Reviews (page 5 of 16)
⭐︎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
Entiendo la mística alrededor de este álbum; sin dudas, marcó época y significó un reseteo cultural. Sin embargo, nunca logré conectar demasiado con Pink Floyd. Es un proyecto demasiado extenso para mi gusto, que puede resultar tedioso de digerir en un solo día. Es un álbum conceptual por demás complejo, que requiere tiempo de escucha, de maceración, especialmente para comprender la lírica y, por supuesto, para empatizar con la banda en sí. Las canciones conocidas y/o los singles, estupendos; el sonido, muy bueno. Pero siento que es algo para tomárselo en serio, no simplemente para poner de fondo: requiere escucha activa.
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
Me agrada, aún quiero seguir escuchando el álbum :)
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.
Some fantastic, iconic tunes on thus one. Too much fluff for a 4 though.
El concepto del álbum es interesante y llamativo, pero no lo es un álbum que me apetezca escuchar a menudo. Aunque existen temas buenos, la verdad es que muchos de ellos no los puedo escuchar de forma individual debido al concepto del álbum, lo qué para mí lo hace decaer un poco. Entiendo que el álbum se ideó con la idea de escucharlo de corrido, pero me gustaría que tenga más temas para escuchar de forma individual a parte de los poquisimos que tiene.
Watched the feature film not too long ago actually, having never heard this album. This challenge has helped me discover Pink Floyd but I must say, Waters seems a bit of a bell. 26 tracks. 80 minutes. Let’s go… Not quite sure how to sum this up. Listened to it whilst painting a fence and sure it must have played through twice. Hadn’t even finished the first run of it… It feels a bit self-indulgent and repetitive. Obviously some great songs in there but just a bit melodramatic and Waters stamp all over it, and it tells. I’ll probably just skip to the stand outs in future and should have just stayed as a passion project or soundtrack release under the radar. 3* generally +0.5* for the big hits (3.5)
although i really liked disc 2, this is not something i would revisit
what happened here man. theres a lot of great motifs and song parts but the whole thing is just kind of a mess. why is roger waters doing an american accent the whole time. why is bring the boys back home even included its so bad. i cant say i didnt like it, but im gonna go back to listening to their previous 4 albums on loop.
not my vibe
Oh God, this is bad. Tragic, even. Syd is long gone and with him all humanity, leaving Roger arrogantly ranting about how bad his lot in life is and dreaming of being a totalitarian ruler. Even the pleasant keyboard intros that provided some relief before the guitars and vocals kicked in on Dark Side of the Moon have been banished. I think this is a concept LP about how hard it is to be Roger Waters. Gilmour seems to have resented that and took to torturing guitars in the pursuit of the most excruciating guitar solo imaginable. The vocals are even more painful — some posh boy screaming about how hard done by he is by the fans who've made him a millionaire. It's immensely repetitive; I think the same songs are played several times. Certainly, musical motifs are repeated. The one moment of light relief is when a gang of kids break into the studio and sing a punkish "We don't need no education." A very popular tune in my playground at the time. Of course, the whole song is like an insidious district schools talent competition. The kids (who were Gen X, by the way) from the local comp are allowed a little rebellion before David, a sixth former or young teacher (and therefore a boomer) from the boys' grammar school, demonstrates what art and a privileged education can do for you. But those kids are the only ones to provide a moment of sincerity in this whole wretched mess.
I liked this more than I expected. 4. Some awesome songs and the album feeds one song into the next so well.
Listens: 3 Standout Tracks: Another Brick In The Wall Pts. 1, 2, Goodbye Blue Sky, Is Anybody Out There?, Comfortably Numb It's a fantastic album. The track transitions are seamless; the music is fresh, exciting, varied and somehow still familiar. The guitar playing is on-point. The story being told is interesting and prescient. I think my only real complaint is that some of the skits (should they be called skits?) sort of draw out the length of the album to levels where you start antsy for the album to end, but then bam another banger track comes on and you're good for another 15 minutes :) Definitely not as good as Dark Side or Wish You Were Here. Its just too long, even if its telling a cohesive story.
Got this on vinyl!
That one looks Jewish
Classic!
I like it!!
Stellar album.
It’s just another brick up my ass
If you don't beat your meat, you can't have any pussy
Absolute classic
in the flesh brings a really intense beginning to the album which definitely gives a big starting point for Pink Floyd to shape the other songs. Thin ice being a slower song really draws attention to itself and it reminds me of Elton John a little... the songs in this album are very diverse and it also contradicts the morals at the time with the impact of rock that changed the way people saw music
per mi la obra està incompleta sense la pelicula, però igualment es una obra mestra.
Water wailing about mommy and daddy and the rest of his hangups. (Poor Gilmour! Can't have been his proudest moment voicing "mommy.") The album sounds great nonetheless, but if it is so it is probably in spite of this trite "concept" than because of it.
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
Kul med konceptalbum. Det känns verkligen som en helhet. Snyggt att så många låtar går in i varandra och att det sedan loopar från sista till första låten. Många bra låtar också, men bitvis (framförallt mot slutet) blir det för teatraliskt för min smak. Stark trea.
Är team Gilmour, och hans lite sävliga, subtila och eleganta stil. Ljudet är leadgitarrernas heliga graal. Har en mycket rik bekant i Djursholm som trots bristfällig gitarrskicklighet lagt ner en förmögenhet på pedaler för att försöka fuska till sig gilmours ton. Ett nästan bibliskt fåfängt försök till genväg som fortfarande inte lyckats. Det faktum att man lite varstans hör hur outhärdlig Roger waters kan vara drar ner helheten lite. I synnerhet hans tillgjorda skriksång. Men jävlar vad man uppskattar konceptalbum med tydliga genomgående ledmotiv. Föredrar skiva 2, och såklart de spår där gilmour varit mer delaktig. 4,5/5
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.
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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!
All we are is just another brick in the wall ... The Wall is very long, 150 minutes is an adventure for sure.
I mean, yeah
Better than expected
Progressive rock, art rock.
Dark Side of the Moon wins, but pretty good. Seemed like some filler tracks to fill out the double album
Listened to this growing up - still great
Man what a ride! Absolutely loved this, every album should feature The Emcee.
I’m surprised by how much I didn’t like this, and for reasons I’ve liked other albums! I couldn’t handle the immersive atmosphere of it all. The baby crying, the dinging in Hey You that made me think I’d set off my smoke alarm, the intro to Is There Anybody Out There?, all too much for me in this moment. Objectively, I can see how all of those (amongst others!) makes this a generational album; alas it just made me anxious and was not a pleasant listening experience! Another Brick in The Wall Pt. 2 (and Comfortably Numb!) brings this up to a 3 ⭐️
I think it’s a very impressive album in scope and concept but not necessarily one I enjoyed listening to a huge amount. There were sounds I enjoyed moreso than particular songs, but gave some points for commitment (personally I wouldn’t have followed the story from the lyrics). my favourite song was maybe goodbye blue sky, although I did also love the theatrics in bring the boys back home. Growing up with the scissors sisters version of comfortably numb as my default did somewhat ruin the original for me
The problem with Pink Floyd is that everything they do is so carefully crafted that it’s devoid of feeling (with the exception of the excellent album Wish You Were Here) There’s no passion anywhere in it and that’s fine when you’ve managed to create a masterwork like Dark Side of the Moon but when it’s a politically laced double album??? I’m bored! There are some good songs here. It’s certainly well produced. They’re very good at playing their instruments and arranging their sounds but about a quarter of the way through I’m ready for the next album.
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.
The really theatrical songs drive me crazy here. Disc 2 is far superior to me, though some winners like Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, and Young Lust on disc 1 at least give you something to look forward to before getting to the second disc.
