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Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? / The Wall Live Pink Floyd 1980-81 (Deluxe Limited Edition) Audio CD

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Pink Floyd Band: Pink Floyd
Title: Is There Anybody Out There? / The Wall Live Pink Floyd 1980-81 (Deluxe Limited Edition)
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Release Date: 2000-04-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: MC:Atomos 2: In The Flesh? 3: The Thin Ice 4: Another Brick In The Wall - Part 1 5: The Happiest Days Of Our Lives 6: Another Brick In The Wall - Part 2 7: Mother 8: Goodbye Blue Sky 9: Empty Spaces 10: What Shall We Do Now? 11: Young Lust 12: One Of My Turns 13: Don't Leave Me Now 14: Another Brick In The Wall - Part 3 15: The Last Few Bricks 16: Goodbye Cruel World 17: Hey You 18: Is There Anybody Out There? 19: Nobody Home 20: Vera 21: Bring The Boys Back Home 22: Comfortably Numb 23: The Show Must Go On 24: MC:Atomos 25: In The Flesh 26: Run Like Hell 27: Waiting For The Worms 28: Stop 29: The Trial 30: Outside The Wall

A++++
Hope to see it in DVD some day. A++++ A must as a live version.


Great live album
Some songs are played faithfully to the studio version, but others are much more vibrant and alive than in the studio. This is an excellent live version of The Wall.


Way better than the original
As a long time fan of Pink Floyd, I eagerly awaited the original release of "The Wall" in 1979, knowing it had been in progress since 1978, with the seeds being planted as far back as 1977. Just as this review's title says, this is WAY better than the original. But when it came out, I was strangely disappointed; I just didn't like it that much. Sure, it has its moments, but there was missing something. I was aware of the problems between Roger Waters and the rest of the band, particularly with Rick Wright, and if one is more than a casual listener, it becomes apparent that this is Waters' trip. David Gilmour said the demos were "excruciating" to listen to, but the ideas were there, and they overflowed into "The Pros And Cons Of Hitchiking," as well as "The Final Cut," which I feel is actually a better record than "The Wall. "

The movie, a friend told me, as he saw it before I did, said it was "a piece of crap," but I know some Floyd product can be labored enjoyment, even to a die-hard fan as myself. So I watched the movie in the theater, and later someone gave it to me on VHS, as a gift, but I kind of agreed with Ralph, I didn't like it all that much, save for the animated sequences, which I feel are among the best I have ever seen. But it is a bleak, disjointed, sprawling, two-hour music video, which is an indictment of all the people who ruined the main character's life. Bob Geldof did a fine acting job as Floyd Pinkerton, the person who took on the name "Pink Floyd," or "Pinky," as his friends called him in the script, but I just don't like the movie very much. It is well made, but I just can't get into it.

Many years later, when the live shows from 1980 and 1981 were culled into this disc, I gave it a shot, as I had some money to throw away, and was pleasantly surprised to listen to this recording. I have never really rated Roger Waters as a vocalist, but he sounds pretty good here. The band is tight, despite having four auxiliary musicians and four backup vocalists to pad the sound out, and the ambience I feel is missing from the original recording is here in these live versions of this material. The presentation is somewhat sterile, as a show of this magnitude has very little wiggle-room, but given what the musicians and road crew had to work with, everyone involved did a remarkable job, well worth the wait, even though it would have been nice not to have waited so long. But releasing "The Wall" twice in quick succession might not have been a very good idea, people would've said they were only cashing in on a popular record. This was wise, waiting to put this out, as it all is in perspective now; Waters took the wheel and pushed the band foreward, while Gilmour tried to keep it on course. Wright and Nick Mason seemed to be lesser elements, but all the input from four men made Pink Floyd what it was, albeit in varying degrees.

Despite all the infighting, this was a band which did something truly special in modern music, and this release only further cements my opinion.


Remember, it was 1979!!!!!
They have NO idea how hard it was in 1979 to recreate what was done in the studio. I always love reading 1 star reviews. Using tape loops were incredibly difficult as well as the multitrack instruments. The Floyd delivered the goods on this tour!!!!! As for MLOR, Pulse, the Division Bell, and Delicate Sound of Thunder. . . They are good in their own right but the songs you really want to here were mostly written by Roger.


David Gilmour Live In Gdansk
I. Fantastic DVD and box set with Audion discs too Highly recommended to David Gilmour fans also probably the last televised concert with Rick Wright: R. P Rick. .

Liam O'Malley, Stockholm, Sweden.


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