By popular demand, my personal "Alternate track listing" for The Wall by Pink Floyd, a brilliant but troubled production with band morale at an all time low which resulted in Roger Waters firing Richard Wright. This playlist reinstates him as a featured player, singer and songwriter using songs from his solo album Wet Dream to create a more collaborative feel a la Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here. Tracks are also included from David Gilmour's self-titled 1978 album as well as tracks from their subsequent live tour off of Is There Anybody Out There.

You can listen to the full playlist on YouTube:
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Following a series of successful progressive rock albums (Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals) Pink Floyd (Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright) set out to create their most ambitious project yet. Inspired by a gig in Montreal where Roger spat on a fan, he sought to create a wall around the audience which producer Bob Ezrin suggested he explore as a stage show. Roger's wall was a metaphor for isolation and mental illness (also using Syd Barrett as inspiration). But tensions between the band eventually lead to Roger firing Rick (who would stay on as a salaried musician). Roger and David had intense arguments over direction of the piece. David had three co-composition credits with Roger, Young Lust, Run Like the Hell, and the iconic Comfortably Numb. Outside of a co-composition credit to Bob Ezrin, Roger wrote The Wall himself, Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 becoming a number 1 hit single while fan favorites In the Flesh and Hey You continue to be played today. Many fans, myself included, feel there is a collaborative element missing on this album that was heard on their previous records. Their chemistry would return on the live show, once released as Is There Anybody Out There. As an experiment, I attempted editing a version of the album using songs from Rick Wright's 1978 Wet Dream album as well as David Gilmour's self titled solo album. This is the product I came up with.