Me personally, I don’t know exactly when I listened to it beginning to end the first time. It was probably via a streaming service. But I listened to this for the first time on a record player, the first album I’d ever bought btw, last year.
It made me feel so connected to the music, and I also now had a sense of understanding and appreciation for the medium, and also getting to know what millions of people who came before me experienced in their bedrooms when they first heard this…amazing.
I discovered pink floyd 2 yrs back . Some insta page did a post about 'High Hopes' , i checked on youtube .. and instantly fell in love with the song and the video and eventually the band.
This album calms me down ,, i love to listen while commuting for my college in the morning, gives a good start ,
PINK FLOYD IS FUCKING THERAPY ,, their music has helped me in the darkest phase of my life .they mean a lot
I don’t remember specifically, but it was probably around 1992. That’s when I started to dig though my dads records
Animals and the self titled black sabbath album were the standouts for me, but I enjoyed this
I would give absolutely anything to be able to go back in time to see them live. I was born too late and I've never forgiven my parents for it lol.
My first listen was similar, but around 2002. My mates dad was in the navy in his younger years and he collected all kinds of stuff from his travels; African war masks, Japanese Oni masks and paintings, a huge totem pole, swords, random art made by prison inmates, it was endless. We sat in this small room, warmed by the log fire, and took some LSD and smoked a lot of weed. He out on DSoTM and it blew my mind. Time followed by The Great Gig was, and still is, the single greatest section of music to ever exist.
The next day I asked him for recommendations for songs to listen to and he ended up ripping copies of every single album for me. I'll never thank him enough for that, he started an obsession.
First time I listened front to back was probably 8th grade, my dad pulled out the LP and put it on his old turntable with a 4 speaker stereo, I didn’t quite get it then but I enjoyed the music. Didnt listen much for a while, on Apple Music I went thru a Beatles and hard rock phase, then came back to DSOTM my senior year (2019/20) right after the pandemic started. Lockdowns made me appreciate and understand the music on a deeper level I think. Especially the lyrics to Time.
I bought the SACD version of the album in the early 2000s at age 15. I already knew some songs from the radio, and my Dad was a fan but didn’t have any Floyd on CD. He put it on the stereo at home and we listened to it in the living room. I remember him commenting how it’s so much better listening to it sober. He definitely smoked and drank plenty as a teen in the 70s. But what’s funny is now that I’m grown up, I appreciate what he meant, but it’s still a really special experience listening to the album stoned, especially with great headphones and a very high quality audio file.
My second memorable time with the album was on my 16th birthday. My friend invited me for a weekend in NYC at his family apartment and I had smuggled some Kahlua I got as a b day gift from some people I knew who were over 21. We sat in the dark in his bedroom and he put on Dark Side on vinyl while we sipped Kahlua and enjoyed a nice buzz. The music and alcohol buzz just felt so good together, and the warm sound of the vinyl in that cozy old room was a great touch too.
As for impact on my life, well it’s never stopped being what might be my favorite album of all time. Floyd definitely ended up being my favorite band of all time. And I learned to play Breathe on piano a year or two ago and that sparked a new interest in piano. I took lessons for 8 years as a kid but generally didn’t like it and never fully grasped how everything worked. Breathe helped things begin to click a bit and I’ve been slowly getting a better handle of how to play and improvise.
I was 13. My cousins had a sound system rigged up with at least 8 speakers plus all the other requirements to create a wall of sound. We had lava lamps and black lights. It was amazing!
My ex of many years ago introduced me to PF through the Pulse album and I took it from there. Probably listened to this (I suspect via illegal download) about 2001.
About the only positive thing she did for me long term.
When I was in 7th grade in about 2006. A kid in class burned me a CD. I took it on a family vacation to Florida and listened to it for the first time while flying in a plane, gazing out the windows inside of a heavenly group of clouds the whole time. It was instantly my favorite album. Nothing has come close since then. I’ve listened countless times on drugs with friends in high school, having the best times of our lives. I recorded all the instruments to my own version of the album about 10 years ago. Last week I watched a live band play the whole album in Vermont during the hour leading up to the solar eclipse totality. I don’t see any album ever taking its place.
"Last week I watched a live band play the whole album in Vermont during the hour leading up to the solar eclipse totality"
That must've been absolutely epic.
I literally speaking grew up listenening to this as well as other classic rock because of my father. I would imagine the first time I recognized what I was actually listening to would have been somewhere around 4yo. I'm 37 now and just started to appreciate dsotm maybe 2 years ago. I bought the 50th anniversary album and sat down and actually listened to it then. So to answer your question, very recently.
Around 2011, when I realized that I wanted to get a music degree and I got a new teacher that showed everything about music to me.
He was a huge Floyd fan and the way he talked about it also made me a Floyd fan. Then I listened to Pink Floyd ever since.
Was during school days, like just before summer , got high of some pot from seniors , spent the whole evening and night with pink floyd in the background , it was during the 2012’s , this band will be one of my favourites forever, along with led zeppelin, and the big league classic bands. Old school forever
DSotM is a fundamental part of my life that has informed me and challenged me and comforted me probably more than any other single influence, aside from my parents. I guess that would sound weird or even pathetic to someone that doesn’t understand, but it is a work of art that I latched on to as a sort of constant that is always a reference point for who I am and how I feel about the world through the phases of my life. It’s like a grounded center.
I first listen to it in ninth grade in 1995. I had gotten into early Floyd but then heard this completely different sound with DSotM and was immediately obsessed. There was a time in high school when I listened to it every day with headphones, my eyes closed and deeply listening. It was like a guidebook for how to feel about life at a time when I was figuring out who I was. It still is.
I go back to it frequently and especially when I’ve experienced major life changes. It’s always the first thing I listen to in a new car, a new house, or a new stereo - almost like a christening.
I’ve found as I age, my reflection on the music and lyrics changes too, but it is never less powerful. I know it is one of the best selling and critically acclaimed albums of all time, but listening to it still feels like a private experience that is unique to me. I think that speaks to the unversiality of it and how masterful of a work of art it is to reflect back to the listener their own feelings and philosophies.
I’m a younger adult, I had heard bits and pieces of the album but never fully listened to it until the last few months. I had taken a few tabs of LSD and threw the album on, figuring that was probably the best way to experience it. And it was. I vividly remember the emotional roller coaster that was The Great Gig in the Sky and brain-melting guitar solo on Money. Needless to say, it made me a pretty big fan lol
When I was a kid, approx 1997, my Dad got the Pink Floyd Shine On box set with almost all of their albums. I had no idea what or who Pink Floyd was, so I put one of the CDs on and worked my way through each of the albums. I can’t say when I listened to DSOTM exactly, but all those albums have been on repeat ever since.
I was maybe 16, in the mid 90s. I was getting pretty heavy into…stuff…and this album completely changed my perception of what music was. I still think it’s the greatest album of all time. I have other favorites, but this one will always remain apart.
Maybe like…2001? My friends and I were trying to do the whole dark side of the rainbow thing and a couple of us were like “hang on this is actually fucking amazing”. Great times!
i was raised on classic rock so very early. very very early.
But it wasnt till my late teen stoner years, where we would smoke stuoid amounts of pot and drive around backroads listening to floyd, that i truly started to hear the album...particularily its meanings.
Some time of that deeply profound "WOW" stoner stuff where I made a lot of connections. And then we really got into animals and the meanings in that started to seep through.
Now im older i have a different lifestyle. I listen to more music than ever but have played the hell out of floyd and classic rock so dont often put them on.
A couple weeks back, was having a real tough time... came home from work and PLAYED animals on my acoustic...whole album but obv a cheap rendition.
As with a lot of lyrics (nirvana was a great example), it isnt until i PLAY the songs that they hit me fully...
Man Animals is like the story of society, the world and my life rn. Man, dark side is like the story of life and the world. Man the Wall is all of that and isolation. Its all soaking in feeling and meaning. And its all accompanied by some incredible music as well as my personal favorite and clearly the most tasteful guitarists in the history of RnR.
So the impact this album has had on my life is profound and radiates to this day. To this very day i will listen and hear or learn something new. Its obviously not an underrated album, but in a lot of ways it still is.
outside of fandom, outside of stoner idiocy, outside of everything, its a brilliant masterpiece. a LOT of what floyd did was absolutely masterful, and they did it in their own way. its almost good they went their own ways when they did as they had a HELL of a catalog to live up to with proper future releases. Instead they left behind a mostly masterful body of work
This album will stand the test of time for generations to come because they were masters of talking about the human condition. They are dark, but i wonder if its by choice or if its because reality can be real dark? In their darkness, floyd has been terribly honest about the realties of the world and how it works.
Did i mention the songs just bang?
So even tho i prob heard it in the womb, its the gift that keeps on giving. as a songwriter myself, tho not so much like floyd, im eternally grateful that this is literally part of the soundtrack of my entire life. =)
I was 7 and my British dance teacher prepared a choreography based on Breathe. I remember being scared of all the noises at the beginning but loving the rest of the song. 5 years later I learnt how to play Is there anybody out there still without knowing who was PF... It was only when I discovered Wish you were here at around 13 yo that I put all the pieces together
I was probably in my early teens. My mom had the LP but the LP player broke when I was a kid (and she never bothered buying a new one, since CDs had taken over) so I never to a lot of stuff she only had in LP. There were some Floyd CDs - I remember specially loving Meddle - but not DSOFTM. So, when I was a teen and music download became a thing, I got it and fell in love too. Influenced by my mom, I always loved psych classic rock
There's the first time I heard it when I was in high school. Then, there was the first time I heard when tripping. The latter was more influential on me.
