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Nope.
So this is where rock music ends up... a bloated, slow-motion, low-energy, overblown drama about the perils of being a rock star with a post-war childhood. There are moments of beauty on here, but I find it tough to care enough to sift for them. I even admire the ambition and scope - but it's so self-indulgently done. The little interludes and spoken word snippets point to a nervousness about making sure a story comes across, at the expense of making an enjoyable album. On the plus side, revisiting this makes me appreciate some of their earlier albums more - including Wish You Were Here, which is kinda like a more necessary and enjoyable dress rehearsal for the style that drove itself into the Wall. 2*
It’s more like a 2.5 with a handful of songs closer to a 3.5 but it’s not interesting enough to be so damn long.
Mmm…
Well known.
I’ve never seen a rock opera that I liked, and this has not changed my mind. This has some good tracks, but they’re surrounded by novelty songs and depressing dirges. The best song is Comfortably Numb, and was done better by the Scissor Sisters.
pior que eu já gostei mto de pink floyd, especialmente do the wall hj em dia percebi que é chato pra 1 caralho xD
Зайшло інтро альбому, приємно здивувало. Знову ж таки гарні інструменти, але весь альбом написаний на одній основі (we don't need no educaition), де не де чути трохи змінену але повнторювану мелодію. Не погано, але не моя чашка чаю
Noen kule låter, noen veeeldig kule partier. Overall satte jeg nok ikke nok pris på konseptet, og ble bare lei av alle eksplosjoner og radiodramaene. Endte opp med å kjede meg.
First listen. Moments but largely pretty meh.
Comfortably Numb is by far my favourite Pink Floyd song. The guitar solo at the end is one of the truly great solos of all time. As for the rest of the album I don’t really like it. With a couple of exceptions I find it quite boring especially towards the end. Top Track - Comfortably Numb
Meg
I listened to this a long time ago and remembered thinking it had a few perfect tracks with a lot of crappy filler in between. Many years later, I think it has a few perfect tracks and a lot of crappy filler in between. I get that this is meant to be a rock opera film score whatever. Fine. But it doesn't work as an album. The songs that are great are really peerless - Another Brick in the Wall (pt. 2), Hey You, Comfortably Numb. And some second tier gems, Run Like Hell et al. But generally this is the kind of bloated maximalist mediocrity that gives later-70s rock a deservedly bad name. Punk, new wave, someone please kill this. Perhaps it works live, but I have my doubts - decadent nonsense. All the best things people say about Pink Floyd are represented in Dark Side of the Moon. All the worst are here. A twenty minute mix tape of highlights would be four stars, if not five.
I wanted to enjoy it, I truly went into it trying to like it and telling myself I was not just going to write off Pink Floyd because I'm too cool for them, but the overly grandiose art rock opera thing is just not for me anymore fr. Stuff like In the Flesh (both versions though I'm partial to the one with less slurs) resonates with me because it's just so musical and has a very unique feeling to it but the rest just feels like a vehicle to convey a plot that I don't give a FUCK about, and frankly I more or less disagree with the idea of music having a "plot" anyway Fav song: In the Flesh?
Some classics but overall not a very big fan
sunny
I have not been a fan of this album because the local rock station when I was a kid played the following every hour: Ozzie Osborne/maybe Black Sabbath, The Wall, and newest Metallica. I did not like The Wall and thus concluded I didn't like PF. Then I listened to Meddle and started to come out of my hatred for PF. Having now listened to the entire album, I still do not like The Wall. There is better PF out there by miles. There are good songs on here especially Comfortably Numb - pure classic. But double albums mostly are self-indulgent and this one is no different. It's not bad but it's not the greatest either.
The exact opposite of “leave them wanting more”
Sort of get the hype
It felt long. I was bored
I was surprised thst i only knew two tracks on this album, but having now listened to it less so. It’s an overblown overlong album and listening to it was a real slog. I fear like Shakespeare this is something you need to see performed to fully appreciate but i wont be wasting anymore time on this
I don't think I gave it a fair enough run through, as I was pretty rushed, so marking is tricky - if I'd been in a different frame of mind, the score might be higher. As it was, they were altogether too many sound effects slowing things down for my liking, and it's difficult to listen to as a music album when you should really be listening to it as a story. But Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2 is absolutely enough to get it 2 stars.
Really actually didn't like it.
Ergens rond 2010 werd deze show opnieuw opgevoerd. Een collega heeft zich een jaar lang hierop verheugd en ook zeker een jaar lang nagenoten. Hij deelde zijn enthousiasme graag natuurlijk. Dus de cd belandde op mijn pc met het idee dat ik dit regelmatig op zou zetten en hierin op kon gaan. Het resultaat? Na één keer luisteren verdween alles in de digitale prullenbak met uitzondering van de twee hits, die dan wel weer heel sterk zijn. Het album is bejubeld, dus ik kon hem hier verwachten. Ik keek er niet naar uit, maar ik heb wel een moment gezocht om het integraal goed te kunnen beluisteren. Dat ging me lastig af. Het album klinkt in het begin van geen kanten. Gelukkig komt snel de eerste hit. Maar daarna komt al snel valse zang. Het past wellicht bij de emotie, maar ik haak hier echt van af. Als concept-album is het wel weer bijzonder. Het mag iets korter, maar het neemt je best mee op een reis. Uiteindelijk is één sterk nummer per schijfje echt onvoldoende. Nu echt voor de laatste keer dit geluisterd.
not at all a bad album, i just want to make a point about how i think its overrated
Klar ein Klassiker, aber naja.
The overarching mood was quiet and slow, which does not mesh well with me. The parts that were not quiet were not as rowdy and hard as I was hoping for. Hot take, but I do not like Another Brick in the Wall. I did like the seamless transitions between songs. Did not enjoy overall.
