The Wall

Pretty solid album, definitely one that works as an album

well. i mean. it’s perfect.

Absolute classic. I used to listen to the CD in my car all the time. I'll relisten now, too, though. The only thing keeping this from being a perfect 5/5 is that it does feel a bit bloated. While I appreciate the consistency and cohesiveness in the themes, musically and lyrically, throughout the entire album it still feels a bit long. 4/5

It's the Wall. What can be said that hasn't already been said at this point. It’s hard to get into if you’re not a Pink Floyd fan, but this is easily a 5/5 all time great album.

Excellent 4/5

Rock star decides to write album about rock star going off the rails and turning his band into a brutal dictatorship, in realising this idea as an album, he goes off the rails and turns his his band into a brutal dictatorship. Musical wonderment ensues. Not fair to new listeners to expect any kind of real appreciation for this thumping great brontosaurus of an album in one day. That said I don't think it's as self-indulgent as people say, it's self-examining and self-absorbed, but it is about taking a long cold look at yourself ultimately so it has to be. It is the most fully realised opera in rock music, it doesn't just drone on mostly, (though it has it's moments) it goes from scene to scene explaining Pink's spiral into mania, delusion and ultimate redemption. If you require happy uplifting music that puts a positive spin on everything in 3 minutes then this claustrophobic, large scale work of unreleting doom will wear you down in a trice. But if you can take a bit of darkness and can manage repeated listens you will be rewarded. 'Goodbye Blue Sky', 'Hey You', and 'Comfortably Numb' are some of the best Floyd tracks, Glimour's voice and guitar playing are on typically superlative form here, there are classic studio effects and atmospheres (dive bombers, helicopters, TVs getting sledge-hammered, and a child innocently identifying the airborne apocalypse, a man drunkenly threatening a woman with poetry in the middle of a freeway as cars whizz past). It's one of those rare albums where the ridiculous scale and ambition of a stupendous overblown idea is in fact upheld by the resulting recording. It makes 'Tommy' sound like an EP. It's too long, it's depressing and scatalogical, Waters voice sounds like a particularly grouchy cat being strangled, and it really is the record of a band dying on it's feet. The songs 'Vera' and 'Bring the Boys Back Home' are annoying preludes to the subsequent Final Cut album. The soaring guitar solos in 'Comfortably Numb' are really only bettered by the one in 'Time' by the same guitarist. Spectacular, chilling and peerless.

not bad

Brilliant

So Roger Waters spat on a fan during a concert and instead of having some self reflection and becoming a better, more humble person he instead writes an 80 minute ego stroke about how its all everyone else's fault. 6/10 Comfortably numb is probably my favourite pink Floyd song though.

Iconic for me. I could listen to the whole album with each song in a row or pick and choose. The best.

Kind of hate Pink Floyd but we're being open-minded! Honestly Pink Floyd is pretty inoffensive. Like, as much as I complain about them, I would never be actively angry about someone playing a record of theirs. It's just so proggy, which is not my thing, and I don't even know why! I would think that it would be something I am into being that I try to live my life like a 10-year-old boy in the 70s in most ways. Ok, so I was sitting here thinking about how not terrible this record was until "Hey You" came on. I fucking hate this song. I don't know man, I mean, I guess Pink Floyd is GOOD I just also find them deeply ANNOYING. It's like, white male pseudo-intellectual bullshit to me.

Pink Floyd - The Wall Classic album. One everyone knows about even if they've never listened to it. It's a rock opera that tells the story about a jaded rock star (Pink) who constructs a "psychological" wall of social isolation. It's interesting when you read up on the making of this album. How disillusioned Waters ( and the band) felt after their last tour and how the crowds weren't connecting with the band or the music and seemed to use concerts just as a social event (much of what I feel concerts have become today). Causing the feeling of isolation while playing concerts for fans who served to not really care. 30 million copies were sold and it's Pink Floyd's second best selling album, behind Dark Side Of the Moon. I'm pretty sure that this album is in the majority of vinyl collectors collections. 5/5

5.0. A timeless classic. Absolutely brilliant.

Espectacular

Rating: 10/10

Not really my favorite band, but I have to respect their cultural influence. There's definitely a few good ones on here

This album was a main stay of my childhood I kill two copies on cassette

I'm trying to be objective here, as a huge Pink Floyd fan. In fact, I took the opportunity to listen to it while shaving my head this morning. However much I love this album, I have to admit that it wouldn't be top 5 albums I recommend to a new Floyd fan. Pink went on a 4 album run of 5star work from Meddle thru Animals (sans "Obscured"). The Wall marked the beginning of the end for the band as Roger Waters' self indulgent autobiography. While I love the theatrics and the live performances are worth noting, the casual music fan my find this hard to digest and full to filler. Sure they'd be wrong, but it's ok

It’s great, hard not to give it (or most Pink Floyd albums) a 5 just because of how interesting they sound. Like this album has so many great songs like another brick in the wall (all parts), comfortably numb and the trial and them alone really give it this score. The others are great though and really fit with the concept. 5/5

Incredibly produced, and plenty of incredible songs. This should be a 5 star, but it drags way too long near the end. The tear down the wall chant is great, but everything else after Run Like Hell is uninsteresting to me. Still, any other band and this is their magnum opus, for Pink Floyd it's still debated where it places on their best album list

•Not owned: Streaming •I've struggled to climb The Wall multiple times; this time I found that the narrative is lost in the writer's self-indulgence. And maybe that's the point? I appreciate the experimentation to push the listener inside, but it only makes the second half—when the sound really keys in—more confounding. •3/5

I've been on a roller coaster with this album. I received this album at a young age from my older sister. I was probably too young for it but I did like it a lot. A few years later I got into their older work and was convinced that The Wall wasn't "real" Pink Floyd. I've come back around to appreciate this album as being really great. I borderline dislike Young Lust but it is pretty catchy. It needs more Richard Wright and less vocals from Waters but I'm not giving this anything less than a 5.

