Pink Floyd - 12) Empty Spaces Part II (What Shall We Do Now)

Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979) stands as one of Pink Floyd's greatest achievements, as well of one of the greatest achievements in rock music and live concert production. The album spawned a tour, a film, a book of the film (now quite collectible), and eventually an all-star revival concert in Berlin, and finally in 1999 a double live album. But before The Wall was a film, a concert, or even an album, The Wall was just an idea... an idea under construction. The Wall went through at least two "demo" stages. The first was a crude recording of Roger Waters strumming his guitar and singing alone. Presented by Waters at the same time as another concept called The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Waters' first demo - still uncirculated even today - was deemed unlistenable by the rest of the band, but they felt it had potential. The Hitchhiking demo was set aside, but The Wall demo was developed further. Many writing sessions later, Pink Floyd - probably with assistance from Bob Ezrin - recorded a second, more complete demo. The lyrics were not polished, and neither was the music. Thankfully, lyrics like "I am a physician/ who can handle your condition/ like a magician" would be entirely discarded and rewritten before the songs were finally committed to tape in a studio, but the rough lyrics and the risky musical experiments which appeared in that second demo have finally made it to the public.

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[Lennonfan1010]

Just wondering, is there anywhere I can download this album?

[BlazefireBootlegs]

@Lennonfan1010 It will be released with the Pink Floyd box set of The Wall (On February 28th) thats the one you want to get but if you need this now just google "Pink Floyd: Under Construction" and eventually you'll find a download link.

[phantomgamer11]

creepy awesome

[SolidLittle]

@BlazefireBootlegs Yep, that's the sad truth. Luckly my father still has tons of vinyls, including huge Beatles and Pink Floyd collections. But we'll never be able to listen to unreleased material like this on vinyl :(

[BlazefireBootlegs]

@SolidLittle You're right! But unfortunately we now live in a digital age : ( As a sixteen year old I would love to hear all the classic albums I love on vinyl but unfortunately I can't do that.

[SolidLittle]

@BlazefireBootlegs what is this blasphemy?!!! The Vinyl is sacred, digital audio can only envy its quality.

[olly123451]

So glad this isn't the final version, it sounds great, but the released version sends shivers up my spine.

[Lennonfan1010]

@BlazefireBootlegs Found it, thanks. Really love it :D

[joethulhuz]

Wow, this is really chilling... Even more so than the finished version.

[BlazefireBootlegs]

@mst3k0196 I would love to hear it on album. I mean if James Guthrie, (The guy who mixes all of Floyd's albums and he kicks ass at it) can add "When The Tigers Broke Free" to The Final Cut then he probably could just mix the movie version of this song and add it to the album. Also yeah Damn vinyl records what good did they ever do for us!?