On the Playlist 31JUL2018…

After spending the better part of two days in a car "Comfortably Numb" from Pink Floyd's The Wall came into the rotation on the music player. I always remember discovering this album and the band Pink Floyd. My brother was always into the popular music while I went for the weird stuff. When The Wall came out it became a big hit and my brother bought it. Bit of background is that our mom is a school teacher. So when the lyrics "we don't need no education" came blasting out the stereo as my brother played the album my mom was not impressed and confiscated the record then and there. As a 16 year old teenager this response warranted some research on my part. Any album that could elicit that sort of response from my mom was definitely worth looking into and look into it I did. I actually started my interest in Pink Floyd with their early music and really enjoyed that. It was many years later before I actually owned a copy of The Wall but when I did I loved it and by that time I was old enough to really get into it and understand the full significance of it and how it fit into the bands evolution. Loved the movie when it came out as well as it made the album seem light in comparison. Would have to say they are my all time favorite major band and all because my mom confiscated my brother's album. Now that I have my own kids I have made it my mission to totally out weird them in musical taste and I play much more shocking stuff than they could even imagine. Ha ha!

Pink Floyd - The Wall - "Comfortably Numb"