I Hate Music

18 August 2006

What Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon Cover Would Actually Look Like…

If it was actually on the Dark Side Of The Moon.
Dark Side Of The Moon on the Dark Side Of The Moon

However, having been to the moon, and more importantly having spoken to people who know something about the moon (FT’s own science teacher Alan), I can confirm that there isn’t actually a dark side of the Moon at all. Whilst it is true that, being in geosynchronous orbit, one side of the Moon always faces the Earth, that doesn’t mean that the other side doesn’t get a fair bit of sunlight too. The stupid idiots in Pink Floyd, despite making music that only scientists would like, misunderstand science themselves. One can only assume that the Floyd were talking about the Far Side Of The Moon: and so here is an artists impressions of what the album would look like from Earth, if it was on the far side of the Moon.
The Far Side Of The Moon Album Cover

As you can see, thankfully the moon would be in the way, obscuring the pretentious and poorly drawn prism art on the original. Indeed, if on the Far Side of the moon, not only would it be inaccessible to play, but there might be some hilarious joke regarding talking animals juxtaposed with a mundane human task. Gee that Gary Larson is funny.

Further discussion did point out though that while Pink Floyd are clearly stupid and wrong for asserting the existence of a Dark Side Of The Moon, they are also, unfortunately, very rich due to other even stupider people (including scientists) buying their records. So rich in fact that it is more than possible that, in the face of such criticism, they would try to prove me wrong. And thus invent some sort of technologically superior Moon Rover*, with a copy of Dark Side Of The Moon stuck to the back of it with some sort of high tech adhesive, which would endlessly circle the Moon remaining in the dark spot.

This is what that would look like.
Dark Side Of The Moon, stuck on the back of a technologically superior Moon Rover, with Blu Tak, endlessly circling the moon

(Hmm, not sure if I should make this a regular feature after all.)

*Better than the Mars Rover in that it would not only work but would not play a Blur song as it puttered uselessly around the planet.

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Comments All, 1–25, 26–50, 51–75, 76–104.

  1. Alan on 7 July 2007

    boring

  2. Murdoch on 10 July 2007

    oms, it’s about time someone told you to fuck off, you odious little gargoyle.

    So.

    Fuck off.

  3. oms on 13 July 2007

    murdick..temper temper..i wont go away this easily:p actually guys i have an internship with the world bank going on so i’ve had little time to belittle u lately…but ive finally succeeded in pissing murdick off so i mite aswell stay for a bit longer

  4. abdab on 28 July 2007

    for a bunch of turds that claim to hate pink floyd so much, you sure do spend a lot of time thinking about them.

    … get a life.

  5. IceKeys on 19 August 2007

    Wow! Mine is the first comment written in year 2 of this thread.

    Tanya, *brilliant* tongue-in-cheek humor.

    I registered with this site just to tell you that. My first log-in will probably be followed quickly by my last logout.

    Regards.

  6. Echo on 30 August 2007

    I’m with vaiz on feb 18th…

  7. GrassMann on 14 September 2007

    congrat’s tanya, you’ve gotten quite a lot of traffic just by opening pie hole and puking up your moronic drivel so incoherently that you almost make a point you’ve not likely thought of, (or even comprehend) purely by chance ( or moronic coincidence) which is the apalling notion that so many otherwise intelligent and obviously cultured adults took your sexually frustrated, intellectually “challenged” and artistically retarted excrecions seriously!

    I really hate to say it, but shit for brains gotcha, floyd fans, and gotcha good – cum on, “the dullest album ever” ? and you thought “she” (if she’s even really a she, probly just a she/he pole polisher) matters enough to even reply to, let alone get so riled about! The jizztoilet’s booze blasted brainlet can’t even read without mouthing the words, let alone understand the vast majority of what your schooling her on, no wonder she’s so pissed off… she’s just barely bright enough to maybe, in a moment of clarity, (okay, that’s a stretch.) catch just enough of a glimpse of reality to know that no matter how much money she banks off this seeping puss oozer (no, I’m talking about the stupid spoiled cunt’s website, not her seeping puss ozzing fuck hole!) she’ll never have quite enough working capital to finance herself a fucking CLUE!

