The Wall

Iconic

Classic, hard to argue with

Hard not to like when you have heard it a bunch. Some classic guitar solos. True album experience.

Huh, I always thought ‘The Wall’ was a metaphor for, y’know, the machine, ‘The Man’, the system that keeps us all in check - that sort of thing. Seems I was very much mistaken. So after one slightly bewildering listen through I read up on the plot synopsis, which both aided my enjoyment significantly and proved very necessary, as even studying all the lyrics wouldn’t have helped me keep up with the various diversions into hallucinations, memories and other narrative leaps. Despite being somewhat hard to follow, it feels like the majority of the tracks on the album do exist primarily to serve the storyline, and as a result there’s a noticeable lack of tunes that work well in isolation (there are a couple of famous exceptions, of course). There are interludes and segues, which is fine, but most tracks feel like more thought was given to the lyrics than the music. I’m not sold on some of the specifics of the story, and I’m not entirely sure what moral viewpoints it’s trying to put across, or whether they’re any good. And yet, I agree that the whole thing is kind of compelling… The general concept of building a wall between yourself and the world, and the themes of isolation, the depths of the human psyche, nature vs nurture etc are all pretty solid and interesting. I’m also impressed by the ambition of it all, as I often am with Pink Floyd, and I’ve always been a sucker for albums that make the effort to flow, tell a story, and use recurring musical and lyrical motifs - my previous album scores have consistently reflected that. So I’ll give it a cautious 3.5, rounded up for the pure chutzpah of the thing.

Overrated but still good

All in all you’re just another brick in the wall Classic n timeless

I watched the movie back in the day and Bob Geldof's poor nipple has been burned into my memory ever since, but I have never listened to this album straight through. I'm familiar with "Another Brick in the Wall", "Hey You" and "Comfortably Numb" and am fully aware that I can't have my pudding until I eat my meat. This feels appropriate for a Monday. This is Pink Floyd's second appearance on my 1001 albums project - I listened to "Wish You Were Here" previously and loved it. While "Wish You Were Here" is only 5 long songs, this is a double album of 26 mostly shorter tracks that serve as sketches and interludes, with spoken words and sound effects, to advance the overarching story of Pink - a self-insert rockstar character who serves as a conduit for Roger Waters' reflections on childhood trauma, authoritarianism, the pressures of the rock and roll lifestyle, and the urge to isolate oneself from the sick sad world. Any dad who loves this album but then says they don't like musicals or disco is a liar, because this is a rock musical/opera and one of the most popular singles, "Another Brick in the Wall pt 2", is built on a foundation of disco. As a total project with the imagery, film, and stage adaptations it is a gargantuanly influential piece of rock history, but as an album it's a bit of a slog to get through. Just when I would want or expect a song to explode, I'm instead rewarded with a cut to a new interlude, a notable exception being "Comfortably Numb" which is the most satisfying breakdown to close out side three. The sheer camp of "The Trial" absolutely slayed me. Listen, as a queer who would be up against the proverbial wall from "In The Flesh", a part of me gives a little sneer at the boohoo troubles of rockstar being judged for having human feelings, but as an emotionally developed adult I can understand that these dudes went through some shit. You'd have to go through some shit to make an hour and a half rock opera about building a wall of bricks made out of all the shit that's happened to you to protect you from more shit happening to you. It's long, its self-aggrandizing, isn't this where we came in?

Great album low 8

Classic but like my 5th favourite PF album

Good recommendation. Have listened but probably not completely and not carefully. Find myself listening to favourite tracks.

I really enjoyed this! I love a concept album, and I was mostly able to follow the story. I thought that the album was well-written, performed, and produced. I didn’t love the style of some of the more “talk-y” songs? I’m not really sure how else to describe them. But other than that, I thought that this album was pretty good!

What a wonderful album. First time listening to it from beginning to end. Will do it again although the sound effects, non singing vocals/yelling interludes took away from the experience.

Legendary

The Wall is one of the most influential concept albums ever made. It tells the story of Pink, a rock star who isolates himself from the world behind a wall of alienation and trauma. The album is a musical and lyrical journey that explores themes of abandonment, oppression, madness, and self-destruction. The Wall is also a reflection of Pink Floyd’s own history, as the band members struggled with personal and professional issues during the recording process. The album features some of the band’s most iconic songs, such as “Another Brick in the Wall,”, “Hey You”, and “Comfortably Numb”. However, the album is not without its flaws. I think The Wall is too long, too pretentious, and too self-indulgent, and just doesn’t live up to their previous masterpieces, Wish You Were Here and The Dark Side of the Moon. Despite these criticisms, The Wall remains a landmark in the history of rock music, and a testament to Pink Floyd’s artistic vision and ambition. I give it a solid 4 stars out of 5

Really good.Enjoyed the sonics but i will have to give it a good relisten to grasp the theme and lyrical content more

Not what I expected! Kept getting distracted by the noises that they add in the background but overall was enjoyable to listen to and liked the range.

Lange Zeit nicht mehr gehört, bessere Musik als erwartet

Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2 was the first Pink Floyd I heard at age 8. As a teen, I probably heard DSOTM and WYWH before I heard this album - I probably saw the film first. At 50 something, listening to it for the first time in about 20 years I'm loving it all over again. I'd give it 5/5 if Roger Waters wasn't such a knobhead.

A very well-recorded album that touches greatest at its highest points, but is simply too long and self-indulgent. An enjoyable listen, but I can't imagine putting it on repeat.

Eihän tämä enää ole progea mutta Rogerin suurtyönä kiistaton. Kovia biisejä! 4/5

20-30 min pois viilaamalla tää olisi todnäk viiden tähden levy. Tosi hieno silti. Gilmourin kitarointi kuulostaa aina yhtä upealta.

While there are other Pink Floyd albums that I prefer to listen to, this was the first one that pulled me in back when I was a teenager. This is my first time listening to it start to finish in well over a decade. Still holds up, actually even better than I expected it would!

As far as concept double albums go, this one is actually pretty decent, not too many weird songs that would sound strange outside the context of the record. But it still is overlong and a bit pretentious, and Roger Waters is an alleged anti-Semite who victim blames the Ukraine so I’m knocking some stars off for that.

A classic. I love much of this album, and it’s all the stuff I hear without having to listen to the entire album. Listening to the entire thing feels like a chore. That, and some of the sensibilities in this (I don’t know what that trend was with dystopian rock operas, but it sure feels like there were a LOT. I’m not sure this counts as dystopian? But my brain lumps this in with it). It feels a little hokey in places. The Wikipedia article says that critics thought this was overblown and pretentious. Yeah….I can’t disagree. Overall, a great album, but it has its flaws.

- A musical journey - Production is divine for the 70s - The length is a negative, I wouldn't go back and listen to this fully too often - 4.5ish

- the bass on this album is crazy good - obviously Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2 and Comfortably numb are classics - such an incredible storyline that is well communicated in the music

Interesting and unique album Can actually listen to the lyrics which is nice. Really cool to listen to as a whole, otherwise the individual songs kinda suck 4/5*****

Great album, a bit past their prime

Overall a great listen, good production. Some great key tracks - for some reason I have never listened to this before. I know all the singles and basically stopped listening to Pink Floyd after Wish You Were Here (album). Some tracks that I ended up liking outside the singles that I knew are "Run Like Hell" and "Young Lust". I am in two minds of this album- I feel like it is a little bloated but at the same time, not sure I what I would cut as the production is very good. Will listen to this again but its not my favorite Pink Floyd album

Strong 4

Bombastic, big, angst-ridden and angry. Overblown and mostly humourless. Pretentious (although not nearly as clever as it pretends to be). Yes, all of that, but a great rock opera for teenagers. I think this is an intelligent expression of the perils of rock stardom, particularly the alienation from audience, over-indulgence in personal pain, and the seductive megalomania of stardom. It makes me wonder why Roger Waters ever got into the rock and roll game; he seems to hate everything about it. It's not the first (or last) record to document rock and roll's flirtation with fascism (or fascist imagery, at least), but it manages to skirt on the right side of the issue by remaining self-critical. I loved this when I was 16, and played the record a lot, and saw the film a few times at midnight screenings at the Valhalla cinema on Glebe Point Rd. These days I find it a little ham-fisted (if not excellently executed). Props to David Gilmour for one of the greatest guitar solos of all time on Comfortably Numb. This really is one of the most important texts of rock and roll, being both a great rock record (with some cracking tunes) and reflecting back on the nature of rock and roll, and the pitfalls of successfully selling your soul to success.

