'Speak to Me': The Legacy of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the MoonRussell Reising The endurance of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon on the Billboard Top 100 Chart is legendary, and its continuing sales and ongoing radio airplay ensure its inclusion on almost every conceivable list of rock's greatest albums. This collection of essays provides indispensable studies of the monumental 1973 album from a variety of musical, cultural, literary and social perspectives. The development and change of the songs is considered closely, from the earliest recordings through to the live, filmed performance at London's Earls Court in 1994. The band became almost synonymous with audio-visual innovations, and the performances of the album at live shows were spectacular moments of mass-culture although Roger Waters himself spoke out against such mass spectacles. The band's stage performances of the album serve to illustrate the multifaceted and complicated relationship between modern culture and technology. The album is therefore placed within the context of developments in late 1960s/early 1970s popular music, with particular focus on the use of a variety of segues between tracks which give the album a multidimensional unity that is lacking in Pink Floyd's later concept albums. Beginning with 'Breathe' and culminating in 'Eclipse', a tonal and motivic coherence unifies the structure of this modern song cycle. The album is also considered in the light of modern day 'tribute' bands, with a discussion of the social groups who have the strongest response to the music being elaborated alongside the status of mediated representations and their relation to the 'real' Pink Floyd. |
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... synthesizer waves , and ricochet with Mason's rim shots , roto - tom syncopation , and cymbal crashes . We're convinced that David Gilmour , Nick Mason , Roger Waters , and Richard Wright are not , after all , ' ordinary men ' . There's ...
... synthesizer waves , and ricochet with Mason's rim shots , roto - tom syncopation , and cymbal crashes . We're convinced that David Gilmour , Nick Mason , Roger Waters , and Richard Wright are not , after all , ' ordinary men ' . There's ...
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... synthesizer riffs that will eventually become The Dark Side of the Moon. Beginning and ending musically with 'Echoes', Live at Pompeii captures Pink Floyd at the apogee of their pre-Dark Side power, basking in their sense of ...
... synthesizer riffs that will eventually become The Dark Side of the Moon. Beginning and ending musically with 'Echoes', Live at Pompeii captures Pink Floyd at the apogee of their pre-Dark Side power, basking in their sense of ...
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... synthesizer and he doesn't become us . ' Slightly later in the film , the camera lingers on Rich Wright playing some of the piano line to ' Us and Them ' , with Wright and Waters then discussing precisely what it is that Rick is doing ...
... synthesizer and he doesn't become us . ' Slightly later in the film , the camera lingers on Rich Wright playing some of the piano line to ' Us and Them ' , with Wright and Waters then discussing precisely what it is that Rick is doing ...
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... synthesizers. It is in the bridge sections of 'Us and Them' that the suite approaches the edge and intensity of the recorded performance. Gilmour and Waters's voices, as well as the entire instrumentation, surge out of the mellow vocals ...
... synthesizers. It is in the bridge sections of 'Us and Them' that the suite approaches the edge and intensity of the recorded performance. Gilmour and Waters's voices, as well as the entire instrumentation, surge out of the mellow vocals ...
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... synthesizers, looking like a Tangerine Dream concert from 1973. The musical buildup in 'Time' is accompanied by a video of clock mechanisms, Daliesque timepieces, and a skeletal robotic figure striking a drum in a pose that exactly ...
... synthesizers, looking like a Tangerine Dream concert from 1973. The musical buildup in 'Time' is accompanied by a video of clock mechanisms, Daliesque timepieces, and a skeletal robotic figure striking a drum in a pose that exactly ...
Contents
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Pink Floyd classic rock and white masculinities | |
music myth and narrative structure in The Dark | |
the sound and structure of The Dark Side of | |
tracing tonal coherence in The Dark Side of the Moon | |
the enigma of The Great Gig in the Sky | |
the Pink Floyd | |
reading The Dark Side of the Moons philosophical | |
covering the dark side | |
the influence of The Dark Side of the Moon on the next generations | |
an interview with | |
an annotated bibliography of selected reviews | |
Works cited | |
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Speak to Me: The Legacy of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon Russell Reising Limited preview - 2005 |
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