I didnt hear no bell series#
rock station KMET was switched to an automated New Age format.īut a radio single just wasn't the place to tell that story either.In Rocky V - one of the least known of the series of films - Rocky has a flashback where he sees himself inside the ring with his trainer, Mickey. In a moment of sad irony, Ladd lost his real-life job as Waters' LP was being completed when the L.A. These dangers were quite real – and not just the end-of-the-world War Games-esque stuff. The larger issues are barely explained across the whole of Radio K.A.O.S., a point that Waters seemed to concede by including a libretto in the packaging that tried to put things in perspective. Who is this boy? Why is calling Ladd? What's he got against trout? These things are not explained, and cannot be, in a single song. Of course, "Sunset Strip" can't connect all of those dots. Hoping to scare the world into peace accords, Billy very nearly triggers Armageddon later on when he can't reach Ladd, using the same phone to hack into competing nuclear-weapon systems. The song's lithe groove and laughing DJ stand in contrast to its lonesome narrative, and the concluding conversation is both deeply weird and rather dark – especially the implication found in Waters' final double entendre about the sole.īilly becomes increasingly isolated, even as he begins to realize more about his powers – and how he might use them for the greater good. "Roger knew what he wanted to get, but he didn’t script it out because wanted it as real and gut-level as possible." "We did about two hours of material, virtually all improvised – just off the top of our heads," he said. These interactions were recorded at Waters' home studio and were largely unscripted, Ladd told the Times. That way you don't have to see the eyes," Billy says with the aid of a computer-generated voice assistant. But Billy presses on: " My least-hated, favorite fish would be sole. Ladd pushes Billy to make a song request, assuming that's why he called in. In a curious moment, they eventually begin talking about Billy's distaste for various kinds of fish, of which there are many. He takes some comfort in calling into a radio show helmed by real-life DJ Jim Ladd, and the song discusses his arrival in America – and what Billy misses about home. "Sunset Strip" arrives as song-cycle protagonist Billy, the wheelchair-using paraplegic boy from Wales, is sent to Los Angeles to live with a relative. Watch Roger Waters' Video for 'Sunset Strip'
I allowed myself to get pushed down roads that were uncomfortable for me. "We tried too hard to make it sound modern. "Between Ian Ritchie and myself, we really fucked that record up," Waters admitted in Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd.
And it certainly wasn't going to magically transform these songs into hit singles. No amount of DX7, Fairlight or E-mu programming was going to fix that. Its narrative complexity also tended to make bite-sized singles a rather bewildering experience. So a looming, radio-unfriendly portent ran through the album. wanted to be about miscommunication, monetarism and how mass media can let us down. "I'm not going to talk about the plot of the record," he said in another contemporary interview, "and I'll tell you why: because it sounds crazed – and it is mildly crazed if I start describing it." His followers simply didn't connect with a convoluted plot involving displaced coal miners, a palsy sufferer who could channel radio waves, a rogue disc jockey trying to hold onto a dying format and, toward the end, a potentially catastrophic simulation of World War III.Įven back then, Waters seemed weary with trying to explain how it all came together. A poorly selling tour in support of Radio K.A.O.S. None of the four released songs finished in the U.K. 12, 1987, as the second of those singles, and like the others, it failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
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