-this is such a cool album -I keep imagining the imagery in the movie when listening to this which adds a lot in my opinion -I need to look into the background behind this album again because that also adds a lot
When they breach out da acoustic I go :O, better than previous listens and nice to sit through Highlights: "Mother", "Goodbye Blue Sky", "Is There Anybody Out There?", "Comfortably Numb"
I think in an alternate universe, Pink Floyd is just a bunch of theater kids because why does the Trial sound like something out of Les Mis?! I completely understand and am in full support of this album being on this list. It wasn’t exactly for me but I was surprised at how much I liked disc 2. The whole thing was just a bit too long and Spotify doesn’t even have all the songs??
The music and story are monumental and the concept is cool (though i haven't watched the film) Pink kinda pissed me off throughout a story, but i understand his character Overall, great experience, but i'm probably not gonna listen to much of it 3/5
Brilliant. I liked the variations on the Wall, obviously that's the whole point but it was interesting.
Classic, but flawed.
Im a big fan of dark side. The Wall makes me feel uncomfortable, which I think was their point, so they are successful, but I don’t enjoy it
This maybe could have been a 4 if it were shorter. Two albums is too much. I dig the rock-opera vibes, and I enjoyed some of the recognizable tracks. They sing about The Wall a whole lot.
The ending ruined this for me
I am *intimately* familiar with this album. I've heard it like dozens of times, perhaps for the worst, but still. I understand the scope, and the narrative ambition of The Wall, but I honestly have some problems with it. But it is still a really great album. The narrative of the album chronicles a rock-star as he shuts himself off from the world due to a trauma and the ensuing process of escaping this "wall". The narrative is pretty compelling and, most impressively, can be more or less pulled out of the music in-tact. I will say that it kind of ends up feeling a *little* like an ego project, but it is definitely more than that. The songs themselves are pretty great across this whole project. But at the length that The Wall is, there are a few tracks that feel like filler. But that may come with the theatrical territory. Speaking of which: one small underlying problem for this whole project is that I just prefer spacier Floyd, and just don't think these theatrical elements are always able to fill the gap there. Although Another Brick In The Wall 2, and Comfortably Numb are some of Pink Floyd's greatest songs. I like this album more than it sounds like, The Wall is an achievement, but I just have some problems with it that keep it from being quite up with my favorite Floyd.
Admittedly not my favorite Pink Floyd work, but it’s got great moments. Like how much of 80s culture was built off the intro to “Run Like Hell”? Or how often do you still hear “Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2”, “Comfortably Numb”, or “Hey You”? But it feels bloated compared to Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, or Animals. I appreciate the themes and what they were trying to to do but the double album just doesn’t totally do it for me. I actually didn’t realize this came out as late as 1979, and the movie was 1982; I assumed both were earlier in the 70s. I would have put this nearer to Dark Side in their chronology, not after all three of the records I mentioned above. I don’t know if that really changes anything for me… I guess their prime years were later and lasted longer than I thought? Or maybe my version of their prime years doesn’t include this record? Is that sacrilegious? Idk, I think I would have been underwhelmed by this after Animals.
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.
It overstays it's welcome. It's the weakest big 4 Floyd album. I'd even argue that Meddle is stronger. For every amazing song you have 5 mid songs. Still I can not go below a 4, just for Another Brick in The Wall pt 2. Also I must say I need to watch the movie.
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.
No as good as Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. But still good one.
Wow. Amazing.
Was quite good
Great effort by Bob Ezrin
Gran álbum. Como me gustan sus solos de guitarra.
I like Pink Floyd for their high-quality sound. This album is no exception; the sound quality is excellent. Unlike the lengthy albums of the CD era, it has a convincing length.
I wonder why much of the album isn’t available on Spotify? Anyhoo, this is a classic, and I always enjoy it. A little ahead of my time, but still really good.
2.72 / 2.92
Great album obviously. I prefer a couple of other Floyd albums but this is still excellent.
A really solid album, filled with interesting yet highly enjoyable classic songs with a few songs that I found myself wanting to skip. I don’t know if I would pick it over Dark Side of The Moon, but it still has some stand out hits. Pink Floyd has been an enjoyable listen for me since I was a teenager, and while not every song on this album was a hit for me, I still enjoyed it overall.
Liked: Comfortably Numb, Waiting For The Worms, Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 1 Added: Comfortably Numb Disliked: Bring The Boys Back Home, Stop, The Trial
I hold a fairly strong opinion that any double album would be improved by trimming down a few songs to single. This doesn't totally disabuse me of the notion, but it makes a strong case for that extra run time. It's big, ambitious, and is a constant surprise in audio form. I think it might still be better if it was shorter, but I enjoyed those 80 minutes.
pero menudo disco espectacular, no me lo esperaba tan bueno, qué cosa hermosa <3
The slay…
CANT AVE ANEH PUDDEN
This is a double album, and there are several popular (i.e., radio stations play them a lot) tracks here. Even though I never have been a major Pink Floyd fan, I did appreciate this record more than expected. And this is yet another band where the members don’t get along, although they have reunited many times.
I Have This Album (#9)! Not sure why, if I'm honest. As detailed previously, I remember seeing 'Money' on TV one time and thinking "this is the good stuff", but that song is not on this album. I guess you took what you could get back in those pre-mp3 BMG music club days! Anyway, I haven't listened to it as much as my other albums, because I don't really like Pink Floyd that much. I didn't even know it was a concept album, or a rock opera. I do vaguely remember being confused about the multiple songs with the same name on my iTunes, which makes much more sense now that I'm forced to listen to the whole thing all in a row. Not as good a WWII-inspired album as Neutral Milk Hotel's. Slur count = 4. Highlights: 'Another Brick in the Wall' Parts 2 + 3, 'Mother', 'Goodbye Blue Sky', 'Comfortably Numb', that there's a cute little sentence that starts at the end and ends at the beginning
Fav: goodbye blue sky 4.5/5
Pour pain, war, helplessness, injustice and trauma into a bowl, and stir until it somehow comes out as soothing.
Definitely 5 stars
62. very long
I have different feelings about this album every time I hear it. On balance a 4
I really struggled to get into this album. I have the distinct impression I would really like it if I found it at the right time/on the right day. But neither today nor yesterday has been that day. I liked a couple songs and I liked the general vibe, but I did not enjoy that I was listening to the album 😔. Again, on me, I'm just in a mood I guess. I look forward to trying this album again when I'm in a better mood.
I listened to the first half of this album as I was folding laundry, and the second half as I was resting on the couch, in a suburban apartment in the United States of America in the year 2026. This is one of the first albums I inherently knew would be on this list without a doubt; it is THE rock opera concept album, it was a almost guaranteed. I had seen glimpses of the performances which accompanies this album, and was under the impression it was strictly about fascism and/or rebellion against authoritarianism (hearing lyrics about somebody running for president and insisting they need to "build a wall" set off a lot of unfortunate alarm bells in my head), only to be pleasantly surprised by the incredibly personal and introspective reality of the project. The Wall wound up being right up alley, as an analysis of the struggles and turmoil of a performer in the public eye, which is a topic I often find to be incredibly compelling in any form of art. Capturing this idea through a very compelling metaphor, catchy hooks and lyrics, and instrumentation that gets stuck in your head and smoothly moves from one track to the next, The Wall has me completely bought in; if disc one were its own album, I'd give it a 5. However, the final quarter of the album does lose me; from Run Like Hell on, I feel like the songwriting loses a lot of the personal emotion and introspection which I found so compelling, and The Trial leans a little too theatrical for it to feel like a fitting conclusion to me. While the ending does feel a little dull, the highs here are still incredibly high, and I completely agree that The Wall deserves all of the acclaim that it receives. Highlights: In The Flesh?, The Thin Ice, Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1, Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2, Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, Young Lust, One of My Turns, Don't Leave Me Now, Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3, Goodbye Cruel World, Hey You, Is There Anybody Out There?, Nobody Home, Vera, Comfortably Numb, The Show Must Go On, In the Flesh
First disc is incredible. Second disc has more experimental songs, however still insanely good, bare in mind it contains one of my favourite songs.
Mainly a load of tosh so far.
