Pink Floyd

"In the Flesh" is one of the band's most impressive tunes, and it shines in this live setting - it drops in like a bomb with a particularly nasty-sounding Waters vocal. Fans of the hits from The Wall won't be disappointed, but since you can't see the giant puppets the band used on stage, there's little else to distinguish this from the studio version of the album.

Pink Floyd's 1980-81 stadium presentations of The Wall barely qualified as live rock: They
were a theatrical pageant, with a wall built and demolished on stage, projected films, huge
inflatable Gerald Scarfe creatures, and the band playing along with tapes of sound effects
and orchestrations from the album. The sparkling clarity of this set, assembled from several
London performances, only makes it obvious how slavishly the sound of the stag... More >