#91
April 30 1984
Pink Floydwaters
The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
4:50 AM (Go Fishing)
5:01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking)
We all know that kids with hard earned allowance cannot fucking wait to get their hands on...
A rock meditation on midlife entropy.
Seriously.
I really don’t get what I’m listening to. Do the time titles...are they marking something?
What is happening here, is someone having twilight nightmares?
I’ve got to go read what the hell this is…
Ok. So the protagonist picked up a hitchhiker and he’s fantasizing about her. That’s only really clear if you read up on the record. The songs are so obfuscated and not all that engrossing. That Gilmour thought this was musically stronger than The Wall is perplexing. Because every song sounds exactly the same as the last. Same melodies, same anticipated climax.
This investigation into midlife crisis requires multiple listens to truly understand but the music is so revoltingly boring and predictable that who would want to go through this exercise again when it reminds so much of a predecessor that the listener, given the choice, would reflexively reach for that epic instead?
Get therapy, Roger.
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