The Wall

Bold album it could have fallen off a cliff but it was underepinned by a band in a creative prime

Daleko od najboljih floyda ali mu se ne može poreć storytelling i ambicija

Liked a lot of the guitar solos!

4/5 Stars Top Songs: Comfortably Numb, The Happiest Days of Our Lives and The Thin Ice

Childhood memories

This album has been somewhat my nemesis over the past several years. I love Pink Floyd, from Meddle to Animals but when I got to this album, I've always hit... well... a wall! I think I may have made a breakthrough though as I've found myself enjoying it probably for the first time. I still don't think it's the masterpiece that some claim. Reading up on some reviews, I found this from a user review which very much sums up where I am with it... I have seen The Wall described as Floyd's greatest album, as "a masterpiece", and any other number of superlatives. I have also seen it described as "bloated" and "too long" and "self indulgent" and "boring". I guess I'm somewhat in the middle. I do think it's probably a bit too long, and I could probably pare it down some. That would mess up some of the story, but frankly, while I acknowledge Waters' story is fascinating and well-told, music matters more than lyrics to me and I'm not inclined to sit through music that doesn't excite me just because the lyrics are great. For me, the high points of The Wall are where the music shines - the big In The Flesh riff, the Another Brick riff that repeats like five or six times throughout the album, the gorgeous vocal harmonies of Goodbye Blue Sky, everything about Hey You, everything about Comfortably Numb, the euphoric guitar riffs of Run Like Hell, etc. So some fantastically high songs and a great concept but if we're talking on a pure musical level, there's too many tracks here that don't add enough value unless you are following the story. I will return to this, not soon, it's not the type of album you're gonna throw on all that often and when I do so, it will at least be from a positive place.

The wall is so funny conceptually. I like how it compares the anxieties of childhood in a boarding school of a fascist nation to the isolation of stardom. It’s my 3rd fav Pink Floyd album fs fs

I had to listen to this a second time through with the Wikipedia plot page open to feel like I properly understood the through line of the album - the first time I listened I had it on in the background and eventually realised I was missing context for the album. There are some incredible songs on here and also a fair bit of filler, which I guess will happen with something this long, as well as with something trying to tell a story. Overall I really enjoyed what it was trying to do, and thought it was well executed - if a bit long.

This album is a trap. Many young music listeners such as I were introduced to The Wall at a young age, and without much other musical experience, we falsely believe The Wall is the greatest piece of music ever created. We obsess over it and get into arguments to defend the honor of a record that does not need its status defended. Finding this record too soon in one's life can be disastrous for your musical journey. Fortunately, I was able to escape The Wall, and I've heard so much more great music that can stand alongside the wall. After years away from my obsession, I can appreciate the greatness of the album while still recognizing it's sore spots, namely the second disk. Yes, it has Comfortably Numb, the In The Flesh reprisal, and The Trial, but many other tracks just feel so insignificant. The pace of the record as a whole drags in the middle, and while it does eventually pick up again, it's still not perfect. Still, though, disk 1 is nearly flawless. The run from In The Flesh? to Mother is jaw dropping to this day, and later tunes like Young Lust and One Of My Turns keep the good times rolling. None of this even mentions the concept and plot of the album, AKA the biggest reason young tweakers like myself find it so immaculate. Some people call it heavy handed, I remind them that they're listening to a rock opera. If you can't handle The Wall, you can't handle that medium in general. I still love this album. I've reached the other end of the bell curve where I know so much music and can still find a place for The Wall. Issues aside, it deserves its status. They can never take Comfortably Numb, Mother, and Part 2 from me. P.S. this album is making me really mad about only having a 5 point scale, it's like a 9/10 for me which is dead between 4 stars and 5 stars.

🗿

Great album. Maybe it is too long and loses its way towards the end. David Gilmour the g.o.a.t. mood establishing guitarist. Roger Waters vocals are some of my favourites of all time.

There was a period in my life where this was my favorite album. This is not that period. Still mostly good though. 4.5

I don’t love rock operas, but if you’re going to listen to/watch a rock opera, this is the definitive one IMO. The story of a baby boomer, born during the blitz, raised up in lower class England, to become a rockstar, hit the pitfalls of stardom, to grow old and die. It’s good but Just a little too long winded. I looked at the album thinking I was almost done, nope, not even halfway through. I understand with the movie the skits and interludes make more sense, but there’s just so much fat on this album. Some great riffs, epic moments, some awesome songs, 4.5 songs ish. But in my mind this album, though held up as the Pink Floyd gem, will just never stand up to the likes of echoes and dark side—which is a more efficient rock opera about the more existential questions. If I was rating rock operas I’d give this a 5, but since I’m grading albums I give it a 4.

I liked it! I don't think I finished it, but I was surprised this is what Pink Floyd sounds like.

•The most seamless and smooth transitions between songs, it ends up being one long musical piece. •Masterpiece with a story, a play on stage. •Introductory song is a trailer of the whole film, a sweet detail. •Clean sound, ethereal feeling. •Amazing words of a long past due warning.

Contenta di aver modo di ascoltare questo album di cui conoscevo solo "another brick in the wall pt.2". Sicuramente album con tanto carattere e importante per la storia del rock ma non rientra negli album che ascolterei in loop.

i mean… i get it. it’s a classic and a conceptual body of work but… it’s not as interesting as i thought it would be

rart album men intresangt

Fav- Young Lust Least fav- Mother HM- Goodbye Blue Sky

Highly conceptual and might need a couple listens to get my full thoughts on it. Currently there’s a lot I like about it, namely when the ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ motif returns in songs sporadically across the album. From the lyrical content of those title tracks separated into parts I gathered that the motif is meant to represent either child abuse or possibly conscription? something about boys (or children in general) being mistreated socially, so when the melody appears it really hooks me back in to an album that’s otherwise quite strangely laid out. Everything from Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 1 - Pt. 3 (including all songs between them) was quite enjoyable. Disc 2 lost me initially with songs like Vera and Bring the Boys back home which felt to me like loose ideas that the band wanted to try but didn’t flesh out, it won me back with songs like Comfortably Numb and Run like Hell, then lost me again with the theatrics at the end, definitely didn’t feel like that fit. High 3

Still not a Pink Floyd fan, but this is probably the most tolerable of their albums.

Going into The Wall, I assumed reputation alone would carry this straight into four- or five-star territory. It’s one of those albums that gets treated like holy scripture, the kind of thing people insist you must experience front to back. And sure — the high points absolutely earn their place in the canon. “Comfortably Numb,” “Hey You,” “Run Like Hell,” and, yeah, “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2” are as good as advertised. When this band locks in, the combination of atmosphere, melody, and sheer emotional weight is undeniable. But living inside the full double album is a different story. The talky interludes, theatrical detours, and narrative filler start to feel less like essential storytelling and more like Roger Waters workshopping his rock opera ambitions in real time. I respect the scope and the craft, but it doesn’t always translate into something I want to sit with. I kept waiting for it to grow on me beyond the big tracks — it never really did. There’s a lot to admire here, but admiration isn’t the same as love. The hits remain untouchable; the rest reminds me why actually listening matters more than buying into reputation. A solid, sometimes brilliant record that ultimately just isn’t my classic.

This album is 1hr 21mins long and I felt every second of it. The album somehow contains my favourite and least favourite Pink Floyd songs. I'm writing this review in the middle of listening to the album to serve as a distraction, God I wish I was listening to Wish you Were here instead.

Yikes, the #1 adolescent angst collection, at least amongst my group of saddos (particularly apposite as Rog was peddling his Berlin wall extravaganza at the time). I know it all backwards despite never actually liking it very much; there are some excellent songs and Gilmour puts in sterling work throughout, but the "poor rockstar" selfish conceit and clumsy musical theater aspects push the quality cumulatively into the negative as the "story" continues. "The Trial" ffs, please.. This ugliness bothered me so much in 1990 that I defaced my borrowed CD copy, scratching "FUCK OFF HIPPY" into the second disc with my compass; if anyone from Watford Central Library is reading this please message me for the replacement costs. I found it increasingly unpleasant again as it unfurled today. The film is perhaps even worse, Geldof's nippleectomy notwithstanding. "Hey You" is spared for "The Squid and the Whale" where it shines (if not quite "Street Hassle") in a saner environment. Highlights of "The Wall" would have made a phenomenal single album, particularly if all the awkward indulgence was scrubbed. I can handle Waters' pretension just fine (love "The Final Cut") but the leap from "boo I don't want to play my concert" to "the audience is literally Nazis" is just ridiculous. And, yes, we all remember Vera Lynn - who gives a shit? Get a grip, people.

im not rating all these songs. unfortunately the album is good. i think pink floyd is what pretentious 40 year old stoners listen to (i say as a pretentious 18 year old stoner) but they do have a lot of value to their work. they, in my perspective, popularized concept albums and really changed the way a lot of people write stories in music. are a lot of these songs boring? yeah. are there some bangers? yeah, not gonna lie. i dont like a lot of pink floyd songs but the ones i do, i adore, so theres some merit to that. where am i going with this? i dunno man.

