Talk:Sunsetters/@comment-9843739-20140127015013/@comment-1988716-20140127140820

Hahaha, oh god The Wall. Feel free to dismiss this post because this is entirely just my way of looking at things, but to me The Wall is barely even a rock opera, and it's certainly not a good introduction into musical narratives. Pink Floyd generally isn't good with those, they're much better at more broad concept albums such as Animals or The Dark Side of the Moon. The Wall is a character study where nothing actually happens until Disc Two.

The only immediate plot of The Wall is "Pink performs a concert when drugged up and traumatized, gets chased out, then undergoes a big mental transformation." Everything in the album before that is backstory setting that up. I would be a lot kinder to the album had it not made it clear that the entire first disc happens as Pink sits, in Disc Two, remembering them. Then it would have just been a fictional biopic of sorts, a story about the entire life of a character. But it wasn't. The focus of the narrative was put on "Oh, hang on, before we tell you the actual story, let's just bring you up to speed. Okay, now here we are, let's do this! And we're done already."

I suppose that can be interesting to people, and I don't judge people for loving the story. Hell, admittedly I find it a depressing album and I love depressing stories, so I appreciate it for that.

Have you ever listened to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway? It's a surrealist rock opera about.. well, a teenage gangster's journey through a post-apocalyptic nightmare world. One of Genesis's best. Then again, most of their albums with Peter Gabriel are my favourites, so I'm biased.

To answer your question, you are not the only one who wants to hear Summer Sucks. When I was coming up with the concept, I was given the title and basically just went "Okay, what's a story I'd listen to with a name like that?" So naturally I'd love to hear it too. Can't say if we ever will, though. ......as in, I know the answer, but I cannot say it. ;D