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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
I could not bear listening to more than half of this. It is not for me, feels pretty bland and whiny.
Nope.
Utter shite. Music for people who like Christopher Nolan.
Utter trash
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