1001 Albums to Never Hear Again Before You Die Chapter 4 Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”: Roger Waters Hates You…And Probably Himself…But Mostly, He Hates You. At a time when critics and bands alike were proclaiming progressive rock to be bloated and ostentatious, Roger Waters heard those criticisms, said “hold my beer” and delivered what is arguably the most overblown, self-important double LP Rock Opera of the 70’s: The Wall. Spurred by an incident in which Waters spat upon a fan during the band’s tour for 1977’s “Animals” and his admitted desire to have a wall between himself and the audience while preforming, The Wall tells the tale of a power-tripping, drug addled rockstar whose concerts devolve into Fascist Rock and Roll Rallies as a result of unchecked power, substance abuse and untreated mental health issues. Without a doubt, there is a 5 star single LP that could be culled from this 80 minute monument to Roger Waters’ ego. There are absolutely great songs on The Wall: several career highlights for Pink Floyd, in fact. The issue with turning it into a single LP is that if you divorce the actual songs from the interstitial pieces that act as plot forwarding devices / self psycho-analysis, would the album still work as a concept record? Probably not very well. Frankly, this record should stand as it is, because it serves quite well as insight into Roger Waters as the leader of Pink Floyd at the tail end of their career together. Waters, in addition to being disillusioned with the band’s fans, had started to sour on his bandmates, referring to them as “the muffins” and would imply / state outright in the press that he was the visionary behind the band. During the recording of The Wall, he exerted significant control over the process, with the other members of the band taking their cues from him and without much ability to provide significant input. Keyboardist and founding member Richard Wright would be fired from the band during these sessions for a lack of interest (an accusation he does not deny), but would later be re-hired as a touring member for live performances of the album. On the band’s follow up to The Wall, “The Final Cut” (an even more self-absorbed record than its predecessor), remaining members David Gilmour and Nick Mason would act only as studio musicians, fully ceding control of the band and its artistic vision to Waters. The Final Cut was a flop and Waters soon left the band for a solo career. For a guy who seemed to recognize that he was putting up walls around him and becoming an authoritarian within the confines of his band, it doesn’t seem to have changed his perspective when it came to making music with Pink Floyd in The Wall’s aftermath. So, is the story contained within The Wall simply performative, or is the Wall an admission of character on the part of Waters? Given the origins of this story, I’m not sure that the character of “Pink” can be or is supposed to be seen as anything but an avatar for Waters. Sure, his “wall” comes down at the end of this record, but it is followed by a loop back into the album’s first song. We are led to believe that this story is cyclical and the main character will end up back on the same path that he started on. He is stuck in an unending pattern of tearing down walls only to build them back up. Momentarily putting aside the philosophical implications of the content of this album, which are far more interesting than much of its actual music, The Wall is a taxing listen. The interstitial pieces, particularly towards the end, drag the album down. By the time “The Trial” comes on, if you haven’t already checked out, any sympathy you might have had will vanish and you’ll hope that the band (read: Waters) gets locked up for the crime of “not getting to the point”. But, again, why would Waters bother getting to the point or giving the story any sort of closure? The central theme of this album is that he feels the need to keep the audience walled off from himself. Giving the audience closure to the story of The Wall would nullify his creation and give fans access he does not want them to have. Ending the story with an open interpretation / loop back to the start effectively keeps them at bay, because Waters knows that he cannot (and likely does not want to) change.

Look, not even a top 5 pink floyd album for me. I can appreciate what it is trying to do, but lacks the bangers and bops. Cool concept album, but also a whole load of wank.

Not as good as Weird Al’s Poodle Hat 🤞🏻🤞🏻 Shout out to Roger Waters

Aha, you had me briefly fooled, this is the real Floyd I remembered and hated before you tricked me with ‘Wish you were here’ sounding ‘ok’. This is a bunch of self aggrandising toss (as most concept albums generally are) with quite terrible vocals and quite samey dull guitar parts. To be honest, this has somehow lost some of their uniqueness and starts to sound in places like other 70s proggy acts. Only the singles save this from 1*. This sort of thing is of course why punk happened.

Gave up after Disk 1

Loved them right up until this album, tiring

Love Pink Floyd. Do not love this album.

I got this the day after Fleetwood Macs Tusk, so I inwardly sighed at the prospect of another double album from 1979. I'm not much of a Floyd fan anyway but this was much worse than Tusk which apparently was considered commercial suicide at the time, have those people listened to this. It's bloated, self-indulgent and bordering on parody at times. It sounds like a Roger Waters solo project with some nice bass-playing and occasionally fragments of good songs but they are often jettisoned too soon in order to tell the 'story' such as it is.. It really dragged for me and I couldn't wait for it to end. I'm only not going for a one because Comfortably Numb is a good song and Mother was interesting.

I have always liked Pink Floyd and I loved The Wall when it was released in 1979. Back then (when I was 17) I thought it was a very profound piece of work. Listening back 45 years later (and not having played the album for many years) I would now side with the critics who described it as pretentious and self-indulgent. Worse still, the music is not that great, being mainly a pastiche of Pink's notional band; only Comfortably Numb stands comparison with the best of Pink Floyd. The Wall reflects Roger Waters' obsessions and, if like me, you now regard him as a swivel-eyed loon, you would do well to give this a wide berth

Almost listenable, but it is still Pink Floyd at the end of the day

Ouch, a far too pleased with itself duplicate alert…a riot of one star tediousness, where oh where is Piper at The Gates of Dawn or Syd’s solo stuff RGP? Tom.

waste of time

Way too long for such a boring album.

Not a fan. Don't understand why people rate Pink Floyd

Classic

5/5 How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

One of the best albums I've heard, amazing buildup, progression and story telling from start to end. Beginning slow and moody, progressing to bigger crescendos and finishing in an almost rock opera fashion. 9/10

exceptionnel.

incredible

Not perfect, but a phenomenal album that always makes me think. Rating:9/10 Favorite Song: Young Lust/ ABITW PT 1

I LOVE THIS ALBUM SO MUCH!! In the flesh (without the question mark) is the best song on there omg.

Yeah Roger Waters is a pretentious prick, but they hit absolute gold with this creative period, one of the strongest 4 album runs ever finishing with this culmination of their dread, anguish, theatrics and anger. Perfect.

it's the best pink floyd studio album (second overall, to the live version thereof). great performances, very pointed lyrics writing, and excellent arranging. one of the best to ever fill out a double lp.

The first time I got stoned was watching the movie The Wall. Listening to it decades later, it's a concept album to overconceptualise other albums. It was always pretty scary for me and it remains menacing. A strong 5 for all the horrific memories.

An album so good that it inspired a visual accompaniment that is equally artistically viable in its own right. This is a quintessential prog record, pretty exceptionally following the standards of a musical and telling a cohesive, compellingly brilliant if somewhat overwhelmingly maximalist story with incredible musicianship and production choices throughout. I consider it the standard bearer for rock double albums. You get an expansive story with plenty of emotional variance and style- not only were the band experimenting with the form on this record but they were trying their hand with genre exploration fitting of the time of release (i.e. the disco beat on "Run Like Hell.") Every time I listen to it I am impressed by something new- the samples, the diversity in sound, the pacing. It is probably my favorite record from them and has a claim as one of the greatest records of the entire decade.

Classic album. This is one I've enjoyed since I was a kid. I understand it may seem a bit navel-gazing or self-indulgent, but I think it's been done so well that it doesn't matter. Big fan of all the Another Brick in the Wall tracks, plus the whole lead up to Comfortably Numb is one of my favorite atmospheric series of songs on an album.

One of the greatest albums of all time.

100 stars!!!

10/5

Top 3 albums ever don’t lie

I remember listening to The Wall as a kid, but I think the magnitude of this album was lost on me back then. A lot of the songs are familiar though. Now this is a rock opera! This is a pretty fantastic album all the way through. There's drama and darkness that is quite captivating. The music really takes you on a journey. Roger Waters definitely had some demons (and maybe still does, depending if he ever went to therapy or not) but that allowed him to create some amazing works of music like this one.

Great tunes to drive down the trans canada

My first impressions of the album is that it feels so emmersive, I haven't really heard anything like it before with odd sound effects spread throughout the album, my interpretation is that this that it revolves around this physical wall that has been built. listening to the lives of who interact with this wall passing by. While others seem to hate how boring this is album sounds and in someways I do agree with maybe it returns with very similar sounding leitmotifs I think overall it makes it more cohesive. I give the wall a 5/5 for creativity and perspective I do really like the songs that are in it. If I had to critique it it loses points for repetition.

A masterpiece of its genre... George Waters is a true artist on this one. So many creative decisions went into this beyond just the music itself. A true rock opera, maybe the best rock opera that I've listened to thus far in my life... The transition from The Happiest Days of Our Lives into Another Brick in the wall Pt. 2 is *chefs kiss* magnifique. So smooth, so groovy, so mesmerizing, that guitar riff and the childrens choir, so good, so classic. The rest of the album doesn't let up either. Multiple sound clips tying into the story line, but also add flicks of humour into it. Like the random girl screaming at some point with the old british dude yelling SHUT UPP, like hell yeah dude, take charge.. tell that little shit whats what. Anyways, Pink Floyd rocks my world on this one, looking forward to more of their albums, as I am not familiar with any of their albums front to back and have been waiting for them to pop up on the list. So jealous of my mom who got to go see George Waters perform The Wall on tour back in 2012 with his solo production. Side note, I think its comical how people call this album to egotistical or self indulgent. George is exercising his creativity to its fullest extent, pushing himself, in perhaps what is an attempt or successful attempt at a magnum opus. It would be no different from a visual artist attempting a painting that pushes their limits to their extremes, challenging oneself to create something the artist is truly proud of, that utilizes the depths of their skill in all corners. I think George is doing the same thing here, but in a sonic space. Calling it self indulgent or overrated feels similar if we were calling George a tryhard. I get it, people who try hard at certain things in life are kinda cringe, like we gotta know when to chill the fuck out... (Ultimate frisbee players in the lowest div being narks kinda vibe..) But a concept, rock opera album? Thats a good place to try hard and max out your effort... as the kids would say, let him Cook! By all means, George waters god damn cooked us up a feast with this one. 9.5/10 Maybe even a 10/10?

