Pink Floyd "The Wall"

I listened to this cd last night for the first time in maybe 20 years and probably the first time I've ever heard it all the way through, no distractions, nobody talking over the music, as an adult. It has got to be the most emotional pick-your-brain-apart concept album Ive ever heard. It is depressingly sad, and certainly not a hang out with friends party album at all. I think I finally completely understand it for the first time, every time Ive heard it before, I was hangin' out drinkin' beers with friends or something way back as a teen-ager. Totally intense, maybe alot of the reason I anjoyed it so much was I dont listen to the radio so I hadnt heard the hit songs from this album in ages either, I know how the radio can outplay some of these songs to death.

what do you guys think of this album? Lets try to keep this topic on "The Wall" and not "Dark Side/Moon" or other Floyd albums. Thanks.

we have an effing rock and roll forum now effit!!!

EDIT:

sorry, didnt know....

I love The Wall It was one of the first albums that I listened all the way through. Fantastic story, fantastic playing, all around...fantastic. The story is combination of Pink Floyd's first lead singer Syd Barret and bassist and chief songwriter Roger Waters. The child portion is about Roger and when he gets older and descends into madness is about Syd. Good thought provoking stuff.

stepcousin wrote:

sorry, didnt know....

No problem. I was just overreacting. I do it for fun

GREAT, GREAT ALBUM!

I watched the Wall DVD this past weekend. Bizarre movie, cool music.



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An awesome album. The story is real downer, but wow, just incredible songs woven together by amazing playing and a masterfull production. What other band has reached this level with a single album. Even the artwork is renowned and so well known and recognizable. I can remember spend hours trying to get that comfortably numb sound....

gotta go and listen to some Pink Floyd/

Excellent album. If you can only have one Floyd album, this should be the one IMHO (although I have two, haha - this one and DARK SIDE OF THE MOON)

Actually if I had to chose only ONE Pink Floyd album, I would go with ANIMALS!

I love The Wall. I find it a bit difficult at times to digest both discs in one sitting but however I listen to it, I'm always fully engrossed by it. Some amazing songs on there.

sorry to go off topic but has anyone ever heard "Obscured By Clouds"? I heard it for the first time and I totally loved it. its the album just before "Dark Side" and it is Pink Floyd all the way.

oh man, Pink Floyd... never liked them at all. to keyboardy,

stepcousin wrote:

sorry to go off topic but

Weren't you the one that said in your opening post to "just talk about The Wall and not any other PF album". Just giving you crap. Obscured By Clouds is a fantastic album very underrated and overlooked, along with their other soundtrack to the movie "More". Obscured has a lot of great PF songs; Childhood's End and Gold It's n The... are very heavy songs, along with the catchy Free Four, What's Uh The Deal and Stay. Overall a solid release, which I need to buy again.

This thread is giving me flashbacks to my high school days when I used to get stoned and go to a local movie theatre for the midnight shows of "Rocky Horror" in one theater and "Pink Floyd The Wall" in the theater next door...good times.

That must have been crazy, Freddy. I can only imagine.

spiritoradio wrote:

That must have been crazy, Freddy. I can only imagine.

Let's just say that I only have partial memories of those times.

I suppose.

Here are a few videos from the 1980 Wall Tour that are not readily available. I wish I knew where he got these videos because there was supposedly no Wall Tour footage in existence. He re-did the sound using the "Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live" album that came out a few years back and it very much insync.

Young Lust:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcGY53APNiM

Run Like Hell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYd6mCAcQw8&mode=related&search=

Another Brick in The Wall pt. 3 / Goodbye Cruel World:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9NQPgJSNo

In The Flesh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS2erz9Ym5Y

Another Brick in The Wall pt. 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3aIQyL9Mh0

Hey You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yD9avOGgM

Comfortably Numb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qt6b8B5Bd4

cool links bro.

I'm glad you like them

Great lp, I see I may have to dig it out tonight!

Absolutly the best concept album of all times. I love The Wall!

Can't stand any and all Floydage, especially The Wall. Thats just me though, I also like country, so....

Terrible music. I could never get into it. Music to commit suicide to...very depressing stuff. Just my opinion though,to each their own

I like The Wall but I perfer Dark Side of the Moon

I used to have the DVD but lent it to a friend and never got it back, before I even had a chance to watch it. Ironic thing is the friend who borrowed it got it for me for a Christmas present I got him DSOTM DVD we should have just swapped lol