Genesis or Pink Floyd album?

Love PF but The Wall leaves me cold for some reason...

cemego wrote: What is this?  A News site?  I wasn't posting about Trump or Hillary?  I was just stating my opinion!  Sheeez!  So my opinion is baloney?  Man, relax and go back to a news site.  I ask humbly to not hate me and you did anyways! Sheeez.  We cant have an unpopular opinion at all on the internet anymore can we.  I guess I have to love Beyonce and Rhianna and give up my love of prog music too because it's not popular enough for you? Man!  Listen to your own favorite!!  You sound like your lyrics:  "If I had my way, I'd have you all shot!" Sheeez!   RELAX!  IT'S JUST MUSIC.  We can all like what we like and not like what we don't like.  My opinion is no less baloney and ridiculousness then yours.  Be the first and stop it with the internet abuse.  I didn't call anyone's opinion crap, I just stated how I felt.  That's what this forum AND THESE POLLS ARE FOR RIGHT?  If you are gonna chew someone out for their opinion, then why have a poll?  Are you bating people to troll them?

mlkpad14 wrote: rocko wrote: mlkpad14 wrote: ...  But The Wall inspired Germans to tear down their wall, and to escape from their destructive tyranny. I was not around during this time, and have not read on the historic impact, but the stories I've heard are enough to convince me so.  ehm .. lol ..  thanks for the best laugh today .... No, it didn't inspire any german to tear down that wall. The world already agreed that the only valid musical influence for that was David Hasselhoff's "Looking for freedom" ... And to add something useful to the thread, i voted for The Wall ... somehow i never really got connected to LLDOB I'm only going by what I heard...? I wasn't around at the time, but that's what many of my older companions have told and explained to me about the album.

I always thought the inspiration came from Terry Gilliam's movie, Adventures of Baron Munchausen. "Open the Gates!"

HackettFan wrote: mlkpad14 wrote: rocko wrote: mlkpad14 wrote: ...  But The Wall inspired Germans to tear down their wall, and to escape from their destructive tyranny. I was not around during this time, and have not read on the historic impact, but the stories I've heard are enough to convince me so.  ehm .. lol ..  thanks for the best laugh today .... No, it didn't inspire any german to tear down that wall. The world already agreed that the only valid musical influence for that was David Hasselhoff's "Looking for freedom" ... And to add something useful to the thread, i voted for The Wall ... somehow i never really got connected to LLDOB I'm only going by what I heard...? I wasn't around at the time, but that's what many of my older companions have told and explained to me about the album. I always thought the inspiration came from Terry Gilliam's movie, Adventures of Baron Munchausen. "Open the Gates!"

The Lamb for 1000 reasons. I love "The Wall" (as many of music listeners around the world) so much but "The Lamb" is better 

TexasKing wrote: I think The Lamb is a better album, so that's my pick. What you say?

SO much better - no contest, IMO...

I don't like either album but I'll go with Genesis 

It's pretty much a draw for me, both I like overall, both are not my favourites of those bands, both have their highs and lows, some songs I always love to get back to and some that are rather forgettable. I don't have much of an issue with either concept or lyrics; actually I get more out of them both than out of many concept albums, but then I'm not that much into lyrics generally. I can appreciate concept albums and accept a few fillers (music-wise) if they're properly embedded in the whole thing. So both good but you won't find them on my top 100 albums list.

And just adding another German voice, no connection at all between Roger's wall and the German one.

mlkpad14 wrote: I've stated openly that I was not around during that time. And, for the last time, I'll tell you that I'm just going off of WHAT I HEARD from many who WERE AROUND during that time.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - February 15 2017 at 12:28

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: mlkpad14 wrote: I've stated openly that I was not around during that time. And, for the last time, I'll tell you that I'm just going off of WHAT I HEARD from many who WERE AROUND during that time. yeah man, you said it, but there are books about the issue. It's better to read it here than to suffer a harsh response by a jerk if you say this in real life. I asure you, there's absolutely no relation between Pink Floyd The Wall and the Berlin Wall.

Roger Waters, did, though, make a relationship between the two by staging a concert in Berlin of The Wall, featuring s host of guest artists not long after the coming down of said wall.

The Wall was not merely an album about his mother, father, divorce, paranoia, breakdown of relationships, and ego, although it was all of those things, but also about the impact of said issues on Pink, and it's relationship to real life walls being built between people and cultures. In that regard, the Berlin Wall was very much in his thoughts when he wrote the album.

It is absolutely no accident whatsoever that Pink built a wall around his alter ego, and said alter ego was a fascist dictator. Again, the correlation between this and the real wall was absolutely no accident whatsoever. Of course, Waters regularly utilised real life politics and political situations in his lyrics and musical theatre.

Young Mlkpad14 has a point here, and his point should not be dismissed so lightly.

EDIT. The Wall album did not, though, inspire the Germans to tear down said wall. That is a silly fallacy. That there is a connection between both walls is not in doubt in my opinion.

Edited by lazland - February 15 2017 at 12:34