Kccitystar Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 I know good music when I hear it and March 17th, 1973 saw the US release of one of the most amazing albums ever. Track Listing 1. Speak To Me 2. Breathe 3. On The Run 4. Time 5. Great Gig In The Sky 6. Money 7. Us And Them 8. Any Colour You Like 9. Brain Damage 10. Eclipse Official DSotM Website. Which includes a list of 30 facts about the album such as 15. Australian radio listeners voted the album the best album to have sex to in 1990. The Wikipedia entry because that's where the lazy man gets facts. A bit about it being recorded Recorded by the band and staff engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road Studios between June 1972 and January 1973, the album sessions made use of the most advanced techniques available for recording instruments and sound effects in rock music at that time. Along with the conventional rock band instrumentation, Pink Floyd added prominent synthesisers to their sound, as well as Alan Parsons devising and recording some unconventional noises: an assistant engineer running around the studio's echo chamber (during "On the Run"); during the song "Time", myriad antique clocks chiming simultaneously, and a specially-treated bass drum made to sound like a human heartbeat. The heartbeat is most audible as the intro and the outro to the album, but it can also be heard underneath most of the album—the song "Time" and "On the Run" has the low thudding underneath the rest. Roger Waters wrote all of the lyrics in the album and created the early demo tracks in a small garden shed-turned-recording studio at his home. It was in there he also created the intro to "Money" by experimenting with dropping a range of monetary objects. Another novelty of the recording is the metronomic and rhythmic sequence of sound effects played during "Speak to Me" and "Money". This was achieved by Parsons laboriously splicing together recordings of ringing cash registers, clinking coins, tearing paper, and buzzing counting machines onto a two-track tape loop (later adapted to four tracks in order to create a unique "walk around the room" effect in quadrophonic presentations of the album). The sonic experimentation on the album required every member of the band to operate the faders simultaneously in order to mix down the intricately assembled multitrack recordings of several of the songs (particularly "On the Run"). The infamous Wizard of Oz syncing. With both album and movie sounds simultaneously. (Just the first album run.) Without the Oz sounds. Comments say the timing is a bit off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee4Life Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 I have this CD. It's one of the best ones I own. This is the one I purchased about 17 years ago, right here. It was from a company called the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab and they were supposed to gold plate these CD's. It says on Amazon that it is worth fifty dollars but I didn't spend that much for it. I think I got it for about twenty dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 I'm not an advocate of illegal drugs, in any way shape or form. But if you are under the influence of anything of the like, listen to this album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRog Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Great Gig in the Sky FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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