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Overall Album Score: 8.0 out of 10

MORE!!!! MORE!!!!!!!!! MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE NEED MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PUT THE METAL TO THE PEDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... or put the petil to the metil? ... Frekikll to the mekkkkikkk? Greereszzzz oeoe roe aooaoiiimmmgmm? Owooeigiigmd bfiodr or odiikrkkfkk?

What planet am I on?

I'm going to get to the Pink Floyd album ... Right now ... (Do you like how I stall? If I were normal, I would erase this entire album review and start over again. But ... I don't know how to self-edit.)

Well, after freaking us out mightily with your former bandleader and metally insane person Syd Barret and then you continued to freak us out with A Saucerful of Secrets and then ... what do you have us listen to??? A SOUNDTRACK?????

A Pink Floyd soundtrack is certainly more interesting than, say, a MONKEES soundtrack or something. So, it's not like you should avoid this thing at all costs. For a soundtrack album, this is pretty good. I haven't listened to a whole lot of soundtracks, but I do know they do get much more boring than this. This one at least has some tracks in it with singing (making this *certainly* a must-purchase to anyone claiming to be a fan). But, for a Pink Floyd album, this is pretty boring.

Granted, there is a moment or two of sheer goodness in here. "Green is the Colour" is my personal favorite of the album. That's such a rich, organic song that's done so simple that ... crap, why do you need excessive instrumentals, again? Nothing else in the album, in my opinion, comes close to topping this track. The song that follows this one, "Cymballine" is also pretty good. It's messed up, but I like it.

The worst moment of this soundtrack is "Quicksilver." This is a seven-minute avant-garde piece that seems like it was meant to be background music. Granted, this is more bizarre than normal background music (remember that this is the soundtrack to a European art movie that, I predict, is horrible), but it's not so tremendously interesting to just listen to.

Is this album worth getting? I'd say so. Early Pink Floyd fans certainly get it. But anyone who's not been introduced to Pink Floyd's other albums of the era (notably thier follow-up to this, Ummagumma) should wait to make sure this is worth spending money on. ... Of course, you could just get a subscription to Rhapsody. ... I don't know why everyone doesn't just do that.

Overall Album Score: 8.0 out of 10 (There's some pretty good stuff in here ... Pink Floyd doesn't actually do anything dismal here ... But this soundtrack should just be left to the fans.)

Average Song Score: 8.0 (These aren't the most compelling songs on the planet. That probably has to do with this being a soundtrack, so ... it's forgivable ... I guess.)

Album Tilt: 8.0 (Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh... Nothing on here is actually *bad*. And there are a couple songs that are so good that ... it's crazy.)

Artist Rating: 8.0 (For Pink Floyd, this isn't much to be proud of! Too much of this is weird but being boring at it.)

Track Reviews

Cirrus Minor 8/10

Hey! Birds! ... I'm not listening to a Pink Floyd album. I just happened to leave the window open and there's a lot of birds singing. ... Except it's night and very cold out ... Oh wait, here comes some singing. Alright, I *am* listening to a Pink Floyd song. ... Well, considering how weird Pink Floyd has been to this point, I must remark how totally not-weird this song is. It's very calm, slow and ... contains bird whistling. It works on a deep, meditative way, I suppose. I like the electric organ at the last half of the song ... it gives us an interesting chord projection. I just think Pink Floyd could've done a lot more with this ... and they probably would have if they weren't writing this for a stupid artsy European movie.

The Nile Song 8/10

Wait a freaking momentito. Are you sure this is Pink Floyd? ... I had no idea that they were a rock band! This sounds like I accidentally pulled out some Jimi Hendrix or something. I really enjoy the hard edge of this song, and it's very convincing for some of it. It quickly gets old after awhile, because neither the melody nor the instrumentation is that interesting. I kinda like the instrumental interlude, which features a pretty trippy electric guitar solo.

Crying Song 7/10

BORRRRRRRRINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... This is so slow and understated that I really *do* have a hard time believing it's Pink Floyd. Sure, the singing sounds like it, but ... dudes! Where's the weird druggy space noises and stuff? This is a very quiet and very slow song featuring Waters voice and a simple acoustic guitar (which does more than I'm really able to give it credit for at first listen) and a barely hearable drum. Is it a good composition? Yeah, sure. Is it enjoyable? Um... not really.