I think I’m too young for this one. This album is arguably one of the greats, however I think it would have resonated more with me had it come out in my own adolescence. I loved the way Roger waters or whatever his name is uses sound clips of natural human moments to boil down the moral of each track and writes music that feels a lot like the content of the lyrics. The concept doesn’t really stick with me though since it’s simply non conformity. I am also not super impressed by the actual musical capabilities here, most likely because of my exposure to music influenced by Pink Floyd, before listening to Pink Floyd. All in all I cannot deny this album to be great and incredibly influential.

Dude it’s a classic. We all know this album is a masterpiece and what it did for story telling in music is essay worthy. For not even being their best album, it’s still near perfect in close to every aspect. 9.8/10 closer to 9.9 than 9.7 and one of the few albums a white dad would rave about that actually stands the test of time and remains up to snuff with music today.

What an interesting album--definitely not a great album, but a fascinating and intriguing one. Probably says something that I preferred diving down innumerable wikipedia rabbit holes about the album's inspirations, themes, characters, and the general lore and commercial/critical response & legacy over actually listening to the album. Pink Floyd are already an indica strain, slunk into the couch sort of band, but my god is this placid and limp. Sedate but kind of breezy in it's pacing, it just plods along and on and on. Hard to accurately call something filler when it serves a place in the narrative structure It's kind of a great trojan horse that they snuck all their most commercial, pop leaning tendencies into an overwrought, pretentious double album with an overarching narrative framework. The Eagles' cosplay "Young Lust" wouldn't fit anywhere else in their discography, same with the squint and you might see Disco on the horizon #1 single "Another Brick in the Wall Pt.II" For all it's overexposure on classic rock radio "Comfortably Numb" still sounds fantastic. When I was younger&dumber I held this in very high esteem, even if I knew better than to ever actually listen to the thing in its entirety. It's some sort of artistic triumph I guess, but outside of a couple moments, not something I really have interest in returning to--though given how cinematic and theatrical in scope this is I could see my opinions changing if I ever get around to watching the film version.

Heavy emotionally, but artfully crafted. I can’t imagine an album like this being made today. For whatever reason I just want to turn it up loud and that’s the case with most Pink Floyd

Meh, never really been a fan but can appreciate why they are popular.

Absolute gem! All time favorite.

What a perfect way to send off the 70s and progress into the 80s. It had to happen, but when the wall came down it wasn’t the same on either side.

I love this album. this is a classic. Straight rock-opera.

8/10

A must!

My first interaction with this album was hearing “Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2” when I was in elementary school or so. I loved the dark and moody sound, and I thought it was badass that included a chorus of kids signing the line “we don’t need no education.” As a child who often clashed with his parents, I thought this song was incredibly badass, and I loved when it came on the radio. I kept listening to classic rock as I got older, and I eventually became familiar with other songs on The Wall: “Hey You,” “Young Lust,” the amazing “Comfortably Numb,” and the criminally underrated “Run Like Hell,” were all some of my favorite songs to hear on classic rock radio. I eventually bought the CD of The Wall, which came in one those awesome cases that was like two individual jewel cases fused together. The Wall is my second favorite Pink Floyd album, albeit by a small margin, just behind Wish You Were Here. If I could only listen to one Pink Floyd album the rest of my life, it would be Wish You Were Here, but if I could only listen to one Pink Floyd song for the rest of my life, it would be “Comfortably Numb.” The Wall is full of great songs, and those songs form an incredible album that functions incredibly well as a larger piece of work. The lyrics of this album cover a wide variety of topics (stardom, tyranny, isolation, abandonment, war and nuclear annihilation, to name a few), and these themes contribute to the larger picture of collectivism versus individualism. In a world that was only growing more connected, how can someone embrace and value their individuality while still contributing to the collective good that the world needs in order to survive? It’s something that still fuels debates, not just between major political schools of thought, but within those schools of thought as well. Musically, this album has Pink Floyd’s sound, but it manages to evolve past both Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. Every song is unique, but they all fit together brilliantly, like a puzzle. Even though the songs flow wonderfully from one to the next with outstanding segues (I love a good segue by the way), the way they fit together feels like it goes beyond the linear. The musical arrangements are outstanding, and even though there’s so much to take in, it never feels jumbled or too busy. This album is fantastic, and it’s a must listen for any music fan.

Classic and more chill

Have it in my collection

I remember stealing this album from my parents once or twice, and I’m surprised for how many of the songs I already knew. Giving this another shot in my 30s, holy shit this album rules. Feels like a concept album (and deserves a relisten when I’m not as distracted), but blends musical styles and meshes the songs together incredibly well. No real stinkers whatsoever. Some of the all time greatest songs on two discs. Easy 5.

An atypical format for a rock-ballad like sound. It took me 3 days to get through. I feel like it should be listened to all the way through without stopping.

One of the finest albums ever created, and the accompanying film is essential to elevate the experience. The absolute pinnacle of concept albums as an art form. My favorite PF album among a legendary discography. Favorite Tracks: Comfortably Numb, Is There Anybody Out There, The Trial

wow well there's a lot to unpack here. emotional abuse and getting shouted at...... just a whole story of an albums........

This is the last Pink Floyd album I bought and for me really marked the beginning of the end for them as a band. I bought it at release and liked it, but with passage of time I came to think it's pretty dull stuff with continued navel gazing about pressures of upbringing and success. Not something I listen to very often.

Pretty great album, but difficult to rate. I don’t necessarily connect to it, but I 100% get why it resonates with so many people and why it’s one of the most successful, and enduring, albums of all time.