Slow Monday at work. Gave album a good listen, first time. Never clicked with Pink Floyd. Always seemed pretentious music/band. Still don't see the appeal.
I'm probably going to get shot for this, but I genuinely don't care for this album. It's overrated, and dreadfully boring. This album is really carried by the guitarwork and nothing else - I never got why people rave about how this is such a great concept album. The story fucking sucks man. I'm tired of acting like it doesn't. Roger Waters thinking he can sing (he can't) gets really jading throughout this thing. I just know Gilmour was cringing throughout the recording of this thing. What I find so funny about this, is that Roger Waters' solo record, "The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking", is actually a much better concept album. He switches up his singing style to a more goofy tone, to allow for the fact he's shit at singing, which sounds a lot better. And it's at least not an hour and a half long. Oops. I also got fucking sick of the Brick in the Wall motif splattered carelessly throughout this record. Mate, we get it; it's a concept album, cool, I'm not retarded. Unfortunately, one of the best songs ever (Comfortably Numb) - which features one of the greatest solos of all time - is included on Pink Floyd's worst post-Ummagumma album. Once you get past this song, you're about ready to wrap up, but NO, you have another 20 minutes of this shit. In The Flesh is at least a great song. I spent a lot of time thinking if this was deserving of a 2, especially considering giving a band I generally adore a 2 feels wrong. But keeping consistent to my reviews of "this is too long and shit", and also the fact that the writing is mediocre at best, it's getting a 2. Great guitarwork unfortunately can't save this. tldr; dreadfully long, awfully boring, unfortunately sung by Roger Waters.
I've always felt I should be a Floyd fan, but I think they were tainted by one of my 'dads bands', which equals the kiss of death most of the time on the whole the album is ok, with the big singles, but several duff songs too. It's a tricky 2.
another Brick in the wall pt. 2 is my fav track, not a big fan of the entire album though
2 stars will be my rating for neutral/meh
Other than Part 2 this is a boring album, not much music that stands out to me
They really thought they ate with this one.
Pink Floyd are one of those bands where you hear a lot of hype about them but then wonder why people actually like them. I'm curious to know what it is about this record in particular that people seem to rate it so highly. What am I missing? It was okay in parts but it dragged a lot. That said, I now wanna know if the album with the two heads on the cover is better
2 good tracks.
This fucking album is so painfully boring, it’s unbelievable. Can people stop pretending they listen to this shit?
Langt.. Drænende.. Over hypet.
Hvis man ser bort fra Another Brick In The Wall og Comfortably Numb er det her album én lang ørkenvandring gennem opulent og prætentiøs kedsomhed. Som på andre albums med Den Lyserøde Fløjt’ så manglede der virkelig en voksen i studiet. En der kunne og turde sig NEJ! til Roger Waters. De to førnævnte numre er helt fantastiske numre, men det er bare ikke nok til at opveje at resten af det 81minutter lange album er ca. lige så interessant som at se en dværg skide på en tallerken.
Too long. Another double album that should've been single
Was looking forward to listening to this to finally understand the hype. It's very long so possibly I needed more time with it but I got a bit annoyed by the whiny protagonist. And then he started singing out of tune. Surprised nobody has ever tried to make it into a stage musical
Goes on a bit doesn’t it. There’s the odd good track but it doesn’t grab me like other Floyd does. If anything, I was bored!
In 1977, Roger Waters, the self proclaimed ‘creative genius of Pink Floyd’, was thinking about their next record. Being blessed with such immense musical wizardry; the man who didn’t know how to tune his own bass properly had naturally decided that he, and he alone, should be the leader of Pink Floyd. After taking that position by force, he now only needed an album to prove to the world just how frighteningly talented he really was. Realising that he was approaching the cusp of a new decade, Waters knew he had to push Pink Floyd’s sound along if they were to have any place in the 1980’s. Due to being the ‘creative genius of Pink Floyd’, Waters luckily knew just what had to go; everything that people liked about Pink Floyd. The warm and inviting production, the transfixing vapour like guitar soloing, the nicely sung and mysterious vocals; that could all go. In its place? Constant tuneless droning, courtesy of Waters own pitchy voice, over oppressive and plodding sounding airbrushed instrumentation. Maybe Pink Floyd could occasionally sound like Pink Floyd as a treat, but empty sounding dirges played by people who audibly despised music was the new norm. As well as putting his voice front and centre, Waters also decided that his lyrics should now also be the main focus of the band. Pink Floyd’s lyrics were famously what everyone went to Pink Floyd for, so it’s only right they should now take centre stage. The trouble is what would Waters write about? He’d already given us so much; devising such innovative and original concepts as ‘what if we made political allegories about animals?’ and ‘isn’t money bad?” Where else was there for him to go? If he was to top his previous work, he would have to come up with a concept that was even more adolescent, more solipsistic, more clunky. Fortunately inspiration for Waters finally came. After calling up a fan on stage and then spitting on his face, Waters knew that he had his new concept: ‘what if I expressed how disenfranchised I have become towards my audience by writing a rock opera in which I become a Nazi?” Perfect. Satisfied that this was suitably narcissistic, Waters decided on yet another innovation. Rather than having the album be around 40 minutes in length like all of their previous work, why not have it be 9 hours long? Only then could the album really draaaaaaag. What use is an album in which you don’t loose the will to live multiple times in its first 20 minutes? With his magnum opus both complete and entirely unlistenable, Waters smiled and had a cigar. His life long goal of wanting to the strangle the life out of Pink Floyd had been achieved. He could rest easy. It was just another brick in the wall.
A bit boring.
Maybe pink Floyd just isnt for me. Some good songs, some good enough to want to give 4 stars, but wow a lot of just boring whatever in between
Not for me
Was actually really looking forward tot his, but I kind of hated it. From the lens of 2025, in this instance it was hard to appreciate just how influential this album is, because I already don’t like artist who pull inspiration from this sound.
