What? I'm the king of nothing! :) I just have a lot of time on my hands and listening is how I fill the time, and buying music is how I spend my money. Wish it weren't so. . . have to talk myself into the job hunt soon.
DSOTM hit when I had returned from Africa to rural Ohio and I just was miserable. Fell into the wrong crowd and didn't even feel I fit in at all. Was in the shadow of my magnificent father who was the minister of the church on the town square, and everyone was scrutinizing me and what I did reflected on him to his and my chagrin. My family wanted me to stay THERE, I didn't but I ddi for too long Then I moved to Texas and for a handful of years I was just as out of place, only poorer, and somehow during all that time DOSTM was EVERYWHERE and hearing it brings me back to these times, where I'd rather not revisit.
Waters' vision of alienated horror in The Wall just creeped me out, I had my own alienations to deal with, but his seemed mysogenistic and cruel, and I was turned way off by it. (I should never have gone to see the movie). About that time I had really started to get into jazz and following the great traditions of jazz and blues and R&B, THE American music for me, the music that most speaks to me, and I just never followed Pink Floyd after The Wall. I can get into the hippy dippy stuff. . . I was a hippy dippy myself during those years in Ohio and understand that scene and sound.
Right now, one of my favorites!