The Wall

Really liked the back of the album, the rest was solid but not amazing.

As a wise man once said, "How can you have pudding if you don't eat your meat?!" A self-serious concept album which is so on-the-nose that it's basically a musical, and I've never been much of a fan of musicals. I did enjoy the overall composition and musicianship - the guitar playing is the highlight of this album - but it's all a bit long winded and self indulgent. It could really use with a bit of trimming as well as a bit of trust in the audience. Trust in them to understand the underlying ideas without laying it on so thick. It has been a long time since I heard this album and I suppose I expected it to be more experimental and psychedelic. I spend a lot of time, between guitar solos, kind of wishing I was listening to Piper at the Gates of Dawn or DSOTM. If I go back will they hold up? And that is where this album struggles - would I have different expectations if this wasn't Pink Floyd? Would I think it was better or worse? Am I being too critical or not critical enough? As much as I'm not fond of narrative driven concept albums, and I can think of many which are a lot worse, it's important to judge art on its intention as much as execution. There are some nice grooves when it gets into it and some epic solos. My choice of standout track is an unoriginal one - it's easily Comfortably Numb - those solos have more emotion than the rest of the album combined and I kind of forgot how much this has influenced my own playing. Despite it's flaws I still enjoyed it, even it it was just David Gilmour saving the day. 3/5

Well...bunch of amateurs trying out to write an opera...

Meh

Controversial opinion but this album feels a little bloated

Pink floyd qui fait très bien son pink floyd. Moins bien que The Dark side of the Moon, mais tout autant narratif et transportant. Certains morceaux sont cours mais arrivent quand même à être marquant et les transitions entre les morceaux sont pixel. Album assez long mais crée très bien son univers pour la session d’écoute HM : Don’t leave me now,Confortably Numb,Run like hell et In the flesh Another Brick in the wall pt2 classique

Previously known. I forgot how much I like this.

Favourite Songs: Comfortably Numb Run Like Hell

This album felt a little long. Thankfully not as long Spotify told me at first (a terrifying 53 tracks over 183 minutes???). There were several songs in here I liked. Lyrically (and in some of the production) this felt like a theater kid trying to impress others with their edginess. 3/5.

It's a marathon not a sprint. The back half is wayyyy better than the first half. You can feel it's immense length in how spacious and slow it is from the start of "Brick in the Wall Pt 1". Getting to Part 2 feels like the first time this record really wakes up, for lack of a better term. I know and respect the uniquely personal place this album is written from, and it's generally done really well. But on occasion, it suffers from Drake/Taylor Swift syndrome. It's dilemma is so unique to the isolated megastar that I really have to do some mental hustling to meet The Wall where it's at. Again, some good songwriting and execution, I especially love how it uses silence to heighten the mood. But sometimes it's challenging to not grow impatient. Additionally, the singing on the first half of this record is markedly worse. "One Of My Turns" and the verse of "Hey You" are a little flat. Now "Is There Anybody Out There", that's a track. Sticky acoustic guitar melody that fades in from the silence and then back out in a reasonable amount of time. This kicks off the best run on the record. "Nobody Home" continued the momentum right after. The symphonic accompaniment behind that piano is like water in a desert. The dramatics of "Bring The Boys Back Home" into "Comfortably Numb". It's hard to have your best material be so clearly on the back end of a record this long, I'm impressed. I'm exhausted. There's a myriad of cool things happening conceptually and compositionally, but it's a bit hard to meet this one at eye level. Respectful 3/5

2026.06.19.

It’s a great album but it’s simply too fucking long. You could remove 3/4 of this album and it’d still be a fantastic album.

Me gustaron mucho las letras de ambos discos, pero a decir verdad, el primer disco me perdió, y aunque el segundo me haya gustado más, no creo que vuelva a escuchar ninguno.

This is a good album, don't get me wrong... but it is just way too long. I think that if an album gets to a point where you need multiple discs, just make two albums. Even a part 1 and part 2 album could have been so so good. The songs themselves, I had mixed feelings about. There were some I thought were brilliant, but then also some that I found a bit boring or just a bit strange and unenjoyable. I can see why this album is as big as it is, and why it is so highly rated, but once you start to dissect it and listen to each song individually, is it REALLY as brilliant as people say? I'm not too sure. The vocals were really good, and I also loved the instrumentation and how experimental it could get at times, or just how 'out-there' it could sound. Favourites: Another Brick in the Wall pt.2 The Happiest Days of Our Lives The Trial

Ni slabo

Pink Floyd goes pop! All these songs are fairly accessible and normal-length, and it features about half the Pink Floyd songs a radio listener really cares about. As someone who doesn't care for prog albums like Wish You Were Here where they have the long song in many movements, this is much more my speed, though the length is a bit too much typically.

3.5

Massive long album. A bit too sprawling for me but there was some standout tracks.

Somehow my first time consciously listening through this front to back. Some obvious all-timers in here, but overall this is chock full of the stuff I like least about these guys - the industrial Britain 1984 concept album stuff... probably due to pop culture overexposure, but it's naff isn't it? Huge at the time I'm sure... Pt 2, Hey You, Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell are like beautiful breaths of fresh air between the rest.

Comfortably Numb is a great song

I'd obviously heard a lot if this before, but I don't think I'd ever actually listened to the album through. Tons of classics but I have a hard time actually liking it.

I like how they repeat the brick thing every song- it’s cool

Ambitious, but like many concept albums, suffers from bloat that drags down the overall listening experience. There are many songs here that while they may work narratively, are generally forgettable and just serve the purpose of progressing the story, not being an interesting piece of music in their own right. While there are certainly some classics on here, I've always felt that Floyd bit off a bit more than they could chew with The Wall and this listen doesn't do much to change my mind. 3.5

Dark Side of the Moon is incredible. The Wall is.. fine :|

Great musicianship but the pretentiousness persists, I can understand the love for this and Pink Floyd

It's so fucking long!!!!!!

I wanted to be Super Into Floyd when I was 16, so I bought this album and tried to listen to it multiple times. I’m 45 now and I still can’t get into it.

I've never really liked Pink Floyd outside of Dark Side of the Moon and Animals.

Some amazing songs, but just too much filler.

Man I don’t know. There’s a lot of stuff I like musically on this one, it’s probably my second favourite (and maybe the only one I actually enjoy quite a bit, other than Wish You Were Here). But I’m just so sick of all of this you know? I never want to think about Pink Floyd again. I don’t like the idea that they’re STILL this benchmark for high minded pop music. They’re not as good as The Ramones. They’re not as good as a lot of things. I’m sick of it!

Been waiting for this one, never heard it before. A very long concept album yay! Hard to connect with the first few songs, and I don't like the tones. Rock operas reek of high school musicals to me. Got to admire the ambition though. The longer it goes on, the more I dislike it. Picks up again with comfortably numb, then chugs a long until it dissappears up its own arse. 3 Heard before? Some Owned: No 75/301 (24%) Will I get:

It's decent, very operatic. Highlight's are "Another Brick in the Wall" and Comfortably Number".

It was good but not really my vibe i feel, but i recommended it to my brother and he really liked it, so it's good and it's cool too.

Dad never liked The Wall Grew up listening to Pink Floyd but my dad always steered me away from it as he felt it was their weakest record. It’s all quite grand and pompous, at times dull, but tracks like the thin ice have excellent riffs and the whole flows together really well. Part 1 of brick in the wall is superior, tracks like mother let it down. Gilmour > Waters, Dad was right. Favourite track: Comfortably numb

Ok

Classic

Some of my favorite and some very overplayed songs.

Pretty good, would probably be more impactful with the visuals

The best of Floyd was a group effort, balanced by Gilmour's soaring instincts and Waters' abrasive but incisive self-obsession. The Wall is what happened when Waters won control and minimised the other band members, and it's not better for it. It's no coincidence that the best songs on the record are the few co-written by Gilmour. In the end, this all feels a bit like something Waters came up with after a bit too much therapy, and it's a long ride. If it were half as long, it would have been a lot better, but it's nowhere near the beauty and universality of Dark Side and Wish You Were Here, while being a lot less musically adventurous than earlier work. Time to put on Live at Pompeii, I think...

A bit too long for the whole relistening… but it’s a classic and it has good songs

The main thing this album did was annoy me that normal musical soundtracks don’t seem to make the cut for this list. For all intents and purposes this album is basically an opera or a musical, but from a different origin. The fullest songs that got packaged as singles are really good, but a lot of the connective tissue between them are a handful of musical interludes that I don’t think always work. I would consider listening to it again, but I imagine my mind will wander just like this time with how long and meandering it feels at times.

Too boring for me

It says something that I’ve been dreading putting this one on ever since I saw it pop up on my list. There was a time when I absolutely lived for this album. Getting baked and sneaking into the midnight showings of this movie was a staple of my high-school experience. But that’s a whole lifetime ago, it’s springtime, everything is blooming outside, and these days The Wall just feels like a daunting, depressing slog when reality has more than enough of that. Nowadays I hear The Wall as a vehicle for Roger Waters' narcissism and neuroses, a solo project backed by the members of Pink Floyd. That said, David Gilmour’s guitar work really shines, it’s unquestionably ambitious, and there are no doubt some great songs here. The band is also trying some new things musically; I hear a lot of rhythmic influence (if not exactly in spirit) from disco — especially on “Young Lust” and "Another Brick" — and “The Show Must Go On” sounds like a barbershop outtake from Sgt. Pepper’s. Pink Floyd were an incredible band, but this release borders on overkill today, better as a movie soundtrack. For me, Dark Side, Meddle and Piper at the Gates of Dawn (I love the Syd Barrett era) are the Floyd albums for this list.

I find the fact that this album got as big as it did very fascinating because it's a very difficult and depressing album. The second half especially is strange and purposefully off-putting. I think some of it works and some of it doesn't.

Enjoyed it. Don’t really listen to concept albums but liked the story and the music fitted it very well. Very ambitious!!

