Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Discussions about Pink Floyd and Solo Official Album CDs and DVDs.

Rate this album

5 - Best
1
5%
4
8
38%
3
7
33%
2
5
24%
1 - Worst
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 21

User avatar
drafsack
Site Admin
Site Admin
Posts: 4370
Joined: Fri Jun 21, 2002 7:53 am
Location: Krud City

Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by drafsack »

This thread is to discuss Roger Waters' When The Wind Blows Soundtrack.

Feel free to discuss the album!

Image

The Russian Missile
Towers Of Faith
Hilda's Dream
The American Bomber
The Anderson Shelter
The British Submarine
The Attack
The Fall Out
Hilda's Hair
Folded Flags
User avatar
J Ed
Supreme Lord!
Supreme Lord!
Posts: 5133
Joined: Tue May 11, 2004 2:36 am
Location: in a midwestern-type autoplant town, waiting for the autopocalypse to come

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by J Ed »

an underrated and hard to find mid80s Roger solo project
it came out the year before Radio KAOS with little fanfare and I think was the same band he used for KAOS and its tour
the first side is different songs by different artists, and Ive never listened to it: 80s Bowie and 80s Genesis are amongst the songs Ive never bothered with
Rogers bit takes up all of side 2, and was one 20-odd minute track on cd if you can find the cd
the middle ten minutes of Rogers side consists of a sound collage made up of elements from the film with a few instrumental interludes
Djgilmour
Blade
Blade
Posts: 109
Joined: Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:46 pm

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by Djgilmour »

This is not really a great album but it does contain one of His best songs ever recorded:

Towers of Faith. Better than anything on Kaos. It is up there in my top 5 Roger Waters solo songs.
User avatar
Idisaffect
Judge!
Judge!
Posts: 2039
Joined: Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:20 am
Gender: Male
Location: here now

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by Idisaffect »

Folded Flags is a great song, too.

I Found the movie a few years ago. The movie is depressing.
User avatar
Stephen
Supreme Lord!
Supreme Lord!
Posts: 9202
Joined: Mon Apr 21, 2003 6:08 pm
Gender: Male
Location: Cheshire

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by Stephen »

Idisaffect wrote:
I Found the movie a few years ago. The movie is depressing.

Extremely so. For anyone who's not yet seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbsrJuAoQo
User avatar
danielcaux
Supreme Judge!
Supreme Judge!
Posts: 2546
Joined: Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:25 am
Location: Abya Yala

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by danielcaux »

I personally think that it's a so so soundtrack. The ambient and spoken tracks are the highlight for me, really. I get a bigger emotional response out from them than from the two or three proper songs that Roger did. They sound a little half baked and uninspired, you could even say that they are a blue print for what would eventually become his later "trademark" style in KAOS, Amused, Kill The Child and Leaving Beirut: sparse music, slooooow tempos (listen to those drums on Towers of Faith!), bluesy guitar licks, bombastic choruses that lack real melodic hooks, and a lot of narration-like lyrics and singing. Not my type of thing, but oh well, it is better than the first side, except for the Genesis instrumental.
Kind of pedantic to quote myself by I thought it could add to the discussion on this thread. I should add that the opening guitar riff by Bowie is nice too. But only the opening riff.

Anyway, don't you think that it's quite possible that the first side of this soundtrack could have influenced Waters in his production choices for Radio KAOS? Perhaps he didn't like being relegated to the b side of the soundtrack and therefore wanted to sound modern and hip like those old farts Bowie and Collins were sounding! :o
J Ed wrote:Rogers bit takes up all of side 2, and was one 20-odd minute track on cd if you can find the cd
Does that mean that the CD doesn't have the Roger songs separated in different tracks? Just a continuous 20 minute track like Echoes?
mosespa wrote:14. Pipes And Drums
thehumanzoo wrote:I've heard the rest, but I have no idea what this is.
J Ed wrote:its a musical fragment from When the Wind Blows
mosespa wrote:An instrumental version of Folded Flags, essentially.
Is Pipe and Drums an outtake from this soundtrack? Or an instrumental made by someone else?
User avatar
Felix Atagong
Axe
Axe
Posts: 77
Joined: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:52 pm
Gender: Male
Location: Louvain, Belgium

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by Felix Atagong »

Yes, my CD as well has only one Waters track, and I remember I amused myself to death making a separate paper with the different track times for the different parts (in order to program my cd player).

