Bring the Boys Back Home.

[denem]

Run time: 03:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqFDW6ZDsqU   Posted on YouTube: January 08, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 28, 2009 By DU Member: denem Views on DU: 593

 
A thousand words, a hundred sophistications can't cover the loss of a life. Roger Waters lost his father in WWII, two months after birth and never recovered.

[denem]

1. WRONG! Do it Again.

Inspired.

[YOY]

2. Meh if you're gonna do a "Wall" antiwar song do "When the Tigers Broke Free"

Gutwrenching at the end it is.

[denem]

3. Except that it wasn't on The Wall.

[YOY]

4. It is now...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Tigers_Broke_Free

[denem]

5. Funny. I don't remember it in The Wall (1990) - Live in Berlin.

because it wasn't, nor in any other performance of the The Wall by Roger Waters or Pink Floyd. It was an orphan 1982 single (backed by a version from the film) that was it junked from The Final Cut, then brought to that work as a matter of fierce urgency in 2004.

[YOY]

6. and I'll take it!

Dammit it was the best song in the film (IMHO) but you are right...Waters never peformed it when he performed the Wall.

I always felt (as do many fans) that it belonged on the Album.

[denem]

7. It didn't fit in The Wall or The Final Cut because

it's just about the most personal song that Roger ever wrote. There's no way you can take it any other way than literally. On the commentary to The Wall DVD, watching young pink putting on his daddy's uniform, Roger said it still brings a lump to his throat.

The reason I posted this video, other than the fact that once in a while I can't get the song Vera out of my head, was the brilliant manga synchronization - Bring the boys back home stirring up as an anthem as Little Boy is dropped on Hiroshima, then at the end, against the scorched body of a little girl

Wrong! Do it again (Two atomic bombs)
Time to go.
Is there anybody out there?

[YOY]

8. No disrespect intended but I TOTALLY disagree.

That song fits in there like a glove. Senseless loss in Water's life was also senseless loss in the listener and "Pink's" life and lets us understand why he had such a relationship with his mother.

And the Barefoot Gen in clip is good taste.

[denem]

9. Here's why I disagree,

about putting Tigers into The Wall as a work of art. Pink is not Roger: He as amalgam of Waters and many others, not the least Syd. Tigers is so personal, so specific, it takes the everyman cycle of The Wall and buries it in 1944.

[YOY]

10. Was Vera any more/less personal?

It was after all about Vera Lynn's promite to "meet again some sunny day." True World War II in and of itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY

Scartch that....I just answered myself.

[denem]

11. Well that's a paradox isn't it.

I wouldn't have known anything about Vera Lynn without The Wall, and yes, she as specific to WWII as the bombing of Hiroshima. Look, I have always felt The Wall was about cycles of violence and fascism: The idea of war being self defeating because it creates a new wave of wounded children who grow up to believe/become the very thing that their parent fought against.

The irony is that Roger did understand but could not cease being ac ontrol control freak. He see's the threat of fascism, but still can't help himself imposing it on his own band. "No matter how he tried he could not break free" The Final Cut sees him wielding a mortal knife.

As far as cycles of violence go, if you want to include a British beachhead in Italy, 1944 that's your call. After all on the 25th April Australians commemorate three waves of their best young men running headlong, hopelessly into machine guns at Gallipoli, Turkey.