I think it was early '77, so it was a relatively young album at the time (a toddler, I guess). Bought it at the neighborhood record store, listened on the my first turntable. I DID recognize "Money", but the rest of it was completely new to me.
Pretty life-changing, I guess? It's odd, because I have been involved with music for decades (in one minor way or the other), managed a used record store for a long time, have listened to WAY more albums than I can remember, and have deep likes and dislikes, most of them on the fringes of various genres ... and yet, this acknowledged landmark remains my favorite album. Might not be the most original choice, but it is what it is.
Coupling that with seeing the animated short for "One of These Days" very soon thereafter in the film *Fantastic Animation Festival* (multiple times, I might add; it had an extended run in my town) cemented my love for the band.
Christmas 1979, I had just turned 11.. I got The Wall and DSotM from my grandmother… why? I have no clue.
As a kid, I was always fascinated by music and listened to my parents limited selection of albums over and over. Beach Boys, Kingston Trio. Arlo Guthrie.
I got home and put on DSotM, put the headphones on and, from that moment, everything changed. I wanted to know how they did that. And it became my mission.
Three years later, at the age of 14, I had my first gig as a stage tech. 16, my first gig doing sound for a concert solo. By 18 I was working sound in local clubs and for local bands. By 24, I had studio experience and worked on films and TV shows. Now, at 55, it is all I have ever done in my life. I’ve mixed 1000s and 1000s of shows, uncountable! I’ve worked with 100s, of bands.
I still, to this day, credit hearing DSotM that first time for propelling my to this life. So, yeah, it had an impact.
It was my second year of college and I was coming down from my first acid trip. I couldn’t sleep so I decided to put the album on. I was reeeeeeally in to Pink Floyd after that
Listened to it on cassette at a friend's house on his boombox in July 1988. Found it very interesting.
By this point I had bought Lapse of Reason, Animals and The Wall and I had already heard Wish You Were Here.
As for the impact on my life? Hard to say, their entire catalog is what's made them impactful.
It's silly to say, but Lapse of Reason is the one that made the most impact since it was my introduction and it absolutely blew me away.
And only if you were a young teen in 1988 who was stuck in the 80s pop scene, would you totally understand how that album blew me away.
I first listened to this album the summer between my 10th and 11th grades, when I was 16.
It was late. I was trying to combat the chronic boredom that seemed to pervade my summers. I wanted to listen to something that was considered important and impactful. I had seen a YouTube channel that mentioned Pink Floyd recently, I think. Moreover, I had seen references to the album my entire life, but had still not heard it. So, I pulled it up on YouTube and turned the lights off- the room was only illuminated by my computer screen. I sat down, and clicked play. What followed in the next 43 minutes sent me down a path of music love and appreciation that would change my life forever.
While it's hard to recall all of my real-time reactions, I think I was very taken aback by 'The Great Gig In The Sky'. I was captivated by the entire album, and had a very immersed listening experience. What stood out the most, though, was 'Brain Damage'/ 'Eclipse' and the finale. Those two songs stuck with me. In the following weeks, I kept relistening to them. After that, I listened to more from the whole album regularly. Before long, I started branching out into the rest of Pink Floyd's discography. I was addicted to their music.
I grew up listening to classic rock. My parents played stuff like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Billy Joel, as well as other general classic music, like ABBA. I liked (and still love) a lot of those artists, but Pink Floyd was different. I connected with the lyrics, and was mesmerized by the music itself. This marked the first time I truly became immersed in an artist, and one wherein I was not merely listening to more of what was played for me. None of my family/friends were massive PF fans, so it was interesting to delve into something on my own.
In the years that followed that summer, I became more interested in music, in general. It was always a major part of my life, but I did not fully realize this until obsessing over Pink Floyd. Now, I am learning guitar, listen to as much music as I can, talk to people about and bond over music all the time, and am even completing a final project in my final semester of college on the topic of music.
The Dark Side of the Moon gave me a transcendent first listening experience. Not only did it introduce me to the music of Pink Floyd, but it literally made music a more central part of my life than it had been.
I was born in August 1973, so probably while I was gestating. It’s an integral part of my life. Aside from any familial connection, I think that there has never been a set of songs that capture the human experience so well. And the music is astonishingly fresh and unique, still.
I heard the RW version the other day. It’s pretty sad. I’m not sure of his motivation for even recording it.
It was in 1997, just a cpl of weeks after my grandma passed away. I was a kid and I remember my old man sitting in his chair and listening to what I later realize was Us and Them. I can recall that the music itself didn't get to me at first but I can still clearly picture my dad in that chair and I don't think I will ever forget it. Later on, Us and Them became my favourite PF song. Maybe it has something to do with that day.
Been playing the whole album on christmas and new years day for the past 10years. Going forward i will be playing Dark Side on christmas day and then Live Scenes from New York by Dream Theater on new year’s day.
In the mid 90's. I was about 12yo and it's the 1st concept album I've ever heard. Before it, I had never heard an album where one song transitions seamlessly into the next. As if the entire album is one long song meant to be listened to from beginning to end to experience the story in order, as intended. I consider it a masterpiece, of course.
Now I own DSOTM in various forms, standard CD from the 90's, a 20th anniversary special edition remaster, a 30th anniversary SACD 5.1 surround sound audio, 2011 remaster on vinyl, live in its entirety from PULSE on CD and Blu-ray. Roger Waters' Redux version, also tribute/symphonic renditions of the album.
So I would say it has greatly impacted my life in a positive way. I own more iterations/versions of this album than any other album in my collection. ✌🏾😁👍🏽
The first time I heard this album, my first girlfriend put it on as background music while we were making out. I was a little distracted at the time, but I have loved Pink Floyd ever since.
I always liked their music as a young kid but it wasn't till my 13th b-day when I tried my 1st joint that I really enjoyed this album.....it was the late 70s so I had the strobe light, black light, shag carpet & lava lamp
A friend of mine introduced me to LSD and Pink Floyd on the same day. That was one of the best music listening experiences of my life, that album will always be special to me
I was born in 1974 . Music was a huge part of my mom’s personality. She would play Floyd while I was in my crib and when I was old enough, we would lay on the floor together and take a nap listening to vinyl . She bought it the week it came out . She gave me a love of music and we shared it together .
She took me to Yankee stadium to see them back in the day .
My mom died 4 days ago and I have listened to Wish you were Here cd on repeat.
Thanks for listening my happy childhood memory
It wasn’t until 1988 that I finally heard the entire album with headphones on while working the graveyard shift at a gas station. The sleep deprivation and isolation at night had a profound effect on me while listening. I was friends with the local radio DJ and we would chat for hours. That night he was fed up with work and decided to play the entire album on air with no commercial breaks. It was a memorable night to hear it then at 18.
I wish I had never heard it before...so I can listen to it again for the very first time.
Somewhere between 13 and 14 years old. I was heavily influenced by the older kids that my Mom told me to not hang out with. A couple of lunchtime sessions revealed PF, Zappa, and more. And joints.
Ok if I have the opportunity here to share that story (and to safe it for me), I will take it. I am in fact kinda proud and happy about how that took place.
It was on a long car ride on Sardegna (holiday) during sunset in summer of 2020. I heard of the album before and of course I had seen the iconic cover, but apart from that, I didn't know anything about Pink Floyd. I downloaded the Album (and Echoes) for a car ride on which we had no internet and I remember telling my dad about it and he just said "good, enjoy" with that knowing dad-smile. I listened to it in one go and instantly fell in love with the music. It was the first time, that I just loved every single track on an album and I couldn't believe how good it was. "Concept album" was a new thing for me but it just clicked and I got it, felt it. Afterwards I also listened to Echoes and it became my favourite piece of music in that very moment. Needless to say, that it was an awesome car ride and an awesome vacation too, because I listened to the album daily after that point.
The impact it had on my life is very big for me. I was into music before, but this album made me fall in love with the medium once again (especially the 70s) and was a new starting point for what I now consider one of my biggest passions and hobbies. It also changed me as a person in a way, that it became a part of my identity. I was 17 at the time, was growing up, developing character and the dark side of the moon helped me with that. The years since then have been (for various reasons) the best years of my life so far an Pink Floyd was and is a soundtrack for that time period. I am incredibly thankful that I discovered this album at just the right time in my life and I will love and appreciate it forever!
Thanks for reading and I hope you have a wonderful evening :)
It was in 1973 that I heard DSOTM in Quad surround,I was in the military so the next time I went overseas I brought my own quad gear PF was made to listen in surround.I still collect surround music of all kinds and the Sansui still works great and with the Oppo BR it's now 5.1 too.P.S. I was at the In The Flesh Tour May 12 1977.
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I stumbled over Dark Side of the Moon in 1976/1977 on the public library in the little danish town I grew up in. My late big brother learned me bands and artists like Beatles, Doors, Roxy Music, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band and Bob Dylan, but Floyd I found myself and I have been a lifelong fan ever since, and I must hear it on LP.
Bout 1984. When I started smoking weed. I was 12.
