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Pink Floyd - The Wall

Pink Floyd - The Wall

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    Votes: 3 4.2%

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    Votes: 14 19.7%

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    Votes: 41 57.7%

  • Another Carrot in the Wall Part III

    Votes: 13 18.3%
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#43
DiabolusInMusic said:
I think David Gilmore's assessment of the record sums it up best: The Wall is nothing more than Roger Waters blaming all of his problems on everybody else.

While I agree with David, I do think it is a fantastic record and a true masterpiece. It is rather deep if you really want dig into it. I listened to that album a lot. I really enjoy the "Isn't this where we came in?" that ties the entire record together.
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I don't know either of them, so I can't say If Gilmour or Waters is right. But Its my recollection that Waters forced this album down the other members throats to the point that it caused the band to break up. I believe this album (which I own) is found playing at the scene of more suicides than any other piece of music. This is not to say its causing suicides, just that people seem to empathize with it when they check out.
 
#45
jokerone said:
I don't know either of them, so I can't say If Gilmour or Waters is right. But Its my recollection that Waters forced this album down the other members throats to the point that it caused the band to break up. I believe this album (which I own) is found playing at the scene of more suicides than any other piece of music. This is not to say its causing suicides, just that people seem to empathize with it when they check out.
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It must have been a super delayed reaction since they released a whole other album with Roger before he left.
 
#49
jokerone said:
I don't know either of them, so I can't say If Gilmour or Waters is right. But Its my recollection that Waters forced this album down the other members throats to the point that it caused the band to break up. I believe this album (which I own) is found playing at the scene of more suicides than any other piece of music. This is not to say its causing suicides, just that people seem to empathize with it when they check out.
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I have heard that it was side 2 of Black Sabbath's Paranoid.
But yeah - the Wall is pretty dark and bleak. I can see that happening.
 
#51
nutdog said:
I blame cocaine.
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It's a hell of a drug!

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#52
Wall is a great album. I don't think the huge mainstream success it had was intentional - it was almost in spite of itself. It's like one long song. I still have to play it front to back if I hear any one track. A brilliant concept, brilliantly executed and it passes the test of time.
 
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#55
Nev375 said:
Call me crazy, but I like "the Final Cut" the best of all.

I used to like the Wall more, but my own overplay of it in my teenage years wore me out on it. I still think its about their 4th best album.
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I'm a vet, my dad was a WWII vet - this album REALLY got to me... but *musically*, it doesn't hold a candle to DSM or Wish You Were Here. It's clearly a very personal work by Waters.

Speaking of which, I have Roger's solo stuff - and I like it... but it is missing something. Some of that PF mojo, I guess.
 
#57
elgecko said:
David Gilmour! ;)

I actually listened to Pros and Cons and Amused to Death yesterday. Jeff Beck is a great guitarist but he's no Gilmour!
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I'd actually say that Beck is a much better guitar than Gilmour - but he's *different*. Dave just *fit* with PF. It's telling that when classic rock stations do a "top ten guitar solos" thing, Dave is always there for Comfortably Numb and often there for Time or Money.
 
#58
elgecko said:
David Gilmour! ;)

I actually listened to Pros and Cons and Amused to Death yesterday. Jeff Beck is a great guitarist but he's no Gilmour!
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Clearly they all do better as a group than split off as individuals. I've seen PF play for their Lapse of reason tour, and I have to say Oz Pink Floyd and Think Floyd (tribute bands) do a better job (I guess they have to) live. I've seen Jeff Beck play and I wasn't that impressed. Never seen Waters though.

If you look at my avatar the guitar that Bobbag is holding is a replica black strat I made. (Standard MIM black strat with Gilmour pickup set and switches. ). Now if I could get Bobbag dummy to play (even though he has no arms) like Gilmour I would be happy. :smug:
 
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#59
jokerone said:
Clearly they all do better as a group than split off as individuals. I've seen PF play for their Lapse of reason tour, and I have to say Oz Pink Floyd and Think Floyd (tribute bands) do a better job (I guess they have to) live. I've seen Jeff Beck play and I wasn't that impressed. Never seen Waters though...
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I caught a Roger Water solo tour and a David Gilmour solo tour in the same summer a few years back. I forget which, but one of them had Nick Mason and the other had Richard Wright. Of the two shows, I liked the Roger show better but I definitely would've preferred seeing them together!
 
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