Possibly my dad's favorite (and most overplayed) album of all time, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is a great instrumental album, and still features strong lyric. Rumor has it that it correlates perfectly with The Wizard of Oz if you start the album right after the MGM Lion roars in the film, especially the strange, seemingly random sound effects in the album. This album's greatness stems from the constant, heartbeat-like baseline and the richness of the chords combined with the poetic nature of the lyrics. The sound effects also add a more unique quality to the album, which makes it stand out. To my surprise, I really enjoyed listening to this album (I used to try to tune it out when my dad played it when I was younger because I thought it was boring and tedious).
Pink Floyd is a very sarcastic band and often uses their music to scathingly criticize society. "Money," one of the most iconic sounds on the album (complete with cash register), talks about the societal pressure to make lots of money to buy bigger and better things than your neighbor, from a new car to a football team. In the second verse/stanza (it really could be considered modern poetry), Pink Floyd focuses on the loss of morality when David Gilmour sings "don't give me that do goody good bullshit." The hypocrisy of our society is expressed in the next verse/stanza with the line "share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie." Pink Floyd's music is littered with these snarky remarks, which illustrates the problems with society that we still experience as humans, forty years later.
Pink Floyd is a very sarcastic band and often uses their music to scathingly criticize society. "Money," one of the most iconic sounds on the album (complete with cash register), talks about the societal pressure to make lots of money to buy bigger and better things than your neighbor, from a new car to a football team. In the second verse/stanza (it really could be considered modern poetry), Pink Floyd focuses on the loss of morality when David Gilmour sings "don't give me that do goody good bullshit." The hypocrisy of our society is expressed in the next verse/stanza with the line "share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie." Pink Floyd's music is littered with these snarky remarks, which illustrates the problems with society that we still experience as humans, forty years later.