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Compelling Grandiose Incredible Takes you on a journey, both sonically and thematically Takes us to some dark (even spooky) places but ultimately ends in catharsis for the protagonist and listener The opposite of background music, this album is meant for active listening Too many highlights to list A fee favorites from this play through: Another Brick in the Wall (all 3), Young Lust, One of My Turns and the entire Comfortably Numb> The Show Must Go On > In the Flesh > Run Like Hell sequence.
Already knew this was perfect before listening. Glad I got another listen in.
I'd rate The Wall as not only my favourite Pink Floyd album, but as one of the greatest albums of all time. If I think about what are the best albums that I have ever heard, The Wall always comes to my mind.
Incredible. Loved the storytelling. I thought a few of the songs on a standalone basis weren’t amazing, which it’s why it’s only getting a 4. However, this is one of my favourites from Pink Floyd
Amazing album. My introduction to Floyd, and it blew my young mind. One of the most important albums in shaping my musical taste. Legendary.
I mean, it's The Wall. Epic, genre defining, with a message. Not my favorite, but respect.
It was good for 70s
I feel like we should watch the movie. Last time was as a teenager
Well now. Classic 5 stars brother man
i like other pink floyd albums quite a lot, but i do not care for this one very much. too bloated, not enough memorable parts for me. fairly disjointed. most songs would cannot stand on their own. please stop playing different parts of the wall. "hey you" is a good tune. so is "comfortably numb."
The hits are good but there's a lot of filler songs.
Legend!
Vem visste att det fanns 3 delar till Another Brick In The Wall??
Like all rock operas I have heard before there are 2 or 3 actually great songs and then an hour of filler. This is probably the best of the bunch but still only a couple songs I would ever listen on their own.
filler central
I adore this album, and simply cannot separate it from the nostalgia it provokes within me. I remember my dad buying this on CD when I was in seventh grade. We listened to the entire thing in the car while driving in Maine to go skiing. I vividly remember sitting in the passenger seat, gripped by every riff, every shriek, studying the liner notes closely, trying to understand this massive record. It felt revelatory to me. It was only when I bought my dad Dark Side of the Moon for his birthday, and I never heard him play it after I downloaded it to my iPod, that I realized he'd gotten The Wall for my benefit. He knew it was something I should hear. He was right. This album, more than any other Pink Floyd album, is the one where Roger Waters and David Gilmour had fully figured out the roles their voices played in conveying emotions. The solos in "Comfortably Numb" are the greatest solos ever committed to recording. There are so many incredible moments throughout the record, and even the stranger, less listenable songs do an excellent job of telling the story when in context. Favorite tracks: "Comfortably Numb," "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2," "Mother," "Goodbye Blue Sky," "Young Lust," "One of My Turns," "Hey You," and "Run Like Hell."
A concept album apparently? I’m too stupid to pick up concepts and themes but sure! It’s apparently about a rock star named Pink but it is giving dystopian to me idk. Why is ‘The Trial’ straight from a musical… possibly the jekyll and hyde musical even? Or hadestown even, tear down the wall you say.? I do wish these songs would stop making me think i’m hearing shit outside of my headphones, I hear enough arguing and screaming from my neighbours thanks. Oh hey I know a song! Could again be straight out of the Matilda musical but I guess that’s the opera rock aspect.
Really good, I loved it.
Good concept album. As a whole, it was a good listen.
Звучание не мое... Альбом в 80% не зацепил 3/5
1/30/26: idk man it's good but dare I say slightly overrated. 7/10
white boy's goodnight punpun
I will never be able to separate this album from the time it came out and its popularity with my peers. I was 14 at the time and in 9th grade (final year of junior high). It was a miserable time which was in no way helped by being surrounded by emotionally and intellectually underdeveloped people chanting "we don't need no education" while wearing t-shirts saying "Nuke Iran." I feel confident in saying that they would in fact have benefited from education. Of course, it is unfair to judge this album solely through the lens of my peers' selective appropriation of its message. Therefore I have made a list of pros and cons. Pros: - David Gilmour's guitar playing. I am certain that many fans are drawn to this album for his solos and don't particularly care about the half-baked concept. Roger Waters insistence the album is all his because he wrote the (completely pedestrian) songs is laughable. - The record taught me the British meaning of "meat" and "pudding." Cons: - Plodding tempo - Far too long which is a function of using the "concept album" to justify repeatedly hashing the same music (and playing the songs at a tempo that suggests overconsumption of cough syrup) - the failure of the "concept" itself. Compare the record with its contemporaries wrestling with alienation from consumer culture as well as childhood trauma. Waters' take is purely individualistic - while I agree that we all should break the walls that prevent us from emotionally connecting, there should also be an accompanying critique of consumer culture and its role in our collective alienation.
Along with being tedious and pretentious, it's also just plain boring. Naptime for me.
IF YOU DONT EAT YER MEAT YOU CANT HAVE ANY PUDDING I feel kinda bad giving this a 3 because I'm very much influenced by my parents and their anti-pink floyd biases and also I didn't pay a ton of attention to the lyrics or story or whatnot but I just don't really like rock operas. sorry. 3.5 cause I can appreciate how objectively important it is
GUEST REVIEW Teddy, my Pug. Upon turning on the album the first few seconds, his ears perked left and right. He does not seem to care for this. For Another Brick 1 & 2 he barked with the child voices. Generally just seemed chill & relaxed during the solos. He did not care for the beeps in the intro to Mother, but started to have an errection. So that's a thing that happened. He is quite the Momma's Boy though. He seems to mostly annoyed & seems to respond to voices & odd sounds. His nap is beginning. It will not be a very good nap as we are listening to The Wall. Not Napping. He can barely last through Young Lust. Lazy pug! He awoke after the next track & he ate a chip. Still not amused by the music. Back to sleep. Doesn't seem to like to Don't Leave Me Now as seemed to shudder a few times & lots of brow wiggles up & down. Seemed to listen to a whole verse of Hey You & went back to sleep. He woke up. That seems to his favorite song, I guess. He seems like the slow strumming parts. Nobody Home he perks up and is reacting to the sound effects & voices rather than the music. We took a break & went outside. Teddy decided to dig in the snow by The Fence. I wonder where he's getting these defiant ideas from. Certainly not Pink Floyd. He also took a dump. Then started digging by fence again. Then ran away when I tried to stop him. We went back in. He seems disinterested in this & is back at attempting to nap. We're still listening to The Wall. He doesn't seem to understand that double albums tend to be bloated & long. Especially rock operas. Because, well, he's a pug dog. All he wants to do is sleep. Little to no reaction to Comfortably Numb other than disinterest & sleepiness. MY SHORT SWEET REVIEW: I don't believe double albums can be perfect albums (5 star album) They tend to be bloated & over indulgent. Which is of course the problem with The Wall. I thought the Wall would be the exception but like The Pumpkins: Melon Collie & The Beatles' infamous White Album, the bloat seems to win. It's so close but no cigar. That doesn't mean it's not brilliant. I know this album, I love this album. Hence the reason I had my pug dog review it. For a different perspective. Also, Teddy got treats. Lots of em.
G.O.A.T
WE DONT NEEED NOO EDUUUCATIONNN
Classic.
Hmm. An interesting one. It’s weird in that it works really well as a full (very long) album, but there’s not really much I actually enjoy about it. Compared to something like the white album, which arguably works less good as a full (very long) album, but has so many hits along the way. Whatever, obviously it’s good, but I don’t care about it.
I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this. I'm not a big classic rock guy in general, and what with having heard a bunch of these songs so many times over the years on classic rock radio, I wasn't expecting to really get into this album. Boy, was I wrong! This truly took me on a journey. The production was really unique, in that it didn't feel like a modern recording in any way, and yet it still felt relevant and important. Definitely not dated at all. The songwriting was really good, and even the songs I've heard a million times just made more sense with their place in the tracklisting. I wish I could have listened with the lyrics to get the sense of the full story, but I was working and that just wasn't an option. I really enjoyed this. A pleasant surprise.
solid 4
I know I know it’s Pink Floyd and they’re a God tier rock band but this one, especially compared to Wish You Were Here, seems a lot more tedious and experimental without actually going anywhere. Like, it’s good, but it’s not their best.