Too young to have heard Pink Floyd in their heyday, and not exposed through the adults around me as a kid. While I recognized the one famous chorus, and some of 'Comfortably Numb,' this was otherwise largely unfamiliar. It mostly reminded me of Rush. The singer's voice was really bad on some songs. I kind of got that there was some epic story being told (a la Rush), but that mostly brought to mind that bad Bee Gees album about the fictional sunken ship when the military flourishes kicked in.
i try to go into every album with an open mind, but this is a real tough one for me. of course i know some of these tracks from their extensive play on classic rock radio, but the album in its entirety is new to me. i've liked other pink floyd i've gotten in this project despite for most of my life thinking i hated them so i was cautiously optimistic. that was until i realized i think the reason i was convinced i hated pink floyd is because of the tracks here that get play on the radio ('another brick in the wall pt. 2', 'mother', 'comfortably numb'), which i still am not fond of. the rest of the album is of varying quality, some decent, some really questionably bad, but still nothing i am really fond of or interested in at all. roger waters' songwriting is always a bit hit or miss for me (i find his singsong-y melodies to be a bit annoying and eye-roll-worthy a lot of the time) and the production here is really flat and uninteresting. the instrumentation here is in service of the plot of the concept album, but doesn't give me a lot there either. and the plot... it's pretty whiny and self-serving. if you don't wanna be a rock star, you can just go live on a farm or something. boo hoo. and the worst sin of all, quite frankly, it's long and boring. i don't know what people see in this one. guess it's just not my thing.
1.5 rounded up ughhhhhhh highlights: in the flesh?, young lust, nobody home, comfortably numb (mar 19 2026)
TIL that “operatic” is not what I want my music to be.
This was fine, but I don’t understand the hype. I ended the album fell rather underwhelmed by it all together.
listened
Another Pink Floyd album that I think over the years it boasted that it is a masterpiece... I disagree, i think it is way too overrated. Sure the story is okay, but as for the songs its meh... could have been a single disc
Pink Floyd has always escaped my interest. Sure, there's a song or two I like based on years and years of air play on classic rock stations. However, I just don't like their sound.
maybe doug had a point 4/10
Objectively a decent album but I hate it.
If this were a shorter album, it would be on the same shelf as Wish You Were Here. But then it wouldn’t be a portentous (ponderous) statement of intent, would it?
I always thought this album was tacky. High school stoner kid becomes infatuated with theatre and pink floyd type shit
A lot of songs with small duration. I can see that they are talented, but not my cup of tea. The album is too dark and for emotionally unavailable people. Love the guitar sounds.
Do I have to?
There should be a law against concept albums.
One great hit , the rest was rather dull
**an ok album
Do I have to? Comfortably Numb is fine I guess. Depressing in a kind of and exploitative way. Too long, too self-centered, inauthentic intensity. Unpopular opinion as a big Floyd fan. The Wall is another big seller, Advice: don't take acid and see the movie in the theater. I WOULD NEVER do something like that, but I have heard it's a bad idea.
It’s a fine record. Take away the pretense and it’s perfectly fine. But it thinks it’s smart and that makes it annoying.
Three good songs, the rest I hated.
Klassikkokappaleita varmasti, mutta ei omaan musiikkimakuun.
It’s really all about the songs, isn’t it? And even if the musicianship, story and føow of the album is really good, not many songs catch my attention. Hey You and Comfortably Numb being the honorable exception ,along with the slightly better than decent couplet Mother/Goodbye Blue Sky. 4 songs do not a good double album make. Honestly, it was a chore to sit through, and I did it twice!
Looking through my album history I noticed that last week I missed Vol 4 by Black Sabbath so I listened to that instead. Vol 4 : 5 stars, sabbath helped create so many genres of music The Wall: 2 stars, classic rock station classics.
There’s only one scent song and it’s on there 3 times. Too long, too overblown, and you can tell how clever they thought they were. It was bollocks and I hated it.
Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 is probably my least favorite song of all time, so all things considered, it's not that bad of an album. But the full package just hasn't convinced me yet
classics, but not for me
Like a lot of albums I've reviewed, I _get it_ but it's just not for me. Meddle and DSOTM are still Floyd at their peak
Was mostly vibing with this and thought a couple early songs were quite good but then I really turned on this on disc 2. Found the latter half quite frustrating.
2+ Stars. (6/15)
Interminable, ponderous prog rock operas are not my jam.
Not my jam
Very "meh" about their music. Like some, but uninspired by most. 2/5
Eh. I know its a classic but very hard to get into. The songs just wouldn't end.
Didn't like it as much as I thought I would. Certainly masterful work. Maybe it's because of the sheer amount of time that has passed, but I just didn't really get into it.
I don't think I need double-album rock operas in my life.
My least listened to Pink Floyd album. Don't enjoy the rock-opera of it all, particularly amplified on the second disc, but there are couple of incredibly good tracks scattered around in there. Standout track - Comfortably numb.
Another Brick in the Wall is a great song, but the album is over-long and bloated.
Didn’t like this as much as dark side of the moon. Comfortably numb is good, although Chris Moltisanti *sad face*. There are a some good moments but it goes a bit Stonehenge (spinal tap reference) towards the end and I didn’t really get the narrative of the ‘rock opera’.
The Wall kent iedereen. De hoes is herkenbaar uit duizenden, megahits als Another Brick In The Wall en Comfortably Numb lijken dit album naar legendarische status getild te hebben, want laten we eerlijk zijn.. er staat een hoop niet boeiends op. Ja, de opbouw naar Another Brick is geweldig, maar los zijn de nummers niet de moeite waard om te luisteren. Het album staat wat mij betreft ver onder Dark Side of The Moon en Wish You Were Here. Rating: 6,5/10 Highlights: Another Brick In The Wall, Comfortably Numb
Started out pretty much hating this. For a little spell towards the end of the middle, I actually got right into it. Then by the end I was hating it again. Some of the production is unbelievably ahead of its time. Some of the story arc really seems to predict internet culture and the threat of misinformation about 30 years early. First citing of 'brain worms' maybe? For all that, it's still not my cup of tea. Too long, too pompous, too preachy.