Mother never fails to make me cry 5/5

Amazing classic of the curated rock-opera Floyd era, and Waters in full force writing. Always loved this one great to go through again. Manages to capture so many feelings while having a direct story/message at the same time. True masterpiece

Many people who know me would be surprised to learn I've never listened to this album despite being a stoner who got very into two reggae cover albums of Dark Side of the Moon. But I never branched out into any of this band's other work (though obviously I've heard Another Brick pt. 2 more times than I can count over the years). Album is worth the hype. Sound mixing is incredible, the flow of songs is great, and you just feel fully immersed in the experience throughout. Bit on the long side but some of my favorite albums are even longer and it was never boring.

Just one of those albums that always hits. It's a bit long and parts aren't my favorite but it's a masterclass

A true masterpiece and the perfect rock opera

Literally one of the most legendary albums of all time and still somehow underrated.

Free album and lyrics, thx!

One of the absolute best

Insane beautiful dystopia. so much meaning. the peaks are insane. dont leave me now might be one of the greatest drops in music.

One of the best concept albums of all time

The Wall isn't one of Floyd's best albums but it's close. Long and sprawling but never boring. It's one of those albums you just have to listen to once in awhile because it's so good.

Isnt this where... we came in??

Jesus... how funny, I hope Dad is listening to this with me. ❤️ Got to listen with Mom, so im very grateful. I will always think this a fantastic album.

О! Харош. Якраз хотів щось їхнє послухати. Я їх раніше не любив, але зараз після захоплення прогом і Blood Incantation мало би зайти. Альбом на 1г 20хв, це напряг. Але слухаю і подобається, мабуть я вже достатньо постарів, щоб його сприймати.

There are two types of reviews out here for The Wall: Those that are 5-stars, and those that are wrong. The Wall is arguably the greatest concept album of all time. Great story, amazing how the tracks all come together, amazing performances throughout. Some of the most recognizable rock songs of the 70s. Roger Waters and the boys at their absolute finest. And if that isn't all enough, Comfortably Numb is one of the great songs of all time. 5-stars, if ever there was one.

Although I’ve always been a big Pink Floyd fan I was never sure about this album. The snippets I heard when it was released never convinced me to buy the album. This included the big hit single from the album Another Brick In the Wall which I always thought was so unlike Pink Floyd and a bit twee. So years passed without purchasing the album and was content to hear and collect Dave Gilmours live albums which contained many Wall tracks. It was therefore only in recent history that when commencing a journey back from the Lake District to home and deciding what to play on the drive, I listened to the album from start to finish. I still remember that journey largely because the full delights of the album revealed itself to me. I then quickly purchased the album on vinyl and CD and then made up for the missed years this album was not in my life. Despite this revelation it will never be my favourite Floyd album as I do think it goes on a bit too long. Apart from Run Like Hell I often think the whole of side 4 could be dispensed with. That would have meant that the album would have ended with the magnificent Comfortably Numb. What an ending that would have been culminating in one of the best guitar solos ever. That track alone gives this album and easy 5 stars. 5/5 24/6/26

a true classic

Some of my favs in there

Not enough stars in the sky for this one

I associate Pink Floyd with a certain contingent of high school friends, then a certain smaller contingent of early-twenties friends. I associate Pink Floyd with taking drugs, tripping out, and they happen to be the first big stadium show I ever went to. But by my late twenties, certainly by my thirties, they had been thoroughly relegated to the childish things I’d put away forever. Then 1001 Albums comes along and it’s providing some surprising Pink Floyd revelations. Not only is the music itself complex and textured, but a lot of its style flavours many other artist I’ve loved over the years. As a relatively sober 51 year old man, entering my decade of reflection, the lyrics are resonating in a way far more meaningful than they did when I was a teen. What used to seem very opaque is now downright accessible. I’ve been giving Pink Floyd good grades all along the line, and revisiting The Wall was been sweet. I could sing along every single word, but I never really recognized how gutting and tragic it all is, and arguably more relevant now than ever before.

9 - all timer but not a top Floyd album

More than an album...an experience

Masterpiece! One of my favorite albums. I love it. Pink Floyd forever!

You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat! This is The Wall. What can I say, 5 stars of course

The Wall may be the last great concept album. It was the end of band and era. Perfect album.

Classic Pink Floyd prod rock at its best.

every pink floyd album is gonna be a 5 on here sorry

If you strip away the spectacle of the Wall live shows performed by Pink Floyd or later by Roger Waters, take away the freaky visuals of the movie, this all began live as a piece of musical work. This is certainly Pink Floyd's magnum opus. A long double album concept. You've heard Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 a hundred or a thousand times on your local classic rock station and it feels a little overdone at this point. But if you take the time to listen to this album cover to cover, it is still a powerful message of isolation and grief. Even if it's told through the eyes of a mostly unpleasant Roger Waters, the story still has emotional weight. The strongest part of this album is the music, it's a rock opera that makes effective use of the musical motifs, introducing and calling back to them several times. Most notably is In the Flesh? opening the album and then reprising on the expanded In The Flesh on side 4. At 80 minutes, it is a long album to experience, but I think it is worth it. This album is still undeniably a classic.

Love this album. An emotional album.

WOW Emotionally exhausting

Masterpiece however it’s a heavy listen

Finally some Floyd! Probably the most famous narrative focused album of all time and for good reason, it absolutely rocks, that said, it’s not an all-the-time kind of album because of its length and a fair few songs aren’t bangers due to being more narrative focused, that won’t knock its score though, this album is incredible, and its far from my favourite album of theirs, which just goes to show how strong Floyd is, especially 70’s Floyd, debatably the greatest band of all time? Standouts are Brick pt2, young lust, comfortably numb (obviously) and run like hell.

On the rare occasions that my reviews aren't the most banal and basic opinions and analysis, they consist almost entirely of cynical misinformation that oftentimes borders on criminality. Here I sit, faced with an album of staggering genius and I shall respect if by remaining silent.

это прям то, что надо перед экзаменом слушать успокаивает

It’s behind Dark Side and Wish You Were Here for me. And hell, I’m a Final Cut fan. But The Wall is so good.

So perfect

Magnificent. Absolutely a work of art with seemingly unparalleled musical arrangements, vocals & creatively.

One of the best albums made

I went to Roger Water's Wall tour in the 00's and got so high that I slept through the vast majority of the show. I can only remember the plane crash, the breaking of the wall on Comfortably Numb and that's about it. My biggest concert regret ever, I'll never be able to relieve that, learned a hard lesson with that, never mix greens and alcohol. Oh, this album is perfect, timeless and dated at the same time, they'll never be anything quite like this ever again.

I will always love this record! It's my favourite from Pink Floyd. I agree that its runtime is a bit too long, but the songs are perfect, and this album as a whole is perfect. I like Dark Side Of The Moon as well, but The Wall is the first album I listened in full from Pink Floyd, so it has a very special place in my heart. Also, as a guitar player, this record has some of the most memorable guitar moments in the history of rock. Anyway, this is a 5, and also fuck Roger Waters.

álbum perfeituxo com uma crítica ótima e um storytelling maravilhoso

im actually so glad i revisited this i was a hater of the spoken word bits before but now ive listened again they’ve really grown on me. pink floyd my loves

It's been a very long time since I gave this entire album a front-to-back listen, and my god, does it ever hold up. This is rock theater drugs madness mania (complimentary).

Is it a sign of maturity to think that Pink deserved everything bad that happened to him? At least the album seems to call him out on his bullshit by the end.

Really excited for this one. Dark side of the moon is top 5 OAT for me and I’ve heard people say this one is just as good. In the flesh is a really nice opener. You can feel the build up which I like alot. Really cool organ. Rest of it isn’t anything special. Good songwriting too. I love the fade from flesh to thin ice. Idk if Floyd started that trend, but they definitely perfected it. Guitar/production I like more on this one. More lyrical substance in flesh. And then the fade into another brick🔥🔥. What a guitar holy shit. Lyrics too. What a song. My only complaint is I wish there was more to it. Awesome bass on happiest days. This is a good bridge song. Nothing more than that. I’ve heard pt 2 before. Absolute banger. Never knew it was Pink Floyd, pretty significantly different from anything else I’ve heard from them. Guitar bass drums and lyrics are so so so good on this song. Sweet solo too obviously. Mother was never going to live up to part 2, but it is ok. I think it’s just a little too slow too start after such a fun/upbeat song. I do like the acoustic sound tho. Good lyrics and vocals too. Really good production on bluesky. Good lyrics/vocals too just not enough of them. Empty spaces is a very cool bridge song. Right into young lust which is just another banger. It’s got the good elements of dark side but with a pretty different sound overall. That’s impressive. Awesome guitar again on this one. Works so well with the keys in the solo. Don’t leave me now and one of my turns are good not great. Pretty forgettable but all the good elements of a fun rock song. Part 3 is the worst of the 3 but I still want more. Not much going on with goodbye, but I like that as the closing song to disc 1. Really good writing on hey you. Interesting guitar. Anybody out there is super peaceful. Needed this right here. Greta production. Nobody home 🔥🔥. Incredible production again. What a change of pace from any other Floyd song I’ve heard. Vera is fine. I like the fade into it, and again it’s incredible production. Bring the boys back home is super interesting. Not sure what to think of this one. Cool bridge I guess. Comfortably numb is another all time banger. This one is all abt the vocals. This one is the closest to a dark side song so far. What a song end to end. Show must go on is another cool bridge song, great fade into in the flesh. This one is really good too. Some goofy lyrics but awesome drums and harmonies. Run like Hell is another all time classic wow. Great guitar all the way through. Waiting for the worms is just ok. Let down after run like hell. Until the electric guitar hits at 1:30. Then it’s awesome again. The trial is very showtunesy. I can respect the change of pace but this is not my style. End is pretty cool tho I like the chanting. Outside the wall works really well as the closer. Really calming outro. Feels like it came full circle. What an album. What a band. I will listen to all 73 minutes again and really soon. Please listen. Now. 4.7/5 stars.

