Any album with "Goodbye Blue Sky" on it is fine with me. Film has gotten progressively worse as I age, but high (get it -- high?) nostalgia factor. Not Crap.

I've never even heard the record, but seeing this again, I think this may well be my all time favourite album sleeve:

I had a cassette of this in the 80s. I wore it out. It's what made me get into earlier Pink Floyd, so I vote not crap because of that. I wouldn't have started listening to "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and Syd Barrett solo records when I was a teen if I hadn't come across "The Wall" first.

It doesn't really hold up for me anymore. Having to hear "Another Brick In The Wall Part 2" or "Mother" again? Yech! I'd rather do laundry! So I guess that's a waffle right there.

One time (before I could drive) I threw a video tape of "The Wall" into the Betamax and my friends quickly got bored. They went to another part of the room just to get away from it! I was left alone trying to watch it... wondering why the hell I didn't rent "Videodrome" or "Scanners" instead.

Every once in a while I'll see it on T.V. and try to watch a little of it. I think because it reminds me of my childhood. Ultimately, I'll lose interest and switch the channel. It all seems so forced!

Ty Webb wrote:Cats are gay.

Don't you mean "All cats are gay in the dark?"

zom-zom wrote:Dude, you like Heart.

When I saw this, I immediately thought "Well played, sir!", as I felt so sure that it must be the title of something by Anal Cunt... however, after a little research, I am afraid that it is not.

Adam CR wrote:Worth considering is that Supertramp are one of my favourite bands of all time, ever, in the whole, wide world and thus one might successfully argue that I have no taste.

FWIW, during my research, I did find this Anal Cunt track: "Your Favorite Band Is Supertramp" ( #48 )

Wall Of Voodoo wrote a better concept album, so I vote Crap.

ubercat (getting melty)

zom-zom wrote:

alex maiolo wrote:Let me get this straight...
You dig 2112, an Ayn Rand based sci-fi tale of priests hunting down a renegade who has procured a verbotten guitar in a cave, and think *my* brain is damaged?

I'll give you The Wall. I can waffle hard on that one. I was once a 15 year old boy in an altered state and nostalgia is a powerful thing, but even back when I thought Neil Peart's lyrics were heaaaavvvvy I thought 2112 was just too much. At least Hemispheres gets it over with in ONE side.

My deal was always the over-indulgence component of these types of records. Do we really need 4 sides to tell a story?
This is rock music, man.
Rip off the band aid already.

Dude, you like Heart.

Sort of...
but I'm flattered that you remembered (*bat*bat*). I like them about as much as anyone else, I guess.

I think anytime I've used Heart as an example it's to show that a band that can make some kick ass rock, and they've cranked out quite a few good songs, can become SHITTY, very easily, especially if it happens to be 1985.
Then, when they reunite, they come to their senses and play the good stuff.

My liking Heart doesn't go too far beyond the hits from the 70's and the fact that Nancy Wilson is still a total babe even though she's at the Geritol age. I'm probably in the majority when it comes to those things.

You really wanna slam me? OK, I think Haircut 100 has a few good songs. There, THAT is embarrassing.

-A

John W. wrote:I had a cassette of this in the 80s. I wore it out. It's what made me get into earlier Pink Floyd, so I vote not crap because of that. I wouldn't have started listening to "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and Syd Barrett solo records when I was a teen if I hadn't come across "The Wall" first.

Great point. I got to Piper through Dark Side, but it could have easily been through The Wall. I was amazed at how cool and different Piper was. Then I heard Obscured, which seemed to be the missing link, and it became my favorite of the post-Syd records.

It doesn't really hold up for me anymore. Having to hear "Another Brick In The Wall Part 2" or "Mother" again? Yech! I'd rather do laundry! So I guess that's a waffle right there.

My point exactly about pot and the expanding mind of the 15 year old boy.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't blowwwwnnn awwwaaayy mannnnn, when I saw/heard The Wall.
It's like the first girl you ever loved though. It was everything you could imagine at the time but now you think "wow, she had poodle hair and really liked Jim Morrison's poetry."
Your life would be different without the experience, it's nice to think about, but there's no pining for the lost love.

One time (before I could drive) I threw a video tape of "The Wall" into the Betamax and my friends quickly got bored. They went to another part of the room just to get away from it! I was left alone trying to watch it... wondering why the hell I didn't rent "Videodrome" or "Scanners" instead.

And where are they now? Stockbrokers who play golf and read Tom Clancy?
That movie certainly drew the lines. I'll give it that.

Every once in a while I'll see it on T.V. and try to watch a little of it. I think because it reminds me of my childhood. Ultimately, I'll lose interest and switch the channel. It all seems so forced!

I agree. That's what I mean by it being "deep" (in quotes).
That's why I don't think it holds up when I watch it with 37 year old eyes. Sure, if I got baked I'm sure I'd get transported back. Is that the quality of the film or just nostalgia though?
Actually it's probably the fact that even Bosum Buddies is deep when you're stoned, so of course it would seem amazing.

-A

alex maiolo wrote: It's like the first girl you ever loved though. It was everything you could imagine at the time but now you think "wow, she had poodle hair and really liked Jim Morrison's poetry." Your life would be different without the experience, it's nice to think about, but there's no pining for the lost love.

Oh, you know Earwicker's sister then?

I'll take Haircut 100 over Heart, and I'm only like four years younger than Nancy Wilson. (I had to look it up, in case you're wondering).

Still, I'll stand by my The Wall is Not Crap as I really like just about everything that Pink Floyd has done. And I didn't smoke weed or drink in high school, but listened to a lot of Pompous Progressive Rock and will even put on my Brain Salad Surgery (Karn Evil 9 is a concept within an album) vinyl and crank the hell out of it.