Giggs' Top 100 albums - 2008 edition

100. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Cover: http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/1f6d/Pink_Floyd_-_Dark_side_of_the_moon.jpg Year: 1973 Genre: Progressive Rock

1. Speak To Me / Breathe (3:58) 2. On The Run (3:35) 3. Time (6:53) (http://media.putfile.com/Time-15) 4. The Great Gig in the Sky (4:15) 5. Money (6:30) 6. Us and Them  (7:34) 7. Any Colour You Like (3:24) 8. Brain Damage    (3:50) 9. Eclipse (1:45)

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And you run and you run, to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking...

Man, I really can't be arsed writing tonight. I woke up in Italy eighteen and a half hours ago and have done nothing even slightly productive since I got back. I really should be going to bed instead of complaining about this. Maybe that's what Time is on about. Probably not. Whatever. I feel like writing a few big Yahtzee-esque run-on sentences and leaving it at that. Here goes.

Dark Side of the Moon is really iconic and stuff and for the most part it holds up well compared to similar albums from it's time from bands like Yes and Rush which everyone with half a musical brain knew were bollocks from the start but I digress. I've never made any secrets with the fact that I preferred Wish You Were Here and even now as I look back a bit that's still quite substantially better and probably the Pink Floyd album that's actually fallen in my estimations the least, which is all the more impressive if you think about the fact that it had the largest potential distance to fall in the first place. But Dark Side is definitely their most cohesive, singular effort, and while Money is neither the classic nor the steamin crock of album-ruining bull**** it is proclaimed by nearly everyone, Time does stand up to it's reputation and the closing trilogy is still pretty sweet too.

But Breathe is boring. Breathe will always be boring. Don't even try to convince me otherwise.