History Main / TheDarkSideOfTheMoon

* The 1990 [[Film/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon Sci-Fi/Horror film]].

* The 2002 French {{Mockumentary}}

The Dark Side Of The Moon may refer to:

* [[Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon The Album]] by Music/PinkFloyd.

* Not to be confused with [[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon Dark of the Moon]], the third film of the live action ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' films.

* The [[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon third film]] of the live action ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' films.
* The [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E16DarkSideOfTheMoon 16th episode of season 5]] of ''{{Series/Supernatural}}''

* The 2002 French {{Mockumentary}}

* The 1990 [[Film/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon Sci-Fi/Horror film]].

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->''"There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun."''
-->--'''Gerry O'Driscoll''', doorman on Abbey Road Studios, closing words

''The Dark Side of the Moon'', is a 1973 ProgressiveRock ConceptAlbum by PinkFloyd. Considered amongst their best (alongside ''TheWall'') the album remained on the Billboard Top 100 for 15 straight years. And it still remains one of the most sold albums ever, and is, at the time of this writing, only surpassed by MichaelJackson's ''Thriller'' and [[Music/{{ACDC}} AC/DC]]'s ''Back in Black''.

The album was Pink Floyd's big breakthrough, and made them a mainstream name. But this sudden super-stardom also sowed the seeds to the band's, and especially Roger Waters', later ArtistDisillusionment, which became very apparent on the albums ''Wish You Were Here'' and ''The Wall''.
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* AlbumTitleDrop: "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon." ([[RefrainFromAssuming but the song is called]] "Brain Damage")
* BookEnds: Opens and ends with [[HeartbeatSoundtrack heartbeats]].
* BreatherEpisode: The more upbeat "Money", placed right after the rather sad "The Great Gig in the Sky".
* ConceptAlbum: The usual interpretation is that the concept is existentialism, shown most clearly in "Eclipse" and the lines in "Breathe" that foreshadow it:
-->All you touch and all you see
-->Is all your life will ever be.
* CoverVersion: Several bands, including {{Phish}}, TheFlamingLips and DreamTheater, have covered ''the entire album''.
* DarkReprise: "Breathe (Reprise)", which comes in just after "Time". Compared to the relaxed, airy "Breathe", the reprise has a more tired, worn-out tempo.
* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "Time". The Music/{{Instrumentals}} themselves could count.
* EpicRiff: "Money"'s bass riff.
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Clocks ("Time") and cash registers/coins/paper ("Money").
* {{Existentialism}}: Arguably a large theme
** "Breathe": "All that you touch and all that you see / is all your life will ever be"
** "Time": "And then one day you find / Ten years have got behind you / No one told you when to run / You missed the starting gun."
** "Eclipse": "And everything under the sun is in tune / but the sun is eclipsed by the moon."
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Besides "The Great Gig in the Sky" -> "Money" (since on vinyl, they were in different sides), the transition between songs is seamless.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack
* HumansAreBastards
** Some of the quotes that appear and reappear on the album feature people's answers to the question "Did you ever have a fight and were you in your right?" Everyone automatically believes he or she was in their right.
** "Us & Them" is an entire plea against human conflicts for what are generally stupid reasons
** "Money": about money being the root of all evil, yet nobody seems to be able to escape from it.
* Music/{{Instrumentals}}: "Speak to Me" and "Any Colour You Like"
* ListSong: "Eclipse"
* LongRunner: 741 weeks - 15 straight years - on the Billboard Hot 200 chart. When Billboard began allowing recurrent albums back into the chart in 2009, the album returned to the chart within ''two weeks'' and has racked up 25+ further weeks since then.
* MoneySong: Well, "[[CaptainObvious Money]]".
* OneWomanWail: "The Great Gig In The Sky"
* PrecisionFStrike: "Don't give me that do goody-good bullshit!"
* SanitySlippageSong: "Brain Damage"
* SpokenWordInMusic: Some songs include samples of people talking, who were answering questions such as "When was the last time you were violent?", "Were you in the right?", "Are you afraid of death?" or "What is the dark side of the moon?". Among the people interviewed were PaulMcCartney and his wife Linda, but their answers weren't used as the band thought they were too generic - Paul's Music/{{Wings}} bandmate Denny Laine supplied the "I dunno, I was really drunk at the time" heard in the transition between "Money" and "Us and Them".
* TextlessAlbumCover: A really famous one!
* UncommonTime: "Money" alternates between 7/4 and 4/4.
** The song shifts from 7/4 to 4/4 only because that was the only way that David Gilmour could get the guitar solo right.
* UrbanLegend: The supposed "synchronisation" between this album and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
** All of the band members and Alan Parsons, the engineer for the album, has stated that this is a coincidence.
-->'''David Gilmour''': Some guy with too much time on his hands had this idea of combining ''Wizard of Oz'' with ''Dark Side of the Moon''.
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** "Breathe": "All that you touch and all that you see/ is all your life will ever be"
** "Time": "10 years have gone behind you/ no-one told you when to run/ you missed the starting gun."
** "Eclipse"