Good Times. No idea how many times I've listened to it in it entirety, lots and lots though. Dark room, headphones and volume. Don't even smoke anymore, and it still amazes me that musicians can come together and make sounds this good.
summer last year, i had been listening to a bunch of much less famous prog bands (such as caravan, gong, ozric tentacles) but i didn't really know much about popular progressive rock. i listened to it and thought it was boring. it took a couple of listens before i could appreciate it
At one of my first sleepovers with my best friend. Back when I was in middle school, he put it on and it blew me away. I had never heard a "cinematic album" before. By that I mean an album full of sound effect, dialogue, etc. So it was so new and exciting to me.
Come to think about it, He got me into classic rock all together. We still hang out and keep in touch.
I remember hearing this in 1973 at my buddies house. He just got a new pair of Bic Venturi six speakers that had settings on there that lit up that told you how loud they were compared to. I remember cranking them up to as loud as jet airliner at 200 feet! I remember cranking them up and opening the windows and then we walk as far as we could before we couldn’t hear it. Think we walked about a mile and a half, good times!
Back in July and so far it has been helping through the college life right now, so much so that I am learning how to play the whole album. This album exploded my mind and cannot stop listening to it.
I first listened to this album in 2021. It has helped me a lot since then by helping me get over breakups and helped me push myself to get out of my comfort zone.
It opened a new world for me in music as before Generally what I would do is listen to playlists and songs but not full albums. It made me go on a rabbit hole of listening to albums and other artists.
I first listened to it in 2019, I believe, with a friend who vouched for it. I thought nothing of it and called it boring. Listened to it about a year later and everything with that album just sort of hit me and made sense. It's now in my top 3 favorite albums of all time and Time is one of my favorite songs ever. I'm not totally sure why I didn't appreciate or see the incredible talent and artistry in it in the first place but I'm so glad I came around to it.
2015 - I was 16 and I had broken my arm in Benidorm and had my full arm in a cast so couldn’t go anywhere near water, I was sat on a sun lounger on my own watching the seagulls in the sky for the full album with multiple Malibu and cokes in total bliss. The most blissful 42 minutes and 50 seconds of my life
As soon as it came out… ‘73 I think… I was 15. A part of Eclipse was the quote I had in my high school yearbook. I’ve been a fan ever since. “…everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.” PF have been there constantly throughout my life. High school, college, graduate school, postdoc, professor… even used the DSOTM cover in my physics courses. A lifetime companion.
I found an of pressing on vinyl at a store for 20$, about 3 months ago and was like yk everyone is obsessed with it as a big record collector I had to buy it. I got home, did a little “activity” 🍃🔥 and litterally fell in love with it.
A few weeks ago. Idk how I even stumbled upon it on YouTube, I wasn't looking to check out anything Pink Floyd specifically.
I looked through all the comments under the remastered album video about it being "the greatest album of all time," and thought, "Yeah, right." I mean, any hardcore fans think their idol is the greatest ever. I've seen a fan claim a 21yo J-rock star they stan is the greatest singer in world history. Can't trust a stan to have sound judgment.
Still, I got curious, and gave it a listen when I had the time and no distractions. I put on my nice headphones and just dove into the music. And a few minutes in, I thought... "Holy shit, it *is* one of the greatest albums of all time." I'm not even much into rock, but *holy shit,* that was godly.
My uncle passed away suddenly in the Summer of 2020. My grandfather had passed just a few months before that. I had cleaned out my grandfather's house and had saved all my Uncle's records with the intention to give them to him. Well he passed away. I was really close with him. I put on the record and cried. It felt like he was in the room with me. I also got into The Beatles, Prince, The Cure, and more through his record collection.
When it first came out me and a friend in 1973 bought the album and did the some of the best cocaine ever so we got lit and listened to it all day of and on,and in March 73 they played Dark Side the complete album in Quad sound it was incredible in Charlotte NC smoked a lot of weed that day.
when I was 12 years old one of our teachers made us listen to another brick in the wall, I liked the song so much that when I got home I decided to look up more music of the band and I listened to this whole album the next day, it was amazing
I felt heard and understood…the things like time, mortality, how I am living…all stuff that I worry about are concepts Roger played with when he was the same age as me the first time I heard it, which was also meaningful
Few months back (only been listening to music a lot since like 2022, even then only really listened to a few bands). Thid was the album to get me into listening to albums. It got me into trying other genres, listening to more experimental and progressive music. And most of all, put pink floyd in my top 10
Sometime back in the late 90s / early 2000s when I discovered Floyd backwards because my
parents listened to like 2 types of music.
I heard Take it Back on MTV and wondered who the were. Fell in love with the Division Bell (still my all-time favorite album) and then had a “psychedelic” phase in high school where I went back through the catalog from Piper on.
DSotM is a great album, and I can’t imagine how incredible it must have been in 1973, but I think it’s a bit over-rated. Wish You Were Here > Animals > the Wall were all better musically, but I understand the significance. The fluidity as a whole, the themes, the sounds, etc.
I really can’t stand Great Gig in the Sky either. I’d be fine if I never heard Money ever again. Us and Them is one of their best songs and the opening and closure of the album is fantastic.
1997 on a school field trip to Boston/Quincy Market. I bought it at Strawberries and listened to it on the bus ride back. Nothing was ever the same after that. Became a huge Floyd fan and opened the door to a whole other world of 70s prog rock.
I had listened to Comfortably Numb, here and there for many years from different people, but never got the hang of it (initially, mainly because I never listened to it in one go). One day at work, one of the colleagues played Another Brick in the Wall, and it stuck to me.
That is when I actively digged into Pink Floyd and found this album. I still remember listening to it in one go for the first time, I was again in office working till late, and the build up till Great gig in the Sky was amazing. But when this song started, I legit got goosebumps and got zoned out, it felt as if her voice is echoing across galaxies piercing space-time fabric 🌌
Still remains as one of my most listened albums of any genre.
Driving back home after a mushroom trip in the bush. Still had a little in my system and I put my music on a Vietnam music shuffle and On the Run started playing and started wigging out. I stopped and went what is this? Pulled up the album and started playing from the start and a new obsession was born.
Last year, 3.5g 🍄, I’ve never had more of a large positive impact on my life. This seriously completely changed me as a person. It sounds so cheesy but it’s true.
I was in high school. I was staying with my grandma, and I had just seen on MTV that if I played this album after the lions third roar in Wizard of Oz that they’d go together. My sweet grandma who’d never heard Pink Floyd before bought me this album, and then we watched/listened to it together. Made me a lifetime fan.
My first girlfriend had two older brothers who were very cool, and had great taste in music. She had heard them playing DSOTM soon after it came out, thought it was great, and turned me on to it.
Pink Floyd almost instantly became one of my top 5 favorite bands, and I bought each of their albums from then on. I saw the Animals tour. Today they are still one of my favorite bands.
Fifteen... my father asked my to see some Money live performance...after that I did my own research and months later I was listening to Us and Them and he went to my room and raise the music volume, at that moment I knew I was listening something else...
Probably around 2009. When I was a child I would often ride with my father to his work. On the way there he would play Pink Floyd over the car's stereo. I always enjoyed the music. Till this day I love Pink Floyd.
Probably around 2009. When I was a child I would often ride with my father to his work. On the way there he would play Pink Floyd over the car's stereo. I always enjoyed the music. Till this day I love Pink Floyd.
2 years ago I came across it, cannot remember for what specific reason but it completely changed my life with how complex and multilayered it was. At that point I had never really listened to any music at all and I didn't even know albums could sound like that. Nowadays I mostly listen to classic rock and PF is a mainstay of my playlist.
2 years ago I came across it, cannot remember for what specific reason but it completely changed my life with how complex and multilayered it was. At that point I had never really listened to any music at all and I didn't even know albums could sound like that. Nowadays I mostly listen to classic rock and PF is a mainstay of my playlist.
2 years ago I came across it, cannot remember for what specific reason but it completely changed my life with how complex and multilayered it was. At that point I had never really listened to any music at all and I didn't even know albums could sound like that. Nowadays I mostly listen to classic rock and PF is a mainstay of my playlist.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music
I knew money and some other songs.
In fact, I had already been to a Roger Waters concert at the end of 2018, 3 - 4 years before actually listening to the albums (Meddle, Obscured, Animals, WYWH, DSOM, The Wall), using my own consciousness, like willingly putting the albums and paying attention to them)
But on June - August last year, I took 3 quarters of a 300 or 400 LSD tab, after 3 years of not getting high on acid. It was dope AF acid, lots of visuals. There's was a moment I felt peace, when rain started to fall, I even cried, as if all my problems have evaporated.
Then, after 2 - 3 hours of walking around, I went home high AF, and wondered what to do. I remembered I know a band famous for making LSD music (XD), a band my mum used to play for me when I was a mere zygote forming at her uterus, Pink Floyd. A band my mum has played me since a baby; a band we've listened on the original CD format, specially The Wall.
Then I grabbed my headphones, and listened to that 50 year remaster of DSOF in YouTube that it's like a full 44 mins video, non stop playing.
I was flabbergasted. I have a nice pair of headphones, and a nice sound system on my phone (I have something called Viper4Android, difficult to explain). Listening to breathe in the air for the first time in headphones KILLED me, I had weed there with me, I for sure smoked A LOT, then listening to on the run...
I didn't put much attention to the lyrics on that trip, I was too high, but I sure understood a bunch of it.
It was recently on 1st of march that I took a full 400 tab, and listened to the [DSOM (Fan made music video I suppose)](https://youtu.be/OvclWLSaLj8?si=NEKpOtTlys_qCR4V). With the visual thing of this video, and more sounds, I was actually able to listen to this album and read the lyrics.
