The Wall

This album means so much to me. It has been my favorite album ever since I was around 12-13. I used to listen to it on repeat every day. There are so many layers to its narrative and every time I come back to it, I feel I've gotten something new out of it. David Gilmour is my guitar idol. His guitar playing on this album is what I have strived to emulate my entire guitar-playing life. As a boy, my guitar teacher put me on this album and told me "we are going to learn this front to back. You will learn all the guitar parts and you will be a better guitar player for it" and he was right. Aside from the guitar, I am a sucker for a rock opera/concept album. When the songs blend together perfectly and build on top of each other it's just... chef's kiss. It's like the Abbey Road Medley but all the way through. Not only is this a concept album though, it's pretty much THE concept album for me. The themes of self-enforced solitude hit really hard for me in my formative years. The various characters of the album seemed resonated with me, however naive my perspective on them at the time, at different points in my life and that's special. Even today, I think about this album daily. When I'm in a bad mood, this is the album I throw on. There have been times in my life where I've caught myself building up my own Wall, and having this album with me for the journey and having the resolution of Outside the Wall has always been my motivator for getting out of those funks. I'm not eloquent enough to properly communicate how much this album means to me, but it will forever be the album that means the most to me. I truly cannot give it a score out of 5, but I have to. It's perfection.

OH what an album. It is a vast monster. My first exposure to this album and Pink Floyd was from my high school English teacher. It is a masterpiece. It's also very long and so not a one sit listen.

I thought I like'em but the whole album is too much

For such a classic I’ve only listened to this album a few times but it’s really pretty incredible and I think I’ll only grow fonder of it the more I listen to it Right now it’s sitting at around a 4 for me Favorites: goodbye blue sky, young lust, in the flesh, pretty much the whole 2nd half

Growing up I had this on LP but only the first half. There was a hole in the 2nd half, so Comfortably Numb was unheard to me. Anyway, I loved side 1. Thought Mother was an amazing way to close it. Eventually I flipped it, and found it all pretty bleak. Even as a 14 year old in 1996, I thought side 2 was too depressing to listen to. When I finally bought the CD, I was a bit let down. Hey You was nice, and obviously Comfortably Numb is one of the all time greats.. but it's surrounded by what feels like filler. So much that by the time I get to The Trial I am like "I am second hand embarrassed to be listening to this." Roger Waters, please go to therapy. Blah blah it's got some really really good tunes but as an artistic statement it took a life of it's own and now it's kind of defined who Roger Waters is and maybe also Pink Floyd too. And that's a shame because there are at least 5 PF records better than this one.

Cool

I grew up with Pink Floyd and know this entire album by heart, but it never ever gets old. One of my favorite albums of all time.

didn't listen to it enough to give it a fair chance, but generally not a big fan.

I listened to "Tommy" by The Who yesterday (another rock opera), so the concept is still fresh in my mind. I didn't like this one as much as "Tommy" at first, but it got better as it went on, and "The Wall" is definitely superior to me. It's much darker with the themes of war (Cold War?) and division with the building of walls. And I do tend to like music with dark undertones more than standard poppy stuff for the most part. On top of well done music (it's progressive rock, which can take some getting used to), it's dramatic and grand like a stage show ("The Trial" I can definitely picture on Broadway). I loved "Goodbye Blue Sky" and "Is There Anybody Out There?" the most, but the other songs weave together seamlessly and create a wonderful story progression.

The most extraordinary and powerful concept album. I had an original vinyl pressing and saw them perform it in full at their Earl's Court 'residency' in August 1980 - although that mostly involved the construction and demolition of a huge wall right across the front of the stage as I recall! But it's epic and timeless.

I was a School kid myself when "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" became a Number 1 single so it does immediately bring up a time and a place. I had never heard this album in its entirety and the words “concept album” or “rock opera” would send warning signals out. These days “double album” comes with a mild trigger warning. However this is actually a fairly easy listen and a well sequenced album to play through.

Best: Comfortably Numb Green: Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1, Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2, Young Lust, Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3, Hey You, The Show Must Go On, Run Like Hell Yellow: In the Flesh?, The Thin Ice, Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, Nobody Home, Vera, In The Flesh, Stop, The Trial, Outside the Wall Red: Empty Spaces, One of My Turns, Don’t Leave Me Now, Goodbye Cruel World, Is There Anybody Out There?, Bring the Boys Back Home, Waiting for the Worms

I mean...

Forgot how much of an absolute banger this is.

