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tinyE: I love The Wall but I'm a little torn on how much it really represents the band.
There was A LOT of dysfunction and Wright, Mason, and Gilmour all insist when they got to the studio, Roger already had 90% of the album written. Waters says this is total bullshit and 40 years later Gilmour still refuses to talk to him. I tend to side with the the three because the sound/style of The Wall doesn't remind me of the Floyd records before or after, when Roger had left. The only song that really sounds to me like a full on Pink Floyd song is "Comfortably Numb" which is interestingly enough, the only song on the album that all four admit to writing/working together on.

A lot of what made the "Pink Floyd sound" was nowhere to be found on The Wall, making me think the other three had very little to do with it.

A few years ago , shortly before Wright died, the four got together and played Comfortably Numb (I forget the benefit/occasion). At the end of the song, you can find this on YouTube, Waters reaches out to hug Gilmour, and Gilmour turns his back on him and walks off stage. XD
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TerriblePurpose: From what I've read, both The Wall and The Final Cut were almost completely Waters written (The Final Cut even moreso). But yeah, there's a definite difference in the 'Floyd sound', as you put it, on those two albums.
If you, and anyone here, gets a chance, check out the documentary "Which One is Pink".
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tinyE: If you, and anyone here, gets a chance, check out the documentary "Which One is Pink".
Thanks, I'll try to remember that.
Impossible to be depressed listening to a Gilmour guitar solo.
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tinyE: I love The Wall but I'm a little torn on how much it really represents the band.
… The only song that really sounds to me like a full on Pink Floyd song is "Comfortably Numb" which is interestingly enough, the only song on the album that all four admit to writing/working together on.
Becoming Comfortably Numb is pretty much a requirement in these hypervigilant socially mediated end-of-days. :)

When we first travelled to Britain, The Wall had just been released, and was everywhere in London. Years later, I spent far too many hours watching the film.

I agree Waters seems to be a first-class dick, though. (I've not met him, so I can't be completely sure. But I'm almost completely sure. :)

I have fond memories of Dark Side of the Moon* but I can't recall much of it, off hand. (I don't listen to much music, I don't have the album, and this computer has no means to play sound at all, so I can't refresh my memory, at the moment.)

*Which isn't, by the way; the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth's rotation, meaning the far-side of the Moon receives sunshine whenever it passes between the Earth and the Sun, as in an eclipse, but also every day.
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tinyE: He said that a lot of Irish art is, on the outside, very dark and even morbid, but it is considered inspirational to them.
Let's see. All Irish songs are about

1. Drinking and fighting till you pass out
2. Meeting a fair bonnie lass that's fair and bonnie
3. We're in Ireland and being in the homeland sucks
4. We're not in Ireland and being away from the homeland sucks
5. Fuck the English!
6. Seriously, fuck the English!

I'd call that a draw. :D
Do you ever get tired of the waiting?
Do you ever get tired of being in there?

Don't worry, nobody lives forever.
Nobody lives forever...


What could you possibly find depressing about that?...

/crawls back to the hole in the ground where he hides
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TheWilbur: Do you ever get tired of the waiting?
Do you ever get tired of being in there?

Don't worry, nobody lives forever.
Nobody lives forever...

What could you possibly find depressing about that?...

/crawls back to the hole in the ground where he hides
I actually don't find it depressing at all, and not because I'm a terminal fuck up and a troll.

This is simply laying out the cycle of life, which is completely natural and in a sense, eternal.