Louder Than Words is excruciating. "Diss each other on sight"? Not even Bono's writing lyrics that bad yet.
I have zero motivation to listen to this. It just seems very unnecessary.
High Hopes was a perfect send-off for the band.
If you're a Pink Floyd completest, then, more than likely, you're gonna wanna have/listen to this album. I haven't heard anything from it yet because it doesn't seem like anything I would rush to purchase. Instrumentals are cool, but if I'm listening in the car, I want something a little more uptempo.
I believe I made my opinion on Obscured by Clouds clear a few threads ago. It's the most underrated of all the Floyd albums, IMO.
I agree with Cobbler, they were done for good once Rick died. I'm thankful we got the Live 8 performance, for me that's the last act of the Floyd (I consider The Endless River to be more along the lines of something like Relics rather than a "true" Pink Floyd album).
Perhaps I will finally buy my sixth Pink Floyd album, then.
Okay. I was going to say if you don't have Animals (I don't think I've ever heard you talk about it), that needs to be the next move.
It's probably in my top 10 albums. The only thing on the album I have a remote dislike for is the lengthy, repetitive instrumental break that gets quite dirge-y between the second and third verses of Pigs. That song could have some of its fat cut off the top, it's a bit long. The two Pigs on the Wing are utterly lovely, Dogs is one of the band's very best songs, featuring some outstanding guitar work, captivating lyricism, and much the same can be said for Sheep. I also think it might contain the best outros of any album ever. The endings for Dogs, Pigs and Sheep are all fucking incredible, the apocalyptic Waters verse on Dogs, the monstrous solo in Pigs and that sensational galloping riff in Sheep. Tremendous album.
The only thing on the album I have a remote dislike for is the lengthy, repetitive instrumental break that gets quite dirge-y between the second and third verses of Pigs. That song could have some of its fat cut off the top, it's a bit long.
Love the rest of your post, but I think this instrumental break is one of the best things about the album. When placed in the context of what the song's actually about (Britain's political system is fucked, in 1977 it was looking likely that Thatcher was going to be elected, and she was going to drag figures like Mary Whitehouse into positions of prominence and it's going to fuck us...which it did) having a big dirge in the middle of a song about the Conservative Party makes sense.