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Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis

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Re: Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis

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cancerhacker wrote: post #80
fuzzfactor wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Obscured by Clouds In their own way as an art band that's not-yet-popular-and-nobody-knows-if-they-ever-will-be, they were still following in the footsteps of the Beatles anyway with this early movie soundtrack. Too bad they weren't the stars of the movie. There was also a movie called Zabriskie Point where they did some work on the soundtrack of that.

I really started listening to music as a teen because of the wall, but _obscured_ really hit me at an emotional level, years later, and has become one of my favorite albums. In particular “Childhood’s End” always gives me goosebumps / tears / a feeling of connectedness. (I would want that played as the last track for my funeral, if I were to have one, although I should probably require attendees have decent headphone…

Did you ever watch La Vallée, the film Obscured By Clouds was commissioned to serve as the soundtrack for?

Re: Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis

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Post by fuzzfactor »

CPLX wrote: post #51
lc9er wrote: post #7

I love Pink Floyd and The Wall, though I think it works better with visuals than a standalone album. It's a shame they were unhappy with their own footage of the few stage shows they performed of The Wall. My dad saw the New York show, for which I'll forever be jealous. If you're a casual PF fan, I'd recommend two overlooked albums of the 70's - Meddle and Animals. Meddle is probably the first album to sound like wha…

If we’re making recommendations of non-obvious Pink Floyd things to recommend we have to include Live At Pompeii, a feature length live concert movie. I must have watched the version of Echoes a thousand times it’s utterly mesmerizing.

This was originally billed as "The Pink Floyd Movie" and was only in selected movie theaters, because there had to be facilities to accomodate the Quadraphonic surround sound concert speaker system that toured with it.

Never widely seen to begin with, and did not re-appear until many years later in some form.

It usually doesn't take 1000 times to realize what I saw that day.

So I don't know if this is part of it any more, but the live Pompeii scenes were all material from before Dark Side, ensemble playing and it looked like they were having a good time there.

In the original movie, between the outdoor live scenes where they were just having fun, they would cut to out-takes from Dark Side studio sessions, often one member at a time with headphones, subdued atmosphere, carefuly crafting an effort to be as popular as they could be. Not boring but you could tell they were not having the same kind of fun. Very interesting actually but excitement jumped back up whenever they cut back to Pompeii.

It was basically a documentary of what it was like before most people ever heard of them.

And it looked like they really wanted people to see the difference in the previous stuff that millions had missed not only on record, but missed live when it was first released.

Re: Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis

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Post by fuzzfactor »

cancerhacker wrote: post #80
fuzzfactor wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Obscured by Clouds In their own way as an art band that's not-yet-popular-and-nobody-knows-if-they-ever-will-be, they were still following in the footsteps of the Beatles anyway with this early movie soundtrack. Too bad they weren't the stars of the movie. There was also a movie called Zabriskie Point where they did some work on the soundtrack of that.

I really started listening to music as a teen because of the wall, but _obscured_ really hit me at an emotional level, years later, and has become one of my favorite albums. In particular “Childhood’s End” always gives me goosebumps / tears / a feeling of connectedness. (I would want that played as the last track for my funeral, if I were to have one, although I should probably require attendees have decent headphone…

This is one I learned when the record first came out. Single-handedly as a teenager just banging on acoustic guitar.

Played it thousands of times, usually for myself to warm up.

Different every time, and still haven't sounded very much like Pink Floyd yet ;)

Still most people have never heard me do it ever.

There's not that many Floyd tunes that are so great without a band of some kind anyway. That's my story and I'm sticking to it ;)

I'm not an active musician or songwriter at all and when I do play for people intentionally it would usually be things that are more familiar.

But every now and then somebody will hand me a guitar or just say "play us something". They know it's going to be oldies :)

In the right situation as I accept I sometimes answer with the simple question; "Childhood's End?"

Without allowing enough time for a response then I just start banging. I already saw the look in their eye.

This is a tune that keeps giving and I'm trying to give them what it's giving you :)

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Post by polotics »

grvbck wrote: post #61
marpstar wrote: post #48

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I was fortunate enough to see David Gilmour play live this past October at Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The energy when he played Comfortably Numb was absolutely indescribable. I, too, think that Animals is a masterpiece. Also agree that it's "overlooked" (though some others in the comments seem to have a different assessment) -- most people I know can name tracks from Dark Side and The Wall but that's about it. Th…

> The energy when he played Comfortably Numb was absolutely indescribable. Also, the unbelieveable rendition with David Bowie in Royal Albert Hall in 2006. Bowie singing between the notes but in perfect key, Gilmour's solo grittier than usual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkN7qyaFEUU

If you like this, then Bowie's amazing overtones on Placebo's "without you I'm nothing" is something you should love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c14qMbmP9eg

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Post by wlonkly »

emmelaich wrote: post #64
marpstar wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was fortunate enough to see David Gilmour play live this past October at Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The energy when he played Comfortably Numb was absolutely indescribable. I, too, think that Animals is a masterpiece. Also agree that it's "overlooked" (though some others in the comments seem to have a different assessment) -- most people I know can name tracks from Dark Side and The Wall but that's about it. Th…

I found Animals weirdly disappointing after Dark Side and Wish. Maybe I'll give it another go. A great sampler of earlier PF is Ummagumma, the double combo live and studio album. FWIW, Live at Pompeii is free on Youtube.

Oh man, I had a fuzzy, nth-copy VHS tape of Live at Pompeii when I was in high school. I'll have to check that out, thanks!
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