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The Wall: Live in Berlin, 1990 | 
| Artist: Roger Waters
Label: Island / Mercury
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
Buy New: $14.97
You Save: $5.01 (25%)
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 26234
Format: Live, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000075202
UPC: 602498079744
EAN: 0602498079744
ASIN: B00009V7VA
Release Date: June 24, 2003
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | In the Flesh | | • | The Thin Ice | | • | Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 | | • | The Happiest Days of Our Lives | | • | Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 | | • | Mother | | • | Goodbye Blue Sky | | • | Empty Spaces | | • | Young Lust - Roger Waters, Gilmour, David | | • | Oh My God/What a Fabulous Room - Roger Waters, | | • | One of My Turns | | • | Don't Leave Me Now | | • | Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3 - Roger Waters, | | • | Goodbye Cruel World |
Disc 2
| • | Hey You | | • | Is There Anybody Out There? - Roger Waters, | | • | Nobody Home | | • | Vera | | • | Bring the Boys Back Home - Roger Waters, | | • | Comfortably Numb - Roger Waters, Gilmour, David | | • | In the Flesh | | • | Run Like Hell - Roger Waters, Gilmour, David | | • | Waiting for the Worms & Stop - Roger Waters, | | • | The Tide Is Turning - Roger Waters, |
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Amazon.com
Pink Floyd's 1979 double album The Wall was that strangest of beasts: a concept album, driven by a tortured rock-star protagonist, so obtusely personal it sometimes bordered on the inscrutable. But history was kind to the Roger Waters-spawned epic; when the communist bloc crumbled in 1989, taking the symbolic Berlin Wall with it, it inspired the ex-Floyd bassist and singer to frame his most ambitious work as another familiar tortured-rock-star conceit: the all-star benefit-concert TV broadcast. The shifting tides of history have undermined much of this remastered, double-disc soundtrack's momentous context, leaving behind a larger-than-life spectacle that, depending on one's viewpoint, could represent rock's most overarching populism--or the beginning of the end. Still, the star-heavy concept yields some unexpected surprises, from the Scorpions' bracing opening blast through haunting reinventions of "Mother" (Sinead O'Connor) and "Goodbye Blue Sky" (Joni Mitchell)--performances that blunt the oft-suspect misogyny of Waters's sprawling tale. Bryan Adams injects some vocal fire into "Empty Spaces" and "Young Lust," but by the time Waters, company, a massed German orchestra, choir, and the Military Orchestra of the Soviet Union reach the album's crescendos the event has gone so far over the top that it seems like nothing short of a neo-operatic Andrew Lloyd Webber wet dream. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
Hailed as a musical, visual and historic landmark, Roger Waters' The Wall - Live In Berlin has been remixed and remastered (by Nick Griffiths, the original engineer) for the first time since its original 1990 premiere. The CD contains the entire two-hour-plus concert, featuring performances by Bryan Adams, The Band, Thomas Dolby, Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O'Connor, Van Morrison, Scorpions and more. The package boasts new, 2003 artwork, photos and liner notes. Mercury/Universal.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 A miss version of The Wall without Pink Floyd November 12, 2007
Terrence J. Reardon (Port Saint Lucie, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Roger Waters' The Wall in Berlin was released in September of 1990.
This performance of The Wall was first recorded on July 21, 1990 and I heard the original radio broadcast.
Although this is a live album, portions of it were taken from a re-do of the show after the original performance and the previous night's dress rehearsal. The original radio broadcast had the microphones all messing up and the power going out during The Thin Ice and Mother.
Initially, in a July, 1989 radio interview, Roger initially thought of having ex-bandmates David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright play with him. Even David went through lawyers to get the OK to do it when asked at the Knebworth 1990 show backstage but then Roger shot down his ex-bandmates' offer in early July of 1990 (hypocritical of Roger at the time). Then, Roger tried to get artists like Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart and Peter Gabriel (this would have been superb IMHO) for the performance. Unfortunately, those artists were either unavailable or wanted money so in the end he got some good artists (The Scorpions (whom were excellent on In the Flesh), Joni Mitchell (pretty good on Goodbye Blue Sky), Bryan Adams (his Young Lust was not bad), Paul Carrack (he did Hey You very well)) and some very bad artists (Van Morrison and The Band (sans Robbie Robertson which is sacrilege) (they destroyed David Gilmour's parts on Comfortably Numb), Cyndi Lauper (her duetting with Roger on Another Brick in the Wall (pt. 2) was atrocious), Ute Lemper (tolerable on The Thin Ice but Mariah Carey-esquely annoying on The Trial), Sinead O' Connor (awful here on Mother but ironically was good on Rick Wright's Broken China) and Jerry Hall (her as the groupie was unnecessary)) for the performance.