A double album of psychedelic rock...I am skeptical. I think there's something to having the visual component as well. But this is, so far, the best Pink Floyd album. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 is the biggest song from the album, I could do without the movie sounds though. Mother is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. The phone beeping, the talking...this probably works better when all of that is part of the movie rather than an album. Or at least if you've seen the movie. I just learned that the two were not conceived together. Now it's just more found sound to hate. Hey You is another Pink Floyd song I just don't like. The first album is better than the second. I don't like Comfortably Numb either. The Trial is like a song from a musical...so corny.
I am so very sorry. I am whelmed.
Percebe se por que sao uma banda iconica
It's a five stars YES!
It's a great album, no doubt about it. The story and the songs speak for themselves. It can get a little self indulgent at times, but it's one of the greatest concept albums of all time. Though I wouldn't consider it even close to the greatest Floyd albums, this is still a 4.5/5. A classic!
I don’t believe this distribution of ratings. You guys are lying right? Some enjoyable parts but mostly songs I did not want to listen to and a lot of the vocals were just dreadful. I guess this is the album that all the rest of the drunk slop on this list was copying though. Disc 2 was definitely better than disc 1.
-Strong opener- the melody with the guitars were so nice -I like the recurring motifs and melodies throughout the album, makes it feel cohesive -I really like “nobody home” and “comfortably numb” -The trial feels like the climax of a broadway musical, very melodramatic, i like the instrumentation a lot in this album, it is very grand at times. -Overall the album is longer than what I am used to listening to but it kept my attention, it was an enjoyable experience
Such a great band. In the same double album you may find great songs like Comfortably numb, The wall, or Young lust. Other songs are not as great, but the album has an overall nice sound, great guitars and dreamy and troubled feeling.
Liked some of the songs and my favourite is probably Comfortably Numb, other than that it struggled to keep me engaged as I felt like there were so many unnecessary parts and I know its meant to be storytelling but it just didn't do it for me, for my taste its just too long
Um disco primoroso. A sua grande virtude é a coesão. Os temas se sucedem e se encaixam de maneira brilhante, alternando momentos líricos com outros vigorosos. Excelente álbum.
Got some insanely classic, catchy songs. Young Lust is a favourite. Experimental rock opera that I wish I wrote myself, but most songs kind of fade into the background and is a lot more strange than it is good.
If you didn't grow up listening to this you're gonna hate it
This is really a case where an album is more than a collection of songs. I love the grand scale, the emotional songs, the orchestral songs, the more stripped back tracks, the callbacks. And throughout the whole thing the performances are fantastic (particularly the guitar) and the production is excellent. I've heard Another Brick in the Wall Pt2 and Comfortably Numb before, but they make a lot more sense now that I've heard them in the context of the album. They're still the highlights but Young Lust was also great.
Fantastic. Enormous, ambitious, frightening in places. And any album that contains comfortably numb would get 5 stars.
Probably my most long standing favourite so far. Blew my mind as a kid, the production and sound effects, the sweeping grandeur of it juxtaposed with the isolation and despair of Pink's story, the guitar solos, the movie (the animations!), the live shows, the backstory behind it, the fact you can connect the end to the beginning to make an infinite loop...concept albums don't get any better. 36 years after being introduced to this one by my sister, it really says a lot about an album when it pops up here and I immediately make plans that involve listening to it...
This blew my mind as a kid and still does. The first concept album I ever listened to Saw the movie in an old style theatre as a teen and got high as a kite from the cloud of weed-smoke that appeared as soon as the lights dimmed.
Classic record. I mean it's the wall. Great storytelling, instrumentals, and vocal performances. Forever solid, get it?
I haven’t read the reviews here for this album yet, but I feel like people don’t talk about how spooky this album is. I love it. It’s uncomfortable and haunting and relatable in ways you wish it wasn’t. The music video for Comfortably Numb has fucked with me since I was a kid. It’s also my favorite song on the album.
Decent, not great tbh. I never really got the Pink Floyd hype. Not my favorite
ooo i liked this!
crazy how it seems like everyone loves the wall and yet there are still so many boot lickers out there. anywho…acab, fuck ice, and free palestine.
In the Flesh? - 4.5/5 The Thin Ice - 4/5 Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 - 4.5/5 The Happiest Days of Our Lives - 4/5 Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 - 5/5 Mother - 4.5/5 Goodbye Blue Sky - 4.5/5 Empty Spaces - 4/5 Young Lust - 4.5/5 One of My Turns - 4/5 Don't Leave Me Now - 3.5/5 Another Brick in the Wall Part 3 - 4.5/5 Goodbye Cruel World - 3.5/5 Hey You - 5/5 Is There Anybody Out There? - 4.5/5 Nobody Home - 4.5/5 Vera - 4/5 Bring the Boys Back Home - 3/5 Comfortably Numb - 5/5 The Show Must Go On - 4/5 In the Flesh - 4.5/5 Run Like Hell - 5/5 Waiting for the Worms - 5/5 Stop - 3/5 The Trial - 4.5/5 Outside the Wall - 4/5 Probably one of, if not the, greatest rock opera concert albums there are. I really don't have many more words to describe it as it's just that good. Overall: 5/5 Favorites: Too many to list
Wildly cohesive, feels very much the same feeling I get when I listen to soundtracks like Hamilton, everything flows into the next and continues the process of the story being told. Very moody, the first part definitely gave me feelings of... almost dread? Based on my read of the plot of the movie, I'm getting that claustrophobia with a lot of it. The second half is a lot more upbeat, kind of like the story is resolving in a positive manner. I'd have to dig into the lyrics more to figure it all out though.
Hat immer mal wieder nette Momente. Insgesamt aber langweilig und vieeeeel zu lang.
Wahrscheinlich DAS Konzeptalbum. Absolut überragend, genau wie TDSOTM und WYWH.
Fällt mir sehr schwierig zu bewerten. Während andere "Rockopern" einfach ein paar Songs zusammenschustern, die inhaltlich eine halbwegs passable Story ergeben, steckt hier ein großes durchdachtes Konzept dahinter, dem sich alles andere unterordnen muss. Viele Songs bzw. Songfragmente dienen hier nur dazu, die Story voran zu treiben, sind aber für sich genommen nur mäßig spannend. Auf der anderen Seite findet man hier zeitlose Klassiker, die auch losgelöst funktionieren und zu dem besten gehören, was PF je gemacht haben. Das Konzept ist spannend und man erkennt den persönlichen Bezug von Roger Waters, an einigen Stellen wirkt es für mich aber auch unrund und das Ende ist schon sehr over the top und irgendwie auch sehr aprupt ohne einen passenden Epilog. Und ich mag Roger Waters' Stimme auch einfach nicht so gerne und finde es teilweise wirklich anstrengend, ihm zuzuhören. Daher bleibt es trotz übergroßen Highlights bei 3 Sternen.
Ein Meilenstein der Musikgeschichte und vermutlich "das" Konzeptalbum schlechthin.
Natürlich ein Brecher. Das Konzept (vor allem instrumentaler Seite) überzeugt mich dennoch nicht 100%. Da passen andere Pink Floyd Platten besser.
Pink Floyd sind überbewertet. 2 Sterne für den einen Hit.
Dieses Album ist der reinste Genuss.
Ich könnte hier jetzt natürlich ausführen warum das hier ein 5/5 Album ist aber jeder mit Ohren am Kopf sollte das selbst hören können
It's cool for what it is.
More my taste. Some really nice songs, including a few I recognized. The music style seems quite disruptive. Not an album I'd listen to frequently, but still quite nice.
Thats pretry good, it got such emotions, a classic one. It got another brick in the wall, hey you and comfortable numb, wich is amazing songs. The only problem worth to comment is the duration of the album... boy, thats too long, making you eventully get tired of it.