Some of the best songs ever, and also some absolute guff

I think Pink Floyd definitely hit their highest highs on this album but there's also some sluggish parts. 4.5/5

I'm a little biased here, but this is one of my all time favorite records. I can listen to this album over and over again and not get bored. This is what a concept album is supposed to be. It takes you on a journey with the main character. The lyrics are great and the guitars are even better. Comfortably Numb has probably my favorite guitar solo and I still get chills every time I hear it.

5 again. Would love to sit down and listen to this in full and follow the story with nothing else going on in my world. Really enjoyed it nevertheless

Overblown theatrical rock.

When this album was released, my mother had a "book fund"—a small amount set aside each month that allowed us to buy a book. I managed to convince her that this album was just as good as—if not better than—a book. It worked! If this album were, in fact, a book, I would call it a "must-read."

Fucking classic

This is my first listening in full. Did some reading beforehand and hadn’t fully comprehended the story, let alone what led to it. I enjoyed it and for me it’s an album, obviously with some individual hits, but seems best when listened in full. Waters why did you have to go and ruin it all!

"Hey, you Would you help me to carry the stone? Open your heart, I'm coming home But it was only fantasy The wall was too high, as you can see No matter how he tried, he could not break free And the worms ate into his brain"

Hvis der skulle vælges ét stykke kunst, som har gjort absolut størst indtryk på mig, så er det dette. Der er ikke så meget mere at sige til det. 5.0

i don't think i can stomach looking at the reviews for this on here

Almost more of a story than an album, but backed by some strong songs and visionary music, it's a potent listening experience. Not the most exciting thing to listen through, but at the same time it sounds good and it does have to be respected and admired

Переоценен

This album is A LOT. I'm not sure I understood everything that's going on but I enjoyed the experience. I appreciate the creativity but it's something that needs to be heard in it's entirety which kills some of the replayability but there a a few great tracks that stand out on their own too. 3.5* rounded up to 4*

I don't think there's any way for me to listen to this without all the baggage. I'm sure the music is really great, but equally sure it's nothing like 14 year old me heard. And I'm so relieved to not be 14 year old me, who thought this was so profound.

ja das pink floyd he. wel echt een lang album

4.74

Love

Never listened to a full Pink Floyd album until now. Nice.

If they wrote this in 1979, how did they know Hunter would like it so much?

day 27 of not rolling Aja by Steely Dan i mean come on. it's the wall. my rating is honest, but to be fair, i like this album as a concept more than i enjoy sitting down to listen to the entire thing. it's long, but at least it tells a really interesting (and sonically proficient) story that's worth its nearly 1.5 hour runtime. but it can feel like a chore (today it feels like a chore) to sit down and give the FULL thing a listen for the sake of rating it honestly. i mean it's a 5. but still. a 5 that is a chore somewhat. "Comfortably Numb" is in constant disputation for the "Greatest Guitar Solo of All Time," and i figure that conversation won't ever really end. it's very good. the song is very good. the first time i heard it, i was in 9th grade on vacation in West Virginia with family and we were staying at this wooden lodge surrounded by forests for like four miles in any direction. the house was dead-quiet one pre-Christmas afternoon, and we were packed in under a half-foot of snow reading, playing games, sitting around, whatever, and "Comfortably Numb" came on the iHome (hell yeah 2009 tech again) and nobody moved. everyone had heard this song before, probably two dozen times or whatever. i was the youngest in the room who was old enough to really care about music-- my siblings were like 6 and 8 or something-- and i remember feeling completely moved by this song. that memory is one of my most vivid, so i guess this is one of the most important songs i've ever listened to? i don't know. after this, i would request this song again so many times my family would tell me to shut up (it was, after all, Christmas, meaning Christmas music was the de facto listen and I had just gotten lucky with some Pink Floyd that one afternoon). it's definitely famous for a reason!

An incredible album, no debate here. I personally enjoy The Dark Side Of The Moon more, but this still gets an easy 4.5 from me. I think the legendarily ambitious structure and storyline behind this album makes it a little less digestible in the one album a day format. Still has some incredible moments for sure. Comfortably Numb will always be a legendary track. It also took me back to watching those creepy-ass animations from the movie while on shrooms at The House. Good times. 4.5

I listened to this once as a kid and, despite liking it, was so exhausted I don't think I listened to it in full again until today. It's a great work of art and I think that it really pushes the album media to its limits. But also 1 hour 20 minutes and a dense story is asking a lot. Great moments throughout!

