Comments on: The Wall Re-Built :: Papercuts/The Amazing Cover Pink Floyd

By: Litiot

Litiot — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:55:24 +0000

remember this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebuild_the_Wall

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:53:12 +0000

“Something far removed from the suburban drudgery of being thirteen in 1989.” Damn. You nailed it. Right down to the bent coke cans, this was my exact initial experience with pink floyd and middle school rebellion.

By: reveles

reveles — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:23:51 +0000

this is pretty much in step with the way i discovered floyd. while the frequency in which i occasionally dust the album off the shelf these days has diminished, i am still taken back to that first time i saw the movie, dropped that single hit of flying pyramid and allowed my mind to be blown like never before. i may have outgrown my jr. high school acid days but those sounds still give me chills.

p.s. to buzzkillington: i believe it was bob geldof with the burning cigarette, but i could be wrong. great scene… sets the tone quite well.

By: BuzzKillington

BuzzKillington — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:42:38 +0000

I was born in ’84, eight years later than the author of this text, and I can assure you The Wall still had the same magnetism for me at the age of 13 as it did you. I can still vividly remember first getting into Pink Floyd, and The Darkside of the Moon and syncing it up with my sister’s copy of the Wizard of Oz on the floor of my bedroom. The Wall would come later because it was difficult for a fourteen year old kid to drop the dough for the 2 CD masterpiece. I actually watched a borrowed copy of The Wall with a likeminded friend before I paid for the music, and was blown away because I had never seen anything so crazy. The cigarette burning through Syd Barrett’s fingers was the stuff of legend. I quickly moved on to other music, and while I moved to AC/DC and The Clash, and subsequently blues music instead of Black Flag and Minor Threat I can assure you that thirteen year old me was affected very deeply by Pink Floyd. A band that in my opinion doesnt get as much critical cred as they should. Great piece. Perfectly captured the teenage feelings of discovering Pink Floyd.

By: aburtch

aburtch — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:34:24 +0000

The Wall was my gateway into the world of Floyd. Once the doors opened there was no stopping my descent into “Meddle,” “Saucerful of Secrets,” and the grandaddy of all psychedelia…”Piper at the Gates of Dawn.”

By: StarkNY

StarkNY — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:47:05 +0000

Bizzare. The Wall came on my shuffle this morning. I twittered “Look Mommy, There’s an airplane up in the sky.”

I was born in ’82 into a massive Floyd family. While I can’t speak on 13 yr olds of 2010, this album captivated me throughout my pre-teen and teen years, well into the 90s. I still put it on now and again, mostly to revel in Gilmore’s massive guitar tone and get all lamely nostalgic. I think it still holds sway as one of the greatest, yet most divisive records of their career.