pink floyd - the wall

The Wall

love it .

This is cool...

Yes, it is a great album, but IMO it's the worst one from classic PF, with the exception of Final Cut. The disco wave of early eightees really affected them here. And I'll have to agree that the lyrics are very depressing.

And the movie is just ridiculous

I love The Wall, it has always been my favorite Floyd record. A lot of people sl*g off the shortest songs, but I think that's unfair and one should look at how they fit into the record, rather than just judge them because of their length. "Vera" in particular gets way too much slack than deserved. "Bring the Boys Back Home" is the only one that I would be willing to say is unnecessary.

FloydWright said she doesn't like it because it doesn't really provide solutions or clear resolutions... but I think at the point, the band didn't FIND the resolution to their problems and angst. I think if they weren't fulfilled, they shouldn't have had to add a song where they felt it because it would be forced. Roger Waters, the lyricist, didn't find that fulfillment until years later... for the Berlin show, he ended the album with the very optimistic "The Tide is Turning." The thing with "Outside the Wall" is that it's clear that Pink found his fulfillment... but the lyrics don't give much detail at all, because the band didn't know what it would be themselves. Roger himself said that he and the band didn't know exactly what happened at the end of The Wall.

FW and I have been good friends for a couple years, but our opinion on the end of The Wall have always been different. I think the poster that said "i believe the case can be made......you could also interpret the coterge as a eulogy for his former self, the closure needed to complete his catharsis" is dead-on. "The Trial" sounds terrifying, because Pink was terrified of the wall being torn down. Once it was though, the beautiful, reassuring music of "Outside the Wall" comes in. The massive wall of his isolation tumbles, he's now out in open. "The ones that love [him] walk hand in hand outside the wall"... they've been there the whole time, now he can be among them. Some are very inspired by the triumph, and others are in distress and then their own story begins ("isn't this where we came in?" - the story repeats for others). I think the movie helps my case, after the wall is torn down, a bunch of little ones gather where the wall was and start collecting their own bricks.