I like some of the more popular ones, but the rest not for me
I didn't enjoy it very much. Some songs were good but the lyrics were a bit confusing. There was a lot of talking and not many songs stood out to me. I understand the cultural and artistic significance but it's not my thing. Comfortably good guitar solos though. 2/5
Honestly I really want to like the album because I like artist and the concept but so many of the songs are just sound and talking or super repetitive. Also the storyline is lowkey hard to understand unless you're listening to it after knowing what it's about so that kinda defeats the purpose. Overall like it's a fine album with a cool concept and I like a few songs from it but it's just kind of a weird album and I don't really like the music. 1 point for Comfortably Numb, 2/5.
I’ve seen the film a few times, but never got much out of the music compared to the visuals (the marching hammers, the children being fed into the sausage machine etc.). Giving it a proper listen today, I’m still not hearing a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. I do like side 3 and all the versions of Another Brick In The Wall, throwing The Happiest Days Of Our Lives into that.
Like being at a party where you can't stop someone from going on and on and on but you know everyone is bored to tears.
probably one of their worst records imo
I didn’t get it
It sounded dated. I wasn’t a huge fan when it came out originally and feel the same now.
(Based off 5ish songs) Nigel Dickson dad-rock. Fairly enjoyable, but didn’t really do it for me
Not really my favorite band, but I have to respect their cultural influence. There's definitely a few good ones on here
This is the last Pink Floyd album I bought and for me really marked the beginning of the end for them as a band. I bought it at release and liked it, but with passage of time I came to think it's pretty dull stuff with continued navel gazing about pressures of upbringing and success. Not something I listen to very often.
It's an impressive conceit. There are good instances of musicianship and some good hooks. But it's way too long and way too full of itself. Sounds like hippies coming down after the euphoria wore off. A lot of angst and rebellion over very little. Still worth a listen and, as I said, an impressive feat. Just all sounds a bit bloated and old farty.
The not goodest Pink Floyd album. I'm still not sure which one is Pink?
Difficult one to review objectively, I loved this when I was 14, thought it was important somehow, listening again after a very long time and after RW’s decent into stupidity it’s very hard to like, lots of musical theatre elements and some plain nastiness
I'm not a Pink Floyd fan, but I guess this album has 2 ok tracks, Comfortably Numb, and Brick in The Wall Part 2. So that's as good as this review gets... and for me the album is only worth a 2.
Not my favorite Pink Floyd album
Not for me
Gar nicht mein Ding. Viel zu viel. Musik für Musiker.
I mean it is the wall, I've heard it 1000 times. Still great to listen to but there is a lot of filler.
i was hoping to be pleasantly surprised but this, but i was not. i don't feel that this needed or benefitted from being a double album. "comfortably numb" is the high point.
Not a fan of double albums or concept albums so it was uphill going for me. Felt bloated. There were some good songs on here but it felt like it was taking too long to get there. Not for me but I can understand why some would love it
This 70s prog rock ain't for me 2.5/5
Watched the movie which was pretty trippy
By rights I should love Pink Floyd as I am partial to a good bit of prog But they always leave me cold and this was no exception Not sure I can really put my finger on why
I found this a real chore
Very, very hard to rate for me. My teenage self listened too much to this, and I cant bare it now. It evokes a sullen chill - rock opera for angsty teen boys. So very original and important seeming, once... But ever since I have found it so very gloomy. Not their best album.
Once you realize it’s a rock opera, and the story it’s trying to tell, the album makes more sense. The standout song IMO is Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2. Although an interesting listen, don’t think I’d want to listen to the album again.
Fuck Pink Floyd for making this, fuck the book for including it, and fuck you all for thinking it's great just because you think you should think it's great. It's too long, its disjointed, it's pretentious, it has no vibe, even the hits aren't as good as I thought they were. From what I've heard, Rock Opera = overly converluted, hard to listen to, stupidly long album that I bunch of 50 and 60 year olds think is amazing because it blew their minds when they were teenagers.
very long.
One of the most overrated albums of all time. This one particularly annoys me as it totally blew apart the run they were on, with the three preceding it being three of the best album of all time. Waters' rock opera nonsense killed what was amazing about the band. Gilmour saved it a bit with Division Bell, but other than that this album marks the death of Pink Floyd. Few good songs that save it, but so much dross it's unreal.
I realize that this is considered a classic album, it doesn’t do it for me. The musicality was a strong, but the overall repetitive drabness really pulls it down for me. Lots of experimental moments (maybe too many?!?) High 2. note: I understand the drabness and melancholy are the point of the album, and they do it well. Point taken. Not good enough for a re-listen for me.
Maybe I'm weary with this being the third double or triple album in three days, but I wasn't expecting this to be such a slog to get through. Perhaps it requires an elaborate theatrical stage show to make it engaging? The concept of the album is a rock singer feeling isolated and abandoned, but it a requires an active listen to discern. It did all seem a bit self indulgent, too. Boo hoo, poor rock singer. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2 Date listened: 07/11/23
A work of genius I don't want to ever listen to again
I just don't get it, man, low tier brit stoner rock. Something that if appreciated in the context of its time is an impressive feat, but is not enjoyable now. Hoping dark side of the moon is better.
