Roger Waters and Pink Floyd The Concept Albums

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As a younger person, I discovered the work of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters. Never before had I heard music that had been recorded with such distinct attention to sonic detail, nor had I heard rock songs that consistently contained such cleverly crafted and socially relevant lyrics.
That the ideas presented in these songs were sustained throughout an entire album, however, was the trait that made them most intriguingly exceptional. For this illustrated something that, aside from the rare exception, I had found notably absent from popular culture—namely, prolonged
thought.
In my youthful ebullience, I began to purchase books that had been written about the band and its work, but these volumes continuously disappointed me. None of them ever seemed to contain anything more than short and rather insufficient comments about the conceptual content
of the recordings, and I had just begun to regard such knowledge as being essential for one to possess a deeper understanding and appreciation of them. It was for this reason that I was first motivated to complete the present volume.
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