There is light on the DSotM, September 30, 2011

Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of The Moon was released originally in March of 1973.The album was the band's first number one album here in the United States of America and has stayed on the charts for nearly an accumulated 1,300 plus weeks (741 weeks from 1973-88 and many more now from 1991 - today where it still remains). Plus, The Dark Side of the Moon is the third largest selling album worldwide with some 40 million copies sold (including 15 million here in the US but should be updated for recertification now).There is a good reason why this album has held up for the last nearly 40 years and it's because the songs deal with problems that one goes through in life and the production was many years ahead of its time. This was the first album that ever touched me in the heart, I used to go to sleep listening to Dark Side when I was a baby because lullabies wouldn't work half the time so when all else failed, my mother would put Dark Side on the turntable and it did the trick...

I'm listening to Great Gig In They Sky - Disc 2 - and felt it necessary to put in my two cents. Disc One is the familiar studio version all nicely dressed up in a new remaster - it's got some sonic differences over past versions although I've never been unhappy with any copy of Dark Side Of The Moon be it vinyl or CD.Soooo - my reason for writing is just to say how cool it is to hear a great sounding show from 1974 with the complete DSOTM. The version of Great Gig In The Sky is quite fantastic. The whole thing is great - a real treat! Don't pass it up!

I've had many versions of this perennial favorite. Heck, right now I have three versions of the studio release of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon alone. The original CD version, the 30th Anniversary hybrid SACD and, this, the new 2011 remaster. Although I have yet to hear the MFSL rendition, to me this is the best effort to date for a DSotM CD.For one thing, thankfully, they didn't compress the music. It's seems to level match fairly well with the other Dark Side CDs I have. Clarity seems to have improved also. It's so clear that it makes the others seem a bit muddied. The great part is not etched. Meaning it sounds smooth while the music is very well defined.The noise floor seems to be lower on the 2011 remaster than either the original or 30th Ann. That makes the music more dynamic with the quieter background.Overall the improvements of the 2011 remaster of DSotM are worth getting. The sound differences may not be dramatic but are certainly...