Un espectacular disco conceptual que redefinió la forma de componer piezas psicodélicas sólidas como un ladrillo (que fue agregado a una gran muralla). Aún así, y tras escuchar diferentes trabajos de la lista, cabe apuntar que este LP si envejeció, encerrándose bastante en la aliteración y la prolongación de solos de guitarra, los cuales pueden escucharse un poco "aburridos".
This is an awesome concept album and reading about its background was also very interesting. Still, I’m treating this project how I SUBJECTIVELY enjoy the music (vs. an objective rating on the quality of the album…). From that lens, I didn't quite enjoy this album, but I'm also not a huge fan of psych. rock. I hope no one takes offence by this low rating, but it might also more accurately reflect how these albums score in contemporary times, an interesting comparison in and of itself. (Possibly I would have enjoyed this type of music more had I been alive back then.) I love the easter egg how there's a subtle sentence at the end of the album that loops back to the first track: "Isn't this where we came in" A bit haunting even, reminded me of Danielewski's 'House of Leaves'.
DNF. officially coming out as a britphobe
Bloated
I really enjoy Dark Side of the Moon and Animals. This album is overblown, too long, and boring. I couldn't finish it. Some of the songs are good, but the whole thing is too long
Mixed bag, some good songs some bad
Let me just say that this is an iconic album and its influence cannot be overstated blabla. Having said that, I absolutely hate it. Anything that follows is a strictly personal flow of negative thoughts and emotions this thing has awaken in me. First, Roger Waters is a horrible human being - a genocide-denying piece of shit. Fuck you, Roger. Second, his singing is ridiculous. It sometimes even gets hilarious - when he yells and cries he sounds like an angry old man (which he has become in the end). It's particularly strong on these slower acoustic songs. It completely destroys the vibe and makes me laugh and I can't focus on the MEANING. Third, the story is not that great as everyone seems to believe. It reeks of graphomania. Something an angsty teenager might have thought to himself under a shower and thought he's the only one in the world to have ever thought that. Fits Roger's persona perfectly though, so there is consistency. Fourth, it's so damn long and most of the songs do not really add that much. Lastly - I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed the music (when Roger was not there). David Gilmour is a god among guitar players, Wright and Mason add amazing value to the musical layers on the album. Based on that - I cannot give it a 1, that would be crazy. 2 it is then (f you Roger)
This one is confusing, I felt like I almost liked it several times but never actually liked it. Also, sounds nothing like The Dark Side Of The Moon, the wall is real
idk it was just too long and had too many songs that werent really music
I just don’t really dig this band. 2/5
I hate the low volume talks befor and after the song
not for me
One of my least favourite Floyd albums - I'd rather listen to pretty much anything else from Atom Heart Mother to The Final Cut. Other people love it.
Probably sounded better from a beanbag in 1979
Held up by one song. Too long and filled with shite
Probably my least favourite Pink Floyd album. Aesthetically it feels like a musical. A few catchy tunes here and there, but too long for what the content is.
everyone knows it already. it's boredom in a nutshell. 2 stars because objectively, it isn't bad music
A double album of OTT pretentiousness. And I thought Dark Side.. was eye rollingly self indulgent
Too slow for me.
Really fucking annoying; way too funky; a few cool lines; too too long
I went into this album wanting to hate it. By the end of the nearly hour and a half running time I still hated it. Was Another Brick In The Wall ghost-written by The Bee Gees because it's a disco song. Young Lust sounds like The Eagles. Like the other Pink Floyd records this one has druggy vocals and squealing guitars. It's a concept album with a lame concept but it does have some tolerable parts so I can't give this a total failing grade in good faith. We'll put this in the two-star pile next to Dark Side of the Moon and the Terence Trent D'Arby album.
wow! this band is sleepy and kinda boring? i thought this was supposed to be a classic… its overly long, bland, try hard. maybe at the time it was neat or new or advanced or smart, now? vapid and overlong. symphonics at points that swill into the repeated refrains of this album. yeah, we get it, its a concept album, so thoughtful! i wish this was better, but maybe pink floyd is just a tepid, shit band parading in “progressive” and “artistic” shades. i dont know. its bad.
As a massive Floyd fan, I actually don't like this album much. Yes, there are some cracking tracks on this, but the whole thing is a bit too... Well, much. 26 tracks of self-referential rock opera? Sure. Why not. Once. Otherwise, give me the singles.
Definitely my least favourite album by Pink Floyd. I think it's fair to call myself a PF fan, but "The Wall" is the only exception (plus maybe that newest record, which is very lukewarm). The album is very inflated, pompous and incredibly self-conscious to the point it feels very ingenious. Another big issue I have with this album is that I really don't like Roger Waters' vocal, or essentially his style of composing. I think he shouldn't ever start singing, especially if he has Gilmour and Wright doing such a great job already. Usually I try to separate the art from the artist, but it doesn't help that Waters is such a bellend in his private life. Some saving grace - bit of a cliche now, but I really like "Comfortably Numb", plus some of the bridging sounds and tracks are really interesting (although, maybe on purpose, taken from "Echoes"?). So a summary - this album is a condensed version of everything I don't like about Pink Floyd, fortunately the rest of their discography is much, much better.
One of the most overrated records ever. I don't like the general vibe of the album, but most of the instrumentation is well crafted. The main problems, it's way too long and the singing is awful at times. Favorite song: is there anybody out there
I just don’t get it. I understand it was a movie or something but even then none of the music is good.
love some songs, hate some songs - alb overall is too theatrical for my liking…hey you and nobody home sounds like a jack skeleton ballad - i like comfortably numb, the show just go on and in the flesh - another one id give a 2.5 if i could
I was hoping to give this 1 star just to spite the millions of 45 year old guys on reddit who call hip hop ‘mumble crap’ and have vitriolic opinions on the star wars sequels, and proselytise this album wherever possible - buuut it wasn’t that bad. It also wasn’t ‘that’ good.