Sounds incredible. It didn't really move me in any meaningful way but subsequent listens may change this, or it might just not be my cup of tea. Has to be scored highly due to fantastic arrangement/production.

MASTERPIECE

Nok bedre hvis man ser teaterstykket eller filmen

Almost worth giving it a 5 just for Comfortably Numb. There is a ton of great stuff on this album but it does drag in a few places. Not Floyd's best ever--their three previous were all contenders for that--but still damn good.

First time listen - a bit long but there's some good stuff here

Ja...Pink Floyd he. Maar niet de plaat die ik kies.

Eigenlijk staan hier maar enkele nummers op dat echt een 'nummer' zijn. Als in, dat ge in een playlist kunt zetten. Comfortably Numb is dat 1 van, en is voor mij 1 van de mooiste nummers aller tijden. Op zich is dit, qua muziek, 1 van mijn minder favoriete Pink Floyd albums. Maar dit is ook meer dan dat. Voor mij is dit echt kunst. Niemand deed (of doet) iets zoals Pink Floyd. En dit is 1 van hun vele meesterwerken.

Cool concept and some great songs but too much filler

This was a good album. Wanted to like this album more than I did; it doesn’t hold a candle to Dark Side of the Moon in my opinion. Liked the weird samples and sound effects throughout. I always thought that the old guys that were really in to Pink Floyd were a little strange, haha. Might need to give this a few more listens to let it grow on me. It is interesting to put the timeline together in the English alternative rock scene- I can see mid/late Beatles references from 10-15 yrs before this, and also can project forward to see influences on Radiohead 10-15 yrs later. Probably 3 1/2, rounded up to 4 stars.

Pink Floyd do know how to make albums exploring the human condition.

Overly long and flabby, full of filler, but there is a great album lurking in there, under all the bloat, like a lot of classic double albums. This is the worst of the "classic" streak of Floyd albums, but it's still noteworthy.

Great album obviously

There are some classic rock/Pink Floyd songs on here. Their attempt of a rock opera is overall successful but it doesn’t come near wish you were here, animals or dark side for me. Maybe if I saw the film? Still a good record.

I’m a sucker for the cinematic formal sense of a concept album / rock opera, and musically this really is well put together. Varied, compelling, intriguing, satisfying. Five star stuff. But take back a star for what’s actually going on in the story and the lyrics: outlandishly grandiose dimwitted self-involvement. Ugh. I wish I hadn’t looked it up.

Awesome but enjoyed DSotM better

Iconic but overly indulgent

Pidän tästä kovasti, kokonaisuus melkein oikeuttaa pituudenkin (kyllä vähän vois silti karsia). Fantasiafanien musiikkia, rockoopperaa sopivan huvittavalla tavalla. Myös kivoja, joskin jamitteluksi venyviä kappaleita eikä pelkästään elokuvallisuutta ja tematiikkaan keskittymistä. Mutta vihaan sitä lapsikuoroa...

banger album selvom der er langt mellem numre jeg ville sætte på for sig selv. Comfortably Numb guitar solo GOAT

This was a mood. I wish I'd caught more of the story. Heck of a way to write an album. Lots of hits but also a lot of tracks that seemed to exist only to service the plot. The Trial then got really weird. Overall, should be experienced.

Looked it up and Wikipedia said it was meant to be a rock opera. It was pretty sad but I enjoyed certain songs on it. I liked that the songs were short.

Not as good as wish you were here

I'm probably gonna listen again!

It's The Wall.

Moderately interesting Progressive Rock. Iconic known song "another brick in the wall gets two extra stars.

Seeing this album live in my youth was surreal! Didn’t love listening through as much this time.

Classic rock songs!

I don't know if I've ever listened to "The Wall" all the way through, though I've obviously heard most parts of it. Overall, I enjoyed it. The classic rock and blues style is not my go to, and it is essentially a Rock Opera which I will not likely revisit often. However, "Comfortably Numb" is definitely an amazing song that I do genuinely love and will go back to via a "Greatest Hits" or "Singles Collection" at some point. I agree with some critics at the time that said the album was pretentious and over-the-top. However, it obviously had a huge impact on people and the music scene, particularly for Prog and Rock. Therefore, I do think it is deserving of praise.

stand out track - Young Lust

a bit too grandiose imo maybe even pretentious but I still liked it a lot, the history on this is pretty messed up

You can’t have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat!

Det är absolut bra, men jag vet inte om jag skulle klassa det som ett av de bästa albumen någonsin. En solid 4:a av 5.

A classic

Nice album, but too long and with too many parts, that aren’t exactly like I like music

Love that, very chill album

The good was great, influential. But some was too far out there where the artist had a vision and it didn’t translate.

A great cinematic album. Songs flow smoothly from one to the next and have many spoken word moments throughout that create the visual and audio atmosphere the album is trying to convey. Only reason I'm not giving it a 5 is because it is ultimately not music I would typically listen to or enjoy listening to.

Starts off strong, but the record drags until you reach Side B. Side B features a much stronger suite of songs.

My go to stoner album but this time I am listening to it completely sober. Still dang good.

No argument about this album's place on the list. I have a vinyl copy I bought as a kid. But it is a strange beast, some beautifully written bits, some weird creepy bits (which are currently taking over Roger Waters), and overblown parts that have not aged that well. It is out there on its own, and I was happy to listen to it again.

You probably have an opinion on this record that I'm not going to sway you from. For me, it is not my favorite Pink Floyd album but it is up there.

A little biased due to nostalgia. Several bangers, but some not.

Yes, this album has been relentlessly flogged on the radio waves over the last 40 years and yes, there is a lot of Water’s fart sniffing going on, but hey, if it smells like roses why not sniff it?

Comfortably Numb is probably one of the best songs ever written.

The Wall was a formative album for me. It's 5/5 in my heart. Waters and Gilmour were at their professional peaks here. But the cracks in the band were glaringly obvious. The Wall is Waters' magnum opus performing under the Pink Floyd brand. The Alan Parker film adaptation is incredible. Gerald Scarfe's animations are transcendent. Bob Geldof performs Pink in the film with unnerving and uncanny skill. The Wall is a canvas that many talented people have expressed themselves on. It's not *Pink Floyd's* best work.

There's a spider (spider, spider) he's deep in my soul (soul) he's lived here for years (years) and he just won't let go he's laying around he's got a mean bite now he's ready to fight and stand up for what he knows I don't need your trophies or your gold I just want to tell you all go fuck yourselves...

77/100

I think this was really interesting. I likely would need to listen to it again and really focus on it so I could get the meaning.

As with other Pink Floyd albums, the first word that springs to my mind is 'epic'. Pretty much the definition of a concept album, Pink Floyd paint a bleak and desolate soundscape with gorgeous guitar parts. My only criticism of this is that it is so long, the callbacks to different riffs lead you to expect the full song which is a little ungratifying.

The Wall is the eleventh album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It is a rock opera concept album about a jaded rock star named Pink who puts up a "wall" to society. The album was a commercial success, initially receiving mixed critical reviews, but now is considered one of the greatest albums of all time in addition to being the best-known concept album, and a best-selling album. The worldwide success of this album includes multi-platinum certifications in the UK, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, France, Denmark, Canada, Australia, and finally 23x platinum in the US. The Wall is an epic album with a few standout tracks that makes for a great listen. It's a rock opera with a compelling story that also still "rocks". I enjoyed it although maybe not as much as others would. Give it a listen and decide for yourself how good it is.

A lot of people will give this album five stars but if Dark Side of the Moon is five stars, and in my opinion it is, than this album is only four stars because Dark Side is superior to this.

