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In other words, if Led Zeppelin IV was something you could take out, Dark Side was strictly for going in.

If pop-even in the post-Beatles era-tended toward lightness and salability, Dark Side was dense and boldfaced if pop was telescoped into bite sizes, Dark Side was shaped more like a novel or an opera, each track flowing into the next, bookended by that most nature-of-human-experience sounds, the heartbeat.Įven compared to other rock albums of the time, Dark Side was a shift, forgoing the boozy extroversion of stuff like The Rolling Stones for something more interior, private, less fun but arguably more significant. Developed as a suite-like journey through the nature of human experience, the album not only set a new bar for rock music’s ambitions, but it also proved that suite-like journeys through the nature of human experience could actually make their way to the marketplace-a turn that helped reshape our understanding of what commercial music was and could be. Dark Side of the Moon is a little like puberty: Feel how you want about it, but you’re gonna have to encounter it one way or another.