Ok so here we are, about as far as we could get from the Barrett-era Floyd that I like. I was fair to Dark Side, I think that got a 4, surprisingly. So I'll be fair as I can to this. Don't think I ever got through the whole record before. By Don't Leave Me Now I was very close to turning it off again. Are the people that like this the same people who can't stand musicals? Because I don't understand that. The whole section of the album from One of My Turns up to Comfortably Numb, is the bit in the musical towards the end where the main character sits alone and has an introspective little sing to themselves. Why is In the Flesh on twice, this album is long enough, and this song is sub-Ziggy Stardust shit. I guess the point is the new racist etc lyrics to get across the character is now a fascist. So I get that this is a rock opera, which explains a lot of the decisions, and I AM glad that I listened to it. I guess I can understand why some revere it. But I don't understand why you would listen to it repeatedly. I don't go to musicals I have enjoyed again and again, so the same applies here. And the songs aren't that good, largely, which is kind of a big deal. There are definitely good bits sprinkled throughout it, but it's overlong. Songs enjoyed: Goodbye Blue Sky, Nobody Home, Comfortably Numb. That's it I think.
In The Flesh? - ★★★★☆ The Thin Ice - ★☆☆☆☆ Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 1 - ★★☆☆☆ The Happiest Days Of Our Lives - ★☆☆☆☆ Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2 - ★★★★★ Mother - ★☆☆☆☆ Goodbye Blue Sky - ★★★☆☆ Empty Spaces - ★☆☆☆☆ Young Lust - ★★★★★ One Of My Turns - ★☆☆☆☆ Don't Leave Me Now - ★☆☆☆☆ Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 3 - ★★★☆☆ Goodbye Cruel World - ★☆☆☆☆ Hey You - ★★★★★ Is There Anybody Out There? - ★☆☆☆☆ Nobody Home - ★★☆☆☆ Vera - ★☆☆☆☆ Bring The Boys Back Home - ★☆☆☆☆ Comfortably Numb - ★★★★★ The Show Must Go On - ★★★☆☆ In The Flesh - ★★★☆☆ Run Like Hell - ★★★☆☆ Waiting For The Worms - ★★★★☆ Stop - ★★☆☆☆ The Trial - ★☆☆☆☆ Outside The Wall - ★☆☆☆☆
I've tried with this album, I really have. Many times over the years. But it's got three good songs, one of them played 3 times, and a lot of self indulgent meanderings.
dull dull ldull
5/10
Known Artist! Not for me! 2/5
The daddiest dad rock of them all. Just don't get pink Floyd, they sound like dire straits but with less interesting guitar parts and the bass is too high. My parents didn't listen to them so don't have any nostalgia for them. Like a concept album though, so probably have pink Floyd to partly thank for that (though mostly The Who). Never listened to dark side of the moon so maybe it will all click when that comes up.
I do like a concept album, but I struggled to get into this one. Sure, there are the famous songs, but the rest of it was a bit on the quiet side, and it dragged. Not for me, I'm afraid.
Aside from the Syd Barrett era I've never got Pink Floyd, but OPEN MIND! Sadly I found The Wall to be long, tedious and annoying. Comfortably Numb remains a cracker though.
I’m sure many people love it, but I felt like I forced myself through basically all of Volume 2
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Pink Floyd. But, my god, is this album bad. Cringeworthy showtunes, the same riff from Another Brick in the Wall repeated for over an hour. There’s a handful of really great songs & the album starts really strong. But then it spoils itself. It’s such a great concept & if I was just hearing the songs as a live theatre show, it would be incredible. But it doesn’t hold up as an album in it’s own right. I want to like this album so badly but I can’t even force myself.
“All in all” a bit overwrought and undeserving of its great album status. Not even one of Pink Floyd’s best.
A rather boring album, not a big fan of rock operas from the 70s. Bigger fan of their other 70s rock contemporary’s. This is probably one of those albums you have to hear around the time to really enjoy it
Not sure what it is but never taken to the band. Overly long. All in all ..............
Builds up some grand, anthemic feeling across 80 minutes of runtime, but for what? The thematic impact is nil when most of the tracks are formless, amorphous blobs of dates 80s synths and none of the awesome guitar work this band displayed on ‘Dark Side.’
Det dåliga pink floyd albumet
Not much of a Pink Floyd person.
i swear to god i cannot abide david gilmour's guitar playing for more than one song at a time. i desperately want to like pink floyd but they are just not my speed. the wall is the album equivalent of that person who is like "i'm really in to classical music" but it turns out what they're really in to is movie sound tracks lmao. i realize this is an elitist thing to say.
Surely one of the most over rate albums ever
This isn't an album, it's a fucking ordeal.
Supongo que con justa razón es un disco histórico, pero nunca pude enganchar con ellos. Este disco doble me aburre, aunque hay un par de canciones que reconozco, no es algo que buscaría activamente.
I’m sure it’s great. Just not my bag.
If it were the movie, probably a 4, but as a soundtrack there's a lot of random filler going on
This album is like the Mona Lisa: maybe it's an incredible technical and artistic masterpiece, but it's also a little too ugly for me to want to hang in my living room.
There hasn't been an album I wanted to like a lot more than I actually did. I'll give it another shot one day but this was a days long trudge for me.
Меня не привлекает звучание рока 60-х
This didn't really do it for me
Some great songs. Some very unneeded songs. It went on for far too long. I get the jist of concept albums - but you scan get a concept album done in 9 songs. Not 22 odd. Having said that, Comfortably Numb is still a killer tune.
This is kinda...crap, no?
Brick ShitHouse
Horribly uneven. Severely disappointed.
This is not my favorite PF album. Listening to it reminds me of that fact. It's pretentious. It lacks the connectedness of Dark Side. Some songs (One of My Turns) feels entirely out of place.
Bleurgh. May have been amazing back when it came out. But not for me.
