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Upon release of the film adaptation of The Wall, Pink Floyd planned to put together an album consisting of songs newly recorded for the film, as well as outtakes from the original Wall LP sessions. The proposed title for this disc was Spare Bricks. This was changed to "The Final Cut", which came from the song of the same name.
The Final Cut was conceived as a soundtrack album for Pink Floyd – The Wall, the 1982 film based on Pink Floyd's previous studio album The Wall (1979). [5] Under its working title Spare Bricks, it would have featured new music rerecorded for the film, such as "When the Tigers Broke Free".
In 2004, MSNBC ranked Pink Floyd number 8 on their list of "The 10 Best Rock Bands Ever". [385] In the same year, Q named Pink Floyd as the biggest band of all time according to "a points system that measured sales of their biggest album, the scale of their biggest headlining show and the total number of weeks spent on the UK album chart". [386]
Pink Floyd are an English rock band who recorded material for fifteen studio albums, three soundtrack albums, three live albums, eight compilation albums, four box sets, as well as material that, to this day, remains unreleased during their five decade career. There are currently 222 songs on this list.
Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 British musical drama film directed by Alan Parker, based on Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters .
The song, like many others on The Final Cut, is a rewritten version of a song rejected for The Wall, originally to be used in Spare Bricks (an early version of The Final Cut that was an extension of The Wall.) Guitarist David Gilmour objected to the use of these previously rejected tracks, as he believed that they weren't good enough for ...
"Another Brick in the Wall" is a three-part composition on Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall, written by the bassist, Roger Waters. "Part 2", a protest song against corporal punishment and rigid and abusive schooling, features a children's choir. At the suggestion of the producer, Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd added elements of disco.
The Wall Live 1980–81 is a live album released by Pink Floyd in 2000. It is a live rendition of The Wall , produced and engineered by James Guthrie , with tracks selected from the August 1980 and June 1981 performances at Earls Court in London .