''The Dark Side of the Moon'', is a 1973 ProgressiveRock ConceptAlbum by PinkFloyd. Considered amongst their best (alongside ''TheWall'') the album remained on the Billboard Top 100 for 15 straight years. And it still remains one of the most sold albums ever, and is, at the time of this writing, only surpassed by MichaelJackson's ''Thriller'', their own ''TheWall'' (due to its release as a [[DistinctDoubleAlbum double album]]), and [[Music/{{ACDC}} AC/DC]]'s ''Back in Black''.

* Existentialism: Arguably a large theme

''The Dark Side of the Moon'', is a 1973 ProgressiveRock ConceptAlbum by PinkFloyd. Considered amongst their best (alongside ''TheWall'') the album remained on the Billboard Top 100 for 15 straight years. And it still remains one of the most sold albums ever, and is, at the time of this writing, only surpassed by MichaelJackson's ''Thriller'', their own ''TheWall'' (due to its release as a [[DistinctDoubleAlbum double album]]), and [[{{ACDC}} AC/DC]]'s ''Back in Black''.

* SpokenWordInMusic: Some songs include samples of people talking, who were answering questions such as "When was the last time you were violent?", "Were you in the right?", "Are you afraid of death?" or "What is the dark side of the moon?". Among the people interviewed were PaulMcCartney and his wife Linda, but their answers weren't used as the band thought they were too generic - Paul's {{Wings}} bandmate Denny Laine supplied the "I dunno, I was really drunk at the time" heard in the transition between "Money" and "Us and Them".

* BreatherEpisode: The more upbeat "Money", placed right after the [[{{Understatement}} rather sad]] "The Great Gig in the Sky".

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome

* EpilepticTrees: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow The Dark Side]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz of the Rainbow"]]

* ConceptAlbum: The theme seems to be the frustrations of life, or simply life itself.

* EpilepticTrees: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow The Dark Side]] [[TheWizardOfOz of the Rainbow"]]

* UrbanLegend: The supposed "synchronisation" between this album and ''TheWizardOfOz''.

* SpokenWordInMusic: Some songs have people talking (answering questions such as "When have you been violent", "Are you afraid of death?" or "What is the dark side of the moon?")

** The song shifts from 7/4 to 4/4 only because that was the only way that David Gilmour could get the guitar solo right.

The album was Pink Floyd's big breakthrough, and made them a mainstream name. But this sudden super-stardom also sewed the seeds to the band's, and especially Roger Waters', later ArtistDisillusionment, which became very apparent on the albums ''Wish You Were Here'' and ''The Wall''.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome

''The Dark Side of the Moon'', is a 1973 ProgressiveRock ConceptAlbum by PinkFloyd. Considered amongst their best (alongside ''TheWall'') the album remained on the Billboard Top 100 for 15 straight years. And it still remains one of the most sold albums ever, and is, at the time of this writing, only surpassed by MichaelJackson's ''Thriller'', their own ''The Wall'' (due to its release as a [[DistinctDoubleAlbum double album]]), and [[{{ACDC}} AC/DC]]'s ''Back in Black''.