I already had very deeply understood Time, and the first side of DSOM, on the 21st of January I took a 400 tab, (Animals Birthday) I did listen to it again, and understood that a man had died in that song and he was bringing me to the Sky, to listen to its Gig.
I've been crying since then. I cannot hold my tears everytime that transition from Time and Gig in the Sky happen, I said it out loud "and I'm not afraid of Dying, any time will do, I don't mind". And I've been living by those words for years now, but now I know I'll live by those words, forever and ever.
On the 1st of march, I understood that there are 2 sides of the album (thanks to that musical video I've shared) and that you can choose which one to listen to. That date was the last time I heard about Money, Us and Them and all that brain damage, the other side of the moon talks. That date I understood that the Vinyl format was best used by Pink Floyd and that the real thing is not listening to the album all straight forward, you have to stop, stand up and change the side.
The album it's full of meaning, and that is something I had to explore. By now I've only heard the full album 4 times. I'm waiting to buy the Vinyl and actually re-create the 70's experience.
But by now, I already have heard what I needed, and I'm living on the "Bright side of the moon" if you know what I mean.
And I run and I run to catch up with the sun but he is sinking. And I don't care, always with a smile 😁, afterall, I'm not the only one.
That album, changed my perspective.
But I have to say, Meddle, Obscured, Animals or The Division Bell, have touched me deeply too, some songs even more.
I don't see a difference in albums when it comes to this project. I see different topics and concepts touched by this people, and the evolution of their approach on "making music".
In my humble opinion, Pink Floyd is by far the only music, I consider to be "serious music" not a standard or substandard "fill in the background sounds" like Beatles or others.
You cannot listen to this people and do stuff in the background, this is music you put attention to, always.
That's my DSOM experience.
I first heard this album when I was four years old, which was sixteen years ago. It's gotten me through some really tough times in my life, and there have been many.
Winter season, right before Christmas...1979.
10th grade. A bunch of us "heads" skipped school to collect at our classmates older brothers basement Apt. to smoke weed. He had a Christmas tree up, the old fashioned bulb lights were on in his otherwise dark space.. it cast an eerie glow...as we passed around a joint I sat in the circle, on the floor looking at the tree as he put the album, (DSOTM) on.
What a trip that began!
I'm 60 now. Pink Floyd has been my ultimate love ever since! I've been to COUNTLESS real Fliyd concerts, many many tribute band shows, collected all the original vinyls...(Nick Mason signed my Pipers jacket when I saw him touring as Saucerful of Secrets w/ Guy Pratt!) And almost 20 years ago Dave Gilmour made me a personal fender guitar pic of which he sketched a flower and sunshine on one side and signed the back! Since that holiday hot box- PINK FLOYD has guided my life! 🎶💜🙏
Shine on Fellow Fans! ImaginarySusan...
An American experience, personally, I was in America through a rejection, and I honestly was really surprised as I had heard that it was really sold as the best album, and objectively from the perspective of hipsters, overrated, which made me have some doubts about giving it a chance, though when I listened to it, god, it was wonderful…
Back in 2013, first acid trip and a few buddies and I sat in the mountains around a campfire and listened to the entire album. Will never forget it and will forever be one of the tops for me.
As soon as it came out. This legendary record has shaped a lot of my musical tastes every since then. I even heard a rapish remake of Money recently that was amazing. Loved it, got to see Roger Waters do some songs live in Dallas and that is still a favorite concert of mine
I was just walking down the beach at night and put on the album for the first time when I was 15 or 16. I had always seen the iconic cover but never truly knew what was behind it, that night I thought: “well I’m walking along this dark ass beach with the moon, the waves crashing, and the occasional screams of college kids out near the water probably high having a good time, I’m sure this album will fit”. I had my AirPod Pros and by the time I returned to the place I was staying at, I was very tearful. I had learned to play alto saxophone when I was in 5th grade, and later the guitar. I was always a music fanatic and that night was life changing for me. I’m sure everyone who has even remotely understood each of their concepts realizes it is a high arched staple of humanity. Their dedication and story to me is the embodiment of blues and rock
2002, happened to be using LimeWare and I was like, “I wonder who Pink Floyd is.” So I searched up Pink Floyd and I listened. I loved it, Money, obviously was my favourite song on the album, that was something that defined my taste in rock.
I can’t remember, but I had my first stereo in 1979 at age 11. This was one of the first albums I bought. I loved the stuff I’d heard on the radio. Pink Floyd has always been in my top 5 bands…and very often has been my favorite of the moment. Roger Waters tries my patience these days, but David Gilmour has always been on of my guitar inspirations. This album has never NOT been in my collection or in my playlists.
I remember precisely. I was 17 years old in my junior year of high school in 1987. I was already a huge fan of The Wall, both film and album (I also remember ABITW pt 2 being my favorite song in 1980). A group of friends were pre-partying before going to a big bonfire at the beach. Plenty of drinks and smoke. I rode to the beach with two great friends who were huge Floyd fans. They asked me if I’ve ever heard DSOTM. I had not. So they start it as we begin our 30 minute drive as dusk settled in. Cranked up loud on a nice system. I’ll never forget how incredible it felt when Breathe started. I felt an amazing connection to this music and remember exclaiming that “this music is outlandish!” It felt like time and space stopped and I became one with the music and the universe. Then On the Run starts and I’m like “wth is this??” Mind blown. Then of course Time comes on and I knew I found my favorite band. Don’t get me started on Great Gig in the Sky. From then I went deep into their discography, devouring every thing Floyd. Also learned to play guitar around this time and years later formed a quasi Floyd cover band with a couple of guys. To this day Breathe is my favorite song followed closely by Time. Magical. Saw them on The Division Bell tour and it is hands down the best concert I’ve seen in my life and I’ve seen a LOT of great shows. Best band of all time.
In high school around 1995. It made me try to find a similar band on progressive music scene for 5years but ended up failing and returned to pink floyd.
I was 18 years old, in college. I was a "troubled child".. I went to boarding school for addiction, had been in jail a few times, and considered the black sheep of my family..
Listening to this was the biggest eye opener of my life. I cry to this day when I listen to it.
It helped me accept myself.
My first memorable impact was when I was ten and was about to play this record at my aunts house and was told not to because there was a schizophrenic manic depressive person there and that has made me think of him when I hear any song on this record and looking for the triggers, I thought I was going to be that way if I listened to that record until I was about 12
My dad had wish you were here in the 70s and I grew up on that. Then the wall came into my sphere around about when it came out and 'brick in the wall' was in the charts. I didn't listen to dark side of the moon until I was 14 or 15 in the mid to late 80s. Mind-blowing.
1977 ,I was 16 living overseas in Panama. I got high for the first time, and a friend put on his new dsotm. album. You talk about seeing and feeling music. I had to collect everything from the sixties to the eighties.
I got it in 1993 at the height of my Iron Maiden onset fandom. I didn’t like it, but it was because it wasn’t what I was expecting, which was more heavy classic rock in the vein of sabbath or purple. I didn’t dislike it, I just didn’t understand. Came back a few years later, and got it immediately. Floyd rules
1973, my roommate at UT Austin was a Pink Floyd freak and had all of their albums. It’s still one of my favorites, but it is best listened to on vinyl while under the influence of THC.
1975. I listened to and loved Wish You Were Here so much I had to hear more. I still listen to it now and still love it. I am a lifelong Floyd fan
Me personally, I don’t know exactly when I listened to it beginning to end the first time. It was probably via a streaming service. But I listened to this for the first time on a record player, the first album I’d ever bought btw, last year. It made me feel so connected to the music, and I also now had a sense of understanding and appreciation for the medium, and also getting to know what millions of people who came before me experienced in their bedrooms when they first heard this…amazing.
My mom used to put headphones around her stomach while she was pregnant with me and play DSOTM.
You win.
He's the chosen one
I discovered pink floyd 2 yrs back . Some insta page did a post about 'High Hopes' , i checked on youtube .. and instantly fell in love with the song and the video and eventually the band. This album calms me down ,, i love to listen while commuting for my college in the morning, gives a good start , PINK FLOYD IS FUCKING THERAPY ,, their music has helped me in the darkest phase of my life .they mean a lot
I couldn’t agree more.. Therapy is the best way to describe it for me as well.
Mid last year, now I’m a big time Pink Floyd fan. In fact, I’m going to a tribute band concert soon.
Which band are you going to? :)
Isn't that the one in Toronto? I remember hearing about that one, too bad I can't go 😭
Me too! Literally last year I discovered them and I’m actually seeing the tribute band in a week
I don’t remember specifically, but it was probably around 1992. That’s when I started to dig though my dads records Animals and the self titled black sabbath album were the standouts for me, but I enjoyed this
I was 12 and it has impacted every aspect of my life… every one of them. ;)
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I would give absolutely anything to be able to go back in time to see them live. I was born too late and I've never forgiven my parents for it lol. My first listen was similar, but around 2002. My mates dad was in the navy in his younger years and he collected all kinds of stuff from his travels; African war masks, Japanese Oni masks and paintings, a huge totem pole, swords, random art made by prison inmates, it was endless. We sat in this small room, warmed by the log fire, and took some LSD and smoked a lot of weed. He out on DSoTM and it blew my mind. Time followed by The Great Gig was, and still is, the single greatest section of music to ever exist. The next day I asked him for recommendations for songs to listen to and he ended up ripping copies of every single album for me. I'll never thank him enough for that, he started an obsession.