What can I say - solid 5 stars from me. One of the best albums of all time in my opinion.

"Isn't this where we came in?"

Блин а там же еще кино есть, да? Я не смотрел, может позже... Заглавная песня заезжена невероятно, поэтому трудно ее воспринимать нормально, однако ее популярность абсолютно заслужена. В целом, с одной стороны, это сложное, продуманное, концептуальное произведение, а с другой, именно по вайбам, мне Darkside Of The Moon всегда нравился больше

Another classic. Really enjoyed it again today.

The fourth Pink Floyd I've had so far, and it's the best one from Pink Floyd yet... Loved all 81 minutes. "Run Like Hell"..they're gonna send you back to mother in a cardboard box ..best lesson for all teenage sons

Absolutely belongs on this list. It's a whole experience listening with headphones. Comfortably Numb is fantastic.

I really enjoyed this. Didn’t feel near 3 hours long (I did take a break). Run Like Hell was a great choice to close. There was one song on there that sounded like amateur theatre production that was an outlier but I get the hype otherwise. 4.5, might round up.

Full disclosure, I’ve heard this a few times. In my younger, and much dumber, years, I thought Pink Floyd was old people's music. Then my younger brother got into them, and I doubled down on how they must suck. You know how brothers are. But one day I decided to listen to Dark Side of the Moon, and the skies cleared, and so did the fog in my brain. I loved Pink Floyd! And I didn’t even smoke pot! I then listened to The Wall and realized that I’d heard several songs off the double album from just listening to classic rock radio. I like The Wall, it has my favorite Pink Floyd song on it, Comfortably Numb, but….It can be a bit much. Double albums rarely escape without a few songs that could have been left on the cutting room floor. They may serve the story, but as for just songs, they're sometimes just a means to an end. The Wall is a concept album/rock opera about a rock and roll singer and the wall he builds between himself and his audience. As usual with Pink Floyd, their former leader, Syd Barrett, is the basis for most of the great stuff they ever created, including The Wall. Well, Barrett isn't the sole inspiration, but he's in there. It’s been a while since I’ve listened to The Wall, so it’ll be interesting to see if I still like it as much as I did. Dark Side is my all-time favorite Floyd album, followed by Wish You Were Here. Animals has really climbed up my personal charts. The Wall is probably fourth ranked ahead of Meddle. So there you go. Track 1 is In the Flesh? and I love this song. It’s got that great Floydian guitar sound and riff. A great thing about rock operas is that if the band has a great signature riff, it winds its way through the entirety of the album. However, if they don’t have a great riff, then it makes no difference. The Wall has that great Floydian riff that weaves in and out of the album. Track 2 is Baby Blue, and it’s nice and sweet, but there isn’t much there there. It’s very 50s rock and roll and has a great tradeoff of vocals between lead guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour and vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. Rogers wrote most of the songs on the album, some with Gilmour, but mostly by himself. Track 3 is Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 and it has that familiar Floydian riff and guitar sound that makes this a great album. Gilmour is underrated as a guitarist, if that’s possible. Track 5 is Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 and this is the one you know. I remember hearing this on the radio as a kid. “We don’t need no education!” It really made an impression on me. We don’t need no education? And kids were saying that on the radio? Great song, great riff, great lyrics, almost a perfect song. What keeps it from being perfect? Well, it’s the same thing that affects most songs in a rock opera. It’s not so much a fully, complete song as it’s just another piece of the opera. It’s another brick in the wall, literally and figuratively. When the band, or now Waters, plays The Wall live, a wall is built piece by piece, song by song, until the band is completely separated from the audience. Then the Wall is torn down by the end of the show. Basically, I just want more of this song. I know it’s four minutes long, but there are another four minutes spread out through the album with songs in between parts 1, 2 and 3. Track 6 is Mother, and it’s fine. As with most rock operas, the meaning of the songs is kind of misinterpreted if you don’t know the whole story. I think Mother is one of those songs. It’s beautiful though. Track 5 is Goodbye Blue Sky and talk about beautiful. This song sounds foreboding and beautiful at the same time. The song was written by Waters and Gilmour. Gilmour is by far the better singer, especially with keyboardist Richard Wright singing harmony with him. I think this song could be a hit today. Track 9 is Young Lust, and this is pure sex, drugs, and rock and roll. “Oooooh, I need a dirty woman.” I think that sums up the life of a traveling rock and roller. “I am just a new boy, a stranger in this town. Where are all the good times? Who’s going to show this stranger around?” Imagine what debauchery rock stars must have gotten up to in the era of no phones or cameras? Yikes! This is one of the best songs on the album. It got a ton of play on rock radio, and it wasn’t even released as a single. Track 10 is One of My Turns and the album begins to kind of come undone. As I said, I like The Wall, but it’s not my favourite Pink Floyd album. This song as a whole isn’t that interesting to me, but the last minute or so is so good. I’d liked to have had three minutes of that part of the song, but it’s Pink Floyd, so sometimes you just have to take what they give you. Track 11 is Don’t Leave Me Now, and it’s where I start to lose a bit of interest in the album. Waters’ singing isn’t great even in a decent song, but he’s almost nails on a chalkboard. Though I can see where Les Claypool might have gotten his vocal stylings. My name is mud. I understand, in the rock operaness of it, we need this song as a bridge to the next song and the next. But, one thing about these weird songs, there is always a minute or so where Gilmour and the band come in, and it makes you instantly forget the previous nonsense. Track 11 is Another Brick in the Wall Part 3, and it’s way too short, but it leads us to Pink’s mental breakdown. Oh, by the way, the main character of the opera is a rock star named Pink, played by Waters, of course. Track 14 is Hey You, and damn, is this a jam. Wright really helps take this song from being good to great with his electric piano. Gilmour and Waters trade vocals on this song, and it works very well. One of the few fully formed songs that could live on other Pink Floyd albums without the rock opera. I’ll admit, I’ve heard this song so much I don’t really enjoy it as much as I used to, but there’s no denying it. That guitar solo is perfect. Now we get to the part of the album where there are some good songs, but I’d suspect they wouldn’t be in a regular, non-rock opera album. I’m sure the band could have fleshed them out more for a Metallica Reload-type follow-up a year or two later. Track 19 is Comfortably Numb, and we find the best song on the album and arguably the best song Pink Floyd ever wrote. Again, Waters and Gilmour share vocals on this track. Gilmour has the chorus with a bed of strings under him to elevate the song to otherworldly status. If this is what comfortably numb feels like, I’m down. I mentioned I’ve heard Hey You about a million times and just got burned out, I’ve heard Comfortably Numb about a billion times, and I love it still. Just the chimes during the “just a little pin prick” lyric are brilliant. This is for sure an all-time album, but Comfortably Numb is an all-time song. You should have it in your playlist. As we continue further throughout the album to the end, there’s really only one more song of any importance, I think, anf that’s track 20, Run Like Hell. This song is so good. The song is about a fascist leader who demands that people conform to his demands and obey his rules or face violence and persecution. Hmmmm. In the story of The Wall, Pink has become mad and imagines himself as a dictator trying to make his fans conform to his ideals. Wright has a great keyboard solo in this song. The song makes you feel like you’re on the run with the way it's musically constructed. The album finishes with several decent songs, though, as with most of the tracks I skipped, they are better heard when listening to the album as a whole. If you want a real mindf**k, then check out the movie version of The Wall. It’s very weird and includes animation with dancing hammers. I didn’t really need to write anything about this album, and I kind of feel like I haven’t. This is an all-time album and deserves to be heard by everyone. I think if you hear it once, you’ll be a Pink Floyd fan, and you’ll go down the amazing rabbit hole.

I don’t think I’d like this album much if it was the first time I’d heard it, but once you know the concept of the album and you’ve listened to it a few times you realise how good it is

Obra maestra, literalmente; escrito como una obra musical, en secuencia, cuenta una historia. Me encanta.

Twist my arm and make me listen this record for the millionth time, rock and roll perfection that rocked my little world then and continues to do so now.

I listened it multiple times, I have it on vinyl. Album felt like a movie before the movie became a thing. Every song felt in place and important, even the ones that felt more like a transition to the next song. Comfortably Numb is a masterpiece, David Gilmour never failed on his solos in this album. Who would have thought that the story of the character is a subtle reference to Kanye West in a way.

Another master stroke double album bliss.

It was just as described.

Phenomenal. I feel stupid and very illiterate for not understanding the message being sent but the music and the flow of songs is incredible.

Classic

No description needed

This album can take a bit of patience with the transitional tracks, but there are so many gems. Perhaps the best concept album from a band specializing in concept albums.

