Yeah that is true. Thank God for leaks.

The worst thing for me is I don't understand what he's thinking. The songs are ready, he's filthy rich, Slash is back in the band, the label will let him do whatever he wants, and yet there is nothing. He said in that China exchange interview that he still wanted to release new music, so what gives? He could literally fart into a glass with Slash riffing and there would still be public interest, and here he is hogging all these great songs!

The Wall has always been separate for me. In my Pink Floyd playlist I only have Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals. The three classic Floyd albums with that spacey sound. The Wall is different precisely because Wright and Gilmour are not really involved. Waters dominates the sound. I don't think it's better than the other three, especially not Dark Side of the Moon. It's still very, very good though and worthy of being called a Floyd album.

I'm not going to disagree Dark Side is the best album of all time, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been even better. "Time" in particular is the song I'm concerned about. I no longer find David Gilmour credible when he sings those lyrics. Money yes, Dogs for sure, but not on this existential song about the inevitability of death. Waters lack of technical ability is more than made up for with emotion, and this song demands it. I'm looking forward to the rerecording but I would prefer to hear him sing it in his young voice.

That Comfortably Numb is an amazing achievement. You would have to be crazy to try and remake such a classic song, and I'm sure he's doing it to spite Gilmour and Wright too. He makes some very good choices. Obviously the guitar solo has to go. You can't make a better guitar solo so why try. Instead he gives us this amazing, Gig in the Sky type vocal line. The more I think about it the more I think it is brilliant. It shouldn't be possible to make a worthy remake of that song, you would expect it to be halfway embarassing to be honest, and yet he pulls it off at 80 years old and motivated by a type of spite you only see in kids. It's like he's telling them, I don't need you, I don't even need to replace you. I can do something completely different on my own and it will be just as good.

Waters did a Q&A with Nick Mason some years back, it's on youtube, and in response to his musical powers he claimed to still be peaking. When I heard that I laughed and to some extent I still do, but now I can see why he might think that. In some respects he has evolved as a musician and is doing it better than ever. His latest album had a couple of very strong songs and this Comfortably Numb remake makes me very excited for the new Dark Side remake as well. The guy is 80 years old! Mick and Keith yeah they are still going, but they don't really give a fuck. This guy does. He's still a kid, eager to learn and to prove himself. That is rare.

Been listening to the Wall after the latest Roger Waters debacle.

Ricky Wright is barely felt on this album and Gilmour's only claim to fame is the solo on Comfortably Numb. For all intents and purposes this is a Roger Waters solo album. But it still feels like a Pink Floyd album. Whereas Gilmour and Wright's Division Bell doesn't feel like Floyd at all despite having the superficial sound.

I think Waters should have had more lead vocals on Dark Side. His voice is simply better despite being technically inferior to Gilmour. He really is the band and always was. This I think Mason accepts which is why he gets on well with Roger, while the other two were always in denial. Waters is still out there at 80 captivating a young audience. Not just musically either, but politically keeping the Floyd spirit alive in the full sense of it, while Dave sits at home, hogging the Pink Floyd brand, donating to global warming and calling Waters a racist on Twitter.

To me it's become obvious who is the fraud.

I don't know what Roy Thomas Baker problem was when he told Axl he had no hits. I'm listening to the 98 mix of CD (song) and to me that's a fucking hit in 2000. The Blues is a hit. Catcher could be a hit. Those songs were ruined in production.

Oh My God was dumb thing to do. The only reason they put it on the soundtrack is because it has "God" in the title. It's a good song but definitely not a hit or something you want to promote. If Chinese Democracy is attached to a big movie you could have a smash hit on your hands. It's a kickass, no nonsense rock song with a modern feel to it and Axl sounds amazing on it.

So many mistakes and missed opportunities.

Their setlist is actually fairly even on material. About 10 songs from the 80s, 10 from the 90s and 10 other songs. That surprised me.

But why do the worst song on AFD? They could do The Garden or Pretty Tied Up, You Ain't the First, Bad Obsession, so many more interesting choices.