Musicianship is excellent (as you’d expect) and a number of the songs are excellent but overall let down by Waters whole hating an education system that, frankly, he and his generation were privileged to benefit from. Quite a lot of the writing around that subject feels like a parody and feels like it was written by a 14 year old.

Скучненько, однотипно, тихо, нотки торжественности Может быть под спокойное настроение пойдет, фоновый шум Второй диск интереснее Another brick in the wall уже слышала Вывод - так себе

I do not like pink Floyd. But I can still appreciate the album for what it is. I found a few songs on there I liked, like mother. Beautifully written, just not my cup of tea

Great album. Felt euphoric listening to it. I mean it's Pink Floyd it'll always be magical.

My favourite PF album. It’s still probably a 2 but I quite enjoyed my listen yesterday

Funny how people don’t get incensed about the politics of these guys but make it the first thing they say about others. I wouldn’t ever actually listen to this by choice. Sure, it’s fine, but not my choice of music.

It's decent enough but the songs get boring after a while. I wouldn't get any story out of this album if I didn't read the Wikipedia. I was going to listen to the 2nd disk too but these songs feel so eternal. Would recommend: if you're a chill middle aged dad

They knew which ones were heaters for sure. It's like filler, crescendo, Another brick in the wall pt 2, filler filler filler, crescendo, comfortably numb, weirdo music til the end.

algunas canciones raras, otras muy buenas

Rating: 7/10 Capping off a decade of making spacey prog rock masterpieces, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters writes a overlong and pretentious conceptual rock opera double album, and it's still good. Quite effective in its theatrics and themes at telling a cohesive story with the power of music. I really wouldn't find myself putting this on to listen in full, I would much prefer to put on plenty of other Pink Floyd. Very interesting piece of art and important piece of rock history, but one I don't love

I'm not a massive Pink Floyd fan at the best of times, but I find this one a touch overrated. Some undeniable classics, but the 'rock opera-ness' of it all means you have to sit through some fairly naff audio theatre.

*Obviously iconic album but it has some times where it rambles a bit *Another brick in the wall is an all time song

How do I rate this? As a 13 year old who thought it was the most profound reflection on the human experience or as a 50 year old who knows it's a whiny self absorbed who trip with a couple of bangers?

To be fair, it’s not a bad album. I just can only handle so much Floyd at once.

I really wanted to like this. It felt way too long and confusing. While there are some great songs on here, I don’t think all really live up to how influential and impressive this album is meant to be. I would listen to some songs again, but as a whole album probably not.

This is so grand and in my view overdone. Far too much going on, too many ideas and incoherence. Bizarre ending, just not even that many good songs here. A disappointment compared to earlier stuff

“The Trial” knocked a full star off this one. Overall there are a lot of good tracks on here but I find the wanky concept album tracks distracting to the overall quality.

I'm halfway through and this is my first Floyd album. Honestly, I was expecting more from it. Perhaps it would be better if I watched the film rather than just listened to the album, but this is albums to listen to before you die, not films to watch. The Wall has a couple of good songs. Brick in the Wall and Comfortably Numb being the obvious stand outs. Besides that it's a bit of a bland, overlong album. I'd much rather listen to Dark Side of the Moon or The Division Bell than this again.

Decent

I never understood the hype of this album. It's...fine(?). Too long, but fine.

Was ok. I liked the leitmotiv

It’s got a ton of classics and is widely regarded as one of Pink Floyd’s best records. I appreciate the ambition of it. There are a few lower points on the album where some of the vocals don’t seem as thought out as some of the other material, in my opinion. There are also a few call back moments that probably make more sense in the accompanying film. But what do I know… these are just my thoughts, which mean zero! 3.6/5.0

There are some really great songs, but ot's not a great album, i could probably edit this down to a 40minn 4.5* album. But i dont want to just put this on, sit back and listen to the whole thing

A big album with an interesting concept but I don't think I'll ever choose to listen to it again.

I really like Pink Floyd. Atom Heart Mother and Animals are two albums I have frequently listened to, front to back. Animals would probably go in my top albums of all time, if I was forced to make a list. But The Wall has always been a disappointment for me. I do like Comfortably Numb and Hey You, but I HAAAAAAAAAATE Another Brick In The Wall. To talk about the album itself, it's always weird to me that they went from Animals to The Wall. Animals, like most other Pink Floyd albums (to my ears) is more like one long song. A trip in and of itself. Then The Wall comes around, and it's the most disjointed of their work that I've heard, which is something like 8-9 of their first 11 albums. With The Wall, it feels like they really just made your average 70s rock band's album instead of the masterful psychedelia of before. Hey You and Comfortably Numb being exceptions. It's ironic, since The Wall is supposed to actually be a story of sorts, with a movie and everything, but it feels like a grouping of songs to me, whereas all of their other albums usually feel to me like the songs melt into each other musically, creating a felt story or sensation, rather than one told through the lyrics.

Note before listening: Wow. Looks like I haven’t heard this one in a while. I was into PF and The Wall specifically a lot as a teenager and it always was clear 5/5 for me. I’m a big fan of a concept albums. Which is probably because of this one. One thing is that gradual disappointment with Waters over the years might affect the way I feel about this album. After listening: Not sure if I was in the correct mood for it. This time around it feels longer and more boring than I remember. Dynamics and theatrical delivery were always a highlight for me, now it feels like there is not enough of them with longer periods of dragging songs. I don’t think all the short filler songs add anything of value here. For it to be a solid album a lot is too spelled out and on the nose. Not saying that it’s bad. It’s still good, just not as perfect as I remember it to be. Favorite tracks: comfortably numb, hey you, nobody home, run like hell Least favorite track: anything below 2 minutes in length

Let me start by saying, I'm not a Pink Floyd fan. I was actually fully prepared to give this album a 4... I was pleasantly surprised that I was appreciating and enjoying it for the first 40 minutes. But then the second disc hit, and it lost me and reminded me why I dislike Pink Floyd with all of the droning and depressing songs (save Run Like Hell, which is a decent song), and weird tracks (The Trial). Overall (3).

since we're all gonna die, there's one more secret I feel I have to share with you. I did not care for pink floyd. -What? -Did not care for pink floyd - how can you even say that? - Don't like them -it's so good! It's like the perfect band - this is what everyone always said. Whenever they say... - Roger waters, David gilmour, I mean, you never see, syd Barrett! - Fine. Fine. Fine musician, did not like the band -why not? -Did not...couldn't get into it. - Explain yourself. What didn't you like about them? - It insists upon themselves. - What? - It insists upon itself. - What does that even mean?

didn't listen couldn't listen too long maybe in the future i get around to it

No es mi favorito de pink floyd. Es una obra maestra de la arquitectura emocional, impecable en su estructura y diseño, pero quizás demasiado cínica para mi gusto. Valoro su narrativa lógica y su producción quirúrgica, aunque me falta ese equilibrio entre la crudeza y la calidez humana para que sea un álbum de uso diario.

I’ve heard of this album before ;-) But apart from the title track and a few other well-known songs, I didn’t know it, but it didn’t disappoint...

I’ve never really vibed on Pink Floyd and I’ve gotta tell ya, this didn’t change my mind

It's musical theater for men who are into WWII. I don't enjoy this as much as Dark Side of the Moon. It's okay but way too long and pretentious.

I've never like The Wall all that much compared to ANY of their previous albums, which I like all of and I've never been able to quite figure out why that is. For a long time I thought maybe it's just Waters' megalomania, but he was always a crucial composer for the band and Animals is, similarly to this album, almost all his work too, so I don't think it's that. Now that I listened to it again, I actually think it's the shorter songs that might be reason for it. I like them whenever they focus on longer songs. That, and the style in general moving further away from the styles they were doing before. Three stars.

The beginning and end of this album didn't really do much for me, and I honestly didn't like Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 that much. However, it definitely got stronger for me around One of Our Turns, and I loved the more experimental moments, the beautiful orchestral sections, and the use of field recordings throughout the middle of the album. Definitely feels a bit indulgent, which is not my favorite vibe, but there's a decent amount of stuff to love here. Favorites: One of Our Turns, Don't Leave Me Now, Is Anybody Out There?, Nobody Home

Somehow it’s like rewatching Star Wars after George Lucas kept meddling . All the fun little skits and jokey parts just detract from the film with each rewatch. The wall is a bit like that . Yes it’s brilliant but for every great track , riff, melody or song there is an annoying voice over ruining a song - mostly confined to intro and out trial but it does detract from. Also reminds me of crappy mid 90s rap albums with needles skits between the tracks . Yet another on the list of 70s great double albums that should be single album.

Took a while to get into it - always had that issue with Pink Floyd. 7/10

Such captivating music to get lost in. Set up like a movie. A great mix of atmospheric tones and rock music (the guitars and vocals are airy and other worldly) while threading a linear concept throughout. The only knock imo is the length. It’s tough not having skippable moments with a track list this long. You have to be in the mood for this album, it’s not something generally thrown on in the background since it grabs your attention for the entirety of the show. Cut into a single disc, it’s something really special. But as long and pretentious it may be, it’s still iconic and holds up well boasting hits like Another Brick Wall Pt. 2, Comfortably Numb, Hey You.

war ok... ein bekanntes lied aber joa...

non capisco l'hype dietro l'album

Just such a long album. Comfortably Numb is so, so good. There was certain parts I enjoyed and others seemed to drag on. 3.5/5

Way too long (3.5)

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Middle of the road Floyd album for me. It's bogged down by being a bloated, overindulgent double LP when it would've served better with less filler

2.7

Favorite tracks; In the Flesh?, Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2, Mother, Comfortably Numb, The Trial I've grown so disillusioned with a lot of these old rock operas, as I feel like they more often than not have enough strength in the compositions to justify their usually pompous concepts. At least with The Wall, it's more grounded in reality and there's a lot more to take away in its themes than say Tommy. I just can't stand Roger Waters on this album, some of his theatrics fall flat. That being said, some absolutely phenomenal moments on here; do I need to tell you that Comfortably Numb is an all-timer?

está bien... pero pensaba que me gustaría muchísimo más. osea obviamente tiene temazos impresionantes (Comfortably Numb, Mother, Another Brick In The Wall, Run Like Hell, The Trial), pero tiene dos problemas bastante gordos: 1) el disco tiene una cantidad de relleno impresionante. se podrían haber recortado fácilmente media hora de Roger Waters Haciendo Paridas™ (sobre todo en los lados B y D) y el disco sería mucho más cohesivo. 2) aunque no siempre es el caso, algunas de las letras del disco son demasiado superficiales para los temas que quieren tocar, y en vez de transmitir un mensaje pleno y que realmente llegue al nivel de la "ópera del rock" que intenta ser, algunas canciones acaban dando la misma vibe que los posts del tipo «vivimos en una Sociedad™». no sé si me explico

There was a lot of good music here. There was also an insane amount of filler. I get that it was a concept album, but I think you need to be on something to enjoy that part of it. Solid 3

7/10 - So far this is my second favorite Pink Floyd album. I really like the concept; however, I find Prog Rock often looses its course and doesn’t end up going anywhere. That happens a few to many times on this album to warrant a 4.