"The Wall" is the 11th studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. The album is a rock opera that explores the main character Pink, a rock star whose self-imposed isolation forms a figurative wall. Yep, not much more to say other than the members of Pink Floyd weren't really getting along at this stage and during the recording. Critically, it had mixed reviews initially and commercially, it hit #3 in the UK and spent 15 weeks at #1 and became the biggest selling double album of all time. An ominous guitar, thundering drums and an organ open "In The Flesh?" We learned the death of Pink's father occurred at a WWII battle. Things gets going a bit in "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1" as Pink starts to build the wall. Guitar echoes. Helicopter sounds and a deep bass start "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" as Pink is tormented by teachers. That rolls into "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2." That bass and groovy disco-esque beat. The chanting children. More tormenting and wall building. Someone not getting his pudding. "Mother" ends the first side. Co-lead vocals with Roger Waters and David Gilmore. Acoustic guitar as Pink remembers his oppressive Mother. "Young Lust" highlights the second side. Gilmore starts to really show up with some great chunky guitar riffs. Another Pink Floyd song with a groove. Pink learns of his wife's infidelity furthering him into his isolation. Eerie acoustic guitar and an electric piano on "Hey You." Gilmore on lead vocals. He's questioning his decision to isolate. And, by the end of the third side Pink's become "Comfortably Numb" as he gets injected with drugs. Strings and a great underlying melody. Not one but two Gilmore guitar solos. A classic rock song. The fourth and final side takes us through his hallucinatory state as he dreams of himself as a fascist dictator performing. The highlight of this side is "Run Like Hell." Gilmore's guitars are the stars again with echoing and reverb. Piano and strings are used more heavily in the remaining four song. Pink gets ordered out the wall in "The Trial" but the last song "Outside the Wall" repeats the melody and lyrics of the very first song and you realize poor old Pink is destined to repeat the cycle. It's been awhile since I've listen to this. Of course, I remember getting this when it came out. The hits are hits, still sound great as stand alone songs and within this story. Sure, there is a lot of filler here which should have been trimmed. The highlights of this album for me today were the overall dread atmosphere it creates and Gilmore's guitars when used. I'm sure everyone has their opinion on this which I'd imagine is all over the map.

The highs on this album are all time highs. As a whole the album can be a bit much to get through at one time. Still an all time classic though

Classic.

I really debated between 4 and 5 stars on this. I love Pink Floyd, but none of my favorite songs of theirs is on this album. Concept albums can be cool, but they’re also kinda hard to follow for me. Still overall a good album.

This takes me back to pretending to discover Pink Floyd for the first time as a teenager after actually first hearing them through my parents

of all the albums about walls, this one is the best

Enjoyed this article have never really been in to pink Floyd before.

It could've been a huge failiure. Much of the story seems like hyperbole due to how overdramatized it all is, and since Floyd were by now only a band in name only, there is an obvious uncertain nature in the performances. Thankfully heavy-handedness is avoided due to some of the sharpest, most affecting and simply best songwriting ever. The album is so remarkably detailed generations to come will find details we never have And it all comes together in Comfortably Numb, which is probably the greatest distillation of the band's lead writers chemistry, featuring state-of-the-art production, and probably the most exhilarating outburst of electric guitar ever recorded.

For obvious reasons..

Roger Waters’ opus suffers a tad from its great length, but with it, it creates a densely layered character you are able to sympathize with by the end of the story. A decent trade-off tbh

Great album

listened to again somehow a polarizing album, yet it is a fantastic rock opera and i don't get the hate

Don’t like pink floyd

Pretty good still, despite Roger

Most Played - Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2 Most Likely Heard - Comfortably Numb Underrated - Goodbye Blue Sky Favorite - In The Flesh 8/10

This album has 9 all time great songs on it. Unfortunately, it's 26 tracks long. It's so bloated and overrated. It does not stand up to Wish You Were Here or Dark Side of the Moon. Still an 8 out of 10

A classic that I actually had heard.

4 seems about right.

I'm sure seeing this live would be amazing but taken this way it just feels kind of overwrought and musical theatery. There's plenty of good here but when standard bearer for a Pink Floyd album is Dark Side of the Moon I can't give it better than a 4

Long as hell, the weird long songs make the beautiful ones that much more beautiful. Need to watch the film. Love the use of tape on the sampled vocals. Pretty epic but not a great “hey let’s listen to music” album. Fav song: Comfortably Numb

Not counting their debut, as it's quite different from the rest of their discography it seems, this is my first experience with Pink Floyd through a whole album, and it certainly feels like a new experience. I like the thorough storytelling and how it is all one cohesive "thing" while still managing to get those singles in there that stand out. Also it looping over and over if you so choose is a really cool touch, no matter how simple. That being said this does feel like it thinks it's higher art than it really is. At the end of the day this still feels like a pretty normal rock album, and there's nothing truly here that makes me go "wow, this was super important to listen to." I loved the reoccurring motifs, something I feel a lot of concept albums lack, and this is a good package, but I see why this is usually seen as the weakest of the big three (four?). Still giving it a four, but it's a light one at that. Also, the best song from the Wall, What Shall We Do Now?, isn't even on the actual album, so that sucks.

Felt a bit worried going into it but I ended up having a good time! Even went back and listened to a few sections again.

Good record standing up for its time

there are some great songs in this album, and despite it's length it didn't really feel that long. but only *some* great songs... the others, although good, didn't stand out that much. and something about the kids singing in another brick in the wall pt 2 really annoyed me. but the great songs were great, for the most part, so i think a four is good.

amazing storytelling nobody home - favorite THE TRIAL????!!!! LIKE A THEATRE PERFORMANCE

Top notch, in my opinion,

Really really really good

Wish You Were Here and, to a lesser extent, Dark Side of the Moon are all time favourites for me, but I've never really given The Wall much attention. First impression - I'm surprised by how dated this sounds in comparison to the other albums. Some stand out tracks (Comfortably Numb top among them), but overall it's baggy and not as exciting as I'd expected. Still four stars for the impact, craft and wild creativity

Muy buen album.

This album has great storytelling but it sometimes sacrifices the music to tell the story in my opinion

4.5

IDK why but I enjoyed this much more than Dark Side of the Moon. Maybe it's cause I got high and watched Laser Floyd so many times as a kid. Or maybe cause it's a great album.

Strong 8

An all time classic, but I really didn't enjoy the more skit-like songs. Only thing that kept it from being higher. 4/5

Not as good as the other albums, but still awesome!

This is the first time in a long time I've listened to this whole album. The songs on this album are great. There's also a lot of just noise and ambient sounds I could do without. But the tunes are pretty stellar.

Solid record.

Classic album.

Overhyped? Maybe, but still musically very good with great production

Rock progresivo. Casi un musical. Dos megahits, pero se me ha hecho laaaargo. Venga, un 4 por los megahits, pero no me lo vuelvo a escuchar entero.

A truly gargantuan project in every sense of the word. The sheer scale of this thing is pretty incredible, it’s easy to see how it has gathered such a cult like following and holds such a strong reputation more than 40 years after its release. All that being said, I think I found the enormity of the wall almost became an obstacle to me (although I suppose that could in a sense be the point heh). While I found the instrumentation lavish and the performances compelling, I think I’d have enjoyed a little more diversity in structure and style. I enjoyed the overall concept of the album but again due to its enormous scale I think this is a piece that I’ll have to revisit numerous times in order to truly get it. Also the weird wompy stompy theatrical track was fun but it begin to grind on me quite a bit. Calling it a 3.5 for, over time will become a 4 or high for me I am certain. Got a little lost in the track listing but I think the opening track probably left the greatest impression on me.

A gargantuan epic that swings between overwrought theatricality and genuine feeling. Gotta say it worked for me on this listen - the swing between moody and anthemic for the majority of the record really works (perhaps until the later stages). The bands knack for arrangement and impressive instrumentation are really on show here. Not one I'm gonna pop on often, but more than enough to appreciate here. Fave track: Comfortably Numb

A classic, but I have to admit even as a Pink Floyd fan, I love this one a little less each listen. The scope and personal narrative spread across the album is obviously impressive and I do love a lot of the songs on here. I also can’t help but feel like a little bit of the magic has been lost on me - the theatrics dip into the cornier side and are quite on the nose. And I can’t help feel that despite all these life factors compiling to Waters’ insulated and disconnected state, at the end of the day he’s probably just an asshole. Some great production and at the end of the day still a remarkable album, but not my favourite Floyd by a long shot. Three and a half. Fave track: Mother

bättre än jag minns det

I bet I can't say anything different from anyone else about this album, so I'll just let my 4 stars to it.