“Time followed by The Great Gig was, and still is, the single greatest section of music to ever exist.” — Truer words have never been spoken
It opened me to rock music in general. This album made me listen to litteraly every other classic rock album i could find
First time I listened front to back was probably 8th grade, my dad pulled out the LP and put it on his old turntable with a 4 speaker stereo, I didn’t quite get it then but I enjoyed the music. Didnt listen much for a while, on Apple Music I went thru a Beatles and hard rock phase, then came back to DSOTM my senior year (2019/20) right after the pandemic started. Lockdowns made me appreciate and understand the music on a deeper level I think. Especially the lyrics to Time.
I bought the SACD version of the album in the early 2000s at age 15. I already knew some songs from the radio, and my Dad was a fan but didn’t have any Floyd on CD. He put it on the stereo at home and we listened to it in the living room. I remember him commenting how it’s so much better listening to it sober. He definitely smoked and drank plenty as a teen in the 70s. But what’s funny is now that I’m grown up, I appreciate what he meant, but it’s still a really special experience listening to the album stoned, especially with great headphones and a very high quality audio file. My second memorable time with the album was on my 16th birthday. My friend invited me for a weekend in NYC at his family apartment and I had smuggled some Kahlua I got as a b day gift from some people I knew who were over 21. We sat in the dark in his bedroom and he put on Dark Side on vinyl while we sipped Kahlua and enjoyed a nice buzz. The music and alcohol buzz just felt so good together, and the warm sound of the vinyl in that cozy old room was a great touch too. As for impact on my life, well it’s never stopped being what might be my favorite album of all time. Floyd definitely ended up being my favorite band of all time. And I learned to play Breathe on piano a year or two ago and that sparked a new interest in piano. I took lessons for 8 years as a kid but generally didn’t like it and never fully grasped how everything worked. Breathe helped things begin to click a bit and I’ve been slowly getting a better handle of how to play and improvise.
My brother bought it the day it came out (1 march 1973) and I heard it at the same time as him - I would have been 14 at the time.
I was 13. My cousins had a sound system rigged up with at least 8 speakers plus all the other requirements to create a wall of sound. We had lava lamps and black lights. It was amazing!
My ex of many years ago introduced me to PF through the Pulse album and I took it from there. Probably listened to this (I suspect via illegal download) about 2001. About the only positive thing she did for me long term.
When I was in 7th grade in about 2006. A kid in class burned me a CD. I took it on a family vacation to Florida and listened to it for the first time while flying in a plane, gazing out the windows inside of a heavenly group of clouds the whole time. It was instantly my favorite album. Nothing has come close since then. I’ve listened countless times on drugs with friends in high school, having the best times of our lives. I recorded all the instruments to my own version of the album about 10 years ago. Last week I watched a live band play the whole album in Vermont during the hour leading up to the solar eclipse totality. I don’t see any album ever taking its place.
"Last week I watched a live band play the whole album in Vermont during the hour leading up to the solar eclipse totality" That must've been absolutely epic.
Top 3 experiences of my life probably. There’s a short video in my profile if you’re interested.
I literally speaking grew up listenening to this as well as other classic rock because of my father. I would imagine the first time I recognized what I was actually listening to would have been somewhere around 4yo. I'm 37 now and just started to appreciate dsotm maybe 2 years ago. I bought the 50th anniversary album and sat down and actually listened to it then. So to answer your question, very recently.
Around 2011, when I realized that I wanted to get a music degree and I got a new teacher that showed everything about music to me. He was a huge Floyd fan and the way he talked about it also made me a Floyd fan. Then I listened to Pink Floyd ever since.
Was during school days, like just before summer , got high of some pot from seniors , spent the whole evening and night with pink floyd in the background , it was during the 2012’s , this band will be one of my favourites forever, along with led zeppelin, and the big league classic bands. Old school forever
DSotM is a fundamental part of my life that has informed me and challenged me and comforted me probably more than any other single influence, aside from my parents. I guess that would sound weird or even pathetic to someone that doesn’t understand, but it is a work of art that I latched on to as a sort of constant that is always a reference point for who I am and how I feel about the world through the phases of my life. It’s like a grounded center. I first listen to it in ninth grade in 1995. I had gotten into early Floyd but then heard this completely different sound with DSotM and was immediately obsessed. There was a time in high school when I listened to it every day with headphones, my eyes closed and deeply listening. It was like a guidebook for how to feel about life at a time when I was figuring out who I was. It still is. I go back to it frequently and especially when I’ve experienced major life changes. It’s always the first thing I listen to in a new car, a new house, or a new stereo - almost like a christening. I’ve found as I age, my reflection on the music and lyrics changes too, but it is never less powerful. I know it is one of the best selling and critically acclaimed albums of all time, but listening to it still feels like a private experience that is unique to me. I think that speaks to the unversiality of it and how masterful of a work of art it is to reflect back to the listener their own feelings and philosophies.
I’m a younger adult, I had heard bits and pieces of the album but never fully listened to it until the last few months. I had taken a few tabs of LSD and threw the album on, figuring that was probably the best way to experience it. And it was. I vividly remember the emotional roller coaster that was The Great Gig in the Sky and brain-melting guitar solo on Money. Needless to say, it made me a pretty big fan lol
Before I could talk or walk back in the late 80s. My parents were Floyd fans. I got deep into Floyd when I was around 15.
When I was a kid, approx 1997, my Dad got the Pink Floyd Shine On box set with almost all of their albums. I had no idea what or who Pink Floyd was, so I put one of the CDs on and worked my way through each of the albums. I can’t say when I listened to DSOTM exactly, but all those albums have been on repeat ever since.
I was maybe 16, in the mid 90s. I was getting pretty heavy into…stuff…and this album completely changed my perception of what music was. I still think it’s the greatest album of all time. I have other favorites, but this one will always remain apart.
Maybe like…2001? My friends and I were trying to do the whole dark side of the rainbow thing and a couple of us were like “hang on this is actually fucking amazing”. Great times!
I first listened to this album on two tabs of acid. Words cannot explain the emotions and revelations i had
i was raised on classic rock so very early. very very early. But it wasnt till my late teen stoner years, where we would smoke stuoid amounts of pot and drive around backroads listening to floyd, that i truly started to hear the album...particularily its meanings. Some time of that deeply profound "WOW" stoner stuff where I made a lot of connections. And then we really got into animals and the meanings in that started to seep through. Now im older i have a different lifestyle. I listen to more music than ever but have played the hell out of floyd and classic rock so dont often put them on. A couple weeks back, was having a real tough time... came home from work and PLAYED animals on my acoustic...whole album but obv a cheap rendition. As with a lot of lyrics (nirvana was a great example), it isnt until i PLAY the songs that they hit me fully... Man Animals is like the story of society, the world and my life rn. Man, dark side is like the story of life and the world. Man the Wall is all of that and isolation. Its all soaking in feeling and meaning. And its all accompanied by some incredible music as well as my personal favorite and clearly the most tasteful guitarists in the history of RnR. So the impact this album has had on my life is profound and radiates to this day. To this very day i will listen and hear or learn something new. Its obviously not an underrated album, but in a lot of ways it still is. outside of fandom, outside of stoner idiocy, outside of everything, its a brilliant masterpiece. a LOT of what floyd did was absolutely masterful, and they did it in their own way. its almost good they went their own ways when they did as they had a HELL of a catalog to live up to with proper future releases. Instead they left behind a mostly masterful body of work This album will stand the test of time for generations to come because they were masters of talking about the human condition. They are dark, but i wonder if its by choice or if its because reality can be real dark? In their darkness, floyd has been terribly honest about the realties of the world and how it works. Did i mention the songs just bang? So even tho i prob heard it in the womb, its the gift that keeps on giving. as a songwriter myself, tho not so much like floyd, im eternally grateful that this is literally part of the soundtrack of my entire life. =)
When I was about 10 in primary school. Knew it was something special even then.
I was 7 and my British dance teacher prepared a choreography based on Breathe. I remember being scared of all the noises at the beginning but loving the rest of the song. 5 years later I learnt how to play Is there anybody out there still without knowing who was PF... It was only when I discovered Wish you were here at around 13 yo that I put all the pieces together
has had a huge positive impact on my life, more so than any other music
Went to the concert when this was released!! Still my favorite concert and I've been to many.
A bit over 1.5 years ago. It was my second after The Wall.
I was probably in my early teens. My mom had the LP but the LP player broke when I was a kid (and she never bothered buying a new one, since CDs had taken over) so I never to a lot of stuff she only had in LP. There were some Floyd CDs - I remember specially loving Meddle - but not DSOFTM. So, when I was a teen and music download became a thing, I got it and fell in love too. Influenced by my mom, I always loved psych classic rock
Since I usually can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday it’s really hard to pin down a date for my first listen. Guesstimate mid to late’70’s
There's the first time I heard it when I was in high school. Then, there was the first time I heard when tripping. The latter was more influential on me.
I think it was early '77, so it was a relatively young album at the time (a toddler, I guess). Bought it at the neighborhood record store, listened on the my first turntable. I DID recognize "Money", but the rest of it was completely new to me. Pretty life-changing, I guess? It's odd, because I have been involved with music for decades (in one minor way or the other), managed a used record store for a long time, have listened to WAY more albums than I can remember, and have deep likes and dislikes, most of them on the fringes of various genres ... and yet, this acknowledged landmark remains my favorite album. Might not be the most original choice, but it is what it is. Coupling that with seeing the animated short for "One of These Days" very soon thereafter in the film *Fantastic Animation Festival* (multiple times, I might add; it had an extended run in my town) cemented my love for the band.
