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This is one of my favorite Pink Floyd albums. I like it so much; this is the 3rd one I have bought over the years! I used the other two so much I scratched them. I did have a copy of the second CD, which wasn't scratched, but I really just wanted a good used 2 CD album to rip to my computer. This album goes well beyond just the well known, "Brick in the Wall." If I had to pick only one album of any artist to listen to while deserted on a desert island....this would be it! I have found Pink Floyd is popular with just about any age person. My children love them, as well.
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Hearing each song and piece in this double CD set is worth playing over and over!! Not only does it bring back great memories, but it allows people to enjoy great talent, artwork, and timeless quality music!!
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If you're reading this, you should know enough about this LP that a synopsis of the story and/or a list of tracks would be most redundant. I wouldn't do that to ya... That being said, I'll add a tiny bit of perspective. It was 1980... When I was a snot-faced pre-pubescent, roaming the malls with rudimentary knowledge of classic rock and ignorant trepidation about heavy metal (Sabbath: Oooooooo!) I saw a record store (remember those?) with it's entire bay window decked out in Pink Floyd The Wall stuff. In those days (and at my age), the album was bigger-than-life. I knew what I wanted before I even KNEW what I wanted! Until then, my only exposure to Floyd was late-night radio plays of "Another Brick..." by the green light of the console radio. There were 45 and LP sleeves and promo posters just WALLPAPERING the entire display. Gerald Scarfe's renderings of the Schoolmaster, Wife and Dear ol' Mum, and the stark white wall itself. I remember a time (and so do you) when you walked into that store to see racks and racks of shrink-wrapped 12" squares just BEGGING to be opened and have that initial meeting with the tonearm. Was it THAT long ago? It was...long enough that surviving sealed copies bring in significant green. And to top it all off, the album was a great as the hype! I remember tearing off the plastic of the LP and staring at the Gerald Scarfe artwork in the gatefold or the lables spinning slowly around. I wedged the white title card in the jacket and wore that album completely out. Somehow, though CDs have shrunken the bombast of music to an almost disposable medium, the CD still manages to be big (and needs to be in a double-wide jewel case-presentation counts. Record labels, take note!). As for the remaster: for those of us without $10,000 systems, it completely negates the need to plunk down $100-200 for the MFSL Ulteadisc. The EMI/Harvest edition is just fine, thanks. That being said, I wouldn't be adverse to seeing something deluxe come out in 2009. A nice box set would help in righting a few wrongs...maybe they could include "What Shall We Do Now?," seeing as how those of us who had the vinyl know the words. How about a concert DVD from the original tour? I know some of those dates were filmed. (and releasing a concert on mere CD for such a VISUAL spectacle? Bleah!) What we've got here is a bona-fide rock classic. A bit hard to follow the story without seeing the film. Another Brick (Part II), Comfortably Numb, Young Lust and Hey You are the classic-rock FM staples (Run Like Hell b/w Don't Leave Me Now was the second single, by the way. How do these choices get made, anyhoo?). The long-and-short of it is that this is one of the only times that a record release was an event, and that the album remains cherished to this day. It is the excitement that youth is made of, and it cannot be replicated.Read full review
This is the Highly sought after first pressing of Pink Floyd The Wall. There has been quite a few released versions of this recording on CD, but I must say here, this is still the best one to date, here's why... Compact disc that were manufactured in the early eighties, were basically "Flat Transfered", meaning that there was no adjustments made to the sound transfered from the master tapes, other than track separation cues, and on some CD's were not exactly on cue. If You a Collector of Rare First Pressing CD's, then You might have seen the term "Flat Transfer", as it is used quite frequently from sellers here on ebay. When Listening to this CD set, there is the presence of inherent "hiss" or tape noise, You can slightly hear this on the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab version, as that has been greatly reduced through "Digital Processing". The most notable Rarity found on the HARVEST CD #1 is the track "One of My Tunes" which is indeed a misprint on the label, which should have read "One of My Turns" and the editing for this particular track cue has been mastered so that after the quite passage leading into the change up, has been placed there instead of at the beginning. Maybe the guy that mastered this interpreted this as a different track? At any rate, I was truly lucky to have finally found a MINT conditioned copy and got it for a great price of $125.00. All in All this was a the missing piece "brick" to My collection "Wall" of CD's.Read full review
Pink Floyd at their best. This album moves from quiet reflection, to searing metal anthems, from pop to bombast. The themes and subject matter in the Wall, deal with emotions and feelings that are universal. Loneliness, betrayal, fear, pain, and ultimately hope. This album should be listened to from start to finish, as it takes the listener on a journey into the mind of a musician struggling with relationships, trying to find his place in a world where he doesn't seem to belong. While Dark Side of the Moon may be the emergence of Pink Floyd as something truly unique in the music world, this concept album raises them from unique to undisputed masters of blending imagery, ideas, and sound into a concoction that is much more than the sum of it's parts. Each member of the band seems to have been at their musical peak on this album and deliverers his very best. This may very well be one of the best albums of music ever recorded. Shame I could only give it 5 stars, it deserves at least 10.Read full review
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