What's the best track on "Dark Side Of The Moon"?

And, there's plenty in there to vote for for the haters too. I mean, the minimalist techno fans may go for "On The Run" while the R&B-lovers may go for "The Great Gig In The Sky". :)

Voted "Time" btw.

didn't think you'd go for 'Any Colour You Like' amirite.

I'm no great R&B fan, but Clare Torry it is.

"Time" still sounds pretty classic to me. The tick-tock opening ripping into Gilmour's hoarse "Digging away..." Oh yeah.

Toss up between Breathe and Time.

Time for me!

I love this album but never owned it or looked at the tracklist to even know the song titles besides obvious stuff like "Money." I'll have to listen to previews on iTunes or something to remember which ones I like most and vote.

Breathe, I think.

Time - I love that guitar solo. Nice funky keybds too.

TIME by miles and miles.

Thing is, I tend to listen to Speak To Me through to Breathe Reprise as just one long track. The rest of the album I can take or leave, but that one long sequence is great.

"Us And Them" by a million miles. It's all about Wright and that Dm/maj7

"brain damage" 's my thing.

"Brain Damage" -- because that's gotta be the explanation for such a dire, overrated album!

NICE

I thought I would be the only one to vote "Us and Them"!

Us And Them gets a LOT of love from the student community.

Do students today really listen to Floyd?

Only, what, most of them? I've been to laptop screenings of the Pompeii DVD, ffs! It's a great experience. About this record, people are SO FUCKING ABSOLUTIST about it. Can't we praise the good and grumble about the bad without swinging violently in either direction? Yeah, it's not a patch on some of their earlier stuff, but yeah, it's probably their most coherent, consistent effort.

most of them

*in my experience, that is.

Must admit, I'm pretty surprised students are still listening to Pink Floyd. It's, what, 35 years old? I'm old, I went to college in the eighties, it would have been the equivalent of us sitting around listening to Vera Lynn or something. In fact, most students back then considered Floyd to be incredibly dated!

You'd be amazed at how reactionary many student tastes are. It's probably a backlash to what is regarded as increasingly vapid youth culture circa 2007.

I guess the weight of history weighs heavier than it did in my day...

yea students are still way into floyd, in my experience, or at least they were a few years back when i was in undergrad. man i even had the dsotm poster in my room from ages 15-19. btw i'd pick either brain damage or breathe. us and them is okay but the smooth jazz sax kind of kills it.

this album does get a lot of crap, and i can see why. i love the floyd, they were an integral part of junior high/high school years, and dsotm was played often. it was immaculate for many years in my mind. but it can be a really stale, overproduced album.

thinking about other space-rock type stuff that i've enjoyed over the years, i think i'd like dsotm more now if it were a bit rougher on the edges, if it were a bit messier or less slick. i've gone back and forth over the years over the soul/gospel singers but now i pretty uch hate them. nick mason's drumming is so boring here too and is really the point when it went to shit. like i said the saxes suck. when i want to hear floyd these days it's usually animals (nick's drumming sucks there too but everything else compensates), maybe meddle, or ummagumma if i want the more out-there stuff. there is also some decent stuff on the obscured by clouds album (though a couple of duds too).

*integral part of my junior high/high school years

went for 'breathe' because it's the only cut i haven't tired of after thousands of listens.

but in fairness, the 'best' track has got to be 'time' or 'brain damage'

Us And Them gets a LOT of love from the student community.

This is why I'm surprised someone else voted for it!

who ever listens to just one track at a time?

I voted "Breathe," btw, just cause it gets you right in the mood for the rest of the album.

Time

i'm afraid to listen to this album now because i don't want to find out that i don't like it anymore

"Us and Them." Mainly cos I'm still kinda sick of hearing "Money" and "Time" on classic rock radio all the time back-in-da-day. Fwiw, it's really not that great an album, imo, but it sure is an interesting one. Kinda surprised me when I listened to the 30th anniv. remaster--after not having heard the album in more than a decade--how much Steely Dan, Manfred Mann, Stevie Wonder and even Wailers I heard in it. Strange. Or, at least, I thought so at the time.

louis, cambridge is still kind of pink floyd city don't forget.

time....the solo is the selling point for me

I'm still kinda sick of hearing "Money" and "Time" on classic rock radio all the time back-in-da-day

back-in-da-day for sure, but Money and Time are definitely still played on classic rock radio all the time

i'm also very sick of hearing them, esp. money

"Time." No arguing with that guitar solo.

a toughie. breathe or us and them. i think i'll go for breathe. that woman's cry gets the album going. the tenderness of it still astonishes me when i listen to it today. i almost cried when i saw them starting their live8 performance with that song. another good thing about it. it is short. which isn't typical for the average pink floyd track.

Do students today really listen to Floyd?

As long as students still partake of the doob, Pink Floyd will be popular with them.

