Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Good word

"At something more than 100 beats a minute, 'Another Brick [In the Wall, Pt. 2]' is very near disco, and the driving rhythms here introduced will be returned to periodically throughout [Pink Floyd's 1979 album] The Wall both overtly and as a subtle basso obbligato. The choice of a popular dance form to carry the burden of the album's call-to-arms is an imaginative and successful one--as if Beethoven had chosen the minuet as the vehicle for his funeral march in the Eroica symphony."

--Christian Williams, "Behind 'The Wall'--A Rock Odyssey With A Menacing Message," The Washington Post, April 6, 1980

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