What's On The Dark Side Of The Moon

Dark Side Of The Moon is without doubt the best album in Pink Floyd History. This has been labeled a classic for all time and has been voted the best album in Australia. It was a album that was created as a concert album intended to be performed on stage. Anyone who has seen them play live is one of the luckiest people alive. The album was always about Syd Barret when Roger Waters started stringing together the lyrics for the songs. The very first song, Speak To Me, is in my view about Syd going mad in his mind. The song Breathe has always been in my mined a way of saying to Syd that you should breathe and not be afraid to care about the public. And also how your life will never be any better to him and how the work goes on. The song On The Run is take into depth the strain of work and travel and time management. The song Time Is of how if you waste your years in your youth, one day you'll wake up thinking that time has moved so quickly and no one told you to do anything in you life. The Song Breathe Reprise, no added on to the end of Time, explains the luxuries and comforts of living. Also the band make a reference to religion with the lines: The tolling of the iron bell calls the faithful to there needs to here the softly spoken magic spells. This maybe suggesting that the band or Roger Waters perticually are not religious. The song Great Gig In The Sky is a magical piece that wisks you away to another world. It has the voice of a women singing a dramatic and dynamic solo that has been created to sound like she was having a orgasim at the time. This piece has remain one of Richard Wright's favourite songs due to, what he says, the very blues type chords. This song was perhaps infulanced by Rick's taste for jazz. The song Money has some very true relizations about the prospect of money. It has a sax solo performed at P.U.L.S.E by Dick Parry and a guitar solo performed by David Gilmour which rivals his solo in Comfortably Numb at P.U.L.S.E. Then Us And Them points out the differences between the lives of one another in sociecty. It shows that in todays society we all live in a world that is verymuch to one group us and them. It is a shame it is this way because without this the world would be a better place. The song any colour you like is a demostration of Pink Floyds amazing abillity for arranging instrumental pieces. The song Brain Damage is very much about Syd and him going crazy. The song Eclipse sums up everything about what we do and that we are fine until we are driven mad with what we do. The Dark Side Of The Moon is basically a message that the dark side of the moon is the streek of madness inside all of us. The classic line at the end: There's no darkside of the moon really; as a matter of fact its all dark, means that we are all mad and we are living in a mad world.