Zugegeben habe ich noch nie The Wall gehört, kannte nur einzelne Songs. Als Konzept-Album und Doppel-Album hat es seine Längen ("Bridge Songs" nennt es jemand in seinem review). Als nicht-Muttersprachler kann ich dem Inhalt nicht so einfach folgen und das Konzept einfach erfassen. Trotzdem für mich persönlich ein gutes Album. Insbesondere Another brick in the wall PT. 2, Hey you, comfortably numb herausragend, aber auch der Rest ist gut.

Never been a Pink Floyd fan. Musically this album is amazing to me but Roger Waters vocals grate on me for a lot of it until Comfortably Numb which is an amazing track. Overall not something I’m going to revisit. I appreciate the scope but it’s so long and self-indulgent.

Essential concept album, even though Waters’ power play was ripping the band apart during this production.

It's an impressive conceit. There are good instances of musicianship and some good hooks. But it's way too long and way too full of itself. Sounds like hippies coming down after the euphoria wore off. A lot of angst and rebellion over very little. Still worth a listen and, as I said, an impressive feat. Just all sounds a bit bloated and old farty.

Un álbum con historia, muy completo

I like the story and concept a lot, but a lot of the music on the album is Just Fine in my opinion. A few good songs, a few incredible ones of course, but overall my thing with concept albums is like. I personally prefer for them to be able to stand on their own musically, and there are enough of these songs that really just fade into the background for me. Still 4 stars but I doubt I’ll listen to it again as an album aside from the songs I already knew (and loved!!)

A perfect story-telling about a man and his traumas. Magnificient evolution of the melodic aura through the algum.

It's the wall it's pretty anazing

In my top 5 of all time

It's a banging album. That's all there is to it, really.

Been listening to it since it was released. Good stuff. David Gilmour is a bona fide guitar God; stellar work.

Genius. Rock and roll theater at its best.

RW is douchey, but this album is one of the best ever.

Usually i dont like Albums with +20 Songs but this one breaks this Barrier. I love each Version (part) of another brick in the wall theyre all beatifully executed and the whole Concept with "The Wall" In the Flesh and and and works so well. Its truly a Masterpiece and it has a good Structure and Soundwise its time ahead from what ive heard. Arguably an Top 3 Pink Floyd LP! 5/5

Some really good songs, but hard to keep concentration and interest that long.

As a piece of audio recording and studio engineering this is awesome - such a refreshing listen compared to 'modern' music where everything is normalised and compressed, this has loads of 'space' in the recording and dynamic range, however I found some of the content dragged and I don't really have the attention to listen to the lyrics and storyline.

It’s fine! Really. Kind of neat production. Was it spectacular for its time? Now it just seems kind of repetitive. Great musicians. They love sound effects. Solid bops.

Never been the biggest pink Floyd fan from what I've heard. The intro was pretty fun. I think this kind of music just isn't me. I know it's gonna have a hard time trying to keep my attention for how long this is. Just finished mother. So far the intro is my favorite. Mother is my least favorite, it wasn't all that good. Finished young lust. Didn't care for it. I don't think I care for this guys voice either. Empty spaces was fun though. A lot of filler. This could be way shorter. It's just not my kind of music. Some songs I enjoyed but I probably won't come back to.

The not goodest Pink Floyd album. I'm still not sure which one is Pink?

Love . Love. So epic

The album was really good, it’s the first one I had already listened to in this list too. I wouldn’t add it a playlist, maybe some of the songs, but since this is a concept album it’s also less interesting to listen to songs separately. I’ll give it a high 4, if possible I would have put a 4,5/5.

Great album but not their best.

Very relaxing and a bit mind trippy and I liked it

One of the greats, for sure!

Even better with the passing of time...not many things you can say that about.....Fucking Perfect start to finish

Perfect

Dark Side of the Moon was how I was introduced to Pink Floyd. Must have heard it more than a 100 times. Wasn’t impressed with most of this album. My taste is music has changed over time but still enjoy many classics from the 60’s & 70’s.

It is a classic for a reason

Perfection, always amazing

WOW~ What a treat!!!! I know ... some of us throw 5s around but this IS one of the are that earns it. Thats's why it's in the Global top 10. I may be jaded, I am a big Floyd fan 0 even saw this on their initial tour in 1979 at Nassau Colosseum in LI, but still a tour de force! Thank you !

4.7 Personally not as good as DSOTM but a fucking masterpiece nonetheless. Fave songs: young lust, comfortably numb, goodbye blue sky

hm, I think I'd rated "Dark Side Of The Moon" lower than this, which maybe I didn't mean to do that, when I'd listened to that one I was less oriented with what Pink Floyd is and does. Though actually, I think I maybe do like this one better, even if it's probably not conventional opinion. Overblown rock opera theatricality is something that works on me pretty well.

The best

I still remember the time I listened to this for the first time on a greyhound to portland in like 2017. i feel like remembering when you listened to the album for the first time is a good sign that it's a five star

Very boring but I can see how it was innovative when it came out

Difficult one to review objectively, I loved this when I was 14, thought it was important somehow, listening again after a very long time and after RW’s decent into stupidity it’s very hard to like, lots of musical theatre elements and some plain nastiness

I'm not a Pink Floyd fan, but I guess this album has 2 ok tracks, Comfortably Numb, and Brick in The Wall Part 2. So that's as good as this review gets... and for me the album is only worth a 2.

Great album:. Lost my notes.

Love this album, reminded of when I first discovered it over twenty years ago. Listened to that cassette until it stopped working.

Best PF album and always a great listen

Fell asleep. what a boring album. Never was a fan of PF anyway.

One of the best ever. It had been a long time si ce I listened from the first track to the last. Fantastic!

The concept is intriguing, and Pink Floyd certainly has the talent to pull it off, but many of the tracks, particularly at the front end of the album are just straightforward arena rock without much interesting about them. Towards the middle of the record, once Pink's 'wall' is complete the songs become more spacey and creative, but it's a long time to reach that point. 6/10

Favorite band of all time, but not my favorite album of theirs. Still good stuff. Listened to this 1,000 times, never gets old.

