Yeah. That too. It does exercise the sub.
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Another thumbs up on the SACD. The 5.1 is so immersive I got the goosebumps!
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I like most PInkFloyd stuff, but I never got on with this album, all those animal type noises never did it for me. There, I’ve said it.
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I also like most Genesis stuff but never got on with “Lamp Lies Down On Broadway” either. I sense a theme here 
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Regarding Pink Floyd I draw the line at Wish You Were Here, there I said it. The Wall was not much for me, and they jumped the shark with Animals.
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My first girlfriend gave me a ripped off cassette copy of The Wall when it came out, so it has good memories for me.
I mean, De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but the music on Animals is extraordinary IMHO. It was their first effort outside the perfection of Abbey Road Studios, and is a lot more wooly for lack of a better way to describe it. The transitions of vocal-to-guitar sounds are just incredible. Yeah, I get a little weary of Roger and his limousine-communism here, but I don’t tire of Gilmour and think this may actually be peak-Wright.
As to Genesis - Lamb is always going to be controversial. While not their best ALBUM, it has some truly transcendent moments and may be Phil’s peak on drums.
I’m not going to argue or try and change anyone’s mind when it comes to anything subjective like musical taste. My kid loves Bleachers, and while I don’t care for Antonoff’s production techniques and such, he’s listening to music actively, and that’s good enough for me. I finally got around to listening to the Dixie Chicks’ “Gaslighter” this week and it’s not my cup of tea, and I LOVES ME SOME DIXIE CHICKS. It’s his favorite record of theirs. But we can share in love for the band!
Ah well. Enjoy the music. “Wish You Were Here” is my favorite Floyd, followed closely by either “Meddle” or “Animals” depending on the day. My secret admission is I don’t especially revere DSotM. I RESPECT it. I just don’t LOVE it.
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Jeff Blehar, one of the hosts of the excellent Political Beats podcast often tweets many controversial musical tweets like:
“Pink Floyd’s THE WALL is easily one of the worst so-called “great” rock and roll albums ever released. A meticulously well-crafted piece of sh*t.”
Anyhow. I wouldn’t go THAT far, but it clearly suffers from the fact that Waters didn’t want any other input to the project. A lot like Peter Gabriel decided he would write the lyrics to The Lamb in isolation from the band. Rock operas written that way don’t work. Simple as that.
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I saw the original The Wall performed at the Nassau Coliseum in 1980. In my opinion it’s a theatrical piece that needs the context of a live presentation. It was spectacular.
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Agreed
I quite like it because it’s quite different to anything else
The Wall is such an important work for me, it hails back to a very dark time in my life, but I adore it’s story telling nature from start to finish.
There are so few albums of it’s caliber.
To see it live must have been incredible.
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Finally had time to sit down and listen to the LP and am super-relieved. For all the talk I’ve seen online of issues with the pressing, mine sounded absolutely pristine. Probably one of the best sounding records in my entire library. Just stellar, so-to-speak.
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I went to the movie during original theatrical release and I was high. I was listening to The Wall in my dorm room when I found out john Lennon died, so the record meant a lot to me and the movie blew me away.
I subsequently saw the movie years later and thought, what kind of boatload of crap is this?
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It’s interesting to reflect on how aging changes our perspective.
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Indeed.
Perhaps aging provides an opportunity for some individuals to develop perspective. Possibly, successful aging has to do, in part, with tolerating a perspective over the Self, experiencing the Self as a historical creature. With a start, and horrifyingly so, with an end. Why ‘tolerating’? Well, the most horrific anxiety most of us face when young - Being mortal.
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Facing mortality changes everything. Everything.
I was flip in my statement above on “The Wall”. It’s art. Flawed art, but powerful art. I do maintain that sometimes a singular vision, especially when created in contravention to a group setting and the subsequent tensions associated with that, often results in something lesser. Again, “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” could have been so much more if refined in the fire of a group. I feel like “The Wall” fails in the same way and ultimately led to fracture of the whole. “The Wall” ultimately ended Pink Floyd. And that shows.
Anyway. I don’t have any great stories associated with Pink Floyd. I only came to them late in life. I’ve never been high. Probably never will be. [edit: not a judgment on my part; never fit my life, but enjoy all you like!]. But the music remains enough.
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The show was mind-blowing. A significant contributing factor was the audience. It was an incredible experience of a single mind sharing a single experience.
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I totally agree. I saw the Roger Waters tour, absolutely fantastic!
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