Dark Side was literally the first vinyl record I ever listened to, it was about 1987, I was three, and picked it out of my dad’s vinyl collection based purely on the cover art. While it played I remember that even though I couldn’t read them well, I was very impressed that this band has thought to put the lyrics to their songs on the sleeve! Definitely a formative music experience for me and I fuck with Pink Floyd to this very day.
the first 6 times i fell asleep right after money. i didnt actually hear it in full until i was 21
It was Wish You Were Here for me! On a crappy cassette player, but with headphones.
I must have floated off hundreds of times… didn’t even smoke pot then. I was 14.Then, a little later, when I did smoke my first joint, it was Ummagumma. The studio part.
Yes, I still remember and won’t ever forget. Music was my first love, and it will be my last.
(This might sound like an ode to Pink Floyd but they were just the best that was available to me at that point)
I’m lucky enough that my first time was on vinyl. Great gig in the sky ends and you just sit there wondering what the fuck just happened to you.
You sit, and you sit, in silence because it’s end of side A. Then, when your ready, only when your ready, you get up flip the side and Money walks you back to you seat, album craft.
Now, the immediate jump from great gig in the sky to money is just jarring, you need the space to breathe
And second time and third time and thousands of times since 1973 when it came out! It’s the only album I’ve bought on 8-track, cassette, album, CD, and digitally throughout the years.
Amazing album, I can’t think of another album that has been an equal musical influence on me.
I was a kid when it came out, and I used to put it on lying on my back and listening to it with headphones when I went to bed.Ah yes drifting to sleep on the soothing sounds of On The Run…
Dark side and Wish you were Here were always my main albums growing up but in my older years I listen to Echoes (Live at Pompeii) almost daily. It’s my daily zen song.
Absolutely all great albums, I also had kind of an Echoes period. A Saucerful of Secrets with Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun is amazing too.
But Dark Side of the Moon somehow contains the essence of everything else Pink Floyd had made at the time, and somehow packs it more perfectly.
Not that I was aware of that when I first heard Dark Side of the Moon, but looking back, that album is their peak achievement.
And after Wish You Were here it changed and became something different, it is still good, but it doesn’t have quite the same magic.Obviously all subjective, you can put in IMO basically at the end of every line. 😋
That’s how I am with fearless. Love that song. Live at Pompeii was awesome though.
I’m stupid, I always mistake Meddle for being named Echoes, I think it’s because the Echoes number is the entire side 2, and because the ear with the rings in the water seems to me to illustrate echoes. So to me the proper name of the album should be “Echoes”. 😋
But yes Fearless is a great number too, Climb your hills your own way. My guess is this is somewhat inspired by Syd Baretts situation at the time. There is this sadness mixed with hope. This was also a major part of The Dark Side of the Moon.I’m with you all the way. Even the cover looks like it should be called echoes
I can’t remember the first time I heard the album but O had a girlfriend that loved them so we went to a Pink Floyd laser light show.
I’m not a fan of this era of rock music because it all seems less about rock and roll and more about showing off their skills
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I’ve had this on Vinyl on cheap extreme budget system, then tape, then on CD, then again on vinyl. Now on digital including SACD. Whether I hear it on supreme headphones, iems, speakers, there is no substitute. My one and only album of all time
My introduction to Pink Floyd was this live version of “Comfortably Numb.” Before that, I really only knew the name and maybe the line “we don’t need no education” from The Wall. I’ve been a fan ever since. But to this day, no song touches my soul quite like David Gilmour’s guitar solo.
Same here. Saw them play it live and I got weak in the knees. Sat down and just bawled. Felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders. Still can’t explain it, but yeah. Second solo is incomparable.
I was in middle school riding a bus to summer camp. Normally I slept on the bus but the evening before I broke open my parents’ CD collection to look for fresh tunes and found Dark Side of the Moon. Needless to say, no sleep on the bus that morning; I was totally hooked and spent the rest of the day listening at every available opportunity.
I can’t really say for an album, but I do vividly remember the “”“first”“” time I heard about Carpenter Brut’s “Le perv”.
It kept popping up in my youtube recommended for whatever reason, and I finally caved and played the video, and it was love at first sight. But the thing is, that song only keeps getting better and better the further you listen to it, only to culminate in one of the best song climax I ever heard.
Then “Hang 'em all” was recommended, and I also got my ears blasted with such delicate bass. And now it’s my top 2 favourite artist (Probably higher but I didn’t track my listens back then, then I discovered Caster with equally wonderful music…)
But it’s not my actual first time I heard the song. It was actually in hotline mia- An ad for the french dating website “adopteunmec.com”… That is a badly song name for that. Although the song didn’t click back then, either because SILENCE, BRAND or that I didn’t see the full ad.
I remember in a documentary the band were talking about the paradox that they are the only people who can’t have that amazing first cold listen to dark side and I think about that a lot
