Line #26 YMMV/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon


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5	* {{Anvilicious}}:
6	** Money worries, death, and going insane are bad for your mental wellbeing.
7	** "Us and Them" has a message that is simple, universally applicable, and as subtle as a hammer to the face: ''Everyone'' is capable of being inhumane, and trying to dehumanize your supposed enemies as some monolithic "Them" has '''never''' made the world a better place. Put all that together, and you've got one of the best {{protest song}}s in the history of rock n' roll.
8	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: There's a reason that this is one of the best-selling albums ''ever''. The primary one is the ''sound'' of this album is at a quality that few albums before it ever reached (and few since). It didn't matter if it was in stereo or quadraphonic format, on vinyl, tape, or CD, the music ''overwhelms'' you. See the KillerApp entry on the Trivia page. All these reasons are likely why [=AllMusic=] lists it as an "album pick," meaning that the site's editors consider the album representative of Pink Floyd's work as a whole.
9	* EpilepticTrees: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow The Dark Side]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz of the Rainbow]]". The band members, [[MemeAcknowledgment aware of this rumour]], have repeatedly denied that it was intentional; Nick even made a joke about it.
10	-->'''Nick:''' It's all nonsense. It has nothing to do with ''The Wizard of Oz''. [[HumorMode It was all based on]] ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.
11	* FandomEnragingMisconception: Some fans of "The Great Gig in the Sky" can get very touchy if one refers to Clare Torry's performance as "wailing".
12	* GatewaySeries: This album has introduced lots of people to ProgressiveRock, as Music/PinkFloyd is a gateway into prog and this is usually the first Pink Floyd album most fans start with.
13	* GrowingTheBeard: Though they had some success with ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'' in their native Britain, and their previous albums ''Music/{{Meddle}}'' and ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'' are considered to be [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel much better]] [[AudienceAlienatingEra than their]] [[Music/{{More}} last]] [[Music/{{Ummagumma}} couple]] [[Music/AtomHeartMother albums]], with "Echoes" considered to be a major step forward and where their beard started to grow in particular, this is the album that truly made Pink Floyd the ubiquitous rock 'n' roll juggernaut we know today.
14	* HilariousInHindsight: All those clocks going off at once are bound to remind one of ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''.
15	* HypeBacklash:
16	** Given that this album is touted as Pink Floyd's greatest (and maybe even SacredCow), this is to be expected. In particular, those who don't like it as much as the rest of [[Music/WishYouWereHere1975 the]] [[Music/Animals1977 Big]] [[Music/TheWall Four]] tend to believe that the album suffers from pacing problems, with songs like "Breathe (In the Air)", "Time", and "Brain Damage" having a good rhythm and flow to them that ends up getting undermined by their placement near songs like "On the Run" and "Any Colour You Like", which get accused of being little more than {{padding}}.
17	** Fans of Syd have been known to bristle that, here he is even after having long left the band, inspiring their music. Which in a roundabout way is true, if perhaps a little mean.
18	* JustHereForGodzilla: Many people know this album primarily for and because of "Money" - something Waters and the rest of the band have expressed irritation with.
19	* MemeticMutation:
20	** The iconic album cover has spawned many parodies and homages, with one of the best known involving ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'''s [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/be/94/6ebe940eadcf703960275711189eeca0.jpg Eevee and its evolutions]].
21	** The insinuation that if you pair the album with various films it somehow synchronizes. Started with more serious attempts like ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' or ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and then branched out into the [[SoundTrackDissonance absurd]] with films like '' Film/PaulBlartMallCop2''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7wyfTsIm1k We aren't kidding.]]
22	** "I like your pride shirt."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A comic in which a woman mistakes a man's ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' tee shirt for a gay pride shirt. The comic caught on among Pink Floyd's LGBTFanbase, who poked fun at its queerphobic undertones (as homophobes occasionally claim that the pride flag "appropriates" rainbow imagery) by either replacing the design on the shirt or jokingly calling the cover for ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' a pride symbol. The fact that the rainbow on the album cover and the rainbow on the pride flag have identical color schemes only heightens such jokes.[[/labelnote]]
23	* NewbieBoom: The band picked up a massive new audience with this album, one that had likely not heard of Music/SydBarrett or the UFO Club.
24	* OneSceneWonder: Clare Torry's wail on "The Great Gig in the Sky" was entirely self-improvised. She was initially paid a flat studio fee of just £30 (about £400 in today's money) for her performance, believing her vocals wouldn't end up on the finished album. In 2004, she finally sued for a portion of the royalties as well as accreditation for her work. The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, and she's now credited alongside Richard Wright as a songwriter.
25	* RefrainFromAssuming:
26	** The second song is "Breathe", not "Breathe in the Air". This wasn't helped by some CD reissues in the '80s and '90s, as well as Spotify, which labelled the song "Breathe in the Air", sometimes with the final three words in parentheses.
27	** It's "Brain Damage", not the TitleTrack. There isn't one.[[note]] The song ''did'' have [=TDSotM=] as a working title before the name was given to the album [[/note]] It's also two songs ("Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" run into each other), not one.
28	* RetroactiveRecognition: Chris Thomas became an in-demand producer off of his mix of the album, working with artists such as The Music/{{Pretenders}}, Music/{{INXS}}, and even Music/TheSexPistols, among others.
29	* SequelDisplacement: Some casual fans think it's their debut album.
30	* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: A lot of people cite the album's relaxed, jazz-and-blues-inflected sound, as such.
31	* ValuesResonance: Part of the reason behind the album's public longevity in spite of ProgressiveRock's short mainstream lifespan is that the themes tackled by the album, including job anxiety, mortality, the frailty of mental health, and the ills of war culture and capitalism, have only grown more relevant with each passing decade, especially in the 21st century, where the 20-year War in Afghanistan, the disastrous Iraq War, the Great Recession, and the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting quarantines all remain fresh in public memory.

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