Up the Khyber 8.5/10

AVANT GARDE MUSIC!!! I knew the nutballs would return in full force. Granted, this isn't as weirdly amazing as the weird stuff that showed up in earlier albums or especially their following album, Ummagumma, but ... it's wonderfully weird. It's hardly more than two minutes long, so you don't have to be weirded out for too long.

Green is the Colour 10/10

You know, it's easy to see this song as something being recorded by a '00s indie artist! But that aside, this is a very nice little composition. It reeks in subtlety and simplicity, which you'd hardly ever expect after hearing this group's nutty earlier albums! ... But this is simply a marvellous composition. It's simple, it's short, it's sweet ... it even has some fruity flute in it and some real piano. Crap, are you sure that this wasn't actually recorded by a '00s indie artist? Did that Sufjan Stevens guy sneak this on here?

Cymbaline 9/10

This is another fantastic melody! This one's quite a bit more messed up than "Green in Colour" and therefore, more Pink Floydian. However, that doesn't stop this from being a pretty dang decent song albiet kinda boring. It begins with a nice, simple organic melody ... except not extremely striking. And then a bunch of weird electric organ stuff comes in and messes with your mind. QUIT MESSING WITH OUR MINDSS!!! DAMN YOU!!!!!

Party Sequence 8/10

BONGO DRUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLAY THEM DRUMS BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... Yeah, I sure hope you like bongo drums and weird world-beat flutes in the background. ... Wait a second ... World music wasn't popular back in 196-freaking-8! This lasts for only one minute, but it's mighty interesting in that one regard at least.

Main Theme 8/10

Hey! This is a freaking instrumental! MAN! I JUST WANTED A SONG WITH SINGING ON IT, MAN! I DON'T WANT NO STINKIN' INSTRUMENTAL!!!!!!!!!!! ... Oh, this is a movie soundtrack. Right. And it's for a freaking European art movie. No wonder they wanted Pink Floyd! Nobody over there in Europe is normal. Well, this is pretty good as far as strange instrumentals go. It manages to be mostly interesting even though this allegedly is supposed to accompany visuals, and the only visuals I'm getting is me typing these freaking words on a word document program. This song is echoey and features a strange synth playing a melody in the foreground. There's a bunch of background noise including this strange "string-pluck" like synth that adds interest to it. ... Um ... that's all I'm going to say about it. :-P

Ibiza Bar 8/10

This song sounds kind of like a mean Beatles song or something. And it's a lot weirder, too. Well, any song that makes me think of a mean Beatles song is fine in my book. There's a lot of focus on the thick, mean atmosphere and not really enough concentrating on the melody and general accessibility of the track. (To be clear, I do detect a good melody ... it's just hidden ... somewhere...) Seriously, Pink Floyd's best when they're not trying to be a real rock band. Buruuruuuruuruu!

More Blues 8/10

BLUES!!!!!!!!! I DON'T WANT NO STINKIN' BLUES!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... I don't know what the deal with this song is, really. It just features an echoey guitar piddling around blues-style and then these really loud drums coming in occasionally and giving a beat. This only lasts for about two minutes, so it doesn't really annoy you.

Quicksilver 6.5/10

Alright, I don't think this song was necessarily meant to listen to without watching the movie, because if it was, this sure is kind of BORING. It's just a bunch of noises coming out of your speakers for more than seven minutes. There's no melody, really, and the atmosphere isn't too compelling. So .... there.

A Spanish Piece 8/10

Ole! Arriba! Chili con queso! ... So, this is a one-minute "Spanish piece" with some weird Spanish guy whispering stuff (Satanic chants?) in the foreground. ... Yeah, right back at you, Pink Floyd.

Dramatic Theme 7.5/10

This is exactly what was needed to close this album. A dramatic piece. Because this album wasn't dramatic enough. (I suppose "A Spanish Piece" was the comic relief!) This song features a pretty normal drum section that keeps the ole beat as reliable as ever. And this echoey electric guitar is piddling around, too. BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb. The end.

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