Album of the day (#1240): The Wall by Pink Floyd

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Today's album of the day

The Wall by Pink Floyd (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1979.
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Overall rank: 23
Average rating: 86/100 (from 1227 votes).

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Tracks:
1. In The Flesh?
2. The Thin Ice
3. Another Brick In The Wall Part 1
4. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
5. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
6. Mother
7. Goodbye Blue Sky
8. Empty Spaces
9. Young Lust
10. One Of My Turns
11. Don't Leave Me Now
12. Another Brick In The Wall Part 3
13. Goodbye Cruel World
14. Hey You
15. Is There Anybody Out There?
16. Nobody Home
17. Vera
18. Bring The Boys Back Home
19. Comfortably Numb
20. The Show Must Go On
21. In The Flesh
22. Run Like Hell
23. Waiting For The Worms
24. Stop
25. The Trial
26. Outside The Wall

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[Goodsir]

Great rock opera. Pink Floyd have better albums, but this is still a monumental accomplishment.

[Mercury]

Not totally my cup o tea. But by no means do I hate it and everything it represents or
Anything like that. It's just kind of hit and (mostly) miss and uneven and just not that amazing. And it's a big step down from the Excwllent DSOTM, the absolutely stunning masterpiece WYWH, and the beautiful Animals.
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-Ryan

ONLY 4% of people can understand this chart! Come try!

My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!

[sp4cetiger]

Great for those long car rides when you have earplugs and you really don't like the people you're riding with.

[camsh]

I love this album so much.
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MrFrogger wrote:

Camsch - Has by far the worst sig on BEA.

[HazeyTwilight]

I saw this album performed live by Roger Waters last year. That was a great show. I still like this album enough, it made me feel accomplished that I completed an album of that length and of the pretense.
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[Norman Bates]

Awful.

[TracyJacks]

Great album, but it's not amongst my favourite Pink Floyd records. It's their last really great album in their cataogue imo.

When I think of The Wall it often comes to my mind how popular and acknowledged album it is in my country, possibly the album of the century for many people. The impact of it has political reasons: it's because of the symbol of communism and what happenned in 1990. So when I first listened to it my expectations were very high. Comparing to many other albums by them, I was a bit disappointed with it musically. Then later I listened to it more, and got into it.

[mickilennial]

The Wall is overlong and Pink Floyd at their most preachy and mostly it just doesn't really work at all. There's quite a few songs I like on this record, but overall it's from an era of Pink Floyd I tend to think is overtly pompous and self-absorbed.

[Mdemauri]

My second favorite Floyd album after DSOTM. I was obsessed with this album when it was first released. I even forced my brother and sister to perform a puppet show for my parents using The Wall as the soundtrack.

Comfortably Numb has the best David Gilmour guitar solo ever!