I love the concept of this album and the story is extremely interesting. That being said, there's only a couple of songs I would want to relisten to outside the context of the album (ABITW PT2, Comfortably Numb). It's also extremely long and there are too many lulls. 7/10

Classic, but damn is it bloated

The album as a whole is somehow both more cohesive than any of the songs listening individually but also weirder as a whole too.

The singles from this are great, but I don’t find the rest of the album hugely memorable.

I don’t mind this album. It’s not my typical genre but i would say it’s good and has some songs that point out faults in our societies. I would say it’s a classic and really good just not my type.

The beats are enjoyable, they bring suspence and exitement. The lyrics are a bit quiet so its harder to focus on them, but when you do you can really get down and realize what world you live in. But it's really not my cup of tea.

V najstniških letih iz nekega razloga nism padla v Pink Floyde, tko kot kar nekaj prijateljev takrat. Zmer so mi bli Led Zeppelin ljubši. Zadnje cajte sm jih mal raziskovala, ampak ne ta album (btw, 81 minut! Glih dons, k mam bolj zaseden dan.). Bom šla v dveh delih, tko k je tud sam album zasnovan. Po pravic, taprvedv komada mi ne potegneta. In razen od prej poznanih (ta "Another Brick in the Wall" medley), k so mi fine, mi tud zj naprej ml ne sede? "Mother" je ok. I guess mi Pink Floydi nikol ne bojo baš potegnli (spomnim se edin, da mi je mogoč prvi album, k je bl psychadelic, všeč bil; The Dark Side of the Moon mam na cdju & mi je kul; še en alvum sm večkrat v avtu poslušala & mi je isto kul - let me gugl it - Meddle). Mja, not the biggest fan prve polovice. Zna bit sicer, da mi bo druga boljša, ko ošvrknem sta vsaj dva komada gor, k se spomnim, da sta mi všeč. Yep, "Hey You" in "Comfortably Numb" sta še zmer huda. Na splošno mal bolj k prva polovica. "The Trial" je kul. Najbl močn 'rock opera' vajb do zdej, čeprav naj bi cel album bil to. Ta komad je prou k iz mjuzikla vzet. Mal cabaret že skor na cajte.

As sonically brilliant and boring as any Pink Floyd album. It works much better as something in the background than as something to actively listen to (unless you're on drugs). Very soundtracky in parts.

3/5

Rv

224/1089 it took forever for it to feel like it was actually going somewhere and then finally THE Another Brick Part 2 starts up I quite liked Wish You Were Here which was my first Pink Floyd album, and now having gotten through Disc 1 of this, i’m pretty certain it’ll stay my favourite for a bit longer. However, Hey You is a great start to the back half i know it’s a concept album but In The Flesh was wild i do like concept albums and it has some definite highs, i think for me it suffers a little at times where it sounds like some cringe english dad rock which has always given me a bit of the ick. (kinda like ska music) i do love when an album repeats a motif though and how theatrical it becomes. The Trial is a great final track (with Outside the Wall acting as an epilogue in my view) faves: hey you, comfortably numb, run like hell, the trial, another brick 2, goodbye blue sky 68/100

Entiendo la mística alrededor de este álbum; sin dudas, marcó época y significó un reseteo cultural. Sin embargo, nunca logré conectar demasiado con Pink Floyd. Es un proyecto demasiado extenso para mi gusto, que puede resultar tedioso de digerir en un solo día. Es un álbum conceptual por demás complejo, que requiere tiempo de escucha, de maceración, especialmente para comprender la lírica y, por supuesto, para empatizar con la banda en sí. Las canciones conocidas y/o los singles, estupendos; el sonido, muy bueno. Pero siento que es algo para tomárselo en serio, no simplemente para poner de fondo: requiere escucha activa.

Some fantastic, iconic tunes on thus one. Too much fluff for a 4 though.

Watched the feature film not too long ago actually, having never heard this album. This challenge has helped me discover Pink Floyd but I must say, Waters seems a bit of a bell. 26 tracks. 80 minutes. Let’s go… Not quite sure how to sum this up. Listened to it whilst painting a fence and sure it must have played through twice. Hadn’t even finished the first run of it… It feels a bit self-indulgent and repetitive. Obviously some great songs in there but just a bit melodramatic and Waters stamp all over it, and it tells. I’ll probably just skip to the stand outs in future and should have just stayed as a passion project or soundtrack release under the radar. 3* generally +0.5* for the big hits (3.5)

although i really liked disc 2, this is not something i would revisit

what happened here man. theres a lot of great motifs and song parts but the whole thing is just kind of a mess. why is roger waters doing an american accent the whole time. why is bring the boys back home even included its so bad. i cant say i didnt like it, but im gonna go back to listening to their previous 4 albums on loop.

Kul med konceptalbum. Det känns verkligen som en helhet. Snyggt att så många låtar går in i varandra och att det sedan loopar från sista till första låten. Många bra låtar också, men bitvis (framförallt mot slutet) blir det för teatraliskt för min smak. Stark trea.

Better than expected

I’m surprised by how much I didn’t like this, and for reasons I’ve liked other albums! I couldn’t handle the immersive atmosphere of it all. The baby crying, the dinging in Hey You that made me think I’d set off my smoke alarm, the intro to Is There Anybody Out There?, all too much for me in this moment. Objectively, I can see how all of those (amongst others!) makes this a generational album; alas it just made me anxious and was not a pleasant listening experience! Another Brick in The Wall Pt. 2 (and Comfortably Numb!) brings this up to a 3 ⭐️

I think it’s a very impressive album in scope and concept but not necessarily one I enjoyed listening to a huge amount. There were sounds I enjoyed moreso than particular songs, but gave some points for commitment (personally I wouldn’t have followed the story from the lyrics). my favourite song was maybe goodbye blue sky, although I did also love the theatrics in bring the boys back home. Growing up with the scissors sisters version of comfortably numb as my default did somewhat ruin the original for me

The really theatrical songs drive me crazy here. Disc 2 is far superior to me, though some winners like Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, and Young Lust on disc 1 at least give you something to look forward to before getting to the second disc.

I think in an alternate universe, Pink Floyd is just a bunch of theater kids because why does the Trial sound like something out of Les Mis?! I completely understand and am in full support of this album being on this list. It wasn’t exactly for me but I was surprised at how much I liked disc 2. The whole thing was just a bit too long and Spotify doesn’t even have all the songs??

The music and story are monumental and the concept is cool (though i haven't watched the film) Pink kinda pissed me off throughout a story, but i understand his character Overall, great experience, but i'm probably not gonna listen to much of it 3/5

Im a big fan of dark side. The Wall makes me feel uncomfortable, which I think was their point, so they are successful, but I don’t enjoy it

This maybe could have been a 4 if it were shorter. Two albums is too much. I dig the rock-opera vibes, and I enjoyed some of the recognizable tracks. They sing about The Wall a whole lot.

The ending ruined this for me

Admittedly not my favorite Pink Floyd work, but it’s got great moments. Like how much of 80s culture was built off the intro to “Run Like Hell”? Or how often do you still hear “Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2”, “Comfortably Numb”, or “Hey You”? But it feels bloated compared to Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, or Animals. I appreciate the themes and what they were trying to to do but the double album just doesn’t totally do it for me. I actually didn’t realize this came out as late as 1979, and the movie was 1982; I assumed both were earlier in the 70s. I would have put this nearer to Dark Side in their chronology, not after all three of the records I mentioned above. I don’t know if that really changes anything for me… I guess their prime years were later and lasted longer than I thought? Or maybe my version of their prime years doesn’t include this record? Is that sacrilegious? Idk, I think I would have been underwhelmed by this after Animals.

2.72 / 2.92

Liked: Comfortably Numb, Waiting For The Worms, Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 1 Added: Comfortably Numb Disliked: Bring The Boys Back Home, Stop, The Trial

CANT AVE ANEH PUDDEN

I Have This Album (#9)! Not sure why, if I'm honest. As detailed previously, I remember seeing 'Money' on TV one time and thinking "this is the good stuff", but that song is not on this album. I guess you took what you could get back in those pre-mp3 BMG music club days! Anyway, I haven't listened to it as much as my other albums, because I don't really like Pink Floyd that much. I didn't even know it was a concept album, or a rock opera. I do vaguely remember being confused about the multiple songs with the same name on my iTunes, which makes much more sense now that I'm forced to listen to the whole thing all in a row. Not as good a WWII-inspired album as Neutral Milk Hotel's. Slur count = 4. Highlights: 'Another Brick in the Wall' Parts 2 + 3, 'Mother', 'Goodbye Blue Sky', 'Comfortably Numb', that there's a cute little sentence that starts at the end and ends at the beginning

I really struggled to get into this album. I have the distinct impression I would really like it if I found it at the right time/on the right day. But neither today nor yesterday has been that day. I liked a couple songs and I liked the general vibe, but I did not enjoy that I was listening to the album 😔. Again, on me, I'm just in a mood I guess. I look forward to trying this album again when I'm in a better mood.