Album 289 of 1001 Pink Floyd - The Wall Rating : 5 / 5 Favorite Tracks : Nobody Home / Mother / Comfortably Numb, In the Flesh, etc, etc. While I enjoy the new music I've heard while listening through this list, it is still a joy when I see an old favorite pop up. Gives me a chance to start the day with some music I know I will enjoy. It has been a while since I listened to this album in one sitting. Every song on the album is on my 'Like" list and I hear them regularly. It was nice hearing the album from beginning to end, again. Different songs evoking different memories. Don't think anybody will ever be able to listen to this album and say it didn't hold up over time.

LP

Not my favorite Pink Floyd album

Rock opera theatrical music for 90 minutes. Would have been amazing as a light show but too much as a stand alone album.

Feels like a Musical Great soundscape of an album Sound design is 10/10 4.5 Great Intro 4.5 4.9 Quiet before the storm vibes 4.5 4.9 Another classic I knew of, but never listened to intentionally 4.6 Great lyrics 4.7 Eerie vibes 4.9 New 4 3.8 4.1 Good sound design 4.5 3.4 3.9 4.9 Cinematic feel 4.3 3.6 4.4 4.3 Solo saves the song 4 4.6 4.3 4.5 4.5 4.9 4.4

Another group and song I heard of. Basically only cared for one song.

Classic

Excellent.

This is one of my favorite albums of all personally so it was easy to listen to it again

Not for me

To listen to this one I broke out my vinyl copy and listened to the entire thing as it was intended on my old turntable. One of the first 45rpm records I ever owned was "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" which we played over and over again.

Very cool, I enjoyed, I like that it's a loop

Iconic

Cool concept, legendary album. Not the most enjoyable. A couple of perfect songs.

One of my favorite rock albums of all time! I wore out a copy or two when I was younger. The guitar solo on Comfortably Numb is one of my favorites. David Gilmore is a fantastic player and has been one of my favorite players for a quite some time.

I found this album, when exposed to it while at Uni, to be so engaging. I was deep into it then. And on rediscovering it again, I am deep into it now. It feels timeless. Beautiful atmospheric and gritty in a sad depressingly artistic way. Easily able to listen to again and again. Clearly 5 stars.

Enjoyed the hits. Listening feels like watching a movie. When it rocks, it really rocks. Much of the rest was hard to get into.

Classic, hard to argue with

Enjoyed the formerly Top 40 hits off the album, but that's pretty much it.

Legendary album. Apart from great music and the superb guitar throughout, the storyline of this album is emotional, relatable and gripping. I’d say this album would be top 5 rock albums of all time. So real!

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

One of the best of all time!

Recognize the greatness and popularity of PF. I did listen to a lot of it. Used to think I hated them, but turns out it’s just not my thing. I did imagine that folks who heard this when it actually came out, must have blown them away. Also, they were known as Megadeaths! Didn’t know this; During "Part 1", the protagonist, Pink, begins building a metaphorical wall around himself following the death of his father. In "Part 2", traumas involving his overprotective mother and abusive schoolteachers become bricks in the wall. Following a violent breakdown in "Part 3", Pink dismisses everyone he knows as "just bricks in the wall."

meh

Classic concept album but man it’s long

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.

Interesting

Overrated but still good

Este disco me flipaba en mi adolescencia y luego dejé de escucharlo. En mi memoria lo recordaba como un disco coñazo lleno de guitarras progresivas, con unas voces masculinas demasiado agudas y sin fuerza y demasiado largo. Ahora lo he vuelto a escuchar y me ha parecido un muy buen disco. Supongo que mi recuerdo estaba envenenado por el excesivo y muy incorrecto uso que se ha hecho de algunas de las canciones en documentales, piezas para televisión, anuncios y películas. También por las muy malas versiones que han hecho otros grupos o por las hechas por grupos aficionados dedicados a hacer tributos. Sobre el disco puedo decir que la experimentación con las guitarras, que suenan de formas muy diferentes y que cubren un muy amplio espectro musical, desde la balada folk hasta el rock progresivo más puro y eligiendo siempre el sonido más adecuado para esa canción. También está la postproducción, con sonidos de calle que acompañan perfectamente a la narración de las canciones. Es posible que a las voces les pueda faltar un poco de fuerza en ocasiones, pero todo queda muy bien disimulado por la fuerza del resto de sonidos. Por mucho que me cueste admitirlo, es un disco que me ha gustado.

Classic, FETT

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

Voll vergessen wie klasse die Platte ist. - von Anfang bis Ende!

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?

Gar nicht mein Ding. Viel zu viel. Musik für Musiker.

Great album low 8

I mean it is the wall, I've heard it 1000 times. Still great to listen to but there is a lot of filler.

Classic concept album!

Nicht meine Band

This album is conceptually sound. In my opinion, this is definitely not Pink Floyd's best effort. There are some great songs and some instantly forgettable ones. That being said, i enjoyed the listening experience and this is an album I'd be happy to revisit. But I'd probably listen to Animals, Meddle, Piper or Wish you were here instead.

Will go 5, maybe the standard for a concept album

Classic but like my 5th favourite PF album

one of my favorites by PF!

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

There are some great songs on here but taken as a whole it was just OK for me.

Been a long time since I’ve listened to an album from start to finish. Lots of sound effects that were new at the time. Fun to listen to but not likely to find its way into my rotation.

Nothing new to say about this album. Hideously unfashionable at the time, hideously unfashionable ever since. Some everygreen songs, but the concept and the linking bits are very skippable.

Even though I like listening to Dark Side and WYWH more than this album, I somehow think it deserves to be rated more highly. Amazing journey throughout the whole album (paired with the film) makes this an absolute masterpiece, not to mention one of the best guitar solos of all time. Truly a great performance by Pink, I think he'll make it big one day.

not a fan of Floyd. Classic but not for me

The wall verarbeitet die Person Pink(toter Vater durch Krieg, Probleme aller sozialen Coleur)...another brick in the wall pt2 verarbeitet sein Schulttrauma mit Lehrern..

