Got really fucking baked last weekend and listened to The Wall front to back for the first time in my life. I knew all the hits already, but goddamn, to be able to experience this record in its entirety is a fucking blessing. Been listening to Goodbye Blue Sky alot, it makes me cry. I can't explain the feeling it gives me. And also the wall being a giant metaphor for closing yourself off from the world due to traumas/life experiences.Idk man, I know its cliche, but Floyd is up there for me, personally. Now more than ever.
Next I recommend you smoke fat joint and experience The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway if you want your brain blown to multiple dimensions.Might take a few listens until it clicks though (took a bunch for me but it gradually kepts getting closer to the big click until it clicked hard)
man I miss being 15
>>130717934>Floyd is up there for me>only just now listened to their biggest album for the first time
I unironically didn't get this album until I got older (30). Now I love it and put it only behind Animals. Nobody Home remains my favorite.
>>130717934The Wall is so unreasonably based. The quality of tracks, production, story and metaphors are so silly :3. ABITW Pt2 is so average though compared to the rest of the album. Top 3 PF album and sounds phenomenal on vinyl
>>130717934I know it’s popular to hate this album (for some reason) but god damn I love it. The themes hit you a lot harder after you’re 30 and you start taking stock of your life more. If you’ve ever faced rock bottom, nothing nails those feelings better than side 3 of the wall. Side 4 isn’t as good for me but still what a great piece of work
Man. I hope Gilmour tours one last time before he goes. I really am fucking jealous of boomers/early millennials
>>130717934glad you could experience it the proper way, OP. i miss those days. i used to get stoned and put the wall on front-to-back all the time. simpler times. anyway, i covered the entire albumhttps://youtu.be/0UlAOtr2Hm0
>DUDE I GOT SO HIGH ON WEED AND LISTENED TO PINK FLOYDit really is summer
Now watch the film.
>>130717934I love The Wall and I love weed but the two just don't mix for me
Getting high and having your mind blown by Pink Floyd is a genetically hardwired, canon event for every suburban white kid in America. It’s a rite of passage, like buying your first poster of Bob Marley and a weed leaf, or reading The Catcher in the Rye and thinking you're the only person who sees through the "phonies."
>>130717934based. listen to dsotm next
Kill all junkies
>>130717934In the flesh rules
SO YATHOUGHT YAMIGHT LIKE TOGO TO THE SHOW
>>130723236I was a suburban white kid in America. I never did any of these things. Maybe that might explain a few things.
>>130717934right of passage for any teenager. When I got a little older, maybe 19 or 20, I tried listening to The Wall on mushrooms... way worse experience. Check out the movie The Wall if you're really messing with the album, some cool art and visuals. As I've gotten older personally I've been more drawn to DSOTM and Animals than The Wall but they're all pretty good.
>>130723247nah. go in order. Final Cut, then AMLOR
>>130726693Final Cut is just the whiny baby garbage parts of The Wall drawn out for an hour. Not Now, John and Two Suns in the Sunset only songs worth listening to. Skip Final Cut and go right to Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking if you want more Roger Waters
>>130726653I wish I liked animals as much as other people. Dogs is absolutely god tier but the rest of the album feels beige in comparison
>>130726733Most of my favorite songs from PF are off other albums, but Animals brings a lot of different aspects I like from them together in a way that's still really listenable. Meddle is a little too abstract, Final Cut is a little too whiny, The Wall is a little too preachy, WYWH is dominated by the length of BASEDCD, Animals does some abstract musical tricks but never dwells on them, has a few incredible guitar solos that know when to end, is catchy without getting boring, just ends up being really pleasant. But I wouldn't say any individual song on it is a contender for one of their best.All that to say, you're not missing something if you don't think Animals is as good as other people do, it's just a more accessible album that can still impress.
>>130726785To be honest Dogs is their best song in my opinion. The storytelling and emotional payoff blows almost all of their material out of the water. The problems are that musically and lyrically the other two epics don’t rise to that level at all. Dogs targets a specific situation that’s widely relatable and the music and lyrics hit every beat with laser focus. And then you get a rant about Mary Whitehouse? Come on, Roger! I like the idea of the bookend tracks, but they both sound so much like inferior versions of the Wish You Were Here title track, and the emotional impact just isn’t there.
>>130717934Best song is vera and one of my turns. I listened to dark side of the moon on shrooms in high school and it was kino. Them we listened to the wall and it felt evil and killed the vibes lol.
>>130726730cummon bro, give FC a fair shake. it's Pink Floyd's "proto-emo" album. ahead of it's time, trapped in a lost age, very well produced, a great conceptual sequel to The Wall, a few very standout tracks.Pros/Cons is amazing, btw. i'm wallanon. for a while after i finished my cover, i seriously considered covering Pros. Mostly the same recording musicians/engineers/producers/hired guns as The Final Cut. in 1984, it was on the CUTTING-EDGE of audio production. For the live shows, he brought the original quadrophonic sound rig/controller that was used on DSOTM tour. Plus Eric Clapton Replacing Dave. and you know damn well, rog took Eric aside and told him "play the exact OPPOSITE of what David Gilmour would play". and he did. it's a great album. very front/back loaded tho. the middle is a bit of a slog for casual listening. you have to be really invested in the experience/story to listen to the whole thing in one sitting.
>>130717934Lamb lies on Broadway and The Wall are the goat prog double albums. They also have the same color, coincidence?
Wtf why is this Floyd thread so on-topic and civil? What happened to this board?
>>130719615when was that, 45 years ago?