The hits are good but there's a lot of filler songs.

Vem visste att det fanns 3 delar till Another Brick In The Wall??

Like all rock operas I have heard before there are 2 or 3 actually great songs and then an hour of filler. This is probably the best of the bunch but still only a couple songs I would ever listen on their own.

filler central

A concept album apparently? I’m too stupid to pick up concepts and themes but sure! It’s apparently about a rock star named Pink but it is giving dystopian to me idk. Why is ‘The Trial’ straight from a musical… possibly the jekyll and hyde musical even? Or hadestown even, tear down the wall you say.? I do wish these songs would stop making me think i’m hearing shit outside of my headphones, I hear enough arguing and screaming from my neighbours thanks. Oh hey I know a song! Could again be straight out of the Matilda musical but I guess that’s the opera rock aspect.

Звучание не мое... Альбом в 80% не зацепил 3/5

IF YOU DONT EAT YER MEAT YOU CANT HAVE ANY PUDDING I feel kinda bad giving this a 3 because I'm very much influenced by my parents and their anti-pink floyd biases and also I didn't pay a ton of attention to the lyrics or story or whatnot but I just don't really like rock operas. sorry. 3.5 cause I can appreciate how objectively important it is

Hmm. An interesting one. It’s weird in that it works really well as a full (very long) album, but there’s not really much I actually enjoy about it. Compared to something like the white album, which arguably works less good as a full (very long) album, but has so many hits along the way. Whatever, obviously it’s good, but I don’t care about it.

A double album of psychedelic rock...I am skeptical. I think there's something to having the visual component as well. But this is, so far, the best Pink Floyd album. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 is the biggest song from the album, I could do without the movie sounds though. Mother is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. The phone beeping, the talking...this probably works better when all of that is part of the movie rather than an album. Or at least if you've seen the movie. I just learned that the two were not conceived together. Now it's just more found sound to hate. Hey You is another Pink Floyd song I just don't like. The first album is better than the second. I don't like Comfortably Numb either. The Trial is like a song from a musical...so corny.

I am so very sorry. I am whelmed.

Liked some of the songs and my favourite is probably Comfortably Numb, other than that it struggled to keep me engaged as I felt like there were so many unnecessary parts and I know its meant to be storytelling but it just didn't do it for me, for my taste its just too long

Got some insanely classic, catchy songs. Young Lust is a favourite. Experimental rock opera that I wish I wrote myself, but most songs kind of fade into the background and is a lot more strange than it is good.

If you didn't grow up listening to this you're gonna hate it

Decent, not great tbh. I never really got the Pink Floyd hype. Not my favorite

Fällt mir sehr schwierig zu bewerten. Während andere "Rockopern" einfach ein paar Songs zusammenschustern, die inhaltlich eine halbwegs passable Story ergeben, steckt hier ein großes durchdachtes Konzept dahinter, dem sich alles andere unterordnen muss. Viele Songs bzw. Songfragmente dienen hier nur dazu, die Story voran zu treiben, sind aber für sich genommen nur mäßig spannend. Auf der anderen Seite findet man hier zeitlose Klassiker, die auch losgelöst funktionieren und zu dem besten gehören, was PF je gemacht haben. Das Konzept ist spannend und man erkennt den persönlichen Bezug von Roger Waters, an einigen Stellen wirkt es für mich aber auch unrund und das Ende ist schon sehr over the top und irgendwie auch sehr aprupt ohne einen passenden Epilog. Und ich mag Roger Waters' Stimme auch einfach nicht so gerne und finde es teilweise wirklich anstrengend, ihm zuzuhören. Daher bleibt es trotz übergroßen Highlights bei 3 Sternen.

It's cool for what it is.

More my taste. Some really nice songs, including a few I recognized. The music style seems quite disruptive. Not an album I'd listen to frequently, but still quite nice.

I’m sure it’s important from a historical standpoint. I’m sure the story is interesting. It’s okay after one listen

‘the wall’ was the perfect album to get me through my angsty adolescence. i have always preferred the earlier syd barrett/immediately post-barrett era of pink floyd, but i sure did wear out my vhs of ‘the wall’. listening to it today, it comes across as pretentious and obnoxious, but i can’t help but feel strong nostalgia for it. if memory serves, it’s a way better experience watching it as a movie, but maybe i’m just making excuses for my young self

We don't need no

really long, not bad. dont love the repetitive noise

Wasn’t able to listen to all of it! But I still liked it

This record is interesting and innovative; however, there wasn't a single track that really stood out to me. The entire record felt more like a journey or an experience rather than singular moments. Favourite Track(s): Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 1 Least Favourite Track(s): Bring The Boys Back Home, The Show Must Go On

Pretty good, not my thing though.

Had a busy last couple days at work but trying to give this album some due diligence. Found it difficult to follow, or frankly enjoy, most of it. Uncomfortably Numb was pretty good. I really wanted to fall in love with this. I didn't hate it. Who knows maybe I'll move across the country in a truck where my only option is a The Wall CD and something will kindle. But for now there seems to be a wall between me and this album.

There are some truly great songs in here, and some really amazing guitar playing. There's also an absurd amount of bloat between gratuitous transitions/interludes and self important expository tracks. If Ziggy Stardust was an example of a concept album done right, this is an example of why people hate concept albums. There's a 4 or 5 start album buried under at least 25-35 minutes of garbage.

A lot of variety on this album, it is dense. An unexpected rock opera! The hits are hits for a reason. I think it's too big of an album to appreciate fully in one day of listening, but I enjoyed it.

Another day of finally learning the artist and title of recognizable songs! 3.5 rounded down.

As a rock opera/concept album, this is an "album" in a very pure way - a lot of the tracks flow into each other, there's a cohesive story and recurring themes and motifs. As a result, it's also full of connecting tracks that don't really stand up on their own; they only make sense or work as part of the whole. For me though, too many of these bits are just a bit dull. As for the actual tracks, they're mostly fine, though anything that involves children singing automatically loses marks in my book. There's a nice variety of sounds and instruments, a lot of the tracks sound quite different - and in fairness they're extremely atmospheric. The vocals don't really work for me personally though. Highlights: - "Young Lust" - There's just more going on in this than in most of the tracks on the album. - "Hey You" - "Nobody Home" - atmospheric, has a piano, not the worst vocals on the album, has a piano. - "Comfortably Numb" - still kinda hate (some of) the vocals, but musically interesting and varied. Lowlights: - "Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2" - classic, sure, but I don't want to listen to a bunch of children singing badly, with bad grammar. They clearly do need an education (as they tell us themselves with their double negative). - "Empty Spaces" - "Don't Leave Me Now" - definitely an atmospheric one, and I understand it as part of the wider story, but the vocals are just painful to listen to. I feel like I could enjoy this album as part of a stage show, where there's something going on visually to add to the overall storytelling, but I don't think the music on its own is strong enough. Really really really low 3. Can't rate it a 2 on the basis that not really any of it (besides the children) were that bad to listen to, it just didn't do anything for me.

I liked it but it kind of scared me

sinceramente, pink floyd é uma das minhas bandas favoritas da historia, mas esse album nao bate tao bem quanto eu gostaria. não gosto dessa vibe muito viajada e psicodelida deles, realmente das musicas mais comerciais. de qualquer forma, o album tem os seus altos, e eu consigo entender que esse é um album bom pra mim qnd eu estiver na vibe de ouvir algo diferente, mas nao vai pra minha rotaçao. os altos do albums sao comfortably numb, young lust, hey now, ABITW pt2 e dont leave me now. de resto, a maioria sao faixa mto viajadas ou faixas de apoio para outras. 6/10

Progressive Rock Opera. It sounds cohesive and much more like "music" or theater than Dark Side of the Moon. The motif of children is interesting along with the theme of discovery yet isolation is interesting. I think the music/topic was definitely above me but interesting to listen to and analyze. I'm also impressed it was able to draw some singles out of it.

Not very fond of this album, since i dispise rock, but overall it was good. And at the end it has like a complejo de musical. No se no me gusto. No lo volveria a escuchar. Maybe because all the songs together are too much for my linking, but idk i dont like ot.

I really love the essence of the album but sometimes i got a tiny bit bored of it by the end. Not as great as I remember it tho tbh and I don’t think it’s really my thing, but I can appreciate it.

For as much Pink Floyd as I grew up listening to (well, listening to my Dad listen to, specifically) they have just never truly clicked with me. I know some of the tracks. I like some of the tracks. It's just a little boring to me. This concept album, while a neat idea, is not tremendously enjoyable in execution. It's just really too long for me and loses so much momentum the further along it goes. Musicianship is great, of course, but I could take or leave the vocals. It still has a charm to it that I can appreciate. Rock opera is really just not a niche I'm in to.

Not as good as Dark Side or Shine On

I’m not always the biggest fan of concept albums and while I respect it, this was still the case here. Sonically I love Pink Floyd and this was no exception, but it was definitely way too long for my tastes. I started getting bored by the end. Overall I’d say 3.5/5.

It's fine. Some great songs on here but there is a lot of bloat. I got annoyed with the transitions

4.5/10

It was very interesting and unique. Insane creativity and was an experience to listen to, however it is not something that I found pleasure in listening to. My top 3 were Comfortably Numb, Mother, and Goodbye Blue Sky.

not my style

Nope

Missed Another brock in the Wall pt2

Ok so on the positive side it was better than I was expecting but on the negative side a lot of it was just rather boring. So many songs sounded just like the previous one. Suspect they could have switched at least half the songs and still had a half-decent album.

This album was the first one I ever listened from them years ago and never wanted to listen to Pink Floyd again. Recently discovered their earlier albums and fell in love with them but this album is still overly complicated dad rock. They should have kept their keyboardist.

Nice

Overblown but ambitious.

not too bad the beginning was good. I think the end was a little lackluster for that. I give it a three out of five.

Not really my style, however I can appreciate the musicality of it. This took quite literally forever to listen to. I'm not a huge fan of the lead singers voice, but I did enjoy the instrumental portions.

