Do you know who's building the wall?
Do you know what the bricks are?
Pink Floyd LOVED their fans and cared A LOT about the kids ... many of us are those kids, and we have kids now.
WARNING! Tare Down The Wall!
2006-08-12 07:08:20 · 12 answers · asked by pickle head 6 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
BELIVE ME My friend
The Wall is only Roger Waters frustration from his childhood and his discrimination .....
Listen to the Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and The Saucerful of Secrets THEY HAVE A MESSAGE, NOT THE WALL!!!!
2006-08-13 08:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by Crazy_DIAMOND 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope....
"The Wall" was written after an incident on the on the "Animals" tour. Roger Waters spit on a crazed fan in Montreal, Canada. The fan was screaming his head off in the middle of a song and trying to claw his way across the barrier that separated the band from the audience. Appalled by this action, Roger wondered what it would be like if there was a real, live wall separating him from the crazy fans. This inspired "The Wall".
2006-08-13 13:04:14 · answer #2 · answered by Duncarin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The words from the album which ring most true today are from 'The Thin Ice' (I think this was song 1, side 1, LP 1, in the 'vinyl days') :
If you should go skating,
On the thin ice of modern life,
Dragging behind you the silent reproach,
Of a million tear-stained eyes,
Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice,
Appears
under your feet,
You'll slip out of your depth
and out of your mind,
With your fear flowing out from behind you,
as you claw the thin ice...guitar bit...can't remember the rest.
The perfect post-9/11 world or current Iraq (hell, any war) song is 'Goodbye, Blue Sky' from the same album.
2006-08-12 18:15:22 · answer #3 · answered by Bowzer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, "The Wall" was just Roger Waters's blathering about how "psychologically damaged" he is. It was a great album, but his BS gets to be too much sometimes.
The only one worse for self-righteous sanctimony is BONO. Someone really needs to make him shut the hell up.
Love, Jack.
2006-08-12 14:45:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agree totally. PF are musical wizards and could fortel the future.
2006-08-12 14:19:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think maybe you're a bit too close to the wall yourself!
WARNING - throw out your drugs!
2006-08-12 14:14:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it was a protest album to the cold war
2006-08-12 14:10:23 · answer #7 · answered by NNY 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually it was a self history refering to WW 2.
History does repeat itself, however
2006-08-12 14:10:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ok . . . so what's your take on Animals (my personal favorite Floyd album)?
2006-08-12 14:19:09 · answer #9 · answered by szydkids 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's deep
2006-08-12 14:45:39 · answer #10 · answered by juslookin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