Great

Boring and long and pretentious, not my jam.

i was hoping to be pleasantly surprised but this, but i was not. i don't feel that this needed or benefitted from being a double album. "comfortably numb" is the high point.

I’ll take the layne Staley Tom morello version of another brick from 1999’s criminally underrated The Faculty, but an extra star for producing the original so it could be used in a movie about alien teachers attacking students instead of protest

I'm not saying it's a bad album, I'm just saying I could only ever listen to Comfortably Numb again and not feel like I was missing out (and I'm going to pick the dar Williams cover of comfortably numb nine times out of 10). It definitely doesn't help that the only other time I've listened to this album all the way through was while making out with my high school boyfriend so......"listen" is generous.

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!

sorry i do just love a concept album

Ok look. I didn't finish this album today. I've heard this album so many times. It's fine. I like a lot of it. It's also extremely long and has some intercuts that make me feel I'm having auditory hallucinations (negative). 2.5 rounded up

Nooit de tijd genomen om eens goed te luisteren naar Pink Floyd, maar wat een goed album. Muzikaal, gevarieerd, en ook de bekende nummers vallen opeens kloppend in het verhaal van het album.

Another lottery strike! What a way to end the year with this album!! True experience and definitely enjoyed best from start to finish. A rock opera for the ages, there a reasons this album is still talked about today. Favorite songs: Another Brick in the Wall Pt2, Hey You, Is Anybody Out There, Comfortably Numb

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.

Not a fan of double albums or concept albums so it was uphill going for me. Felt bloated. There were some good songs on here but it felt like it was taking too long to get there. Not for me but I can understand why some would love it

This 70s prog rock ain't for me 2.5/5

Alleen vijf sterren is mogelijk

Legendary

Epic rock opera with some of the best solos David Gilmour ever played.

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

Watched the movie which was pretty trippy

The Experience. Amazing storytelling which I imagine is not for everybody. If you looking for songs you can't find many here but boy, if they actually play they're masterclass. 5 stars for whole concept.

Meh

Musikalisch nicht mein Fall, dennoch ist der kommerzielle Erfolg aufgrund der Komplexität und Qualität dieses Albums absolut nachvollziehbar. Ich mag die Doppeldeutigkeit der Texte, die zum einen natürlich den Plot des Konzeptalbums bedienen, zum anderen aber auch viele gesellschaftliche Themen ansprechen. Ich denke mit den Texten konnten sich viele Leute identifizieren. Es ist bemerkenswert, wie sich unsere Art Musik zu hören über die Jahre verändert hat, Fokus liegt eher auf kurzweiligen Veröffentlichungen und Single Auskopplungen. Würde mir wünschen dass wir wieder mehr zum Album zurückkommen

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.

Hot take: This is the superior Pink Floyd album. Not Dark Side, Not Animals, GTFO Division Bell, Wish You Here is a close 2nd.

Excellent album that holds together throughout. A proper listening experience compared to modern day pop rubbish. One of the best albums ever.

So many memories

Oofff. This hurts to give because I respect the band but as an album this is so padded I was wondering when it would take the ice and play goalie. What's good is really good but it's so surrounded by fluff meant to get it up to the 80 minute feature length for the film they wanted. It's high quality fluff for what it's worth but it's still only 40 minutes of actual content on an 80 minute album. As a rock opera, it's amateur hour. No knocks against Roger Water and Co here. Musical theater is hard. Maybe if I watched the film I could change my tune but I'm rating the album here. Rent, Hamilton, Wicked, Hades Town, hell, even Les Mis all kept me interested nearly end to end with sound track alone and at twice the run time. Totally see why this album had the impact it did. I love concept albums, but I don't think this is as well executed as nostalgia makes folks think.

This felt like if Tommy by The Who was somewhat better but still not great. Concept albums are a high risk high reward thing for me, if the concept and the songwriting grabs me I’m ALL in but if not it just feels goofy and this felt goofy at a lot of points. Some good songs, but as a whole project it’s a bit overlong and self-important.

Sure, it’s as long and convoluted as other, worse rock operas, but this one’s just so much fun. There are actually amazing songs on their own, like ‘Hey You’ or ‘Comfortably Numb’, plus ones that are just a lot of fun or have great music (part 2 of ‘Another Brick In The Wall’, ‘Young Lust’, ‘Run Like Hell’). One time I listened to this on a plane on my way to New York (I was on the generator at that time, actually; that was the day I had Another Green World). I hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before and it was an early flight, so I kind of drifted in and out of sleep while listening to it. It was surreal, especially when the end of ‘Bring The Boys Back Home’ started, I fully woke up, and that opening to ‘Comfortably Numb’ just HIT. Same thing happened when I saw Harry Potter on Broadway a few days later, but that show sucked, so whatever.

I have heard this a few times and the live version. Love it!

Love it

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.

Tarina-progelevyjen järkäle, eikä syyttä. Toimiva konseptilevy, jossa ei ole paljoa valitettavaa eli 5/5

Top 3 Pink Floyd album, great solos, transitions are unmatched. Always a great listen

Okay yeah

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!

Fine. I don’t own this album but over my lifetime I’ve probably heard the big songs on this album a significant quantity more than most of the albums I own.

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

Still as mesmerizing as it was 44 years ago. One of the great rock albums of all time.

I felt like I didn't fully get this album. Not sure if I just wasn't in the mood for it.

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

So good!

Not their best but good.

This is widely considered to be one of the best concept albums of all time and deservedly so. The vision, the realization and execution are remarkable and it's an extraordinary piece of work. It's a classic and definitely belongs on this list.

