Jacques wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:56 pm I'd hate it if I heard it for the first time today. As it stands, I heard it as a depressed, self-absorbed middle-schooler and went through a whole phase with it—as people that age are probably wont to do—and I still have enough affection for it to vote NOT CRAP with waffles. The bleak parts of it hit me where I live in some kind of reflexive way.

I've always hated all the fucking circus music on side four, though.

I went through that same period in middle school, but I feel no wistfulness for those years of my life.

And that album is mostly garbage.

Waffles: I remember how enraged my father became, the first time he heard the Bob Ezrin Children's Choir singing "We don't need no education" on the radio. Even all these decades later, that is still hilarious to me.

Deathly dull listen. Awful energy underneath the whole thing: boomer narcissism writ large.

I have little time or patience for Floyd generally, but this really is their nadir. At least Final Cut isn't a double album.

CRAP

I told in the DSoftM thread that The Wall is the reason I started playing bass, but good god this is boring. It was rad when I was 17, but naaaah. Crap.

I remember thinking I like some of the sounds and melodies but holy shit is it a chore to get through. That was when I was listening to it at the age of around 10 or eleven, I've tried listetnign to it several years later in highschool and thought exactly same thing. I might give it a go but I suspect I'd agree with 10 year old me.

I am torn between Bongwater and Bongfuel because there are a LOT of things to dislike but there is a catchy tune here and there. You know which ones. But aside from Goodbye Blue Sky, ABITW PTs 1&2, Run Like Hell, and Comfortably Numb it's a bunch of CRAP. And it doesn't sound like a rock album of the 1970's or 1980's. It sounds like a Hollywood film. It is awful.

I liked it a LOT in 7th and 8th grade and thought it was super deep and amazing and worthy of plagiarizing for my junior high school personal journal poetry and I think that should just about sum it up for almost anyone.