the hammers

Piper · Post by **Piper** » Wed May 07, 2003 9:22 pm

I was wondering, what exactly is the importance of the Floyd hammer insignia? I'm figuring they come from the Wall movie, which i've never seen. What exactly were they supposed to symbolize, if anything?

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Wed May 07, 2003 9:27 pm

They look good.

SomeGhostsStepOut · Post by **SomeGhostsStepOut** » Wed May 07, 2003 10:06 pm

It symbolizes oppression or dictatorship. Sort of like the swastika.

Pugs on the Wing · Post by **Pugs on the Wing** » Wed May 07, 2003 10:42 pm

The tools that help build the wall, which, I guess, is oppression.

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Wed May 07, 2003 10:43 pm

This is all sounding very cynical!

Post by **Keith Jordan** » Wed May 07, 2003 10:48 pm

Those hammers represent cold repression and lack of feeling for me. Very violent instruments. Brutally opressive to a person.

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Wed May 07, 2003 10:52 pm

Love those hammers in the Brick 2 promo. The essence of coolness, and you know I'm right!

Mmm, DG solo... Classic.

JML · Post by **JML** » Thu May 08, 2003 12:52 pm

Hammers... bang bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head.

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Thu May 08, 2003 3:50 pm

Hammers are used normally when something is being molded or shaped. For me the hammer represents a dictatorship with the hammers symbolising conformity (that a word?) An army that molds the public to being like them mentally.

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Thu May 08, 2003 3:51 pm

JML wrote:Hammers... bang bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head.

I love that song. I don't care what they say!

Pugs on the Wing · Post by **Pugs on the Wing** » Thu May 08, 2003 3:57 pm

And the fact that it was thought up by a former architechture student...pretty ingenious.

crofloyd · Post by **crofloyd** » Thu May 08, 2003 9:08 pm

Bang, bang, Maxwell's Silver Hammer make sure that she was there...

SydsMadcapGirl · Post by **SydsMadcapGirl** » Fri May 09, 2003 1:23 am

Feeling Very Pink wrote:
JML wrote:Hammers... bang bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head.
I love that song. I don't care what they say!

Meeeee toooooo! It's fun!!

decampos · Post by **decampos** » Fri May 09, 2003 12:49 pm

SydsMadcapGirl wrote:
Feeling Very Pink wrote: I love that song. I don't care what they say!
Meeeee toooooo! It's fun!!

I'm fond of that song too. I prefer the version on Anthology 3 to the album version. It's a much nicer song with out the guitar, sound effects and that ghastly Moog synth.

The hammers? yeah, Gerald Scarfe thought them up. He described hammers as vicious (when wielded), oppressive and unrelenting.

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Fri May 09, 2003 1:09 pm

On Abbey Road Maxwell's Silver Hammer is definitly my least favourite. It'a much in the style of Octopus' Garden and things, basically joke songs, which can be funny until it occurs to you that you spent like a tenner on the album.