If "The Wall" was a 4-LP set?

I've been mulling over this hypothetical question lately (and trying to Frankenstein something resembling this together for myself)..... what if Roger Waters said "screw you all", went absolutely out of control, and made "The Wall" into a FOUR record set rather than two?

Using the Immersion sets, as well as the fan compilation 'The Final Cut In The Wall' (which speculated where the TFC tracks could've gone), I came up with this.

ACT I
01) Prelude: 'We'll Meet Again'
02) When The Tigers Broke Free, Part 1
03) In The Flesh?
04) Your Possible Pasts
05) The Thin Ice
06) Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1
07) When The Tigers Broke Free, Part 2
08) The Post War Dream
09) One Of The Few
10) Teacher, Teacher
11) The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
12) Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
13) Mother

ACT II
01) The Hero's Return, Part 1
02) Goodbye Blue Sky
03) The Gunner's Dream
04) What Shall We Do Now?
05) Young Lust
06) Sexual Revolution
07) One Of My Turns
08) Don't Leave Me Now
09) Empty Spaces
10) The Hero's Return, Part 2
11) Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3
12) The Last Few Bricks
13) Goodbye Cruel World

ACT III
01) Hey You
02) Is There Anybody Out There, Part 1
03) Nobody Home
04) Vera
05) Bring The Boys Back Home
06) Is There Anybody Out There, Part 2
07) Is There Anybody Out There, Part 3
08) Comfortably Numb
09) The Final Cut

ACT IV
01) The Show Must Go On
02) Not Now John
03) In The Flesh
04) Run Like Hell
05) Waiting For The Worms
06) Stop
07) The Trial
08) Who's Sorry Now
09) Outside The Wall
10) It's Never Too Late
11) The Thin Ice, Reprise
12) The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (to bookend the album with Vera Lynn... isn't this where we came in?)

The only problem is that 'Act III' comes up much shorter than the others, but otherwise, it's not a bad listen!

 

If you're wondering why I bumped "Sexual Revolution" up in the tracklist (compared to its placement on "Immersion").... it sounds HORRIBLE where it is. It works better as the start of a hypothetical side, with the end segued into the beginning of "One Of My Turns".

 

It would be twice as worse.

 

We don't need no obfuscation...

 

....You enjoy "Tommy", don't you?

 

It would be the Sandinista of dinosaur rock... or isn't it already?

 

Kind of fun to think about, but I haven't heard the Immersion tracks. I don't think having Final Cut and Comfortably Numb back to back would work though. Those songs have too much in common with each other, kind of like equivalents for their respective albums.

 

I love Tommy, though.

 

They actually made a really nice counterpart, especially if you crossfade from the end of CN into the piano intro of TFC.

 

I've always felt it would have been better released in the CD age when it could well have been a 70 - 75 minute single disc.

Don't ask me to do a tracklisting though......

Philip

 

I think the album is perfect as it is, that's why I can't share the opinion of many people who see The Wall as an excess. Some hate it because is a Waters-dominated album, etc., etc. From my point of view, is a Pink Floyd masterpiece. But, had it been a 4 LP album, it wouldn't have worked that well at all! I would have liked for them to include "What Shall We Do Now?", but there was no room for it. We have the stupendous live version anyway.

 

It would be better if Gilmour sang everything and the lyrics were uplifting and positive!

 

This. As discussed in other threads relating to The Wall, I tend to listen to the album beginning to end each time. I don't regard any of it as filler, or any tracks as skippable. Those that regard The Wall as Too Much Roger are welcome to do 'the hits' and leave side 4 entirely. Not me though.

Interesting idea for a running order for The Wall + The Final Cut. might run up a playlist of one of the 'acts' suggested and try it. Difficult to see it all flowing for me on account of regarding The Wall and The Final Cut as separate entities, despite their common thematic and 'spare bricks' lineage. One to try though.

 

I find it 'challenging' enough as it is. It's not exactly a jolly affair, though it has one or two moments of dark humour. I didn't enjoy The Final Cut when I heard it... which isn't much of a help, here!

When I CAN sit down to it (every 5-10 years at best...) I enjoy it and that's great - but usually I find 'double' albums a bit of a haul these days (apart from Tommy and Electric Ladyland. Plenty I like, including live but I usually flip past them and go for something else.)

I wouldn't have the time to sit for getting on for three hours listening to anything... in one go. I don't really like stopping/interrupting something and returning.

Sorry for being dull.

 

if 'the wall' were a 4 record set it would be even more tedious to listen to because you would have to get up and turn the record over.

 

It then would the be twice as boring than it already is.

 

If "The Wall" was a 4-LP set?

Suicides would increase exponentially.

 

Love Floyd, and I am a huge fan of the band, but 2 discs of this tortuous album are enough for me. In fact, I'd rather see this package reduced to a single disc, as it has the potential to be a real champ.

 

Call it the "lifehouse" version, I guess. The Wall was a record that was best consumed when it first came out. As a Floyd fan I can recall that the reception was very hot and very cold -- with no place in between. But I loved it. It was radio friendly which gave it wide appeal, and it was played to death. As for a 4LP set, it would have been an even bigger statement, in the vien of All Things Must Pass, and would have perhaps cemented Waters' reputation at even greater heights. It would have likely been the last official PF album, as they would have been touring with it for 5 or more years. Go out with an explosion I always say.

 

Beat me to it.

I would enjoy The Wall if Pete Townshend had written it.

I wish Sandinista! had been a SIX RECORD set!!!

 

You got that right.

 

I bet a lot of people on this thread were stoning their way through the Wall on a regular basis that now say its a joke

 

Make four discs at 45 rpm, and I'll be in Heaven.

 

A waste of vinyl.

 

Less is more!