Willie
06.20.08 | 2 was a total mindfuck... and I love 5. |
Yazz_Flute
06.20.08 | yessss dude
I haven't heard 2 yet though. How does rank up against Remedy Lane or Perfect Element? |
EStreetFan
06.20.08 | Personally I would have gone with Animals over The Wall. The Wall is just Roger Waters blaming everyone but himself for being unhappy. I agree with all the other choices, though. |
jrowa001
06.20.08 | 2-4 are amazing. |
Mendigo
06.20.08 | No, The Wall is indeed one of the most intelligent albums ever written, there are tons of material written about it, trying to analyse every word of Roger Water's lyrics. And Roger Water indeed blames himself for being unhappy, though much more subtly, but I think actually he blames himself in the first place.
Haven't heard 2&3 yet, but 4 is indeed genius, Pink Floyd simply were the best band at writing conceptual albums, and with Wish You Were Here many do not even realise how all of the songs here work together and tell the story of Syd Barret being destroyed by the music industry.
5 is also among the greatest albums if you just look at its concept, but it fails at the musical level.
The only other albums I would have included here are Nine Inch Nail's Downward Spiral and Pink Floyd's Animals. |
Yazz_Flute
06.20.08 | How does 5 fail at a musical level? Best album out of the 80s imo, in my top 10 of all time. |
Thor
06.20.08 | The Wall is better than everything ever made.
so yeah altmer's right |
Mendigo
06.20.08 | "How does 5 fail at a musical level?"
most of the songs simply sound the same, with the same structures used over and over and only very few moments when the music leaves the typical 80s Metal-environment.
however, just click on the album link and you find out my opinion ;)
btw, I just realised the updated review has been reseted because of the database-crash, so I've just uploaded the newer version again. |
TheGreatD17
06.20.08 | I suppose I was expecting musical genius and not... plot. |
Bfhurricane
06.20.08 | A big yes to 5. Mendigo doesn't know what he's talking about, although he wrote a nice review for it. |
foreverendeared
06.20.08 | i would have gone with animals over the Wall too. and i don't think people understand the intelligence of Tool's Lateralus. i mean Danny Carey drums in a Fibonacci Sequence for god's sake |
NortherlyNanook
06.21.08 | Pretentious doens't mean intelligent all the time. Don't get me wrong, I still like that album, but I wouldn't call it incredibly intelligent. It's also annoying to hear people say that others don't "get" the intelligence. |
Altmer
06.21.08 | 2 is better than either Remedy Lane or TPE pt. 1.
In fact, 2 is their best album. |