Way overrated
Favourite songs- Comfortably Numb, Young Lust, The Happiest Days of Our Lives. One of my least favourite Pink Floyd records. It's amazing conceptually, but the songwriting isn't good enough to warrant its length. There's about 1 LP's worth of great material in here, but it's just way too bloated, and not good enough. Plus, the absence of David Gilmour is a bit startling- a lot of people hail The Final Cut as the first Roger Waters solo record, but I think it starts here. Lots of great tunes, but not that good, the awesome lyrics aren't enough to make up for the 'meh' songwriting, and a pretty overrated album.
Rock-operas are not my cup of tea. Despite this album's iconic status in music history, I do not care very much for it. If a track has amazingly epic instrumentals, the vocals are underplayed. If a track has amazing vocals, I find the instrumentals boring. As for the highlights, I like the songs that most people know who never listened to the album in full. Having listened to around 70 percent, I find the whole experience to have been tedious and the record a tad too pretentious. 2/5 is fair.
This is far too long. Prog rock is not really my thing and a double album is more than I can handle. I also find the sketches and parts where it becomes like a musical incredibly cringey. The musicianship saves this a star and there are a few stone-cold classic tracks. But I would never listen to this in one sitting ever again.
Joskus aikanaan lainasin tämän klassikkolevyn Heinolan kirjastosta ja ihmettelin, että mikä näistä Another Brick in the Walleista on nyt se The biisi ja miksi siitä on monta versiota. Eipä se oikein vieläkään selvinnyt. Ja miksi The Happiest Days of Our Lives on erotettu Another Brick part 2:sta? Oli levyllä muitakin hyviä biisejä, kuten Comfortably Numb, mutta kaiken kaikkiaan levy oli ylipitkä ja jotain olisi varmasti voinut jättää poiskin, tulee Beatlesien levyt mieleen. Osittain mielenosoituksellinen kakkonen klassikolle, mutta en minä tästä voi sanoa nauttineeni.
too long
Look ok I get that somehow Pink Floyd are legendary, and Another Brick in the Wall is a great tune. They've been the soundtrack to my stoner parties too just as much as the next student, but this really is not my cup of tea. Wandering unfocused guitar wank, nobody cares. 26 bloody tracks too. and then some musical / rock opera nonsense near the end.
Comfortably Numb is a masterpiece. I got a little lost with the rest of it. Never really understood PF.
Bit dull. Technically good. Samples which don't add anything.
Ei mun pala kakkua
Ikinä en oo ymmärtänyt Pink Floydin ”nerokkuutta”, 80 minuutista 20 ihan asiallista ja llput aivan turhaa ja ylimäärästä kamoissa(?) kyhäiltyä härväämistä
Didn't like this at all. Not a single track.
Two and half hours of pretentious music is unacceptable. The only song that was worth bopping for me was Another Brick in the Wall. No more of this please!!!
I went into The Wall hoping it might finally be the Pink Floyd album that I like and it wasnt!! After my previous Floyd review, where I described them as “wanky middle-class pop music,” I already knew they probably weren’t a band for me, and The Wall only reinforced that feeling. I just don’t get Pink Floyd. This album felt like everything I struggle with in their music — overblown, overly experimental and far too pleased with its own cleverness. At over 80 minutes, The Wall is simply far too long for what it offers. There are moments where you can hear the quality and ambition, but so much of it feels like self-indulgent nonsense. Tracks like “Is There Anybody Out There?” left me completely cold, and there were long stretches where I was just waiting for something to grab me. I think what this challenge has taught me is that experimental concept albums just aren’t really my thing. Give me a brilliant 30-minute rock and roll masterpiece over an 80-minute conceptual odyssey any day. I like strong songs, hooks and storytelling, and Pink Floyd’s style rarely gives me that in a way I connect with. At this point, apart from Comfortably Numb, I could happily go the rest of my life without listening to Pink Floyd again. Favourite tracks: “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” Least favourite tracks: Large parts of the album blended into one long, dull experience, especially the more experimental sections Album artwork: Classic album cover, simple but very effective
Thought it was rubbish when it came out. Haven’t changed my mind. Dark Side of the Moon it ain’t & the racist lyrics nowadays go way beyond satire. Even Comfortably Numb can’t save it from a single star.
A big boring album
pink floyd's other albums are better this one is shitty
A couple of good tracks but really not for me
I found this album difficult to listen to. PF are fab to some people but not to me. Boring. Lengthy songs. I found it a chore to listen to. Just not my thing.
Bit boring
залупа 1/10
boring
English public schoolboy fourth-form poetry backed by overblown, pretentious proggy music...UGH, NO! I hate this record with every muscle, sinew, anterior cruciate ligament, artery and vital organ in my body. More bloated than an anaconda's stomach after swallowing an entire horse in one gulp. Contains more shit than a constipated elephant. Pink Floyd are an insufferable, pompous group of arses.
It's one thing to not enjoy a 26 track double album but I also just couldn't connect with any of the story and found it extremely obnoxious, I think it is a legitimate 1* for me (maybe a high one because it didn't make my ears bleed but it's just too long and too rubbish)
It’s just another brick up my ass
The worst thing they ever did
Some great music obviously but fuck Roger Waters
I can't believe how boring this was
half
1. flezh - 1 2. ice - 1.5 3. uuall - 2 4. Brick - 3 5. Mother - 1 6. Sky -1.5 7. Spaces - 0 8. Lust - 1.5 9. Turns - 1 10.leave - 1 11. Wall -1 12. World - 0
this is you know. it's interesting i suppose! just not really my style
Self indulgent clap-trap
Terrible album
Nope, this one didnt change my opinion about pink floyd.
Outside of Another Brick in the Wall, I cannot stand this band. Waters a bit too egotistical for me. Only tolerate this when I was smoking.
so bad ???????
