Stop (Pink Floyd song)

November 30, 1979

Stop is a title of the British rock band Pink Floyd from the 1979 published concept album The Wall. It was composed by Roger Waters and is the shortest song in the band.

Content and music

Within the album The Wall, which is about the life story of the protagonist Pink, who erected to protect him against emotional influences an imaginary wall, marked stop a key point: Pink wakes up from his induced by drugs notions of being a fascist dictator, and begins to rationally ask what the wall has brought him, and if he himself is not responsible for his problems. Ultimately, these considerations lead to the following piece on Stop The Trial in the Pink himself accuses himself before an imaginary court.

Like most other tracks on the album also stop in the The Wall film was recorded. This lets you play the song in a toilet room. Pink holed up in a toilet and speaks completely knocked down the text of the play, but in addition a few other verses from that time still unreleased material by Roger Waters. The lines " Do you remember me / How we used to be / Do you think We Should Be Closer? " was later published as Possible in Your Pasts on the album The Final Cut. When the door of his " cell" is opened, starts the animated sequences are shown in The Trial.

The music of the play is to match the uncertain situation that is described in the song, very reserved and quiet. In addition to Roger Waters ' vocals can be heard only a piano.

Publication and live performances

Stop was released on the album The Wall, next to it is also on Roger Waters solo album The Wall - Live in Berlin included. From Pink Floyd it was played exclusively on The Wall Tour 1980/1981, Roger Waters led it to his departure from the band in 1990 while the The Wall show at at the Berlin Potsdamer Platz and built it into the The Wall Live Tour 2010-2012 one, on which the entire album is played. During the live performance a large rag doll is usually the pink showing on the big built, belonging to the stage show wall set. After stop the doll is thrown down on the stage and The Trial begins.

Occupation

  • Roger Waters - vocals
  • Richard Wright - piano
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