    Howya like me now, be-yotch ?

    I didn’t tell you to stop suckin… open it up and guzzle like good little stupid fuck junkie or get the fuck out, skankya!
    wtf, stupid dpoiled slut can’t even do the only thing she’s qualified for propper, she’s so drunk.

  8. GrassMann on 14 September 2007

    and oh, yes I failed to spellcheck, so there ya’ go, freebies for ya’
    don’t even have to think to “get me”
    hahahhahahahhahah

    yes, tongueya, you have permission to swallow….

  9. Allen on 19 September 2007

    [para copy/pasted from The Music of Pink Floyd deleted - ed]

  10. Allen on 19 September 2007

    [entire copy/paste content of Characteristics of the Pink Floyd Sound deleted - ed.]

  11. Allen on 19 September 2007

    [3 separate paras copy/pasted from Debates raised by the Pink Floyd Sound deleted - ed]

  12. Al Ewing on 19 September 2007

    Arrrr, now ye must be a-translatin’ all that into pirate lingo, lest ye be made to walk ye plank, ye landlubber.

  13. Tom on 19 September 2007

    The site allen is quoting from is a MUST READ: http://www.pchs1.com/ecourses/pinkfloyd/mainpage.htm

  14. Alan on 19 September 2007

    we should delete and link to the original page instead. if Allen isn’t associated with that site, it’s poor etiquette to copy and paste so much. if he is, it’s an opportunity for traffic missed.

  15. Tom on 20 September 2007

    While looking for the original I discovered that Allen is a serial copy/paster, dropping big gobbets of PF writ into any debate that dares disagree w/him.

  16. Allen on 20 September 2007

    Well done Tom. You’re very smart!!

  17. Adam on 24 November 2007

    They actually mention there being no dark side at the end, you lonely, obese, bitter girl.

  18. Hacqyr on 23 December 2007

    If your intention is to make yourself unpopular with a large section of Society, then calling Pink Floyd fans stupid is the way to go, I also don’t understand, if you hate music as you profess to do, then how can you judge it on quality, seems to me like you’re talking out of your ass

  19. Hey on 27 May 2008

    OK, i like pink floyd but its cool with me that some others dont
    but seriously
    give REAL REASONS
    yeah theres no dark side of the moon
    but music .. i dont think its supposed to be taken so literally n scientifically
    u dont like floyd? criticize their music n not their album covers or whatever..

  20. It’s funny how the contributors here, who say you can’t criticise music if you cannot play any..

    are writing here but clearly can’t spell. Or write legible sentences. But criticise our Tanya anyway.

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  22. DJ Punctum on 19 September 2008

    I’m sure Richard Wright would have welcomed that touching yet concise tribute.

  23. Minnaow on 18 December 2008

    You assume that they were speaking of Earth’s moon, and that is of course your downfall.

  24. me on 2 June 2009

    if you really hate music, why then you have this obsession with it?! let it be…

  25. Mark G on 3 June 2009

    POST ONE HUNDRED!!!

  26. pink floyd lover on 30 July 2009

    who the fuck do you think that you are to say that if you dont understand the lyrics of the cd you will not understand ok first the lyrics of the album talks about the problems or situacions that make the people get crazy and second they are not saying that theres a dark side of the moon the use that to refer about that when your crazy you are in the dark side of the moon and the art of the album it was choose to repersent that theres no light in the dark side of the moon so fuck you shit face for the next time listen and shup up because you dont know the real meaning of the lyrics fuk you!!!!!

  27. Paul on 18 December 2009

    Stupid fucking moron-go listen to your Britney albums and die in a puddle of your own piss.

  28. thefatgit on 18 December 2009

    FUNNIEST. THREAD. EVER.

  29. seira_g on 17 January 2010

    Mybe it wasn’t suppopsed to make sense. you’ll never know- after all, you won’t listen to the fucking lyrics!

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