The Explain Why You Like This Album ('cause i don't understand) Thread (albums, pink floyd)

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

Wish You were Here is disrupted by the title track which sticks out like a sore thumb on the otherwise glorious album. It's like a less annoying song than Money, albeit as grossly overplayed, on an otherwise better album than DSOTM. Meddle is kinda' a weird album in that it's almost structurally the inversion of DSOTM. Meddle is a collection of disparate tunes, including Seamus, with Echoes being the one marathon song that gives the album it's central theme. DSOTM is a wannabe concept album ruined by Money (imo, of course). Pigs on the wing I & II...really? C'mon, into & outro, prologue & epilogue, foreword & afterword, matching ****ing bookends. How much more symmetrical, cohesive, and undisruptive does it get?

Eh, I thought you meant cohesive in terms of consistency in quality.

There's nothing wrong with Pigs on a Wing really, it's just not on par with the 3 main songs of the album. That's more along the lines of what I meant.

I don't think Money is either a drop in quality from the rest of the album or out of place regarding the theme of the album.

Where I live Money doesn't get any more overexposure Time or Brain Damage/Eclipse, but DSOTM is the album that really got me into music for serious and for that I'll always have a ridiculous amount of affection for it despite how popular it is.

I don't see anything wrong with Wish You Were Here either, it's just popular.

I just think people hate on specific songs like Money because of their popularity, when people say "Money" or "ABITWP2" is their worst song I can't take them seriously. Nobody would think it if they weren't hella popular. I mean seriously, if those songs weren't popular I don't think anyone could honestly think "yep, this is totally worse than Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast and Dogs of War".