2 STARS?

Ivan, I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry..... OK?

"Nobody except people who have a different native language can understand how difficult is for us to write a coherent review in English, most of us think in our native language and have to translate the ideas to English finding that there are not adequate words to express what we thought in our languages."

I really do know what you mean here Ivan. Though English, I have lived and worked in Holland for the last 14 years, speaking and writing Dutch all day long. It's not easy, I know. Even though I am fluent to the point that native Dutch speakers are surprised to find I am actually English, as soon as I start writing something I start questioning my grammar. I can and do think, dream, and even spontaneously swear in Dutch, but it remains my second language.

I once saw a news item on the BBC in which an English mother was reported to have removed her children from their predominantly asian school, as her 5 yr old daughter had returned home singing a Punjabi play ground song.

"I don't send my kids to school to learn bloody foriegn languages!" she was quoted as saying.

I never said it was their best, only that its 5 star status is irrefutable. Animals is my favourite Floyd album, but it was DSOTM that blew my 12 yr old brain. It may not be as prog as some of its successors, iyo, but it is far more important in an historical sense.

 TFTO is one of my favourite albums of all time. As a teenager, when things were black and white, I counted it the best album of all time bar none. But what has that to do with DSOTM's proggyness. Why is it less prog? it has all the ingredients, irregular time signatures, a very definate "concept", deceptively complex chords, subtly used as to sound as natural as can be, just so prog. Prog is not all ELP and Genesis, and DSOTM falls well WELL within the bounderies. imo.

No matter how you personally feel about it, DSOTM is undeniably on the top- if not at the top- of the progressive rock 'flagship' albums. It represents prog the same way "Sgt. Pepper" represents psychedelia (although it wasn't very trippy compared to what was going on in music at the time), or "Never Mind the Bollocks" represents punk (even though there were many punk albums that did it better), or "Nevermind" represents grunge (despite the fact that it was less 'gungy' than many other bands, and even less than Nirvana's previous releases). Sometimes the 'most' progressive band isn't the 'best' prog band, or the most influential prog band, or your favorite prog band...if the purpose of this site is to give useful information and impressions to newcomers to the genre or a specific band, it's important to weigh all of these considerations.

I'm a little surprised that there's much of a controversy over DSOTM- anyone can see how important it's been, even if the music does absolutely nothing for you. On the other hand, if someone wanted to take exception to my review for "Pawn Hearts", I'd love to take part in that discussion. Even I think I was unfairly critical, but nobody created a forum thread to yell at me and make fun of my english skills

Love DSOTM.. it deserves a 5... love any Floyd album with the exception of The Final Cut.. but then I like that better than most stuff today... Regardless of what you think of DSOTM.. the concept was brilliant... its universal... it relates to millions evidently still .. and it has incredible longevity... and it will support the Floyd members for life most likely...

Plus its a great album to have sex by...if you could just skip over "Money"

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I'm so glad someone finally transcribed "Several Species of Small Furry Animals"

threefates wrote: it will support the Floyd members for life most likely...

It could support a medium sized country for life!

0 stars: NEU! - 2

This is the purest stoopidity in prog music!