This album is a definite classic, often considered Pink Floyd's best album. I don't agree personally, but can see why some would say that. Every song flows seamlessly into each other to tell a story about how self isolation is harmful to yourself and those around you. Some of my favorite Pink Floyd songs are on this album, but there are a lot of songs I don't think are worth listening to on their own. It's a great album, but I think it's overated.

Not the best but good

1h20m fine. 3.5 stars

Like most good things, it all has to come to an end. The Wall is many things: an album that, of course, revolves around a story (mainly fictional but just as rooted in reality) involving the Pink character as he navigates the twist and turn saga from typical rock star into drugged up fascist. But it is also a story about Pink Floyd's very own transformation from a united front serving a common purpose into a fractured unit that became the basis for one person's desire for complete control regardless of who thought otherwise. A triumphant moment for the Floyd? Without a doubt but at what cost? The wall has been erected permanently and there's nothing but pain that's yet to recede. Is there anybody out there? Favorites: In the Flesh?, Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 & 2, Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, One of My Turns, Hey You, Nobody Home, Comfortably Numb, In the Flesh, Run Like Hell, Waiting for the Worms.

Really great - definitely understand why people like Pink Floyd. Absolutely an album to try while #high

overrated but not bad. I get it more than the beatles. meaning is subjective by the way. what i liked: hey you solo, mother, goodbye blue sky, comfortably numb solo, run like hell

When I saw the length of the album, I rolled my eyes. And while it does feel a bit self-indulgent at times, overall it was really good. Enjoyed it quite a lot and it has an interesting message overall.

The production on this song is really solid. All the instrumentals are really strong and the lyrics are very good as well. The transitions between tracks are very smooth which I always enjoy. The biggest downside is that the album is very long.

love it

Les Pink Floyd sont très forts, ça ne fait aucun doute. En revanche, à chaque fois que je bois du café délicieusement préparé par ma nouvelle machine, je ne peux m'empêcher de penser à eltrapeze qui doit au même moment se râper le cul en montagne avec trois grammes de chicoré dans la besace. Chacun sa vie.

Les Pink Floyd m'ont bien fait fermer ma gueule, en me la baisant de toute part.

Great. A fantastic album. A long one though

4.5 Nearly ten years ago, a sixteen year-old Luke would have probably told you that Pink Floyd is one of the greatest bands to ever walk this Earth… despite only having listened to three of their albums (I’ll let you guess which ones). Anyway, my group of friends were mostly all fans of the band, and Dark Side vs. The Wall as the GOAT was a big debate among us. I think I was actually the only one in Dark Side camp, but sitting here a decade later, I honestly couldn’t tell you the last time I listened to either all the way through. So, this should be a good test of my musical maturity, right? Whereas Dark Side is more of a concept album, The Wall is an outright rock opera with a more clear sense of narrative, and truthfully, it’s one of the best albums to ever do so - though it also helps that it had an accompanying movie to further flesh it out (see what I did there?). Both contain an assortment of amazing and iconic tracks, but The Wall specifically has a lot more eerie, transitional stuff… though that’s the point. It was never intended to contain a collection of potential singles or hits, it was meant to tell a story and be consumed in one go, start to finish. And a story it tells - if you’ve ever felt alone, isolated, and/or on the verge of breakdown, The Wall probably hits home. Diving into the songs, In The Flesh? Is an all-time great opening track, and I love how it serves as an overture for the album, with its reference to the upcoming show working in both a narrative and meta sense (and the usage of the reprise is great as well). Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, Young Lust, Run Like Hell, and Comfortably Numb are also all great tunes, and I think this particular listening may have cemented Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3 as my favorite of the three. While I enjoy the kids on Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2, for the most part, I’ve always found the disco nature of the song kind of annoying - usually a skip for me when in shuffle. However, the track I’ve been sleeping on the most? Nobody Home. My Dad once told me a personal story he associates with the song, which really encouraged me to give it a thorough listen - and it’s great. I love the piano and musical build-up, highlighting a kind of beauty in utter despair and isolation. I did go back and listen to Dark Side after this, and ultimately, I don’t really think it’s fair to say one is better than the other. They’re both fantastic albums by their own merits, with one being a collection of amazing songs and the other being a unique musical journey through sound and mind. What I would opt to listen to now would likely depend on my mood, but at this point in my life I don’t think I would rate one better than the other (spoilers for my upcoming Dark Side review I guess). So high school friends, I’m willing to call it a tie, though I’ll concede that this is a one-of-a-kind album even still now, decades after release, and yes, Comfortably Numb may in fact contain the greatest guitar solo of all-time. Anyway, on that note, random funny anecdote I gotta throw out there - the first time I listened to this album was on a burned CD from my friend Kaleb, who accidentally put a two second gap in-between each song. Not quite the same experience lol.

Well, Waters is a asshole. Its the last great PF album. Its a bit overblown but it works as a concept. Gilmours guitar shines through the whole thing. There ard a lot of people that worship this but this but its not THAT good.

This album is definitely more than the sum of its parts. Not as good musically as "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", but still one of the greatest concept albums. I think in rough times of my life I have related to the themes of this album a lot, actually. Some people dismiss the concept, but I think the themes of isolation speak to a lot of men out there, especially in today's world. The guitar solo at the end of side 3 is just sensational, I'm sure everyone can agree. Also I really enjoy "The Trial" lmao

Great album but not my favorite by them

5 stars if my attention span was longer than 10 minutes.

So much atmosphere. Impossible to listen to dispassionately because it’s so tied up in my youth. Much nostalgia for me. In an attempt to appraise it honestly though, it’s beautifully produced, has provocative lyrics and imagery, the music itself is sumptuous. A truly great album.

Good

It's a classic for sure. Been awhile since I've given it a listen and was a nice revisit.

Art rock, opera rock, not sure what correctly to call it, but it’s definitely a great album

Helgjutet album, omatchat gällande just albumlyssning från början till slut. Inget man tar sig tid till att lyssna veckovis, men en fullkomligt bra vibe. Tunga låtar.

Cool

Young lust, another brick in the wall, mother are some favs. While i’ve listened to plenty of songs on this album i’ve never listened to the whole thing start to end in one sitting till today. It feels unfair to give opinions on this album in isolation when it paved the way for all other concept albums after it. Sure I might say that the anti authoritarian message comes off as a little played out even considering the time the album was released in, or that the themes of personal isolation feel a tad overly angsty and childish. But then I remember hearing the wall STRAIGHT UP LITERALLY EVERY TIME I SAT IN THE CAR DRIVING HOME ON THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL ABSOLUTELY JAMMING while looking forward to those sweet summer days LOL. Also who am I to judge the played out ness considering the political times we keep finding ourselves in 🤷‍♀️ Also also the personal tragedy behind the inspiration is fascinating and quite sad, though I find myself more deeply affected by the more personal and tender album wish you were here And maybe it’s just personal bias towards other floyd albums BUT I SWEAR DURING SOME OF THOSE GILMOUR SOLOS IN WISH YOU WERE HERE THE GUITAR MIGHT AS WELL BE TALKING/CRYING ITS SO ALIGNED WITH THE MESSAGE of the album in such a special way. Guess what i’m trying to say is that I think it slaps but it’s not my fav pink floyd album (nor is it very close to being) I think favs go: - Animals - Wish you were here / Dark side - - The wall Just realized It’s David Gilmours birthday today which makes all of this p funny ^^

If I knew anything about playing the guitar, I’d say this is probably impressive guitar playing

More like 4.5... A lot of fun stuff on this one but just a wee bit too long. Respect though!

Listened to before many times. Dad has this on vinyl. Love it to bits.

Me gustó mucho, me gusta el concepto y el hilado del mismo a lo largo de todo el álbum, y el instrumental entre clásico y progresivo

Ugh I don’t know. Musically I liked a lot of these songs, especially the ones with some dancey elements. Mother is my favorite. But the concept of the album itself I found overwrought. The album is too long. Maybe drugs would help. Kind of at a 3.5 but I guess I’ll round up.