DIDN’T SEE THIS ONE COMING DID YA

Do you like Pink Floyd? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when The Dark Side of the Moon came out in ‘73, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. They’ve been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Floyd has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. Yes, Allen. No, Allen. Yes it is! In ‘79, Floyd released this, The Wall, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is “Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2,” a song so catchy, most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it’s also a personal statement about the band itself.

Helt greit, hadde ikke tid til å sette meg inn i storyen, så skjønte ikke helt The Trial (og ig andre deler av albummet). Not my fave pink floyd

Meh

Rich guy whining about his early life in the face of a drug rockstar. 1/5

Maybe I don't like albums

Легендарное музыкальное полотно. Мне лично больше нравится их Wish you were here, но не могу отрицать величия Стены

I liked it fine. A little full of itself, but good music and imagination. Fav tracks: Another Brick In The Wall, Goodbye Blue Sky, Comfortably Numb

Giving this album 4 stars feels wrong, but I have just never enjoyed this as much as other Pink Floyd albums. The higlights are incredibly good, but it's such a long album.

I prefer The Dark Side of the Moon, but this is almost as good.

I love Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, and Meddle. I never got into this one (partially because of how silly the movie is). There are some hits, and there are some conventional (in the PF sense) soundscapes that dont stick for me. I guess I could “unlock” them with repeat listens… but I’ll just stick to the brilliance of the other three. 3.5 stars

Very good album, knew a few songs and the ones I didn't were very fun. Very interesting listen and a great time. Oddly enough though no takeaways for me I don't think. While good songs, I don't think they're anything I'd add to my playlist. For that reason alone I think I have to go with 4.5 album rating.

Just a classic. Great album to listen to when ya just want to relax and turn off the world.

Best listened to as a full album in one setting. A classic

No notes needed. 10/10.

Auf jeden Fall...gehört unter die top10

This is tagged as art and progressive rock, two of my highest rated categories. But Pink Floyd for whatever reason just never did it for me. I remember being sixteen and a friend of mine dragging me to her place to literally just sit and listen to the dark side of the moon. It just never clicked. The wall in particular is just not all that interesting for how long it is. I don’t get it

Ei edes tarvi perusteluita

Tämä on yksi parhaista albumeista mitä olen kuullut. Loistava albumi itsessään, mutta tasoa nostattaa vielä konseptialbumi. Tämän tasoinen albumi itsessään tapahtuu kerran vuosikymmenessä, mutta konseptialbumi tätä tasoa on aivan uskomattoman harvinaista. Elämää mullistava kokemus ja ehdottomasti yksi albumi minkä jokainen tulee kuunnella ennen kuolemaansa

Nothing to say

A masterpiece

Класіка

Now this is how you keep a double album enjoyable and engaging. Favorite track: Comfortably Numb

The beginning of the end of Pink Floyd

Tedious overly long boring prog rock album. Pink Floyd are over rsted. There, I said it.

The album rounds off the zeitgeist of the 70s, a bit whacky, a bit groovy and sometimes serious. I have to sing my praises for the most iconic songs: Comfortably Numb, which despite its name, takes you through a reckoning of different emotions: (dejection, hope, despair and rage); the Wall, a long standing commentary on authority and the sad truth we’re part of a big societal machine. I was pleasantly surprised to have found new gems such as Goodbye Blue Sky, Lust Girl and Hey You. But there were some songs I felt like I was waiting a while to make its point. Overall a solid album of its time

Eh. Just didn't do it for me. So long. Not a huge Pink Floyd fan in general honestly.

Overly ambitious theater rock, still great though

Favorite Song: The Trial Least Favorite: Is There Anybody Out There?

This is a notorious album that is stated to be a 5 star. I like it. And i get it's impact, but I'm not sure it will hit as far as 5 stars for me. It has some amazing songs, but in comparing it to other albums that enthrall me of similar genres like Led Zepplin, it just misses that final mark. Still an amazing album though.

Two songs in, I can't listen to this. It reminds me of my dad and my former psychologist, who both love Pink Floyd. And I don't like my dad, and I don't wanna think about my psychologist.

