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Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon
Tracklist
A1 | Speak To Me | 1:30 | |
A2 | Breathe | 2:43 | |
A3 | On The Run | 3:30 | |
A4 | Time | 6:53 | |
A5 | The Great Gig In The Sky | 4:15 | |
B1 | Money | 6:30 | |
B2 | Us And Them | 7:34 | |
B3 | Any Colour You Like | 3:24 | |
B4 | Brain Damage | 3:50 | |
B5 | Eclipse | 1:45 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Abbey Road Studios
- Manufactured By – Capitol Records, Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
- Mastered At – Capitol Mastering
- Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Winchester
Credits
- Backing Vocals – Barry St John*, Doris Troy, Leslie Duncan*, Liza Strike
- Design [Sleeve & Stickers Art N.t.a.] – George Hardie
- Design [Sleeve Design], Photography By – Hipgnosis (2)
- Engineer – Alan Parsons
- Engineer [Assistant] – Peter Jones*
- Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizer [Vcs3] – Richard Wright
- Lyrics By, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer [Vcs3], Effects [Tape Effects] – Roger Waters
- Mastered By – Wly*
- Mixed By [Mixing Supervised By] – Chris Thomas
- Percussion, Effects [Tape Effects] – Nick Mason
- Producer – Pink Floyd
- Vocals, Electric Guitar, Synthesizer [Vcs3] – David Gilmour
Notes
"–––◁" in runouts denotes a Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Winchester pressing.
"Wly" in runouts denotes that it was mastered by Wally Traugott.
The Dark Side Of The Moon is another Winchester pressing, but has "KP" in runouts, denoting it was mastered by Ken Perry.
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London between June 1972 and January 1973.
Manufactured by Capitol Records Inc., a subsidiary of Capitol Industries, Inc., U.S.A.
Original release included two posters and two stickers, each sticker with their own catalog number (11163-1 and 11163-2),
This is the 1st issue with "INTERPAK™ Pats. Pending" in the bottom right corner inside the gatefold.
Some copies of gatefold covers have a round black DSOTM sticker on the shrink wrap (see pic).
℗ 1973 The Gramophone Company Ltd.
Note on Credits:
Though credited for the entire album, Barry St. John, Doris Troy, Lesley Duncan, and Liza Strike perform backing vocals only on tracks A4, B2, B4, and B5.
Early releases came with a hype sticker that did not have “Printed in U.S.A” (see photo) Later pressings added that text.
"Wly" in runouts denotes that it was mastered by Wally Traugott.
The Dark Side Of The Moon is another Winchester pressing, but has "KP" in runouts, denoting it was mastered by Ken Perry.
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London between June 1972 and January 1973.
Manufactured by Capitol Records Inc., a subsidiary of Capitol Industries, Inc., U.S.A.
Original release included two posters and two stickers, each sticker with their own catalog number (11163-1 and 11163-2),
This is the 1st issue with "INTERPAK™ Pats. Pending" in the bottom right corner inside the gatefold.
Some copies of gatefold covers have a round black DSOTM sticker on the shrink wrap (see pic).
℗ 1973 The Gramophone Company Ltd.
Note on Credits:
Though credited for the entire album, Barry St. John, Doris Troy, Lesley Duncan, and Liza Strike perform backing vocals only on tracks A4, B2, B4, and B5.