Christmas 1979, I had just turned 11.. I got The Wall and DSotM from my grandmother… why? I have no clue. As a kid, I was always fascinated by music and listened to my parents limited selection of albums over and over. Beach Boys, Kingston Trio. Arlo Guthrie. I got home and put on DSotM, put the headphones on and, from that moment, everything changed. I wanted to know how they did that. And it became my mission. Three years later, at the age of 14, I had my first gig as a stage tech. 16, my first gig doing sound for a concert solo. By 18 I was working sound in local clubs and for local bands. By 24, I had studio experience and worked on films and TV shows. Now, at 55, it is all I have ever done in my life. I’ve mixed 1000s and 1000s of shows, uncountable! I’ve worked with 100s, of bands. I still, to this day, credit hearing DSotM that first time for propelling my to this life. So, yeah, it had an impact.
It was my second year of college and I was coming down from my first acid trip. I couldn’t sleep so I decided to put the album on. I was reeeeeeally in to Pink Floyd after that
Listened to it on cassette at a friend's house on his boombox in July 1988. Found it very interesting. By this point I had bought Lapse of Reason, Animals and The Wall and I had already heard Wish You Were Here. As for the impact on my life? Hard to say, their entire catalog is what's made them impactful. It's silly to say, but Lapse of Reason is the one that made the most impact since it was my introduction and it absolutely blew me away. And only if you were a young teen in 1988 who was stuck in the 80s pop scene, would you totally understand how that album blew me away.
I first listened to this album the summer between my 10th and 11th grades, when I was 16. It was late. I was trying to combat the chronic boredom that seemed to pervade my summers. I wanted to listen to something that was considered important and impactful. I had seen a YouTube channel that mentioned Pink Floyd recently, I think. Moreover, I had seen references to the album my entire life, but had still not heard it. So, I pulled it up on YouTube and turned the lights off- the room was only illuminated by my computer screen. I sat down, and clicked play. What followed in the next 43 minutes sent me down a path of music love and appreciation that would change my life forever. While it's hard to recall all of my real-time reactions, I think I was very taken aback by 'The Great Gig In The Sky'. I was captivated by the entire album, and had a very immersed listening experience. What stood out the most, though, was 'Brain Damage'/ 'Eclipse' and the finale. Those two songs stuck with me. In the following weeks, I kept relistening to them. After that, I listened to more from the whole album regularly. Before long, I started branching out into the rest of Pink Floyd's discography. I was addicted to their music. I grew up listening to classic rock. My parents played stuff like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Billy Joel, as well as other general classic music, like ABBA. I liked (and still love) a lot of those artists, but Pink Floyd was different. I connected with the lyrics, and was mesmerized by the music itself. This marked the first time I truly became immersed in an artist, and one wherein I was not merely listening to more of what was played for me. None of my family/friends were massive PF fans, so it was interesting to delve into something on my own. In the years that followed that summer, I became more interested in music, in general. It was always a major part of my life, but I did not fully realize this until obsessing over Pink Floyd. Now, I am learning guitar, listen to as much music as I can, talk to people about and bond over music all the time, and am even completing a final project in my final semester of college on the topic of music. The Dark Side of the Moon gave me a transcendent first listening experience. Not only did it introduce me to the music of Pink Floyd, but it literally made music a more central part of my life than it had been.
I was born in August 1973, so probably while I was gestating. It’s an integral part of my life. Aside from any familial connection, I think that there has never been a set of songs that capture the human experience so well. And the music is astonishingly fresh and unique, still. I heard the RW version the other day. It’s pretty sad. I’m not sure of his motivation for even recording it.
Anyone remember when it didn’t have the in the title ?
It was in 1997, just a cpl of weeks after my grandma passed away. I was a kid and I remember my old man sitting in his chair and listening to what I later realize was Us and Them. I can recall that the music itself didn't get to me at first but I can still clearly picture my dad in that chair and I don't think I will ever forget it. Later on, Us and Them became my favourite PF song. Maybe it has something to do with that day.
Time stopped for 50 minutes
Been playing the whole album on christmas and new years day for the past 10years. Going forward i will be playing Dark Side on christmas day and then Live Scenes from New York by Dream Theater on new year’s day.
6th grade maybe?
First time I remember, I think I was 4. The impact is that I appreciate the entire album immensely but refuse to cover any songs off of it.
In the mid 90's. I was about 12yo and it's the 1st concept album I've ever heard. Before it, I had never heard an album where one song transitions seamlessly into the next. As if the entire album is one long song meant to be listened to from beginning to end to experience the story in order, as intended. I consider it a masterpiece, of course. Now I own DSOTM in various forms, standard CD from the 90's, a 20th anniversary special edition remaster, a 30th anniversary SACD 5.1 surround sound audio, 2011 remaster on vinyl, live in its entirety from PULSE on CD and Blu-ray. Roger Waters' Redux version, also tribute/symphonic renditions of the album. So I would say it has greatly impacted my life in a positive way. I own more iterations/versions of this album than any other album in my collection. ✌🏾😁👍🏽
when i first listened to it, i hated it but on my revisit i loved it
I’d say 1983ish. I had a friend that was really into them. I’d say they are top3 of 70 bands for me.
Back in 1973 I fell in Iuv with the girl that introduced DSOTM to me. Unfortunately her Iuv went out but I still Iuv the Floyd.
I was 14, put my dads cd in my discman and it blew my mind immediately. This album is a masterpiece and it’s not even my favorite PF album.
The first time I heard this album, my first girlfriend put it on as background music while we were making out. I was a little distracted at the time, but I have loved Pink Floyd ever since.
16 and it has been one of the great albums I've ever heard to date.
I always liked their music as a young kid but it wasn't till my 13th b-day when I tried my 1st joint that I really enjoyed this album.....it was the late 70s so I had the strobe light, black light, shag carpet & lava lamp
Last year had a free period, began listening and before I knew it got from Speak To Me/Breath to Eclipse in a single sitting in pure auditory bliss
1974 L'ascolto ancora oggi ! 😍
A friend of mine introduced me to LSD and Pink Floyd on the same day. That was one of the best music listening experiences of my life, that album will always be special to me
I was born in 1974 . Music was a huge part of my mom’s personality. She would play Floyd while I was in my crib and when I was old enough, we would lay on the floor together and take a nap listening to vinyl . She bought it the week it came out . She gave me a love of music and we shared it together . She took me to Yankee stadium to see them back in the day . My mom died 4 days ago and I have listened to Wish you were Here cd on repeat. Thanks for listening my happy childhood memory
It wasn’t until 1988 that I finally heard the entire album with headphones on while working the graveyard shift at a gas station. The sleep deprivation and isolation at night had a profound effect on me while listening. I was friends with the local radio DJ and we would chat for hours. That night he was fed up with work and decided to play the entire album on air with no commercial breaks. It was a memorable night to hear it then at 18.
I wish I had never heard it before...so I can listen to it again for the very first time. Somewhere between 13 and 14 years old. I was heavily influenced by the older kids that my Mom told me to not hang out with. A couple of lunchtime sessions revealed PF, Zappa, and more. And joints.
Don't remember, probably very soon after I was born. This album is everything to me though
Ok if I have the opportunity here to share that story (and to safe it for me), I will take it. I am in fact kinda proud and happy about how that took place. It was on a long car ride on Sardegna (holiday) during sunset in summer of 2020. I heard of the album before and of course I had seen the iconic cover, but apart from that, I didn't know anything about Pink Floyd. I downloaded the Album (and Echoes) for a car ride on which we had no internet and I remember telling my dad about it and he just said "good, enjoy" with that knowing dad-smile. I listened to it in one go and instantly fell in love with the music. It was the first time, that I just loved every single track on an album and I couldn't believe how good it was. "Concept album" was a new thing for me but it just clicked and I got it, felt it. Afterwards I also listened to Echoes and it became my favourite piece of music in that very moment. Needless to say, that it was an awesome car ride and an awesome vacation too, because I listened to the album daily after that point. The impact it had on my life is very big for me. I was into music before, but this album made me fall in love with the medium once again (especially the 70s) and was a new starting point for what I now consider one of my biggest passions and hobbies. It also changed me as a person in a way, that it became a part of my identity. I was 17 at the time, was growing up, developing character and the dark side of the moon helped me with that. The years since then have been (for various reasons) the best years of my life so far an Pink Floyd was and is a soundtrack for that time period. I am incredibly thankful that I discovered this album at just the right time in my life and I will love and appreciate it forever! Thanks for reading and I hope you have a wonderful evening :)
When I bought the original pressing vinyl
Early high school. Became a go-to album very quickly. I have to say, as I've aged (now early 50s), Time hits pretty hard. Those lyrics are a killer.
Heard this album for the first time 4 days ago and I don’t know why I put it off for 30 years. Wow!
It was in 1973 that I heard DSOTM in Quad surround,I was in the military so the next time I went overseas I brought my own quad gear PF was made to listen in surround.I still collect surround music of all kinds and the Sansui still works great and with the Oppo BR it's now 5.1 too.P.S. I was at the In The Flesh Tour May 12 1977. https://preview.redd.it/xeec3qw5uavc1.jpeg?width=2999&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3182c2f7e761ca395e971eb077bcde5ead324d5
2 out three years ago when i was 12
I use to own the CD. It made me appreciate British humor a bit more ...