My balls

really love the theatrical nature of this, and how the album is basically just a big musical act, even being able to invoke the storytelling elements of one through sound alone. i felt that it was a great critique on british and american imperialism, and it shows the progression of small injustices and the growing awareness of them snowballing into something bigger, and scarier. i've been going back-and-forth on my 5-star rating because i'm afraid i'm somehow getting "duped" into liking it, but i've ultimately decided to be honest about how i feel, and i feel pretty damn good about it.

its a really comfortable listened and i enjoy this album

I really love so many songs on this record. My only real gripes with it are that it’s too long and the end of the album is pretty meh. The music is haunting and genuinely great. It’s a concept album so it’s very cohesive and well produced. It flows great. It’s one of the best rock albums of all time. I can’t rag on the ending too much, since it comprises of such a small part of the album. All in all, amazing record.

Very very good album.

This album is a masterpiece!!!! But I highly recommend watching the movie as well

This is a massive, 80 minute prog rock opera, and yeah, it goes pretty hard. It’s a super ambitious, theatrical project that really nails the feeling of isolation and losing your mind. The storytelling is top tier, and the way the music weaves together is brilliant, especially the guitar work on "Comfortably Numb", which is easily some of the best stuff ever recorded. When the band is in the zone, it’s a killer cinematic trip that totally earns its spot in rock history. That said, it’s also pretty self-indulgent. For every great moment, there’s a stretch of filler that feels less like a solid album and more like Roger Waters just venting his own ego. Overall, The Wall is a messy but fascinating triumph, it’s a huge conceptual swing that you’ve gotta hear all the way through, even if it does drag you down into the gloom every now and then.

Awesome!!!

Definitely an album that should be listened to although this is not my favorite album by Pink Floyd. This concept album was huge when it came out. It's a bit depressing (mostly Roger Waters) but the David Gimour songs are best.

Epic classic. Great background or sit down and focus on the rock opera kind of album.

The only

Pretty decent album with an interesting concept weaving through the tracks.

4.5/5

A double album rock opera would normally fill me with dread, but this is really good. A little pretentious without going full blown wanky. It has a song as good as Comfortably Numb buried halfway into disc two, for that alone it needs to be a 5/5. The rest is bloody good too.

Amazing album! Pink floyd are one of the best storytellers outr there and it shows!

Another nostalgic album for me. I remember when I was about 10 years old, my dad and I listened to this album. For some reason I cried a lot whilst listening. Can't remember why. I do get it now that I listened to it again. This album has an emotional weight to it and you can really feel that.

Masterpiece.Favorite tracks Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell.

Great epic album but I feel like most of the pink Floyd albums from when it came out body it. I also prefer tommy.

Un must !

Muy bueno

Es ist halt The Wall.. das ist für mich kein Album sondern eher sowas wie ein Theater stück. Haben mich die Songs Musikalisch umgehauen? Nein.. hatte ich trotzdem ne Gute Zeit? Auf jeden Fall? Werd ich das Album in den nächsten 2 Wochen nochmal hören? Vermutlich nicht aber vielleicht in so Paar Monaten und dann werde ich wieder ne gute Zeit haben! The Wall ist halt The Wall man muss es gehört haben

Very good

Lowkey colossal.

Love this album. Its been on repeat throughout my life since I was 13. Very cool, psychedelic sounding album telling the story of a very unfortunate young man separating himself from the world around him.

superb record all the time

I was just thinking yesterday that I was 636 albums into this list and still hadn’t hit a Pink Floyd record, which was starting to annoy me. Well, here we are. I’ve spent an enormous amount of time with both this album and the movie. The Wall was essentially my introduction to Pink Floyd as a young teenager, and it completely blew me away. It’s packed to the gills with incredible transitions, great tracks, and a dark but endlessly entertaining story. If there’s one concert experience I could go back in time for, it would probably be this tour. I love this album, and to its credit, it pushed me into diving through Pink Floyd’s entire discography, which eventually made them my favorite band. The Wall isn’t even my favorite Floyd album, and I think Roger Waters is a complete asshole, but this is still an album I think everyone should experience at least once with an open mind.

Muziek-wise niet waar ik heel snel voor zou gaan maar heel cool album met seemless trasitions enz dus alsnog 5 sterren. Faves: - Nobody home - The trial

outstanding.

Iconic

Top 20 album ever. A masterpiece. A story from start to finish with a movie to go along. Insane to always listen in order and follow the narrative. Not many better albums than this but ironically dark side is better.

this shit is beautiful

Love this album. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows are low. Overall though, this album is awesome. I've owned it and loved it for years. Totally a classic in my mind.

In The Flesh?: 8/10. awesome for an opener, but it's just an opener at the end of the day, so I'm not giving it more than 8. The Thin Ice: 8/10. okay, AWESOME TRANSITION?? I am so intrigued Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1: 8/10. i had no idea there were other parts to this song seriously... i feel so ineducated... better late than never ig... The Happiest Days Of Our Lives: 8/10. the transitions in this album seriously... awesome interlude honestly and AWESOME ENDING!!! but i can't bring myself to consider it a proper song, therefore it can't get more than a 8/10. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2: 9/10. honestly a bit bummed that it doesn't blend with the happiest days. besides that, it's objectively a good song, but personally ever since i was a kid i never liked it too much... that's why, despite being one of the most iconic songs ever, it only gets a 9 and not a 10. sorry Mother: 9/10. AWHHHH this song is so good :( listening to this on mother's day is so... Goodbye Blue Sky: 8/10. veeeery different from the vibe i thought we were going for... but very nice Empty Spaces: 7/10. underwhelming compared to the rest Young Lust: 9/10. OH THE TRANSITIONS AGAIN... this was AWESOME One Of My Turns: 7/10. this was a confusing experience Don’t Leave Me Now: 7/10. this ALSO was a confusing experience. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3: 9/10. this may be the best brick in the wall tbh! why was it so short though? Goodbye Cruel World: 8/10. one thing about this album is i legitimately can't tell when a song ends and another starts- this was one of such cases. Hey You: 10/10. the "open your heart i'm coming home" and consequent guitar and bass lines granted the 10/10 for this track. genuinely ascending to heaven rn Is There Anybody Out There?: 7/10. very,,, mystical Nobody Home: 10/10. david bowie if he were waiting for me at the pearly gates (which i hope he actually is btw) Vera: 5/10. a nothingburger itself but i read what it's supposed to mean and it's cool. besides, the instrumental is nice. Bring The Boys Back Home: 6/10. i know it has a deep meaning and all but musically it isn't the best Comfortably Numb: 10/10. very well structured. majestic, actually. The Show Must Go On: 8/10. i really liked the harmonies at the end In The Flesh: 8/10. i don't like the fact that i like this song Run Like Hell: 8/10. i like the instrumental at the end but now i feel like i'm in a simulation. actually, probably i'm meant to feel like this at this point, so i don't mind, but regardless, i'm confused Waiting For The Worms: 7/10. i feel like i'm not supposed to listen to this song alone as a song but rather as part of this whole arc Stop: 7/10. another interlude (though a quite poetic one) The Trial: 9/10. well, it definitely is a trial. breathtaking performance and delivery. Outside The Wall: 8/10. IT HAS A CIRCULAR STRUCTURE THAT COMPLETES ITSELF WITH THE OPENER??????????? HELLO......... awesome closure for this awesome album.

🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 ================================================= ============⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐============ ================================================= 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 ================================================= --------------------PINK FLOYD------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ---------------------THE WALL-------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------(1979)--------------------- ================================================= 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 ================================================= -------------------CALIFICACIÓN------------------ ---------------------★★★★★-------------------- ----------------------(10/5)--------------------- ================================================= 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 Contenido del álbum original Disco 1 / Lado A 1. “In the Flesh?” 2. “The Thin Ice” 3. “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” 4. “The Happiest Days of Our Lives” 5. “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” 6. “Mother” Disco 1 / Lado B 7. “Goodbye Blue Sky” 8. “Empty Spaces” 9. “Young Lust” (★★★★★) -De mis favoritas, más allá de la letra y lo que describe... 10. “One of My Turns” 11. “Don’t Leave Me Now” 12. “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3” 13. “Goodbye Cruel World” Disco 2 / Lado C 14. “Hey You” (★★★★★) -De mis favoritas... 15. “Is There Anybody Out There?” 16. “Nobody Home” 17. “Vera” 18. “Bring the Boys Back Home” 19. “Comfortably Numb” (★★★★★) -Favorita del álbum y más allá... Disco 2 / Lado D 20. “The Show Must Go On” 21. “In the Flesh” 22. “Run Like Hell” 23. “Waiting for the Worms” (★★★★★) 24. “Stop” 25. “The Trial” 26. “Outside the Wall” 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 CALIFICACIÓN FINAL ★★★★★★★★★★ (10/5) 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 COMENTARIO -Nada que pueda decir agregaría algo a lo ya dicho. Puntué la obra completa como a mi parecer se merece, porque la verdad esto está en otro nivel a mi parecer, en lo conceptual, en la ejecución y por sobre todo en el impacto. 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀 🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀🏅📀

This is one of my all-time favorite albums, so it's a treat to get to listen to it again in full after many decades. I *was* a little shocked at how well I remembered pretty much every lyric to every song, I'll admit, but I guess I shouldn't be all that surprised given how obsessively I listened to this as a teenager. It's hard to pick out any particular songs as my favorites, but I think the trio midway through -- "Mother", "Goodbye blue sky" and "Empty spaces" -- seems to me like the pinnacle of the album, blending older Pink Floyd styles with the harder-edged sound of "The Wall". Of course, it's hard not to call out other fantastic gems like "Hey you" (with the hopeless coda "Is there anybody out there?"), "Comfortably numb" and "Run like hell", among many others. It's also amazing how well this album tracks with the film version, and it's hard not to conjure up the amazing and disturbing Gerald Scarfe animations as I listened to the tracks. And quite fittingly, the Wikipedia entry is incredibly detailed and thorough, although sad to read how brittle and dysfunctional the band had become by that point (and fascinating to finally find out that "Comfortably numb" was inspired by a muscle relaxant shot to treat Water's hepatitis on the "In The Flesh" tour); I'm not even sure how they (or at least most of them, sans poor Richard Wright) managed to put together "The Final Cut".

