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Reception
[edit]Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon was released March 1, 1973.[1] Money places number six on the album, and is the only song from Dark Side of the Moon to make its appearance on Billboards top 100 list of 1973.[2][3] The song quickly makes its mark taking the 92nd spot on the list.[3] In 2008, Guitar World magazine listed David Gilmour's solo on "Money" as No. 62 among readers' votes for "The Greatest 100 Guitar Solos" [4]. The song also was ranked No. 69 on the list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" of Rolling Stone.[5] This song does not entail the perennial themes that fans are used to such as; paranoia, insanity, the meaning of life, and the passage of time.[6] Pink Floyd changes their conventional message, with lyrics that verbalize crass materialism.[6] The opening line "Money get away" sends the message that money is an evil temptation. [7][8] Pink Floyd warns us by saying "get away" because people with money are in their own world of greed and lust. [8] Money may bring success but it is the "root of all evil today" as David Gilmour explicitly states in verse 3 of Pink Floyd's song. [7][8] Remember to "share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie" a popular lyric that Pink Floyd wrote to prod society about their values.[8] The song argues that money is evil; ironically the album "Money" is on has made Pink Floyd a substantial amount of money by selling over 34 million copies. [9]
Video
[edit]The music video for "Money" features scenes of various ways of making and spending money, and includes brief closeups of a coin spinning, coins flowing in a mint, gold ingots in a bank, and a record copy of The Dark Side of the Moon on a turntable. In addition, the video also includes shots of the album making its way down a conveyor belt in a factory/distribution plant as well as shots of gramophone records and audio equipment being destroyed by explosives during the song's bridge.
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- ^ Clark, Joe (2018-03-01). "Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" released 45 years ago". WCMH. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ^ "Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon [Tracklist + Artwork]". Genius. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ^ a b "Billboard Top 100 - 1973 - Longbored Surfer - Charts". 2010-11-25. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ^ "Guitar World Presents The Greatest 100 Guitar Solos" Archived November 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Guitar World, updated on 30 October 2008. Retrieved on 8 March 2009.
- ^ "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. 2008. Retrieved 2011-01-25. "David Gilmour hangs back for the first three minutes of this definitive Floyd rocker, which started as an acoustic blues song in rehearsals. Then the song shifts from a 7/4 stomp into straight time, and he delivers a rampaging freakout, ending up on notes so high most guitars don't even reach them."
- ^ a b Queenan, Joe (January 28, 2008). "Money: it's still a hit". The Guardian.
- ^ a b Pink Floyd – Money, retrieved 2018-12-06
- ^ a b c d Ceccherini, Pierpaolo (2016-05-18). "Money - Pink Floyd - Lyrics Meaning". PLANCK MACHINE. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
- ^ Songfacts. "Money by Pink Floyd - Songfacts". www.songfacts.com. Retrieved 2018-12-16.