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Run, Run, Run, Run
Run, Run, Run, Run
Run, Run, Run, Run
You better make your face up in
Your favourite disguise
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
As the cockleshell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down the door
You better run like hell
Run, Run, Run, Run
Run, Run, Run, Run
Run, Run, Run, Run
Run, Run, Run, Run
You better run all day
And run all night
And keep your dirty feelings
Deep inside. And if you're
Taking your girlfriend
Out tonight,
You better park the car
Well out of sight
'Cos if they catch you in the back seat
Trying to pick her locks
They're gonna send you back to mother
In a cardboard box
You better run
I can imagine "watching someone have a bad trip while listening to this [song/album/group]" as plausible reasons why.
Having had good trips myself, this gets a 10!!
LLRP!!
Not nearly as much as your post.
Actually these bimbos are hoping you write something, anything to end their boredom!
When this album came out this track freaked the hell out of me. The whole album hit too close to home, having just finished high school including a couple years in a British style private school, but Run Like Hell took it past 11, as I spent years as a kid having reoccurring nightmares of being chased through layers of underground garage by a car without a driver. Waters and Gilmour often penned songs that echoed my teen angst - me and thousands of other lads - but where the hell did *this* imagery come from?
I think the jury is still out as to if Roger Waters is a fascist or not. It mostly looks like he isn't, but I can't say that for sure.
I "note" the RP lyrics text end with "[#Notes|1]]"
Any notes on said note?
They've disappeared. (Or you were imagining them? You'd better run!)
Best album ever, for me, and this song is just another jewel on a long string of jewels on The Wall :-)
Well, nothing could be better than Wish you Were Here, unless it is Animals.
This band is just fantastic (that is really what I think).
Oh and by the way, which one's pink?
Can I please just comment on a few posts about the Wall? Anyone who saw PF play it live at Earls Court in (I think) 1980 (polystyrene bricks, aeroplane on a wire knocking down the wall, etc), would never never call this song boring.
I don´t get it... this song is boring. If it wasn´t Pink Floyd it probably would have an average rating of 5.
I don´t get it... this song is boring. If it wasn´t Pink Floyd it probably would have an average rating of 5.
I agree!!
Boring
If you try really hard you can make your comments much more interesting.
If this brings up such strong emotions...
Maybe you need to run like hell yourself...
Word to your Mother
Or maybe you embrace those emotions?
Word to your Pops
Why? It's quite poignant in it's portrayal of a breakdown. Saw it when it first came out in theatres. Did a J of course. But I appreciated it's complexity much later in my wiser, seasoned and "older" disposition.
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I think 1967 or '68 was the first time for me
First time I saw them I was about 16 years old, they performed at a local school dance.
Also saw them a couple of times at 'Mothers' in Birmingham 'Mothers day at Mothers' and the recording of 'Ummagumma'.
Any notes on said note?
I am ready to hear more of this story, please!
Wow! What an experience to look back on the rest of your life. I bet it was incredible!
Funny, I've always thought of this as a short transition piece in the whole scheme of the album, I didn't realize it was almost four and a half minutes (and longer than BOTH the prior and later songs that I thought it was transitioning from/to).
Not my fav by PF.
That's why it's just a Nine for me...
What an upbringing :)
Rating to me stays at 8 - Most Excellent but sadly not more I Skip
Maybe you need to run like hell yourself...
Word to your Mother
Not the show, but the same tour and theatrics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dB6MQlFLu8
I've just taken a look at that link - I CAN NOT believe that was 1994 - I went to that concert with some friends - it was something else - but then all PF concerts were special - from The Wall via The Division Bell - we left Earls Court with a huge smile, our ears ringing and eyes flashing.
Not nearly as much as your post.
Not the show, but the same tour and theatrics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dB6MQlFLu8
Saw this tour a few days earlier in good ole Cleveland Muni Stadium the first night. My 6th show starting back in 1973 at the Kent State gym.
Dark Side, Animals, Wish You Were Here - all better albums musically and conceptually, and all more fun.
So music opinions should be left to the musicians and the rest of us should just shut up about it. Brilliant. And think of the implications for politics and sports. Dimwit.
Well Skyhog, why don't you give it a shot and post it here so we can see how well you perform. Come on! Do it! Chicken shit.
