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Dark Side of the charts: 1,500 weeks and counting
Posted: 08 May '06, 17:20
Pink Floyd's 1973 album Dark Side Of The Moon has reached its 1,500th week on the Billboard album chart.
The album stayed on the chart from its release until 1988, totalling 736 consecutive weeks. It then re-entered the chart, only to drop out again, numerous times, until the magic 1,500 was up.
Founder member Roger Waters commented thusly:
"When the record was finished, I took a reel-to-reel copy home with me, and I remember playing it for my wife and her bursting into tears when it was finished. I thought, 'This has obviously struck a chord'. I was kinda pleased by that. I thought to myself, 'Wow, this is a pretty complete piece of work,' and I had every confidence that people would respond to it."
So, like, well done Pink Floyd. Maybe by way of celebration they could stop looking miserable all the time and just be nice to each other, eh? That, and reform. No, really, do it.
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wow
Roger Waters in "i love watching my wife cry" shocker
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i know what else would make her cry
and he could still use the word 'struck' when he talks about it
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but does this mean
its the most successful album for chart placing of leik EVAR ?
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great album
but very overrated
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That
makes no sense
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yes it does
its GREAT just not as great as everyone says it is...
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exactly
There's too much filler in it like On The Run, for it to be considered a truly classic album.
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LIES
the only low point on the album is Money. The rest is utterly magnificent.
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lol. too much filler
thats the most sweeping and generally wrong comment ever.
there is no filler at all. perhaps if on the run was 6 mins long, or, if the album was drawn out onto double cd, like some of the other floyd material, then i might be able to see some truth in your statement.
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this is one of my favourite records.
there is no filler whatsoever.
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apart from the tape machine wankage
at the beginning. that 'woa-woah-oh' song in the middle and all the bits with saxophones.
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the woa-woah-oh song
is fricking ace. you're not coming to my party anymore.
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How many
positions are in the Billboard chart? I mean, it was obviously not in the top ten for 1,500 weeks.
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100
i think
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200
ME thinks
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Wait what?
Sorry, is this serious? The album has really been on the charts for 1500 weeks?
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They sell a lot of t-shirts too
You see all the little rock kids wearing them. And Hendrix. For whatever reason, "classic rock" is considered to be really cool, especially late 60s/early 70s. I guess if you're 15 and all you know is emo, Pink Floyd must seem like a divine revelation.
RstJ
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Well it has been out for 33 years
Seems odd that an album obsessed with growing mad and old should appeal to so many people. Maybe people find it comforting though.
If it represents the course of my life, I think I'm currently in the 'Time' stage. One day I'm going to wake up and realise that thr best years of my life have gone.
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Time
I'm 49 and "Time" has been appropriate at least a few different moments during my life, getting out of school and after my divorce to name two. The main reason I feel that the album has lasted this long is that it touches something that is very fundemental to practically each and everyone of us. With the f'uped situations around the world at this time and feeling that things are so out of any control of ours, people take some sort of solace in knowing there others that feel the samethings that they do.
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