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Poll Question: do you love or hate the wall?
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Remember getting this one Christmas & listening to it on headphones. Absolutely loved it from beginning to end. Although I was bemused as to the (then) 'un-Floydness' of some of the tracks, the variety of musical styles coupled with the great production made for a great sounding album. I feel the emergence of The Final Cut had a negative effect on memories of The Wall - I don't recall feeling it was a particularly miserable album (a charge I've often heard) just a dark and dramatic piece.
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Points: 2139 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2005 at 01:36
I USED to love it. I don't miss the album at all but I recorded on video (from TV, using pause button very often) a 50-minute edition of the movie (animation parts and other good parts with music). But I can't say I LOVE it...
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2005 at 00:26
Originally posted by Karnevil9 Karnevil9 wrote:

 

Masterpiece totally destroyed by the hit single ''Another brick in the wall'

I still think it's a masterpiece, but that song is SOOOO overrated and overplayed...
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good, not great
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As a prog fan, I feel somewhat sinful saying this, but the wall is just... too long! Plus, its so morbid! There really are some fantastic moments on it, and I love the first disc... but by the time you're on the first side of the second disc, its just repetitive and depressing. Its still a masterpiece, and I appreciate it as such, but you really have to be in the right... or maybe wrong... mood to listen to it.

Animals was my first intro to Floyd and is still my favorite Floyd album.
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I love the album, but compared to DSOTM or animals, it doesn't live up. 
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One of the most depressing pieces of music written or should I say angst filled. If you are inclined that way, (depressive), I would not recommend it. To me it was the start of the faltering of the great PF music machine. There is only so much Roger Water's angst that can be taken.

Technically a great album - musically for me, almost at the bottom of the PF catalogue



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With the exception of Peter Hammill, no one wears their psycho-emotional angst on their sleeve as openly as Roger Waters.  So when he got down to really plumbing the depths of that angst, it was bound to be extraordinary.  What makes The Wall so exceptional is that it not only plumbs those depths brilliantly, but the "composition" - particularly the matching of lyrics and music, and the arrangements - is perfect (to say nothing of the amazing production!).

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If ABITW had never been played on radio, and you had heard it only in its context on the album, would you be saying the same thing?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2005 at 22:53

 

Masterpiece totally destroyed by the hit single ''Another brick in the wall'
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Points: 999 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2005 at 22:51

I love The Wall. It tells a fantastic story, and I personally believe there isn't a bad song on the album. Fantastic Floyd, but again, not as good as DSOTM, WYWH, or Animals.
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Points: 870 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2005 at 22:45
I love it, but not as much as the other "classic" Floyd albums. It might be closer to my favorite if it was just one album; I think it drags a bit on disc 2. I also don't like the dominance of Roger's style on the album; WYWH & DSOTM were made when Rick Wright was still a key member of the group, and his influence (compositionally) is one of my favorite elements of the Floyd sound.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2005 at 22:42
i have seen the extreme of both points of view expressed in the forums.....please tell us if you like the double concept album or not and why
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