I knew I had this album rated too high. And sure enough a -1 ensued, putting it right into the 11 category. Not first division for me. But I have to say that Richard Wright's synthesizer performance here almost pulled it over the threshold anyway. He really should have spent some time with Klaus Schulze, who knows what he would have conjured up if he had. 'Welcome to the Machine' still captures my imagination though - a brilliant track. Even with this critique, I'd offer that this album is my favorite Floyd except for album #1 of Ummagumma. A very important release by a band that were selling out arenas and were incessantly played on the radio. Not a commercial album at all, and yet they managed to make it one. Impressive.
Ownership: LP: 2011 Harvest. As noted in a roundup last year, I nailed this from a local record store on the cheap (2022). Comes with the fancy original outer bag packaging, and all sorts of other goodies like posters and postcards. Much better than my original 80s commodity LP that's for sure.
1985; 2/15/23 (LP 4.9); 4/12/23
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