Yeah, this is clearly a rock opera. Not intended for casual listening. It's well made and creative. But I find it tiring at times. I also don't like Roger Water's voice.

Unsure how I'm supposed to score this album. A mixture of great, not so great and very odd songs. One of those I'd possibly have to listen to 5+ times to fully 'understand' but after two listens I'm left a bit confused by the whole thing. Intriguing is the word that comes to mind, and I'll wait until the next Floyd album to make my judgement on them as a band but as a standalone record, this is pretty listenable on the whole so gets a 3 from me.

Of course The Wall pt 2 was good, had some good and even funny moments, but ultimately I'm not cut out for double albums, at least not theirs

My very first experience with Pink Floyd, that I'm aware of, was listening to 'Comfortably Numb' when I was a teenager. I can't exactly recall how I initially felt about the song, but I know I liked it because I was playing it on a daily rotation. And from this point is when I started to dig into more material from the band by listening to the singles recommended in YouTube. After some time had passed, I decided to check my parents CD collection and import then to my iTunes collections. One of these CD's was 'The Wall' and I was really excited about listening to the album which contains 'Comfortably Numb' and 'Another Brick in The Wall Pt.2'. However, I'll confess that I didn't care about the album, and honestly, I still don't really care. I thought that after not listening to it after so many years, maybe my opinions would have changed, but they almost didn't. I do appreciate it more now than I did before though, and it is mainly thanks to its concept. I've never stopped to analyze the lyrics of the album until now, and I'll admit that the history they build up is very interesting and engaging. I wish I could say the same about the music, as I think the majority of the songs feel like interludes, specially in the second disc, with 'Hey You', 'Comfortably Numb' and maybe 'The Trial' being the only tracks that I cared about. Fortunately for me, the first disc has some ideas and sound that I found interesting. I specially liked the moody, sad and a bit disturbing atmospheres of the songs 'Empty Spaces', 'One of My Turns' and 'Don't Leave Me Know' that the synths and little effects crafted. Talking about the synths, I think they sound spectacular and they add a lot of depth to the whole project. The same could be said about the guitars, bass and the overall production in general. They only thing I didn't like that much were Roger Water's vocals. Not all the time, but there are some moments that he voices comes out as very forced and a bit irritating. So, did I dislike this album? Thankfully, not really. Even though I always leave the album a bit impassive, I can't say I was bored.

Too long for me to want to listen again. But not the worst pink Floyd album on the list so far.

Potentially controversial opinion: This is a middling effort far below top tier Pink Floyd Eras of Pink Floyd ranked: 1. 1971-77 The good stuff (5 stars all round) 2. 1967-68 Barrett’s ‘Garden gnome on LSD’ era **3. 1979-83 Waters-dominating ‘Cokey opera’ era** 4. 1969-70 ‘Hipsters pretend this isn’t shit’ era 5. 1987- ‘Old man Gilmour bought a houseboat’ era It’s certainly not a bad album and is 100% deserving of being called ‘must hear’ for the concept. It’s just not deserving of the iconic reputation it carries.

When I was fifteen, my English and Music teachers decided to team up. We spent a month analysing the lyrics to The Wall, singing Another Brick in the Wall, and watching both the film and concert footage. I hated every minute. I was fifteen and could not relate to this weird album. My whole class hated the album too. The teachers had a great time. So, I know this album well - against my will. It's been many, many years and revisiting it felt like a chore at first. But I'm no longer fifteen and I ended up appreciating the album a lot more than I expected. I still don't think it's a masterpiece (too long, too self-indulgent, and too much guitar noodling - god, I hate prog) but I like ambition. Nothing wrong with a concept album and this is like the concept album to end them all. Nice one. Moral lesson: Teachers, leave them kids alone (i.e. don't force your fandom interests in them).

While it had its great moments, it just seemed a little long in the tooth for me

so far so good. 3rd track

Good. The back half goes a little long. 3.5

Paar hits, maar niet mijn genre

Some bangers and obvs a classic but not for me

This dragged on a bit. There were some good bits though, but it wasn't the masterpiece I was expecting.

I never really knew what the big hype was about...now I can understand. I can appreciate Pink Floyd. They are really artistic. Still, I have a hard time getting into it.

I remember listening to this one all the time in college...now I don't - what does that mean? Not sure. #Musicsky #albumsky

Good overall but not really for me

been putting this one off due to the sheer length of it (80 minutes is quite the time sink for an album), but i guess i have no choice but to suck it up and dive right in. only heard like one or two tracks in the past so this will be a relatively new experience. i really enjoyed my first listen to The Dark Side of the Moon so i hope The Wall won't disappoint In the Flesh? - 5/5 The Thin Ice - 4/5 Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 - 4/5 The Happiest Days of Our Lives - 4/5 Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 - 5/5 Mother - 5/5 Goodbye Blue Sky - 3/5 Empty Spaces - 3/5 Young Lust - 4/5 One of My Turns - 4/5 Don't Leave Me Now - 3/5 Another Brick in the Wall Part 3 - 4/5 Goodbye Cruel World - 4/5 Hey You - 5/5 Is There Anybody Out There? - 3/5 Nobody Home - 3/5 Vera - 3/5 Bring the Boys Back Home - 2/5 Comfortably Numb - 5/5 The Show Must Go On - 3/5 In the Flesh - 5/5 Run Like Hell - 4/5 Waiting for the Worms - 4/5 Stop - no rating The Trial - 1/5 Outside the Wall - 3/5 Average score: 3.7/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ i'll admit, i struggle to find the words to talk about this album. i can see why this has garnered such critique over the years i'll admit, i'm sadly not the biggest fan of rock operas (yes, even Meatloaf) so that may play into why i'm not gushing about this like some others have. i didn't mind much of this album though, and if it had stopped at the first half with some rearranging of the order of songs, it would have made for a solid album in my eyes. (I understand the story wouldn't make sense that way, i'm talking purely about the overall enjoyable tracks) by the 3rd quarter, however, some of the momentum just flatlined for me and my brain is ready to check out. with the exception of Hey You and Comfortably Numb, it's just all very pretentious wallowing about how Pink (Roger Waters OC, obviously) is avoiding having feelings or whatever overall, i'd say i half enjoyed this. the story and themes are fairly clear and accessible, you really don't need to look too deeply for meaning as Waters makes it abundantly clear. this doesn't make up for the fact that the album was very self-indulgent and bloated though. either way, i'm still glad to have heard it all the way through, i think this something most music listeners should experience at least once

Favourite track: young lust

I think this concept of feeling discouraged and beaten down by the world and wanting to retreat had potential. "Mother" is lyrically the highlight as it approaches that idea in a very relatable and nuanced way. But Pink Floyd had to go and make this album literal: this dude has actually built a wall for isolation. It makes it all feel a bit silly; but the time we reach "The Trial" it's as goofy as it is meaningful. Musically the album is focused on Gilmour's recognizable guitar, which is great to listen to but which provides diminishing returns as the album goes on. More left turns like "Run Like Hell" would benefit it. And of course the album is long - some of the shorter interludes are nice but many add very little and could have been trimmed. To enjoy this you have to really believe in how grand the presentation is, and I can't quite get there.

Honestly not great The Wall-Pink Floyd Released in 1979 nov 30th Great transitions In the flesh?- interesting intro but peak lowk Not my favorite album 6/10 didnt keep interest for long boring songs generally

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!

5.05

At times, I really enjoyed this album and at others, they just sound too characteristically themselves and I've never been a Pink Floyd fan

I know the omportance of this album, but itbis too long. I feel like I need more tome to digest and actually listen to the album properly, reading the lyrics etc, but it is too long, too atmospheric and too boring at times. I did like the second part best, though 3/5

how many times have i listened to this album? what else can be said. i haven't listened to it in yonks, but this is part of my teenage years in an inseperable way. probably foundational to the friendships here taking part of this group.

I appreciate the ambition and craft that went into this, and I appreciate icons like "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" and "Comfortably Numb." I just don't particularly like it. By the time the full-on Broadway musical of "The Trial" arrived, I was more than ready for it to be over. I do actually like "Comfortably Numb," but the rest of this I never need to hear again.

Completely unbarable and also a little good.

some good songs, not anything too crazy disc 1 is lowkey a snooze fest and disc 2 wraps it up altogether solid 6/10 again

as with some other records, i acknowledge its place in modern musical history. (and "Another Brick" and "Comfortably Numb" are great). but its politics were muddy anti-fascism and so much of the "opera" part seemed to sound like calliope music with yelling on top. sorry.

C'est con, avec le tiers de la durée tu pouvais faire un album vraiment sharp. Au lieu de ça, on ronfle les 3/4 du temps.

iconic, i only recognize a few songs off of it at first glance but upon listening to it there’s a lot more that are recognizable. i like the consistent use of the same chords throughout the album. i appreciate a themed album but why does it have to be 2 and a half hours long.

Meh. Prefer DSOTM

Shoulda been a single and left out all of that Broadway Bob Ezrin crap.

This is not my favorite Floyd album by any means. I much more prefer "Animals", which I think is their best, "WYWH" and "Meddle". Though I can certainly see the appeal of this overblown, yet franticly cold concept album. Waters is slowly and quite literally drifting off into a fascist mindset, as is evident in "In The Flesh", "Run Like Hell", and "Waiting For The Worms" - something he's certainly showing even more nowadays. I don't particularly care for all his interludes and Ezrin's cold production style (looking at you, "Vera", "Bring The Boys ..." and "Stop"), and "The Trial" is just utter nonsense ... But when the album hits, it hits. I had forgotten how strong side 2 is, with "One Of My Turns" almost becoming a highlight for me. "Comfortably Numb" is an all-time classic, as is "Another Brick In The Wall", and I love the more mellow pieces like "Goodbye Blue Sky" and "Nobody Home" (the latter probably being one of Waters' last really exceptionally great songs). But yeah, I'd much rather listen to a different Floyd album than this one.