I listen to Another Brick In the Wall, Pt.2 everyday on my drive to work. I’m a teacher. The song is THAT good.

Classic

I really enjoyed this

It's a bit bloated, sure, but it's a masterful display of progressive music, theatrical storytelling, and weird very-british quirkiness

Fabulous stuff here's goes on a tad too long but still very enjoyable

1.) In the flesh. Listened to it in a Good Mood. Really intense, captivating. I fw it, transition was amazing as well. 8 2.) The Thin Ice: pretty and I liked the feel of slipping. End was crazy and transition great. 7 3. Another Brick, pt 1: Amazing. Lightning aero plane escaping from family photo, turns into bird, amazing transition. 9 4.) woah that good mood hit and I was absorbed til the end of the album Final thoughts: Ridiculously great listen while in a good mood. Psychedelic but beautiful with themes of breaking out. Lightning aero plane, yellow cowboy, gold Angel, etc. Wall symbolized society and feeling trapped? Overall really good, especially the brick in the wall segments.

I mean...what's to say about this album? Quite an achievement from a band at the height of their powers -- that said, I think it's overrated. Ambitious, but overstuffed. Some of Floyd's greatest moments are present here, but so are their most excessive.

I vibe with it

It is a good album, but a bit lengthy at times. I find myself longing for specific songs that I like particularly.

Pretty solid stuff overall with definitely a few utter classic bangers. Not my favorite or least favorite Floyd. 🤷

This is my second Pink Floyd album. I gave Dark Side of the Moon a 5/5. I like this album as well, with Disc 2 being vastly superior to Disc 1. If I could I would give this album a 4.5/5. Since I cannot, it must be a 4. Great band and wonderful music.

I don’t dare to write anything for this album. It is one of the most celebrated works for the last 50 years. Comfortably Numb is a unique song.

Best Song: Comfortably Numb. Lyrically and instrumentally, this stands well above the crowd. Worst Song: In The Flesh. The main guitar riff just seems cheesy and overwrought. Overall: It's good, sure. I like how expansive it is, how seamlessly one track flows into another while still having pockets of uniqueness throughout. However, it feels needlessly long, sticking around well after it has made its point.

Iconic. Tried watching the movie in college, but was told by my room mate at the time that "it makes more sense if you're stoned".

I think i remember this one It's OK. Lots of good songs

Angsty teenage Jordan listened to a lot of Pink Floyd.

Long album but great pace, esp with comfortably numb coming in towards the end

First time I’ve ever properly listened to PF, finally ‘get them’. Incredible album, so many layers to it. Easy to forget how influential they were and how iconic some of these songs are starting from the off. Only managed to listen through once (busy weekend), but I’ll definitely be returning soon to this one and I imagine I’d be rescoring this a 5

Previously I had only heard "Another Brick In The Wall" but that was because of the cover by Korn! However, I was very impressed with the album, I've always enjoyed a good rock opera and this one is top class.

I have not heard not Pink Floyd beforehand. I think the album managed to stay interesting despite its length.

overblown, pompous, yet great. As a package with the film its a 5 but album alone is a 4

Where to go with this? The Wall is difficult to rate. Its not something you can appreciate by just throwing it on and kind of listening to in the background. You have to sit and listen attentively and connect with it. It feels more like an artistic piece than a musical album. It’s like a novel in musical form. I can see how people that grew up in the era would find it so important on a personal level. I just am not the type to sit and get that cozy with the underlying message of a song. Maybe part of that is the fact that I really don’t listen to lyrics at all. I feel like this should get 5 stars based on the real impact that it has on a lot of people. However, as I listened to it, I wanted to give it 3 stars. Near the end, Comfortably Numb came on, and that song always does hit me in the feels a bit, so I feel comfortable giving it 4 stars.

It's good, but it could honestly be pared down a bit.

Somewhat embarassing, this was my first full listen. Listened to so many of the singles always figured id heard it all. A case where the sum of all its parts are better than scattered hits. Shame Waters is a wanker.

there is nothing as terrifying as staring up at the teacher leaning over the wall on the fourth floor of the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland, ohio (please look up images on google if you're unfamiliar). growing up, i heard many of these songs on the classic rock station so a good half of the songs were already familiar to me. like other pink floyd works, this is an album best enjoyed as a whole. yet there are some absolute banger hidden gems! there were several new-to-me songs that instantly grabbed my attention. at the same time, the wall suffered the way too many double and triple albums do: it just went on for too long and could have used some tightening up. i certainly don't want to give too much credit to the record companies, but sometimes how they hold an artist back can be helpful. but clearly here pink floyd was so popular that they were given free reign. the album was incredibly commercially successful and relevant in pop culture, regardless. the main focus of this album is remarkable. in today's society, we talk much about mental illnesses and struggles, but this album must have been significant in 1979. it's still important today, so it's no surprise that it remains relatable to so many. an event or events causing enough trauma to build barriers to protect ourselves? that's something everyone can connect to. like my other review for pink floyd (wish you were here), i must mention how simply beautiful the music is. roger waters has such a magical touch, and every guitar strum and synthesizer key is perfect, even though i did say the album was bloated. focusing on the arrangement makes the album fly by. bob ezrin, who is responsible for some of alice cooper's most famous albums, was such an important part for the wall's creation and evolution. knowing how he puts together concept albums, i'm not surprised this album is still respected and adored. that dang repeated dial tone to tie the whole album together somehow creeps me out, even though it's just that: a dial tone!

it was reallyyy weird- but i liked it. I recognized a few songs and others I’d never heard before but overall i really enjoyed the album and it’s double part as well.

I used to criticize this one quite a bit, and for decades never really got into this Floyd album. I found it cold...which it definitely is, but of course that's the intent. It goes on and on, gets a bit too dark-musical-theaterish...and yes, it's overblown, patronizing, far too long, alienating, etc etc... And yet... I find that I like it far more than I'd thought I did. My favorite Floyd LPs were their previous 2 albums but instead of comparing I'm realizing this was fng huge and ambitious and epic and... you know - I like modern music a lot but there could and should be more projects like this. I stand by those flaws, and they were not great at hard rock (Young Lust, e.g. - my least favourite track by a longshot) and like many huge classic albums, I always feel like I never want to hear the radio songs again - ever. But (for the most part) they were huge for a reason and work far better in context. Also in headphones it all sounds like a different fascinating and terrifying world. Also the musicianship is fantastic. Throw on some cans and sit alone for an hour and a half and soak it up while trying to wait out a baseball rain delay like I just did. No regrets and I'm glad I reevaluated this one. 7/10 4 stars

“In the Flesh?” is a great, dramatic opener. It has the grandeur of a stage production but it rocks too. “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2” has gotta be the strangest rock anthem ever canonized on classic rock radio. (Especially when you listen to it with the intro track “The Happiest Days of Our Lives,” which references the teachers’ “fat psychopathic wives.”) It’s a banger, no doubt about that, but the subject matter and theatricality of it is bizarre. I love it. The chorus of “Comfortably Numb” is so emotional. Easy to see why the song became so famous. Great guitar solos on this song too and throughout the album. Man, “The Trial” is bonkers 😂 Pink Floyd made better albums than this. They definitely made tighter albums. But excess comes with the territory on these big, pretentious concept albums. You get a lot of filler tracks that move the story along but aren’t great songs on their own. Still, I like this album better than a lot of other concept albums. I admire the audacity of it.

It's a timeless album by a timeless band. I always revered Pink Floyd but also appreciated them at a distance. Personally I love concept albums, but for some reason I never liked how their albums felt like they took effort to understand when you listen. There's always so much space and introductions and outtroductions, and this album is the same.. I think it's just a different time period though; for them, this was the era of vinyl records when the consumer buys one, puts it on the living room record player, and sits and puts most if not all of their attention to it. Nowadays this looks different, as I often listen to these records on this list while doing at a minimum of one other thing, like the dishes or writing emails. Hard for me to be doing the dishes and conceptualize what the helicopter sounds mean without searching the internet for a dissertation on the helicopter sounds. Regardless, these three songs warrant a very high rating for the album. Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2 Comfortably Numb Hey You I think it's a mid 4, like 4.5. Not high enough of a 4 for a 5. Dark Side of the Moon is probably a 5.

