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Friday, 6 September 2013

Pink Floyd - The Wall 2012 reissue. 


Now this is NOT my favourite PF album at all. It reminds me of a Broadway or London Musical punctuated by David Gilmour's brilliance on Another Brick, Hey You, Run Like Hell, Comfortably Numb, without which it would be utter, utter pantomime theatre and, well, crap! They really needed Rick Wright on here as his influence on DSOTM and WYWH is without doubt essential to those albums. Poor old Nick Mason is relegated to simple drums as apparently he couldn't get the drums right on a lot of this. In Contrast The Wall, pales into insignificance as a sprawling, over indulgent, Roger Waters fascist-nazi-egotistical-claptrap! (Just listen to "The Trial" - it sounds like an out-take of the musical "Oliver Twist" - Roger Waters vocals pathetically mimicking the style of Fagan!) This, unfortunately, extends via some crappy out-takes onto the "Final Cut". With the Wall and Final Cut we see 6 pretty wasted sides of vinyl only brought to life by Gilmour's wonderful guitar and vocals. Why do I listen to this? Because it's Floyd - No other reason. I hated it on its release and still loath it today. 

It was a real pleasure for me to hear that Waters lost a lot of money on the touring of this and it was only Rick Wright who made anything out of the tour as he was ousted as a band member and taken on tour as a hired hand with a salary.