Gross
It might be heartfelt and coming from genuine emotions, but still this really is a load of overproduced, pretentious wank, and I continue to find Gilmour's voice reedy and annoying. Some songs, like Vera and Bring the Boys Back Home are impressionistic, rather than explicit songs. Without the "plot" section on Wikipedia to explain their presence, I would find them even more confusing to understand than I do. What is also interesting is seeing how many people Gilmour "fell out with" during the production of this album according to Wikipedia. It makes me think that he might be the common factor after all. The instrumental closing on Comfortably Numb is the first part of the album I enjoyed even a bit, and then Run Like Hell suddenly had a really 80's poppy sound, not expecting that at all. Bring back Barrett.
Oversized overblown and over rated Very self indulgent and full of itself, typical prog rock
Even the presence of the only Pink Floyd song I like being on this album couldn’t save it. Absolute tripe.
This did absolutely nothing for me. Complete w*nk when compared to DSotM.
I convinced myself this was great as a teenager, but now I find it tedious. This wall needs to come crashing down.
Pink Floyd sucks. This album does nothing to change that strongly held opinion of mine.
Eh... not for me. Too long, didn't hold my attention. Did not finish.
Not interested in sitting through nearly an hour and a half of this directionally-and-sonically confused drivel. Reminds me of the shit your lame uncle would put on while reeking of bad weed, insistent that being intoxicated was key to appreciating it. No doubt he was correct. Give up the fucking divorced organ anthems and the phaser on the vocals already. The most grating part about this is that one can tell everything on the record was intentional and not just an awful novice musician's mistake. Production is interesting, so it gets a star.
Sucks
No absolutely no
Can't stand this
Not another Pink Floyd album... *eye roll*
I've always disliked Another Brick in the Wall pt 2 bc I hate kids choirs in songs it always sounds so terrible. This is so boring I really am not enjoying this....still have the disc 2 to go....and I was pretty excited about this one to bc I have never taken the time to listen to their discography... The Trial was cool, probably would've been better if I listened to lyrics, but alas I am not a lyric person.
Bloated - this really dragged. Far too 'rockist' for me. Maybe it makes more sense in the context of the film, but I didn't really follow the thread of this.
Not for me.
I’ve seen the film, heard the single ‘another brick in the wall’. It’s not my cup of tea.
I will only listen to this if I have absolutely nothing else to do, 1/5. Deadly long and drawn out.
A difficult thing for me to reconcile has been how so much of the music from the late 70s and 80s that I love was a response to the prog and hard rock from a few years earlier that I also love, but relistening to this bloviating mess has been shockingly helpful.
Disco-era depression. Terrible melodramatic schlock.
Weird honestly
Never been the biggest pink Floyd fan from what I've heard. The intro was pretty fun. I think this kind of music just isn't me. I know it's gonna have a hard time trying to keep my attention for how long this is. Just finished mother. So far the intro is my favorite. Mother is my least favorite, it wasn't all that good. Finished young lust. Didn't care for it. I don't think I care for this guys voice either. Empty spaces was fun though. A lot of filler. This could be way shorter. It's just not my kind of music. Some songs I enjoyed but I probably won't come back to.
Fell asleep. what a boring album. Never was a fan of PF anyway.
meh
Nicht meine Band
The wall verarbeitet die Person Pink(toter Vater durch Krieg, Probleme aller sozialen Coleur)...another brick in the wall pt2 verarbeitet sein Schulttrauma mit Lehrern..
Boring and long and pretentious, not my jam.
Mmmmmmmm
Meh 2/10
*couldn’t listen as a I didn’t have time so listened to a sourceful of secrets*
listen to a different pink floyd album or just listen to the popular singles from this one. pink floyd's previous 3 albums ("dark side of the moon", "wish you were here", and "animals") might be the best 3 album run in music. it's not a 4 album run because this album is very boring. it's a cool concept album, and that part is fun to talk about, but there are 3 songs that are any good on it ("another brick in the wall pt. 2", "hey you", and "comfortably numb". also "the trial" in my opinion, i wish the rest of concept was as cool as that one...). the rest isn't very interesting unfortunately.
bloated
I hate this so much. It's too miserable to enjoy at all. And don't ever make me sit through the film again!
it’s not even terrible, it’s not that interesting
Overlong, bloated, boring and just utterly devoid of approachability. The single most overacted artists in the history of any art form. Not quite the most overrated abli, that will come. Contains musical sleeping tablets in Comfortably Numb. This would be a zero if it could be. Listening feels like putting pins in my eyes.
Shit.
painful.
okay.
I don't understand this album, there is a multi-part song called Another Brick in the Wall, which I recognize bits of. It's also all over the place tonally. I get the sense there's a lot of meaning behind some of these songs, particularly some lesser known parts of their catalogue. Without knowing the context or meaning behind some of these songs, I feel like I might be missing a layer.
One of those "change the station" artists for me. Don't get the appeal, can't fucking stand them.
No
pompous tosh
1.5
I really hate this. Why is it so long? Cleary they're capable musicians but the songwriting is stretched seriously thin. I don't hear what everyone else hears
I really don't understand why this is so highly rated. The songs are so bland and poorly written, comparing the quality of songwriting to Echoes or DSOTM is a joke. It's all just two or three shitty chords under a dull melody, it almost sounds like a copycat pink floyd band of some untalented teenagers. And it just drags on and on with the songs all sounding pretty much the same. I wanted to give this a fair chance, but I just can't make it through all 80 minutes. It's a shame, I do enjoy earlier pink floyd a lot
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Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic groups, they were distinguished for their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate live shows, and became a leading band of the progressive rock genre. The Waters-written musical film based on The Wall album, Pink Floyd – The Wall, won two BAFTA Awards. Pink Floyd were founded by students Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright
I have lisent before. Great album.
Good