One of my favourite albums ever. Fundamental in shaping my taste in music and appreciation of albums.
It’s a beautiful album, and I’m not saying anything new. It really shows how differently albums were thought about in the ’80s. It’s complex but feels very familiar. I’ve never listened to this album on my own before, but I’ve heard it many times throughout my life because of my parents. Great stuff. I’m really happy that some of these songs are now going to be on my playlists.
I’m sure it’s important from a historical standpoint. I’m sure the story is interesting. It’s okay after one listen
TL;DR(?) Meh, not really for me
This is a rare example of an album that I loved when it originally came out, but I’ve cooled on it in recent years. The concept is simple - a monstrously self obsessed rock star who blames everybody else for his problems. He starts with being angry with his father for dying in the war, his mother for being over protective, his school teachers for trying to educate him, his wife for not having much to say to him and even has a go at the “dirty” groupies who want to have sex with him. When all of that becomes too much to bear, he builds a massive wall and becomes a fascist. Is this all starting to sound a little familiar? I mean, Roger Waters is not exactly being subtle here. I could even accept it as an allegory, if it turned out that fabulously wealthy rock star Waters hadn’t literally spat in the face of a fan at a 1977 gig and fantasised about building a wall to separate him from the great unwashed. He also managed to fall out with his band mates on a spectacular level, getting rid of keyboardist Rick Wright, refusing to comp producer Bob Ezrin a ticket for the touring show, before finally quitting the band himself in 1982 and refusing to speak to any of them again. For an epic concept album about an isolated rock star with a tough upbringing who becomes a cult like figure, The Who did it first (and better) with Tommy, as did Bowie with Ziggy Stardust. As much as I like the musicianship of Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright, I just can’t take Waters self-pitying vocals any more - if I want to listen to these songs again I’d happily choose the Scissor Sisters cover of Comfortably Numb or if you can track it down online Luther Wright and the Wrongs countrified version of the whole album.
‘the wall’ was the perfect album to get me through my angsty adolescence. i have always preferred the earlier syd barrett/immediately post-barrett era of pink floyd, but i sure did wear out my vhs of ‘the wall’. listening to it today, it comes across as pretentious and obnoxious, but i can’t help but feel strong nostalgia for it. if memory serves, it’s a way better experience watching it as a movie, but maybe i’m just making excuses for my young self
masterpiece.
Great albums. Timeless
5/5
Enjoyed it and found a couple new songs but don’t think I would seek it out
The album was pretty long and I kept hearing the same parts from another brick in the wall throughout and it felt a bit meh. I mean I get it it's a good song but.. One time in an album should do the trick.
We don't need no
Great concept album!
really long, not bad. dont love the repetitive noise
Much more operatic and theatrical than I would've assumed going into it knowing next to nothing. Very dense and grand, with some fun Bowie-isms that I enjoyed quite a bit.
I recognized a lot ore than I expected. If only better audio technology was available back then...
Like most fairweather Pink Floyd fans, I know the "hits," but whenever I listen to this as a whole concept album, I appreciate it much differently.
Good story and mix of instrumentals.
it had taken me awhile to get into pink floyd because their music is....something. after listening to this album, I realize they're not artist that you can listen to on shuffle. i'm a changed and evolved woman. favorites: the happiest day...; goodbye blue sky; young lust; don't leave me now
The worst thing they ever did
Wasn’t able to listen to all of it! But I still liked it
Legendary. Such a brilliant story. I adore all the psychological themes and of course the great music and production. What else needs to be said?
This record is interesting and innovative; however, there wasn't a single track that really stood out to me. The entire record felt more like a journey or an experience rather than singular moments. Favourite Track(s): Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 1 Least Favourite Track(s): Bring The Boys Back Home, The Show Must Go On
Pretty good, not my thing though.
Felt a little uneasy at some points during the songs. I had a feeling of “war” or “machinery” while listening to the album. Very nice A classic
👍
Had a busy last couple days at work but trying to give this album some due diligence. Found it difficult to follow, or frankly enjoy, most of it. Uncomfortably Numb was pretty good. I really wanted to fall in love with this. I didn't hate it. Who knows maybe I'll move across the country in a truck where my only option is a The Wall CD and something will kindle. But for now there seems to be a wall between me and this album.
Listen man, I love Pink Floyd, I really do, but this one never connected with me in the same way as Dark Side or WYWH. I would even go as far as to say it’s probably my fifth favorite album by them. It’s just a little too long and I don’t think it really sticks the landing in the same way as an Eclipse or Echoes. That’s not say it isn’t great. It absolutely is. The transition between The Happiest Days Of Our Lives and Pt 2 is amazing still.
Classic album, great concept.
I head some David Bowie type sounds in some of the tracks and enjoyed the iconic hits that everyone knows by heart.
I mean, it's The Wall. Widely hailed as one of the greatest albums of the 1970s, if not of all time, it needs zero introduction. Though it is a double album, I find it hard to argue with the sheer amount of Certified Bangers found throughout("Comfortably Numb" "Young Lust" "Hey You" and of course, "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2"). But even beyond these iconic tracks, the album is loaded with excellent songs from top to bottom. You'll never convince me that this isn't the phenomenal album many say it is. To think that this is only the third highest rated Floyd album really shows their stratospheric greatness as a band for the bulk of the 1970s.
Подзатянули историю, но все равно целиком слушается прикольно
Pink Floyd’s The Wall is a haunting, explosive, and unforgettable — a masterpiece carved from paranoia, rebellion, and Gilmour’s lightning‑bolt guitar work. One of my favorites!
Some great music obviously but fuck Roger Waters
I can't believe how boring this was
There are some truly great songs in here, and some really amazing guitar playing. There's also an absurd amount of bloat between gratuitous transitions/interludes and self important expository tracks. If Ziggy Stardust was an example of a concept album done right, this is an example of why people hate concept albums. There's a 4 or 5 start album buried under at least 25-35 minutes of garbage.
Not my favourite Pink Floyd album, but obviously pretty great if you like them. It is very long as well.
Absolutely fantastic and classic record.
Iconic album
The comfortably numb solo makes me bust
Ambitious and entertaining
A lot of variety on this album, it is dense. An unexpected rock opera! The hits are hits for a reason. I think it's too big of an album to appreciate fully in one day of listening, but I enjoyed it.
Another day of finally learning the artist and title of recognizable songs! 3.5 rounded down.
This would be a great single disc album. I knew more songs on this than I expected to. Too much Rogers Waters’ dominance throughout. Need more David Gilmore songwriting contributions. Comfortably Numb is achingly beautiful — words by Waters, music by Gilmour. Wright and Mason had minor roles. The beginning of the end for this great group. Still pretty good stuff, though. No commercially available surround stream or blu-ray available, sadly.
I don’t think I’ve ever listened to this before, I just know the big songs through cultural osmosis (ABITW, mother, hey you, comfortably numb, run like hell). But, pretty good
As a rock opera/concept album, this is an "album" in a very pure way - a lot of the tracks flow into each other, there's a cohesive story and recurring themes and motifs. As a result, it's also full of connecting tracks that don't really stand up on their own; they only make sense or work as part of the whole. For me though, too many of these bits are just a bit dull. As for the actual tracks, they're mostly fine, though anything that involves children singing automatically loses marks in my book. There's a nice variety of sounds and instruments, a lot of the tracks sound quite different - and in fairness they're extremely atmospheric. The vocals don't really work for me personally though. Highlights: - "Young Lust" - There's just more going on in this than in most of the tracks on the album. - "Hey You" - "Nobody Home" - atmospheric, has a piano, not the worst vocals on the album, has a piano. - "Comfortably Numb" - still kinda hate (some of) the vocals, but musically interesting and varied. Lowlights: - "Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2" - classic, sure, but I don't want to listen to a bunch of children singing badly, with bad grammar. They clearly do need an education (as they tell us themselves with their double negative). - "Empty Spaces" - "Don't Leave Me Now" - definitely an atmospheric one, and I understand it as part of the wider story, but the vocals are just painful to listen to. I feel like I could enjoy this album as part of a stage show, where there's something going on visually to add to the overall storytelling, but I don't think the music on its own is strong enough. Really really really low 3. Can't rate it a 2 on the basis that not really any of it (besides the children) were that bad to listen to, it just didn't do anything for me.
