The Music Banter Members' Journals Monthly Update Thread

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And so we come finally to the reinstigation of my

which comes from

one of our newer members, who has this to say about “Dark Side of the Moon”. Sure, we all love it (well, most of us: those of us with taste!) but what I like about this is the idea of handing the album on down the generations, father to son, and maybe to his son's son in time, and the universally positive reaction, proving that this album is, indeed, a timeless classic.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1973

Almost hard to believe there was a time when nobody had heard of this album. Back when it was released no-one I hung with knew who or what Pink Floyd was. When the song Money started getting played on the radio a lot and ears perked up, but in all honesty, we actually thought that the band was a black funk group based on that track.

Listening to the full album for the first few times was a pretty mind blowing experience. Especially since pot had made the scene in a big way in our group. DSOTM was the first "concept" album for me. The lyrics were deep and really struck a chord - especially since my life was crap at the time. Here was a group of songs that spoke of despair, loss, dreams, war, insanity, regret, anger, greed, and ultimately, hope. Really heavy stuff for this 13 year old kid.

About 6 years ago (35 years after it was released) I gave a copy of this to my son and asked him to spend some serious time with it. He was absolutely blown away and ranks it as one of his faves to this day. Gotta love that.

They say some records will never be broken. DSOTM spending 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years!) on the Billboard charts is one of them.

Do I really have to post samples? Actually I won't since the album is really meant to be listened to as a whole anyway.

So we come to the end of another exhaustive edition of the Update Thread. Hope it's been fun reading. If your journal wasn't featured, well I'd be surprised but do let me know: anything published between the deadline for last week and this should definitely be mentioned here, but oversights do happen occasionally, especially when you have so much work to get through. If you feel jealous about all these guys and girls getting the limelight, you know what to do: get writing, start a journal. It doesn't take much and it can give you a great sense of achievement, plus it's great fun. Youre not in any way restricted as to how you run your journal once you don't stray outside the basic forum rules, so make a thread today and start your adventure! You'll be glad you did .
Probably.

Until next week,
Toodles!