The first band that I really latched onto in my adult life was Pink Floyd.  I have posted before a little about how I got introduced to them.  Suffice it to say, I am a really big fan.  The music I have on my playlist are excerpts from their Suedo-Rock-Opera The Wall.  To me, it is a very complex and moving album.  It is full of emotion and musical masterpeices.  It follows the life of the protagonist, Pink, as he grows up and decends into insanity.  Really, with a story like that how could you go wrong?

But seriously, it is a very well written and recorded album.  Some of the songs are considered to be the best rock songs of all time.  The album itself, two discs and 81 minutes long, remains the best selling-double album of all time and is on all sorts of “best of” lists.  To say that it is well produced is an understatement, as there are layers upon layers of things going on.

To give you a little taste of this I’ll tell you about two of the fun little “secret messages” contained in the album.  The first is a subliminal backwards recording in the middle of a transition song called “Empty Spaces”.  Played backwards it says “Congratulations. You’ve just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm…” and then someone in the background yells something about someone on the phone… really random.  The next one isn’t as random, I think that it was ment to really tie the whole album together.  At the very first of the first track you can hear a man say softly “we came in?” and at the very end of the very last song the same man can be heard to say, “Isn’t this where”.  So then if you could, you loop the record, and you would hear “Isn’t this where we came in?”  There you are… useless trivia.

Anyway, all tangents aside- or rather, one tangent to go- this band has everything I love about music.  Unfortunatly, they haven’t toured as a complete band for over two decades, so it is impossible to hear them preform live.  But there is a cover band called “Australian Pink Floyd” that is the premier cover band for PInk Floyd.  I was able to go a couple of years ago with Jenn and it was an awesome expirience.  And my lovely wife got tickets for us to go again this year!  I am soooooo exited.  They are playing most of The Wall in the first set and I am just really looking forward to it.

I tried to get some audio clips of the hidden messages so you can hear them, if you were interested, but I couldn’t find any online.  I might try to cut it together myself… I’ll try to do it if I have time.  Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy some of the tracks.

EDIT: I found a link where you can hear the “Isn’t this where we came in” pieced together.  It was on wikipedia (isn’t everything?).  Just click here