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The Dark Side of the Moon
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Audio CD, CD, 21 Sept. 2011
"Please retry" | €12.99 | — |
Vinyl, 26 Sept. 2011
"Please retry" | €19.99 | €19.99 | — |
Accessory with book, 31 Mar. 2021
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Genre | Pink Floyd, POP/INTERNATIONALE, THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON |
Contributor | Pink Floyd |
Brand | EMI MKTG |
Publication date | 4 Nov. 2016 |
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Le légendaire album remasterisé de pink flyod, disponible en vinyle. The dark side of the and moon est resté sur le billboard 200 pendant 741 semaines (dont 591 consécutives), soit l'équivalent de 14 ans. L'album est, à ce jour, l'un des meilleurs albums de tous les temps pour les records de ventes, se classant au troisième rang des albums les plus vendus au monde (après thriller de michael jackson et back in black d'ac/dc). Au total, the dark side of the and moon s'est vendu entre 40 et 45 millions d'exemplaires.
Product details
- Is discontinued by manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 31.7 x 31.19 x 1.4 cm; 466.07 Grams
- Manufacturer : Parlophone
- Manufacturer reference : 029876
- Original Release Date : 2011
- Label : Parlophone
- ASIN : B00536OCZA
- Country of origin : France
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 275 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- 23 in Classic British Rock
- 219 in Pop
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Ho un impianto di alto livello, tarato perfettamente, e quasi 10.000 vinili e quindi penso di sapere si cosa sto parlando.


Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on 24 April 2019
Ho un impianto di alto livello, tarato perfettamente, e quasi 10.000 vinili e quindi penso di sapere si cosa sto parlando.




Anyway, onto to the review of the album. Over the years I’ve had various copies (haven’t we ALL Floydian lovers) of this spellbinding album. This 2011 Discovery Edition is far and away the best sounding edition I’ve ever heard, it’s crisp, clear, bass and treble levels are to my ears anyway pretty damn perfect. I think James Guthrie & Joe Plante have done an utterly brilliant remastering job on not only this album, but on all of the 2011 reissued Pink Floyd albums.
On the digipak it comes in, I can see where the criticism comes in. I personally love digipak CD’s, that said if you don’t pick up the digipak CD’s yourself at a Record Store you can get some pretty creased and ripped digipaks from this site (sorry Amazon UK) lol 😂 and my second favourite website for online records buying which is HMV. So I can see where the criticism comes in, in relation to packaging. Unless you’ll picking-up the digipak CD yourself in store, you are taking a risk in relation to what quality the digipak arrives to you by the post method, unfortunately. Jewel cases are a little bit more hard wearing are they not. But not as aesthetically pleasing to ones eye it has to be said.
Whilst The Dark Side Of The Moon is my favourite Floyd album, I would also like to clearly state that Floyd’s - Wish You Wer Here, Animals and lastly The Wall are also exquisitely sublime to. Well worth collecting them to.
But for my money anyway, Pink Floyd have never bettered this album.

I discovered this album when my dad disparagingly compared what Radiohead were up to on OK Computer as 'a load of moaning, listen to this instead'. I can still picture the biro on the tracklist of the Sony C90 in my walkman and it remains as bewitching as it did twenty years ago.
That said, I am not going into this from a musical perspective, (enough has been written by others over 40 years). Safe to say it's an Important Work and Floyd's best overall.
The remaster is three dimensional and rich. This is the best I've heard this album. The remaster is the same from 2011 that was used for both an extended box set and a double disc with a live set from the period. Both are out of print...
...which leads me to the star I had to knock off. I'm currently hoovering up the Zeppelin reissues which not only come with extras but are packaged beautifully in gatefold sleeves with replica artwork, new photos, comprehensive booklets and a basic sense that they are something you are proud to own.
This EMI 'Discovery' reissue looks like it came free with a newspaper. Low grade card sleeve, the glossy surface of both sleeve and booklet are fingerprint magnets, and the fit for the single CD itself is tighter than a local authority budget under austerity rules.
5 stars for the album and the 'new' sonics, a tawdry 1 star for the packaging. That's actually an average of 3 stars, but I can't rightly give 'Dark Side' that rating, so a begrudging four it is.

So, what is it specifically that makes this vinyl record so outstanding? Well, two things; firstly, the pressing is superb - it sounds lively, with perfect stereo separation and without any distortion. My copy is dead flat, too (which is rare these days, even with 180g vinyl). But, most of all it's the amazingly low floor noise and almost total absence of any pops, clicks or even ticks!
This is, by quite some way, the best presented slab of vinyl to (figuratively) drop through my letterbox in the 8 years that I have been buying re-issued vinyl (nearly all from Amazon). My belief is that it is the (very sensible) use of an inner sleeve that is lined with polythene(?) by the manufacturer, which has allowed this platter to be unpacked and played for the first time in pristine condition. It is such a massive bonus to start off with a record that is in this condition, rather than getting one in a newly-cut paper sleeve that is covered in 'paper dandruff' and then trying every cleaning product and device to get it clean again (often scratching it in the process). Other vinyl-producing companies take note!
As I write this, I am near the end of the second side of the album and there has only been one audible 'tick' so far (in the middle of Side 1). I can't stress enough how unusual that is (in my experience at least) and I find myself constantly looking over at my turntable to make sure that I am not actually listening to my CD player by mistake ;-) .
The icing on the cake is the price. "The Dark Side of The Moon" may well be (in polls) THE most loved and bought vinyl LP of all-time. The fact that I was able to sell my (very badly worn) 1990's re-issue of it for more than I paid for this brand new, sonically awesome version of it is testimony to that.
Personally, I would rather have this new version (the 2011 re-master, on the Pink Fold Records label, complete with all of the posters and postcards that the original release came with) than a first pressing on the Harvest label (assuming that it was only to listen to and not to sell on for a small fortune ;-) ).
A 'must buy' purchase for anyone who is rebuilding their record collection and has a scratchy old copy of it ;-) .

At first I was delighted to see that this is the gate fold version - like the original I purchased all those years ago! Complete with stickers and posters too! - then it was downhill from there!
The pressing is terrible. Distortion on the vocals on Breathe then once you get to the end of On the Run and the explosion is taken over by ticking clocks, the repetitive crackles on this pressing are really bad. So it continues into Great Gig - ruining the piano and quiet vocal start to this great track.
It is just as bad on side 2. Coming out of Money, we have the repetitive crackles again.
So packed this up and it's being returned.
I bought the new pressing of "Wish you were here" at the same time and that is chalk and cheese. That pressing is so much better than DSOTM.