The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd The Dark Side of The Moon By Alais Galvez Pasadena City Professor Kyle Luck College Music 24B History of Rock Music May 4, 2018 “Pink Floyd were an English Rock band formed in London in 1965”. (Wikipedia) On March 1, 1973, a band called Pink Floyd released an album called, The Dark Side of the Moon. The songs on the album, The Dark Side of the Moon is “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” “Echoes,” “Breathe,” “On the Run,” “Time,” “The Great Gig in the Sky,” “ Money,” “Us and Them,” “ Brain Damage,” “Eclipse,” Pink Floyd were founded base on a group of students/ friends; Sid Barrett originally on guitar and lead vocals, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Richard Wrights on keyboards and David Gilmour as guitarist. The Dark Side of the Moon was the first album that featured Roger Waters as the only lyricist. The album that came before and after The Dark Side of the Moon is in 1972 Obscured by Clouds and in 1975 Wish You Were Here During the documentary, a Rolling Stones Senior Editor David F. stated, "It was the first time seeing the band…

The album I chose to discuss and dissect is the classic and famous, “Dark Side of the Moon” by the rock band Pink Floyd. The British band, Pink Floyd formed in the mid-1960’s and was part of what is commonly referred to as the “second wave” of the British Invasion (Hoffman. Birkline). “Dark Side of the Moon” at the time of its release in March 1973 (Abbey Road Studios/Harvest Label) would stay on the music charts for just about seven hundred and fifty weeks and would sell an amazing forty-five…

Everyone has their own wall, they have built and it is not until someone special comes along and removes the wall will you see the real person inside. In the poem “Please Hear What I’m Not Saying” by Charles C. Finn the speaker states “You alone can break down the wall behind which I tremble” (78). When the speaker says “you” he is indicating that there is a specific person who can “break down” his wall. Someone who loves and care about him. When the poem talks about breaking down a wall it is…

“High Hopes” by the iconic band Pink Floyd was released in 1994 and remains a huge fan favorite of many classic rock listeners. David Gilmour is the singer and song- writer for Pink Floyd and has had a very successful music career. Like most of Pink Floyd’s songs, the rhythm of “High Hopes” is very slow and calming but conveys some of life’s harsh truths. This powerful song illustrates society’s unrelenting quest to pursue the perfect life that God intended but hampered by the uncontrollable…

Most people are confused about the differences between lyrics and poems. Poems are outlined to be silent or aloud, on the other hand lyrics are mapped out to go along with music. Poems, unlike lyrics, can be misunderstood and read without a sound, however lyrics normally need accompanying music to be understood in the correct way. If you lay out the lyrics of Pink Floyd 's song "Time" without the accompanying music, many questions and observations come to mind. One of which why is there no…

Since I am interested in music video making process, Ok Go is the alternative rock band that inspires me the most. The reason why I said so is that because this music band broadens people perspective. In their effort to start the new way of making music videos they used a lot of amazing techniques including single-shot without generated images in video, illusion technique, half speed performance, dancing in a single continuous take, style of choreography etc. Moreover, they had been faced a…

The moon is the brightest object in the night sky. On some nights, the moon looks like a shining circle of light. On others, it looks like a thin, silver fingernail. The moon does not make its own light. The light we see comes from the sun and bounces off the moon. If the moon and Earth were side by side, the moon would look like a tennis ball next to a basketball. It looks bigger than the stars and as large as the sun because it is closer to Earth than any other natural object in space. But…

Breeann Moss Mr. Musick Eng 10 September 11, 2017 The moon The sun is not the only brightest object in the sky the moon is also one of the brightest objects in the sky. Did you know the moon has no atmosphere. Luna 2 was the first to visit the moon in 1959. Some scientists actually say that the moon wobbles, but others say they are just seeing things. The moon has three billion year old rocks on its surface. There’s no magnetic field on the moon like others try to say. The rocks that come…

The moon has been seen as far back as 1610. The moon is a third of Earth and has no proven life on it. The moon is also the only other place beyond Earth where people have step foot on. The moon is thought to have formed after a mars size planet hit Earth. Size and Distance The moon is less than a third of the Earth. The radius of the moon is 1,079.6 miles. The moon is farther away from the Earth than people think. It is an average of 238,855 miles away. An example is 30 Earths could fit…

• page 630 Our moon is the only natural satellite and it accompanies earth in anuual journey around the sun. The earths moon is unusually large compared to its partner planet. Scientists thought that when earth was forming a piece was sliced off. The Diameter of the moon is 3475 and the earths diameter is 12756, Which is about one fourth of the earths diameter. Most information of the moon come from the Apollo moon missions. Between 1969 and 1972 there have been six spacecraft landings.…