But you did a good job baiting those of us who bothered to even comment on your ridiculous and irrelevant comment. (I spared 2 minutes of my day to write this whilst on the throne.)
Not the show, but the same tour and theatrics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dB6MQlFLu8
Yeah, if I never hear this or "Hey You" again...I'll be OK!
floyd's stuff is real simple (and lame), anyone can sound like them but the good ones choose not to
Well Skyhog, why don't you give it a shot and post it here so we can see how well you perform. Come on! Do it! Chicken shit.
But you did a good job baiting those of us who bothered to even comment on your ridiculous and irrelevant comment. (I spared 2 minutes of my day to write this whilst on the throne.)
Still love it, and the rest of the album, after all of these years. Haters be damned.
I much prefer the melodic PF led by David Gilmour and (the WAY-underrated) Rick Wright.
PSD
I think I kinda agree with that after nearly 50 years of listening to them. And having seen them live many times from 73 through 94, I didn't miss Roger in the incarnations after he left. Still love em, but yeah.
This statement is beyond comment. Shows your total lack of muscial knowledge, thank you!
Leave the classroom, you are dismissed!
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Apparently, that statement was not actually "beyond comment".
floyd's stuff is real simple (and lame), anyone can sound like them but the good ones choose not to
This statement is almost (
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Leave the classroom, you are dismissed!
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The cluster of Meddle/Dark Side/Wish/Animals is the way I choose to remember them..
Fun fact: my punk band was supposed to have a gig the day this record was due to hit the record stores and I regret to this day that we didn't huddle over "Comfortably Numb" and play it that night. No one would've been familiar with it to realize how bad our version would've been, but there would've been some fun bragging rights.
For sure, you didn't listen to Pink Floyd before '90s.
I think 1967 or '68 was the first time for me
floyd's stuff is real simple (and lame), anyone can sound like them but the good ones choose not to
For sure, you didn't listen to Pink Floyd before '90s.
Ya' all crack me up
....let me guess - Berklee graduates?
At least we can probably assume most are not graduates of, say, The School of Regressive Right-Wingnuts. Thank dawg.
floyd's stuff is real simple (and lame), anyone can sound like them but the good ones choose not to
Ya' all crack me up
....let me guess - Berklee graduates?
I much prefer the melodic PF led by David Gilmour and (the WAY-underrated) Rick Wright.
PSD
Seriously? You preffer the last commercial pink floyd albums than the first magic and creativity pink floyd albums? You should be crazy.
I figure when you wear a tape out, you have heard it enough, so no more for me please
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Absolutely!
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I much prefer the melodic PF led by David Gilmour and (the WAY-underrated) Rick Wright.
PSD
I am constantly amazed at how old some of this stuff is, sometimes it seems as only yesterday (well, perhaps a few years) since I first heard this and other great music from the 60s and 70s. OK, a bit from the 80s as well!
The "in" thing? As in, it's trendy to trash The Wall the way lesser people jealously diss the popular girl in class, but secretly wish she would smile at them?
Really, I think Pink Floyd (and its solo personnel) generated some pretty stellar music.
I also think they generated some real clunkers.
Not only do I believe "Run Like Hell" is a not highlight of The Wall — I firmly believe it's a clunker.
Tedious, contrived, overwrought.
But maybe I'm just jealous, and wish she would smile at me.
Actually, this is one of my favorite tracks from the album and I'm a whiner about "The Wall."
The "in" thing to trash "The Wall"? Stegokitty, this album came out thirty-six years ago. Mozart was already dead by that age. This album isn't trend-inspiring even on oldies stations.
No, that's wrong.
Seconded. PSD.
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Keep your guilty feelings deep inside.
Sometimes I think it's just the "in" thing to do.
The Wall is a fabulous album, and this is one of its highlights.
It kicks ass.
Maybe that's why it might seem out of place on Radio Paradise.
The "in" thing? As in, it's trendy to trash The Wall the way lesser people jealously diss the popular girl in class, but secretly wish she would smile at them?
Really, I think Pink Floyd (and its solo personnel) generated some pretty stellar music.
I also think they generated some real clunkers.
Not only do I believe "Run Like Hell" is a not highlight of The Wall — I firmly believe it's a clunker.
Tedious, contrived, overwrought.
But maybe I'm just jealous, and wish she would smile at me.
Sometimes I think it's just the "in" thing to do.
