Whichever medium you experience it in-album, film, or live-The Wall opens with a show in grand opera format. It’s a somber welcome and the perfect invitation to dig deeper into Pink’s story. Loud and Over the Top – Bombastic is a term often used to describe the track, it almost has a surreal circus feel to it. After a deceptively short, very quiet snippet of “Outside The Wall,” the album kicks off in earnest with “In The Flesh?”, a blast of furious guitar and pounding drums. If advanced pyrotechnics were music, it would sound like the opening of this album. The Wall literally opens with the musical equivalent of a 15 kiloton explosion. The movie restores about 20 seconds of the missing parts. Camera: Eliot Rockett Approximately one minute was cut from “In The Flesh?”.