Genuinely one of the greatest albums of all time.

Lamentablemente sigue siendo bueno

One of the best concepts albums ever done.

Still such an incredible masterpiece!

This album has flaws, so don’t take my 5/5 to mean it’s perfect. It has the classic double album problem of having far too much filler material. This album is always a massive emotional kick in the balls for me though. I know what it feels like to be traumatized and made to feel distant and estranged from everything that matters to me. The moments that work here, leading up to Comfortably Numb (which makes me embarrassingly emotional) hit like a train. 5 stars for being the only album to make me feel this way.

I listened to The Wall a few times before, and going back to it I didn't expect I'd give it 5 stars. And I think the reason for that is that I never until now listened to it on decent equipment.

There isn't much ceremony I stand on in this world but The Wall being a fairly perfect concept album is on item.

It sounds like yearning feels like

While it’s not my favorite pink Floyd record I think it’s their most interesting. The story, the characters, waters and Gilmores vocals and of course the playing. Gilmore is one of my favorites. The solos in mother and numb are two of the best.

Emblematico

First song I was like meh but now, #epicprogrock

Best Song: Comfortably Numb I would put this in my top 5 favorite albums, possibly even top 3 so there is zero surprise that this is a 5/5 for me. This is the way a concept album should be, great lyrics, great production, and a near perfect band.

WOW. What a story!! The storytelling on this album blew me away. In the Flesh? is a great way to start the album leading into the iconic Another Brick in the Wall. Then they hit you with Mother. Jesus Christ what a beautiful and heartbreaking song. The second half of the album has Comfortably Numb on it which is one of the greatest songs ever made imo. Then In the Flesh returns for another brillant song and the ending of Pinks story on the trail and Outside the Wall perfectly end the album. 10/10 5 Stars

Disc 1 - 4/5 In The Flesh? - 3.5/5 The Thin Ice - 4/5 Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 1 - 3/5 The Happiest Days of Our Lives - 3/5 Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2 - 5/5 Mother - 3.5/5 Goodbye Blue Sky - 3.5/5 Empty Spaces - 4/5 Young Lust - 5/5 One Of My Turns - 3.5/5 Don't Leave Me Now - 4/5 Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 3 - 4.5/5 Goodbye Cruel World - 4.5/5 Disc 2 - 3.5/5 Hey You - 3/5 Is There Anybody Out There? - 3.5/5 Nobody Home - 4/5 Vera - 4.5/5 Bring The Boys Back Home - 3/5 Comfortably Numb - 4.5/5 The Show Must Go On - 3/5 In The Flesh - 4.5/5 Run Like Hell - 3/5 Waiting For The Worms - 4/5 Stop - 4/5 The Trial - 3/5 Outside The Wall - 3/5

Isn't this where we came in?

è stato un ascolto quasi esistenziale, narrativa psicologica profonda e atmosfere musicali paurose paurose !!! poi il plot twist finale “isn’t this where” è 1) un grande tocco di sensibilità perché effettivamente nella realtà non esiste una storia di guarigione lineare 2) molto lynchiano come fatto in questo momento sto riascoltando in the flash perché è spettacolare

Tra i migliori album dei floyd. Narrativa incredibile e musiche eccezionali

Exceptional album

I feel that Pink Floyd is one of the most virtuous and better prog rock bands, only for the merit of making the most accessible and popular music in their genre, to the common public. Maybe there are other bands more ambitious, prolific, with better skills or ideas. But what separates them is the ability to present these ideas in a way that are musically good and accessible. I say this cuz, compared to other Rock Operas, I feel this one is really accessible and doesn't fall on this necessity that some bands have of making the instrumentation all orchestra and classical, only for this genre. And more than that, despite being over an hour I feel this album as something that flows really well and is very cohesive. But more than that, after evading and ignoring this album, now that I listened it, I've realized how impactful and important it is today. Beyond the general thematic and common commentary about this album being about a drug addict musician that builds a metaphorical wall around him, and how it came to be due to the conditions of his environment, also as an autobiography from Waters, i found that the real themes and the content that seeps from this album is related to masculinity. All the conditions, the travel that he endures and the way these things affect his life, mostly are related to the "patriarchy", as one would say. But what I found more interesting is that in the honesty of this record, you see that it's not so much a critique of this, but a confession, a story with all the nasty parts. And the only way one can reach the truth is being honest with itself. I probably would understand someone not liking this album, seeing it as whining or victimization. Specially considering the halo of rock star that these guys have and how the part that i least like here are the voices. But, I've got to say, I cried to some songs. And i feel that connecting so profoundly with these lyrics and ideas, of how are we raised, the expectatives of our environment, the results of our conduct, the pain we inflict on others, the rising of fascism as an answer to the uncertainty and search of meaning on authoritarian figures that fill the void with purpose. All of these things were relevant then, and are as relevant now. Maybe I've not lived all of that experiences. And maybe i'm not in the same conditions as Pink. But i feel deeply and this has made me think about all the stuff i have to get better in my life.

Fuck that’s a good album. Gilmours solos are so beautiful.

Finally!!! A 6/5 We sending this one to the aliens I am just a young boy

I can't help but wonder if there's some alternate universe where Nostalgia Critic's The Wall is on this list instead. It's absolutely an album to hear before you did, if nothing else just to hear how bad parody music can get. Anyways, I love this album. We need to bring back Rock Operas. Also the film is great, I don't know what The Nostalgia Critic is on about.

Ya

Probably one of the top deserving of the "gotta listen to before you die" designation.

...we came in? Isn't this where...

Yes!!! Thanks for sending on a Friday. Classic album by classic band. Had been a while since I listened to album as a whole.

fucking masterpiece

10/10

Nice

Incredible!!! One of the best Albums of the 70s

Bueno, qué decir de esta obra maestra. A mi parecer, por historia, contexto, relato y armado, es el mejor album de Pink Floyd. Un camino sublime de principio a fin. Te puede parecer un poco largo, es cierto. Pero es tan bueno que no importa. Un MUST en tu vida. Himnos: el 90% de las canciones

This is a phenomenal album! I was scared at first seeing an 80 minute duration, but this album didn't lose me for a second. The performances were all brilliant, and the non-musical elements (dialogue, applause, room tones, etc) really weaved this album together. The heart and attention to detail put into this story absolutely shine through, and I'm eager to listen again and understand more of this saga.

A lot of people call this album bloated or underwhelming and I felt that way too the first time or two I heard it but I quickly realized that this truly is a masterpiece just like their previous three albums. There are some segue songs but I enjoy them all at least thematically if not musically. Most of the tracks are great and this is one of the most conceptually tight and finely crafted double albums of all time. It is one of the few classic double albums that justifies its length. This is the final record in an undefeated 4-album run and even though it may be the weakest in several ways, that does not prevent it from still being one of the greatest albums of all time.

Tercera vez que lo escucho, las otras dos fueron viendo la película, probablemente sea el mejor álbum conceptual de la historia y no me hace falta escuchar todos para decirlo, todo el álbum gira en torno a la historia de cómo Pink se va sumiendo en la paranoia y la depresión. Las críticas hacia el sistema educativo, la familia, la guerra y la sociedad en general nunca envejece y me toca demasiado profundo, y la película que salió años después mejora aún más la visión que tenia Waters para este álbum, simplemente una obra maestra

One of the greatest of all Time

mythical, profound, neverending

This is just amazing. I never get tired of listening to it.

An incredible album that really is unparalleled. An album with intricate themes, both melodic and lyrical, that make a cohesive piece of art. Incredible songs, and guitar solos, really love this one. Highlights: The whole album

Very good album. The loose story about the wall is fun to follow. Comfortably numb is a top 10 guitar solo ever. Last song is such a nice conclusion and fades into the first song, WOW what genius.

Pink Floyd love to really drag out their songs/albums for as long as possible but it JUST WORKS and it’s so them… I just love the vibes and no way will I ever give Pink Floyd less than a 5 you’d be sick for thinking this is less than 5 stars

Great Album, great sounds, great memories

out of this world

I used this album cover as the backdrop once for a movie my brother and I made with G.I. Joes. A great album and a great substitute for an actual wall.

Quizás top 3 mejores discos conceptuales de la historia del rock. Un disco de culto

Absolutely brilliant although bittersweet in that it did signal the end of the classic PF lineup. Could have done without the trial… 5 stars Fave track - comfortably numb. Feels like the most complete contribution by the whole band.

Very very awesome

unbeatable

insanely influential albums with alot of social challenges mentioned within songs ,already had a couple of songs and this is my type of vibes

magic

I love both the album and the movie. It's one of the best musical experiences.

fascinante

Pocas bandas pueden jactarse de haber sido las mejores del planeta en algún momento de su historia. Esta es una.

Good.

All around BANGER. This was just incredible. The consistency is what really shines in this album. Obviously when you see Pink Floyd you expect it to be good but this was just great track after great track. The vocals, the production and the writing were all on. point. The type of album you listen to every other month and are amazed each time. Rating : 9.4 Favorite track : Comfortably Numb

Classic! Brilliant songs and arrangements.

