I can’t believe I didn’t come across Wil Wheaton’s blog before this weekend. But I’m glad I did just in time to read this post about his favorite album of all time: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
This has been my favorite album as well for many years. It doesn’t seem that long ago when one of teammates on our high school baseball dubbed the album to cassette for me and told me to listen. I loved it the first time I played it through. It was unlike anything I’d ever heard. The mood, the subtle guitar, the background voices and sounds and machines. It was all there as it opened my mind to how music could be used to relax. Most of the music I was into up until then was loud, screeching metal or hard rock. Dark Side changed that.
I carried my Walkman and that cassette tape darn near everywhere I went for several years. When my dubbed version wore out I bought the album from which I’d make copies over the years. It came in handy during long bus trips around the state of Utah for baseball, basketball and football games. It helped me relax before and after the games. Like a good book, it would pull me into a world of mellow. The instruments, the lyrics and the mood they set were perfect. Even the cover is perfect.
I can’t imagine another album reaching me like Dark Side has. Back in 1984 it become my favorite album which still stands today.
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