The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary) [Remastered]

I listened to Pink Floyd for over 40 years. I’ve been to their concerts, their music is timeless. They were groundbreaking in the past and still the music I turn to when relaxing at home.

Writing this solely as a review of the Dolby Atmos remastering as a counter to all the 1 star reviews ignorantly claiming to be doing the same. This is a historically significant remastering and has been 50 years in the making, not just from an age perspective, but because of how they had intended for it to be listened to 50 years ago. But first, I'll start by pointing out that its actually *not* the precise same recording and album as the 1 star reviewers claim. This one is actually 30 seconds longer and most of the tracks are either significantly longer or shorter than the length of the 2011 remastering. I obviously can't point out all the differences here, but given than I've listened to the 2011 remastering easily a few hundred times just in the last 4 years, I'm of the opinion that its worth taking the time to figure them out on your own anyway. I could listen to this album in any form on repeat for the rest of my life and never tire of it. I always seem to notice or grasp something new on every listen. Now, for why this particular remaster is historically significant for Pink Floyd as well as the recording and remastering of music for sound systems in the modern era.. Pink Floyd (with the help of Alan Parsons as engineer) originally multi-tracked this album to be released for Quadrophonic sound systems. These were massively expensive powerful surround/3D sound systems that existed in the 70s, but were exceptionally rare. They seemd to have hoped that this would help popularize them or at the very least that it could be played in venues over said systems. Unfortunately they were cost prohibitive for most and while they did cut a select few quadrophonic copies of it if I'm not mistaken, they didn't sell. Part of the problem was the electircal power resources required to power the systems in the first place. Even some venues had trouble installing these due to the power demands at the time. So, the master tracks in unheard surround sound sat for decades. The 2003 and 2011 remasterings brought the first real surround sound release to the masses, but it still wasn't enough to capture everything they had hoped to release in 1973. Then came Dolby Atmos, 3D surround sound capabable of projecting sound seemingly from all around you and without all the equipment hassle of inferior multi-channel surround sound systems. The sound truly is immersive if you're listening to it in Dolby Atmos. If you're not, well I can understand where you might be a little miffed it sounds similar, but I can tell you it still sounds dramatically different in my car over the stock speakers. And again, die hard fans like myself will enjoy taking the time to pick out what all has changed that resulted in the significantly altered track lengths, and 30 seconds on the album as a whole. For the record, I have an Apple Music family plan where I can download and play it anytime, yet I still bought this version on iTunes.

This LP has been one of my favorites since 10th grade. It wasn't 10 years old then! Anyway, if I remastered this LP, I would take out the chime bells. Everytime I fall asleep to this, they wake me up and I'm then up all night. (Jeff in ny)

This sounds just like the other album, if you already have it, don't waste your money on this

Anyone who didn’t notice the previous version of DSotM on iTunes had “On the Run” from the Pulse live album substituted, whether intentional or not, this has been quietly corrected now. The (newly) remastered version is much cleaner but some of the improvements are probably only detectable if you’ve been listening to the album like a billion times over the last 50 years.

The previews sound exactly like my CD from 1992. Why buy the same product again? I'm giving it 5 stars though, because it's a masterpiece, and people who haven't listened to it before might feel compelled to buy it.

One of the greatest albums of all time but what’s different about this version? No new songs, demos or live versions. Sound identical to the 2011 remastered version. Plus, they just released a live version. Why should I buy it? I already have a version that sounds the same. Is it Apple or the boys from Pink Floyd need money???

This string of music is so captivating, even after 50+ years, that I don’t want to lift the stylus. Great stuff from an old hippie.

but why is it being remarketed as a new album. There's nothing new here, it adds no value to the hundreds of previous versions out there.

Forget that one’s love of music is subjective in nature because your review of DSOTM is still the most idiotically insane music review I have ever read. Everyone who is now logged into this site is now dumber for having read your review.