Banger

Didn’t know this was a rock opera

Love this album

I forgot that this is one of the greatest albums of all time

Great Album….from my youth!

One of the greatest albums of all time

Interesting

In the Flesh, Mother, Young Lust, one of my turns, confortably numb omg Très bonne découverte

A towering achievement in rock history, this ambitious concept album delivers powerful emotional themes and incredible production that remains deeply impactful from start to very finish.

Incredible album. I never want to listen to it again

I mean, it's The Wall.

Fantastic album

Tento album mám od nich najradšej. Bol prvý, ktorý som od nich počul, tak asi preto...

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

lo que me gusta del cd es esa visión de incorporar sonidos ajenos a instrumentos. hacer como un relato de tema en tema. la grabación de los instrumentos, como se nota que existe alguien con mucha habilidad detrás y me gustan mucho sus letras, sus melodías, sus solos instrumentales. me gusta mucho cuando suena toda la banda junta pero aun asi siento que es un cd que no termino de digerir del todo, quizás por el género que maneja, lo alternativo me cuesta conectar con ello. pero musicalmente son una obra maestra

The best there is!

holy what an experience. that is all i can say about this. maybe the finest album I have ever heard. I am a little slut for albums this cohesive. Fav Song from Disc 1: Young Lust Least Fav: Goodbye Cruel World Fav Song from Disc 2: The Trial Least Fav: Vera

Art

Near perfect album. Definitely Floyd’s best. Dynamic music with a through storyline.

This was/is THE album. The most important album in my music listening journey. 14 years ago, it took a massive sledgehammer to my wall (hah) of expectations and understanding of what music could do, and introduced me to a whole wide world of incredible music. 5/5, 10/5, 100/5, nothing compares to “The Wall”

Rich imagery, excellent music, somewhat dark

Niice

well-deserved reputation, I'm already a fan of concept albums in general but this one set the bar. Comfortably Numb works amazingly both in the context of the album and standalone.

One of the best concept album ever

Ohhhhhh man, to say how many times I listened to this in high school would be embarrassing. I know this thing in and out, front to back to front again. It's the pinnacle of overblown, overwrought, 70s rock bloat and it works despite itself. Not even close to my favorite Floyd record but, to me, it's just so undeniable. I know why someone might hate it, but I love it. Movie's cool, too.

Obviously

One of the best of all time!

so good

I don't know any other album with as much filler that still rates 5 stars. It might sound like a contradiction but its still an essential album and every bit as important as dark side. Paranoia, anxiety, stress, tension, friction will all be felt during this listening but when it soars its incredible.

In the Flesh? Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 2 Mother Hey You Nobody Home In the Flesh The Trial

The Thin Ice Another Brick in the Wall pt 1 Happiest Days of Our Lives Another Brick in the Wall pt 2 Goodbye Blue Sky Young Lust One of My Turns Hey You Is There Anybody Out There? Comfortably Numb Run Like Hell The Trial

Haven't listened to this for so long, just magnificent. End of a startling run of albums.

icônico demais, the wall tu vai pra sempre ser famoso!!!!!

I love the audacity of a rock opera. Where did that confidence go in modern artists?

Comfortably numb

Youre Just aaa

Top 3 ever

It’s pretty cool I’ve already heard it

There's a theory that whatever you were listening to when you were fourteen will stick with you the rest of your life. Well this is the album I was listening to when I was fourteen, in fact one of the small handful of albums I owned, so I probably played it hundreds of times when I was a teenager. Has it stuck with me? Hell yes! Although The Wall doesn't tick every single box for what I'm looking for in an album, it ticks so many that it's about as close as I imagine an album can get to perfection. In fact, I worry slightly that I'm holding this two hour plus monster up to being something that it isn't. I've listened to this so many times that I've been through the point where it almost slips into being unlistenable, back to it being impactful again. I can appreciate that this kind of album isn't for everyone, and there are definitely excesses in the running time and the "fourth side". There's also an argument that some of the songs here don't all stand up in their own right. I personally think that they do, and everything is just in the perfect place from start to finish. Every keyboard stroke, drum beat, guitar string being hit, even Roger's vocal delivery is spot on from start to finish. From the big hit (Another Brick in the Wall the single), to the fan favourite Comfortably Numb, to the film, to the numerous live performances, there's just so much to absorb to properly get the full impact of such a momentous piece of music. I guess, above all, there's nothing that really sounds like The Wall, other than The Wall. The closest is probably The Final Cut, as some of this was the leftovers from this album. However, the sumptuous production, the lyrics, the delivery, the musicality, everything is far superior on The Wall. It also has arguably the best Pink Floyd song on it in Comfortably Numb. When I was fourteen, I didn't really follow the story too closely, as it didn't hold any special meaning for me. Now in my fifties, it has much greater impact than it did previously. Another thing that helped, is getting hold of a copy of the lyrics, as I had my "own version" when I first got this album in a cassette double album format. As an example, "Fat and psychopathic wives" was "Parents like a traffic light" for many years, with other mishearings becoming part of the whole experience for me. I listened to the remaster for the first time, always avoiding it in the past. It was a little jarring in places, hearing different instruments that didn't come through in the original mix. But it was still the same album underneath, flawed, imperfect, but probably one of the most important albums of all time for me. An easy five stars.

What memories! I went to that concert twice ♥️

Amazing

Both ahead of its time and a classic

Gran disco. Una obra maestra del progresivo. Me encanta la relación entre cada pista y el gran trabajo tanto instrumental como lírico. El nivel de producción esta a otro nivel. Una cátedra a como hacer un disco conceptual. Gran disco.

La historia, el sentido de desolación casi holocaustico al que nos llevan nuestros demonios. Una obra maestra conceptual

Must have caught me on a good day, used to think this wasn't my favorite Pink Floyd but this listen I am really loving it. The transition from "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" into ABITW part 2 is epic, Gilmour's guitar work straddling those classic rock and 80s sounds, and the overall thematic grandiosity of it really hits this time around.

Um clássico, simplesmente não há resenha que abarque o quanto

It was a gratis álbum and the sounds that are into every song has a los of feelings

What an album. The main reason I don't listen to this more is that it feels like I need to listen to the whole thing to appreciate is and it's long. But the storytelling and range of musical moods is perfect. Dave Gilmore is probably my favorite lead guitarist .

Full disclosure: I listened to half of this during work and thought it was kind of average but then I accidentally saw Jeff gave it a 5, so I decided to give it a more dedicated listen with headphones while I colored and I'm so glad I did. This album made me feel so freaking emotional, and in a wide range too. Furious, devastated, hopeless, frustrated, and always peppered in with little glimmers of beauty and hope. It is a very different album than Dark Side, but I love it equally. Pink Floyd excels at putting together an album that stands as a piece of art, and I'll definitely be giving this album a lot more ear time.

Needs more stars!

Masterpiece

Seriously one of the greatest albums every made. A game changer in the music industry

LO AMO, este álbum cambió mi vida en la pre adolescencia, amor eterno a Pink Floyd

This is THE concept album. It's just done so well. I have a difficult time listening to individual songs from this album. I know that classic rock stations everywhere play them but it's weird to not have a lead into some of them. The entire thing is a story about a man falling apart. You feel the pain the character is going through. It's one of those albums that is best sitting down relaxing with headphones. You have to be open to listen to the story. Great album.

Ah yes, Pink Floyd's The Wall. Patron saint of planetarium laser shows the world over. Name a better duo than laser Floyd and college stoners. I'll wait. I mean where would that entire industry be without this album? It wouldn't survive, I'll tell you that. (Well, the lasers will always survive as long as there's cats. But you think these tripping kids want to go listen to some egg head waxing on about Jupiter? Nope.) Anyway... I've never been that big of a Floyd guy. Too many dipshits in high school losing their minds about Floyd at Ohio Stadium for me to enjoy the band. Which is why this listen has been pretty rewarding; I had low expectations. Hell I haven't heard it in decades. But I'm giving them another shot as a fully formed adult. (giving several albums from their catalog a spin) One thing I didn't take into consideration is the hooks on this disc. Holy shit there's some seriously catchy tunes on here; Another Brick has such a disco-like groove. Plus there's more anthemic melodies and cock rock guitar solos than a Tom Cruise soundtrack. Done to perfection, by the way. My natural instinct is to give this thing three stars. But when I consider how catchy I found it I think it deserves more. Then I also considered the fact that it's a concept album. And a great one at that? Five star album.

