Wednesday, April 13, 2011

'The Dark Side Of The Moon'

The Dark Side of the Moon was Pink Floyd's eighth album and there's a really good chance that most rock and roll fans can name any of the first seven.

Imagine The Beatles becoming famous from Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Pink Floyd had their muse. It was Syd Barrett. They're former frontman, who went crazy and left the band some five years earlier in the late 1960s. Roger Waters and Co. could not get over the loss of their bandmate.

One of the overarching elements of The Dark Side of the Moon are the snippets of spoken word sprinkled throughout the album, over and between the music. They recruited random people, visitors and staff to look at flash cards and answer right off the top of their head and record these answers.

Questions included the person's favorite food, color, their tendency for violence and more. Whatever got the most outrageous or darkest answers.

Generally, the answers should match the mood of the album that mirrored the ramblings and mindsets of a mental patient. Cut intos segments, these answers sounded quite disturbing and literally insane.

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