{"id":23574,"date":"2022-08-22T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=23574"},"modified":"2022-08-21T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:40:00","slug":"five-pink-floyd-songs-on-the-road-to-the-dark-side-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/22\/five-pink-floyd-songs-on-the-road-to-the-dark-side-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Pink Floyd Songs on the Road to ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in June, I launched a new feature series on the online version of Goldmine<\/em> Magazine. Calling it “Take 5,” I took the opportunity to dig into some trivia, share some fun historical tidbits, and showcase some often overlooked music.\u00a0 About two months after each of those runs, I archive them here on Musoscribe. Here’s the first of what I hope will be a long series of quick and perhaps even entertaining posts. — bk<\/span><\/p>\n

After Syd Barrett left the band in 1968, Pink Floyd could have broken up. Barrett was their front man, primary songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist. But instead \u2013 with new guitarist David Gilmour \u2013 they rallied, and in less than five years they created one of rock\u2019s landmark albums, The Dark Side of the Moon<\/i>. Here are five little-known songs that charted their development toward that historic release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Embryo\u201d<\/b> \u2013 A rare track that didn\u2019t appear with the band\u2019s permission on an LP until 1983, \u201cThe Embryo\u201d was an early \u201870s concert tour de force<\/i>, making full use of the band\u2019s \u201cAzimuth Coordinator,\u201d a joystick device that brought three-dimensional audio to the concert hall.<\/p>\n