I’ve always found this outing pretty insipid, but cliche aside, Comfortably Numb is still an exquisite song

I've listened to a bunch of Floyd albums, each of them several to many times. Oddly enough, have never listened to The Wall. Never seen the film. I know the hits. Definitely a classic blind spot. Let's see if it can rank up with Wish, Animals, Meddle, and Dark Side. Track 1: Way to make me wonder if my headphones were busted. Explosive intro, literally. I read this was originally supposed to be a Roger Waters solo album, but slapping the Pink Floyd name onto it got it funded. I wonder. Meddle, Dark Side, and Wish work so well because the band was in balance. Animals, though a great album, was the slide away from balance. You could see Roger Waters' hands all over everything. Now let's see the progression of that imbalance. Track 2: Kind of bored with this one. Not always a fan of Waters' vocals, and the delivery in this song exemplifies when I don't like it. Loved when Gilmour's guitar started soaring. Then the song ends. Track 3: I like it. That familiar melody. Great guitar. So far, every song seems like only an intro and an outro. At least they let this one breathe a bit. I like noodley Floyd. Great atmosphere. Waiting for a proper song, though. Track 4: I like it, but this album is like the Anti-Animals so far. Animals squeezed every drop out of each song. This has yet to turn an idea into a song. It's going for the forest over the trees, the album is the song, I guess. Movements and motifs. It's like speedrunning a hike. Track 5: Finally a song. One I've heard a zillion times. Classic. Track 6: Great song. This is the Floyd I like. Track 7: Favorite track so far. Nails the mood, nails the theme. Now the album is hitting its stride. The first few tracks were whizzing by a bit too fast for me. Now it seems to be settling into a groove. Ideas are being explored more rather than hinted then left behind. It's a weird critique when you want songs on a double album to be a bit longer. Track 8: Nevermind. Back to setting up a vibe and then moving right on. Ha. Like Roger's vocals in this one. Track 9: Another classic. Track 10: A really good song in the context of the album. A mess, but a thematic mess. I like how the first verse sounds so sloppy. Love the instrumental section near the end. Like the ending. Good storytelling. However, this is the type of track on a concept album that I wouldn't want to listen to unless I'm going through the whole album. Not a playlist song. Track 11: Thematically apporopriate, but hard to listen to until the band comes in. But I think that's the point. Track 12: This again. Track 13: Closing the first half of the album. We're at a low point for Pink. Not much else to say. Track 14: Another classic. Gilmour and Wright and Waters crush it. Even Mason does some stuff. Track 15: An ambient album track, though one I will playlist. Love the acoustic guitar. Positively dripping with atmosphere. Track 16: Pink Floyd channels Randy Newman. Big fan of the instrumental track. Vocally, not so much. Track 17: A transitional track. Continuing the theme of loving the instruments and rolling my eyes at the vocal delivery. Did you forget you have David Gilmour in the band? I'm sure it's because it's Pink's character voice, but geez. Track 18: Absolutely ridiculous. Love it. A total studio track. What madness. Track 19: Thanks for coming back, Mr. Gilmour. Oh damn, Mr. Gilmour. Those vocals. Those solos. Another classic, despite Roger's vocals being so silly. Track 20: A pleasant little track. Almost a nice break. Track 21: A reprise of the opening shot. Way better. Finally let's it breathe...in a horrifying way. Track 22: Another classic. A track that inspired the 80's. Track 23: A very theatrical pastiche. Not sure how I feel about it. A tad overwhelming. Track 24: Okay...were you necessary? Track 25: Side 2 is wild. I feel like I'm listening to a play. It's a bit awkward. Don't get it twisted, I like Roger Waters. He's a great lyricist, bass-player, and conceptualist, but he needs someone to rein him in. This is bonkers, and not in an entertaining way. I feel like I'm missing the visual half. Is this what Richard Wright felt? Track 26: Okay, I'm done. Didn't like where that went. Overall: Not gonna list out albums and what was good, bad, meh, etc. Great moments, but like most double albums, would have loved the best buts as one album. Yeah, the story may have been lost, and it's a decent story with a good theme, but, I like my music to be music. If I wanted to go to theater, I go to the theater. Maybe I'll watch the film and feel different. 3/5. The strong bits make up for the meh or bad. An awkward 3.

Das Konzeptalbum The Wall wurde zwischen Dezember 1978 und November 1979 in mehreren Studios aufgenommen, darunter den Britannia Row Studios (London), den Producers Workshop (Los Angeles) und den Super Bear Studios (Frankreich). Produziert von Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour und Roger Waters, gilt es als eine der ambitioniertesten Rockproduktionen seiner Zeit. Die britische Band Pink Floyd verknüpft hier Progressive Rock, Art Rock und theatralische Elemente zu einer zusammenhängenden Erzählung über Isolation, Entfremdung und psychischen Zusammenbruch. Die fiktive Hauptfigur „Pink“ spiegelt autobiografische Aspekte von Roger Waters wider – den Verlust des Vaters, die Dominanz der Mutter und die Entfremdung durch Ruhm. Musikalisch beeindruckt das Album durch den Wechsel zwischen monumentalen Gitarrenparts, orchestralen Arrangements und minimalistischen Passagen. Zu den bekanntesten Stücken zählen „Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2“, „Comfortably Numb“ und „Hey You“, die exemplarisch für die emotionale Spannweite des Albums stehen. Die Produktion ist detailreich und wirkt zugleich kalt und kontrolliert – passend zur zentralen Metapher der „Mauer“, die Pink um sich errichtet. Ein Werk von außergewöhnlicher Geschlossenheit und psychologischer Tiefe – weniger ein klassisches Rockalbum als ein musikalisches Drama über den Preis des Rückzugs.

Highlights: Goodbye Blue Sky, Hey You, Run Like Hell, The Trial. In a nutshell: the story of a lad insane. Lemme save you 81 minutes and 3 seconds: (A young Pink approaches his mum, he's upset) Pink: Mum? Mrs Floyd: Yes, Pink. Pink: I hate my life. Dad’s gone. School is a living hell. I’m thinking about making a wall to protect myself. How shall build the wall? Mrs Floyd: like you would build a house, darling - brick by brick… (slowly turns away from Pink and looks towards the audience) By ruminating on your trauma and being a colossal asshole. And Mama’s gonna make your nightmares come true… Pink: what? Mrs Floyd: nothing! ☺️ Here’s the plot summary if you want it: Pink, your life story will go like this... Your father dies at war. Finding out your beloved daddy is dead hits you hard. Your mum will smother you. She just wants only the best for her little boy. You’re paranoid about being bombed on. Your school years will be torturous; a teacher will abuse you and your classmates to no end. You grow up hardened and cynical. You’ll get married, but you don’t treat your wife kindly and she will unfortunately cheat on you (your Mum suspected it). Your relationship with women is problematic. Women to you are nothing but “dirty” and only good for sating your young lust. You’ll grow up to be a rock star. Touring life will be rough on you. You become depressed and violent. You cut yourself off from human contact; a manifestation of your trauma. Before too long you pass out in your hotel room. Your band mates break in and call for help. A paramedic gives IV drugs to wake you up. And when you drag your broken ass on the stage, you will have the worst hallucination of your life. You’re not a rock star. You are a racist, queerphobic, neo-Nazi leader. The fans are your followers. And it’s time to cause a riot... When the drugs wear off, you realise the mess you’ve made and the state you're in. You feel guilty and you put yourself “on trial”. Your conscience accuses you of “showing feelings of a *human nature*”. The witnesses testify that you’re a despicable little shit. That inside this man is a lost little boy that needs his Mummy to take care of him. You conclude that you’re crazy. And since you have revealed your vulnerabilities and despair to the world, the only option is to tear down the wall you’ve built around yourself. You’ve hit rock bottom. You wake up and conclude that you are a difficult person to deal with. Things have to change. Time will tell if the cycle will begin again or if the tide is turning… The Wall is definitely a drawn concept album. I can see why critics thought that the album is self indulgent, pretentious, etc. Perhaps that was the point(?) As for the music, it’s what you’d expect from Pink Floyd. Instantly recognisable prog rock with a subtle disco beat on some tracks (see Run Like Hell). Dave Gilmour reinforces that he is one of the best guitarists EVER. In my opinion, it works so much better in a concert format. Specifically, the 1990 concert. Instead of Roger et al, his band are joined by the ol' all star lineup. You'll hear Joni Mitchell cover “Goodbye Blue Sky” (heartbreaking), Sinead O’Connor perform "Mother" (perfect choice), Bryan Adams shred on “Young Lust” and a musical theatre (perhaps slightly campy?) version of "The Trial", complete with Tim Curry as a solicitor. It's longer than the original album but there is enough content to keep you engaged. Overall: 6/10

A classic in every sense of the word. However, I do feel like its a tad bit overrated. Another Brick in the Wall (all 3 parts) and Comffortably Numb are dope but outside of that I felt like I was wanting more. If I could give it a 3.5/5 I would but I think in this case I'm gonna round down to a 3/5

Had never listened all the way through before. Solid, indeed.

Sok regi klasszikus slágerrel, amiket ismerek is, mégis valahogy sosem tudtam rezonálni ezzel az albummal, pedig rossznak egyáltalán nem mondanám!

a good record when you're 13 years old, and 13 year-olds deserve their own good records. but it's tough to take it seriously as an adult.

Siis sisältää aivan bängeri biisejä ja yksinään jokainen biisi todella hyvä, mutta.. Miksi puolet biiseistä on samoja mutta vaan jotain eri versioita tai osia? Niinku I get it ne biisit on tosi hyviä mutta ei ne niin hyviä oo että tarvis kuunnella monta monituista kertaa peräkkäinm Ja miksi kestää sata tuntia?!