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

Idk man. I'm starting to think I just don't vibe with Pink Floyd that much. It feels like the middle ground between full-on prog and classic rock, but not in a good way. There's so much downtime padding out this track list, it felt like more often than not I was just waiting for something interesting to happen. Comfortably Numb is amazing though.

By rights I should love Pink Floyd as I am partial to a good bit of prog But they always leave me cold and this was no exception Not sure I can really put my finger on why

I found this a real chore

Like the songs on here but a lot of filler. felt long.

What can I say about one of the best albums in the history of one of the greatest and most influential rock bands on earth? Magic

Perfect.

Strong 4

Hey You. Comfortably Numb. Another Brick in the Wall. Everyone has heard this album start to finish. Not me.

Amazing experience 10/10

Pink Floyd. Nope. No ambiguity here. I think they’re great. Ok yes it can be muddled self indulgence. And a lot of lyrical there’s are first world rock star problems. I don’t care. Fight me. I have a knife. I’ll use it pretty boy. Shame to see that delicate face messed up. When I was about 12, Monty Python and the meaning of life came to my home town and the support film (Dubbo held on to double feature matinees well into the 1980s*)was advertised as the odd angry shot**.The wall played instead. A cinema full of 12-18 year old boys weren’t sure what to make of it. Some knew pink Floyd mainly thanks to older siblings. I didn’t know them then except for ‘another brick…’. The interval between the two films was hilarious. Mostly silence and the odd ‘what was that I just watched? That it starred the singer of my favourite group then, Bob Geldof, helped. But it was nothing like anything the Rats did. When I was a little older I heard The Wall again and ‘got it. ‘ Comfortably numb is probably Waters greatest lyric. And he is highly underrated as a lyricist. Mother - what a song. Even their weakest song (another brick in the wall pt II) has my favourite guitar solo by Gilmour. It’s the documentation of a band in decline. But I don’t care. I love it. Musical dna Is it bloated and self indulgent? Absolutely. Do the band seem like grim and humourless grumps? Yep. Is the album bleak and depressing? No question. Does it make any sense? Not a whit. Is the film so insane as to make you doubt its very existence? You have no idea. Am I wrong to like them? Probably. But if loving them is wrong then I don’t want to be right.15/5 * Also the local tv station broadcast the black and white minstrel show on Sunday afternoons. The title did not refer to the video medium. **The best film about the Vietnam war. If you haven’t seen it I thoroughly recommend it. All the questions of the American attempts. None of the overblown angst.

Very, very hard to rate for me. My teenage self listened too much to this, and I cant bare it now. It evokes a sullen chill - rock opera for angsty teen boys. So very original and important seeming, once... But ever since I have found it so very gloomy. Not their best album.

Double albums have always been hard to pull-off. Apart from Blonde On Blonde & The White Album, what double album released in the 60’s or 70’s was outstanding? I’m still thinking. What’s even harder is to find a rock opera / concept album that’s a double album & worth that trouble. The original Jesus Christ Superstar is the only one that I really rate. Tommy had some moments & so does The Wall, but they both still seem bloated to me. Still, Another Brick In The Wall & Comfortably Numb are both classics (although I have to say I prefer The Scissor Sisters version of the latter - sacrilege I know). And I quite enjoy Young Lust, Hey You & Run Like Hell. But only three stars from me.

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.

A true masterpiece

Favorite Songs: Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2 Mother Comfortably Numb Obviously this album is absolutely fantastic. It is the perfect listen through album to completely immerse yourself in.

Once you realize it’s a rock opera, and the story it’s trying to tell, the album makes more sense. The standout song IMO is Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2. Although an interesting listen, don’t think I’d want to listen to the album again.

Einu sinni fannst mér Pink Floyd ekkert spes en nú er öldin önnur. Mér finnst þetta súperfrábært og nýt þess í botn að hlusta á svona sérdeilis prýðilega rokkóperu

Hullo old friend, it's been a while. I'd forgotten just how wonderful you are.

Good but too long

A MASTERPIECE

Fuck Pink Floyd for making this, fuck the book for including it, and fuck you all for thinking it's great just because you think you should think it's great. It's too long, its disjointed, it's pretentious, it has no vibe, even the hits aren't as good as I thought they were. From what I've heard, Rock Opera = overly converluted, hard to listen to, stupidly long album that I bunch of 50 and 60 year olds think is amazing because it blew their minds when they were teenagers.

not my most favorite pink floyd album but a classic either way

Very good in places, but it didn't need to be so long. Sometimes less is more.

It's a nice album, but it's very long to listen to one core sound for

very long.

This album isn't always an easy listen, but it is near the top of greatest of all time lists for a reason. Brilliant from start to finish. It's not easy banging your head against some mad buggers wall.

Mmmmmmmm

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.

Classic. Naïvely thought that this is what the list was gonna be all about.

MASTERPIECE

I enjoyed my listen. It's a very strange album, in a good way.

Great album. One of the best.

10/10

5/5 or riot

Nok bedre hvis man ser teaterstykket eller filmen

Classic though some songs have questionable themes

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.

The trial was great. This whole album is great.

not funny

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

Still an epic album that has stood the test of time. Musically complex and interesting. Still an all-time favorite.

Zwaar overrated rock opera van Pink Floyd, een legendarische band die wel een mooi aandeel heeft in de beste muziek ter wereld. Hier werden ze te groot, te bombastisch. Ook vond ik ne muur als metafoor iets dat werkte toen ik tiener was, toen was dat allemaal heel diep. Gelukkig is niet heel het album saai en pretentieus, maar staan er wel wat memorabele schijven op ook. Maar ook die nummers verbleken voor mij bij de genialiteit van Pink Floyd op hun voorgaande platen. Dit had eigenlijk eerder een Roger Waters solo project moeten zijn, want de plaat past perfect bij zijn opgeblazen ego. Onze Roger was trouwens min of meer echt het brein achter deze rock opera. De grote hoeveelheid filler op de plaat komt wel goed tot zijn recht als soundtrack bij de gelijknamige film, die iets later dan de plaat en tournee er was. Al hebben ze in de film wel Bob Geldof als hoofdrolspeler gecast, een megalomaan van hetzelfde niveau als Roger Waters. Voor de hoogtepunten die de meeste Pink Floyd fan van buiten kent, toch een 3.

