BarneyPiccolo

I found Animals to be the most difficult to get into, but once it clicked, it became one of my favorites. It's a great album, but The Wall still beats it, in my opinion.

Most people have missed it. I have seen anyone in the media report on this or ask anyone in the administration about it. It should be one of the biggest stories in America.

I'm old, too, and going back and filling in gaps in my music knowledge base, and listening to a lot of stuff I've been meaning to for decades.

However, I have also realized that my favorites have solidified, after decades of listening and deciding. Pink Floyd, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Yes, Led Zep, and a few others have fought their way to the front of the pack.

The Wall is not only my favorite Pink Floyd album, it's my favorite album of all time.

I was a music history major when it came out, and I studied it like it was a Beethoven symphony. I became convinced that it was a 20th century music masterpiece along the lines of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue or Porgy & Bess, Bernstein's West Side Story, Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific or Sound of Music, The Beatles Sgt Pepper or Abby Road, etc.

Almost 50 years later, and my opinion still stands.

BTW, Paradoxically, DSOTM is probably the greatest album of all time, from an artistic and influential point of view. I just think The Wall is a masterpiece.

I give it two years, and they'll be gone.

Some did, but they won by cheating, and we ALL know it.

I'd rather a dead useless martyr, than an active live Nazi.

Invite them all for dinner, and take care of the entire problem at once.

Exactly what I thought. Nobody has made it more possible than the people in this room.

That reminds me, I need to sharpen my guillotine.

It says MS-13.

Pay the lady!