Way ahead of its time.
Album #1 January 12th 2026 Favorite Song: Comfortably Numb This is a cool album. It goes through a mix of things, seeming to start with abuse in education, then moving to a lustful age, then an unstable mental state, then a cry for help, then a state of acceptance. The instrumental music is great, all of the guitar parts just sound so good and everything fits together so well. I did really enjoy the "non instrumental" parts of the music. For example, when they would add screaming to some of the songs or talking in the background that wasn't necessarily lyrical. Another part of this album that I thought was really cool was the transitions between songs, for majority of them, if I wasn't reading the lyrics while listening I wouldn't have known a new song had come on. Overall this whole album told a story and especially near the end you could tell. The second to last song "The Trial" seemed to come straight out of a play. This was a long album but I would say it was worth it. I would rate this a solid 8.5/10.
Very surreal in some places and I like the idea of a metaphorical wall being built to shelter the main character
Niet mijn smaak
Classic! It’s an album you have to listen in order from start to finish
I liked it but it kind of scared me
half
Valid like a salad
This album is ingrained in my memory. I spent an unhealthy amount of time studying everything about it. I have become one with The Wall (1979). I AM The Wall (1979).
sinceramente, pink floyd é uma das minhas bandas favoritas da historia, mas esse album nao bate tao bem quanto eu gostaria. não gosto dessa vibe muito viajada e psicodelida deles, realmente das musicas mais comerciais. de qualquer forma, o album tem os seus altos, e eu consigo entender que esse é um album bom pra mim qnd eu estiver na vibe de ouvir algo diferente, mas nao vai pra minha rotaçao. os altos do albums sao comfortably numb, young lust, hey now, ABITW pt2 e dont leave me now. de resto, a maioria sao faixa mto viajadas ou faixas de apoio para outras. 6/10
Progressive Rock Opera. It sounds cohesive and much more like "music" or theater than Dark Side of the Moon. The motif of children is interesting along with the theme of discovery yet isolation is interesting. I think the music/topic was definitely above me but interesting to listen to and analyze. I'm also impressed it was able to draw some singles out of it.
Pink Floyd is always a safe bet. The Wall is not a Pink Floyd favorite (behind Dark Side of the Moon and Whish You Were Here), but its an enjoyable listen.
I liked the storytelling and progressive/creative style. Favorites: The Thin Ice, Goodbye Blue Sky
Masterful storytelling.
Really good album. Hadn't heard The Wall before and although different from what I'm used to from Pink Floyd, definitely interesting ideas and sounds. Reminded me a lot of Queen's albums
Works as an album, works as single songs too. I love the recurring chords running through the whole album. Quite long for an album would be my main problem. If this album was kept shorter, wouldve been a 5 for sure. The blueprint of storytelling through an album.
great album
Listened to this a lot growing up so much so that I know it word to word, beat to beat. Takes me back with a bit of nostalgia and the fear too! I think having seen The Wall live by Roger Waters and also tribute Pink Floyd acts, it adds to the power of the concept album. Overall one of my top albums ever.
Album 2/1001. Listened 1/7/2026. The whole thing is an experience not to be forgotten. I don't love every minute of it, but I can listen to it again and again and enjoy it.
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
Prog rock is a weird one isn’t it? Most of it is shite but Pink Floyd are good. It’s like not really being into horror films but enjoying the Exorcist. I didn’t need to hear Another Brick In Wall three times though, even if it is a toon. And Comfortably Numb is a stone cold banger. Simpsons: Yes
Love it. Not quite a 5 though.
I didn't even notice how long this album was so evidently it wasn't boring in the slightest. Obviously the clue is in the name but I loved the constant references to 'the wall', be it in many different ways. The storytelling is brilliant, particularly of course with 'another brick in the wall' 1, 2 and 3, 'the trial'. I still feel that there is something missing from this that I'd need to give it a 5.
It’s da wall
Not the biggest fan of concept albums. I struggled to stay with it. Obviously the big song Another brick is a big pull for this album. It's not their best piece of work in my opinion.
Roger Waters and any opinion on him aside, I would still say this remains as my favourite Pink Floyd album (a toss up between Wish you were here). I am not sure if I am influenced by the fact that my sister used to play this non stop growing up, so I know it very well, or because this is a concept theatrical album, which I absolutely love. Maybe a bit of both, but it is a great listen. Every song blends into the next and accompanied with Gilmour's shimmering guitar makes a beautiful listen.
Second half of this album has to have been inspired by Tim Curry’s brilliant rendition of ‘I’m Going Home’
Not very fond of this album, since i dispise rock, but overall it was good. And at the end it has like a complejo de musical. No se no me gusto. No lo volveria a escuchar. Maybe because all the songs together are too much for my linking, but idk i dont like ot.
Awesome record, love it.
It’s a stunning, perfect work of art. This is beyond an album, it’s like looking at Bernini’s “David”. The story, the orchestrations, the BAND. I could make a strong case that this is the single greatest album of all time. The Wall on Broadway when?
took me a sec, but I love the creativity and the concept as a whole. I want to listen to it again!
Bra bra bra! Älskar Pink Floyd!!! Varför har hag aldrig lyssnat igenom hela The Wall förut?
Long story short, this is the greatest double album ever made. Yes, Pink Floyd was at the point of implosion, yes, Roger Waters had turned into a control freak with a god complex, and yes, the band was completely done with fame...but there's no denying that 'The Wall' is one of the most incredible, evocative, bleak and ultimately moving works of popular music ever recorded. The concept of 'The Wall' follows Pink, a rock star who has grown disillusioned with fame and decides to construct a psychological wall to keep everyone else out. Pretty much every song on this album (including the three-part, to-the-point 'Another Brick in the Wall') serves as a few bricks being laid at a time. The Wall follows Pink through his ironic welcome ('In the Flesh?'), his upbringing ('The Thin Ice', 'Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 1', 'The Happiest Days of Our Lives'), his brutal schooling ('Another Brick In the Wall Pt. 2') before moving into his mother's overprotectiveness ('Mother'), his Dad's journey to war ('Goodbye Blue Sky'), relationship problems and infidelity ('Empty Spaces', 'Young Lust', 'One of My Turns', 'Don't Leave Me Now') and culminating in Pink's complete mental breakdown ('Another Brick In the Wall Pt. 3', 'Goodbye Cruel World'). And that's just the first half.... The second half sees Pink wallow in self-isolation ('Hey You', 'Is There Anybody Out There?', Nobody Home', 'Vera') before a brief reminder of his Dad not returning from the war alive ('Bring the Boys Back Home') makes him realise there's truly nothing left inside ('Comfortably Numb'). We then see Pink reintroduced inside his head as a fascist dictator causing chaos and disorder ('The Show Must Go On', 'In the Flesh', 'Run Like Hell', 'Waiting For the Worms') before he snaps out of his hallucination for a brief moment of clarity ('Stop'). The album climaxes with Pink being tried for essentially rediscovering his humanity and once he's human again, The Wall comes crashing down and we, as the listener, are invited to ponder Pink's fate. Whoa......what an album. Roger Waters may be highly controversial and unnecesarily combative at times, but 'The Wall' is a crowning achievement that is rare in its grandiosity as it is its artisitc merit. It took what The Who did with breaking down the barriers between rock music and theatre and made it darker, grittier and more self-reflective. The story of Pink is heavily inspired by Waters' own life and struggles with fame, as well as the demise of former member Syd Barrett, and the pain, anguish and dissent of 'The Wall' all roll together to create a beautifully unsettling atmosphere. Despite the clear fact that The Wall is Waters' masterpiece, it wouldn't be the same without David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, even if Waters had essentially limited them to session musicians by this point. The few moments Gilmour gets to shine on vocals reinforce his mastery of emotive singing, and his guitar solos on this record are some of the most iconic ever, namely 'Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2' and 'Comfortably Numb' (best solo of all time?). Wright's keyboard and synth versatility is as strong as ever (even though he quit the band while touring The Wall) and Nick Mason is a steady hand adding majesty to 'The Wall' with powerful drumming performances. 'The Wall' is Waters' zenith. He destroyed Pink Floyd to do so and irreparably ruined relations with Gilmour, Wright and Mason (apart from an all-too-brief truce in 2005), but in 'The Wall', Waters vision and meticulous control produced a record that changed the very definition of art and its role in getting people to think. "All in all, we are all just bricks in the wall." Best songs: In the Flesh? through Outside the Wall, and revisit to your heart's content. You pick up more and more every time.
