Matter of Fact, It's All Dark

This is just a quick note to acknowledge of 50th birthday of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, an album so iconic that using the word “iconic” to describe it is a huge cliché. But, really though, Dark Side of the Moon is the epitome of iconic.

Anyway, so, yeah, 50 years. I was an oblivious seven-year-old on March 1, 1973, so I missed the initial impact of the Floyd’s magnum opus. I wasn’t paying attention to the next two, Wish You Were Here and Animals, when they were released either. I couldn’t avoid The Wall when it was released in 1979, thanks largely to the “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” hit single, but honestly I was more into listening to The Flying Lizards’ debut album at that point.

Finally, though, in college, I caught up with Dark Side of the Moon and was suitably blown away by it. It’s the kind of album that seems to have not even needed a release date. It’s hard to imagine a world in which Dark Side of the Moon didn’t exist.

I am sure that Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason got together today for a special luncheon and blew out candles on a Dark Side of the Moon 50th birthday cake.

Or maybe not.

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