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Someone help me. I really don't understand the appeal of this recording.

To me - and I stress to me - the music and musicianship is average, the lyrics banal, and the recording nothing all that special. It seems to be a standard overdubbed studio recording, with some sound effects (heartbeats, clock chimes, cash registers, etc.) added. Bid deal.

I recognize a few of the songs, but I never paid much attention to this music when it came out in the 70s and I'm not a Pink Floyd fan. I have only listened to the recording a couple of times after buying inot the hype surrounding the release of the SACD version. Both times I was stone cold sober. (Perhaps that's the problem?)

I am wondering how much of the appeal of this recording is simply based on nostalgia - people returning to this music and remembering an old girlfriend, good times with friends in the smoking pit, that beloved muscle car, or the senior prom. Is it possible for someone who is unfamiliar with the music to recognize it as this "masterpiece" that people who have extramusical associations with it deam it to be? Or is this just "comfort food" for 70s stoners?

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