Album of the day (#2320): The Wall by Pink Floyd - Music

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

Year: 1979.
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Overall rank: 23
Average rating: 86/100 (from 2226 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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HoldenM
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Pretty good. The second half is a smidge forgettable in parts, but solid, nonetheless.

Track picks
3. Another Brick In The Wall Part 1
4. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
5. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
9. Young Lust
10. One Of My Turns
14. Hey You
22. Run Like Hell
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Fischman
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A huge accomplishment, but not something I generally care to listen to end to end. 4th for me after WYWH, DSOTM and Animals, all of which I play without skips.

HazeyTwilight
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RoundTheBend
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The journey is intriguing the first few times.

Song for song, it isn't great, but it's hard to rate a "song" that really is an interlude (like a lot of rap albums).

Overall, still probably my second favorite album of theirs. Meddle is a close second, but I think this one wins over that.

Animals and Wish You Were Here are just behind those two.

Tha1ChiefRocka
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Location: Kansas

I'm going to see Roger Waters at the end of May. Apparently, a lot of the catalog of Pink Floyd is going to be played, as well as some new stuff.

The Wall tracks I would want to hear- In the Flesh, Hey You, Comfortably Numb (doubt it), Another Brick in the Wall, Mother, Empty Spaces.

dmercado

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HoldenM wrote:

Pretty good. The second half is a smidge forgettable in parts, but solid, nonetheless.

I think there's forgettable parts in all the first three sides, but I think Waters is purposely throwing in "Empty Spaces" to make the listener experience his isolation.

The last side of the album (The Show Must Go On -> Outside the Wall) is by far my favorite on the album, partially because it's less historical and more of a representation of his present state of mind: paranoia, hallucination, multiple personalities, guilt, mania, and all the stories from the first half of the album are tied together with his psyche. And just like the school teacher reprimanded his students after being reprimanded at home, Water's fuhrer rock star persona represses his audience in response to the repression he's felt his whole life. In my opinion, the entire album is a buildup to this mental deterioration and ultimate (yet cyclic) reconciliation at The Trial.
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RoundTheBend
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dmercado wrote:

HoldenM wrote:

Pretty good. The second half is a smidge forgettable in parts, but solid, nonetheless.

I think there's forgettable parts in all the first three sides, but I think Waters is purposely throwing in "Empty Spaces" to make the listener experience his isolation.

The last side of the album (The Show Must Go On -> Outside the Wall) is by far my favorite on the album, partially because it's less historical and more of a representation of his present state of mind: paranoia, hallucination, multiple personalities, guilt, mania, and all the stories from the first half of the album are tied together with his psyche. And just like the school teacher reprimanded his students after being reprimanded at home, Water's fuhrer rock star persona represses his audience in response to the repression he's felt his whole life. In my opinion, the entire album is a buildup to this mental deterioration and ultimate (yet cyclic) reconciliation at The Trial.

Well said.. although I do like the historical aspect of the album, but I agree the state of mind part of the album is more interesting.

Daydreamer

Waters' magnum opus. Many artists expressed their personal turmouls through their art, but I'm not sure anyone has barred himself to the bone and showed us their darkest, weakest and ugliest sides like he did right here.
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alelsupreme
Awful.

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Age: 27

buddy, they better put me in a wall so i cant hear this junk!!
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