So the music part isn't even worth critiquing?
And I see it very differently, everytime I listen to it I always want to listen to it all the way through save the aforementioned side 3 tracks which feel very disconnected from everything else anyway. I think much more than DSOTM it's an album that's really greater than the sum of it's parts and the way that each song builds up from the next I couldn't understand why someone would skip over tracks that segue others together, like ignoring One of My Turns and going from Young Lust directly to Don't Leave Me Now. It just doesn't work that way.
Also I don't think the album is supposed to change you, and I didn't know that was a requirement that music had to fufill. I love the theme, it's a cold depressing album but it's supposed to be, and the themes of alienation and walling in your own misery and how that leads to bitterness and hate while a relatively simple theme it's something I relate to and I think the album handles it all in a way that only Pinlk Floyd could.
Concept albums dont have to have super intellectual complex LSD mind altering themes which is what you hinted at. But beneath all the gloom and cynicism it does have a pretty strong and universial message about alienating yourself from others.
But really, f*ck all of that, I just like the damn music which you failed to address completely as if that's not an important aspect in critiquing an album. Are you trying to be a music critic or something because they all do that sh*t.
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