Pink Floyd – The Wall [Experience Edition - 3CD] (2012)
EMI’s Experience Edition of The Wall offers a new remaster of the original album and adds a third disc of a “Work in Progress,” a selection of 27 demos also featured on the much larger Immersion Edition reissue of the album. Apart from an opening “Prelude (Vera Lynn),” all the solo Roger Waters demos have been left behind — they’re as an effective enticement for investing in the Immersion Edition as all the extra visual and printed material — leaving this as a bunch of relatively rough full-band run-throughs, divided into three separate Programmes tracing the evolution of the album. The first Programme, running 13 tracks, is quite subdued and slow, a clear outgrowth from the moody malevolence of Animals. “Another Brick in the Wall” has its…
melody but not its riff, a signal of how this earliest draft downplayed muscle and melodrama, elements that creep into the picture during Programme 2 with the addition of “In the Flesh?” and David Gilmour’s pulsating eighth notes on “Another Brick in the Wall.” All these elements begin to coalesce on Programme 3, as the production gets further definition via spoken word, effects, and fuller arrangements, along with the addition of “Comfortably Numb,” here presented under its early version, “The Doctor.” Along the way, abandoned songs are aired and it’s evident that their themes were folded into other songs — “Teacher, Teacher” went into “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 2,” “Sexual Revolution” covered the same ground as “Young Lust,” “Backs to the Wall” went into “In the Flesh” — and there are other slight differences to be heard, usually in the form of lyrics. Nothing here quite seems like a radical departure from the finished album — nothing is embryonic, where only the barest outline can be detected; Waters had a sturdy structure for the songs at the very beginning — but hearing this evolution in microcosm is fascinating: few albums are ever as lavishly and carefully produced as The Wall, and by going through this “Work in Progress,” it becomes clear just how much labor Floyd and producer Bob Ezrin exerted on the finished album.
01 – In The Flesh
02 – The Thin Ice
03 – Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1
04 – The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
05 – Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
06 – Mother
07 – Goodbye Blue Sky
08 – Empty Spaces
09 – Young Lust
10 – One Of My Turns
11 – Don’t Leave Now
12 – Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3
13 – Goodbye Cruel World
CD2:
01 – Hey You
02 – Is There Anybody Out There
03 – Nobody Home
04 – Vera
05 – Bring The Boys Back Home
06 – Comfortably Numb
07 – The Show Must Go On
08 – In The Flesh
09 – Run Like Hell
10 – Waiting For The Worms
11 – Stop
12 – The Trial
13 – Outside The Wall
CD3:
01 – Prelude (Vera Lynn) – Roger Waters Original Demo
02 – Another Brick In The Wall, Part I
03 – The Thin Ice
04 – Goodbye Blue Sky
05 – Teacher, Teacher
06 – Another Brick In The Wall, Part II
07 – Empty Spaces
08 – Young Lust
09 – Mother
10 – Don’t Leave Me Now
11 – Sexual Revolution
12 – Another Brick In The Wall, Part III
13 – Goodbye Cruel World
14 – In The Flesh
15 – The Thin Ice
16 – Another Brick In The Wall, Part I
17 – The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
18 – Another Brick In The Wall, Part II
19 – Mother
20 – One Of My Turns
21 – Don’t Leave Me Now
22 – Empty Spaces
23 – Backs To The Wall
24 – Another Brick In The Wall, Part III
25 – Goodbye Cruel World
26 – The Doctor (Comfortably Numb)
27 – Run Like Hell
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