This album is ridiculous and goofy and overwrought and I love it anyway. It’s the album that finally got me to love Pink Floyd, probably because of how bombastic and over-the-top it is. “I know writers who use subtlety and they’re all COWARDS” - Roger Waters, probably

Boom … 5

This must be, by far, the most bizarre album to have sold this magnitude of copies, 30M according to the internet. What pct of buyers have listened to it attentively all the way through? You know what’s great about side 3? Yes you do, Comfortably Numb. You know what’s bizarre about side 3? The entire rest of it, submerged in Gunsmoke and Gomer Pyle. This album blows through theatrical and is thoroughly cinematic instead. THIS is a rock opera. I don’t know if anything else is; but I’ll admit Tommy on an honorary basis. Tommy is 1/100 as operatic as this thing. Let’s see: It sucks to be a rock star, because I am a paranoid introvert, because I saw what rock music did to my friend Syd, and my dad died in the war, and something about my mother, whom I may have tried to replace with my wife, and when I fantasize, I do so about the fascist power of me being a rock star. That sounds weird to me! 30M buyers are OK with it! Dark Side of the Moon is not like this! It’s chill and wise and not fashy-curious! Sooo, it’s cool that We Don’t Need No Education, and the planes fly over trippy like in On the Run, and the two solos in Comfortably Numb are brilliant and generous, but what an incredibly bizarre popular record.

First one I've got on this site and also one of the most famous albums in the world. So it's hard to listen it "from scratch" to have a weighted opinion. The idea of exploring the solitude, social distancing etc... I guess it was cool and fresh in the end of 70s. But it feels now that Waters actually did not have that much to say, to turn it 1 hour 20 minutes statement. Some of the tracks are more like fillers. But the sound design is cool and smart.

Elsker pink Floyd men ikke deres bedste album

Despite his recent political symbolism, the truth it's The Wall as a record didn't started that way. After being despised by audience in Montreal during the Animals tour, Roger Waters felt like they were not listening and they were too far. The crowd attacked with firecrackers, Gilmour sitted down and refused to play an encore leaving Snowy White a session touring guitarist playing a Blues. With Gilmour and Wright recording their solo albums in France and Nick Mason producing the album Green for Steve Hillage, Roger decided that what happened in Montreal, being spitted and insulted by the audience was a turning point and expressed his desire of building a wall between the band and the Audience. The result it's one of the greatest concept albums. The wall it's an Opera-rock about Pink, a rock star tired of being idolized and praised that decides to build a wall of social isolation, retreating from everyone and everything. The Main Character it's based in the ex member Syd Barrett in songs like "Nobody Home" and with songs like "Comfortably Numb" inspired by injections for Hepatitis during the In The Flesh Tour (another name for Animals Tour, hence the name of the song.) "Another Brick in the Wall" and the theatrical effects that almost put the band in debt, this one is a record that you NEED to hear if you wanna explore the descent into the madness that comes with fame, fortune, and glory.

some really excellent songs, and parts of songs. but overall, too many weird annoying noises... which i get it, concept album, but i'm sensitive. 2nd disc more enjoyable overall for this reason. until the trial. yeesh.

Very surreal, kinda the album you play instead of a movie because of how dense it actually is

Great album but a bit too much filler for 5 stars

3 of 5. Some classic songs. Enjoyed Disc 2 more. Could be a bit higher if you think through the story it tells. As an album/work of art, maybe higher - as music that I enjoy, 3 is about right.

did i just get hate crimed?? 😭

Disc 1 was consistently OP - every track serves a purpose and is quality Disc 2 was still at a good level but nowhere near Disc 1 for me - still reckon it's a 5/5 for me even with it being a marathon

This is where I check out. Every Floyd album up to Animals has something to love about it but this is just wall to wall miserablism. Damn you Roger Waters. The sad thing is that it's so well known that it forms many people's impression of what Pink Floyd are, discouraging them from looking back through the rest of the discography.

Sure, it's overstuffed. Sure, it's the beginning of Roger Water trying to take over the band. Sure, it's preachy. But by gosh, there are so many incredible songs. Gilmour and the others had just enough influence to stop it from becoming a Waters solo album.

4/5

Easy 5 stars. I always said there's only one perfect double album and this is it.

If there’s an album deserving of the title of this book is this one. Truly one of the most iconic albums of all time and hard to argue this is not a masterpiece in the way it tells a cohesive story throughout the songs.

Primetime

Impressive and theatrical, but simultaneously contradictory, "The Wall" is both overblown and maximalist, and emotive and soulful. True, it can be criticised for a lack of conciseness, but at the same time it wouldn't quite hit the heights it does if it didn't have that fullness of sound and scale in the first place.

I love the transitions.

All and all it’s just another brick in the wall

It's a good one

Classic, great album.

