Psychologist dissects Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'

@carlsbad, actual LOL at "Lost me at NPR."🤣

@pindac 

did you write that while you were smoking weed, or is that how chatGPT responded to a Q you asked it?

It's such a wild analysis, it almost sounds like AI, Lol.

I love how varied the responses are around here to various topics. It adds character. 

The AA group I got sober at 33 years ago supposedly attracts guys from jail to Yale and everything in between. And that's probably the #1 thing that makes it such a fun and interesting group to hang out with. 

I think the same thing could be said for our group. 

Party on!  

@tunefuldude Watch the Posted Youtube Clip of the 'Barn Jams' Session, is plenty enough to get the vibe of the Post,  stating: 

" The Pink Floyd Band in all its forms and as Solo Artists make very listenable music, the collaborations that have been created with other performers/musicians are to the highest standards. All the above are totally to my tastes."

There are endless Sessions to be found where Vocals are not used by Musicians involved with Pink Floyd.

If you found the content of my Post, Amusing , Confusing, it is fine by myself, I have a hook for such a thing.

Interesting how you have a chronological record of the first time you walked in a particular room with a particular group of individuals.

It's all Harmless and Healthy, " Live and Let Live " is a good guidance.

As a retired analytically trained psychiatrist, addictionist,  the analysis of someone’s work is often more about projection of one’s own conflicts into the music, not really dealing with the artist unless of course one has done a thorough examination in the proper setting.  
Having said that, my favorite “analysis” is Hotel California by the Eagles.  But, if you have never shot up an opiate, you really are not in a position to guess.  There is a lot of great music, and some of the greatest was created while using mood altering drugs.

DSOTM has had the a$$ played out of it, even WYWH is jaded. I prefer Ummagumma these days.

@msmoto80 Out of all I have read on this forum, the wording for the reference made to participate in self abuse, as an attempt to create a synthetic state of reality, has been the most discomforting to see put into text.

The whole concept of it seems quite traumatic. 

An interesting point made was about the intentional playing with time at the intro to "Time".  How coming out of the clocks and alarms is that synthesized tick-tock where we assume the downbeat is on the higher pitched tick. Until that first chord crashes down on the lower "tock" and we have to recalibrate our sense of time. Much like the band did after losing Barrett. 

@pindac 

interesting phrasing. I don't know if you're referring to getting high or masturbating. I guess it depends which moral framework you're coming from.

Oh by the way, which one is Pink?

For a different listening approach of this album I suggest the SQ quadraphonic version.

Interesting discussion, but for most folks who use mood altering chemicals, alcohol or other, and this becomes compulsive, they have the disease of addiction.  Many great musicians die of their disease.  I was given the gift of sobriety over 35 years ago. Thank you for the topic.

In agree with everything bonmanp said about Roger Waters. To borrow a line from another commenter on a different site, Waters is is just another pr__k in the wall. I enjoy all of PF's later albums but my favorite is still Wish You were Here, whether over-hyped or not.

I like how, for 'The Great Gig In The Sky', what he's hoping for after he dies, they got a woman to handle the lyrics.  She sounded like it was a great time having that one, compared to the poor guy, we don't know what he had to be doing instead.

The guy at the start of Time probably still didn't wake up.

He doesn't think you'll care about his album, you'd rather keep the money.

Eclipse, everything under the sun is in tune, but it's eclipsed by the moon.  Of which there is no dark side, actually, it's all dark.

He probably thinks it sucks right now, either way you choose about the album.

Talented musicians, though.