I listened to the LP. I saw the movie. I thought, wrenching though it was, that there was probably some truth to it, like Roger Waters knew what he was talking about, like he'd lived some of it. Then I heard an interview on the radio with him. In response to a question about his own childhood, he said that it was really rather happy.
That cut it. What a crock. I'm listening to this, having my emotions jerked this way and that way, and he had a HAPPY childhood? Screw him. What the f*ck does he know? Gimme something real.

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
Trust me... Fred knows about mental illness.

 reindeer wrote: 
Then you need to build the wall, man! 

 shawshank wrote: 
LOL, that's a good one, uh?

Used to listen to this on the ride across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Sliding through a snowstorm, it would kill some miles and some time in a good way. And Gilmour can just flat-out PLAY!

mother should I trust the government?

I hate this song.  Depressing and horrible.  Ugh.

 crockydile wrote: 
Good story; my dad born 1910 in a house in Hamilton OH hated R&R. he thought that Elvis ruined music. He loved Tommy Dorsey,The Ink Spots,Earl Grant, Roy Clark,Lawrence Welk, I was into The Beatles, Yes, Queen, Steve Miller, Styx, Ted Nugent. All was noise to him. He did buy some records for me once he seen that I really enjoyed them. I had to get a job to get a guitar, I played violin in school but that was a nerdie thing, he was not going to have no R&R guitar blasting from my room. As time passed, he opened his mind to some of my music. Some tunes on the White Album he grew to like. Once I played him some Roy Clark country tunes on my acoustic guitar years later I think he realized that my music taste was not a total failure....( =

 Pieter wrote: 

Hey, I could not hold back...  this is a great song!  Hope you are having a marvelous new year...

I watched "The Wall" and "Clockwork Orange" back to back, both for the first time, one night in college.  I wasn't right for days after...

Good olde Pink Floyd ... yeah! 

 CamLwalk wrote: 



Love Pink Floyd - strongly dislike this one but I'd rather have my nephew listening to this than to the crap he is listening to. He is in his phase "We don't need no education" kind of.
May be I should buy him this album for Christmas?

Forever.

 fredriley wrote: 
I guess the people who cry all day, the people who are huddled in fear in their homes, the people who take their own lives, or the people who kill themselves and their families; they just should simply pull themselves up by their bootstraps, put on a happy face and get on with their lives, right Fred? Come on mate, it's that dismissive attitude that you need to get over. Mental illness is a crippling disease that often has disastrous consequences.

 Pieter wrote: 
Nice comment!!

 paranoidfloyd wrote: 
I'll give you that. It rescues the song.

I give it a 6. One of my least favorite songs on this double album.

I remember being at the mall with my dad, a man born on a farm in 1920, when this album came out. I begged him for the $14 bucks to buy it. He eventually complied (to my lasting joy), but just could not understand the point.

One of Gilmour's best solos.

 romeotuma wrote: 
Gave this one a 10 too, Romey? :-)

 fredriley wrote: 
Well, this is a bit harsh, I think. Artists bless and confirm us by expressing the things we're not capable of expressing ourselves, don't they?

This song is soooo gooood for the ears...

Album Rock at it's absolute finest.....I wonder if Mother ever has a look at this message board.....if so she might break some fingers....or at the very least take away some keyboards.

 passsion8 wrote: 

Whether you think this album put them off, on top of, over or broke through the proverbial wall...I dont think the band could have/should have survived after this.  There wasnt anything left to say, musically or emotionally.  Saw the movie on wh1 a week or two ago...hadnt seen it in about 20 years.  Surprisingly still enjoyed it and found it thought provoking. 

F*ckin' long, innit? Just like the massive egocentric concept album it comes from, which I had for a while then just got sick of Roger Waters' self-pitying introspection. Life as a rock star's hard, Roger, we get it, and many of us have had sh1t repressed childhoods, but no need to spend 2 disks telling us all about it. Get over it, mate.

Saw them in '94 for Division Bell and the sound quality was absolutely perfect, and I was in the cheap seats in a 50,000 seat open air stadium. Simply amazing.... 

One of the better songs on the album.  I admit I played the F*** out of this in college, it came whilst I was there.  Still prefer their pervious stuff.

 TJS wrote: 
I think you're talking about that 12 string that comes in with Gilmour's vocal. I totally agree. It's like a light coming on.

 Ljenny wrote: 
Gasp!

I always felt every note they used mattered, was needed and none wasted....(notes that is)