History Trivia / TheDarkSideOfTheMoon

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: A box set of the album, called ''Immersion'', was released in 2011 as part of a massive re-release of the band's catalog. It includes ''four'' different mixes of the album, a live version performed in London in 1974, tour films, demos, a hardcover book, and other collectibles. The same was done with ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall''.

* NamesTheSame: British BluesRock band Medicine Head released an album titled ''Dark Side of the Moon'' a year before Pink Floyd did, while they were writing this album. Once the Medicine Head album was deemed a commercial flop, Pink Floyd went back to using the ''[=TDSOTM=]'' title for themselves, having debuted their album live as ''Eclipse''.

** The industrial metal band Ministry named their 1999 studio album Dark Side of the ''Spoon''.

* NamesTheSame: British BluesRock band Medicine Head released an album titled ''Dark Side of the Moon'' a year before Pink Floyd did, while they were writing this album. Once the Medicine Head album was deemed a commercial flop, Pink Floyd went back to using the ''[=DSOTM=]'' title for themselves, having debuted their album live as ''Eclipse''.

'''Nick Mason:''' It's absolute nonsense, it has nothing to do with ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. [[SarcasmMode It was all based on]] ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.

** The first trailer for Creator/DenisVilleneuve's ''Film/{{Dune|2021}}'' concludes with a choral cover of "Eclipse".
** The industrial metal band Ministry named their 1999 studio album Dark Side of the ''Spoon''.

* WorkingTitle: The album was originally going to be called ''Eclipse'', which was the name used for the band's 1972 concerts.

--->'''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''.
--->'''Nick Mason:''' It's absolute nonsense, it has nothing to do with ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. [[SarcasmMode It was all based on]] ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.

* BlackSheepHit: "Money", taken from this album, is quite different from the band's usual style.

** "On the Run" was originally a bluesy jam.

** "The Great Gig in the Sky" had recordings of preachers in early versions.

----

* OneWomanWail: Clare Torry couldn't quite summon the right emotions for her wordless vocalizations on "Great Gig in the Sky" until she struck on the idea that, rather than doing vocals, she should treat her voice as if it were another instrument.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Music/PaulMcCartney and his wife Linda were interviewed for the voices on the album, but their responses weren't as interesting as the others and the recordings weren't used. Interviewed for John Harris' ''The Dark Side of the Moon: The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece'', Waters said that their answers were "trying too hard to be funny".
** "On the Run" was originally a bluesy jam.
** "The Great Gig in the Sky" had recordings of preachers in early versions.

** It was also seen as such for Quadrophonic (4-channel surround) sound systems, which used specially-made vinyl albums and 8-track tapes, which tried to gain traction during the '70s. A 5.1-channel surround mix was released on Super Audio CD (a CD format developed by Sony & Philips that tried to gain traction before the advent of UsefulNotes/BluRay), for the album's 30th anniversary in 2003, and this release is so coveted among digital audiophiles that it briefly went back into print in 2013 and 2019. Both the 4.0 mix and 5.1 would eventually be included on the...

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: A box set of the album, called "Immersion," was released in 2011 as part of a massive re-release of the band's catalog. It includes ''four'' different mixes of the album, a live version performed in London in 1974, tour films, demos, a hardcover book, and other collectibles. The same was done with ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall''.

** The first trailer for Creator/DenisVilleneuve's ''Film/{{Dune|2020}}'' concludes with a choral cover of "Eclipse".

* ReferencedBy: "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" from The Music/BeastieBoys' ''Music/PaulsBoutique'' samples "Time", while "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" from the same album samples "Breathe".

* ReferenceBy: "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" from The Music/BeastieBoys' ''Music/PaulsBoutique'' samples "Time", while "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" from the same album samples "Breathe".

* NamesTheSame: The band Medicine Head released an album titled ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' a year before Pink Floyd did, while they were writing this album. Once the Medicine Head album was deemed a commercial flop, Pink Floyd went back to using the ''[=DSOTM=]'' title for themselves, having debuted their album live as ''Eclipse''.

** It was also seen as such for Quadrophonic (4-channel surround) sound systems, which used specially-made vinyl albums and 8-track tapes, which tried to gain traction during the '70s. A 5.1-channel surround mix was released on Super Audio CD (a CD format developed by Sony & Philips that tried to gain traction before the advent of UsefulNotes/BluRay), for the album's 30th anniversary in 2003. Both the 4.0 mix and 5.1 would eventually be included on the...

** An audiophile favorite from its release, the album was one for [=CDs=], as well as high-end audio equipment in general. So many people wanted a copy of one of the best-sounding recordings ever made in a format that wouldn't wear out like vinyl or tape that EMI had a CD plant dedicated to nothing but ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' in TheEighties... one of the ''two'' that existed at the time.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: A box set of the album, called "Immersion," was released in 2011 as part of a massive re-release of the band's catalog. It includes ''four'' different mixes of the album, a live version performed in London in 1974, tour films, demos, a hardcover book, and other collectibles. The same was done with Music/WishYouWereHere and Music/TheWall.

* BreakthroughHit: This is the album that made Music/PinkFloyd a household name. As individual songs go, that would be "Money".

** With the vinyl revival of the 21st century, vinyl reissues are spinning on turntables of vinyl diehards.