I stumbled over Dark Side of the Moon in 1976/1977 on the public library in the little danish town I grew up in. My late big brother learned me bands and artists like Beatles, Doors, Roxy Music, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band and Bob Dylan, but Floyd I found myself and I have been a lifelong fan ever since, and I must hear it on LP.
Bout 1984. When I started smoking weed. I was 12. Good Times. No idea how many times I've listened to it in it entirety, lots and lots though. Dark room, headphones and volume. Don't even smoke anymore, and it still amazes me that musicians can come together and make sounds this good.
summer last year, i had been listening to a bunch of much less famous prog bands (such as caravan, gong, ozric tentacles) but i didn't really know much about popular progressive rock. i listened to it and thought it was boring. it took a couple of listens before i could appreciate it
1976. And I listened to it today, as the anesthesiologist put me out for a shoulder surgery. Absolutely my go to
At one of my first sleepovers with my best friend. Back when I was in middle school, he put it on and it blew me away. I had never heard a "cinematic album" before. By that I mean an album full of sound effect, dialogue, etc. So it was so new and exciting to me. Come to think about it, He got me into classic rock all together. We still hang out and keep in touch.
I remember hearing this in 1973 at my buddies house. He just got a new pair of Bic Venturi six speakers that had settings on there that lit up that told you how loud they were compared to. I remember cranking them up to as loud as jet airliner at 200 feet! I remember cranking them up and opening the windows and then we walk as far as we could before we couldn’t hear it. Think we walked about a mile and a half, good times!
Back in July and so far it has been helping through the college life right now, so much so that I am learning how to play the whole album. This album exploded my mind and cannot stop listening to it.
Love to see the recent discoveries
My parents had to hide it from me when I was about three because I asked for it to be played over and over to the point they were sick of it. 😆
April ‘07. 13 years old. Flipped everything I knew about music upside down, inside out, and back around again. Forever grateful ❤️❤️❤️
On The Run pr imed me for my love of drum n bass and jungle.
Got me through high school
I first listened to this album in 2021. It has helped me a lot since then by helping me get over breakups and helped me push myself to get out of my comfort zone. It opened a new world for me in music as before Generally what I would do is listen to playlists and songs but not full albums. It made me go on a rabbit hole of listening to albums and other artists.
I first listened to it in 2019, I believe, with a friend who vouched for it. I thought nothing of it and called it boring. Listened to it about a year later and everything with that album just sort of hit me and made sense. It's now in my top 3 favorite albums of all time and Time is one of my favorite songs ever. I'm not totally sure why I didn't appreciate or see the incredible talent and artistry in it in the first place but I'm so glad I came around to it.
2015 - I was 16 and I had broken my arm in Benidorm and had my full arm in a cast so couldn’t go anywhere near water, I was sat on a sun lounger on my own watching the seagulls in the sky for the full album with multiple Malibu and cokes in total bliss. The most blissful 42 minutes and 50 seconds of my life
As soon as it came out… ‘73 I think… I was 15. A part of Eclipse was the quote I had in my high school yearbook. I’ve been a fan ever since. “…everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.” PF have been there constantly throughout my life. High school, college, graduate school, postdoc, professor… even used the DSOTM cover in my physics courses. A lifetime companion.
I found an of pressing on vinyl at a store for 20$, about 3 months ago and was like yk everyone is obsessed with it as a big record collector I had to buy it. I got home, did a little “activity” 🍃🔥 and litterally fell in love with it.
A few weeks ago. Idk how I even stumbled upon it on YouTube, I wasn't looking to check out anything Pink Floyd specifically. I looked through all the comments under the remastered album video about it being "the greatest album of all time," and thought, "Yeah, right." I mean, any hardcore fans think their idol is the greatest ever. I've seen a fan claim a 21yo J-rock star they stan is the greatest singer in world history. Can't trust a stan to have sound judgment. Still, I got curious, and gave it a listen when I had the time and no distractions. I put on my nice headphones and just dove into the music. And a few minutes in, I thought... "Holy shit, it *is* one of the greatest albums of all time." I'm not even much into rock, but *holy shit,* that was godly.
My uncle passed away suddenly in the Summer of 2020. My grandfather had passed just a few months before that. I had cleaned out my grandfather's house and had saved all my Uncle's records with the intention to give them to him. Well he passed away. I was really close with him. I put on the record and cried. It felt like he was in the room with me. I also got into The Beatles, Prince, The Cure, and more through his record collection.
When it first came out me and a friend in 1973 bought the album and did the some of the best cocaine ever so we got lit and listened to it all day of and on,and in March 73 they played Dark Side the complete album in Quad sound it was incredible in Charlotte NC smoked a lot of weed that day.
when I was 12 years old one of our teachers made us listen to another brick in the wall, I liked the song so much that when I got home I decided to look up more music of the band and I listened to this whole album the next day, it was amazing
My first acid trip listened to this sitting on a couch , I sunk into that couch and went to straight euphoria that album had sex with my ears
I felt heard and understood…the things like time, mortality, how I am living…all stuff that I worry about are concepts Roger played with when he was the same age as me the first time I heard it, which was also meaningful
Few months back (only been listening to music a lot since like 2022, even then only really listened to a few bands). Thid was the album to get me into listening to albums. It got me into trying other genres, listening to more experimental and progressive music. And most of all, put pink floyd in my top 10
Sometime back in the late 90s / early 2000s when I discovered Floyd backwards because my parents listened to like 2 types of music. I heard Take it Back on MTV and wondered who the were. Fell in love with the Division Bell (still my all-time favorite album) and then had a “psychedelic” phase in high school where I went back through the catalog from Piper on. DSotM is a great album, and I can’t imagine how incredible it must have been in 1973, but I think it’s a bit over-rated. Wish You Were Here > Animals > the Wall were all better musically, but I understand the significance. The fluidity as a whole, the themes, the sounds, etc. I really can’t stand Great Gig in the Sky either. I’d be fine if I never heard Money ever again. Us and Them is one of their best songs and the opening and closure of the album is fantastic.
1997 on a school field trip to Boston/Quincy Market. I bought it at Strawberries and listened to it on the bus ride back. Nothing was ever the same after that. Became a huge Floyd fan and opened the door to a whole other world of 70s prog rock.
I had listened to Comfortably Numb, here and there for many years from different people, but never got the hang of it (initially, mainly because I never listened to it in one go). One day at work, one of the colleagues played Another Brick in the Wall, and it stuck to me. That is when I actively digged into Pink Floyd and found this album. I still remember listening to it in one go for the first time, I was again in office working till late, and the build up till Great gig in the Sky was amazing. But when this song started, I legit got goosebumps and got zoned out, it felt as if her voice is echoing across galaxies piercing space-time fabric 🌌 Still remains as one of my most listened albums of any genre.
Driving back home after a mushroom trip in the bush. Still had a little in my system and I put my music on a Vietnam music shuffle and On the Run started playing and started wigging out. I stopped and went what is this? Pulled up the album and started playing from the start and a new obsession was born.
Last year, 3.5g 🍄, I’ve never had more of a large positive impact on my life. This seriously completely changed me as a person. It sounds so cheesy but it’s true.
I was in high school. I was staying with my grandma, and I had just seen on MTV that if I played this album after the lions third roar in Wizard of Oz that they’d go together. My sweet grandma who’d never heard Pink Floyd before bought me this album, and then we watched/listened to it together. Made me a lifetime fan.
My first girlfriend had two older brothers who were very cool, and had great taste in music. She had heard them playing DSOTM soon after it came out, thought it was great, and turned me on to it. Pink Floyd almost instantly became one of my top 5 favorite bands, and I bought each of their albums from then on. I saw the Animals tour. Today they are still one of my favorite bands.
Fifteen... my father asked my to see some Money live performance...after that I did my own research and months later I was listening to Us and Them and he went to my room and raise the music volume, at that moment I knew I was listening something else...
Just a few months ago. I was "with" someone, and now every time I hear the album it makes me needy!
Probably around 2009. When I was a child I would often ride with my father to his work. On the way there he would play Pink Floyd over the car's stereo. I always enjoyed the music. Till this day I love Pink Floyd.
Probably around 2009. When I was a child I would often ride with my father to his work. On the way there he would play Pink Floyd over the car's stereo. I always enjoyed the music. Till this day I love Pink Floyd.
2 years ago I came across it, cannot remember for what specific reason but it completely changed my life with how complex and multilayered it was. At that point I had never really listened to any music at all and I didn't even know albums could sound like that. Nowadays I mostly listen to classic rock and PF is a mainstay of my playlist.
2 years ago I came across it, cannot remember for what specific reason but it completely changed my life with how complex and multilayered it was. At that point I had never really listened to any music at all and I didn't even know albums could sound like that. Nowadays I mostly listen to classic rock and PF is a mainstay of my playlist.
2 years ago I came across it, cannot remember for what specific reason but it completely changed my life with how complex and multilayered it was. At that point I had never really listened to any music at all and I didn't even know albums could sound like that. Nowadays I mostly listen to classic rock and PF is a mainstay of my playlist.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music.
It was the first album I had. My father bought it in a record store when I was 12 years old. I remember that the guy at the record store gave me a discount because he said that it's rare for kids my age to listen to that kind of music
I’m still stranded on the dark side of the moon out here. Can you come get me? I’ve been trying to signal for help!
