The Wall movie: love or hate

without a tad of self-indulgence we wud never have had such albums as The Wall. The Floyd have always been a bit pretentious and self-indulgent, especially roger.

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Self-indulgence doesn't equate to good listening and The Wall would have been much better with a little quality control being enforced.

Too much self-indulgence has of course a negative effect but my point is rather that floyd do have this 'edge' of self-indulgence, and i for one believe that is a major factor in The Wall - without it the wall just wudn't be the wall. secondly, i think rogers self-indulgence was balanced out by Gilmour's rationality if u like, on many of the floyds albums and this balance rly gave something to the music.

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And if you're taking your girlfriend out tonight,
You better park the car well out of sight.
'Cause if they catch you in the back seat,
Trying to pick her lock,
They're gonna send you back to Mother,
In a cardboard box.

I'm bored now.
No offence Grant.

The first time I saw The Wall, i was fairly new to Pink Floyd, and thought Pink Floyd was actually a "person" rather than a band, as portrayed in the movie... (this was in my early days of becoming a Floyd fan). I remember loving the music in the movie, but I also remember the movie kinda scaring me in some ways.

I think if you dont know about Floyd at all, and watch the movie, i think it can be kinda scary, lol.

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no worries dr cheese

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And if you're taking your girlfriend out tonight,
You better park the car well out of sight.
'Cause if they catch you in the back seat,
Trying to pick her lock,
They're gonna send you back to Mother,
In a cardboard box.

I used to think that too! I also thought that "Led Zeppelin" was a PERSON as well!

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See, I knew it. Different views all around. Close call to 6 to 7...

I used to think Jethro Tull was a person!

Though not nearly as shameful a PF newbie as PFOnline, I too was very early in my PF fanaticism when The Wall album, then the movie appeared. I've said here too many times how much I love the music (Live Show syndrome, perhaps?), so enthusiastically I anticipated the film's release.

I have to say, though, it's a bit "shaky hand, shaky hand" or Choice C, since I enjoyed parts of the film - the animated sequences mainly - was bored by most of it, but the soundtrack?
Duffman says, "OH YEAH!"

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The only reason I don't like the film is because they had to butcher Waiting for the Worms. It's a nice song... but it goes to show that PF and a cohesive storyline don't quite fit.

Sorry, what? How does the (brief and very excusable) editing of WFtW disrupt the storyline in any way? I thought the WFtW sequence was fantastic...

I love the film. It's one of my favourites. It's Roger's swan song. "Self-indulgent" means nothing to me. The only thing that's important is whether it moves you or not.

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You're right. And in fact The Wall movie does nothing for me, apart from a few good scenes. Plus, two high points of the album (in terms of music) are ruined (Mother) or deleted (Hey You).

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