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- Artist: Roger Waters
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- Release Date: June 24, 2003
- Type: Live
- Genre: Rock
Review
Nobody really expected the Berlin Wall to come down in 1989, and so suddenly. Roger Waters especially, because he had once made a promise never to perform The Wall again after the 1980 tour until the bricks fell in Berlin. But they did, and Waters had no intention to renege on his promise. The Wall became a star-studded megaconcert to benefit the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, with larger bricks, bigger inflatable puppets, and a larger audience than any of the original Pink Floyd shows. There was always a contradiction in performing such a personal work in a stadium setting, but here it becomes especially acute when opening up the vocal tasks to a variety of artists. Bryan Adams is actually an astute choice for the cock-rock swagger of "Young Lust," but Cyndi Lauper ruins the spare funk of "Another Brick in the Wall Part Two" with over-enthusiastic yelping. And you'll definitely want to skip Jerry Hall's reading of the background dialog before "One of My Turns" ("Oh my gawd, what a fabulous room! Are all these your guitars?" -- a piece known word for word by every Floyd fan out there), as she seems unaware that a microphone can be used for amplification. By running through the album track by track, a lot of the effect of the live versions wears thin, as it invites constant comparison to the studio album. But the trial scene is handled well, with Albert Finney, Tim Curry, Marianne Faithfull, Thomas Dolby, and Ute Lemper taking on the characters in Waters' psychological drama. It's fun, a nice document, but only makes you want to return to the original album. ~ Ted Mills, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| In the Flesh | Roger Waters | Scorpions | (4:24) |
| The Thin Ice | Roger Waters | Roger Waters, Ute Lemper | (3:09) |
| Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 | Roger Waters | Roger Waters | (3:37) |
| The Happiest Days of Our Lives | Roger Waters | Roger Waters, |
(1:21) |
| Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 | Roger Waters | Cyndi Lauper | (6:26) |
| Mother | Roger Waters | Sinéad O'Connor | (6:37) |
| Goodbye Blue Sky | Roger Waters | Joni Mitchell | (3:52) |
| Empty Spaces | Roger Waters | Bryan Adams, Roger Waters | (3:55) |
| Young Lust | Roger Waters, David Gilmour | Bryan Adams | (4:56) |
| Oh My God/What a Fabulous Room | (1:38) | ||
| One of My Turns | Roger Waters | Roger Waters | (2:43) |
| Don't Leave Me Now | Roger Waters | Roger Waters | (5:13) |
| Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3 | Roger Waters | (3:24) | |
| Goodbye Cruel World | Roger Waters | Roger Waters | (1:30) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Hey You | Roger Waters | Paul Carrack | (4:54) |
| Is There Anybody Out There? | (3:02) | ||
| Nobody Home | Roger Waters | Roger Waters | (4:50) |
| Vera | Roger Waters | Roger Waters | (1:13) |
| Bring the Boys Back Home | (2:51) | ||
| Comfortably Numb | Roger Waters, David Gilmour | Roger Waters, Van Morrison | (8:03) |
| In the Flesh | Roger Waters | Roger Waters, |
(5:10) |
| Run Like Hell | Roger Waters, David Gilmour | Roger Waters, |
(4:52) |
| Waiting for the Worms & Stop | Roger Waters, |
(4:13) | |
| The Trial | (7:23) | ||
| The Tide Is Turning | (10:38) |
