Okay, I feel like the system's cheating, giving me this as the first album, but I suspect there will be a lot of albums that feel like cheating. The most interesting thing about coming back to the album right now for me was specifically listening to the entire album in order and picturing the era in regards to what they were doing. I mean, we go from the standard rock saxophone solo to synthesizers in the space of two songs. Then throw in some ambient sound recordings and your standard Pink Floyd guitars and drums and you've got a pretty broad album, sound-wise. It's definitely thematically sound throughout. While you can imagine their excitement and getting to mess around with synths and the like, they made sure to craft songs around the instrument rather than just sticking the instrument into random songs. Like, if you have a song called "Welcome to the Machine" and you DON'T have synths, what are you even doing with your life?

I think this is my first time listening to the album with headphones on. Interesting how they use the different channels throughout the songs