“The Dark Side of the Moon” helped create the template for what a Great Album is conventionally supposed to be: a thematic, sonically adventurous social critique with brain-frying cover art. In short, it sounds really deep when one is zonked out on drugs at 3 a.m. It seems to address issues like mortality (“Time”), greed (“Money”), war (“Us and Them”) and madness (“Brain Damage”). It seems to encourage people to maintain a childlike state of purity. It seems to be a concept album about the difficulties of staying sane in a corrupt modern world. Part of the eternal appeal of the album is its trippy, vague seriousness. And as long as there are potheads, water beds and freshman philosophy majors, it will continue to sell thousands of copies every month. It lingered on the Billboard 200 chart for almost 15 years and has sold about 34 million copies worldwide. Granted, the record was “The Dark Side of the Moon,” the 1973 rock masterpiece by Pink Floyd, Mr. The idea of an album may seem increasingly hoary in a singles-oriented, downloading age, but the sellout crowd for Roger Waters at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night paid a lot of money to hear his band recreate a record - in sequence, in its entirety.
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