The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered)
(Audio CD) by Pink Floyd
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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
April 25, 2000
Studio:
Capitol
Number Of Discs:
2
Format:
Original recording reissued
Average Customer Rating:
based on 1029 reviews
Description:
The Wall is less a collection of songs than a single work, which is sometimes frustrating; the plot lacks enough coherence to hold the snippets of music together. However, there are occasional flashes of brilliance on what ranks as Pink Floyd's most ambitious project. Most of these come from the fully developed songs, which have become classics in their own right. "Hey You," "Mother," and especially "Comfortably Numb" are subtle, incredible pieces of music. Though complex, they move at a relaxed pace, allowing the listener to absorb them slowly; this kind of pacing was something Pink Floyd excelled at. Also worth noting is the "Another Brick in the Wall/The Happiest Days of Our Lives" medley, which has become a staple of rock radio. --Genevieve Williams
Track Listing:
Disc: 1
1.
In The Flesh?
2.
The Thin Ice
3.
Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1
4.
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
5.
Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
6.
Mother
7.
Goodbye Blue Sky
8.
Empty Spaces
9.
Young Lust
10.
One Of My Turns
11.
Don't Leave Me Now
12.
Another Brick In The Wall (Part III)
13.
Goodbye Cruel World
Disc: 2
1.
Hey You
2.
Is There Anybody Out There?
3.
Nobody Home
4.
Vera
5.
Bring the Boys Back Home
6.
Comfortably Numb
7.
The Show Must Go On
8.
In The Flesh
9.
Run Like Hell
10.
Waiting For The Worms
11.
Stop
12.
The Trial
13.
Outside The Wall
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
I just looooove this GREATEST HITS collection!!Sep 04, 2008 My oh my how I love this greatest hits collection. It really has all the goodies on 2 brilliantly splendid CDs! On CD1 we get treated on Astronomy Domino, Lewd Sam and their TOPHit Water Bearer from the 1978 album Nunks.
On CD2 we can't miss the grandiose Shine On! yer crazy diamond you and the magnus opus 'Anomalies' (dived in Dogs, Sheep, Muffins and Cows).
The smashing closing piece is 'Inflatable Thumbs' one hell of a funny tune.
They were allways good for kicks!
5 stars on my behalf for this majestic CD set.
Hubert Jones
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
oh you p() things!Sep 01, 2008 There's a couple of things worse than this crappy group the Pinned Floid.
These are: Britney Spheres, Christina agellero, Justin, Tori Amos, ParisHilton, Rap muzak and so on,
but, AND THAT'S MY POINT BE WELL AWARE
those crappy artists don't stop this lousy band making lousy worthless sh!! albums.
they degrade people.
Barney Knowles
1 of 5 found the following review helpful:
the worst CD in historyAug 28, 2008 I grew up with my parents playing Kool and the Gang, Village People,Boney M, Tavares and other 70ies rockmusic groups like Hot Chocolate.
I kind of thought these were likable albeit a bit childish.
Then, they discovered Pink Floyd The Wall,
It was then that I moved out of the house to go live with my aunt Erica, it was too much, yuk!
Paulie Gerrits
What can you say its Pink FloydAug 27, 2008 I'm going to take a different approach to reviewing albums on Amazon. Instead of going in depth on each album and describe each album in detail, i'm going to simply rate each album with how many stars I feel each album is worth based on the below criteria. I hope this helps you make a better decision on purchasing this album with a simple individual rating. If it doesn't help read another review.
5 stars- Classic, Album goes beyond description, Perfect in every way, Could remind you of a certain time or place, Lifetime replay value.
4.5 stars- Near Classic, Incredible album, Maybe only one song that is skippable or just overall doesn't quite deserve classic status. High replay value.
4.0 stars- Awesome album. Very solid album from start to finish. Met every expectation and more. Maybe only one song or two that is skippable or just doesnt' quite deserve a classic or near classic rating. High replay value.
3.5 stars- Above average album. Solid from start to finish but there are a few songs worth skipping. Met expectations, minimal replay value.
3.0 stars- Average album. Nothing bad but nothing great either. After the initial appeal will collect dust.
2.5 stars- Major disappointment. You had high expectations that were ruined as this album is not good at all. There might be only one or two songs worth listening to. No replay value.
2.0 stars- Below average album. This album doesnt bother you to hear as background music but you would rather not listen to it if you didnt have to. No songs really appeal. No replay value.
1.5 stars- Terrible album. Makes one sick to hear it. No songs really appeal but there might be one song that you could stand to hear. Would rather throw in garbage than even waste space in your collection.
1.0 stars- Makes one cringe and the ears bleed!
*keep in mind, each album review might not be based on opinion of the band but the album itself in the bands discography
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
All in all...Aug 12, 2008 The best Pink Floyd album in the post Dark Side of the Moon years, this relentlessly bleak and bitter rock opera is three sides of angst and anger is so meticulously produced that - some 25 years later - it still strikes nerves. Be it Roger Waters' working through his own personal disintegration (the oft-repeated story of his spitting on a fan who kept screaming through acoustic passages), to a life-story of a rock-star with a bad/oppressive childhood or yet another glance askance at the band's lingering emotional weight about Syd Barrett, "The Wall" looks at the many ways we barricade ourselves.
Theatrically produced by Bob Ezrin (KISS, Alice Cooper), it also found the Floydians tightening their songs from meandering electronic experiments - think the multi-part "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" from Wish You Were Here - to the point where "Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2" unwittingly became a hit. It also found songs kicking up the tempo to the point were some of these compositions actually "rocked." "Run Like Hell" and "In The Flesh?" became AOR staples despite their segueing into each other. But some of the other songs were so perfect that they have become classics (or played to death, depending on your POV), like "Comfortably Numb" or "Hey You." Also, like so many of Bob Ezrin's best work, he pulls amazingly theatrical performances, particular the vocals. Waters' tortured wail on "Don't Leave Me Now" can give you shivers.
The theatricity is also the album's final undoing. On the original double LP, it was side four that could not hold "The Wall's" weight. The operatic "Waiting For The Worms/Stop/The Trial" climax flies so over-the-top that it becomes the weakest brick. It's also kind of telling that, in Pink Floyd - The Wall Movie, it's almost entirely animated. It's as if it was so unrealistic as to be incapable of being portrayed by actual humans. And as the protagonist rocker ("Pink," who seems to be a snide reminder of the "Which one's Pink" line on Wish You Were Here) slowly drifts into emotional fascism, the mental/musical bombast of this CD overshoots itself.
Be that as it may, "The Wall" has few equals when it comes to the insistent self-loathing of self-centered rock and roll stars; perhaps The Downward Spiral comes closest. Perhaps the bleakest thing about "The Wall" is that Pink Floyd/Waters sees all this as a viscous cycle...the first words on the album are "we came in?" and the last ones are "Isn't this where..." Now if THAT isn't depressing, then what is?
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