Dark Side of the Moon turns 50 today.
I’m listening to Floyd right now, nice timing.
Absolutely one of the greatest albums of all time.
In 1973 a pretty girl in 11th grade who sat behind me in a class invited me to a party where she played this record. That was my first hearing of it. She and I also made out at the party, another first.
She and I made out this morning, too. Overall the last 50 years has been good, and Dark Side of the Moon only made it better for me.
One of my favorite albums and my favorite to play bass along with (could be I’m not great at bass and this album isn’t that difficult). I cannot watch Wizard of Oz without this playing in the background 
Shame on you for carrying on an affair with an old flame behind your wife’s back, but kudos for having good taste in music.
I think we may have attended the same party.
I first heard DSotM as a teen at the house of a neighbor who was throwing a party in the basement, while her parents were entertaining guests upstairs. We kids were getting high and inebriated when one fellow put his DSotM record on the platter, turned off the lights, and advised us to lie down on our backs and let the spacey music sweep us away. We did, and we did.
I got a little too inebriated, stumbled upstairs to pilfer a snack, garbled something incoherent, and passed out cold in front of the girl’s parents and their guests. She got in trouble and I got banned from the house.
But, 50 years later, I’m still a fan of Pink Floyd.
Wow.
I mean … what DO you get for an album that has absolutely everything?
A much younger me would have answered … stoned.
Happy Birthday, DSOTM!
The key to a successful marriage is to marry your 2nd wife first! I did just that. 
Awww… 
Saw them perform the album live at the Cow Palace in 1975, with with their quadraphonic sound system and the plane that zoomed over the crowd and crashed behind the stage at the end of “On The Run”. One of the best concerts ever.
Hehe, I still say that the sync of Echoes and 2001 A Space Odyssey is better.
But a friend of mine’s dad saw most of the greats available in his youth. He saw Hendrix (his hero), Cream, The Velvet Underground, etc. He said the Pink Floyd show he saw on the DSOTM tour at the Tarrant County Convention Center Arena was the best show he ever saw. The heartbeat at the beginning revolved around the arena, and eventually came up the center aisle. When they performed “Careful With That Axe, Eugene”, they probably lost a quarter of the audience because they were simply too freaked out.
Aside from that, it’s a damn good record, even though the first copy I owned was on CD. Happy birthday, DSOTM!
I also remember the first time I heard DSOTM. Sitting on the floor of my boyfriend’s bedroom and learning to smoke pot. I had heard of Pink Floyd, but only knew Another Brick in the Wall part II from the radio. Hearing Dark Side was like finding something I’d always been looking for.
I have been playing chess for a long time. Often just online. About 5 years ago, my wife asked me to teach her. Our lives really changed. The TV stays off, the music stays on.
We also play cribbage.
It’s interesting, now with streaming, we can watch anything we want anytime we want. But we can also listen to anything just by asking for the system to play it.
Now I knew that she was a Pink Floyd fan. I did not know she was as big of a fan as I am.
It’s interesting to note most of our first experiences with DSOTM involve smoking weed and some type of sexual tension in the room. One rarely hears, we were baking chocolate chip cookies in the kitchen and grandma said, "hey kids, let me play my new Floyd album for you.”
It’s also interesting to note Alan Parsons was an engineer on DSOTM (also the Beatles’ Abbey Road album) and responsible for much of the sonic soundscape of the album. I was later a big fan of The Alan Parsons Project, another great progressive rock band.
Me too! Still am.
I didn’t really start exploring prog rock (or weed, not coincidentally) until '79, when I was 14, so my friends and I were all freaking out to The Wall. Dark Side was “old” Pink Floyd.
FWIW, the moment on that record (and yes, I still have my old vinyl copy) that still gives me the biggest chills is the vocal by Clare Torry on “The Great Gig in the Sky.”
Coincidently, Clare Torry was recruited by Alan Parsons for the album.
I always wondered – did the APP ever perform live? And if so, was there a spotlight on Parsons at the mixing board? 
In the APP band, Parsons was involved with production, engineering, programming, composition, vocals, keyboards, and guitars. On stage he was often in the spotlight:
Actually the APP is still touring.
Ignorance fought!
I’d always thought of Parsons as “just” an engineer and producer, assembling top players to execute his songs but not actually playing himself. (Not really a big fan so never read liner notes to his albums.)
I honestly don’t remember the first time I heard the full DSotM album. I never actually owned a copy until I bought the CD about five years ago, although I did have a cassette that I recorded from a college roommate.
Speaking of college, my first year in the dorm, the guy in the room next door had the prism painted on one wall. It was pretty awesome. It got painted over by the maintenance folks after he moved out.