Damn Animals with Pink Floyd is overrated!

Well, they are not quite so open that you can choose to intentionally look through a pedantic microscope and twist a worldly-wise sort of observation wildly out of context by trying to scientifically evaluate it.  As I said earlier, the entire concept of Time, and not just the part of time flying out of reach as one gets older, would fall flat if you strictly applied the rules of physics to it.  The sun does not actually set on you nor does it rise again.  But people still refer to sunrise and sunset in everyday conversations maybe because watching its movements through the day, the rise and fall, has a rhythm of its own.  As Iain has also observed, Waters has simply spoken in language that everyone can understand.  It's nobody's case that that is all that is required to understand the human condition.  Yet somebody's got to write a bloody album that doesn't have to revolve around wittier-than-thou wordplay and extremely involved concepts, otherwise the day may well come when only the artist and his sympathetic neighbours sit around the stereo to listen to the album with nobody else interested.  What you are trying to do is to hold the lyrical simplicity of DSOTM itself against it, when it is an intentional choice and one that i believe has an important place in the world of arts.  Maybe that explains why the world believed them all too easily when the punks accused prog of being pretentious.

Look man, nobody here is out to get you and nobody really cares what you think about Dark Side of the Moon. Your opinion is as insignificant as mine. The point I want to make is it doesn't matter if you like the album or not, it's place in prog history has been established. Contest it all you want, disagree all you want, argue all you want. The album is a masterpiece lyrically and musically. It's kind of like me trying to argue that Beethoven or Mozart weren't geniuses just because I happen to like other composers' music better. We all have our own preferences but this doesn't mean we should dump all over something just because we don't think it's up to snuff with our own favorites.

Accept or don't. I don't really care. I said what I had to say.

Smacks of immaturity, that comment. You might be a 100 years old for all I know

Anyway punk was a musical rebellion that morphed very quickly and most of it was not moron music for the masses. Stop being so self righteous.

I agree and the Wall was a natural extension to Animals IMO. I love Animals but when it first came out, I almost felt betrayed cos it was so different to WYWH. Of course I was wrong about that and grew to love the album. I think Gilmour's solo in Dogs is one of his top three solo's