Look, ok, it's been a minute since I've written one of these reviews for the top 25 list or as a matter of fact any album at all. I had to go check the list to see what albums were even on there, and I was a little surprised at first to see Dark Side of the Moon on the list. Why this one? Then the wave of memories flooded back to me all at once./p>
Is there any sort of reverse statute of limitations on nostalgia? Can I be nostalgic for stuff I liked when I was 16 or 17 when I spent so much of those ages chasing experiences from when I was even younger? I used to collect old Apple computers, that was chasing the memories I had in elementary school computer labs using those bondi blue iMac's and generic Dell Windows XP towers to learn how to type and use kid pix. I remember we were using MicroSoft Word for something in a class circa like 2nd grade and I figured out how to type a smiley face on the keyboard. Imagine my shock when the ASCII smiley face turned into a real one! Actually I was mad, I wanted the cool one I typed out not some pretty alternative. Anyway that was the first day of the rest of my life. I think I can be nostalgic for high school even though I'm not out of college yet, but I'm not sure I'd call it nostalgia. It's just cherry picking the good parts of that time and remembering them fondly. Dark Side was an album I got very early on in the music collecting process, I listened to it religiously. It was on every phone and iPod and MP3 player so whenever I didn't know what else to listen to I'd put on Dark Side.
I have synced this album up with the Wizard of Oz, by the way, and it's actually a magical experience. This is one of the few albums I have ripped as lossless files simply because I enjoy having it at the highest fidelity. I've listened to it so many times that I catch all of those little details. I'm listening to an ALAC (because iPod's) rip as I write this through nice open-back headphones and oh gosh the clocks at the start of Time just came on and it's far too loud. Well, when I had my hearing I remember it being a good album. That's why it's on the top 25 most personally impactful albums list, it's got so much meaning to me because I've had it for so.
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