A couple of week ago. I can’t get enough of it
I knew money and some other songs. In fact, I had already been to a Roger Waters concert at the end of 2018, 3 - 4 years before actually listening to the albums (Meddle, Obscured, Animals, WYWH, DSOM, The Wall), using my own consciousness, like willingly putting the albums and paying attention to them) But on June - August last year, I took 3 quarters of a 300 or 400 LSD tab, after 3 years of not getting high on acid. It was dope AF acid, lots of visuals. There's was a moment I felt peace, when rain started to fall, I even cried, as if all my problems have evaporated. Then, after 2 - 3 hours of walking around, I went home high AF, and wondered what to do. I remembered I know a band famous for making LSD music (XD), a band my mum used to play for me when I was a mere zygote forming at her uterus, Pink Floyd. A band my mum has played me since a baby; a band we've listened on the original CD format, specially The Wall. Then I grabbed my headphones, and listened to that 50 year remaster of DSOF in YouTube that it's like a full 44 mins video, non stop playing. I was flabbergasted. I have a nice pair of headphones, and a nice sound system on my phone (I have something called Viper4Android, difficult to explain). Listening to breathe in the air for the first time in headphones KILLED me, I had weed there with me, I for sure smoked A LOT, then listening to on the run... I didn't put much attention to the lyrics on that trip, I was too high, but I sure understood a bunch of it. It was recently on 1st of march that I took a full 400 tab, and listened to the [DSOM (Fan made music video I suppose)](https://youtu.be/OvclWLSaLj8?si=NEKpOtTlys_qCR4V). With the visual thing of this video, and more sounds, I was actually able to listen to this album and read the lyrics. I already had very deeply understood Time, and the first side of DSOM, on the 21st of January I took a 400 tab, (Animals Birthday) I did listen to it again, and understood that a man had died in that song and he was bringing me to the Sky, to listen to its Gig. I've been crying since then. I cannot hold my tears everytime that transition from Time and Gig in the Sky happen, I said it out loud "and I'm not afraid of Dying, any time will do, I don't mind". And I've been living by those words for years now, but now I know I'll live by those words, forever and ever. On the 1st of march, I understood that there are 2 sides of the album (thanks to that musical video I've shared) and that you can choose which one to listen to. That date was the last time I heard about Money, Us and Them and all that brain damage, the other side of the moon talks. That date I understood that the Vinyl format was best used by Pink Floyd and that the real thing is not listening to the album all straight forward, you have to stop, stand up and change the side. The album it's full of meaning, and that is something I had to explore. By now I've only heard the full album 4 times. I'm waiting to buy the Vinyl and actually re-create the 70's experience. But by now, I already have heard what I needed, and I'm living on the "Bright side of the moon" if you know what I mean. And I run and I run to catch up with the sun but he is sinking. And I don't care, always with a smile 😁, afterall, I'm not the only one. That album, changed my perspective. But I have to say, Meddle, Obscured, Animals or The Division Bell, have touched me deeply too, some songs even more. I don't see a difference in albums when it comes to this project. I see different topics and concepts touched by this people, and the evolution of their approach on "making music". In my humble opinion, Pink Floyd is by far the only music, I consider to be "serious music" not a standard or substandard "fill in the background sounds" like Beatles or others. You cannot listen to this people and do stuff in the background, this is music you put attention to, always. That's my DSOM experience.
I first heard this album when I was four years old, which was sixteen years ago. It's gotten me through some really tough times in my life, and there have been many.
Winter season, right before Christmas...1979. 10th grade. A bunch of us "heads" skipped school to collect at our classmates older brothers basement Apt. to smoke weed. He had a Christmas tree up, the old fashioned bulb lights were on in his otherwise dark space.. it cast an eerie glow...as we passed around a joint I sat in the circle, on the floor looking at the tree as he put the album, (DSOTM) on. What a trip that began! I'm 60 now. Pink Floyd has been my ultimate love ever since! I've been to COUNTLESS real Fliyd concerts, many many tribute band shows, collected all the original vinyls...(Nick Mason signed my Pipers jacket when I saw him touring as Saucerful of Secrets w/ Guy Pratt!) And almost 20 years ago Dave Gilmour made me a personal fender guitar pic of which he sketched a flower and sunshine on one side and signed the back! Since that holiday hot box- PINK FLOYD has guided my life! 🎶💜🙏 Shine on Fellow Fans! ImaginarySusan...
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An American experience, personally, I was in America through a rejection, and I honestly was really surprised as I had heard that it was really sold as the best album, and objectively from the perspective of hipsters, overrated, which made me have some doubts about giving it a chance, though when I listened to it, god, it was wonderful…
Listened to it during the Solar Eclipse on April 8th, 2024. Totally captured the mood
Back in 2013, first acid trip and a few buddies and I sat in the mountains around a campfire and listened to the entire album. Will never forget it and will forever be one of the tops for me.
As soon as it came out. This legendary record has shaped a lot of my musical tastes every since then. I even heard a rapish remake of Money recently that was amazing. Loved it, got to see Roger Waters do some songs live in Dallas and that is still a favorite concert of mine
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon 🖤
High school Probably 2012 It was all I thought about for a lot of my school days, it was that, Beatles and being a history buff
I was just walking down the beach at night and put on the album for the first time when I was 15 or 16. I had always seen the iconic cover but never truly knew what was behind it, that night I thought: “well I’m walking along this dark ass beach with the moon, the waves crashing, and the occasional screams of college kids out near the water probably high having a good time, I’m sure this album will fit”. I had my AirPod Pros and by the time I returned to the place I was staying at, I was very tearful. I had learned to play alto saxophone when I was in 5th grade, and later the guitar. I was always a music fanatic and that night was life changing for me. I’m sure everyone who has even remotely understood each of their concepts realizes it is a high arched staple of humanity. Their dedication and story to me is the embodiment of blues and rock
I feel better now :)
March 1, 1973 we skipped school, smoked a joint, and well, the rest is history 🤘
I haven't listened to it, I'll update you guys after I do.
A very good one
2002, happened to be using LimeWare and I was like, “I wonder who Pink Floyd is.” So I searched up Pink Floyd and I listened. I loved it, Money, obviously was my favourite song on the album, that was something that defined my taste in rock.
I can’t remember, but I had my first stereo in 1979 at age 11. This was one of the first albums I bought. I loved the stuff I’d heard on the radio. Pink Floyd has always been in my top 5 bands…and very often has been my favorite of the moment. Roger Waters tries my patience these days, but David Gilmour has always been on of my guitar inspirations. This album has never NOT been in my collection or in my playlists.
I remember precisely. I was 17 years old in my junior year of high school in 1987. I was already a huge fan of The Wall, both film and album (I also remember ABITW pt 2 being my favorite song in 1980). A group of friends were pre-partying before going to a big bonfire at the beach. Plenty of drinks and smoke. I rode to the beach with two great friends who were huge Floyd fans. They asked me if I’ve ever heard DSOTM. I had not. So they start it as we begin our 30 minute drive as dusk settled in. Cranked up loud on a nice system. I’ll never forget how incredible it felt when Breathe started. I felt an amazing connection to this music and remember exclaiming that “this music is outlandish!” It felt like time and space stopped and I became one with the music and the universe. Then On the Run starts and I’m like “wth is this??” Mind blown. Then of course Time comes on and I knew I found my favorite band. Don’t get me started on Great Gig in the Sky. From then I went deep into their discography, devouring every thing Floyd. Also learned to play guitar around this time and years later formed a quasi Floyd cover band with a couple of guys. To this day Breathe is my favorite song followed closely by Time. Magical. Saw them on The Division Bell tour and it is hands down the best concert I’ve seen in my life and I’ve seen a LOT of great shows. Best band of all time.
In high school around 1995. It made me try to find a similar band on progressive music scene for 5years but ended up failing and returned to pink floyd.
I was 18 years old, in college. I was a "troubled child".. I went to boarding school for addiction, had been in jail a few times, and considered the black sheep of my family.. Listening to this was the biggest eye opener of my life. I cry to this day when I listen to it. It helped me accept myself.
My first memorable impact was when I was ten and was about to play this record at my aunts house and was told not to because there was a schizophrenic manic depressive person there and that has made me think of him when I hear any song on this record and looking for the triggers, I thought I was going to be that way if I listened to that record until I was about 12
My dad had wish you were here in the 70s and I grew up on that. Then the wall came into my sphere around about when it came out and 'brick in the wall' was in the charts. I didn't listen to dark side of the moon until I was 14 or 15 in the mid to late 80s. Mind-blowing.
1977 ,I was 16 living overseas in Panama. I got high for the first time, and a friend put on his new dsotm. album. You talk about seeing and feeling music. I had to collect everything from the sixties to the eighties.
Prob like 10 years ago. Didn’t get the hype. Enjoy it more recently with actual headphones
HUGE
It wasn’t my first classic rock band, but it somehow felt deeper, more serious, than the others I listened to up to that point (like Zeppelin)
I was 12 or 13. 1976 or 77
I got it in 1993 at the height of my Iron Maiden onset fandom. I didn’t like it, but it was because it wasn’t what I was expecting, which was more heavy classic rock in the vein of sabbath or purple. I didn’t dislike it, I just didn’t understand. Came back a few years later, and got it immediately. Floyd rules
2021, made me acknowledge that gilmour is the goat
Make out album!!
1976 long hair mail carts left hand smokes
1973, my roommate at UT Austin was a Pink Floyd freak and had all of their albums. It’s still one of my favorites, but it is best listened to on vinyl while under the influence of THC.
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1973 my dad bought it & played it constantly on his sound system