THE WALL

Just when I clicked on the rating a message appeared on my monitor. It said that please use "zero" and "five" stars sparingly, that a CD that you didn't like could have its positive qualities and that not every album you enjoy should be a perfect "masterpiece". Well, this one TRULY is. Only few other progressive albums can compare to this one (of course including DSOTM, Close to The Edge, or Moving Pictures). "The Wall" is a record composed mainly by Roger Waters, but still such a great disc for many of its factors. In my opinion, this is the LAST great album, all the next ones are acceptable but they do not reach the quality of the original PINK FLOYD. Those are like million of light-years away from Syd Barrett.

This album mainly talks about war. But it talks about the way civilians, innocent people, look at it. Like in "Goodbye Blue Sky" (the title refering to the change of "color", maybe because the smoke and fire produced by bombs, the destruction), it starts with a talking of a young girl's voice saying: "Look mummy. There's an airplane up in the sky". This reflects the innocence in young childern that suffers each day due to conflicts and attacks.

The song "Another Brick in The Wall (part I)" its about the case of Roger Waters and many other people losing their fathers at a very young age (that fact made possibly Roger inspire to write songs for many albums of PINK FLOYD, like in The Final Cut, it's mainly a post-trauma of this loss). In the already mentioned song, there is a part of the lyric that says: "... Daddy's flown across the ocean, leaving just some memories, a snapshot in the family album... Daddy what else did you leave behind for me?...". Many people felt anger at their disappeared parents for not being there with them.

The lyrics on this album are very inspiring, and you can see they come from the bottom of the heart. It talks about real things that are happening even today. Very depressing facts. This album has got to me and made realized how important is this wars and how lucky I am for not being on a situation close to that.

You can hear some great epic song such as "Mother", "Goodbye Cruel World", "Hey You", "Is There Anybody Out There?", "Young Lust", "Goodbye Blue Sky", "Nobody Home" (song about the missing of persons, the return of people to their homes and finding noone there, or a place very distant to the way it was before), "Vera", etc... (Mainly all the song in this record are great). But the greatest of them all are the 3- part "Another Brick In The Wall", but mostly the two songs that the guitarrist David Gilmour co-wroted: "Comfromtably Numb" adn "Run Like Hell". This last songs are a bit different from the others, but are more creative.

They've also made a movie based on the CD and the themes it talks about that goes by the same name. I've just bought it, so I hadn't see it, but I've recieved such good opinions and critics about it.

Simply an essential album on ANY shell.