I thought that the whole 'suite' had a certain experimental feel, very sixties-ish...
User avatar
moom
Supreme Lord!
Supreme Lord!
Posts: 15156
Joined: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:41 pm
Gender: Male
Location: Dylan Moran as Bernie, in whom Ray Davies meets Pete Doherty. Otherwise, Tallinn, Estonia.

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by moom »

Same story as with Amused To Death, except I hadn't rated this before and also I fail to see a connections between some of the very obscure details, but don't mind that.
Morty
Axe
Axe
Posts: 55
Joined: Thu Oct 09, 2014 9:11 pm

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by Morty »

This is a good soundtrack. Some good bits from Roger, and a really great film indeed.
The Crazy Diamond
Blade
Blade
Posts: 206
Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:56 pm
Location: Working as a Marmite test pilot.

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by The Crazy Diamond »

Raymond Briggs, the snowman originator, produced a excellent comic strip book of this album...
User avatar
twcc
Site Admin
Site Admin
Posts: 1497
Joined: Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:02 pm
Gender: Male
Location: Whitelackington, UK

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by twcc »

The Crazy Diamond wrote:Raymond Briggs, the snowman originator, produced a excellent comic strip book of this album...
The book came first, there was also a stage show in London ... that was good. For information, the film is available on Blu-ray in a limited edition of 3,000 units.
User avatar
twcc
Site Admin
Site Admin
Posts: 1497
Joined: Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:02 pm
Gender: Male
Location: Whitelackington, UK

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by twcc »

^^^
Slightly on a tangent and by way of an update to the above, plus a bit of advance news, BFI are issuing a combined DVD / Blu-ray of the film on 22 January 2018

For those seeking a UK sourced item (I assume Blu-ray 'B' and DVD '2') then try Amazon ASIN: B076M98H2M
The Crazy Diamond
Blade
Blade
Posts: 206
Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:56 pm
Location: Working as a Marmite test pilot.

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by The Crazy Diamond »

Its a valuable part of any floydian vinyl collection, the book is good as well if you can find a copy
Vegetable Layne
Axe
Axe
Posts: 46
Joined: Sun Apr 10, 2016 5:12 am

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by Vegetable Layne »

danielcaux wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:20 am
I personally think that it's a so so soundtrack. The ambient and spoken tracks are the highlight for me, really. I get a bigger emotional response out from them than from the two or three proper songs that Roger did. They sound a little half baked and uninspired, you could even say that they are a blue print for what would eventually become his later "trademark" style in KAOS, Amused, Kill The Child and Leaving Beirut: sparse music, slooooow tempos (listen to those drums on Towers of Faith!), bluesy guitar licks, bombastic choruses that lack real melodic hooks, and a lot of narration-like lyrics and singing. Not my type of thing, but oh well, it is better than the first side, except for the Genesis instrumental.
Kind of pedantic to quote myself by I thought it could add to the discussion on this thread. I should add that the opening guitar riff by Bowie is nice too. But only the opening riff.

Anyway, don't you think that it's quite possible that the first side of this soundtrack could have influenced Waters in his production choices for Radio KAOS? Perhaps he didn't like being relegated to the b side of the soundtrack and therefore wanted to sound modern and hip like those old farts Bowie and Collins were sounding! :o
J Ed wrote:Rogers bit takes up all of side 2, and was one 20-odd minute track on cd if you can find the cd
Does that mean that the CD doesn't have the Roger songs separated in different tracks? Just a continuous 20 minute track like Echoes?
mosespa wrote:14. Pipes And Drums
thehumanzoo wrote:I've heard the rest, but I have no idea what this is.
J Ed wrote:its a musical fragment from When the Wind Blows
mosespa wrote:An instrumental version of Folded Flags, essentially.
Is Pipe and Drums an outtake from this soundtrack? Or an instrumental made by someone else?
Its Hilda's Dream from the When the Wind Blows album, just renamed (and edited slightly to exclude the element tying to the narrative).
User avatar
twcc
Site Admin
Site Admin
Posts: 1497
Joined: Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:02 pm
Gender: Male
Location: Whitelackington, UK

Re: Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows Soundtrack

Post by twcc »

I've just dug out the soundtrack and it's not bad; interesting to re-listen to David Bowie, Hugh Cornwell, Squeeze and Paul Hardcastle (I skipped the Genesis track).

Interesting to note that the back cover of the CD indicates that the album comprises 15 distinct tracks but as noted above it is, in reality, just 6 with the Roger Waters and the Bleeding Heart 'ten element' material presented as one 24m26s piece.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.