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Artist:    Pink Floyd
Title:     Dark Side of the Moon (Collectors Edition)
Unique_Id: DARKCOLL

Format:    2CD
Catalog:   SQ-P001/2
Misc.:     
Produced:  SQ Company/Channel 4 Records under Famous Record Company
Date:      72
Matrix:    Disc: 1 
           Disc: 2 

Cover:     

Sources:   ?? ??? 1972, vinyl/acetate?

Tracks:    Disc: 1
            1. Dark Side LP (complete) Quad mix
            2. On the Run
            3. Us & Them (Part I)
            4. Eclipse
            5. Us & Them (Part II)
            6. Brain Damage

           Disc: 2
            1. Dark Side LP (complete) Alternate Mix
            2. Money (acoustic demo)
            3. Time (rough mix)
            4. Brain Damage (rough mix)
            5. Eclipse (rough mix)
            6. Us & Them (rough mix)

Band:      Roger Waters
           David Gilmour
           Nick Mason
           Rick Wright

Xref:      

Quality:   VG+/EX

Comments:  Almost legit-looking 2CD. First disc consists of the 
           commerically available DSOM Quad mix, from very clean vinyl. 
           Only the earliest moments of "Money" (starting vinyl side 2) 
           really give the source away. Sounds 10x better than my own 
           very clean import DSOM Quad LP. Worth the price right here. 
           Rest of disc one is audio from the making of DSOM section of 
           the "Pompeii" film. Essentially worthless unless you've never 
           seen/heard this before.
           
           Second disc consists of an "alternate mix" of DSOM from a 
           dubious and indistinct source. Sounds alot like the regular 
           Quad mix (wholly discinct from the common stereo), but 
           harsher, lots of raw top end and a few nasty tape hits. More 
           vinyl noise than on the first disc. Could be from an 
           acetate????? Same can be said for the "rough mixes" here. 
           Money demo is lovely and clean - tape source - but only 1:44. 
           "Time" rough mix - minus 
           some key overdubs - is great, as are all the rest of these 
           last tracks, esp. great noodling guitar overdub (never used) 
           on top of "Brain Damage". Cover art comes from out of print 
           20th anniversary DSOM box. Superb on balance, save for ripoff 
           "Pompeii" material. Wets the appetite for a proper DSOM 
           retrospective box from the band, themselves. Official CD 
           versions of the records are well overdue.