It’s a pity about the ‘concept album’ aspect because if they’d abandoned that and cut out those songs that serve only the concept this would be an easy 5/5, the good stuff is absolutely sublime.

The Wall - some of it it is a bit heavy and prog-rocg, the rest quite interesting and melodic. Plus the classic tracks are classic

I love this album

Too theatrical for me. Leans heavy on Brick. Also fuck Roger Waters.

Not a top 3 Pink Floyd album and yet it’s perfect. One of the few double albums to justify its length - so much variety and so many great songs. Love when it goes musical theater at the end.

got this for valentine's day when i was 10/11, together with michael jackson's off the wall, funny coincidence. mad props to my dad for allowing me to have it (i am still haunted by the image of the guy's 'bits' showing). Profound influence, total fascination - I am still mildly obsessed w floyd and Syd, still have a massive crush on Dave and this album is still a masterpiece at almost 48yrs old

This is like being deep in thought. It feels like dropping into the ocean and sinking slowly down until there’s no sound, no sight and you are absorbed in your own subconscious.

My first job was at Chick-fil-A located in the Town Center Mall in Kennesaw, GA in 1986. The mall was a 20 minute drive from my house - though i was known to make it in 15. When I started the location was somewhat remote but that was changing - rapidly. There were two Waffle Houses flanking the mall. A third would be built a few years later. I made $3.35 cents an hour. My Manager/Operator - Ralph - was a decent enough guy if a bit fluid with his christian beliefs - he was overall good to me and cut me and a few of the other weirdos - we listened to strange music and read books that weren't assigned in school - some by authors with strange sounding foreign names - some slack. An avid hunter who knew his way around a racist (even for the time) joke - Ralph had two kids and a nice house on the other side of the county. If memory serves Ralph was 28 when I started and had already worked at CFA for 14 years. He taught me about being a good employee and I retain that initial instruction of how to butter a Chick--fil-A even to this day. Thanks Ralph. Sorry for the shade - I appreciate you. The point of all this is to contrast the insular world of CFA with our competition across food court...Wendy's. Where we had uniform checks and I was asked on several occasions when I was getting a haircut - no such criteria was apparent at Wendy's. Nice enough guys but they mostly just didn't care. Not that we did either but we were orders of magnitude busier than Wendy's and had managers and owners onsite who did definitely care. They cared enough that if there was too much bufoonery taking place in the back where food prep was happening and said shenanigans were shielded fort he public - the boys in the back would be all sent up from to work the registers - see the cute girls worked up front because they were just better at interacting with the public and pro active selling with their southern accents and the boys were better suited to handling mounds of raw chicken, getting splattered with hot grease and cleaning out used fryers (yuck). The avaricious owners did not care that this move would hurt their bottom line if it made their point. So diabolical . I never had a sense of who was in charge at the Wendy's. This became especially clear after closing. We were like a machine - trying to get out of works as quickly as possible because homework often awaited - or at the very least sleep. We would pre clean and bust a** to make wrapping up 30 to 40 minute process. And when we left we would look over and the Wendy's boys (all boys - long haired, shirt untucked boys) were still wondering around aimlessly or just zoning out. Their go to "clean up" soundtrack was THE WALL. After hitting a joint behind the dumpster they would return and take the entire ride. And since this album doesn't ever seem to end - why hurry like the squares over at the Chick-fil-A. I was there on more than a few occasions where our accelerated departure did not work as sometime customers conspire and arrive a two minutes closing and ruin the best laid plans. It is on those occasions where I first learned the unique power of the guitar of David Gilmour. I had heard this album and that sound countless times on the radio. Hearing the solos to Comfortably Numb ring out at full volume into the boundless expanse of an empty suburban mall at in the waning hours of the day - that is really something. Something i will not ever forget - stopped in my tracks leaning on my mop - the dream indeed is gone. But the feeling in those notes is not. Slogging through this album i am reminded - why does it take so long to get there? I have never connected with this album - some songs sure - but the album is just too much and not enough at the same time. ABITW, Young Lust, Run Like Yell, Goodbye Blue Sky and of course the aforementioned Comfortably Numb are all killer - cause they're actual songs as opposed to the various song ideas that populate this album. The Chick-fil-A in Town Center Mall closed earlier this year after 40 years of service. Ralph still operates a number of CFA restaurants. And i can still hear the ring out David Gilmour's guitar through the corridors of Town Center Mall where there is no longer a Wendy's.