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dontfeartheringo wrote:I have this dream that one day I will be rich enough to put together a bang-on Jimmy Buffet cover band, just to hear them play "Comfortably Numb" in the style of "Margaritaville."

I just want to hear that soaring David Gilmour solo played on marimba.

Yeah.

I'd pay for that.

Just to watch the looks on people's faces.

Never give up the dream, Ringo.

Fuck this shit.

loved it in high school. i'm voting not crap for the good memories. the cartoons are also quite good.

The only Pink Floyd album I've ever owned (other than Darkside). I sort of enjoyed it (and movie) while in high school. I think I would consider it pretentious nonsense now.

In the part of the movie where there is a little cartoon stalking flower ballet to "Empty Spaces," my mother gave a big "OH!!" when the penetration moment occurs, much to the amusement of myself and my dad.

CRAP, my older brother's (children of the 60's) dug this and I tried to get into it as a teen, when they poo pooed my fascination with iron maiden, anthrax and slayer. Didn't work, the film and the dreadful roger waters spectacular live thing he did in Berlin around the fall of the wall, were the nails in the coffin of me taking anything my eldest brother said about music seriously.

In high school I owned a vinyl bootleg of the soundtrack titled The Film. It was pretty great, what with certain bits of dialog directly lifted from the film and placed appropriately between and during certain songs. The sequencing was a bit different too if memory serves.

I really enjoyed the fuck out of The Wall. For an art project I did a collage of certain images from the film, and I also think this was the first album for which I wrote an incredibly self-indulgent, pompous, and ridiculous review for a writing class. I used to have dreams with music from this film, and the Wish You Were Here release providing a soundtrack. Yeah, my geekish ways about this record/film were pretty laughable, but they're also a testament to how much I really enjoyed the fuck out of it. Haven't listened to it in years, but could, and would probably give it a healthy not crap. I don't buy the I-loved-it-when-I-was-fourteen-but-now-listen-to-Ut defense. Not Crap for "Don't Leave Me Now" alone.

not crap

P.S. For good measure The Final Cut isn't crap as well.

It's ok album, there are definitely better ones for sure. I like it live better than the studio version. Animals is probably my favorite floyd album.

The movies is ok, it was awesome when I was in high school. It is def an iconic movie and should always be thought of as an influential piece, movie and album. I am so fucking burned out on floyd all together though.

Not crap, but crap for me now,not crap for kids getting into good music in highschool and starting to smoke weed and all the cliche shit (burnt out)

I've never heard this album in its entirety, though I love Kate Bush's Hounds of Love -- a record with similar literary ambitions in its narrative and structure -- so I'd probably be into it.

"Comfortably Numb" has some of the best lyrics you'll ever hear on The Loop FM.

Oh, wait, "Comfortably Numb" has its own thread as well as a long Wikipedia entry.

Having attended college at a school where people were into Pink Floyd and a lot of other ill shit like Phish, I have listened/been subjected to much of Floyd's catalogue, and I'm afraid I must say, The Wall is one of the albums I mind the least...