Always wondered why this album pops up for every classic rock fan. Excited to get into it. What a way to start an album. I love psych rock so I'm having a lot of fun already. The layers of yelling, and chaos that are foreshadowed !! Very much a "we live in a society" kind of album, but it's chill - not in a bad way Interesting how all the smothering forces in this character's life are women (mother, wife) in interviews he talks about how his lack of a father figure led him to have warped relationships with women...(his 1984 interview with the BBC where he talks about not understanding why women have issues with objectification...) Sonically I enjoy the album, a very forward sounding body of work - highly experimental but also grounds itself with the way it tells a story (very much a trait of the rock scene) the darks sound incredibly dark, and put you in the shoes of the character. But the piece is really colored by whom the character views as the problem. Many men can probably relate to this, as American society sells sex but still has issues explicitly talking about it or portraying it. This creates a complex. The parallels with war that the album draws on center themselves with a lack of power that war brings. This lack of power is seen in the character's interpersonal relationship as well. If not for nothing, the layers this album is able to build upon are impressive if flawed. Mostly agree with thefilmobsessive.com analysis, that over the course of the piece the theme gets confused as it wrestles with this escalation of authority and power. It cannot clearly speak to whether it wants to identify with or reject it.

The term Rock-opera has always been cringe inducing for me. That said, I enjoyed most of this album bar the last couple of tracks. I will be scoring this highly as the title track brings me lots of nostalgia. I remember a mysterious music man coming to my primary school in the 90s with these huge spaceship like machines. He got us to record our version of the wall.really feels like a dream looking back!

obviously this is iconic but doesn’t really do a whole lot for me, the third side has always been my favourite and i normally just stick with that

prima voor achtergrond, klein beetje saai op een gegeven moment, maar kan wel altijd. Duurt wel te lang voor 1 luisterronde, dan teveel van het goede

I want to see the ballet version

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Had my Floyd Phase around 23, only thing that really stuck was Live in Pompeii.

Sorry, men synes dette er litt boring altså. Ikke dårlig, da.

Some classics/gems but I needed a lot of drugs to fully appreciate some of the other songs on this album

Album 13/1001 Saying I'd prefer this album without the concept part probably takes away what is supposed to be so groundbreaking about it, and means I didn't "get" it - but, it would be so much better without all the amateur dramatics like the irritating voice acting and sound effects that, for me, only serve to detract from some genuinely great songs and Gilmour's incredible guitar work. Favourite song: Comfortably Numb (one of the greatest ever songs) 👌 Honourable mention: Hey You 👋 Another Brick in the Wall 🧱 Young Lust ❤️‍🔥 Mother 👩‍🍼

A moment in time is this album. Symbolic but oh so pompous. Hopefully we are at this stage where Pink Floyd can be seriously regarded for what they are, which is an ok prog rock band with a few good songs. A band its easy to admire but hard to love unless you are on magic mushrooms.

Better than I expected still not great

Veel mindere nummers

Vera, tear down this wall

Feels kinda blasphemous to only give it a 3, but I feel like it didn't really get interesting until the last couple of tracks when it started feeling a bit more like a musical. Up to that point, it's one or two bangers and a lot of standard prog.

I didn't care for it as much as I wanted to... Given I like Pink Floyd's other records and this has a couple of famous track on it, I was open to liking it, but the concept album thing just didn't work very well for me. Just feels like it didn't age very well in a way? Odd.

I think there are much better Pink Floyd albums. But this album always takes me back to a disgruntled middle schooler. 3.5

Haven’t listened to the whole thing in a least two decades. Takes me back to high school days. Some incredible songs, but it’s just too much other stuff I don’t need.

It's definitely a classic but not my style

It is clearly brilliantly crafted. I just don't like listening to it. It feels like a 90 minute panic attack

It's tough, I acknowledge this is amazing for a lot of people but I struggle to engage greatly with it.

A few gems of 70s prog but far too much filler style songs and long slow passages. Top track: Comfortably Numb

hey ich finds no kuul, bin aber nöd en riese fan und find es git besseri albe vo pink floyd. d musig da gfallt mer okay, aber finds chli repetitiv mit de zit und chli uf e schleppendi art hert. ich han ellerdings gern d sounds und s immer wiederkehrende motiv durs ganze album dure.

I think it's possible I've never listened to this in its entirety before. It was good but I actually didn't love how it keeps revisiting the same thematic tune over and over. I'm sure there's a narrative here, but I wasn't following it. Overall though, it's a good album that *might* grow on me over time. 3.49/5

tá, eu nunca tinha escutado um album inteiro do pink floyd antes, hein Ó: eu achei overrated e meio cansativo. o conceito não me pegou e ali pro final qdo o mano drogadaço vira fascista eu já tinha perdido o interesse. MAS, inegável o impacto desse aqui e blablabla. algumas músicas são até legais, pô. dito isso, acho que de fato eh um album pra ouvir antes de morrer (só uma vez, no meu caso).

i prefer songs rather than experiences, has some of the classic hits but the rest isn't something i would listen to again. meant to be listened to as a whole not individually. side 2 is definitely better tho. side 1 was sleeper other than the known hits

Overblown, overhyped pretentious pish. Took 3 attempts to get through the whole thing. Nowhere near DSOTM or WYWH. Don’t understand this at all

initially i didnt trust pink floyd with a rock opera album. And then i remembered how huge and atmostpheric dark side of the moon was and it gave me some hope that it will similarly be mind blowing. It was good but suspicions where correct. I just don't find roger waters to be charasmatic enough vocalist for an album of this nature. It just comes off as a bit underwhelming, espicially since i just relisten to dark side like a week ago and it's still fresh in mind. Its def worth a listen because its iconic, but its maybe a bit overrated imo. Will def check out the movie tho seems interesting

I'm opposed to Pink Floyd mainly because people my age (or, more acccurately, my age when I was 19) who are big Pink Floyd fans tend to be super annoying, so I wanted to do this some justice without letting those feelings cloud it up. I put on The Good Headphones and decided to Pay Attention. This shit is as pretentious and overwrought as advertised. Neither of those are real crimes, though, and musicians are often better for it. This? Probably not. I get that it's a rock opera and there's stuff it has to do to maintain a narrative flow, but there's a lot of stuff here that I don't care for BECAUSE it's part of that narrative flow. This is exactly the opposite of how I feel about the Dark Side Of The Moon. There's good stuff here, bad stuff here, and a corny overarching theme that is laid on irritatingly thickly. Also, Roger Waters' voice shits the bed several times on this album, and not in a cool punk rock way. Like, in a song ruining bad way. The highs are still high, but it's too damn long, a common complaint of mine, but unfortunately editing would change the tenor of the whole thing. I don't know if I'll ever come back and visit this. Too bombastic. But I can't deny that for all its faults it's still an achievement.

I liked this more than I thought I would. I appreciate all the thought going into a concept album, but I did find it a bit long overall. Interesting time to be listening to this, with a fascist in the White House.

listened to this over the loud speaker while closing beer run which was a pretty good way to listen

This is music for adults who can’t get over the fact that they didn’t like school. Not terrible though. Reluctantly awarding 3 stars

I remember being very excited about this one coming out. Over the years I've lost my taste for both prog rock and concept albums but this is a pretty good example of both

I’m so conflicted about this one. The hits are incredible obviously. Some moments like “Mother” and “One of My Turns” hit a nice stride. But overall this album really feels like it’s ‘narrative over songs.’ It’s just not that great of a listen. Especially when Pink Floyd have so many albums that are thrilling for their entire runtimes. I want to like this more, but I don’t.

3 stars There is one 5 star album of content in here, in a mix of a bloated pretentiousness. The concept is thin and the least interesting thing about this album.

Really strong album. Very creative, wasn't expecting to enjoy as much as I did. 7.3/10

good guitar

I guess I can see why it’s iconic or influential but I didn’t like it very much

favs: -the thin ice -another brick in the wall -don’t leave me now -hey you -the doctor

Some great songs. Would have made a very good single album.

it was good but so daaamn long, like i like long albums but this one felt like it never took off

Back in the day, I loved an annual university showing of The Wall where we all rocked up, some completely out of their faculties. These days I prefer several other Pink Floyd albums over this one.......

7/10 doug walker

6/10

I'll probably get cast out here, but in my opinion this album is a bit overrated. Yes, Another Brick in the Wall, Hey You and Comfortably Numb are great, but the rest is not as good.

This was okay. Honestly felt over hyped. Not for me, but and some people love and

This album is really showing its age. I wish I loved anything as much as Roger Waters loves himself (and his out of tune singing). Interesting themes about the cult of celebrity, self isolation, and cycles of violence. Another Brick run, Comfortably Numb, and In The Flesh are barnstormers and super atmospheric. But this is very bloated. Some amazing songs on here but a lot of farting about to get to the point. What's the point? My name's Roger Waters and you've just listened to an hour and a half of autofallacio.

Far too bloated, not that many good songs. Beware any album with 'parts' for songs. Having said that part 2 of ABITW obviously a great song. Also Nobody Home was a nice discovery

Easily the most overtated album in the Floyd canon. Often thrown in as part of their "imperial phase" from DSOTM but I think it falls some way short. The weakest song on that run is probably Welcome to the Machines which is very Wall like in Mood - oppresive and not particularly enjoyable - much like most of this album...arguably the worst of their 70s works.

Well, the highlight for me was realising more than 30 years after first hearing this album, that the start and finish of this drawn out affair dovetail into an endless möbius loop. Aside from that, The Wall was pretty much how I remember it. A collection of songs clinging to a weak narrative and a massive dip in form. Some tracks are good, some excellent, many are mediocre, a few are god awful. It tails off badly on the second disc, nobody home and comfortably numb being two standouts amongst a sea of pretentious poorly connected shite. I’m once again being generous and rounding up to 3 as there’s a very good one disc album on there trying to get out, but make no mistake this marks a steep decline from the previous triumvirate of Floyd releases and is in large parts a rambling mess.

Ja, ein Konzeptalbum. Das war scheiße. Brick in the Wall reißt es noch raus auf 3 Sterne. Viel zu lang, viel zu wenig Songs die ich mir gerne anhöre

I think I'm in the minority in liking Tommy more. This does have the higher highs but I really don't care for any of it besides the big tracks. It just feels they tried too much here, pompous gets thrown around a lot but can't help but feel it's an apt description. The end of a biblical run of albums to me Rating: 2.9

rock operas are a mistake 2.5

Vera, what is this?