Early releases came with a hype sticker that did not have “Printed in U.S.A” (see photo) Later pressings added that text.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Center label A-side): (SMAS-1-11163)
- Matrix / Runout (Center label B-side): (SMAS-2-11163)
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A-side, etching): SMAS-1-11163-F4 –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B-side, etching): SMAS-2-11163-F4 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 1)): SMAS-1-11163-F33#2 –––◁ MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 1)): SMAS-1-11163-F20#2 –––◁ MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 2)): SMAS-1-11163-G66#4 –––◁ seni MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 2)): SMAS-2-11163-F4#9 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 3)): SMAS-2-11163-F4#2 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 3)): SMAS-1-11163-F4#2 –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 4)): SMAS-1-11163-F32#6 –––◁ MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 4)): SMAS-1-11163-F23#6 –––◁ MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 5)): SMAS-1-11163-F18#3 –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 5)): SMAS-1-11163-F3#2 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 6)): SMAS-1-11163-F18 –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 6)): SMAS-2-11163-F4 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 7)): SMAS-1-11163-F32#3 ·──◁ MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 7)): SMAS-2-11163-F22#3 ·──◁ MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 8)): SMAS-1-11163-F/8#2 –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 8)): SMAS-2-11163-F4 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 9)): SMAS-1-11163-F/8 #5 –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 9) (11 is superscript next to the F4)): SMAS-2-11163-F4 11 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 10)): SMAS-1-11163-F18#2 –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 10)): SMAS-2-11163-F4 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 11)): SMAS-1-11163-F4 –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 11)): SMAS-2-11163-F4 #2 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 12)): SMAS-1-11163-F30#2 • –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 12)): SMAS-2-11163-F4 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 13)): SMAS-1-11163-F/8 or F18 #2
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 13)): SMAS-2-11163-F3 #2 –––◁ Wly
- Matrix / Runout (Stamped Both Sides Variant 1, 4, 7; A-Side Variant 2, 12,15): MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Pressing Plant ID: –––◁
- Matrix / Runout ((A-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 14))): SMAS-1-11163 G79 #4 • –––◁ ER MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Matrix / Runout ((B-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 14))): SMAS-2-11163 G70 • –––◁ ER MASTERED BY CAPITOL
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 15)): SMAS-1-11163-F55#3 Wly –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 15)): SMAS-2-11163-F47 #4 Wly –––◁ (also stamped with a character resembling a small castle)
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 16)): SMAS-1-11163-F3 #2 Wly –––◁
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etchings (Variant 16)): SMAS-2-11163-F4 Wly –––◁
Other Versions (5 of 1146)View All
Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recently Edited | The Dark Side Of The Moon (LP, Album, Stereo, Circle Left to cat#no on rear of FOC) | Harvest, EMI Electrola | 1 C 062-05 249 | Germany | 1973 | ||
Recently Edited | The Dark Side Of The Moon (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | Harvest | 3C 064-05249 | Italy | 1973 | ||
Recently Edited | The Dark Side Of The Moon (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | Harvest | 3C 064-05249 | Italy | 1973 | ||
Recently Edited | The Dark Side Of The Moon (LP, Album, Repress, Stereo, Gatefold) | Harvest, Harvest | 5C 062-05249, 5C062-05249 | Netherlands | 1973 | ||
Recently Edited | The Dark Side Of The Moon (LP, Album) | Harvest | SHVL 804 | Portugal | 1973 |
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I thank this album to introduce me into Pink Floyd, Progressive and Psychedelic Rock, as a hole. Happy 49th birthday dark side. Also, this pressing sound very clean and dynamic.

This is the closest release I could find to match my runout etchings. However, mine looks like this:
Matrix / Runout (Side A, runout): SMAS-1-11163-F3
Matrix / Runout (Side B, runout): SMAS-2-11163-F4
"Wly" on both sides. Anyone have any idea what release this is?
Matrix / Runout (Side A, runout): SMAS-1-11163-F3
Matrix / Runout (Side B, runout): SMAS-2-11163-F4
"Wly" on both sides. Anyone have any idea what release this is?
Having the Uk's A2/B2 - A3/B3, The MFSL 1-017, EU 30th Anniversary edition + 2016 PFRLP8 EU to compare with i must say this one is a keeper. Warm and as said below crystal clear. Love it!