Didn't finish but liked what I heard
Niet mijn favoriete pink floyd maar zeker 5. Wel even de tijd nemen
I liked this album, it was an interesting concept. I liked the mix of media (ex phone calls and children’s choir). The instrumentals shined. A bit long for me, and felt like it sort of dragged.
There's no denying that this is an exceptional album - every song is perfectly tied together and plays a vital role to the overall identity. I think the continuity (cohesive narrative and motifs throughout) is what makes this so stand out in terms of craftsmanship and ambition - few others can create such a smooth integration and fusion of different musical styles into a single album. I admire Pink Floyd's skill in every way but that doesn't mean it has to be my favorite type of music and whilst I do enjoy occasional listens there are other albums I prefer.
I really love the essence of the album but sometimes i got a tiny bit bored of it by the end. Not as great as I remember it tho tbh and I don’t think it’s really my thing, but I can appreciate it.
found this a bit overwhelming. It’s a bit ambitious too. dare I call it a cocaine album? theatrical but it’s not glamorous in any way.
Not the best Pink Floyd album but still a damn good one. It's just long and scattered as shit but has some banger throughout like Hey You and Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2 along with Comfortably Numb.
Better than Coldplay
5/5 one of my favourite albums ever
Growing up I had heard the big tracks off this album numerous times. Another Brick in the Wall pt 2, Comfortably Numb, and Hey You. None of them really stood out to me compared to the other classic rock songs that came on those radio stations. It's kind of shocking to me that anything off this album had commercial success. But at some point in my mid 20s I decided to listen to this album in full and it all clicked. Those songs aren't songs. They're scenes. They're scenes as part of a masterfully told story about a man who shuts himself off from the world and loses him mind/life through this isolation. The Wall is a master class in story telling through music. The story starts at birth and we witness our main character go through all these traumatizing events including verbally abusive school teachers, an overly protective mother who causes more harm than good, and relationship troubles caused be his behavior. He builds a metaphorical wall one brick (traumatizing event) at a time. At its peak we see the main character lose himself and his soul is trying to return to his body. At this time we hear this phone call going on in his actual body that he can't respond to. We learn the main character is dead. He is buried and eaten by worms before being reborn at the end of the album which kicks off reincarnation and the album restarts. The production is elite for the time this was released as well. The sound balancing pulls you in to the quiet moments so that it can smack you in the face with crescendos in the big moments. The transitions from song to song are perfect. So much so that the last song of the album actually bleeds back into the first. There aren't many albums that I would call perfect but this is one of them.
7.5 Très bon album mais sûrement qu’il me touche moins je le réécouterai moins facilement que les autres mai de très très bon sons dedans
album complet. 9.5/10 chanson pref : Young Lust
For as much Pink Floyd as I grew up listening to (well, listening to my Dad listen to, specifically) they have just never truly clicked with me. I know some of the tracks. I like some of the tracks. It's just a little boring to me. This concept album, while a neat idea, is not tremendously enjoyable in execution. It's just really too long for me and loses so much momentum the further along it goes. Musicianship is great, of course, but I could take or leave the vocals. It still has a charm to it that I can appreciate. Rock opera is really just not a niche I'm in to.
While listening to The Wall, it came to my attention that I am not 100% sure I have ever listened to this entire album all the way through. First, it is a double album, which always increases the degree of difficulty in some ways to listen all the way through. Second, it is a "concept album" and those of you who I am sure have read all of my reviews know that I generally do not like concept albums, as I feel they are overblown and the music takes a backseat to the "story" being told in the songs. If I can't listen to a song outside of the concept of the album then I tend to not enjoy that song/album as much. Because I am a living human being with access to a radio, I have heard Comfortably Numb and Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 more than I have heard possibly any other Pink Floyd songs. This is a really good album, even if I don't love the talking and whole bizarre insistence on having yelling on certain songs to further "the plot." Absolutely worth a listen and it has more individual songs I like than Dark Side of the Moon does, but I enjoy that album on the whole more.
An epic album, one of the best concept albums ever done.
“Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Mother, do you think they’ll like this song?” It would be virtually impossible for me to say anything about “The Wall” that hasn’t already been said. It is a bit of a marmite album for some within the context of one of the greatest discographies ever pressed onto vinyl. It is therefore a little controversial for me to say that “The Wall” is my favourite Floyd record. As I’ve said there is little I can add to the discourse around the music itself so I will resign myself to writing the following: When I was a teenager I inherited a large amount of vinyl from my parents. Amongst them was my mum’s copy of “The Wall”. I span the first side as I fell asleep more times than I can count. It led to that collection of songs being imprinted on my brain, and to “Mother” being not just my favourite Floyd track but one of my favourite songs ever. This is a truly special album to me.
I mean this is kind of the quintessential Pink Floyd album and I love Pink Floyd so going to be a high score. It's also the most overplayed album of theirs and probably near the bottom of the list for Pink Floyd albums for me. I love this album but am least likely to put it on.
Not as good as Dark Side or Shine On
I mean, what can I say that hasn't been said a billion times. It's a great album, one for the ages. It's catchy, inventive, funny at times, pensive, and just extremely well done musically. Would listen again.
Pink Floyd never disappoints. Their albums are not a set of songs, but a story told in chapters, and the wall definitely lives up to that. Of course, songs like Comfortably Numb and Another Brick In The Wall pt2 stand out as beautiful powerful songs, but I think Goodbye Cruel World and Mother deserve more attention than they get. All in all, one of the peak works of Pink Floyd. 8/10
I LOVE PINK FLOYD! The Wall is one of their best albums (although I still prefer DSOTM and WYWH to this one) and it contains my all-time favorite PF song (Comfortably Numb). HIGHLY recommend anyone listens to this, it's peak. 10 / 10.
Det er vanskelig å sette seg ned og høre gjennom et album som er så ikonisk, så omtalt at man allerede har en formening før man har startet avspilling. Jeg ble rørt til tårer av å høre Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2 i kontekst av albumet. Det er noe med et band som er så stort som lager storslått kunst i forsvar av barna. Min favoritt er disk 2, med Is There Anybody Out There? og Nobody Home. Favorittspor: Comfortably Numb, Is There Anybody Out There, Nobody Home I've got a little black book with my poems in Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in When I'm a good dog, they sometimes throw me a bone in I got elastic bands keeping my shoes on Got those swollen-hand blues I've got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from I've got electric light, and I've got second sight I've got amazing powers of observation // Does anybody else here feel the way I do?
I’m not always the biggest fan of concept albums and while I respect it, this was still the case here. Sonically I love Pink Floyd and this was no exception, but it was definitely way too long for my tastes. I started getting bored by the end. Overall I’d say 3.5/5.
A classic.