Good album, not what I was looking for in the day so didn't listen to the whole thing

Lovely album. Another Brick in The Wall P1-3 is great, as well as Comfortably Numb. But damn, I think this album could've easily cut some of the songs and still been fine. 1H of it instead of 1h and 20 minutes. Maybe it's just my short span of attention though. 4/5

Super excellent. Je suis moins fan des trucs avec une touche disco/pop comme another brick in the wall part 2 et Run like hell, mais il y a d’autre trucs comme inthe flesh et confortably numb qui contrebalance.

i hated this when i was in high school. now i think it's pretty good. but. it is so freaking long.

I had low expectations. They were exceeded. 4 stars

Not my favorite Pink Floyd album, but it’s still Pink Floyd.

Most of these songs are great

Clearly a time piece and operatic in nature. A fun listen but kind of depressing. Understood the light show thing for the first time.

doug walker moment

Admittedly did not have the chance to listen to it in entirety...

Wow, I have complicated feelings about "The Wall". Undeniably justified in its all-time classic status, and probably the best and most cohesive "rock opera" out there. Lots to love. The ONLY reason it falls short of 5 stars for me is that it's a tough top-to-bottom listen for me - the theatrical elements and vignettes that fascinated me as a kid feel a little cringe-inducing when I'm just trying to sit and enjoy an album. Maybe rock operas just aren't for me. More hits than misses with the songs here, just not one of my personal all-time favorite albums anymore.

This was an album that I had always wanted to listen to. I enjoyed it, but wouldn't seek out a return listen.

It is hard for artists to release four outstanding albums in a row. The four releases that start with Dark Side and end with The Wall are all, indeed, outstanding. This is my least favorite of the four. It plays more like a Waters solo disc than a true band album. Also, Bob Ezrin's production, while a good match for the material, is repetitive of some of his earlier work with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper and, even, Kiss. It is, however, a true concept album and best evaluated as a whole, not a group of individual songs. It is ironic that two of Pink Floyd's most played song on classic rock radio (Another Brick in the Wall Part II and Comfortably Numb) come from The Wall. So, a flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless. Calls for 4 1/2 stars, but that is not a choice. Today, for reasons I can't articulate, I shall grade down instead of up.

This is such a sensational concept album. The story of Pink isn't anything crazy new in rock operas... a disillusioned, addicted (to women, drugs, usually both) star trying to find peace. The Wall smashes the archetype straight through with some of the most iconic songs and storytelling in rock. On this listen, I played the change up from Empty Spaces into Young Lust over and over again. I found new meaning in the Nazi fever dream. As uncomfortable as it is, I see how it's perfect to how Pink sees himself: the ultimate evil, self loathing state... into a place where he becomes what his father died fighting against. Speaking of bad places, I can't imagine what type of black hole this album sent Syd Barrett spiraling into it. They say truth is stranger than fiction. That's what I think gives life to this album, what allows Roger Waters to make such an unbreakable classic... the realities he witnessed. Of course, that's mixed with Waters' genius musical visions. So much of this album is ahead of its time. Don't Leave Me Now is a haunting, sad boy song that could have come out today in the alt rock world. Comfortably Numb is one of the most distinctive rock songs in existence. The Wall is still a classic, still holds up, still has meaning to be found within.

When I first heard Wish You Here, I thought it fell short of the bar PF set with Dark Side, and similarly Animals disappointed me after Wish You Were Here. But I came to love all three of those albums. With The Wall, on the other hand, repeated listening didn’t bring greater appreciation. Many of the songs embraced a harder rock, radio-friendly sound. The keyboardist had all but disappeared, but bringing in a couple dozen musicians and the NY Orchestra and Opera balanced things out. The guitar playing is outstanding and more center stage. Roger Waters has increased his vocal range and adopts different styles. Listening to 26 songs penned mostly by Roger Waters is a bit tiring and The Wall theme gets flogged to death, more so lyrically than instrumentally. So, in comparison to PF’s prior three albums, it’s disappointing, but compared to everything else out there, it’s pretty good.

I'm not sure this album could get made today, but it's so immersive and interesting throughout. It didn't fall into what I consider pitfalls of prog rock: over-elaborate or off-puttingly high-concept.

very intriguing story in this album. lots of good songs but ranks behind a number of floyd albums

Genre-defining rock opera and meditation on depression, isolation, and the temptations of stardom and society? Or a bloated self-indulgent, self-obsessed, overblown, and pretentious woe is me, I’m a victim, mess of a wank-fest? Pleasingly it’s a bit of both.

This is one of those albums that everyone seems to love that, historically at least, I just don't "get." This listen gave me more of an appreciation for the album, as I got into more of a groove with it and was able to enjoy the overall structure of the album and the songs contained within. It's still not my favorite Pink Floyd album (I'm partial to Animals). I think it would have been better as a single album, which is something I say about almost every double album. It sags in places, and often these sags occur just as I'm getting into the album. For instance, I really like Young Lust, and it feels like the album is building to something at that point, but then it comes to a total halt with One Of My Turns. This album feels really self indulgent on the part of Roger Waters. When the album becomes less about his personal feelings and more universal, it gets really good. There's too many good songs on here to give it anything less than 4/5, but I also find it frustrating that this album could be among my favorite Pink Floyd albums if it had fewer songs and was more focused. This album with half of the songs would be amazing 4/5 4/5

Soundtrack of my freshman year in college. Still holds up

Classic

Alo, zar ovaj album nije bio već? Moguće je da sam zamjenio, pošto sam imao slušanje diskografija i Floydi su bili prvi ja mislim. Uglavnom, dobra koncepcija, cijeli album, četvorka, al svakak mi nije ni u top 5 njihovih, to sam siguran.

This is an album I grew up with but was too young to understand. I still have lasting but vague memories from the film of Bob Geldof’s bloody hands clawing at the wall. And of hiding behind my sister’s huge cardboard stand display of The Wall wall. It still doesn’t fail to put me to sleep. In a good way.

Not quite 5 starts, some weak/boring songs.

A record you really have to sit down and dedicate your time to in order to absorb it all. Briefly listened to it again and I forgot just how many of the songs are mostly skits or segways to the bigger songs. Pretty decent release though not my favorite from Pink Floyd.

Experimentelle Soundeffekte Gute Story

First time hearing this masterpiece, damn i’ve been missing out.

Can't believe I first got immersed in this when I was nine years old. Probably scarred me for life. Gilmour brings the odd flash of brilliant sunshine to penetrate the Orwellian/Freudian misery woven by Waters. It does still hold together, perhaps surprisingly.

Культовый концептуальный альбом. Не все композиции можно слушать отдельно, но некоторые узнаются с первых аккордов. Хороший альбом.

Þetta er gott. Það er bara þannig.

This album is obviously epic and intense, but I also found it bloated and rambling. It's still good though

Went into this fully expecting to find it a real slog, but I really enjoyed it - I do like a concept album, and the exploration of isolation was done well. Definitely verges on self-indulgent at times, but it's a really interesting journey.

Like a wise man once said: Good album

sorry to hear about your dad, Rog

I wasn't in the mood for this album. I will be generous and round it up due to our history together.

yessir

klasse

Progressivt, rock opera, konceptuelt

This has all the things I like and dislike about Pink Floyd. Some of those songs just ring out as anthems but they're buried by baroque navel gazing. 4 because i liked it more then i disliked it.

Pink Floyd closed out the 70's with the epic rock opera, The Wall. This was an extraordinary project that would become their opus magnum, a concept album that would be their last great work. The record has many highlights and is fairly consistent, but like most double albums has some filler. That being said, despite Dark Side Of The Moon being their best selling album, The Wall is their most important.

As a piece of art, the movie & album are just perfect. But as an album, standing alone, I have to admit it gets just a little long after Comfortably Numb without a story to drive it. There's nothing else I could write about this that hasn't been done better!

