Roger Waters can certainly pump out a few concept albums. i'm somehow pretty drawn to that, though. but i don't think that has anything to do with why i like Pink Floyd. i don't necessarily find their lyrics to be their finest feature. it's a pretty easy thing to look past, though, because the music is pretty exceptional. i've always loved the trebled sound of the analog synths that are so unavoidably present from 1973 on, and on Wish You Were Here they've got the right sound happening. One thing that i like about this album, that i'm not even a huge fan of in general, is the seperation of the songs from each other. Welcome to the Machine has got some gnarly mechanical rumblings and throbbing deeps in the beginning and the crowd of a party happening in the last forty seconds which then cuts right into the funky and phased guitar and bass intro of Have a Cigar. the way that the album is assembled sits pretty well with me. there's only five songs to work with, but they can make five seem like twelve. i'm totally into David Gilmour's style, too.
The concepts in which the album are based around have to do with critical ideas about the music industry and the sort of mental demise of Syd Barrett. the Syd Barrett stuff is obviously more interesting. he left Pink Floyd looking like this:
and then showed up unannounced in the studio while they were recording this album looking like this:
I got into this album for a little while maybe a year and a half ago or something, when i was listening to Dark Side of the Moon once a day. but i haven't really gone back to it at all until last night. but i'll be listening to Pink Floyd a bunch in the next few days.
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