Whilst original Wall show stalwarts Snowy White and Peter Wood plus Andy Fairweather-Low and Graham Broad were good, Rick DiFonso desecrated David Gilmour's solos thinking he was Eddie Van Halen (enough of the divebomb things with guitar Rick Van Halen DiFonso).
Fortunately, Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 (released in 2000) does great live justice to The Wall as it is the classic Floyd lineup performing The Wall (and there are videos filmed from those shows). If I were you, I'd spend my money on Is There Anybody Out There?.
Grab The Wall in Berlin ONLY if you are a collector.
 Wonderful rendition of The Wall July 31, 2007
hi13ts
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Who else can pull off all these complicated songs live and still sound great than the original songwriter of The Wall. Roger Waters did a great job on this concert. Every artist performing did a wonderful job on their part, except for Van Morrison. I don't think Comfortable Numb was a good song for him to perform. Rick DiFonzo did a great job recreating David Gilmour's solos, and Snowy White is always great. All musicians were on the top of their game in this concert. Roger even brought an orchestra, choir, and the Soviet Union's marching band to recreate this rock opera. It is so over the top, that it's unbelievable. Waters really outdid himself in this concert. I recommend this to any Pink Floyd, or Roger Waters fans.
 one of the worst live cds May 10, 2007
K. Tarin (Calif)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
How can anyone even give this thing one star? ever heard of Live in the FLesh? one of the best live cd's EVER? from anyone? this thing flat blows, you can hardly hear it, it sounds like it was recorded from some bootlegger in the back row. and none of the songs mesh for beans. just a flat out waste of payola. The Flesh, the one and only. waiting for the new tours output of a cd/dvd hope its as good as FLesh but I dunno Doyle pretty much about stole the show in FLesh and he is not playing guitar on current tour. but the ladies are singing backup again so hoping for the best!
Roger at his finest work March 9, 2007
R. L. Smith (Ohio, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
First about the video then about the CD:
I first saw this video about three months ago when i found it at my local CD/Video bargain place for a buck! I was blown away at the superb way this work, already a master in itself was presented for the show. I kinda wish i would of seen this version (the stage production) first before i saw the movie. the live stage production was easier to follow. i love the music of course and had to have the CD. All of the different artist doing the songs from the best album ever. All of the performances are outstanding!!!! It all fits like a good ole pair of your favorite comfy worn jeans. Buy this CD and the DVD you will be amazed. PS: I loved it so much i purchased the DVD right here on Amazon for a Christmas gift to my dearest friends.
Was at the show and the DVD is a good reproduction June 23, 2006
Kipling (Boston, Ma)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
While nothing will ever come close to the experience of being there, the DVD did a pretty good job of capturing the moment. As snap shot in history, the summer of 1990. The Belin wall had just come down the previous November. On July 1st, for the first time since the wall went up, East and West Belin could freely cross the "Wall", Check Point Charlie was out of a job. This concert took place in Potsdam Platz, only months earlier, this was no man's land. You could be shot for being there. On this night in July, the world was finally at peace (Iraq would invade Kuwait two weeks later), I was standing in a crowd with Germans, English, French and countless other nationalities. We were all there taking in one of he greatest stages ever contructed for a concert. Roger Waters did it proud, to compare it to Pink Floyd's the Wall conerts (which I saw in Nassua Colisium in 1979) would be unfair. This concert was more than just the music and show, it was about a time in history. "Tear Down The Wall!!" it was already coming down. To watch the DVD, brings these memories streaming back and in these troubled times, is comforting to know that at one time peace was achieved.
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