Pink Floyd is one of my all time favorite bands, but I have not listened to the Wall in 30 years or more. The Wall is a mixed bag for me. Roger Waters gets a little creepy at times, but this album also displays the combination of Gillmore and Waters at their best, and just prior to the falling apart of the classice Pink Floyd lineup. Their is a combination of soothing and terror ("Goodbye Blue Sky"), entrancing guitar solos and odd sound effects, haunting and horror ("Hey You"). This album is solid on vocals from both leads (Gillmore and Waters), Gillmore's guitar solos, and previews Gillmore's lead once Waters has moved on. My favorite song is "Comfortably Numb" on which all of the band members make recognizable contributions. There is some darkness to this album that keeps me from coming back regularly, but it was good to be reminded that I do love several of the tracks ("Comfortably Numb", "Hey You", "Run Like Hell").

Already listened to it

On release 11-30-79 five stars. Longevity four stars

Classic

The way The wall Started, I tought it was going to be a 6/5. And guess what? It was! The first four tracks were great! all the other parts of brick in a wall were quite amazing. There's other pieces that stand out less, but the finish on In The Flesh was honestly great. But while listening, see, Spotify must have activated the shuffler by accident. First there was Mother, which in itself was a great song, interesting lirycally and musically, but obviously from some other ablum. And that other album, it was really solid too - great mood pieces, Mother and Goodbye Blue Sky were incredible, and the Trial was great as well, a great conclusion to the first album's Wall narrative, to the point I might have tought it belonged there had I not heard these obviously wildly diffrent tunes mixed in! So all in all, Both The Wall and The Other One are great, fantastic even - but together, I'm afraid, they are less that the sum of their parts. The energy and tempo of the first gets often ground to a halt by the second in a jarring way, and the mood and sombre tone and messaging of the second gets muddled by the higher energy, more "rock" pieces of the first - and I have to say, the combined lenght bringing the runtime to an hour twenty did not play it any favours either. And if we had a bridge between the two, if they were arranged better or in a discernable pattern, or maybe had I listened to it on vinyl, in four parts, with natural breaks between, my feelings would have been diffrent. But as it stants, this is the most unfortunate 4/5 I've given so far - it's not "so close it was almost there", it's "went there, then went back to do it again, got there again, but insisted on treating the two runs as a whole thus losing out in the end." Highlights: Goodbye Blue Sky, Mother and every Another Brick.

Hardest rating for me so far. Depending on the time I try to do it I wanted to give it a 3 or 5. On the one hand it's miles ahead most of the albums in history - the richness of sounds, the epic scale, conceptuality are top-notch. On the other - The Wall feels like Roger Waters wanted to squeeze in everything and packed too much. The album is lengthy, almost 1,5 hours long, and I found it hard to fully digest while staying focused. Also, frequent style changes didn't help the album to establish it's character. For me it's one of the greatest music albums, but definitely not my favourite one of Pink Floyd, and this n-th listen didn't change this opinion.

Pink Floydzi to zespół, który według wszystkich znaków na niebie i ziemi powinienem lubić. Jednak mimo kilkukrotnych podejść nigdy polubienie ich mi się nie udawało. Odsłuchanie tego albumu w całości mega mnie zaskoczyło - porcja naprawdę solidnej muzyki, świetna produkcja, kocham concept albumy i koncept tego albumu. Nie jest to jednak wciąż w 100% moja bajka i może nigdy nie będzie. Nie wiem z czego to wynika. Może dokonywane w ostatnich latach próby zderzania się z muzyką, której nie cierpiałem zwykle jeszcze bardziej niż Floydów jakoś te horyzonta poszerzyły? Nie uprzedzam faktów. Zobaczymy jak Dark Side of the Moon. Ale wystawiam uczciwą czwórkę, nawet 4.5 jeśli by można było.

I can't help but feel that Roger Waters going to therapy would've been a lot cheaper (and less traumatic for the rest of the band and Bob Ezrin), but they needed a new album to help stave off bankruptcy after some bad financial decisions... so we got therapy on record instead. Finally moving from mere concept albums into proper rock opera, Waters is sometimes more strained as a vocalist than I remember him being, but the end result somehow (mostly) disguises the difficulty of the production and the cracks in the band. Nothing if not overcooked, but Gilmour's guitar work on "Comfortably Numb" just about excuses the album's oddities and flaws. Also, frankly, "Another Brick pt. 2" is one of the earliest songs I can remember hearing around the time it came out (I recall my brother having the single), so I always have a certain affection for it because of that.

Bien pero no muy fan del genero

oh boy, if you don't know this album than clearly your living under a rock. No one in my life is a heavy Pink Floyd fan but I remember hearing this album on repeat a lot growing up.

Tailed off towards the end but strong overall.

I have complicated feelings about this album: I think this is the start of Pink Floyds decline, as Roger starts putting all the bands effort in narrative and story, sacrificing the creative extended instrumental passages of their previous work. Its still a fantastic album though, but it dosen't have what I love from Pink Floyd.

Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?

Pink Floyd finished off the 70’s with their biggest hit. The paranoia surrounding Roger Waters comes spilling out in this concept album of a tortured rock star. Tons of big hits spread throughout, Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, Is There Anybody Out There. Fantastic!

So much more than just "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"

This is such an iconic album, that it's hard to find something to say about it that hasn't been said before. Curiously, this is also, by no means, Pink Floyd's best album - or maybe not even one in the top 5. But it's still a great double album, one that has become relevant again and deserves a new listen, because of it's anti-war and anti-fascist vibe, while still dealing with feelings of abandonmant, isolation, depression and the loss of sanity (a common subject for the band). The problem is that it can be very pretentious and megalomaniac, especially on the Roger Waters side - which makes up for 75% of the album. But it's still a good and well produced albums, with amazing lyrics and great narratives in song form, like in "Mother", "Goodbye Cruel World", "Hey You" and, most of all, "Comfortably Numb".

An incredible concept album; it drags on quite a bit though, especially after Comfortably Numb.

Listened to on 2/11/22 4/5 Favorite Song: another brick in the wall Definitely recommend listening to this album after you’ve done some research and understand the context. I enjoyed it but was disturbed by a lot of the songs but also wow such a well written commentary on current events

like dark side of the moon better but glad i gave it a listen!

Dads favourite album. Is great

Great sound, experimental. Not something i'd listen to regularly but can appreciate it

Pretty good especially for background music!

super album, bas je dozivljaj, neke pisme su malo naprorne al oke, 4

What can be said about this album that hasn’t been already? Despite that, even Pink Floyd has better work in my opinion

As ever with Floyd, you need to be in a certain mindspace, but this was the first time I've listened to all of it - can see how it is so popular. Not quite Wish You Were Here, but pretty good nonetheless

I enjoyed this. No songs really stood out as ones I’d like to go back to often in isolation, but it was still a good listen. A real album experience.

It's certainly the best of the bloated 70's prog-operas, and I can see why Roger Waters is proud of what he accomplished. Musically, it's prone to moments of mullet-rock but endlessly creative. My favorite track has been "Comfortably Numb" since I was, like, 5.

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Roger Waters‘ Eigentherapie-Oper, deren 4. Seite komplett verzichtbar ist. Der Rest ist ganz groß, ist ja immerhin von Pink Floyd, die ich sehr verehre.

Bombastic, big, angst-ridden and angry. Overblown and humourless? Pretentious? Yes, all of that, but a great rock opera for teenagers. I think this is the most intelligent expression of the perils of rock stardom. it makes me wonder why Roger Waters ever got into the rock and roll game; he seems to hate everything about it. I loved this when I was 16, but now I find it a little ham-fisted (if not excellently executed). Props to David Gilmour for one of the greatest guitar solos of all time (Comfortably Numb). This really is one of the most important texts of rock and roll, being both a great rock record (with some crackin' tunes) and reflecting back on the nature of rock and roll.

This is another one that I love to much to be objective. First listened to it as a young teen and I think what surprised me is that it never lost me, all the way through. Sort of the opposite experience of Tommy (and maybe what I expect from Tommy).

a little too much "noise"

This is my least favorite PF album. I enjoyed it more than I remember enjoying it in the past...