Gotta love a good concept album

What can I say about The Wall that hasn't already been said? I've been familiar with this album for many years now, it was my first exposure to the idea of a Rock opera and man it is an epic one. So many iconic songs full of great guitar solos. For an album that is an hour and 20 minutes, it is really well paced and not as fatiguing as other double albums. Listened to this one on vinyl as it was one of the first albums I bought. I listen to this record fairly regularly (last time I listened it was only a little over a week ago), but it still manages to always create a memorable experience. There are some songs that feel more like filler or transitional, but that doesn't take away from the experience for me. Favorite track - Mother (This was hard to pick and I shuffled through like 6 other choices) Least Favorite track - Bring The Boys Back Home ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I am just a new boy A stranger in this town Where are all the good times? Who's gonna show this stranger around? Oh, I need a dirty woman Oh, I need a dirty girl Will some woman in this desert land Make me feel like a real man? Take this rock and roll refugee Oh, babe, set me free Oh, I need a dirty woman Oh, I need a dirty girl Oh, I need a dirty woman Oh, I need a dirty girl

⭐︎5 名曲揃い。ストーリーを感じさせるメロディ、社会風刺的な内容。どれを取ってみても素晴らしい。

Classic album with experimentation but also incredibly catchy hooks and transcendental riffs, Comfortably Numb is one of the greatest songs ever made

In middle school, I mostly grabbed onto it as the home of a cool protest song. As an adult, the album hits different because the symbolism stops being a vague “society is bad” poster and more about how self protection can turn into self imprisonment while you still insist you are doing fine. I normally don't get this deep or dark with my reviews but this is the first time I've listened to The Wall critically as an adult and not just to have as background music. I ended up listening to it twice lying in bed and had to break my thoughts down for some of the songs where the lyrics just grabbed me. I didn't fully appreciate as a teen vs as an adult. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 Teen: “Oh, this is where the school stuff starts.” Adult: The first brick comes well before school. It can start with loss. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 Teen: Short, intense, keeps the rebellion theme going. Adult: This is the point where “leave me alone” becomes a lifestyle. The Show Must Go On Teen: Circus-y, quartet, Beach Boys vibe. (Which makes sense now that I know Bruce Johnston contributes to the song) Adult: Performing while falling apart. What high functioning misery or depression sounds like. The Trial Teen: Wild, theatrical, basically a rock opera centerpiece. Adult: Self prosecution. Every voice is a coping mechanism turned into a judge of how you've lived and treated people. The only solution (ie punishment) is to open up and admit your need help. But this also requires exposing your feelings. Outside the Wall Teen: “okay, the story is over.” Adult: There are people out there willing to help but they're human too. They get so tired of "banging their hearts against some mad buggers wall" that they give up on you. I'm not a pysch expert by any means but maybe that's why this album is so great. I'm sure there are many ways you can interpret it. Man this album is way darker than I remember it. On a lighter note, the call and response between Gilmour and Waters on this album, like in Mother and Comfortably Numb, is elite. And after all this time, it hit me that Another Brick Pt 2 is basically a disco song with the bass line and guitar riffs. Roger Waters bass work on that track is awesome.

no bueno punto de quiebre psicodélico ver la peli de wachin eso y goodbye blue sky lloro

This album isn't just another brick on the wall.

I've listened before and its a wonderful track with a great story and beautiful music. The trippy vibes scattered around truly give it that 70s feel.

The Wall is Pink Floyds rock opera. The story of Pink and his descent into depression, despair, and existential crisis, guided partially by his father's death in war and his mother's strict parentage, eventually leading to near self-destruction. The album ends with Pink demanding that the pain all stop and sets his inner self on trial, ultimately telling himself to tear down the walls he's built around himself. The album starts where it began, and the cycle begins again. This is a damned fine album, and I could listen to it over and over and over again without ever getting tired of it. With some of the most repeatable tracks in Pink Floyd's repertoire (Comfortably Numb, Another Brick in the Wall, In the Flesh), it's definitely a five-star album, and one of my favourite of theirs.

That one looks Jewish

Classic!

Absolute classic

per mi la obra està incompleta sense la pelicula, però igualment es una obra mestra.

I don't think I can say anything more about this album than what's already been said. This is by far one of the best concept albums ever made. Sonically and lyrically wonderful, and while it's not my favorite Pink Floyd album, this still deserves all the praises it gets. Made me wanna rewatch the movie too.

ce serait basse clef criminel de pas mettre 5 en toute honnêteté

Ojojoj. Man är ju riktigt svag för rockopera, musikal och liknande. The wall är ju intressant för många av låtarna är ju inte superbra utan sitt sammanhang. Men i sammanhanget 🤤 Gilmour uppnår också final form här. Sjuka solon trots att han egentligen inte gör något sjukt?! Det är typ ton, bends och timing som gör det.

❣️

Första gången jag lyssnar på hela och är väl redo att frälsas redan från början. Slogs på en gång av hur bra det låter. Hur ballt det låter! En mörsare. Perfekt soundtrack för att gå runt i dystopiskt städade stationen Stockholm City

Album No. 0157 on my list. Wow, “The Wall” certainly is a gigantic album, a behemoth in every way. It’s so big that it’s barely even possible to review this thing. I had listened to this album many times, but I was never really sure whether I found it incredibly good or just solid (certainly not bad). To me, and in a very unfair neglect of the contributions of Mason and Wright, I always found that the greatest Pink Floyd songs found a balance between the influences of Waters and Gilmour. Too much Roger Waters and the songs just get annoying, and while David Gilmour is the better musician, singer, and person, he certainly profited from Waters’ writing skills. For example, the band just found the perfect balance on the whole Dark Side of the Moon album. I always found that “The Wall” leaned too far towards Waters, so I wasn’t always its biggest fan. But after thoroughly listening to it again, I have to say that it is still a gigantic album for a number of reasons: while yes, his songs sometimes get a bit annoying and unnecessarily… well… egocentric (for a lack of better words), Waters did write some of his greatest songs for this album. There are quite some bangers in there. Second, this album surely has one of the greatest guitar sounds of all time. Gilmour’s sound is really just great. Third, it is not just the sound but the way he plays his guitar: the technique occurred on other Pink Floyd albums as well, but the trilogy of “Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 1”, “The Happiest Days Of Our Lives”, and “Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2” is the greatest example of his way to create this kind of “floating” reverb-style guitar bits. I really have no better way to describe it, but you hopefully get the idea. Fourth, while I’m not the biggest fan of the overarching story line, I love the diversity of songs that this results in; you got a huge variety of songs, from hard rock (“Run Like Hell”) to almost orchestral works (“The Trial”). And lastly, the second guitar solo from “Comfortably Numb” has got to be the greatest sequence of sounds to ever come out of a guitar speaker. I’ll add all aforementioned songs to my playlist (the trilogy pretty much counts as one in my opinion), except for “The Trial”, but plus “In The Flesh?”, and “Young Lust”. This monster of an album deserves its spot as one of the greatest of all time. Might not be my favorite Pink Floyd album, but it’s a historical masterpiece nonetheless. 5/5 stars!

I mean, yeah

Progressive rock, art rock.

Man what a ride! Absolutely loved this, every album should feature The Emcee.

I love this album...it's hard to explain just how creative and "different" this album is.. it's a must listen. Definitely one of my all time favorites.

One of the greatest album of all time, if not the greatest. It can stand alone as a rock opera and love how they weave themes throughout the songs. I've always thought Pink Floyd made the best full listen, start-to-finish albums. I don't think anything else can stand up to The Wall. I've listened before but was blown away with how many creative & recognizable songs it has. This will likely be my #1 of the 1,001.

Brilliant. I liked the variations on the Wall, obviously that's the whole point but it was interesting.

Первый альбом из списка, прослушанный мной до. С Пинк Флойд я прошел все стадии - от отрицания и непонимания до любви. Он сложный, затянутый, концептуальный, серьезный, про него можно сказать, что он слишком слишком. Пытаясь понять, я полюбил.

Very grandiose album. The Wall was the first Pink Floyd album I ever listened. Watching the The Wall film was my introduction to Pink Floyd, actually. It really helped to understand the storyline —although it's relatively easy to follow compared to other concept albums out there—. David Gilmour's guitars are usually my favourite part in the band's albums, and this is not the exception, but the way Roger Waters constructs the story of Pink in The Wall is brilliant, from his childhood, to how he builds his metaphorical wall, to finally tearing down the wall. I've seen some criticism to the composition and singing in some songs that don't really sound that "good" as standalone tracks. However, all tracks (and those in particular) are meants to be listened inside the album, as the context really matters. Not every element and every vocal is meant to sound pleasant as The Wall is obviously not that kind of album. It all serves the narrative of a man going mad and isolating himself from the world. I've played a few of the songs on guitar over the years. Some of my favourite tracks are (in tracklist order) "Goodbye Blue Sky", "Young Lust", "Hey You", "Is There Anybody Out There?", "Comfortably Numb" (with one of the best guitar solos ever played), "Run Like Hell" and "The Trial". The judge part in "The Trial" always gives me goosebumps. I also love the main leitmotif in the album, so simple, yet so iconic and impactful. As a whole, the second LP is truly outstanding, especially side 3 (starting with "Hey You" and ending in the most epic way, "Comfortably Numb". All 6 songs are amazing). Lastly, it's worth mentioning that "Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2" is of course amazing, but sometimes it gets a bit harder to appreciate as it is vastly overplayed. The solo is amazing, though. Undoubtedly, The Wall is a 5/5 album.

Sometimes I don’t think I’m smart enough for rock operas or concept albums. This is an amazing album and I always knew it was, but I never really knew exactly what it was about. And I don’t know that I would’ve gotten all of it just from listening to the lyrics. Since I read an article about it now it all makes sense but that’s only because it was explained to me. I get some of the overarching themes, but it’s a lot deeper and complex than I realized. That all being said, the musicianship is amazing. The lyrics and concept are amazing. This is definitely a generational work.

A completely cohesive album that tells a story with an ambiguous ending. Comments on humanity's fascist tendencies throughout society, school, motherhood, the courts, etc. Musical themes perfectly set the mood and match the lyrics. At times, mostly near the end of the album, the lyrics get a little too on the nose, but that's a minor quibble. Excellent album.

Wow. Amazing.

Great album obviously. I prefer a couple of other Floyd albums but this is still excellent.

pero menudo disco espectacular, no me lo esperaba tan bueno, qué cosa hermosa <3