THE WALL

From the opening chords of 'In the Flesh?' this album had me. It comes in where Animals left off and takes you further into Roger Waters subconcious, probably further than most listeners would want to go. It is not easy listening by any means and some tracks have some very subtle, but disturbing undertones. This should not put you off buying it though, it may not be the best Floyd album musically but it really is a masterpiece. Waters lyrics are sublime, Gilmour has some very good moments on the guitar (unfortunatley these are few and far between due to Waters creative-control) but all in all you cannot fault the album. Waters was spot on with everything in the album and some songs that you wont get after a few listens (Bring the Boys Back Home, Vera etc.) will become much more clear when/if you see the film version. For such a dark, cold album the worst feeling you get out of it is dissapointment. Why? Comfortably Numb, possibly the best song on the album was the only song co-written by both Roger and Dave and it gets me down just wondeingr how good this album would've been if they'd worked together like that for all of it.

It's a must have. BUY!

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