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still remember being a young kid on the school bus when the movie was released, and every portable radio/boombox was playing Another Brick in the Wall pt 2.....absolutely loved that song from the moment i heard it...it was so vastly different from the other popular music (circa late 70's early 80's) it seemed kinda heavy (although not in the same way heavy metal does) and had a haunting quality as well....
gotta remember..at that time, if you turned on the radio, chances are you either heard the disco version of the star-wars theme or 'boogie woogie dancing shoes'....(and if neither of those rings a bell you'll just have to trust me...it was awful)
so although punk was coming in, and claiming that super-groups like floyd were over the hill or too pompous or whatever, that song, and that moment in time was kinda like a watershed moment...i'm not gonna say that tune was the one that killed disco....but wow...it sure as shit knocked it the fuck out of my schoolyard...like most folks tho, it wasn't til i was in highschool myself that i really truly got into them...bought all the albums, saw them in concert a few times etc....
to this day, they're still probably my favorite band....