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.

So so so good Probably there second best album which is crazy Best songs Mother Young lust Hey you Comfortably numb Another brick in the wall part 2 And more

A great psychedelic rock album Top tracks: The Thin Ice, Another Brick in the Wall 1-2, Goodbye Blue Sky, Hey You

Its definitely a good Album and it was a lot of work to do it. For my taste it is to much a studio work. It don’t feel like a unity.

9/10

perfect album. gorgeous too to bottom. moving. loving.

Possibly the most listened to album I have. Definitely top 20.

I was super prepared to do a cynical take on this album: It’s self indulgent crap, overly produced, the stories lame etc. But this the first album we’ve listened to that I know very well. I remember talking about it with all my friends just like now! Trying to interpret every line and how “goodbye blue sky” was an underrated song. So instead of reviewing it like I am now: Someone scarred by years of classic rock radio ruining my favorite songs, and slowly becoming a mouthpiece for conservative radio ads. I’m instead going to review it as the 15 year old who first heard it from a burned CD Mike Mignella gave him. This album is wild! Dave is seriously one of the greatest guitarists of all time, all of his solos kick ass. Comfortably numb is great, but my favorite is definitely Hey You. It’s also so spooky. Goodbye cruel world when they say the “did you ever run for shelter….” Gives me chills. You realize there’s so much more to it than just “Another brick in the wall Pt. 2”. There’s also 1 & 3! But they’re kind of same song. Mother is good too, it’s surprisingly chill and I love when roger waters sings “for meeee” but the scene from the movie kind of freaked me out. Great guitar solo too though. Young lust is another great track, again David is one of the greats, awesome tone. The rest of album look fizzles out after comfortably numb. But I do love it when choir says “toys in attic he is craaaaazy”. As far as rock operas go, this one is definitely the best, definitely better than Tommy. Five stars, the album art is great too! I love all the creepy cartoons, maybe I could do that one day…

This album is amazing. The concept, the composition, the atmosphere it creates all comes together to a powerful crescendo. Another Brick in the Wall, pt 2 is a certified banger that feels modern even in 2023.

Meh 2/10

One of the most overrated albums of all time. This one particularly annoys me as it totally blew apart the run they were on, with the three preceding it being three of the best album of all time. Waters' rock opera nonsense killed what was amazing about the band. Gilmour saved it a bit with Division Bell, but other than that this album marks the death of Pink Floyd. Few good songs that save it, but so much dross it's unreal.

Cool concept and some great songs but too much filler

One of my core memories of this album watching the movie version on mushrooms and having one of the most frightening and revealing experience of my life.

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.

I really enjoyed this album, it felt more like an experience than an album. I think that if you listened to individual songs out of the album it wouldn't hold up but listening to everything sequentially makes for a good experience

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.

Amazing double album and concept. Love how "In the Flesh?" later becomes "In the Flesh".

Quality all the way through and the gold standard for concept albums.

Just as great as I remembered. Yeah, kind of overdramatic, but what amazing music.

Great album obviously

I listened to the non-remastered version as for some reason Spotify didn’t have ‘The Happiest Days of Our Lives’ on the remastered version. And wow, what a day 2 album. Literally one of my favorite albums of all time. Superb. Amazing mix of shock, psychedelic, pop and rock. What can I say? It’s a masterpiece from beginning to end. I’d recommend listening to this twice if this is your first time hearing, it’s magical.

probably great. didn’t listen

What could I say about The Wall that hasn't already been said, apart from that it's truly iconic? It's not an album where you skip sections and just listen to your 2-3 favourite songs; it's a concept album in the best sense of the word, where every track deserves to be heard in the correct sequence. Roger Waters songwrighting - a tale of alienation, anxiety grandiose fever dreams of political power - together with the musicianship of Rick Wright, Nick Mason and David Gilmour, and the production by Bob Ezrin created a masterpiece. I believe that Comfortably Numb contains the best guitar solos ever created, elevating the song to something unforgettable. Every song on this double album deserves to be heard, even the more unknown songs like Good-Bye Blue Sky contribute to making this album unforgettable. It's Pink Floyd at their final peak, and truly one of the best albums of all time. 5/5

Gimme

I realize that this is considered a classic album, it doesn’t do it for me. The musicality was a strong, but the overall repetitive drabness really pulls it down for me. Lots of experimental moments (maybe too many?!?) High 2. note: I understand the drabness and melancholy are the point of the album, and they do it well. Point taken. Not good enough for a re-listen for me.

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.

My childhood in one album

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.

Great, listened to it before. Would recommend

Maybe I'm weary with this being the third double or triple album in three days, but I wasn't expecting this to be such a slog to get through. Perhaps it requires an elaborate theatrical stage show to make it engaging? The concept of the album is a rock singer feeling isolated and abandoned, but it a requires an active listen to discern. It did all seem a bit self indulgent, too. Boo hoo, poor rock singer. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2 Date listened: 07/11/23

I’m still digesting the album as a whole. I was familiar with the bigger tracks already. Idk this whole rock sound is not clicking with me right now. I certainly respect what it’s going for. The melodies are there, the story is great but I think I need a bit more distortion in my rock, the riffs sound too polished to me. I think I need to listen to it a few more times and maybe later on it’ll grow on my but right now it’s not.

This was the first CD that I ever purchased (along with Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream, such were the times I was growing up in).

Awesome but enjoyed DSotM better

Briljant. Brilliant. Brageljant. Dit is hoe muziek hoort te zijn. Het ene nummer nog mooier dan het andere ❤️

Een van de betere albums ooit

It's Pink Floyd's The Wall ! 5 stars, obviously! Nothing more to be said.