Starts off with a banger of a song Raw but consistent. Feels dope to listen to. Doesn't feel boring at all

3.5 stars. Slower than I expected but I didn’t mind it. I liked it better than their first album and I thought it was interesting that it’s a rock opera

Like it more than I remembered, but it has been 25+ years since I have listened. Much more than the more famous songs. 4/5

It's no Dark Side, but it's still pretty good.

Never listened to this album all the way through. I’ve never been the biggest Pink Floyd fan but it was an enjoyable listen.

Bloated but solid

Очень специфичный голос, моим ушам не подходит

Hey this one is pretty good, but like the 4th best of their 4 best albums. It's got this giant epic presence that i've really never seen before. Cool and interesting message that just can come off as a little pretentious and on-the-nose at times. I like how the leitmotif of that guitar riff from another brick in the wall that you hear throughout the album. It's super long, but i dont think anything should be cut out. Great album

Sonic masterpiece

Didn’t listen to this album due to cliche poppy songs, but it’s pretty good. Sounds very pretentious but still.

Of course I'm familiar with the hits off this album and I've seen the movie, but I've never listened to The Wall from start to finish. I'm about twenty minutes in, and what stands out for me is how immersive it is. Roger Waters, the driving force behind the album, has taken the incorporation of extra-musical cues pioneered in DSOTM to it's logical conclusion here. The album flows like a dream, which is exactly what it's meant to do. Criticism that the majority of the "songs" on this album are filler is beside the point. The music is meant to tell a story about alienation and mental illness, and it succeeds grandly. Although there are very few songs that can stand alone here, there is a lot of beauty in the sound collages that have been painstakingly assembled. And in terms of production, The Wall is gorgeous, one of the best-sounding albums imaginable. And although the hits aren't my favorite Pink Floyd songs, I do like Another Brick In the Wall, Goodbye Blue Sky, Hey You, etc. But ultimately, The Wall earns its inclusion on the list by its groundbreaking production and by its success at realizing an incredibly ambitious concept. Oh, and guitarist David Gilmour is brilliant here--it's some of his most expressive work. The biggest weakness of The Wall is also its greatest strength, that it almost demands to be experienced as a unified work. For example, if you were to listen to one of the interstitial songs like Bring The Boys Back Home in isolation, although you might admire the skill of the sound collage, your overall reaction might reasonably be "huh?" Perhaps less fairly, listening to the album all the way through is a claustrophobic experience, akin to being trapped in Roger Water's brain. But that's kind of the point. It's even worse if you have a low tolerance for a rich and absurdly successful rock star whining about how tough it is to be a rock star, although that isn't my take. I'm giving The Wall 4/5, which is probably too low. Sue me.

Love the callbacks. Obviously recognized many of the songs, but it was great to hear the whole thing through.

groan of disappointment that this was the first album to come up. I guess I was hoping for something new and/or different, not an album I've listened to a million times over the last 35 years. Teenage me loved this album but it's one of my least favourite PF albums now. Back then this and WYWH were my favourites by a long way, these days DSotM is the one I listen to the most, I really enjoy Animals, have started to like TFC a lot more than I did. I've always been ok with the post-Waters stuff, possibly because I didn't have the history. There's some great stuff on this though, esp Side 3 (Hey You to Comfortably Numb) and Side 1 is also good but at times it's patchy.

We get it, Rog. Your dad's dead and it sucks. Fuck up, champ. (Teenage me thinks this is HERESY.)

Torn on this. Probably obe of the most awful albums I've listened to the most

An album I feel like I've heard a ton despite never actually sitting down with it. It's nice to hear a lot of the songs in context, though I think I'm permanently tired of "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2". Some of the most exquisite guitar playing you'll ever hear. Favorite tracks: "Young Lust", "Comfortably Numb"

I like Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 1 more than Pt. 2. Honestly feels a little unsettling in parts

Great album. Pink Floyd is pretty good.

You can't go wrong with some pink floyd, though I prefer other albums of theirs

Ambitious. A bit patchy. But the central track The Wall Part 2 is outstanding. As is Comfortably Numb.

England, 80s, Rock + Legend, multi, future, don’t stop, Complexed = Male, long play - {5/26} [4/5]

So many songs I love but a few I find annoying. So can't do 5 stars

A little bloated

An incredibly adventurous undertaking, that fact that Pink Floyd pull this off says more about the creative talents of the band than maybe any of their other albums. Yes it’s long - and yes a lot of the songs don’t work in isolation - but they aren’t supposed to. This album is supposed to be like going to see a show, they are telling a story and do so with great skill. That said, some of their best songs still live within this album.

Ugh. The singles are insane. The album... Boring and repetitive

Another album I’m deeply familiar with (but haven’t listened to end to end for many year). I think I eventually sold the big double CD version I had with the full booklet, way back far enough that you could actually get a decent return from a used record store for that kind of thing. But I’d listened to it dozens of times before that, even seen the movie a few times. At the end of the day I have to count myself with those who judge this to be terribly heavy-handed and self-important, at least in its lyrics and vocal performance. A lot of the music and especially the guitar is quite subtle. The overall package would have been improved by a strong dose of humor (Something in the Terry Gilliam vein perhaps) but nearly the whole album is deadly earnest and irony-free. Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone.

Don’t think I’ve ever heard this all the way through strangely. Good album all told… minus one star for going a bit les miserables at the end!

Some filler but not much. CLASSIC!!!

Yes. Much classic rock.

An excellent concept album, which has the unfortunate role of being the start of the abuse of the anti-war theme by Roger Waters, eroding the creative capacity of the group, and signalling the beginning of its end.

I thought I had listened to this whole thing before. And still think I probably have. But I don't think I'd ever listened to it really carefully before and tried to figure out what it's all about. Concept albums are funny things. Trying to tell a complex and coherent story using only music, and only rock music at that, is a difficult thing to do. A lot of concept albums or rock operas have a lot going on between the lines, in the minds of the artist, and this is very true of "The Wall." I've never seen the film before, and I don't know how much of the understood story of "The Wall" comes from the music, how much comes from the film, and how much comes from interviews with Pink Floyd over the years. The lyrics themselves were not enough for me to really get a full understanding of what was going on, so I read about the plot on Wikipedia. And it all made sense, but also there was just so much more depth and cohesion than you could gleam by just listening to the songs. Putting together a piece of art that attempts to do what "The Wall" attempts to do is amazing, and there are many amazing deserved classics on the album. But as a concept, as a story, it doesn't quite come together for me. I like the echoes about building the wall in multiple songs, but too much of the story is left out. The dirge style of "The Trial" at the end also felt out-of-place. So I can't quite give it 5, despite several 5-star songs and a 5-star worthy attempt at making a really interesting piece of art.

Just doesnt stike quite the same magic as Dark Side or Wish You Were Here

didn't actually listed, but don't really feel like I have to re-listen to makes this comment; this is a classic album for a reason. Pink Floyd at their apex, their peak.

I liked this a surprising amount. The sound effects/skits were not my thing, otherwise would have been 5/5

The Wall is an incredible conceptual body of work. There's something for everyone to appreciate on this album. Many hits, fun deep track, all individually contributing to the album in it's entirety.

Best Tracks: Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, Goodbye Blue Sky, Young Lust, Hey You, Comfortably Numb, In the Flesh, Run Like Hell

As a whole, immersive and iconic among concept albums. The story is intriguing, even if the lyrics lack wit and subtlety at times. There are a handful of amazing tracks that stand up as classics on their own, and while they're strengthened by the context of the album they also overshadow the songs that serve more as story filler, and it feels a little bloated overall. A 4.5 for me, but with a decent number of songs that would be passed over individually if not in it for the whole story it goes to a 4.

Solid 4 and an easy listen. I appreciate how the entirety of the album works together as essentially one very long singular piece.

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I'm personally a big Pink Floyd fan, but I don't think I'd recommend The Wall to everyone, hence the docked star

nice album

Love this album. Definitely my fifth favorite of theirs, but thats not a diss. This is definitely the album that helped me understand that them, and many other bands, are doing more than just creating music. In a lot of ways albums like this and Ziggy Stardust are my introduction the art world. It carries on a little bit but it delivers some of the most personal work of Roger Waters' career.