The Wall is a fabulous album, and this is one of its highlights.
It kicks ass.
Maybe that's why it might seem out of place on Radio Paradise.
It might have just been a right time and place type of thing , but this is the one album , above all others , that changed my life forever .
Well said. For me, in my era, that was DSOTM. Changed forever indeed. I need their music in a way I can't quite explain- it's more than simple musical appreciation.
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Can't quite go that far, but this is a stale tune from, perhaps, their least-visionary album.
It might have just been a right time and place type of thing , but this is the one album , above all others , that changed my life forever .
Can't quite go that far, but this is a stale tune from, perhaps, their least-visionary album.
And I have to say, this was a great movie. Just amazing to watch.
I've bleated my thoughts on this topic long and hard already...never thought the album or the movie made any sense as a story about an alienated rock star. Waters as far as I can tell contributed the young man's anger and denunciation of society in PF songs, but I agree with your statement that there wouldn't have been much music without Gilmour. Maybe there's more to it than that, I don't know...
phlattop wrote:
In a way, it's like their Sgt Pepper with Dark Side being Abbey Road (or Revolver). Not the overall strongest group of songs with a couple of amazing standouts (Numb being like "A Day in the Life"). Like it or not, a definite statement on the whole.
Thumbs up for the Alan Parker film.
After a few years of listening to The Wall all the way through and then piecemeal, I got a similar feeling although you'd have to clue me in on that "definite statement on the whole." It's as if Waters had a good start to a story and some great songs to advance it, but then flaked out and really couldn't put it all together. If there's a conflict or resolution to The Wall's story, I've forgotten it. The star is alienated from his fans and longing for something lost in his childhood, largely due to his repressive and hateful mother. His wife leaves him and he goes into a sort of manic rage, inciting violence at a concert. I can't forget how the whole mess ends or what the message is. The Who's "Tommy" may seem dated now, but at least you could get a handle on what the hell was going on.
But you're right, phlattop, The Wall was a great antidote to disco and corporate rock. Pop culture was tired and flabby and not terribly reflective of people's dissatisfaction with their lives and society. Punk came out of that dissatisfaction. As I've elsewhere on RP, the film "Ordinary People" had the same bomb-blast effect, showing sterile lives and repressed pain in the suburbs.
The Wall had the same rage and denunciation of being slowly ground down emotionally and pigeonholed into a pre-assigned life. It was a double-album primal scream that didn't have any answers. You're right, it did take balls. You have to wonder whether PF's record label was scared of fans rejecting the whole angry mess.
But anger and alienation sell lots of pop music--then, now and likely always. It's pretty funny that Waters has mellowed a lot and performs The Wall concerts almost as a nostalgia act (and a very profitable one, too).
In a way, it's like their Sgt Pepper with Dark Side being Abbey Road (or Revolver). Not the overall strongest group of songs with a couple of amazing standouts (Numb being like "A Day in the Life"). Like it or not, a definite statement on the whole.
Thumbs up for the Alan Parker film.
And I have to say, this was a great movie. Just amazing to watch.
Were you using the beta version of Google translate when you wrote this?
Some nerd humor for y'all.
NeuroGeek wrote:
Wow.
I would love to see Proclivities comment on this.
I have taught myself to generally refrain from commenting on Pink Floyd's post-1971 material, particularly anything from this album. Bigbitty's comment is pretty funny and provocative at the same time, however.
Wow.
I would love to see Proclivities comment on this.
MassivRuss wrote:
But, y'know what? This is one of the most over-rated albums of all time. They just did better work, in every way, on "Wish You Were Here", "Dark Side of the Moon", and "Animals".
Hopefully the schoolmaster was merciful.
But, y'know what? This is one of the most over-rated albums of all time. They just did better work, in every way, on "Wish You Were Here", "Dark Side of the Moon", and "Animals".
"...in every way..."??
Debatable.
But, y'know what? This is one of the most over-rated albums of all time. They just did better work, in every way, on "Wish You Were Here", "Dark Side of the Moon", and "Animals".
I'm pretty sure i agree with this post.
Almost positive I concur.
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Thank you!
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... we love this song... love this great album... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
I'm pretty sure i agree with this post.
Of course, it may be that I have no taste. I also enjoyed a day at a bluegrass festival many years, with more versions of "Rocky Top" than I can count.