Iconic but overly indulgent

One of the greatest and most influential albums of all time.

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...

Kritisoivat "systeemiä" ja mutsia tulevien Covid-skeptikkojen ja Putinin "ymmärtäjien" rautaisella palolla. Laulavat samalla liukuhihnalta melodioita, joita ei voi olla kuvailematta termillä 'kaunis' - mikä lienee merkittävin syy sille, että tämä on musiikillisesti täydellinen kokonaisuus äärimilleen venytettyjen ja koomisen mahtipontisten tuplalevyjen kategoriassa.

A work of genius I don't want to ever listen to again

Prog rock. Regular rock with a story and weird sound effects thrown in on top of a story...kinda?

Masterpiece

Happiest Days -> Brick Pt 2 giving me the goosebumps to this day. Comfortably numb is a classic. What a concept album... Hot take: this is THE superior Pink Floyd album. Not dark side, not division bell, not quite animals, wish you were here is close....

i love this one

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

Sidste gang jeg hørte den tænkte jeg at det var den dummeste af Pink Floyds 70er plader, den her gang tænkte jeg at det var pissegodt 5/5 no notes. Den skal måske lige fange mig i det rigtige humør.

really liked it, super cool vibe and love the brick in the wall songs

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.

I just don't get it, man, low tier brit stoner rock. Something that if appreciated in the context of its time is an impressive feat, but is not enjoyable now. Hoping dark side of the moon is better.

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.

Never knew about the wall! Love the backstory and history!

Saw this album come up and immediately cringed thinking about how much I loved it as a teenager. I haven't listened to it in probably 15 years, but it's still pretty great

Only listened to disc 1... not sure if that's illegal but I didn't have loads of time. quite enjoyed this actually! the 3 part structure of "another brick in the wall" is cool and the theme of those 3 is ofc classic. I love goodbye cruel world as an album closer—all time.

You shouldn't read about this record. It's greater than the sum of its parts, which is a bold statement when those parts include Comfortably Numb, and Another Brick in the Wall part 2. It's a prog rock album that care more about what it has to say than about the technical mastery of its musicians. And sometimes a weeping wailing guitar solo is what it has to say, and it does so masterfully.

This is such a stunningly crafted, monumental work. It accomplishes what many concept albums fail to do, which is to immerse the listener in a coherent story that you don't need to overthink to understand. And it does this so artfully. The story contains several plot threads that move over decades in time, but it never feels convoluted. The album is an emotional whirlwind, pulling you through moments of anxiety, mania, rage and sorrow in ways that feel genuinely unsettling at times. If you listen to classic rock radio at all, you will recognize quite a few of these songs on their own. But I have to say, the songs lose something when you listen to them outside of the context of the album. They're simply meant to be heard together. For instance, songs like "Young Lust," "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" or "Run Like Hell" are solid rockers on their own. But detached from the flow of the album, you lose this whole other level of meaning. Additionally, the structure of the album uses recurring musical echoes to weave memories of past trauma into present pain in a way that feels really authentic. Trauma is something that can live with you your whole life and can crop up at any time, which is something the album conveys brilliantly. This is a long, frequently intense listen, but every bit of it is compelling in a way most music is not. And this isn't even Pink Floyd's best album. Ponder that. Fave Songs (All songs, from most to least favorite): Young Lust, Comfortably Numb, Hey You, The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2, Run Like Hell, Is There Anybody Out There?, Nobody Home, The Thin Ice, Mother, Empty Spaces, Goodbye Blue Sky, Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1, In the Flesh?, Goodbye Cruel World, Vera, Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3, Don't Leave Me Now, Outside the Wall, Bring the Boys Back Home, Waiting for the Worms, Stop/The Trial, One of My Turns, In the Flesh

Pure decadence and bliss. This album, and this group of Brits, changed my life for the better. My 12 year old self was properly guided by their tones and tunes.

Absolute classic, every song feels different and unique

Meh

I can't believe it, but this is the first time I've ever listened to this record from start to finish. I don't know why, but it's a lot less 'proggy' that I'd imagined - I always thought Pink Floyd were similar to ELP, but this is a lot more psychedelic. Fantastic record throughout - so ambitious, especially for 1979. Some beautiful instrumentation throughout. Favourite tracks: In The Flesh?, Don't Leave Me Now, Hey You, Is There Anybody Out There?, Comfortably Numb.

Not as good as wish you were here

Wasn't as good as when I was in high school but still, what an artistic achievement overall.

Un espectacular disco conceptual que redefinió la forma de componer piezas psicodélicas sólidas como un ladrillo (que fue agregado a una gran muralla). Aún así, y tras escuchar diferentes trabajos de la lista, cabe apuntar que este LP si envejeció, encerrándose bastante en la aliteración y la prolongación de solos de guitarra, los cuales pueden escucharse un poco "aburridos".

This is an awesome concept album and reading about its background was also very interesting. Still, I’m treating this project how I SUBJECTIVELY enjoy the music (vs. an objective rating on the quality of the album…). From that lens, I didn't quite enjoy this album, but I'm also not a huge fan of psych. rock. I hope no one takes offence by this low rating, but it might also more accurately reflect how these albums score in contemporary times, an interesting comparison in and of itself. (Possibly I would have enjoyed this type of music more had I been alive back then.) I love the easter egg how there's a subtle sentence at the end of the album that loops back to the first track: "Isn't this where we came in" A bit haunting even, reminded me of Danielewski's 'House of Leaves'.

I'm probably gonna listen again!

It's The Wall.

I mean, I truly considered writing a college thesis on this album so there’s so much I could possibly say about The Wall. It’s a masterpiece in my book and an early example for me of a favorite album and part of the reason why I’d even be interested in a project like this to begin with. This album made me love albums and I think that says it all.

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

It's The Wall. This album deserves all of it's hype.