I get it's a rock opera but I didn't have enough patience for this much Pink Floyd.

I’m allergic to concept albums (except Quadrophenia, which is awesome). This one has bright moments mixed with bloat. I’d never ever sit through this again, but I appreciate artists who swing big. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Highly overrated imo. The concept is good but there is a lot of boring filler in this album that is just boring to listen to for example "The Show Must Go On", "The Trial" but the good songs here are really good. "Comfortably Numb" and "Hey You" are probably two of Floyds best songs. 7/10 Favourite: Hey You Least Favourite: The Trial

a very beautiful and compelling storytelling album, i wanna watch the movie now

Comfortably dumb after listening to all 26 tracks.

What can I say about The Wall? It's going to be a very divided room on the reviews on this one. I know this is Roger Waters' opus-dei, and it's really all about him and his final tribute to Sid Barrett. There is some very, very good material on this album, let's not forget about that. But, the album gets too wrapped up in itself and you end up just wanting it to be over in the end. I felt the same way about the movie as well. Just too much. Great animation sequences though. 3.34/5 (I only rated actual songs, not the filler crap in between).

Listened to it on shuffle about a quarter of the way through before restarting and going back through. Some good songs! But was largely, 'eh'.

Eu acho bem ok, todas as músicas são muito parecidas, não entendo o hype!

Well this album is one hell of a source of inspiration. I do absolutely need to listen to it again, and there's some superfan who's compiled some real analysis of it. I'll have to read that, and of course the movie... The final act of the 'movie', 'album' whatever – is easily the highlight. Everything after Pink assumes the dictator persona is amazing, but of course none of it would've made a lick of sense... I can't say it's a full five stars despite my rating. It's a 9/10 maybe, or a 4.5. Absolutely worthy of a relisten, and miles better than the other 4/5s so far...but still not deserving to be one of my favourites. Maybe it'll cross that gap one day. For it's length, it feels much shorter than that. The guitar is beautiful throughout this whole piece. I don't really think I can highlight any songs because the whole thing really goes together. Besides, they're all about the same quality: Anything of 'lesser' quality just happens to be shorter. This album basically made me reevaluate most of the other former 4/5 as 3/5. Bob Dylan, Surf's Up, Sex Pistols...all 3/5. Now *this* is something I'd relisten to. I'll be honest the ending is really milquetoast. Definitely still a 4/5. Ok no it isn't. It's not mediocre, but I'm not really gonna listen to it again unless it's the movie honestly. Edited 22 June. Haven't watched the movie yet...but earnestly in hindsight this album was difficult to coast through. High 3/5.

First time ever listening all the way through. Feels like variations on a theme. 3 great songs (Another Brick in the Wall, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell) and the rest is all just kind of...there. I get it - groundbreaking, monumental, etc. etc. - but I still have to want to listen to it today.

It’s difficult not to go into an album like this without expectations. Never listened before, don’t know much of Pink Floyd… it was okay? fine? alright?

i understand why they were and continue to be influential. i loved how each song connected with the next, it made it feel like a story. pretty solid there just weren’t a lot of standout songs.

On kuuntelun arvoinen. Pitkiä, maalailevia biisejä. Varmasti aikansa edelläkävijä tuollaisessa elokuvamaisessa maailmassa.

Fine. Pink Floyd was never my thing. I like it well enough but remain mostly underwhelmed.

It’s definitely one of the better Pink Floyd albums i’e listened to, however, I still do not get the hype around Pink Floyd

I've mentioned before (particularly in my review of Wish You Were Here, which I gave a 5/5), that I'm not a fan of The Wall. Of all of Pink Floyd's post-Syd Barret albums that are the most well-regarded (Meddle, DSotM, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall), The Wall is far and away my least favorite. Going into this listen, while I didn't care for it, it was always tough for me to pinpoint exactly why I didn't like it, mostly that I didn't like the sound of the album (it was too "gray and yellow" sounding, vague discription) and that it was too long/indulgent. I will say after listening to it this time, and paying far more attention than I ever did before, the gray and yellow criticism I don't feel is as accurate anymore. There's a lot more dimension to this record than I gave it credit for (in terms of colors, more blues and purples that I never noticed previously). I still don't particularly care for the sound of this album and I'll get more into that later as I do have new things to talk about, but it does get points for that. Complaint B however, is still relevant as it is an overly long, indulgent record with some songs that just don't work for me. But ultimately, getting back to my problems with the record, what I noticed this time around is that The Wall just doesn't work well as a listening experience. Aside from the singles (Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2, Young Lust, Hey You, and Comfortably Numb), most of the tracks on this album can't sustain themselves (along with some, while intentional, poor singing that grates). Not in the sense that they needed more time in the oven, but that there is a visual component missing. I've never seen the movie, but I imagine I'd appreciate The Wall more in that form, or especially in the form of a stage play. So many of these songs sound like they were made for a musical production. The thought of someone singing these on stage, acting out what's going on and whatnot sounds like a perfect match. That said, I will say some of the singles are great, particularly Hey You which is easily one of the best Pink Floyd songs in their entire discography, with Another Brick Pt. 2 and Comfortably Numb being fantastic as well. I'm not super hot on Young Lust though because it has too much of that stage musical "sound" that the rest of the tracklist has, which I don't care for. But the thing that sets these songs apart from the rest of the record is that they work perfectly fine even if you divorce them from the rest of the album, I can actually playlist them, have them come up in shuffle, and enjoy them. Overall, gained a greater appreciation for this record, but unfortunately that "greater appreciation" wasn't always positive. I would have given this a 3 previously, and while the reasons for that 3 have changed, the score has not.

I mean obviously its a good album and a classic, but not really my thing. I do love Comfortably Numb and how it seems as though songs dip in and out of consciousness; that psychadelic vibe, but I'm left feeling that and hour and a half is too long for an album. It's an exciting journey for the listener but not something for everyday. Perhaps it would have made more sense if I grew up during that time.

The only concept album I’m really interested in is this: “Me and my friends thought it would be a cool idea to put together a whole album full of songs people would really like and want to listen to over and over again.” This album is a slog. I don’t want to have it explained to me. I don’t want to have to be high to enjoy it. I don’t want to watch the accompanying film. The Wall may be a great piece of art, I don’t know. What I do know is that the great tracks here are buried under an endless Roger Waters’ wank-fest. If you cut out all the faff, this would be an incredible album. Instead, it is a three-star album with pretensions of greatness. Elite tracks: Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 Comfortably Numb Good tracks: Mother Hey You Good enough for filler: In the Flesh? Goodbye Blue Sky The Show Must Go On Run Like Hell Chuck everything else. Now you’ve got an album I’ll happily listen to on repeat.

Previously rated: The Dark Side of the Moon (3/5) The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (2/5) Wish You Were Here (3/5) ***************************************** There was a lot of "oh yeah, I know this song" while listening to this, but not a lot of "oh yeah, I like this song, but it might be the best PF album for me, though I'm not a big fan.

One of the many things I’ve learned from this list is that I’m not a fan of rock operas. As it is with Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2, it has been fun to hear some of the biggest rock hits of all time in the context they were meant to be heard. Unfortunately, I’ve also found that even though the storytelling and composition are usually fantastic, I’m just not all that drawn to them. That applies to The Wall and is why I can’t really go higher than three stars, even if it may be rock blasphemy.

It's fine. A few really good songs mixed with a lot of filler masked in a concept album.

Sounded kinda like playing music

listened to "disc 1" on Spotify. Mid AF. 6/10

A bit self indulgent in parts

Some songs are brilliant, but others are annoying AF.

That was quite an experience. I think to be able to fully appreciate this album, I had to especially focus on viewing it as the whole concept and piece of art, essentially becoming a theatre performance, instead of just a collection of individual tracks to vibe to. Unfortunately, I’m not the biggest fan of musical theatre, and many themes may have been lost on me. I shouldn’t have to read a whole Wikipedia article to understand what’s going on or why it matters. And unfortunately for a good bit of it, I found myself incredibly bored, as I would be at a musical. Still one hell of an experience, with some really good tracks individually as well. Hey You stood out to me as really good. I had heard of Comfortably Numb but it never really stuck with me until I listened a few times in this album. I respect the overall production enough to bring the rating up to a 3.5 or 4, but I don’t know if I necessarily would seek it out again as a whole.

Well, I did enjoy this for the first four or so songs. There's some good thought of course behind the concept album and maybe it deserves a few more listens but it just felt like it dragged on too much and there wasn't enough attention grabbing in the middle

Ik ben op zich wel fan van Pink Floyd, maar dit album heeft me nooit kunnen bekoren. Teveel concept, teveel opvullers. Another brick in the wall is natuurlijk een prima nummer en Comfortably Numb is absoluut wonderschoon, alleen daarvoor zou ik zeker bonuspunten uit kunnen delen. Maar ik heb dit album simpelweg van mijn mp3-schijf afgeknikkerd en alleen die 2 nummers bewaard. En als ik iets uit de mp3-bak verwijder, is omdat ik het nooit uit vrije wil op zal zetten of veel te vaak doorklik als het voorbijkomt. Dus dan kan het nog zo'n iconisch album zijn, andere albums zijn wel gewoon 5 sterren waard en dit helaas niet. Te weinig David Gilmour en heel erg veel te veel opvullers. Een magere 3 sterren, en dat is inclusief de bonuspunten voor Comfortably Numb.

++: In the Flesh?, Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1, Goodbye Blue Sky, Empty Spaces, Young Lust, Don't Leave Me Now, Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3, Goodbye Cruel World, Is There Anybody Out There?, Bring the Boys Back Home, The Show Must Go On, In the Flesh, Run Like Hell, Waiting for the Worms, Stop, The Trial +: The Thin Ice, The Happiest Day of Our Lives, Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2, Mother, One of My Turns, Hey You, Nobody Home, Comfortably Numb, Outside the Wall +-: Vera 8,5/10