I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, I've been over the edge for yonks

[beer_good_foamy]

These days, when everyone carries around a mobile film studio in their pocket, it's hard to remember how many great things happened relatively recently but were never caught on video.

Take Pink Floyd at their greatest, for instance. Apart from the official oddity Live At Pompeii there are the odd TV appearances, especially from the pre-Dark Side era, a scant few bootlegs of official but unreleased concert films, and bits and bobs of dark, fuzzy audience recordings using Super 8 and early camcorders, and... that's about it. A band that was always very visual, but almost none of it preserved for posterity until the post-Waters tours in the 80s and 90s finally saw some proper home video releases.

So this is something of a miracle: Someone sat down and put together what existing video footage there is of Pink Floyd performing Dark Side of the Moon back when it was brand new in 1972-74, creating almost a complete concert film.

Watch on YouTube

Not the greatest quality, but damnit, it's Pink Floyd when they could still jam on stage, before they became locked in to performing to expectations and pre-recorded effects, performing possibly the greatest album of all time.

There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Who knew, I really enjoy more of this album than just The Great Gig in the Sky.

[yourlibrarian]

What a cool project!

[beer_good_foamy]

Yay!

If you've never listened to the studio album in its entirety before, take 42 minutes out of your day and do so. I don't know any other album that just sucks you in like this one does. There's a reason it spent about 20 consecutive years on the US album charts...

[beer_good_foamy]

IKR? It's a real labour of love.

[nondenomifan]

Whatever you do, don't look up "Chantilly Lace" by the Big Bopper on YouTube. It's not a pretty picture. "Happy Together" by the Turtles is even worse because it's a video tape with tracking issues.

Amazingly enough, they managed to do a reasonably good job of putting the original "Bohemian Rhapsody" video together. It's got some fuzzy spots and some blips, but most of the picture is HD quality!

[thewiggins]

Oh, god yes. This is such an amazing album. Good speakers or headphones help, it's really emersive audio experience and you'll want to have both audio channels.

I also quite like Wish You Were Here.

[thewiggins]

That's so cool! I'll have to watch the whole thing when I have time.

[beer_good_foamy]

Really, everything Pink Floyd did between 1973 and 1979 (and quite a few things before then, and one or two things they did after) is incredible. But Dark Side stands out to me for a lot of reasons; the way it all fits together, the way it builds towards that climax, the sheer sonic depth of it that means I'm still discovering new little things several hundred listens in...

[beer_good_foamy]

Oh yeah. I'm a huge Velvet Underground fan, and even though they spent several years hanging around Warhol's factory with film cameras everywhere, the only sound and colour film of the original lineup actually performing on stage is... this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXbyZc9L2_Q

[beer_good_foamy]

Yay!

[nondenomifan]

It was the first album of theirs I ever heard, and I loved it. I was still in elementary school when my sister brought it home and played it on the record player in the basement (home-made surround sound by mounting the stereo speakers in different locations on the walls, LOL). I absolutely adored the beginning of "Time" and "Money"--especially the way the rhythm of the "Money" intro became the rhythm of the song.

[nondenomifan]

Oh. My. God. That is so bad. I feel for you. I live for music and I have Asperger syndrome, so if there's anything wrong with the music at all, I ain't gonna like it one bit.