History Music / TheDarkSideOfTheMoon

* DarkReprise: "Breathe (Reprise)", which comes in just after "Time". Compared to the relaxed, airy "Breathe", the reprise has a more tired, worn-out tempo.

* UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish: "But if you ask for a ''pay rise''/It's no surprise/They're giving none away."

* RefrainFromAssuming: It's "Brian Damage", not the title track. There isn't one.

* BritishEnglish: "But if you ask for a ''pay rise''/It's no surprise/They're giving none away."

** Easy Star Records also released a [[BetterThanItSounds reggae]] version called ''Dub Side of the Moon''.

* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "Time". The Music/{{Instrumentals}} themselves could count.

* Music/{{Instrumentals}}: "Speak to Me","On the Run","Any Colour You Like", and some would count "Great Gig in the Sky"

* EpicRiff: "Money"'s bass riff.

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Designed the iconic cover art.

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art.

* PyramidPower: {{InvokedTrope Invoked]] with the cover art, as well as the accompanying poster and stickers.

* 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 Music/{{Paul McCartney}} 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".

** "Us & Them" is an entire plea against human conflicts for what are generally stupid reasons

* 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.

* Music/{{Instrumentals}}: "Speak to Me" and "Any Colour You Like"

** 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 Dark Side of the Moon'', is a 1973 ProgressiveRock ConceptAlbum by Music/PinkFloyd. Considered amongst their best (alongside ''Music/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 Music/MichaelJackson's ''Thriller'' and [[Music/{{ACDC}} AC/DC]]'s ''Back in Black''.

''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''.

* BookEnds: Opens and ends with [[HeartbeatSoundtrack heartbeats]].

* CoverVersion: Several bands, including {{Phish}}, TheFlamingLips and DreamTheater, have covered ''the entire album''.

* {{Existentialism}}: Arguably a large theme

* 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".

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

* NonAppearingTItle: [[CaptainObvious The intrumentals]] and Brain Damage.