Pink Floyd: The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon
If there are a handful of albums in the rock universe that deserve a bells-and-whistles DVD treatment, Dark Side of the Moon is clearly among them. In the '70s and '80s, the classic 1973 album by Pink Floyd remained on the Billboard 200 for a staggering 741 consecutive weeks, a record that will likely stand forever. Echoing themes of alienation, paranoia, and death, it is a dreamy, often trancelike tour through the subconscious of Floyd lyricist Roger Waters.
This 84-minute DVD offers a track-by-track look at the making of Dark Side of the Moon, featuring interviews with band members Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright, plus rare acoustic versions of "Breathe" and "Brain Damage."
For those fans interested in the story behind the crafting of one of rock's true landmark records, this is the equivalent of ambrosia. Discussions involve the studio-specific techniques used to create the clock loops on "Time," the cash register sounds on "Money," and the vocal chorus on "The Great Gig in the Sky." Special features include alternate versions of "Brain Damage," "Breathe," and "Time."
Just saw the documentary “The Making of Dark Side of the Moon.” Probably very informative if you’re not familiar with the album. But if you’re intimately familiar with it, as I am, I don’t think you’ll find anything new. I found it somewhat superficial.
Excellent documentary. I’m presently reading ‘Inside and out’ NICK MASSON’S bio about his 50 years as a member of the Floyd and it is very detailled. This documentary is a excellent short cute to get to know certain details on the band. Bravo.
Best group ever. I was so lucky to have seen their June 18, 1975. concert at Boston Garden. They played the whole Dark Side of the Moon album.
very good, worth a bump.
watched again after a year or so. Just brilliant to see all the inspiration and comments. RW mentioning that once you find your passion you take grasp of it. DG talking about success and what comes next re "Wish You Were Here". They all obviously came from sound foundations as they all made it through success without destroying themselves via drugs or personal abuse. How much longer will we have to wait until such a time as we can put an album like this on from start to finish and get it as a masterful collaboration with a theme almost to deep to comprehend. I look forward to that day but wonder if it will come. They are brilliant artists.
Thank you for putting this up and thank you Pink Floyd.
Perfect music and even better sentiments.
How to make progress, if only the world would listen.
Philw
To me Darkside is their masterpiece though Wish You Were Here follows behind closely. -- I turned 21 the summer of 1969 in London England when my friends put 21 hits of acid in the icing of my birthday cake without telling me, we did things like that then, no worries, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn was the Floyd in those days,magical. -- Listen to Darkside of the Moon while watching the Wizard of OZ with the sound of the movie off, weird how it all matches together.. no need to thank me...
Brilliant stuff, one of the best albums of the 70's and that is saying a lot. I saw the Floyd play live dozens of times when they first started playing at the Roundhouse and the UFO club in London with Syd and then at various live concerts around the UK in the 60's and throughout the 70's and early 80's. Amazing light shows and a fantastic sound system, what a band! All the Floyd albums are outstanding but this is one of the best.
Brilliant stuff, one of the best albums of the 70's and that is saying a lot. I saw the Floyd play live dozens of times when they first started playing at the Roundhouse and the UFO club in London with Syd and then at various live concerts around the UK in the 60's and throughout the 70's and early 80's. Amazing light shows and a fantastic sound system, what a band! All the Floyd albums are outstanding but this is one of the best.
@lakhotason
The Alan Parsons project...oh my, I had actually forgotten about them or him Jonathon...guy...sorta.... twas drugs ya know?
I graduated HS in 79 and APP was there. Hell, now I gotta go download some....
Down further in the forum someone talked about a guy who listened to this album (Dark Side of the Moon) every day for two years, starting with the day of it's release.
That was Animals for me, I fell asleep to that album for about 3 months and every night I heard more in the music and words than I had the night before. I was so incredibly awed by these guys and still am. I saw the Animals ( I actually think it was called the flesh show)performance live in Montreal 1977...I was 16 going on 17...I had a lot to learn(sung to The Sound of Music theme)
Naturally, after watching this doc, I had to dig up all my Floyd albums and listen to them.
I actually listened to Saucer Full of Secrets, sans acid....whoa what the heck is he saying????? I too was too young to have ever got to experience Syd at a concert, mores the pity.
