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- Posted: 06/17/2020 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3471): 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.
Country: 
Overall rank: 24
Average rating: 86/100 (from 3013 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
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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- #2
- Posted: 06/17/2020 21:25
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Amazing musical inventiveness..
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- Posted: 06/17/2020 22:21
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An absolute masterpiece. I get the criticism that Roger Waters starts getting really theatrical, but honestly it doesn't become a problem for me personally until the subsequent Final Cut album.
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- Posted: 06/17/2020 22:48
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It's an incredible album, but to me it's Roger Waters feat. Pink Floyd.
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- Posted: 06/17/2020 22:57
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I've never been able to figure out if I like The Wall more or Wish You Were Here. Great concept. Plenty of memorable songs. Will probably forever considered a classic.
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mickilennial
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- Posted: 06/17/2020 23:39
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It's a mediocre album, but it has some good ideas and some good songs. The highlight of their pretentiousness overtaking their musicality, a trend that begin two albums before this one.
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- Posted: 06/18/2020 07:45
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finally understand why people use it as a mini-punching bag over at RYM
far from their greatest works, and a bit too long, but still good and important for concept records. "Comfortably Numb" is a classic.
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Yann
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- Posted: 06/18/2020 09:30
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| Gowi wrote: | | It's a mediocre album, but it has some good ideas and some good songs. The highlight of their pretentiousness overtaking their musicality, a trend that begin two albums before this one. |
I wanted to see your chart to understand what a non-mediocre album is, but unfortunately I faced a brick wall 
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- Posted: 06/18/2020 14:31
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| Gowi wrote: | | It's a mediocre album, but it has some good ideas and some good songs. The highlight of their pretentiousness overtaking their musicality, a trend that begin two albums before this one. |
Maybe I'm confusing pretentiousness with cinematic bombast, but it is a rock opera. Some of that might be necessary.
I'll always give equal credit to The Wall and DSOTM for getting me into Floyd and prog, even though WYEH is a mile ahead of The Wall.
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babyBlueSedan
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- Posted: 06/18/2020 15:16
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| Spyglass wrote: | | Maybe I'm confusing pretentiousness with cinematic bombast, but it is a rock opera. Some of that might be necessary. |
Imo pretentiousness isn't always a bad thing. Take (as the first example that comes to mind) Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer? by of Montreal. It's an incredibly pretentious album, from the song titles to the references to underground authors to the second half mini-concept album about Kevin Barnes's alter-ego. But it all enhances the mood of the album and better describes the anxiousness and mania of the songs' narrator.
I don't think The Wall does that. It's overlong and tries a lot of things, but I don't think any of the bombast works to enhance the story. It's big, but underneath that bigness there's nothing of substance. I never really sympathize with the narrator or feel for them. It's just a story, and a shallow one at that (not to mention the protagonist is an aging disillusioned rock star, possibly one of the groups of people I have the least interest in empathizing with). Not sure that's what Gowi was getting at, I'll let him expand on what he meant if he wants, but at least to me this feels like an album where their aspirations were bigger than what they actually accomplished. I'll accept cinematic bombast if it's actually effective.
That said, "Goodbye Blue Sky," "Mother," and "Comfortably Numb" are all great songs. Shame there's so much fluff around them.
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