Awesome album and seller was really helpful will purchase more Pink Floyd and more records from the seller I got it from

Very clear and all around great sounding press. An iconic album for good reason, very well composed, mixed, and produced. What really drives it home for me are the drums. This is a prime example of an album that just sounds leagues better on vinyl than it does anywhere else.

Edited 2 years ago
Obviously this is one of the greatest albums of all time, still sounding astonishingly vibrant even tho' it's almost 50 years old. So I'll focus this review on this particular pressing (Wly, 1973 Winchester): well it was like hearing it for the first time again! I've listened to this classic album countless of times, mostly on CD (90's release), sometimes streaming or ripped-audio. Never on vinyl...until now...
For gear info: I was running the vinyl (in near-mint condition) on a modest cheapo turntable with own pre-amps in its line-out (a DJ Tech USB10 with AT3600L cartridge). Those RCA outs were adapted to 6.3mm L&R jacks at the other end and went into my Allen & Heath mixer, where I EQ'd to taste (increase highs & lows, keep mids steady). The mixer's XLR-outs went into my ESI Near08 active monitors (8" woofers, range 40hz-20khz). And I had it on loud! Dialled to 11, even.
What did it sound like? In short: it was thrilling and emotional. The 43 minutes absolutely flew by, it felt like mere minutes...i was on a high the whole time.
So what are the differences? This is all subjective, of course...
The sounds feel more 'analog', it sometimes felt like the music was really happening in my room, as opposed to merely listening to a recording. Most noticably with Clare Torry's iconic Great Gig, but also with all the myriad sounds like the talking samples, breathing & footsteps. On The Run sounds HUGE, that hi-hat loop which so seduced me back in 1994 now sounded actually alive! It seemed to have so much space around it. The final swooping sound felt (actually felt) like an airplane flying low overhead.
Generally the guitar solos are crunchy as hell, and spatially in their own realm, rather than 'in the mix'. The whole album sounded quite airy, and also raw: less glossy high-definition than the CD version, less balanced, more in-your-face. The drums & bass of Money absolutely walloped me, I've never heard it so powerful! Has a similar crunchy raw quality of a White Stripes album. Tho' Money's famous cash-register intro didn't quite impact, that sounds more 'present' on the CD version. But once that bass & drums land...wow...really takes you on a ride. Time was never one of my favourites once the singing got going, despite loving the long intro, but I enjoyed it a lot here.
Strangely, Us & Them sounded more compressed and squashed than every other track on the album: the drums are in the background, 'sticking' to the wall-of-sound, rather than pounding the proceedings along from above as per the other tracks. Perhaps a mastering-decision by Traugott (pre-digital), maybe the frequency dynamics of Us & Them is now better suited to high-definition formats, or maybe that particular song isn't suited to what I was doing with the mixer-EQ. Whatever the case may be it's the only song where I can say I preferred the CD version as the crescendos impact more. The closing trio of songs on the vinyl returned to that crunchy raw airy quality of the first 5 tracks...Rick Wright's synth soared!
I, like some of you, see/feel colours when I listen to music: I always perceived DsotM to be quite red up until the final trio, when things got more yellow. Same sensation with the vinyl play, maybe even more intensively so. I always wondered why the song is called Any Colour You Like, maybe Rick also saw colours in music, just maybe different ones to what I see.
Conclusion: I absolutely loved listening to this timeless album with new ears, thanks to the change of format. I can't say if other vinyl pressings from other plants/engineers sound different, but I can say with certainty that there is a significant difference between my particular CD and LP, and if you're a big fan of this album, then it's worth having it in both formats. At the moment I prefer the vinyl as it sounds so fresh to me, but that's not to say vinyl is objectively better than CD. It has that characteristic crackle & noise throughout, noticable during quiet moments. I like it, has a certain ambience and adds to the overall flavour...tho' I expect records in worse condition than mine will have rather harsher crackles & noise, perhaps putting paid to any ambient effect. That's a potential issue with all vinyl, of course.
