it is 18/4/25. i am 15 years old. my junior cert is coming up. i could be studying for them, but instead i am here listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979). here are my thoughts TRACK BY TRACK 1 IN THE FLESH? this song is fantastic. it's a fantastic opener and it's also just a fantastic song. it's everything floyd are great at in a painfully short 3 minutes. it has a (short but effective) buildup to start it off with, a great guitar riff, a very memorable vocal melody and hard ass lyrics to accompany the epic riff pounding into you. if only there was a sequel. 10/10 2 THE THIN ICE. it opens very slow and gentle, and its short runtime makes you think it wont really progress very much further. but it does. i love the section with the piano, but that gets pushed aside by yet another signature epic guitar section. at this point its getting cheesy but it's hard not to smile every time it happens. 9/10 3 ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PT 1. pretty cool, it obviously seems more important the further you get into the album, which i know because i have already listened to it. as a singular track there isn't much to say, but it plays its role perfectly. it gives the impression it is building to something, which it is. the guitar is very cool (once this word enters my brain, i can't not use it) and the panning of the twangy guitars that comes in every now and then is very cool. overall, very cool. 8/10 4 HAPPIEST DAYS OF OUR LIVES. abusive teachers are troubled? thats crazy. anyway this song is pretty important in the whole theme of the album. musically it is structured as a vehicle for the lyrics, so not much to say about it. i like the climax a lot. 8/10 5 ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PT 2. yo i know this song!! cool, groovy, classic song. it continues the theme of the previous song, utilising a children's choir to push the point forward a little. i heard somewhere that floyd were suggested by their producer to add a bit of a disco flavour to the song in favour of commercialism, and you can kind of tell. cool guitar solo though. 9/10 6 MOTHER. 🌬️pink looks to his mother for advice and comfort. gilmour cradles waters. i don't know it's a very nice song and the lyrics are just about vague enough to mean something. majestic song. 9/10 7 GOODBYE BLUE SKY. this song was in rick and morty. it somehow manages to be both ominous and majestic. very vague lyrics about something to do with war, but they certainly work. i'm going to run out of things to say about 26 tracks. 9/10 8 EMPTY SPACES. here we have something slightly different. floyd's classic guitar buildup, but this time alongside a darkwave-ish instrumental. it would be a lot better if it wasn't 4 seconds long. 8/10 9 YOUNG LUST. pink freak 😈😈 in this song pink is looking for a dirty woman, but he will admirably settle for a dirty girl. this shows pink's strength and development through this war ridden wall. cool song, cool guitar, epic lyrics. 9/10 10 ONE OF MY TURNS. to get through his cold bleak life, pink submits to culture and commercialism. despite these attempts, his dirty woman runs away. 8/10 11 DON'T LEAVE ME NOW. wow this song is dark. the atmosphere on this thing is unmatched when it comes to floyd's discography. the anxious feeling during the first section, with his wails and the dark organ. and then it comes together. just an incredible song, at this point in the album it rivals in the flesh. and it had to be the song about a wifebeater. 10/10 12 ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PT 3. the writing on the wall!! yo!!! to be honest i don't know what the point of this installment is. maybe if it were the second part and then the second part came third, as this would build up to it. but no, here we have a slightly heavier version of the first part. it just seems weird to place it here. 7/10 13 GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD. pink seems to be leaving. this is odd as we are roughly halfway through the album. at first glance i thought he was leaving his woman but maybe he is leaving the world? i don't know who he is talking to but maybe pink is trying to kill himself. who knows, but it's an appropriate place to take a break as i have to leave. 7/10 14 HEY YOU. you're losing you're losing your vitamin c! no, wrong song. reading the lyrics i think this song is about oppression, but i'm not sure. i hope this project will help me analyse lyrics a bit better, without genius' help of course. great song though, not all that much to it, just good melodies and a good structure. 9/10 15 IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? pink wonders if there is anybody out there. then pink gives us some nice strumming of his acoustic guitar. this song really just moves the album forward but the acoustic guitar strumming is so nice it gets an 8/10. 16 NOBODY HOME. beautiful piano ballad (?) that conveys loneliness and dissatisfaction very well. i may be in the minority when i say that i like waters' vocals possibly more than gilmour's. this song contains many of the best lines from this album, so i'll just list some of them: "I got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from," / "Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains". melodrama and great writing aren't always mutually exclusive. 8/10 17 VERA. usually on an album comprised of mostly two minute long songs (this one's only 1:33) i would complain about the lack of length but this album's got so many memorable ones. this song is just roger waters yearning for the whereabouts of the woman who sang "We Will Meet Again" yet he makes it so compelling. great strings too, they should be at the forefront more often. 8/10 18 BRING THE BOYS BACK HOME. uh yeah war man. those kids man are out on the field yknow fightin and stuff. it's awful. god man i wish my huge fortune was any use dude. anyway here's a dramatic fanfare. 5/10. man this album must be taking a downward turn. 19 COMFORTABLY NUMB. i thought this whole thing would be better were this my first listen of the album but holy shit this song still hits every time. it sounds cheesy but the minor chords the song starts out in sound like dark clouds and the chorus sounds like the clouds opening up into sunshine. it's hard to say if it's their best song but it's definitely up there. 10/10 20 THE SHOW MUST GO ON. i mean maybe if it kept the quality of COMFORTABLY NUMB. but not if it turns into operatic beach boys. 6/10 21 IN THE FLESH. oh woah there's a sequel man i didn't know that let's go man. it definitely gets you back into the groove of the album; i could understand being pulled out as soon as the epic climax drops into a fucking choir, but it's still IN THE FLESH. i prefer the opener, but since it's only a few details in difference and that they're virtually the same song, it's a great song. 9/10 22 RUN LIKE HELL. i feel like i'm in a stadium. i don't view this as the highlight other people seem to, it sounds like the other two installments of ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL that people don't listen to, just a little bit better. nonetheless a song, to say the least. 7/10 23 WAITING FOR THE WORMS. i can't help but like this goofy mess of a song. doo-wop, hard rock, worm... it doesn't know what it wants to be. in all honesty i haven't a fucking clue what he is talking about. following worms and whatnot. 8/10 24 STOP. all of a sudden we're in a show? the first side of the album it was a war and now we're in... a musical? john pink gets it twisted. whatever this song is like 20 seconds long. 25 THE TRIAL. this album went from being a concept album about the injustice of war to a rock musical taking place in a worm court. 6/10 26 OUTSIDE THE WALL. yeah this is the closer to the album. isn't this where my dad already had this album on vinyl so it became the first floyd album i knew well. it's an overblown pretentious rock opera that i listened to in the exact stage of my life where that kind of thing might seem epic. there's some good music in it though. this was possibly the worst entry into this project as i had already heard it and it is a huge double album of 26 tracks that i made myself review one by one. i'm looking forward to seeing what's next though. overall this album is a strong 8. BEST TRACKS: COMFORTABLY NUMB. IN THE FLESH? DON'T LEAVE ME NOW.