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Sean Trane 
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Prog Folk
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 Topic: The Wall
Posted: May 31 2005 at 05:51 |
If you were to choose only one version.
I hesitate between the first three (actually I have all three versions but will not rebuy the original one in CD)
Edited by Sean Trane
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 10:52 |
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Feel free to elaborate, also!
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 11:15 |
Personally the original version is the best for me, although the movie adds some exrta tracks the didn't make it on the album! I havent heard the live one, so can't comment there.
One thing for sure, The Waters Berlin version is IMO terrible!
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Arsillus
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 20:47 |
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Go with the album, it's the original.
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 07:22 |
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Actually , the live Is There Anybody Out There? has also an extra track from the false Pink Floyd group, that played on the side of the stage.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Moogtron III
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Location: Belgium
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:33 |
The Wall - the original album, is a statement which just hasn't been surpassed. It was a peak moment, that album, a great piece of art by Roger Waters; Dave Gilmour was at his best; also it was well produced by Bob Ezrin, who added some interesting extra things on the album, like the kids singing on Another Brick In The Wall. It was just one of those albums which could hardly be improved.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 14:04 |
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The original album
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tuxon
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 15:05 |
The original album by far.
I watched the movie a couple of weeks back, the music didn't sound right, and i was bored out of my head. The album however I can listen over and over again, without getting tediously bored.
The live version with all the guest musicians in Berlin was dreadfully bad. I remember watching it live.
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The Miracle
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Posted: June 12 2005 at 13:47 |
oroginal album. the movie sucks waaaaay too much
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 12 2005 at 18:43 |
The Original Album
But the movie is good too.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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barbs
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Posted: June 13 2005 at 09:10 |
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The album speaks for itself without the movie. I remember watching the
movie quite some time after I had the album and while it does
help you to deconstruct some elements of the music as in, yeah, now I
can see what they were trying to say there, in the finish I preferred
the meaning I got from the music without seeing the movie. A personal
thing in that sense really.
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Eternity
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Trotsky
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Posted: June 13 2005 at 12:08 |
Strange ... I only just realised I had all four 
I'll admit I was really disappointed with the album when I first heard
it, but soon after I saw the movie, and I started "getting" some of it
... sure I got lost towards the end with all those graphics, but the
album only came together for me after I watched the movie ... I think
that's why the movie will always rate slightly higher for me ...
I think the Roger Waters thing was rather disappointing last time I heard it ... which must be around 1998 ...
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 17 2005 at 20:10 |
Movie is nice, but original album es muy bueno.
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AcostaFulano
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 10:03 |
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THE ALBUM BY ITSELF ISN'T ENOUGH FOR SOME PEOPLE TO GET CONCEPT, SO WHEN I INTRODUCE THE ALBUM TO SOMEONE I USUALLY HAVE TO EXPLAIN THE IDEAS BEHIND THE LYRICS =) But once u get familiarized, I think the movie becomes more estimulating than the album itself.
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felixxx
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 15:38 |
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The original album first and then the movie!
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Blacksword
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Posted: June 20 2005 at 05:23 |
I'll have the whinging miserable album over the harrowing, depressing psychotic film any day 
I like them both! Waters Wall concert didn't make much of an impression on me to be honest.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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eriksalkeld
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Posted: June 30 2005 at 04:49 |
The original album first, then the Movie and please don't miss the Roger Waters - Live in Berlin, I saw the DVD some days ago... all the show, the imagery, the music, the message... it is all a majestic achievement. An organization and engineering masterpiece and a 20th century's social summary of humanity's disgrace indeed.
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