When pink's father is loading the revolver in the opening, did Roger Waters record that especially for the film? I cannot find any info on it and it's not on my Pink Floyd album?
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The song is When the Tigers Broke Free. It's on the Final Cut cd.
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As stated above, it's called "The Day The Tigers Broke Free". It was intended for inclusion on a soundtrack LP featuring "What Shall We Do Now", some of the more radically altered songs ("Mother", "Bring the Boys Back Home" and "Outside the Wall") and those for which Geldof recorded lead vocals.
In the end this album never happened but the track was released as a 7" single coupled with the movie version of "Bring the Boys Back Home".
It did later feature on the "Echoes" collection and the last two reissue editions of "The Final Cut", finally making it easy for fans to locate, unlike those other two "lost" Pink Floyd singles "It Would Be So Nice" and "Point Me At the Sky"
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It should be noted that the version of When the Tigers Broke Free that's on the re-issue of The Final Cut is not the version from the film. It's close, but not quite the same...and the original is better in my opinion.
I have a CD Maxi Single from the Berlin Wall concert that contains the original version from the film as a extra track. The song is out there...it's just difficult to locate the original cut.
The song was written for "The Wall" but excluded on the grounds that it was too "Roger Waters-specific"...it was thought by the band that the way to get listeners to relate was to be more general in the lyrics. When the movie was being put together, specifity was favored, and the song was put back in--in two parts.
It was released with the b-side "Bring the Boys Back Home" in 1982. There was even a music video released at the time, which is slightly different from the footage seen in the movie.
"The Wall" film was originally supposed to spawn a soundtrack, featuring all of the alternate/extended/remixed and new tracks, called "Spare Bricks". The album never materialized.
As other people have mentioned in this thread, you can download it on itunes from the "Final Cut" version they feature on there, on two reissue CDs, and on the "Echoes" compilation.