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Rattle That Lock has finally grown on me, after admittedly some shrugging at the first couple listens. Seeing most of the material played live certainly factors into this, but my reevaluation began a week before the show when I listened to the 5.1 mix. The title track is probably the most catchy song he's done since "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2" (one party involved was singing it all the way to our hotel room on the way back, and made a point as to how catchy it was compared to the other songs). "In Any Tongue" I absolutely shed more than a few tears at during the show because the video and lyric are so evocative of the tragedy of wars felt by every generation now.
The one song I really turned around on is "Faces of Stone", one David wrote the words to himself.
Because of his stature I think his recent work gets unfairly maligned for being inessential compared to his most famous work. There are several of his peers who are guilty as sin for this, but I think what we're seeing in him in his solo career (and The Endless River to an extent too) is someone completely unencumbered by the need for any commercial success. But someone who still is driven by music, and is able to be more unfiltered in what he wants to put out and express. If putting the band on the shelf in the mid-90's and becoming a family man meant that we as fans had moments like these last two albums and the resulting live shows, then I would consider that quite the trade-off compared to him dragging the monolithic thing Pink Floyd had become within the industry into stadiums across the world.
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Originally Posted by Patrick_Nicholas