^^^this is true

Breathe wins it for me. I really liked the use of Us & Them in Dogtown & Z-Boys.

Is anybody else going to give some love to "Any Colour You Like"? It was close to my favorite when I was listening to this album nonstop at age 16, and despite being overplayed to DEATH still gets me going in that geeky proggy way. It's like the purified, smoothed-out version of the "Hotel California" solo or Tom Morello's Rage Against the Machine theatrics (also a hit with me at 16!)...

Glad to see nobody's mentioning "The Great Gig in the Sky." Horrible song.

Breathe.

so pretty ... just wish you could soak in it for 8 minutes instead of the two or whatever.

louis, cambridge is still kind of pink floyd city don't forget.

This did come to mind, but I didn't mention it, because the Floyd-loving demographic comes from all over, and the fact they're at Cambridge is largely coincidental.

What other stuff from the seventies do today's students listen to, out of interest?

"Give em enough rope"

Derek Bailey's Incus albums

Bob Marley remains enormously popular on college campuses.

"Us and Them"

From UC Santa Cruz's Facebook network stats:

Top Music

1 Pink Floyd
2 Radiohead
3 The Beatles
4 Sublime
5 Nirvana
6 The Doors
7 Bob Dylan
8 Tool
9 Led Zeppelin
10 Bob Marley

There is something about this album that touches many a mopey, adolescent boy. I love it, I think it has aged remarkably well. I even like the "sterile" production. Icy. Great Gig in the Sky I could do without.

The argument often used against this album is the "Wish You Were Here" is better.

And, well, I agree. It is. But that doesn't mean "Dark Side Of The Moon" isn't a great album. Just that WYWH is even better.

Glad to see nobody's mentioning "The Great Gig in the Sky." Horrible song.

I don't skip it, I don't think, but it does seem like a bit of a stunt instead of a song.

The Great Gig In The Sky is stirring, memorable, plain awesome, great to holler along to, people are nuts

I don't skip it, but I don't see the point in it, really. What is that Aretha Franklin-copycat doing on an album otherwise featuring male, and rather controlled, vocals?

HOLLERING

i fucking love Great Gig in the sky... y'all are nitpicky

"GGITS" won my vote. Subjectivity counts for something, somewhere, right?

i might go with Time

I feel like Brain Damage and Eclipse should count as one choice really, they definitely need each other. Eclipse doesn't feel like a full song in itself, but as a coda to the track before it's fantastic. I used to love playing along to that squally hammond intro. Anyway, have voted for BD.

You just know that "Breathe", "Eclipse" and "On The Run" are going to be shut out.

Or, at least the first two will be.

The argument often used against this album is the "Wish You Were Here" is better.

It might be better, but these days I listen to Meddle and Animals much more.

Breathe. It was the first place I heard the phrase "quiet desperation" (I was probably 14, and I thought they had originated it).

Ha wait, fuck that's in TIME!

"You just know that "Breathe" "Speak To Me", "Eclipse" and "On The Run" are going to be shut out"

fixed. (I hope)

From UC Santa Cruz's Facebook network stats:

Top Music

1 Pink Floyd
2 Radiohead
3 The Beatles
4 Sublime
5 Nirvana
6 The Doors
7 Bob Dylan
8 Tool
9 Led Zeppelin
10 Bob Marley

If this is for real, then it's truly amazing. At least half of that is what students in 1973 were listening to! And the other half is none too current either. No wonder music these days is in such dire shape.

Generation Z isn't into current music, they prefer older music, and will until current music starts sounding more like old music.

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weird

The "Us And Them" voters would just shut up and vote, apparently.

Anyway, the two best tracks are on the first two positions. So no problem IMO. :)

Generation Z isn't into current music, they prefer older music, and will until current music starts sounding more like old music.

this may actually be the most insightful thing that geir has said yet on ILM ... at least for the gen z'ers who are into rock music.

and i am so sad that i missed this poll when it was still going on ... i've been on a big pink floyd kick lately. i would've voted for "us and them" -- i guess that rick wright (and it's more HIS song than roger's) really WAS their secret weapon.

It's still all about Time.

In response to the recent pitchfork dark side discussion, I’ve been listening to this album again and damn if “us and them” verses aren’t the most peaceful tunes space rock has ever given us. Someone on this board otm, stating that dark side of the moon perfectly presents empty space. A very lonely record. Us and then had been knocking me flat the past month

Well, god damn, one of my picks actually won.

Great Gig > Any Colour

Money is really fun to play on bass

Well, yeah.

brain damage eclipse or gtfo imo

but it all RULES

Yeah I was always a brain damage - eclipse Stan, but these poll results have made me reconsider and “us and them” gets to stand in their company

Money is the weakest song on this album. There, I said it

But yeah, it is fun to play on the bass

And the 3-part guitar solo is phenomenal