Formats
ITR307 - 3xLP
759718530711
Details
All hail the debut release from The Stallion! The Stallion is Ben Wallers and Alastair Mackinven of the Country Teasers. For two years they labored at the legendary Hit Factory recording studios in London as their schedule allowed. The project at hand was their long-planned / often-threatened The Dark Side Of The Wall — a song for song interpretation of Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall. At long last In The Red is proud to unveil the results. It should surprise no one familiar with Ben Wallers’s work or re-cord collection that he would choose this particular album to honor. The Wall’s influence has been noticeable in his music before (see “Spiderman In The Flesh” from the Country Teasers’ Empire Strikes Back album). The man likes his Floyd—he even rates The Final Cut as “brilliant”. It should also surprise no one that Roger Waters’s compositions from The Wall take a morbid and twisted turn in the hands of Wallers and Mackinven. What was already a fairly dark and bleak piece of work becomes much darker and bleaker here. It’s also longer. Pink Floyd’s original contained 26 songs spread across four sides of long playing vinyl which, by comparison, was the same number of tracks as Pink Floyd’s four previous studio albums combined. The Stallion’s take on these same 26 selections spans six sides of vinyl. Mackinven says, “it’s longer so it’s better, right?” This is a beautiful piece of work both aurally and aesthetically. Packaged in a gorgeous heavy duty double gatefold, this limited edi- tion triple-vinyl package won’t be around long.
Tracks
1. In The Flesh?
2. The Thin Ice
3. Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 1
4. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
5. Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2
6. Puddin?
7. Mother
8. Goodbye Blue Sky
9. Empty Spaces
10 Young Lust
11.One Of My Turns
12.One Of My Turns Pt. 2
13.Don?t Leave Me Now
14.Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 3
15.Goodbye, Cruel World
16.Hey You!
17.is There Anybody Out There?
18. Nobody Home
19. Vera
20. Bring The Boys Back Home
21. Comfortably Numb
22. The Show Must Go On
23. In The Flesh
24. Run Like Hell
25. Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 4
26. Waiting For The Worms
27. Stop
28. The Trial
29. Outside The Wall