20-09-2009, 11:17
jwee5467 Wrote:...songs and not looking at great albums...
I keep moving closer to the idea that it was always about songs, even with a so-called album-oriented band like Pink Floyd, in an album-oriented era like the 70s.
The Wall is a perfect example. It has some of their best songs, but also drags, as double albums tend to do. It was widely considered one of their best albums, but at the same time a self-indulgent, long-winded ego trip for Roger Waters. Both are accurate.
If forced to choose, I'd go with Wish You Were Here, because I could listen to it from beginning to end, while I always got bored listening to Dark Side, Animals, and The Wall about half way through. I love the cynical commentaries on the music biz, and I find it more fun and humorous than the other three, which come across as either too angry or too depressed.