The Wall
by Pink Floyd

The first side of the first disc of the Wall may just be one of the most stacked A-sides in all of rock music. The action starts immediately with In the Flesh, and doesn't seem to end until the finale. It doesn't even feel like a music album, it feels like you're listening to a play, and it really shows.

The best way to listen to this to fully gauge it's supremeness is in one sitting. A true masterpiece and the greatest concept album ever released.

A great album ties together a set of excellent songs with a brilliant theme or concept. This is the best one ever made.

I love this album. all of the songs are great.
esp comfortably numb and another brick
in the wall 2. it should be on anyones top
ten list.

From HoldenM 06/30/2025 18:12 | #309804

A battering, heartbreaking epic whose messiness and anguish render an occasionally flawed object, but whose plentiful moments of transcendence more than make up for the few moments that don't reward as much. Like any great double album, it's stronger than the sum of its parts, but oh how wonderful those individual parts can be.

Shortlisted for album of the year at the 1981 Grammys. The winner was the self-titled album by Christopher Cross

A concept album about a depressing, empty and vacuous world. It's a pity the music is as well

Mesmerising

From spigelwii 04/15/2024 12:36 | #302987

As close to perfection any artist has ever reached, and probably will ever reach, with a concept album. Not only the most relatable album ever made, but a masterpiece of musicianship with memorable solos, production, vibe, lyricism, and flow. Spoken with full confidence: There is no album I've ever heard that is easier to get completely lost in.

I could spend time diving into the individual songs, but what's the point? It's well-worn territory. It has become more important now to discuss why the album is successful in its approach. While the themes are always depressing, sad, desperate, or insidious-skirting-evil, they are never fully overwhelming due to the quality of the storytelling. It's like reading a book where the main character keeps making awful choices that anyone would probably not make in real life in such quick succession, but the protagonist's pain is relatable in a way that you feel it all the same. Here, the protagonist's pain is so well-illustrated, that even if you don't envision yourself as the leader of a fascist dictatorship on a regular basis, it's maybe a little bit easier to understand how or why some people eventually have the capacity to get there. Oh hey, now THERE'S an example of modern-day relatability...and I'll leave it at that!

Anyway, The Wall was unbelievable in 2009 when I first heard it as an impressionable teenager. It's unbelievable now, writing this entirely pointless review in 2024. Unbelievable, I'm sure, in 1979. Unbelievable forever.

One of the best double albuns ever made