Imagínense poder estar en Berlín en 1989, unos días después de caer el muro. Y poder ir a este concierto. Creo que me enfada más aún después de haber estado allá.
Es uno de los discos más perfectos que conozco a nivel global, y el tema en especial me toca; la comunicación, sus errores, la incomprensión mutua, y a veces hasta la ausencia de la misma.
Como Pink Floyd me gusta, y hablaré más de él y de mi colección en vinilo de sus discos hoy sólo pongo el comentario de la wikipedia, y las letras de los tres cortes que más me gustan.
1979's epic rock opera, The Wall, conceived mainly by Waters, developed themes of loneliness and failure of communication, inspired by Waters' feelings of having constructed a metaphoric wall between himself and his audience. This album gave Pink Floyd renewed acclaim and their only chart-topping single with "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)". The Wall also included the future concert staples "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell", with the former in particular becoming a cornerstone of album-oriented rock and classic-rock radio playlists as well as one of the group's best-known songs. The album was co-produced by Bob Ezrin, a friend of Waters who shared songwriting credits on "The Trial" and from whom the band distanced themselves, after Ezrin talked about the album to a journalist relative.
Despite never hitting #1 in the U.K. (it made it to #3), The Wall spent an astounding 15 weeks atop the U.S. charts during 1980. It sold well over 30 million copies worldwide and is often regarded as the best-selling double album ever, as well as being the third-best selling album of all time in the U.S. It has been certified 23x platinum by RIAA, for sales of 11.5 million copies in U.S. alone. The huge commercial success of The Wall made Pink Floyd the only artist since the Beatles to have the best-selling albums of two years (1973 and 1980) in less than a decade.
Even more so than during the Animals sessions, Waters was increasingly asserting his artistic influence and leadership over the band, prompting frequent conflicts with the other members, and the eventual firing of Wright from the band. Wright returned, on a fixed wage, for the album's live concerts. Ironically, Wright was the only member of Pink Floyd to make any money from the Wall shows, the rest having to cover the extensive costs.
2. Another brick in the wall (I) Daddy's flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
A snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me
Daddy what d'ya leave behind for me
All in all it was just a brick in the wall
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
"You! You! Yes, you! Stand still laddie!"
3. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children anyway they could
By pouring their derision
Upon anything we did
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids
"What have we here laddie?
Mysterious scribblings?
A secret code?
No - poems, no less - poems, everybody!
The laddie recons himself a poet!
'Money gets back
I'm all right Jack
Keep your hands off my stack
New car, Caviar,
Four star daydream
twinkle by me
A football team'
Absolute rubbish, laddie!
(smack!)
Get on with your work!
Repeat after me:
An acre is the area of a rectangle whois legs ....
But in the town it was well known
When they go home at night, their fat and
Psychopatic wives would thrash them
With in inches of their lives
Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave them kids alone.
Hey! Teachers! Leave us kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding."
"How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"
"You! Yes, you laddie!"
"...poems, everybody! The laddie recons himself a poet!"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"
