Oh, this is going to be good......
The Wall :text-bravo: :text-bravo:
Pink Floyd
1979 Columbia Records
THE classic rock opera, November 10, 2001
By
Nanci Little (Northern Maine, United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Wall (Audio CD)
It had been at least ten years since I listened to _The Wall_. Vinyl copy lost to divorce, tape copy eaten by car player--you know. One recent day I felt the urge to hear it. Ordered it on CD, waited impatiently for its arrival . . . but waited for the right time to pop it into the player.
"Look, Mummy; there's an aeroplane up in the sky.
"D-d-d-did you see the frightened ones . . . D-d-d-did you hear the falling bombs . . . D-d-d-did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?"
Now I know why I wanted to hear it again, after 9/11, that crushing loss of innocence. I sat riveted, unable to do anything but listen to a life shaped by horrific events, wondering how many walls are building out there.
The poetry is heart-wrenching. The musicianship is as solid as anything in rock history. This album is as vital, as necessary, now as it was when I first heard it some 20 years ago.
"The basis of great literature is that it speaks to the universal human condition," said my college Lit professor.
Listen to this. It speaks.
Dennie adds: ....and "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding." "How can you have any pudding....." :banana-rock: :banana-dance:
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. "In the Flesh?" Waters 3:19
2. "The Thin Ice" Gilmour, Waters 2:27
3. "Another Brick in the Wall Part 1" Waters 3:21
4. "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" Waters 1:46
5. "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" Gilmour, Waters 4:00
6. "Mother" Waters, Gilmour 5:36
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. "Goodbye Blue Sky" Gilmour 2:45
2. "Empty Spaces" Waters 2:10
3. "Young Lust" Waters, Gilmour Gilmour 3:25
4. "One of My Turns" Waters 3:35
5. "Don't Leave Me Now" Waters 4:16
6. "Another Brick in the Wall Part 3" Waters 1:14
7. "Goodbye Cruel World" Waters 1:13
Side three
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. "Hey You" Gilmour, Waters 4:40
2. "Is There Anybody Out There?" Waters 2:44
3. "Nobody Home" Waters 3:26
4. "Vera" Waters 1:35
5. "Bring the Boys Back Home" Waters 1:21
6. "Comfortably Numb" Gilmour, Waters Waters, Gilmour 6:24
Side four
No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. "The Show Must Go On" Gilmour 1:36
2. "In the Flesh" Waters 4:13
3. "Run Like Hell" Gilmour, Waters Gilmour, Waters 4:19
4. "Waiting for the Worms" Waters, Gilmour 4:04
5. "Stop" Waters 0:30
6. "The Trial" Waters, Ezrin Waters 5:13
7. "Outside the Wall" Waters 1:41