Wow, I love this band!!!! I saw Floyd live on three separate occasions ....they changed my idea about what it meant to see a band on stage....psychedelics?...Sid was hard to understand without it. But Sid was only a base for the brilliance that came out. But to hear them talk about just jamming in E minor...oh my god.
Keep your religion...gimme a jam, and I will inspire you. ( that was mine, but a better one is:
Breathe, breathe in the air , don't be afraid to care...look around, choose your own ground....
I can't beat that one.
A
Its hard to recall alot of the concerts in those days- but this one?
Even the cops and security guards were ripped and grooving.
Amazing band, and perhaps will always be right there next to Abby Road as one of those truly magical moments.
It is heartening to see comments by teenagers who 'get' this now very old
music. They are discovering the moments created by Genesis, Crimson, Yes, and the like, that are still light years beyond anything else.
Epic album, Epic band. Pink Floyd will live forever.
Awsome docu and an album that will stand the test of time.
there are times when words simply fail.... there is only recourse to feel and to know and to love and to share.
enjoy
and thanks vlatko
Wonderful doc...took me back to the early 70's when I worked for a concert promoter for a few years, which made it easy for me to see just about any band coming through my area.
But apart from the live music, there were albums like this, the "headphone music" people have already spoken of. Sadly, I read recently that the current generations that have grown up with mp3 music have no idea how much is stripped away by that compression format. I wore out my albums like this right down to the vinyl...
"I'm in the high fidelity, first-class traveling set, and I think I need a Le-e-e-ar jet"
..*satisfied sigh*...
Thanks Vlatko!
No band, its musicians complimented each other perfectly, musically as did the Pink Floyd. I hate to say this, but Syd's departure was the blessing in disguise for Pink Floyd.
Roger Waters on his own is too out of this world, Gilmour brings him back down to earth in a beautiful and magical way. Rick Wright (R.I.P) and Nick Mason are the perfect remedies for the two of them.
Sadly Pink Floyd ended in 1984 and will never be the same now that Rick is gone.
I am blessed to have lived in the era that these guys were together. Pink Floyd has had a profound effect on me with years of memory and i am thankful for this.
had a friend in college back in 1985 or so. His name was Jim. Upon our listening to Dark Side of the Moon at this house one day, he confessed that he had listened to the entire album, start-to-finish each and every day for over two years.
He started this the very day he first heard it.
I saw Pink Floyd "Dark Side of The Moon" concert in Montreal 12/03/73, the day before my birthday. What a way to celebrate turning 15...thanks to my then boyfriend. My parents drove me from our country town, dropped me off at the door and were there waiting for me when i got out. That concert was followed by many others but none thrilled me as much...although The Stones in San Diego many many years later...got me thinking...what a feeling to be among such a pleased crowd!
az
All those who were lucky enough to get to a live performance...how I envy you. I'm listening to sheep actually as I type this and no band has ever had such an impact on me as Pink Floyd...
I can remember my youth when I would light up a big ol' fat doobie and just listen to Floyd for hours on end.I must admit though "Animals" was my favorite album from them.
Ah hell,they were all great!
Great video, I'm just bummed that they didn't talk about "Any Colour You Like".
Solid men and musically. I am going to listen to the album with my headphones before the month is over!! Check out their Pompei concert dvd...mind blowing and many of the past-footage shown in this documentary is on there!! And btw they're all still gorgeous!!
For years I have been listening and trying to analize this album by myself and with my friends. I think one of the best parts in this video is actually getting to see the other people that made up the back ground voices in the big gig in the sky. Their small contributed to album made for years worth of rewinding those parts in the song over and over again trying to figure out who's voice it was from the band. Now I know that it wasn't any of them at all. Currently one of the top three greatest Albums of all time, and for generations to come I'm sure. It will always be timeless to me and takes me back when I was 16 years old.
Gilmour said towards the end, he wished he could have been one of those people who could sit down with headphones on and listen to it for the first time ever in their life. Well, I am 37, been a musician for over 20 of those years, been in a band for 10, grew up learning Beatles and Stones etc, and then progressed into Grunge and Hard Rock later on, and yet last year in the spring months of 2009 just after separating with my wife, I listened to Dark Side of the Moon for the first time in my entire life (with earphones on I might add) and it completely changed my life and the way I saw and wrote music. Dark Side is in the top 5 of my most cherished and favourite albums...