I read an article from an English music magazine (which shall remain nameless)...but its analysis of DSOTM left me speechless!!
Here's what it said:

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"This is not only far from being the best album ever made, it is far from being the best Pink Floyd album ever made. Its longevity has more to do with a moment in the seventies when 'serious' lovers of hi-fi needed an album to showcase their state-of-the-art equipment. That Waters' lyrics were tritely anti-materialisticwas an irony not quite lost on these people; it merely enhanced the album's prestige. Waters considered it was high time PF lost their psychedelic baggage and make an important statement. However, his remarks on the passage of time on 'Time' or against war on 'Us and Them' are trite and portentous. 'On the Run', prasied by Phillip Glass as an early example of minimalist synth-rock, is one of the few moments on the album that is a harbinger for the musical future"
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Surley something was lost when this writer heard the album? In fairness the story concentrated on Syd but, no doubt, DSOTM is an excellent album.

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