The Wall
by Pink Floyd

A lot of people complain about its "pretentiousness", and its pompous nature, but quite frankly I don't see it working without these traits. All the emotions and the rage towards the world of one person packaged in an incredibly expressive piece of work. It ranges from melancholic to angry to apathetic, and the music always seems to fit the story perfectly.

"Don't look so frightened, this is just a passing phase, one of my bad days"
(I love this line)

From Robert Anton Wilson TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/07/2011 16:58 | #29969 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

As opposed to most BAE, The Wall is an album that requires to be shelved every once in a while. It can be just darn too depressive and all consuming. However, every time it gets a dusting, I am reminded that this is the greatest concept album/show ever realized. Roger rules.

From swhaze TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/26/2014 17:49 | #110131 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

The Wall always reminds me of "The White Album" by the Beatles because, aside from the obvious things like the white cover and the double disc, they're both huge collections of very diverse songs, with some of the band's lowest points and also some of their most brilliant.

From albummaster 07/06/2010 04:28 | #13313 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I don´t know why people don´t seem to like this album as much as WYWH or DSOTM. I think it's fantastic, a lot of great tracks and just draws you in.

From patriciatoledo 07/06/2017 03:58 | #193725 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I could easily say this album changed my life. More than war or failed school systems, it talks about isolation. The Berlin wall is just a metaphor; the wall that this album really talks about is the one that we've built around ourselves to protect us from things that hurt us. It's about being completely lost after you've built that wall. It's about not being able to break the wall, even when you're strong enough to face certain things. It's about feeling completely hopeless and alone. And it still analyses psychologically what are those things that isolated us from the beginning. Our parents, school, failed relationships... these are just some examples of bricks. And I think it's ridiculously amazing how Pink Floyd could so perfectly fit all that into an album, that not only says so much, but also is a work of art even to those who didn't understand anything that it said. Listening to this when I was a teenager and had no idea why on earth I felt the way I did, it hit me really hard. It basically explained to me why I was so depressed and how to get out of the wall I had created. This psychological connection that Pink Floyd creates through its art is the strongest bound you can achieve, in my opinion, as an artist. It's saying "hey, I've been there too, but it gets better, you break the wall someday". There isn't anything I admire more in this world than this. Empathy.