What to think about "Vera" and "Bring the Boys Back Home," clocking in at 1:35 and 1:21, respectively? Let's face it: what most people love most about _The Wall_ are a handful of anthems - "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)," "Hey You," and especially "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell." Other songs have to be extremely short to fit into their alotted space in the narrative. And in a world as psychologically complex as we find here, the challenge is daunting, if not insurmountable. Severely limited time constraints confront the artist who would build a complete and detailed world. Most famous concept album or not, _The Wall_ illustrates nicely the problems that beset the genre. I've owned copies in every available format since its release in 1979, when I was in high school (which tells you something about where I' m coming from). My feelings about the album (as we used to call the things) have always been mixed. But if you want to understand either Roger Waters or this album a little bit better, then this DVD is a must-see. The feud that exploded Pink Floyd is irrelevant to kids still singing along with "we don't need no education" almost three decades after the release of rock's most famous concept album. Jim Morrison once said: "I've always been a word man/Better than a bird man." If the poetry of lyrics matters as much to you as the music, then you've never doubted which was Pink: not David Gilmore, but Roger Waters.
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