Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall: Live 1980-1981 by Pink Floyd (CD, Apr-2000, 2 Discs, Columbia (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	074646205525
Artist:	Pink Floyd
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2000
Record Label:	Columbia (USA)
Genre:	Art Rock, Rock & Pop
Number Of Discs:	2

Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Master of Ceremonies
2. In the Flesh
3. Thin Ice, The
4. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1
5. Happiest Days of Our Lives, The
6. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
7. Mother
8. Goodbye Blue Sky
9. Empty Spaces
10. What Shall We Do Now?
11. Young Lust
12. One of My Turns
13. Don't Leave Me Now
14. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3
15. Last Few Bricks, The
16. Goodbye Cruel World

DISC 2:
1. Hey You
2. Is There Anybody Out There?
3. Nobody Home
4. Vera
5. Bring the Boys Back Home
6. Comfortably Numb
7. Show Must Go On, The
8. Master of Ceremonies
9. In the Flesh
10. Run Like Hell
11. Waiting for the Worms
12. Stop
13. Trial, The
14. Outside the Wall

Details
Playing Time:	105 min.
Producer:	James Guthrie
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Live
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Pink Floyd: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright.Additional personnel: Snowy White, Andy Roberts (guitar); Peter Woods (keyboards); Andy Brown (bass); Willie Wilson (drums); John Joyce, Stan Farber, Jim Haas, Joe Chemay (background vocals).Includes liner notes by Gerald Scarfe, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Jonathan Park, Mark Fisher, James Guthrie, David Gilmore, Richard Wright.This edition of THE WALL LIVE 1980-1981 includes a 64-page casebound book.Includes a 64-page hardcover casebound book.Pink Floyd: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright.Additional personnel: Snowy White, Andy Roberts (guitar); Peter Woods (keyboards); Andy Brown (bass); Willie Nelson (drums); John Joyce, Stan Farber, Jim Haas, Joe Chemay (background vocals).Personnel: Snowy White (guitar); Peter Woods (keyboards); Willie Wilson (drums); John Joyce, Stan Farber, Joe Chemay (background vocals).Audio Mixer: James Guthrie .Recording information: Earl's Court, London, England (1980-1981).Director: Roger Waters.Photographers: Rupert Truman; Mick Treadwell; Brian D. McLaughlin; Jill Furmanovsky; Mark Fisher.Pink Floyd's showmanship culminated in The Wall, an album designed to be a theatrical experience. Waters had a brilliant idea for the show -- an actual wall would be constructed across the stage, then the band would play behind it as Gerald Scarfe's animations were projected on the wall and giant inflatable puppets danced on-stage. Pink Floyd intended to preserve the experience with a concert film. That plan didn't come to fruition because the footage was botched, so documentation of The Wall remained the province of bootlegs until the 2000 release of Is There Anybody Out There? Skillfully edited together from the handful of Wall shows Floyd performed between 1980 and 1981 (much of the recordings date from shows at Earl's Court in London), the album replicates The Wall live -- which, of course, was a replication of the record, only with visuals. There are two songs not on the studio album: "What Shall We Do Now?," a tune pulled from the record at the 11th hour (early pressings still listed it on the sleeve), plus "The Last Few Bricks," which was an instrumental at the end of the first act that gave the crew time to finish building the wall. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Editorial Reviews
...For sheer balls, these live performances, seamlessly woven together, knock the stuffing out of the somewhat antiseptic original studio recording...
Mojo

...Delivers the audio spectacle of the performance in its entirety, while also featuring 'What Shall We Do Now?,' which was included in 'The Wall's film version only, and 'The Last Few Bricks' which had not been released previously in any form.
CMJ (20000501)

3 stars out of 5 - ...What's truly amazing is how music this deep and uncomprimising sold so well. Water's...portentous instrumentation and use of repeated motifs was almost classical in conception and execution...
Q (20000601)