is always white is the fact that we can see colourful light coming outside the prism. But there it is again, we SEE it, we trust our senses again. So in the end, every time we discover that we've been wrong, fooled by our senses, we can't be really sure still, whether we finally know the truth, or whether we've just climbed one step higher on a huge ladder of being misled. Therefore, the message I've always read from the cover is: And all you touch and all you see /Is all your life will ever be are (we're dependable and constrained by our senses and our perception and therefore never capable of recognising the truth) But the true genius of the album cover is that all these interpretations are possible!
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Post by thinyoungmoon on Sept 18, 2017 20:59:53 GMT
Sorry for the double post but I just had another idea on the cover and although it is probably the most far-fetched, unrealistic, overinterpreted theory ever, I rather like it and thought you would do too: Okay, so we all now Syd was a genius and the other members dedicated many of their songs to him like for example also 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'. So, what if the idea of the 'crazy diamond' was already visible on the album cover of DSOTM? Because, after all, diamonds are also able to refract light if they are in the right shape, aren't they? So here's my crazy theory: The prism on the cover is actually a diamond which is meant to represent no one else than Syd Barret. And he as a crazy, creative genius is able to make things visible no one of us ever saw before. With Syd's vivid imagination, he has been able to turn something as ordinary as light into a rainbow of different colours (only a metaphor of course) and opened the eyes to all the other PF members. Whatdaya think, have I lost it completely now?
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Post by The Lunatic on Sept 19, 2017 2:10:55 GMT
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Post by The Lunatic on Mar 1, 2018 20:33:22 GMT
Happy forty-fifth to the greatest album that has ever lived.
^That gif pretty much sums it up.
And then one day you find 45 years have got behind you
Here's to many more years of Dark Side of the Moon being the masterpiece that we love.
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Post by The Dark Side Of The Spoon on Mar 1, 2018 23:35:05 GMT
Happy birthday, DSoTM! It can have a birthday cake from us and them in any colour it likes, but let's just hope we have the time and money to buy it candles before the eclipse... βπΊπ
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Post by (that's the dog) on Mar 2, 2018 0:37:00 GMT
Yay! happy birthday, Dark Side of The Moon!
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Post by The Lunatic on Mar 1, 2019 17:24:56 GMT
Once again, happy birthday to the greatest album that has ever lived. I'm listening to it now. β€
Also happy birthday to the forum (and my account here): I believe seamusthesheepdog created it on 29 February, but obviously we can't use that date this year so 1 March will have to do.
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Post by The Lunatic on Mar 1, 2019 17:32:55 GMT
Apart from the INCREDIBLE music on the album, my favourite aspect of it is probably the comforting aspect. This is one of the most comforting albums I know as there are lots of human weaknesses addressed. For example, in Breathe (I've already mentioned them above), in Time (the feeling of wasting one's time and not doing anything meaningful with one's life), in The Great Gig In The Sky the fear of death is mentioned, greed in Money, and of course insanity in Brain Damage. All these flaws are addressed but, except for Money maybe, not in a preachy way but rather in an understanding and often also comforting way so that one doesn't feel alone with all the imperfections anymore which, at least I did, one recognises in oneself while listening to them. And the big (but not final) climax 'I'll see you at the dark side of the moon' was always one of the most comforting moments in a piece of music ever, for me because it basically says: 'Everyone is a little insane because there is no such thing as 'normal' as everyone is individual anyway. You're not alone in your craziness and imperfection'. Aww I wish thinyoungmoon would come back.
Anyway, I think she hit the nail on the head there -- the reason this album has been so insanely successful and popular is because it is comforting, in a perspective-giving but not closing way. It has a universally relatable aspect to it that connects with so, so many people, when it came out and ever since. I know that on my part, certainly, it's the one I always go to when I need some centering.
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Post by Mad Bugger on Aug 9, 2020 5:01:29 GMT
Do forgive me if this isn't the right place for my question, but by any chance does anyone know where Roger "The Hat" Manifold was from? He's the one that did the speaking bit in Us And Them, as well as in On The Run. It's an interesting accent, and I can't quite place it, myself.
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