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Even though it might be the weakest album of the decade for Pink Floyd, it has a great collection of songs. Stay, Wots the Deal, Free Four, Burning Bridges, and Childhoods End are all songs I love. The instrumentals are a bit inconsistent but get better and better as the album goes giving it a better flow. Yes this is a soundtrack for a movie so it's not going to be a conventional Pink Floyd album. I still like it much better than More. I also like the extra contributions made by Gilmour and Wright that are very present on this album.

Before there were what are often categorized as soft Progressive Rock albums from the likes of Ambrosia, Alan Parsons Project, Al Stewart, etc this does highly resemble something of that sort. The first 3 Floyd albums of the 70's are easy listening for the most part. Maybe this one is a bit more accessible and conventional. Reminds me of something like Bread with Prog elements. This album has experimental parts that would interest Prog Rock fans but is much more relaxed than anything else Pink Floyd did in that decade.

I really like this album a lot. Have listened to it many times. It might even rank #3 or #4 of Floyd albums I have listened to the most times all the way through. At the same time as great of a song selection that it has it lacks what Pink Floyd can accomplish with a concept album or one of their masterpieces.