Boy this is a weird album.
I want to start this out by saying that Pink Floyd is my all-time favorite band. They can go in any musical direction and still distinctly feel "Floydian" in nature and sound appealing, which is a large part of why they're my favorite. They can go into the realm of an interpretive rock opera (The Wall and The Final Cut), or even back in their early days where they sang about buttercups and bicycles (Piper at the Gates of Dawn), they still always sounded ... read more
The last song is an absolute masterpiece and the other song's flaws really show when you put it into perspective, but it's still worth hearing the whole work. They got a lot of good stuff and it's easy to see why they're the cult band that they are
I have listened to this album three times by now, and it's without a doubt my least favorite album from my favorite band. The band just lost Barrett by the time the album was recorded, and it's obvious that they were really struggling with what kind of direction to go in for both this album and the later "Ummagumma". It sounds like a Pink Floyd album, but it's missing so much that I expect from the band. And that's something I can give "Ummagumma" credit for, at the very ... read more