It's fine. Some great songs on here but there is a lot of bloat. I got annoyed with the transitions
I'm sounding like a broken record the further into this challenge we go, but I'll still say it anyway: how do you review an album like The Wall? in this case, it's not just because we're talking about one of the best-selling albums of all time, but also because it's one of the most culturally significant albums of the past several decades; it was a big enough deal to get adapted into a film which, in the eyes of some, is even better than the album it's based on! my mom used to go to midnight screenings of it in college all the time, and she first showed it to me as a kid (although she stood in front of the TV and fast-forwarded through the more salacious bits). I'm not really going to get too far into the narrative or themes of either the album or film, since you can find plenty of coverage of both, and this is supposed to be a series of (relatively) short and snappy reviews anyway. so, how do I feel? personally, I do think that a lot of the material here, especially on the second disc, is elevated quite a bit through the addition of visuals, and doesn't stand up as well without that component. it's usually the more interstitial tracks: "The Thin Ice", "Empty Spaces", "One Of My Turns", "Another Brick in the Wall Part 3", "Nobody Home", "Bring the Boys Back Home". "Stop", et cetera. even if they do serve the function of keeping things moving along to the more consequential tracks (they often sound really cool), I often find myself wishing they were more fleshed-out from a compositional perspective. you can also hear Roger Waters really start to assert himself as the leader of Pink Floyd, which can often make the contributions from its other members feel more subservient than I would like (especially from keyboardist Richard Wright, who was actually fired during the album's sessions and retained as a mere session/touring musician). but, hey, at least Waters' egomania isn't nearly as bad here as it is on The Final Cut! thankfully, the more consequential tracks still stand as some of Pink Floyd's best, and they're the thing that really keeps me locked in from one end to the other. both takes of "In the Flesh(?)", "Another Brick... Part 2", "Mother", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell" really make it worth listening to The Wall in full at least a few times; I love a good David Gilmour solo as much as the next guy. but after that, I think you're better off watching the film. the animated parts in particular are so cool. just stay far away from Nostalgia Critic's The Wall and you're good to go. light 7/10.
A personal favorite - I wrote a paper on it in college, and have thought long and deep about it. Bit it also isn’t an album I’ll just throw on and listen to. So I tried to listen to it with some level of objectivity. With that, I still think it’s a remarkable piece of art. It may be the best example of how rock can be a full thought out artistic piece, from concept, to songs, to album, artwork and its associated stage performance and movie. Is it flawless? No. But ambitious art often isn’t. The fact that some of the most obvious themes aren’t the main point - it’s not about a rock star, it’s about a system that tried to minimalise individuality and an industry that imposes expectations on its stars - makes it more ever-lasting. I saw it a while ago performed by Roger Waters and it translated well to today’s political and cultural environments. Maybe Quadrophenia has better songs but I would say that The Wall is a more complete piece and is well worth hearing at least once and then properly listening to and absorbing across lyrics and imagery at least once as well. It rewards deep listening.
Some of the songs are already masterpieces on their own, but together in this album it just becomes the most magical and transcendent experience. Some of the smoothest transitions and gnarliest riffs, while also managing to tell a compelling story evoking childhood, loneliness and emotional trial. Doesn't quite reach the same height as DSOTM but very nearly; to me it is pretty much a perfect album.
I tend to think concept albums aren't strictly the same kind of thing as most of the other albums on here, and need to be listened to differently. This has more in common with a musical or an opera than it does with a rival rock album. And I'm not very interested in any of those things. Added to that, the theme and style put me off. A rich famous rockstar can certainly make interesting music about his personal angst and suffering, but when it's delivered in such an epic, theatrical style, it feels self-absorbed and pretentious to me.
quite long but I enjoyed
I never once (in person) crossed paths with a single passionate fan and frequent listener of music - of any genre - who genuinely likes this album. And I worked in a record store for nearly a decade. This persistent absence has led me to a simple conclusion: This record is for those who prioritize spectacle over music, and who possess both the patience and the willingness to endure The Wall’s visual bombast long enough to wait for the two decent songs by the „other genius,” rewarding themselves, at last, with something to tap a foot or hum along to. The concept of The Wall is… well, in principle, it is always good to call out authoritarianism. Yet the album’s immense success; both as a record and as a stage show; appears to have done nothing to prevent the very dynamics it claims to criticize. Beyond its concept, however, the album is very difficult to sit through. For the most part, the lyrics and music are utterly boring. This is one of those rare moments where critical consensus deserves to be taken at face value: Pink Floyd were past their apex. What a massive letdown after Animals. The world, it seems, wanted The Wall - but I have yet to encounter anyone who wholeheartedly says, “I dig The Wall.”
3,5
4.5/10
It was very interesting and unique. Insane creativity and was an experience to listen to, however it is not something that I found pleasure in listening to. My top 3 were Comfortably Numb, Mother, and Goodbye Blue Sky.
not my style
Nope
Timeless
Missed Another brock in the Wall pt2
Great album
Ok so on the positive side it was better than I was expecting but on the negative side a lot of it was just rather boring. So many songs sounded just like the previous one. Suspect they could have switched at least half the songs and still had a half-decent album.
There are plenty of reasons why there are not that many genuine concept albums. One of the main reasons is that Pink Floyd absolutely nailed it in 1979 and it is almost impossible to top this. Listening to it all the way through is essential and it all just works effortlessly and effectively. The obvious downsides are Waters vocals and that it does sound very dated in places. Even though a lot of the tracks are just forming part of the story there are so many great songs including the majestic Comfortably numb. Probably my favourite Floyd album and I fully appreciate that no one will agree with this.
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.
Comfortably Numb is my favourite song of all time. I can see why people would be put off by the album, as it requires a lot of patience and must be consumed as a whole. I had to give it a few chances to fully understand it - despite the fact there's a couple of tracks that I wouldn't rush to stick on, I think the entire record is amazing to listen to.
I really love comfortably numb and the solo is like the best one in the history of the guitar, but some songs I wish were b sides. And it really feels like there is no Rick magic here. But overall good album, behind animals, wish, moon
This album was the first one I ever listened from them years ago and never wanted to listen to Pink Floyd again. Recently discovered their earlier albums and fell in love with them but this album is still overly complicated dad rock. They should have kept their keyboardist.
3.8 stars
8.3/10
Nice
The Wall is one of those incredible albums that has to be listened to as a whole. It’s a complete introspection into the emotional walls that we put up and how those may come into being. The isolation and loneliness cut to the center of each track. Sometimes it manifests in anger. Sometimes in depression. The protagonist keeps trying to fill that void, but money, women, success are all meaningless to him because he is completely alone. Due to the wall. That ever present wall. The 1 hour 20 minute run time is certainly daunting. Add into that the emotional investment and toll this album can take, and it quickly becomes a “once in a long while” listen. It requires focus and active listening to hear the elements that make it truly special. The voices in the back that represent his anxiety growing louder as the album progresses. The ringing phone that keeps going unanswered. Pink Floyd works hard to tell you everything without holding your hand, but you have to look for it. This is truly a special album and worth the effort.
this album reminded me of listening to 97.1 the river when i was a kid. hey you would scare me tbh. also ,was i supposed to listen to disc 1 + 2??? the entire thing is a creative masterpiece. they were most def fueled by blow and psychedelics while writing this album. best tracks: young lust, hey you and comfortably numb (duh)
Anything I could possibly say about this album as a 27-year-old in 2025 feels frivolous. Listening to The Wall creates a visual montage of every band after 1979 that will be inspired by Pink Floyd. I prefer the theatrics of the A Side. Fave songs: In the Flesh?, The Happiest Days of Our Lives-> Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2, The Trial
Overblown but ambitious.
not too bad the beginning was good. I think the end was a little lackluster for that. I give it a three out of five.
A CLASSIC!!!!
Lives up to its iconic status. Also has some of the annoying trappings of many concept albums that stop it from being a stone cold masterpiece.
Not really my style, however I can appreciate the musicality of it. This took quite literally forever to listen to. I'm not a huge fan of the lead singers voice, but I did enjoy the instrumental portions.
best album ever
An old favorite, not a bad track
Yeah, this is clearly a rock opera. Not intended for casual listening. It's well made and creative. But I find it tiring at times. I also don't like Roger Water's voice.
I love David Gilmours playing too much
Fuck yeah!