The "Identity" stuff is completely awful. I downloaded it once and I threw it away after just one listen. Perhaps I'm being a bit rough on Rick but I have very mixed emotions about him. I completely love the things he wrote for the Floyd, his masterful and tasty use of keyboards (above all if you campare it with the work of most keyboard players from the 70's) and the vocal harmonies he sang with Gilmour. "Echoes" wouldn't have been such a wonderful song without Rick's contribution and the same goes with the whole of "Dark Side of the Moon" (and though it is not so evident, I would say the same about "WYWH" and "Animals"). In fact, "Wet Dream" is one of my favourite Floyd solo efforts ever.

But, having said that, the "Identity" thing is really dull and dated. Mason's "Fictitious Sports" is much, much better than what Rick did. And (IMHO) "Broken China" is an album that tries to have a narrative and convey a story but becomes predictable and boring (both lirycally and musically). Perhaps he should have done an album of individual songs like the wonderful "Wearing the Inside Out" (one of the high points in "TDB"). Anyway, "Breakthrough" is a very nice song and both "Runaway" and "Satellite" tread new ground (for a Floyd member at least) very successfully. In fact "Runaway" is an amazing instrumental.

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