I also enjoyed the ritualistic changing sides after the long fade-out of Great Gig...it means a longer pause before Money starts, which I appreciated. I don't understand why Us & Them sounded differently-mastered to the others, could be just my ears playing tricks.
If you're reading this and have the same pressing, let me know if you agree with my impressions, or where you have different ideas.
For gear info: I was running the vinyl (in near-mint condition) on a modest cheapo turntable with own pre-amps in its line-out (a DJ Tech USB10 with AT3600L cartridge). Those RCA outs were adapted to 6.3mm L&R jacks at the other end and went into my Allen & Heath mixer, where I EQ'd to taste (increase highs & lows, keep mids steady). The mixer's XLR-outs went into my ESI Near08 active monitors (8" woofers, range 40hz-20khz). And I had it on loud! Dialled to 11, even.
What did it sound like? In short: it was thrilling and emotional. The 43 minutes absolutely flew by, it felt like mere minutes...i was on a high the whole time.
So what are the differences? This is all subjective, of course...
The sounds feel more 'analog', it sometimes felt like the music was really happening in my room, as opposed to merely listening to a recording. Most noticably with Clare Torry's iconic Great Gig, but also with all the myriad sounds like the talking samples, breathing & footsteps. On The Run sounds HUGE, that hi-hat loop which so seduced me back in 1994 now sounded actually alive! It seemed to have so much space around it. The final swooping sound felt (actually felt) like an airplane flying low overhead.
Generally the guitar solos are crunchy as hell, and spatially in their own realm, rather than 'in the mix'. The whole album sounded quite airy, and also raw: less glossy high-definition than the CD version, less balanced, more in-your-face. The drums & bass of Money absolutely walloped me, I've never heard it so powerful! Has a similar crunchy raw quality of a White Stripes album. Tho' Money's famous cash-register intro didn't quite impact, that sounds more 'present' on the CD version. But once that bass & drums land...wow...really takes you on a ride. Time was never one of my favourites once the singing got going, despite loving the long intro, but I enjoyed it a lot here.
Strangely, Us & Them sounded more compressed and squashed than every other track on the album: the drums are in the background, 'sticking' to the wall-of-sound, rather than pounding the proceedings along from above as per the other tracks. Perhaps a mastering-decision by Traugott (pre-digital), maybe the frequency dynamics of Us & Them is now better suited to high-definition formats, or maybe that particular song isn't suited to what I was doing with the mixer-EQ. Whatever the case may be it's the only song where I can say I preferred the CD version as the crescendos impact more. The closing trio of songs on the vinyl returned to that crunchy raw airy quality of the first 5 tracks...Rick Wright's synth soared!
I, like some of you, see/feel colours when I listen to music: I always perceived DsotM to be quite red up until the final trio, when things got more yellow. Same sensation with the vinyl play, maybe even more intensively so. I always wondered why the song is called Any Colour You Like, maybe Rick also saw colours in music, just maybe different ones to what I see.
Conclusion: I absolutely loved listening to this timeless album with new ears, thanks to the change of format. I can't say if other vinyl pressings from other plants/engineers sound different, but I can say with certainty that there is a significant difference between my particular CD and LP, and if you're a big fan of this album, then it's worth having it in both formats. At the moment I prefer the vinyl as it sounds so fresh to me, but that's not to say vinyl is objectively better than CD. It has that characteristic crackle & noise throughout, noticable during quiet moments. I like it, has a certain ambience and adds to the overall flavour...tho' I expect records in worse condition than mine will have rather harsher crackles & noise, perhaps putting paid to any ambient effect. That's a potential issue with all vinyl, of course.
I also enjoyed the ritualistic changing sides after the long fade-out of Great Gig...it means a longer pause before Money starts, which I appreciated. I don't understand why Us & Them sounded differently-mastered to the others, could be just my ears playing tricks.
If you're reading this and have the same pressing, let me know if you agree with my impressions, or where you have different ideas.