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Whistle Stopper - The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered)
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List Price: $34.98
Our Price: $17.95
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724383124329
Format: Original recording reissued
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 2
Publication Date: 2002
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 2000-04-25
Studio: Capitol
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Summary: the worst CD in history
Comment: 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
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Summary: What can you say its Pink Floyd
Comment: 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
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Summary: All in all...
Comment: 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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Summary: Slick, bombastic -- but not a lot of substance
Comment: This was one of the first CDs I ever spoke, and as a teenager its anger and bitterness really spoke to me. Now, looking back 15 years later, the music just doesn't resonate and some of it actually makes me cringe. That's not to say you shouldn't pick it up - lots of people genuinely love this album - but that you should know what you are getting into.
In the case of The Wall, the tunes played on the radio are a fairly good representation of the album's best work. "Comfortably Numb", "Run Like Hell", "Hey You", "Run Like Hell" and "The Happiest Days/Another Brick #2" are all enjoyable, if (to many radio listeners) played so frequently that they offer few surprises at this point. There are a few gems hidden elsewhere - "Mother" may be the best song on the album, and "Nobody Home" is a very poignant Waters + piano + orchestra ballad. "Goodbye Blue Sky" and the acoustic guitar sequence on "Is There Anybody Out There" are worth mentioning as well.
And then there are sides 2 and 4 of the original double album. The album's key weakness is an excessive focus on lyrics over the music, and the second half of each CD really showcase this problem. The sequences from "Empty Spaces" to "Goodbye Cruel World" and "Waiting for the Worms" to "Outside the Wall" are, at best, boring and occasionally unlistenable. There's a common argument from Waters critics that the songs cowritten with Gilmour are the best on the album, but that conveniently ignores the lame "Young Lust". And "The Trial" - yikes - awful, awful, awful, even worse than "The Dogs of War".
The Wall remains enormously popular with many listeners - I think it is still Floyd's best seller after Dark Side of the Moon - and most people will enjoy it. But it is flawed, and for those who prefer Pink Floyd's "head music" through 1975, a likely disappointment.
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Summary: Pink Floyd, "The Wall" 1979
Comment: By this time Pink Floyd were starting too reach the breakup and this was pretty much there last great album(The Final Cut was really just a Roger Waters solo album) Rick Wright was already out of the band at this time but they still mannaged too make a rock opera. The Wall is a story of about a rockstar named Pink the first disc shows his humble begginings but by track 9 he's grown into the Pink we know. By disc two he's pretty much gone insane and in the movie his sink is filled with blood and he cuts himself but the main song out of this album is, "Comftarbly Numb", about when he overdoses on drugs. All in all this album is timeless and is for every pink floyd fan alive new or old,
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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